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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-02

This summer we shall handle Chase &
Sanb0rn's teas as well as colfces which
IL a sufficient guarantee Of the quality
Of the goods TURNER x DINGElE.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

Attorney with on oratorical swing.
''Never. l have u duty, sir, a sacred
duty that l owe to the people of this
great commonwealth which sustains
me-"
"There, there!" interrupted Judge
Greengoods, "of course, of course. 1
dismiss the jury and continue the case
unto the next term. The prisoner is
remanded without bail. Adjourn
court, Mr.. Crier," and with avery dis
satisfied expression comforting his reg
ular features "his honor" hastened
away to his club.
The Sheriff led his prisoner away.
The lights were turned out and the
great building was left to the ghosts
of sorrows and the echoes of sobs.
And little Patty driving home with her
wrathful grandmother dared smile
through her tears.
But before the next term news came
of the violent death of the elder Bar
ling boys in foreign land and of their
prior confession and assertion OF their
brothers innocence. The grim Jail
yielded up its captive, and the cell
where murderers had been chained
knew his guileless nature no more.
Impotent rage increased the weight of
years until they crushed the grand
mother into her grave. The feud be-
tween the two families was buried with
her, and over their joint farms Patty
Barling now presides as n happy mis-
tress. New York Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
al Incident In Edic~1's Early Life.

In telegraphy, opera ,rs are taught /;
receivers must be born. Equipped by
nature and training, Edison gave up
the newsboy life, in which he had
earned in four years $4,000, the greater
part of which he gave to his parents.
Now began his migratory career as
telegraph operator. Many ups and
downs were his. Often he was cold.
hungry, and shelterless, for Ghe insati-
able impulse to experiment. to the neg
lect of his duties kept him continually
out of work. One day he reveled in
the praises his ingenuity evoked; the
next, he was dubbed "Luny" and
turned adrift.
Perhaps his most ingenious boyhood
feat was performed during an ice jam
that broke the cable between Port
Huron in Michigan and Sarnia in
Canada. The river at this point is a
mile and half wide. The ice made
the river impossible, and there was no
way of repairing The cable.
Edison impulsively jumped on loco
motive and seized the valve controlling
the whistle. He had an idea that the
blasts of the whistle might be broken
into long and short sounds, cores
ponding to the dots and dashes of
telegraphy. In a moment the whistle
sounded over the river: loot, toot,
toot, toot-toot, toooot-toooooot
toooooot-toot, toot-toot, toot.
"Hallo-o, Sarnia! Do you get me?"
s'Do you hear what say?"
No answer.
"Do you hear what l say, Sarnia?"
A third, fourth, and fifth time the
message went across, to receive no re-
sponse. Finally, the operator on the
other side understood. Answering
''toots" came cheerfully back, and
the connection was established. St
Nichnlns
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

One of the most commendable
pensions granted by the British Gov
ernment during the past year, the
New Orleans Picayune thinks, was that
of $500 to Miss Lucy Garnett in recog
milton of her literary merits and tc
enable her to prosecute her researches
in Oriental folklore. Other note
worthy pensions bestowed during the
year were one of 1910 to the widow o.
Professor Mimic, and one of $3.50 tc
T. Adolphus Trollope's widow. TIL,
ladies, indeed, Jared very well, Mis-
Margaret Stokes receiving $500 for her
researches into early Christian art and
archaeology in Ireland, and Mrs.
Cashel Hoey $3.50 for her novels. The
Rev. Richard Morris, to whom every
student of early English literature and
philology is indebted, receives $3.50
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
Cured by Laughter.

