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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

Says the New York Sun; The re-
port of the Civil Service Commission
shows that women are going into civil
service in larger numbers than ever,
and that there is comparative decrease
in the number of men who are now en-
tering the executive departments
There is no great reason to regret that
such is the case. The pay that the
average Government clerk receives is
by no means enormous for man of
ability, while the work is of kind that
most women can do easily and well. A
department clerkship ought not to
tempt any yodng man of enterprise
and talent, but many such have buried
both qualities in the dispiriting routine
of such career
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
LAPORTE. PA, FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1893

Mrs. Clark, the physicians wife, came
in. This lady was well of, dressy, but
economical and very fussy. All
Witham knew that she was hard to
please She would not burden Miss
Goodrich for anything, she began, if
she could possibly find time to go her.
self to the city or if she could get what
she wanted in Witham.
She had a piece of brown plaid
which she would like matched; would
Miss Goodrich be SO kind SIS to get the
came quality exactly and the same
pattern? SeeP There was that fine
stripe-did she notice that. 1t was
bought three years ago-Mss. Clark
did not remember now whether it was
in New York or Philadelphia; she had
paid a dollar yard for it, and she
would like six yards more.
Mrs. Green, from the Corners; Mrs.
Drake, from the Centre; Mrs. Will
Jams, from North Witham Mrs. john
son, Mrs. Jones, Mrs Cole, one after
the other, were ushered into the sit
ting-room and begged to have piece
of goods matched or something big or
little bought in the city. They always
knew it would be no trouble for her as
long as she was buying for herself, and
not one offered to advance the money
for the purchase.
After supper on Wednesday evening
Hannah wrote out her list in full. She
was studying it, little amused and
very much vexed, when her mother
entered.
''Ma, I've been counting up" she
said
s'Waal -
''The things I am requested by the
neighbors to buy amount, at rough
guess, to $3.50. They would easily fill
three trunks, and the work of hunting
for them would occupy me at least
four days. Not one has offered me a
cent in advance or the money to pay
expressage. | have just $50 and two
days to spend in the city.
''I told you sol told You so."
"What could I do? l should have
offended every one of them if l had
put the case to them as it is. y
"'Waal, what air you going to do:
You're in for it, you see.
'1m not going-that's what I'll dc
about it. Well buy our winter dresses
ut Blake's, as the rest of Witham will
for all me. The next time l make up
my mind to go to New York not SOU
in Witham will know it till I am gone,
if you please, ma"
Mrs. Goodrich did please. Wher
Hannah went early the next spring
even Mrs. Downing was not told til
the last moment, and then it was be-
sause Hannah changed her name te
Downing the day she went, and was al
pleased as before, of course, to under
take any commissions for jerry
mother. True Flag.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
Preserved Fine Leg of Mutton.

There was an immense sensation
created at the NJ station the other
day, just previous to the starting of
the afternoon express for Paris. The
inspector was about to start the train
when short, fat and pussy old gen
tleman trotted up to him and ex-
claimed:
"Wait minute, will you, please,
while L"
impossible, sir - interrupted the
officer, putting the whistle to his lips.
''The train is overdue now.
''But you must wait !" cried the old
gentleman, excitedly. "There is a
mans leg underneath the wheel.
''Good gracious! Why didn't you
say SO at first? Where is he ?" inquired
the horror-stricken inspector. "Hold
on there!"
And having stopped the train he
hurried after the old gentleman, while
a couple of porters jumped down on
the line, amid the excitement of a
number of spectators. After short
search one of the porters handed up a
rush basket containing large and
fine looking leg of mutton.
''Thank you y said the old gentle
man.
"What do you mean, sir?" roared
the exasperated inspector. "You said
-"
81 said mans leg was under the
wheel, and so it was," interrupted the
old gentleman. 81 bought this leg
and paid for it, and if it isn't mine l
should like to know who it belongs to,
that's all. /"
Then the train moved on. Paris
Figaro.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
To Preserve Pictures.

