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 urgent show him in and tell Miss Eva that am engaged for time"
 Tho servant retired and in another minute ushered in tall gentleman at- tired in black broadcloth. with the un- nistakable appearance of man con nected with the law, and evidently about 30 years of age
 Gubber rose aud placed seat for his visitor, who took it with polite bow.
 Placing bundlo of papers tied round with narrow red tape upon the table, the visitor, whose card announced him to be Mr, Parchment Wills of the firm of Wills & Draft, solicitors, Chauncey Chambers, looking full at the contractor, said:
 "Sir, you will doubtless wonder why an eutire stranger to you has sought this interview, and in explanation must in- form you that our firm have for the past two years been engaged in seeking out a young man who evidently quite un- known to himself, is the actual heir to no less a sum than e1, 200 900, fortune to which he legally becomes entitled by the death of an uncle, wealthy land owner and stock raiser in Australia In the course of our inquiries we have been led to hope that you might be able to give ps some clew to the whereabouts of this fortunate individual, who, upon es- tablisling himself to be the son of one Arthur Linton and his wife Maria, long resident in College street, Cambridge, but since dead, will be able to claim be- ing considered a millionaire"
 "What name did you sayT' asked Grubber, leaning forward toward his visitor.
 sIhe full name of the young man we are so anxious to find is Arthur Barton Linton, his fathers sister having mar. ried Joseph Barton, after whom young Linton was named, My object sir, in
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Feeding the Berlin Poor.

Here in Berlin, writes Frank G.. Car
penter in the Washington Star, meals
are served to poor people at almost cost
prices, and among the cellar institutions
of the city are the "Volks Kitchens" or
the Peoples Kitchens. There are a
number of these, and they are managed
by the ladies of Berlin, who superintend
them and who take turns in managing
them. They have good cooks, and they
feed hundred of people every day. In
them you can get dinner for about five
cents, and bowl of soup or of rice costs
you three cents, while you can get a
first-class cup of coffee for cent. l visit
ed one of these the other day. Two nice
looking old ladies stood behind a clean,
white counter, and back of these were
great bowls of soup, with cooks presid-
about fifty feet long and not more than
twenty wide. 1t was in cellar, and it
was divided up into compartments for
women and men. At the entrance there
was cashier, who gave you checks for
what you wanted upon the payment of
the money, and you walk back to these
old women and get your soup or coffee
and carry it to the benches in the room,
where you can sit down at long tables
and cat. / laid down three cents and
bought bowl of soup. 1t was made of
beans and it contained nearly quart. I
took bowl OF rice of about the same
size, and slipped at one cent cup of
coffee and found it not bad. Every
thing was as clean as could be, aud the
Gloss of people who were eating appeared
to be respectable. One of the old ladies
told me that they often fed as many as a
thousand day, and that they gave sup
pers as we'll as dinners. They said that
the institution paid its expenses, and
that it did not try to make money.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. 1893.
ring merrily forth the happy tidings,
and the faithful follow their time hon.

ring merrily forth the happy tidings,
and the faithful follow their time hon.
ored custom of kissing their neighbor.
The Prince kisses his wife, and Irene,
under her parents eyes, kisses, not her
wealthy cousin, Pariowski, at her right,
but Vladimir at her left. Everybody
has remarked it; and albeit the villagers
find it only too natural, her parents are
astonished and her cousin is highly in
dignant. He bestows look of scorn
upon the penniless Vladimir, who returns
it as haughtily.
Pariowskl decides to ask an explana-
tion from the Prince the very next morn
ing, but finds his uncle quite changed
from what he had been during their
journey from Perm to the castle the pre-
vious day. Irene has asked and obtained
a private interview with her father, who,
although greatly astonisLed at her recital
of Ivan's manuscript, could not gainsay
Its veracity, and before Christmas Day
is over he feels happier than ever before
in his life. He has atoned for his an
cestor's great sin by granting his beauti-
tul daughter to the brave Vladimir
Translated for Romance.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

The Census Office has issued a bulle-
tin, giving statistics of the railroad mile.
age of the world in 1899. 1t shows that
out of total railway mileage for the
world of 370,2S1 miles, the United
States have no less than 163, ,597 miles,
or 43.S per cent. of the whole, and that
the railway mileage of the United States
exceeds, by 3497 miles, the entire mile.
age of the old world-Europe's 136, S65
miles, Asa's IS, ,79S miles and Africa's 5
1892 miles, making an aggregate OF but
159, ,655 miles. 1t is interesting to note
the astonishing growth of the railway
mileage of the United States from tie,
census year of 1880, when there were
less than forty miles, up TO 1890. In
1910 the figures were 2755 miles, in
1850 they had risen to S57l miles, in
1860 the total had swelled to 2S, 919
miles, the census of 1870 showed the
mileage to be 40, 16S miles, that of 1880
placed the figures at 81, 724 miles, while
the eleventh census figures give the as
tonishing total of 163, 597 miles.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Jay Gould's Traits Of CHARACTER.