Laughter has often dissipated dis
ease and preserved life by sudden
effort of nature We are told that the
great Erasmus laughed SO heartily at
satirical remark that he broke a
tumor and recovered his health. In a
singular treatise on laughter, "
Joubert gives two similar instances.
A patient being very low, the physician,
who had ordered dose of rhubarb,
countermanded the medicine, which
was left on the table. A monkey in
the room jumping up, discovered the
goblet, and having tasted, made a
terrible grimace. Again putting only
his tongue to it, he perceived some
sweetness of the dissolved mamma,
while the rhubarb had sunk to the
bottom. Thus emboldened, he swal-
lowed the whole, but found it such Il
nauseous potion that, after many
strange and fantastic grimaces, he
ground his teeth in agony, and in u
violent fury threw the goblet on the
floor. The whole affair was so ludicrous
that the sick mau burst into repeated
peals of laughter, and the recovery of
cheerfulness led to health. New York
Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
The New York Post remarks

The New York Post remarks that
Few people have any conception of
the pressure for pardon which is
brought to bear upon every Executive.
Governor Stone, of Missouri, has at
least 500 applications before him, and
declares that it is not an exaggeration
to say that one-half of his time is alb
sorbed in listening to such applica-
tions, which are presented by mothers,
wives, daughters, lawyers, friends from
every part of the State, singly, by
twos and threes, and often in larger
delegations. Most of these applica-
tions he has to refuse, only nineteen
having been granted during the first
six months of his term; but il is easy
to accept his plea that 'an undue pro-
portion of my time is consumed with
these matters, and the strain upon
nervous vitality resulting from the pa
thetic incidents connected with them
is very exhausting. 1t is obvious that
some change ought to be made, either
by the establishment of Board of
Pardons or otherwise; for it is absurd
that half of an Executives time and
strength should be exhausted In con
sidering petitions that he will set aside
the findings of the courts.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

The paucity of Americanborn sail
ors in the United States Navy has ex-
cited great deal of comment, OBJ
serves the Chicago Herald. A record
of the seamen serving in the navy since
the establishment of this system shows
the lads who are graduated from the
apprentice training system continue in
the service of the United States The
records futhur show that of the 1850
seamen allowed by law in the navy, less
than one-half of those who enlist at the
receiving ships are native born Ameri-
cans
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

The English, who are trying to
anglicize Egypt, are very much an.
noyed by recent decree of the young
Khedive to the effect that the Arabic
language must be used in all branches
of the curriculum of the Government
schools. The study of this language
has always been required of every
pupil, and they attain considerable
proficiency in it, in order to pass the
necessary examinations, but under the
present order it will become practi-
cally the vernacular. The English
consider this long step backward,
and say that all the text books on tho
modern arts and sciences are in the
languages of Europe, and that all at
tempts TO teach them in the Arabic
have resulted badly. This, perhaps,
was due to the fact that the teachers
were not 80 familiar with the language
as they might have been. At all
events, no one can blame the Khedive
for using all the means in his power to
keep alive the National institutions
and feelings of his people. Egypt is
almost British colony now.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
WISE WORDS.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
Self-respect-that cornerstone of all
virtue.
There is no malice like the malice of
the renegade.
The absence of temptation is the
absence of virtue.
No man who needs monument ever
ought to have one.
No nation can be destroyed while it
possesses n good home life.
Out of clothes, out of countenance;
out of countenance, out of wit.
The lowest people are generally the
first to find fault with show of equipage
As soon go kindle fire with snow as
seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
What is becoming in behavior is
honorable, and what is honorable is
becoming.
Be thou the first true merit to be-
friend his praise is lost who waits till
all commend.
1t is vain to trust in wrong as much
of evil SO much of loss, is the fol lmula
of human history.
He who observes the speaker more
tha, the sound of his words will seldom
meet with disappoinfments.
A politician weakly and amiably
right is no match for politician
tenaciously and pugnaciously in the
wrong
Ven seldom, or rather, never, for
ength of time end deliberately rebel
| against anything that does not deserve
rebelling against.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

controversy is raging in st. Louis
about the identity of the last surviving
soldier of the Revolutionary War. The
facts seem to indicate, concludes the
Atlanta Constitution, that this obscure
individual was John Gray, who died at
Hiramsburg, Ohio, March %, 1868,
and who lies buried there in an almost
unmarked grave. He was 104 years
old at the time of his death, and was a
Continental soldier when only sixteen
wears old
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

