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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

The New York Press estimates that
about 1000 novels were published dur
isg the past six years, or 270 novels q
year. These 1900 novels were writ
tca by 792 authors who signed their
names and 1870 who did not. Only
gao of these authors met with success
enough to encourage them to write a
second time. In all, 5000 persons have
fniled rs writers of fiction during the
last eighteen years, as against about
30 who have succeeded well and 1870
who have succeeded tolerably.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
No More Objections We're Made.

A laughable story is told about town
concerning A. H. Hummel, the crimi-
nal and theatrical lawyer. Every one
knows that Mr.. Hummel is not above
the average stature of man (physical
stature). and every one who has seen
him in court knows how quickly and
often he can jump up to make objec-
tions when he thinks them necessary.
1t seems that he came in collision q
little while ago with ex-Judge Ditten-
hoefer, who was in an objecting mood,
and he was greatly irritated by the
latter's deliberate methods. Appeal
ing finally TO the court, he said:
Your honor, it is not the gentle
mans objections that l make excep-
ton to. but it takes him SO long to get
up and sit down."
Mr.. Dittenhocfer slowly arose and
replied as follows:
"Your honor. possess good deal
Of avoirdupois, and it requires some
exertion for me to move. 1 am not
like my little friend there (pointing to
HummeD, who has ouly to slide out
of his chair to find himself on his
feet"
1t is said that Mr.. Hummel made no
more 0bjections.-[New York Trib-
upe.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
THE MONKEY AND THE PIE.


An Indian fakir had monkey that
he had brought up from babyhood.
The pair were fast friends, the mon
key being faithful attendant on his
master and as good as a watch dog.
One day the fakir made pie for
dinner and left it to cook on q char
coal fire while he went for walk.
AS the cooking proceeded the savory
smell was too much for the monkey.
1t raised the crust and tasted the
chicken. Finding the food very tasty
1T ate more and more, till nothing but
the crust remained. Then it remem-
bered its master, who would
shortly come back hungry and
ready to enjoy his meal. What was to
be done9 The sharp eyes Of the mon
key detected some crows not far
away, so without loss of time it lay
down on the ground as if dead. By
and by crow came along and picked
at the monkey, which seized the bird
in twinkling, strangled it, stripped
OIL the feathers. placed it IN pieces in
the dish, covered it over with the
crust and then contentedly awaited the
return of the fakir, to whom the whole
incident was afterwards related by
witness of it Health and Home.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
"YouI you saved it'll"

"YouI you saved it'll"
She turned her head aside; her dry
lips moved mechanically.
"It was your one chance. Now let
me go. You bade me come. and ]
came-answer you, and / obeyed. ]
have had enough Of torture-let me
60"
''Darling, come to me-"
The strength of a child in his clasp,
but she yielded to it helplessly. She
cried silent. passionate tears, and he
kissed them away, and hushcd her
prayers for pardon.
"How can Iforgive?" he whispered.
"You have given of your life to save
mine. You have atoned. Kiss me
aud stay with me now and forever"
"Doctor," said Devereux, an hour
later, 81 do want to live now."
"Ah! l thought you would. kept
my promise, didn't II"
"Yes. God bless you for all your
kindness.
"Oh, that's nothing. Now will you
try and sleep?"
"Promise you will give my bride to
me when the time comes"
"You dear, grateful fellow, with all
my hearth" And so he did before long
and sent the two away together to
begin the life they had SO nearly
missed. Y. Advertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Uruguay. with her 500, 900 inhabit-

Uruguay. with her 800, 900 inhabit-
ants, owes in Europe and elsewhere
500, 900, 900 of gold; Argentina, with
1900, 900 people, owes $3.50, 900. 900
of gold; Brazil is utterly submerged
with debt; Paraguay's credit is so
utterly shattered with debt that she
must pay 81 in her paper money for
every dollar In gold; and Peru is in
che hands of an American receiver, a
syndicate. which for sixty -four years
will pocket all her revenues. "Thus,'
muses. the New York Mail and Ex-
press: Europe has returned TO the
Spanish American States almost as
much gold as she ever took away from
ahem; more, indeed, than the widest
dream of Pizarro and his contempor-
aries promised that they should find in
all the mines of the new word"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Get Out the Way