An acquaintance of Mr.. Gould says
that a remarkable trait in his character
was that fierce instinct for family so con-
spicuous in General Grant, but which
has never found the same occasion for
its exercise. When he came home from
his office his wife was always awaiting
him. In the country, if entertaining
guests, Mrs. Gould would disengage her.
self for this moment Of Homecoming.
After Mrs. Gould's death, her daughter
Helen took her place, and no enticement
without ever prevented her from well
coming her father on his return home.
His womankind were kept apart from all
considerations of business. At Mrs.
Gould's death her fortune, which was
considerable, was still invested as it was
left her by her father. In no viciss,tude
was Mr.. Gould ever tempted to touch it.
He abhorred all business dealings with
women. This dates from an experience
early in his career on the market. Two
maiden aunts up in the country sent him
their savings, $500, to speculate for
them in stocks. He did SO, and lost it.
The money was strictly returned to them,
and at no Inconvenience to Mr.. Gould.
But this was not business; it seemed to
open depths which might become deeper.
He was frequently entreated afterward
by women who were near to him, as by
women outside, but his dealings thence
forth were with men. In one respect
Mr.. Gould was said to resemble Renan,
who, when he utterly disapproved of an
opponent, said: "You are right thou
sand times" and having disar.ned him,
proceeded to efface all that he had put
forth. When Mr.. Gould wished to wipe
out an objector he began by agreeing
with all be said.-St. Louis Star Sayings.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Source of Color;ns Matter ia Grapes

In report of foreign investigations
appears an account of careful expert
ments made by A. Gautier in the viue-
yard. He discovered, as have others
already reported upon, that the removal
of leaves just before the ripening of the
grades in dry season is injurious, the
fruit being relatively acid, deficient in
sugar, yielding wines OF poor color and
quality and more readily succumbing to
attacks of fungus diseases.
The main object of the experimehter's
investigations, however, was to deter
mine the source and nature of the color
ing matter of the fruit. It appears that
this is elaborated in the leaves and trans
ferred to the berry at time Of ripening,
for the removal of leaves about the time
of maturity was accompanied in every
case by decided etiolation of the berry.
Furthermore, examinations of the leaves
revealed the presence in them of the
characteristic grape coloring matter.
Analysis showed this coloring matter to
be made up principally of three acids
New York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Gold Nugget Shaped Like a Hand.

There have been many large and oddly.
shaped gold nuggets found in the
United States and elsewhere, but the
oldest OF them all was that discovered
at the Midhas Mine on Sulky Gully, near
Melbourne, Australia, in 1887. The
nugget was fiat and almost the exact
counterpart in contour Of a colossal
human hand held open, with the excep-
tion of the thumb and forefinger, which
were closed together in a manner SO as
to make it appear that the thumb was
holding the finger in place. Its great
est length was 12t inches and its great.
est breadth eight inches. 1t was of the
very purest gold, with but little of
foreign substances adhering (mostly be-
tween the '6ngers'o. and weighed 617
ounces. 1t was found in the northwest
main drive of the Midhas Mine, 120 feet
below the surface of the earth and at
spot only fifty feet from where the
famous "Lady Brassey" nugget was dis
covered the year before.
1t weighed fifty-one pounds of pure
gold, worth 1925 per pound. In 1891
a nugget of fifteen pounds weight,
shaped exactly like cross, with the ex-
ception of the right arm, was dis
covered in the Buriss Mine nelr the same
place.-St. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
THE STREAM OF LIFE.
Like small streamlet on mountain ode
A white thread glancing in the summeI

Like small streamlet on mountain ode,
A white thread glancing in the summer
SUN,
Lightly down leaping with joyous spring.
30 passes happy childhooi's playful hour.
Next through green dells and meath o'er-
shadowing crags,
The growing stream with needless now
winds on,
Now gladly lingering round some glowing
isle
That smiles with heavenly beauty, and
allures
With promise of perpetual delights;
Now flercely dashing down some rough cas-.
cade
Where rushing waters split on hostile rocks,
Spouting aloft the iridescent spray
Drifted in sunless cIefts by swaying winds;
So pass the years of youth. Our ripper age
Is like the broadened rivers stately march,
Whose current slackens, yet admits no
pause,
But passes field and coppice, tower and
town, . ~. ,.e-.-.-4,.>p
Not wholly 'scaping from defing stains
Yet to ling onward restlessly. Adorn
Its smooth yet ever-sliding stream we haste,
Nor mark the progress OF its quiet speed,
Till. faster rushing as it nears the end,
1t sweeps us onward in resistess course
Through the torn rapids of disease and pain,
Till, plunging down the cataract of death.
We glide into vast and unknown space,
The boundiess ocean of eternity.
Walter w. Skeat, in The Academy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Over 1856 electric roads cover 1000