A new method of preserving pictures
is being experimental with in London.
1t consists of placing the surface of the
picture, be it canvas or paper, in a
vacuum, thus protecting it from atmos-
pheric action. The picture is enclosed
in metal frame or case, covering the
back and sides and projecting from the
sides like an ordinary frame. A plate
of glass is inserted in the edges of the
case, just as in an ordinary frame, and
Theoretically sealed to the metal. The
air is then withdrawn from between
the surface of the picture and The glass
and the painting is in vacuum. 1t Ia
believed this plan will effeetualiy pro-
tect pictures from the action of damp
ness, mir, gases and other causes that
operate To destroy paintings exposed
or framed in the ordinary way.--Te-
troit Fres tress.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Rubber is made from cotton seed oil.
Flies sometimes infect eatables with
cholera germs
Scientists are of the opinion that
some icebergs last for 200 years.
An electric railway will probably be
built between Atami and Odalvara in
Japan.
Z. d. Curtis, the scientist, expects
to see country roads lighted with cleo
tricity.
Comb honey is said to be a remedy
for dyspepsia. The wax must be eaten
with the honey.
Fourteen wind planets were dis
covered during last month, bringing
the total number of small planets
known up to 375.
Successful experiments have been
made in stimulating the growth of such
plants as wheat, corn and tobacco by
means of electric currents.
Granulated cork and bitumen, pressed
into blocks, is the latest favorite for
paving London streets. It's elasticity
is its special recommendation.
The Chinese have bred whole
colony of goldfish, each having two
well-developed tails and two sets of
anal fins. Biologists say it would be
equally easy to breed quadrupeds with
eight legs.
The position of the lamprey cells
has been reviewed by Professor
Howes, who thinks that instead of
being primitive forms, they are aber-
rant fish-like forms, which have lost
their lower jaw, their sucking mouth
having been secondarily acquired.
If the heat of the sun were produced
by the burning of coal, it would re-
quire layer sixteen feet in thickness,
extending over its whole surface, to
feed the flame a single hour. With
the sun solid body of coal, it would
burn up at this rate in forty y-six CEN
turies.
Edison, the great inventor, is hope
full of being able to generate electricity
directly from heat, and thus dispense
with the steam engine and dynamo now
used for producing electric power. If
this plan be successful, it is likely that
a simple piece of mechanism placed
over the kitchen chimney will supply
electric lights to every room in an or
dinary residence.
AS the ashes contain only about six
per cent. of potash and less than two
of phosphoric acid, the value is not
more than forty cents per 100 pounds,
or IS ton. This estimate is based on
value of potash of Al cents pound
in muriate of potash, selling at $45 the
ton, and phosphoric acid at six cents 8
pound. Tho common price of wood
ashes is far beyond the actual value
compared with the price of other fer.
tilizers.
As everybody is learning now, boil.
ing kills the microbes in water, and il
was only when the authority of law
forbidding the use of the infected river
water was put in force in Hamburg
last autumn that the cholera was really
checked; and it is interesting to Learn
that Cyrus, who seems to have had
good ideas of sanitation, when crossing
the river Choaspes, had all the drink
ing water for his army boiled-in sill
yer bowls, the legend says.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
NO. 81.
HORSE SENSE.

Fiain hoss sense'll pull yer through =.
Wen there's nothin' else'll do;
You may still be poor and needy
With your head cyelopedy
An big poets, so they say,
Sometimes eat one meal a day. +s.1
Plain hoss sense'll pull yer through
When there's nothin' else'll do.
There are big mefi expect
Wallerin' in intellect, -
Spoutin' swimmin' in sea ~.
OF their own philosophy,
Who might grab the shore an stand \
On the dry and solid land
Plain boss sense'n might pull 'em through
When philosophy wouldn' do.
With horse sense you'll never fail
If you haven't been to Yale.
Don't be scared, but use your head,
Not some other mans instead
Don't lay up there on the shelf,
Walk about an trust yerself;
Plain hoss sense'n pull yer through,
When there's nothn' else'll do.
Sam Walter Foss. in Yankee Blade.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
An electric railway shortly to be con-