climbed the hill one wintry day,
And unused my meditative way,
And lost in various thought profound,
Oblivious to all around,
heard a shout ring loud and clear
And smite In terror on my ear
A shout that filled me with dismay,
''Hii Mister, there! Get out the wayp
l looked and saw there in my road
A double-runner with its load
OF shouting, laughing, hooting boys
A solid freight of solid noise.
"Hi Mister, therel Get out the way!"-
A most undiplomatic bray,
A bold command without the stress
OF any corteous fnesse.
did not make long delay
But I-well, "got out the way"
My first thought was not one of peace,
But one of vengeance and police;
But then those boys, 1 thought again,
Are like all other sons of men,
All mount their sleds and shout each day,
eli! Mister, there! Get out the wayp'
We have ambitions shod with steel,
Too swift to sec, too bard to feel.
We mount them in the hope to glide
Down destiny's steep mountain side,
And lightning-swift through frosty CLEANS
Dart these fast runners Of our dreams,
And loud we shout, raucous bray,
Hi Mister there! Get out the wayv
We do not turn our coasters back
But warn all people off the track,
We claim an unimpeded slope
Down all the highways Of our hope.
So, that our dou ble-runners glide;
Let other men find room one side;
And they can stand there in the snow
And have the fun to see us so.
4.nd so we shout day after day,
Hi! Mister, there! Get out the wayi"
And SO stood there in the snow
And wat&ed the boys glide far below,
And swift my thoughts were thoughts Of
peace
had no use for the police.
Do not shout myself each day
eli! Mister, there! Get out the wayw
-[Sam. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
HER DOUBLE GIFT.
BY LAURA LANSFELDT.

ga lady wishes to see you, SIR"
said the staid man servant to DR.. Hall.
1t was past 10 at night, and the physi-
clan looked up in some surprise.
"Show the lady in, please" he SAID,
and rose as slim young fgurelglided
into the room. Her face was covered
with veil; her garments were black.
She came forward quickly.
"You are DIR. Hall9" she said.
ayes, l am. May l ask"
III will not keep you many min
utes," she said; her manner was agi-
tated, her voice almost trembled.
"You have patient in your care
Mr.. Deveraux."
A little distantly DIR. Hail said
again-"Yes."
The girl-she was plainly no more
suddenly threw back her veil, reveal
ing pale, lovely face, with delicate
features.
"You want to know who 1 am,"
she said, "and by what right 1 ask
these questions. have no right, but
l beg of your mercy that you will an
swer me. heard of his illness-that
you almost give him up. Is that
true?"
eyes it is," said the doctor. gently.
"My name is Dorothy Clifford,
said the girl. A flush swept over her
cheek as the doctor gave little start.
"You know my name2" she faltered.
"From my patient" said DR.. Hall;
"nothlng he has told me-simply the
name he has repeated unconsciously.'
"Thcn perhaps you guess" she said
In low voice. "I am that Dorothy he
speaks of. A year ago we were lovers
-engagcd. thought 1 had reason to
accuse him of unfaith. We parted
"Ah," said the doctor, 81 knew
there was some cause for this break
down besides the frightful hardships
he has been through in America. Do
you want me to let you see him?"
"No--no-! l want you to tell me
if he must die-if it is true that there
is but one chance for him-if l can
give him that chancel 1t was all my
fault, doctor! He was true; it was
my madness that parted us. You
must let me atone-give my life for
his if need be; but he must not know
who has saved mm!"
"Do you know what his one chance
is2" said the doctor, gravely. ga
dangerous operation rarely practiced
dangerous to both the persons oper-
of blood"
81 will run the risk" said Doro-
thy, with her eyes flashing. 81 broke
his heart-l sent him Into those hard
ships that have shattered his health!
will give him my healIh-my life!
Esric need not know"-
"My poor child" said the physi-
clan, In deep pity, she viii know
nothing--he is almost unconscious
but l have doubts about this"-
The doctor slightly shook his head
he did not think his patient was man
likely to mend broken life in that
easy fashion. But he heard all the
girl had to urge and que'tioned her in
his turn. The girl pleaded franticaIIy
with sobs and tears. and at last Dr..
Hail consented.
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