Says the Boston Herald: "The
country taverns are reported to be
getting a good deal of custom from
bicycle riders this summer, who make
long journeys into the country, put up
for a day or a night, and then keep on
or return home. Any town in the
rural districts that has good roads is
sure to be benefited by this sort OF
custom, and in time it will more than
make up for the losses which the
country hotels and boarding houses
are likely to experience on account of
the prevailing business depression.
Let the town authorities bear in mind
that good roads are the prime requisite
for encouraging this business, how
ever"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

If half the stories told of him are
true, Lord Cromer, the British diplo-
matte agent in Egypt, is an original
individual. He divides his leisure time
between lawn tennis and Homer in the
original Greek. During the recent
Egyptian crisis Lord Cromer ordered
the Khedive to dismiss his prime min
lister within twenty four hours, ordered
troops from Malta and Alden in case of
an emergency and then went out and
played tennis until sunset.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

Western railroad officials say that
this years corn crop will be 800, 900,
900 bushels larger than last year $
that the oat crop $4,000, 900 larger
that the wheat crop will be only
100, 900, 900 bushels smaller; that the
hog crop will be 1900, 900 larger and
that all roads will have vastly more to
haul than in 1892 go. State Secretary
Mohler has issued special report Oh
the corn prospects of Kansas. He puts
the area at 6, 296, 900 acres, only 900, O0O
under the wonderful area of 1889, when
the yield was 273, 900, 600, and that the
condition this year promises yield
exceeded only by 1859.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
Length Of the Worlds DAYS,

At Stockholm, Sweden, the. longest
day is 1Si hours in length; at Spitz-
bergen it is three and half months.
At Londen, England, aud Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has 19l hours.
At Hamburg, Germany, and Dentzig,
Prussia, the longest day has seventeen
hours. At Wardbury, Norway, the
longest day lasts from May 81 to July
%, without Interruption. AT st. Pc
tersburs, Russia and Tobolisk, Sibo-
ria, tho longest day Is nineteen hours
and the shortest iivo hours. At Tor
nea, Finland Juno 81 brings day
nearly Twenty-Five hours long, and
Christmas ono less than three hours in
length. At Now York tho longest day
is about fiftson hours; at Montreal,
Canada. it is sixteen hours. Chicago
Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

The interesting fact is shown in the
emigration and immigration returns OF
Great Britain and Ireland last year
that, while the native population is
leaving in hundred of thousands fo1
this country and the British colonies,
there is considerable influx of immi-
grants into the United Kingdom, com
ing for permanent settlement Last
year 210,0 British and Irish left
their home, the great majority, $50,
039, coming to the United States. In
the same period %, 1877 aliens from the
continent of Europe arrived in the
United Kingdom 'for permanent set
flement -
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

More than eight thousand persons
the exact number is S180-committed
suicide in Paris in 1891. The proper
tion is twenty-one to every 100, 600 of
the inhabitants, and the increase over
1881 is twenty-five per cent. What
has caused the enormous percentage
of increase in self-destruction in ten
years, wonders the New York Mail
and Express. Apparently life is no
harder and its condition no more dis
couraging than they were ten years
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

A novel method of meeting the
chinch bug pest is being adopted in
Minnesota, where these insects appear
in such large numbers as to destroy
the crops. There is disease known
as entomophahera which is deadly to
the bugs. Several hundred of them
are caught, inoculated with it and
turned loose. These give it to Others,
and in the consequent epizootic the
bugs disappear.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
NO. 40.
WOULD WE RETURN

Would we return
II once the gates which closed upon the
past
We're opened wide for us, and If the dear
Remembered pathway stretched before
clear
To lead us back to youths lost land ct last,
When on life April shadows lightly cast,
Recalled the old sweet days of childish fear
With all their faded hopes, and brought
anear
The far off streams with which our skies
were glassed;
Did these lost dreams which wake the SOULS
sad yearning
But live once more and waited our returning,
Would we return?
Robert Burns Wilson
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