An electric railway shortly to be con-
structed from New York to Philadel-
phia will carry passengers the entire
trip, ninety miles, in an hour, and it
is announced that q similar line, run
ming cars at the speed of 100 miles an
hour will soon connect st. Louis and
Chicago. Already, there are signs of
a conflict between electric and steam
railway interests, remarks the Atlanta
Constitution. Electric roads do not
need deep cuts, heavy fills and ponder.
Gus locomotives. They can be run
very cheaply, and hence their charges
will be lower than those of the steam
railways. Naturally, these new lines
will be formidable competitors of the
old ones, and in granting charters the
Legislatures will have some difficult
questions to consider Connecticut
has just adopted general law which
provids for the control of such enter
prises by local communities. No speed
is allowed higher than twenty five
miles an hour, and the railway COM
mission must grant it's consent before
any electric road can be constructed
which substantially parallels steam
road. Merchandise and heavy bag
gage are not allowed to be carried on
the electric cars, and the whole sys-
tenn is under the rules of the railway
commission. Steam may always be a
factor of transportation, but it goes
without saying that the cheap electric
railways will reyolutionize travel and
traffic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

The New York Post says: The prob
lem of the ultimate source of the Nile
seems finally to have reached a solution
through the recent explorations of
DR.. O. Baumann. Thirty years have
elapsed since Spoke sent to the Royal
Geographical Society of London
his famous laconic despatch, "The
Nile is settled" announcing the dis
covery by him of the great equatorial
lake, Victoria Nyanza, supposed to be
main head basin of Africas mighty
river. This discovery was followed
soon afterwards by that of second,
seeming still larger, equatorial lake,
the Albert Nyanza, which divided the
honors of "Conqueror of the Nile" be-
tween Speke and Sir Samuel Baker.
The progress of more modern African
exploration, while it has served in many
ways to bring about truer knowledge
OF the mutual relations of these two
large lakes than was known to Speke
and Baker, and to establish the more
positive claims of the Victoria Lake.
had not, until DIR. Baumann's journey,
answered the still significant question,
regarding the position of the headwa-
ters of these lakes; in other words,
the actual fountain head of the Nile
had yet to be discovered. This is now
shown to be on the eastern face of the
height of land" which closely bor-
ders Lake Tanganyika on the north
east, the source of the Kagera, or
Ruvuvu, western, and the most pow
full, tributary of the Victoria Nyanza.
This position was reached by DIR. Bau-
mann on the 10Th of September last.
With its source thus placed between
the third and fourth parallels of south
latitude, the Nile traverses thirty Eve
degrees of latitude, and becomes u
rival in length of the combined Mis-
sissippi- Missouri system Of rivers.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
TWILIGHT.

Sing, sweet, it is the twilight hour
Thy voice brings rest and peace,
And unto thee Is given the power
To bid all discord cease.
Let day fade with its load of sorrows,
Now is enough for me
I care not for the coming morrows,
For they may Danish thee.
Oh that this eve could last forever,
Ambiti on's sun be set,
For with thee near my heart would never
The busy world regret.
Only count US as Loves Immortals,
Let each be one in soul;
Bid Night halt at the western portals,
And Death collect no toll
Then twilight would be fraught with splendor
Bathed in Faiths golden stream;
And each to each all love would render
Sing, sweet, and let me dream.
-Flavel Scott Mines, in Harpers Weekly
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

The country's money circulation has
increased from $726, 900, 900 in 1873
to over 81, 900, 900, 900 at the present
time. The coinage of silver has in
creased from S4, 900, 900 in 1873 to
nearly $40, 900, 900 in 1890. There
was no silver in the treasury or in cir
eulation in 1878 and to-day there is
$490, 900, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
A Costly Tree.