Over 1856 electric roads cover 1000
miles.
Leanness is generally caused by lack of
power in the digestive organs.
In Scotland some of the slaughter.
houses are being furnished with appar-
atus for stunning the cattle by alec-
tricity.
A safety device for window cleaners
consists of strap fastened to each side
of the window frame and also to hook
In the belt of the cleaner.
Stains from nitrate of silver may cas-
lily be removed from the hands by SOL
ution of chloride of lime. Fruit stains
may be removed by holding the hands
over burning match or sulphur set on
fire.
A glass factory at Liverpool, England.
has glass journal boxes for all Of its
machinery, a glass floor, glass shingles
on its roof, and smokestack 1O5 feet
high built wholly of glass bricks, each
foot square.
One of the latest applications for heat
produced by electricity is the drying OF
lumber for planning purposes. The
production of heat is becoming in Otta-
wa one of the most important functions
of electricity.
From experiments made by English
scientists it appears that camphor and
oxygenated water are the most energetic
excitants of growth not only as regards
the acceleration of termination but as
affecting the vigor of plants.
In August last the planet Venus was
visible in the daytime at San Diego,
Cal. A California correspondent writes
that he was one of many who witnessed
the phenomenon, and says it was espec-
ially noticeable, as the planet could be
seen with the sun almost shining in ones
eyes.
1t is said that larger cave than the
Mammoth Cave, situated in the Ozark
Mountains, near Galena, Mo-, has been
explored for distance Of more than
thirty miles. In it have been found
bones of recent aud prehistoric animals,
including the hyena and cave bear, and
flint arrow-heads, but no bones Of man.
A few animals of the usual forms found
in caves are still living there, including
a white newt.
Authorities in France have been try
ing the cryptophone, devised about nine
years ago for military and naval purposes.
For military use, the apparatus consists
of a highly sensitive vibrator and mi.
crophonc suitably arranged in pine
box, which is buried two or three feet
under the road to be watched. Wires
lead to bell or other signal at the OBJ.
serving station. When an alarm is
given, the observer connects telephone,
sad is able to hear the movement over
the road and even to determine its direc
ton, the apparatus being SO sensitive as
to indicate the passage OF half-dozen
men or single cart.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
The Soldiers Pocket Handkerchief.

Some years ago handkerchiefs were
not considered necessary part of a SOL
dier's kit, says the Leeds Mercury.
Permission to catry these articles will
now probably be given, for see the War
Office authorities have sanctioned mil
itary handkerchief being patented by
Lieutenant Colonel Fulton.
On this handkerchief is printed all
sorts of useful information concerning
the use and construction Of the Lee
Metford rifle, the alphabat used by army
signalers, general rules to be observed
in any position in which soldier may
find himself on campaign, the various
bugle calls and other things, many of
which are so nicely illustrated that it
would be thousand pities to use it in
the manner naturally prompted bJ cut.
ting ''nor' CASTER"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Eigh,y-Eight Degrees Below Zero.

The coolest known spot on the earth's
surface is on the Eastern Slope, shelv-
ing mountain that runs down to near the
warer's edge, on the eastern bank of the
Lena River, in Northeast Siberia. The
spot in question is nine and a fourth
miles from Serkerchoof, about latitude
sixty-seven north, and longitude 134
east. DIR. Woikoff, director of the
Russian Meteorological Service, gives
the minimum temperature Of the place as
being eighty eight degrees below zero.
1t is place of almost perpetual calm.
In the mountains lear by, where windy
weather is the rule, it is not nearly 90
cold.-St. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
The Rochester On. W Jewish Tidings

The Rochester IN. " Jewish Tidings
says: The utter destruction of American
fur bearing animals is regarded as a
question of only few years. 1t is
claimed that 100000 trappers are en-
gagged in the industry, and that their
mode of acquiring the furs is destined to
wipe our, before many years, the many
varieties of these animals. Their cap
ture is accomplished by traps which are
decimating the animals much the same
as nets are destroying the fish. Some
idea of the extent of this industry may
be gained from the export trade, which
to England alone, during the last year,
amounted to over 5000, 900 skins, COM
prising some 1896, 900 muskrats, 55l,
900 skunks, $40, 600 raccoons, 1875, 700
fur seals, 1900 bears, IL, 600 beavers
and 1900 others.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
THE oooD.HY KISS AT THE DOOR.