A California man offers to give, with
out charge, to the city of San Fran
cisco flow of water amounting to
100, 900, 900 gallons daily and bring it
about 100 miles from the forks of
North and Middle Yuba Rivers. His
only condition is that he should have
the privilege of leasing for a period of
twenty five years the horse power to
be developed from the water.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

Prince Henry of Orleans, who is not
of much account in most things, has
shown wisdom in advising the scions
of French royal houses to assist in the
colonial development of France, since
they can but add confusion to confu-
sion if they take part in politics. 1t
was upon his advice that the young
Duke of Uzeo went on the Congo ex-
pedition, which proved fatal to him.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
AN INTERRUPTED VERDICT,

He lights were
turned low in
the courtroom,
and about them
slowly circled
the foul, heavy
air, adding to
the d i'm n e ss.
Judge Green
goods had gone
to his dinner,
h q v G a n
nounced his in
tention to re-
turn at 8 O'Clock
UNI | ess sum-
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

Some time ago an Iowa cyclone fol-
lowed the route of a railroad for sew
eral miles, and now, the Chicago Her
aid learns that there is a theorist on
deck who proposes to steer these
storms, by means of rails laid and
wires strung for the purpose, into open
sections of country where they can
spend their force without damage.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

The School Board of Auburn, Me-,
has decided that it takes six children
to make school, and they intend
closing up all schools having less than
that number.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
HOW TO LIVE.

SO should we live that every hour,
May die as dies the natural flower.
A self-reviving thing of power.
That every thought, and every deed,
May hold within itself the seed,
or future good and future need.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

A New York music dealer says that
the composer of CATER the Ball. will
make 800, 900 out of his song. Many
other authors of popular songs have
made nothing because they failed to
take out copyrights.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15

The Greek style of building, nodi-
fed to modern needs, has been most
successfully used in Paris, where many
palaces are seen of this construction.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
They are proposing to pension teach
ers in England.

Crime is rapidly increasing all over
Argentina. Statistics show that it has
more than doubled during the past
two wears.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
LAPoRTE. PA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Is. 1893

a Western geologist says that Kansas
can raise wheat for another thousand
years before exhausting the necessary
properties of the soil.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
Trlcked by the Jolly Tars.

A pretty good story is told of the
way in which the officers of certain
sloop-of-war of the North Atlantic
squadron succeeded in getting their
ships slow and antiquated steam
launch replaced by one of later and
more fashionable type. II happened
that the vessel hauled into navyyard
for its periodical repairs While there
the launch was loudly complained of
as too heavy and unwieldly for sloop-
of-war to carry, and careful weigh
ing by the yard authorities verified the
complaint. Thereupon new and swift
little craft which cost Uncle Sam ever
so many hundreds of dollars was sub
stituted, and the sloop-of-war steamed
exultantly away. But when the old
launch was sent to the boat shop for
overhauling the workmen found snug
ly slowed away ont of sight along the
keelson nearly n thousand pounds of
superfluous ballast iron. The appar-
emily unaccountable weight of the re-
jected boat was readily explained
Boston Journal
Mrs. Albert Sturdevant is the City
Weigher of Danbury. Conn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
Real Fighting Dcrvlshes.

Il is easier 70 turn q hungry tiger
aside from his prey than thoroughly
excited dervish from his swoop on an
M enemy, says military correspon-
dent. His half brother in fanaticism
and creed, the Indian or Afghan Ghazi,
is terrible, but the African and Arab
dervish is superlatively awful, with an
incurable delirium for his opponents
gore. Howling and whirling dervishes,
such as travellers are specially con-
Quoted to see when visiting the East, )"
are n comparatively harmless sort OF
lunatics compared with those types OF
African bigots who, converted" to
Mahdism, burn to run amuck with the
rest of unbelieving humanity. Once
fairly bitten with the tarantula OF Mos
lem sectarian zeal, the proselyte is
consumed with the belief that the de-
lights of the seventh or any number OF
heavens await him il he can only en-
gage in sturdy, steady butchery OF
''infidels" of his own or any race. IL
is matter of indifference to him IL in
the operation, while he sheathes his
sword in his and his prophets enemy,
the latter is doing the same to him.
Quick and happy translation he holds
as his sure reward. London Tele'
praph.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
Inc fcrry.Ac-c Fcrmcr.