An observant Philadelphian makes
the amazing assertion that girls with
Betrousse noses marry sooner, and are
more fortunate in catching good hus-
bands, than young ladies whose feat
Mes are of the Greek or Roman type.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

Several lots in Cornhill, London, in
tho immediate neighborhood of the
Bank of England. were sold several
days ago at price that averaged $3.50
per foot, or something over $10,000,-
900 an acre. Several lots of equal
size were offered for sale some weeks
ago, and were bought in by the owner
at price considerably higher.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

The people who reside on the Rue
rsasma, street in Paris which re-
eesved that name several years ago,
want to have it's name changed. Many
of them have good reason to rue
Panama, thinks the Chicago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
LITTLE BROTHER.

LITTLE BROTHER.
Little brother did not wake Il
When the sun shone out today;
Did not answer when / called,
Asking him to come and play.
So brought him all his toys.
Nay" they said in grave SURPRISE
"Brother is an angel now;
He has gone to Paradise.'
Then laughed in my delight,
Tossing top and ball asike;
But they wept with faces hid,
And wondered why they cried,
III. Il. Hudson, in Wide Awake.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
HOW TO PRESS A SLEEVE SEAM.

Here is useful hint which some
body is going to thank ME for, I am
certain. If you have dress or coat
sleeve which refuses to be pressed in
anything like decent fashion, no mat
ter how much you maneuver, try
running through it broom handle.
Rest the seam on it, and now you are
ready for the iron. Could anything
be simpler or more useful?-[St. Lou
is Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

According to the Industrialist, Kan
sas has 105 different kinds of native
trses and shrubs, occurring chiefly in
sAn eastern part of the State.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
RECIPES.

Fried Egg Plant-Parc and cut in
slices half an inch thick; sprinkle
with salt; cover and let stand for an
hour. Rinse in clear, cold water,
wipe each slice dry; dip first in beaten
egg, then in rolled cracker or bread
crumbs, Season with pepper and salt,
and fry brown in butter.
Ginger Snaps-Onc egg, one cup of
molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup
of butter and lard mixed, one-half
cup of boiling water, ono level table,
spoonful of soda dissolved in the
water, one tablespoonful of ginger,
flour enough to mold out rather soft.
Roll out thin and bake in quick
oven.
Sliced Sweet Potato Pie-Line a
deep pan with pastry, then half fill it
with layers of sliced boiled potato,
butter and sugar, with sprinkling Of
flour, using twice as much sugar as
butter. Mix together equal quantities
of brandy and water and pour in
enough to cover the layers. Flavor
with nutmeg or any spices preferred.
Cover with crust and bake.
Baked Apple Dumpling-Make d
nice pastry, break off small pieces and
roll thin, cut the size of breakfas
saucer. Into each piece put tea
spoonful of sugar and an apple
chopped finc. Draw the edges of
crust together, so as to form into
balls. Then put them iuto pan.
cover with hot water 49, bake. Add
tos- water if the frs. 0ries out, to
f~~n 9 .Auce.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Two l0,000-ton steamers will ply
heewsen Liverpool aud New Orleans
- soon as they can be built.

Last year was the most prosperous
in ihe history of cotton manufacturing
In the South, states the Chicago Her
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
FREsHENING UP THE DINING ROOM.

FRESHENING UP THE DINING ROOM.
Any woman who wants 10 work
change in her dining room can do it
at a very small expenditure of money,
if she only has time for little needle
work.
A friend of mine at a trifling ex-
pense has made and embroidered for
her dining room. which is papered in
old blue, some very pretty portieres
and table cover. of the common b uc
denim, or "overall" cloth. She
bought the double-wi tn material, ,and
at top and bottom of the porteres
embroidered in chain stitch with white
linen floss, simple conventional de-
sign of leaves and scroll work. She
then lined the portieres with the plain
material. copy the patterns, which,
of course, is to be enlarged. Heavier
and shower patterns can be found in
the art magazines that make special
ty of decorative needle work. This,
however, is singularly rich and re-
fined when embroidered.
On the large, square cover for her
dining table she repeated the same
pattern, as a border, lining the whole
cover with white canton flannel, and
trimming it with heavy, white linen
fringe. Tho chain stitch is very easy,
swift, bold and effective; the veining
Of the leaves is done in outline or
Kensington stitch.
With the old Delft ware on her
sideboard, these blue and white fur
nishings harmonize most delightfully."-.
Besides the inexpensiveness aud dura-
bility of the ''overalr' portieres and
table covers, they have the further adj
vantage. this practical housekeepcr
assures me- being laundered without
the least injury. = Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
THE DISCONTINUED OWLS.