A North Carolina man sold a single
tree the other day for $500, and the
purchaser said that he expected to
realize ut least $1,000 for il when
it was worked up. The treo
measured three and half feet at the
stump, and WIS beautiful curley wal
nut, curled from root tn tke topmost
twig. There is great deal of walnut
in that State. and it Is very vaiuasla,
single trees selling nj from 800 {,
$500. New Orleans Pieayuae.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

A statement recently published by
the authorities of Munich, Bavaria,
gives some startling information as to
the increased consumption in that city
of dog flesh. So great an appetite
seems to have developed for the food,
declares the Chicago Herald, that the
authorities have thought it time to in
terfere for the protection of dog
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

Chicago is now the fifth greatest sea-
port in the world, and yet, remarks the
Farm, Field and Fireside, the trade of
the great lakes is only beginning to
show its possibilities. Twenty years
from now, at the present rate of growth,
it will be among the three greatest, if
not the greatest of all.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

Professor Vambery has been lectur-
ing ON the "Fashion of Languages" be-
fore the Buda-Pesth hungary Eng
lish Club. English" he said, ''may
now be called the most fashionable
language in all the five parts of the
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

The statistics of cYime throughout
the country show a marked increase in
the number of murders during recent
years-from 1886 in 1887 to 5906 in
1891-while for several years prior to
1887 the number fell short of 1000.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

According to the Shoe and Leather
Reporter, a convict in certain peni-
tentiarv, whose crime was dishonesty,
is compelled to spend his days cutting
out pieces of pasteboard to be put be-
tween the outer and inner soles of shoes
which will be sold as made of solid
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
A SHOPPING EXPEDITION.

HE report started
in Blake's store.
To disbelieve a re-
port that started in
Blake's store WAS
an unheard of
heresy at the Cor
ners. So, astonish-
ing as this was, the
Corners received it
without q shadow
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23
The farmer in Japan who has ten
acres of land is looked upon as a mo-
nopolist.

The New York World concludes that
Philadelphians believe in life insur-
ance; Wanamaker has taken out poll
cies aggregating 81, ,500,0 900, Hamilton
Disston 5000, 900, and j. b. Stetson,
$515, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-23

In California, Vermont, Oregon,
Idaho, Utah, and Wisconsin days of
grace ON maturing notes, drafts, ac-
ceptances and bills of exchanges have
been abolished, unless there is express
stipulation to the contrary.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09

territory of the United States is de-
manded by every consideration of
patriotism and self defense.
The party of aggressive and progress
I've A~merioanism is the party that re-
built the nation shattered by Demo-
cratic treason; that INDICATED the
truth of the Declaration of Independ
ence by freeing the slaves; that drove
Louis Napoleon out of Mexico and Sc
cured reparation from Great Britain for
depredations upon American commerce
by cruisers built in her ports and
manned by her seamen; that is pledged
to make the United States as independ
ent in industry as it is in politics; that
has created the new navy, steadtastly
maintained American rights in Boring
Sea, in Samoa, in Chill, and opened
the door of the American Republic to
the people of Hawaii.
The Republican party proposes to
make the United States the dominant
power of the Western Hemisphere, the
guardian of its liberties, the leader of
its civilization, the chief center of its
commerce. The Democracy would
substitute the products of Manchester
and Birmingham for the products of
New York, New England and Penn
sylvania on both American continents.
1t would abandon Latin America to
European influences hostile to the
United States. Judged by the practi-
cally unanimous utterances of its Or
gans in the Gillian controversy, it
would allow outrages against Ameri-
can citizens and the American flag, no
matter how gross, to go UNPUBLISHED.
1t is ready to throw the key to the
North Pacific into the hands of Great
Britain rather than allow Hawaii to be
annexed by a Republican Administra-
ton.
There a be no doubt as to the par
ty that represents American principles
and progress. The American party is
the Republican party. The foreign
sympathies and alien ideas" are the
sympathies and ideas of Democracy.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09

THE inaugural address of Mr.. Cleve.
land lacks the old encyclopaedia flavor.
and in place thereof is found a rather
pleasant smoothness and Ease of ex.
preston combined with an unmistak.
able flavor of the undersigned. That
Mr.. Cleveland has ideas of his own and
is free to express them, none will doubt
who read his address. He claims ia
have great regard for sound money, a
hatred of the tariff and a longing to
purge the pension list. He announces
himself as opposed to appointing men
to office as a reward for partisan activ.
ity, and commends civil service. The
address would have sustained a higher
literary average had it been shorter,
and would have been more symmet.
rical.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09