''My father used TO tell me about the
richest man he ever knew, said steady
yorng fellow few days ngo, Gays the
Detroit Free Tress. THAT man had
wife and three children on cozy lit.lo
forty-acre farm. He had few hun.
Cred dollars in the bank and was nl-
why's adding TO IL, for his expenses we're
far below the profits of his little place.
That man had no sickness in his family.
He was happy. He had everything
that he wanted and was independent.
So he was the richest man my father
ever knew. cannot soy that ngree
with my respected ancestor, continued
the young man, "for that man never
knew of the modern luxuries of life,
those thousand and one little improve
ments and conveniences that go TO
make ease for man, the gradual work
ing out of the theory of the eventful
complete mastery of mind over mat
ter"
"You are looking" said the older
man, ito that time when the mind will
sit in an inert body and do nothing but
command. True il is that the tendency
is IN that direction but il is matter
of grave question whether the good of
the human race calls for the fulfllment
of the plan. The mind of man is the
master, but the man who looks forward
20 the hour when he can sit and by the
pressing Of a button have the world at
his feet is not the man who will bring
these things about. We yearn for i'm
provements that will make life easier /;
yet with the tirae-saving methods of
to-day the race is buster and less rest
taking than ever. I agree with the
old gentleman who thought the forty
acre farmer with happy surroundings
the richest man he ever knew"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
THE NATIONAL GAME.
sr. LOUIS has signed Catcher Gunson.

ST. LOUIS has signed Catcher Gunson.
EWING. of Cleveland, leads the League IN
base running.
BURKE. of the New Yorks, leads his club
In base running.
ANsoY. Chicago's Captain. has been twenty
five years in harness.
THR New Works lost eleven out of the
twelve games they played away from home.
CARrTHERs and Darby, young pitcher
from Philadelphia, have been released by
Cincinnati.
CLEVELAND has strong hopes that little
mora practice will make Hastings one of tho
leading pitchers of the League.
CARTER. Of Yale, has the ''strike-out"
record for the season. He retired sixteen
Princeton batsmen. He has struck out 1877
men already this season.
THE best base running nine in the League
would be Doyle, catcher Stratton. pitcher :
Beckley, Ward and Latham, hasempn ;
Dahlen shortstop: Brown, Hamilton and
Ewing in the field.
TfERNAS, OF New York. is making quite n
record as home run batter, he having
made four In three games. His batting
record in those three games was seven hits,
with total of nineteen.
No matter how strong the pitcher most of
them feel the disadvantages OF the new rules
anu lOse tnelr effectiveness III some part OF
the game. The large number of games being
lost or won in one inning shows this.
ONE OF the greatest dangers to ball players
Is in sliding to the home plate, where the
catchers are allowed to deliberately block
the runner or. The base runner should be
entitled to chance to reach the base.
The old timers this year dating ser;ice
back TO 1888 are Bennett, B-olthers. DALEY,
Richardson, Stovey, Stricken, Ewing. Anson
Mullane. Comiskey, McPhee. Latham, Keefe,
Clements. Thompson, Connor, Ward. Kelly,
Pieffer, Welch, Glasscock, Larkin, Radford,
ORourke and Wise.
AT Brooklyn 1924 persons paid for admis-
sion to the Sunday game played between the
New lorks and Brooklyns for the benefit of
Darby O'Brien, the player who is i'll with
consumption. More than $4,000 will go TO
OBrien. The Brooklyns won by thirteen TO
seven. The clubs exchanged batteries.
CAPTAIN TEBEAU is well pleased with new
Cleveland catcher, Boyd. He is marvel
ously speedy and accurate thrower, and
backs up pitcher with nerve and certainty
that give confidence not only to the pitcher
but to all the nine. This gives Tebeau plenty
Of catchers for almost any contingency in
thinner, Ewing, O'Connor and Boyd,