The DlSCONTENIED OWLS.
There were once three discontented
owls.
cit is so stupid to sit in the dark
and eat MICE" they said.
''It must be ever so much nicer to
fly in the sun and sip honey. Let's be
humming birds"
So one morning, bright and early,
they tapped their way into the garden
where the honeysuckles grew. They
tried to dip their bills into the lovely
blossoms, but they had not the bills OF
humming- birds, and they couldn't dip.
"No honey!" they cried.
"What shall we do?"
Then one owl said: "Let's claw it
out"
SO they turned around and thrust
their claws iuto the blossoms, fishing
for honey. And the honeysuckles
were so rich and full that-what do
you think? The honey just stuck to
the owls claws and held them fast;
and the honey was so thick that it
drew and drew until it sucked the
owls in-all but their heads.
And now if you look at the honey
suckle vine you can see those discon-
solate owls peering out from the
petals, all of them so sorry they ever
tried to be humming- birds. -[Wide
Awake.
AN AMUSING SPECTACLE IN BIRD LIFE,
In special ornithological bulletin
of the United States National Museum
occurs the following account of the
dance of the prairie sharp tailed
grouse of Manitoba. quoted from the
unpublished notes of E. E. Thomp-
son:
After the disappearance of the snow
and the coming of warm weather the
chickens meet every morning at gray
dawn, in companies from six to
twenty, on some selected hillock or
knoll, and indulge in what is called
"dance." This performance 1 have
often watched and it presents the
most amusing spectacle have yet
witnessed in bird life.
At first the birds may be seen st and
ing about in ordinary attitudes, when
suddenly one of them lowers its head,
spreads out its wings nearly horizon
tally and its tail perpendicularly, dis
tends its air sacs and erects it's feath-
ers, then rushes across the "floor,"
taking the shortest Of steps, but stamp
ing its feet so hard and rapidly that
the sound is like that of kettledrum;
ut the same time it utters a sort of
bubbling crow which seems to come
from the air sacs. beats the air with
its wings and vibrates its tail, SO that
it produces loud, rustling noise, and
thus contrives at once to make as ex-
traordinary spectacle of itself as pos
sible.
AS soon as one commences, all join
in, rattling, stamping jumping, crow
ing and dancing together furiously;
louder and louder the noise. faster
and faster the dance becomes, until at
last as they madly whirl about, the
birds leap over each other in their ex-
citement. After brief spell the en-
ergy of the dancers begins to abate,
and shortly afterward. they stand or
move about very quietly until they are
again started by one Of their number
leading fl.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

The first society of civil engiuecrs
was formed IN London, 1898.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10
REJOICE!

Crazy John Clahin, of the great
house of Clafin & Co. New York,
thinks be has struck it. In his cir
cular sent to western business men
the other day, and to which Cover
nor Mcconnell sent such an able re-
ply, he says:
If this country should determine to use
its great credit TO draw gold from Europa
by the sale Of its bonds, specifically pay
able in gold the European supply of gold
would be seriously depleted. Does not
the best hope of the silver producers lie in
urging the accumulation of gold in the
United States Treasury, and the conse-
quently depletion of the European stock
of gold; until Europe shall feel the diff
Guilty of transacting the worlds business
on gold alone, and shall be ready to Join
this country in an International use of sill
yer?
How does that strike you? What
comment does it need? What n
weapon is within our graspl Our ma
ton shall rise with blood in its eye
and shall issue bonds payable in gold
coin, and shall go over the sea and
shake them in the face of the Lom-
bard streeter, the Frankforters and
the Amsterdamers, and sell them, and
shall thus deplete all the gold centers
of Europe until they are filed with
such wild CONSERVATION that they will
never think of returning the bonds
and demanding the gold back, hut
will fall on their knees and cry out to
us, "Let us come to an international
agreement We have no money.
Give us free silverl" What big,
bright ideal Pass the cake to crazy
Claflin, of New York.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10