THE following Supreme Court decis-
ion, delivered few days since in Nash
vile by Justice Caldwell, will be read
with than ordinary interest by
both school directors and school teach
ers. The style of the case was j. S.
Barry VS.. Bette Jenkins, and the op.n-
ION reads as follows: ''This was an &C.
ton for damages for breach of contract.
Miss jenkins applied for a school as
teacher, of which Barry was one of the
directors. An election was held, as
was their custom, and the patrons of
the school selected Miss Jenkins. Bar
ry told her that she had been selected.
and she could have the school. This
information was given Miss Jenkins
several days after the election, during
which Barry had plenty of opportunity
to see the other directors, but when
Miss jenkins went to Barry to sign the
contract she was informed that another
teacher had been elected. She then
had no opportunity to secure another
school" She recovered by her suit
Judgment for $50 90, and this was af-
tirmed. Judges Lurtonand Snodgrass
dissented.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09
THE AMERICAN PARTY.

During the past two or three wears a
good deal has been said, one way and
another in regard to the formation of
a new party-a party having as its
foundation and corner stone a greater
concern for America and American in
terests' commercial, political, educa-
tional and otherwise. In a late num-
Der of the New York Press we find
the following editorial on the subject,
and commend it to all good citizens:
A Democratic contemporary in this
city makes this comment on the poll
teal situation
1t seems as If the next division of
political parties in this country were
almost sure to be on lines like these:
On the one side the party of vigorous,
aggressive. progressive Americanism
on the other, the party of obstruction,
OF foreign sympathies and alien ideas.
There will be no future division of
parties on these lines. The division
already exists. The difference be-
tween the two great parties in this re-
spect is fundamental. 1t can not be
overlooked or ignored. The party of
foreign s%ympathies and un American
principlesis the parties which attempt
ed to wreck the nation in the defense
of the alien institution of human
slavery, which is specifically pledged
to DESTROY the industrial independence
of the United States, and which has
o%bstructed the annexation of the Ha-
waiian outpost, whose addition to the
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09
What "The Girl Who Sees, Didn't See.

We venture to say that The Girl Who
Sees did not see any any pleasant
smiles on Silas Cooper's face while his
girl was away.
wv
Mrs. John s. Boyd, nee Miss Leila
Mcclure, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A.
7. Dosser.
~
Mr.. Stouffer was up from Knoxville
Sunday to see n of our most popular
Young ladies, We hardly believe they
are engaged.
~
We are all glad to see the handsome
face of DR.. Paul Kirkpatrick on our
streets. We all miss Paul when he is
gone and are always pleased to see him
back. Now, Paul, you don't want to
be too attentive to any one young lady,
or Scott Hickey will have eightcouples
that we know of that are to be married
soon.
*#*
Miss Lena Mason and Theo B. Hack
er returned last week from Memphis.
They report a splendid time. They
went 100 miles farther than any other
delegates in attendance upon the con-
%vention.
~
Prof. Sammie Sheriff. wentdown the
road a few days ago and stopped off
lust this side of Knoxville"
~
What means those visits of Herbert
Mcpherson to Bristol? Let The Girl
Who Sees find out.
Nv
Cards will be out in a few DAYS an
nouncing the marriage of one of Jones.
boro' s handsomest young ladiesto quite
a prominent minister of the gospel, of
the Methodist persuasion.
~
Austin Britton came to town Sunday.
He is like John thinks the
religious atmosphere of Jonesboro SUI
perior to that of any other place.
Nv
We are sorry that Wallace Cate has
left III. Wallace is a whole souled boy
and we are always sorry to see such
boys leave our circle. We wish him
success in his new home, and trust he
may some day come back to see us. We
are glad to welcome Sam Cate back to
our crowd. Sam is a model boy, and
in a great measure will make up for the
loss of Wallace.
~
We see that a young man in Chatta
nooga who belongs to 1.-The 400" of the
Plucky City, has framed a bill which
will be introduced into the Legislature
as soon as it reconvenes, prohibiting
the wearing of hoops or crinoline.
Now, girls what have you 10 say?