ne than formerly. OF course this is
little foreign, and it could be claimed
that mining and minting were entirely
different, and the erudite editor would
reply that silver coined into dollars
retained its old time value. That is
just what we want-the government
to keep on coming them. But let the
minting part go, then, and turn to the
mining. This erudite editor is so
well versed in mining, does he not
know that gold and silver are, as
rule, taken from the same mine, the
same vein, the same ore and milled
and smelted together? That exclu-
sive gold bearing lodes without silver
are not the rule but the exception, and
that the two metals are Synonymous
and inseparably connected equally
with each other and have been for
ages, until the political bandits of
1873 crippled the one at that stage of
their journey where they arrive at
the mint to be coined into the money
of the people? And does he not
know that dynamite cartridges, dia-
mond drills and all that, enter lust as
much into the production of gold as
of silver? Then why does he not ex-
plain why gold has not fallen in value
the same as silver and why does gold
remain at the same figure as when it
took SIG and SIS worth of work to
produce an ounce? And does he not
know that in most of these mines it
requires both gold and silver to make
them profitable, and that if the silver
is made worthless the gold in the ores
will not alone Justify working them,
and under these conditions, if silver
legislation causes the mines to shut
down, it will cause the production of
gold to fall off fully one third? If
silver is commodity, why does he
not explain why its price never varied
during the eighty years of successful
free coinage in this country? But we
have dabbled so long with this east
ern editor that we fear he has become
wearisome to our readers.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10
EASTERN ERUPTION,

Silver and financial matters being
almost the sole topic of the American
states ut present, the press, as Il
matter of course, is filed with article
after article on the subject 1t is
what people are most interested in
and what they want to read about.
The western press, from the humblest
little country journal to the giant Salt
Lake Tribune, are hammering away
with their big and little battering
rams at the frowning walls of the
gold despots castle-with the excep-
ton of minimum few subsidized
traitors to the people who support
them, journalistic Judases that are
stabbing the west and western inter-
ests in the back at every jump, and
chief of these is the Portland Orego-
man. The eastern press is just as
full of silver as the western journals,
but it is all directly opposite to our
ideas. The little country papers as
well as the big city ones are slashing
away with a golden quill. And let
us say right here that the little coun-
try paper is not to be despised for its
power, even when it is but the echo
of its big city neighbor. The coun-
try paper goes right into the agricul-
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10

CORRESPONDENTS.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-10

wear, tear, loss etc. become scarce at
quite rapid rate, and as it grows
scarce it will keep commanding an
increasing premium, as necessity for
its use.to make change grows with its
scarcity. And in this very thing lies
one of the purposes of the
hellhounds who are downing
the white metal. As soon as sill
yer is killed they can proceed to gath
er up all that is in circulation and sell
it over the bank counters at the rate
of $3.50 in silver for 1000 in COLA
or bills, and thereby have another rich
harvest flowing into their tills. AL
ready in New York does the silver
dollar command premium of 2 cents
and the other day in Wall street a
new industry sprung into existence
and silver coin, silver certificates and
other small bills were being sold over
counters like merchandise Keen
Shylocks had seen their opportunity
and had gathered up all the change
and small currency from merchants
and dealers and when factories and
such, employing many hands, went to
pay them they could not do so. There
was no small money to be had at the
banks or elsewhere and a $500 bill
could not be cut into bits to pay fifty
men ten dollars apiece. In conse-
quence employers were forced to go
to these men who had gathered up
the currency and to get $1,000 of it
they handed over their check for
5000 Small bills were carried away
in hugh rolls and com in sacks.
Gold bugs grow fat by speculation in
money, every turn that is made-and
they bull it and bear it just like
enables them to reap har-
vest, and they generally "double
shoot the game and reap just as
much from the one that goes down
as the one that goes up. Until our
government places her finances on
basis as fixed, solid and unchangng
as the Rock Of Ages and hasn't sill
yer been the standby of ages? so
long will her people groan in poverty
and wretchedness and their necks
he ground beneath the wheels of the
Juggernaut of money power We
predict, also, that il silver be wiped
out, the mnts of Asia will start up
again to enable England royal old
England-to come here and get an
ounce of silver for forty cents and
take it to India and buy 1873 cents
worth of wheat with it,