THE COOLEY KISS AT THE DOOR.
Her eyes were illumed with glance of
pride
And her heart with love aglow
As she softly tripped to her husbands side
When he opened the door to go.
And there in her morning wrapper trim,
While a smile her red lips wore,
She stood on the steps and gave to him
A good-by kiss at the door.
She turns to her duties with cheerful heart,
For she has not now to learn
That the wife and husband must often
part
When the daily breads to earn;
Aud there's peace and joy in her gentle
breast
AS she sews, or sweeps the foor
And every task is essayed with zest
For the good-by kiss at the door.
And the husband striving in life's rough
race,
Where there's little time for play,
Has many glimpse Of her smiling face
In his mind through the busy day
And his look is tender, his eyes are bright
As he cons his ledger DER,
For he thinks of the welcome that waits at
night,
And the good-by kiss at the door.
wives and husbands, the world is bright
When the heart with love doth glow,
And its path is smooth and its burden light
II you're willing to make them SO;
And the sun will shine through the darkest
day
And scatter the clouds that lower
And the roses blossom along life's way
For the good-by kiss at the door.
Cape Cod Item.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

Co-education certainly teaches women
to demand their rights as men do, re-
marks the San Francisco Chronicle.
Thus the female students of the Ohio
State University, when their complaints
about the sanitary condition OF their
recitation and lunch rooms resulted in no
improvement struck and walked out in
body. This brought things to head
and reform is promised speedily. The
incident will probably serve as pre-
cedent IN colleges, where too often the
gust complaints of the students are un-
headed
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
Big Game.

The magnifying power of mist has Of
ten been described, but perhaps never in
a more striking manner than by Mr..
Pike in his account of his travels in the
"Barren Ground in Northern Canada"
We were travelling in thick fog and
saw an animal, apparently at some dis
tance, bounding along the horizon at
most remarkable pace. All down tho
line there were cries of tMusk ox!"
ssWolfl" Guns were snatched from the
sleighs, and the dogs charged at gallop
in pursuit of the strange animal.
After rush of ten yards the quarry
disappeared. The first man had put his
foot on it, and it turned out to be one of
the small mice SO common in that
country. Philadelphia Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
States the. New: York. Post: The

States the: New. York Post: The as.
founding news comes by cable that
Prince Bismarck by way of proving that
he really did cause the consolidation of
the German Empire, and that it was not
the result of chance, has avowed that he
forged that dispatch from Ems which
precipitated the Franco German war of
1870. That the fatal dispatch was err.
roncous has long been known; that it
was forged by Bismarck has been sus-
pected by many.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
The Martiust and the Tromb mes.

There is story told Of newly ap-
tointed Colonel in the days OF the old
m,rtiuets, who expressed his dissatisfac.
ton with the band as 1t marched past,
because the trom5oncs did not dress the
slides of their instruments properly. Ono
man would be halfway down while
another was just starting. In vain it was
represented to him that different inssru.
mcnts were of different co npass, and re-
ouired different manipulation. That was
nothing to him; he must have uniform
icy in the ranks. All the Year Round.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

Economists say that about 1900, 00U
persons of both sexes aud all ages per.
ished by reason of the Franco -Pru 'sian
war OF 1870; and if one adds to this
enormous number the 356, 200 men de-
stroyed in preceding wars of the second
empire, it is found that the reign cf Ma
poleon III cost France 2,000,O 900 human
lives, not counting the billions of money,
the ruins of homes and the dismember-
mnnt
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

Ex-Surgeon General Hamilton believes
there will be more cholera with the CON-
ing of spring. There is little or no
doubt of it, agrees the New York Re.
corder. The country ought to be ready
for it, and SO ought every town and
every person in the country.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

The census report states that 1857
per cent. of the farms of Iowa are hired
and 7O.43 per cent. are owned by the
persons cultivating them. The total
liens on the farms of the State amounted
to S101, 745, 924, the average rate of in.
terest being 1856 per cent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

Americans have often marveled that
members of the British House of Parlia-
ment wear their hats during sessions.
Blackwoods- Magazine solves the mys-
terry. They have nowhere e.se to put
them
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

Industrial! enterprises are being placed
upon stock basis, so that any one who
has money may invest 1t safely and in
paying way. "This is cooperation,
adds the Chicago Sun, ''but without the
solialistic feature"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

The Chicago Sun AYERS that the ex-
traordinary supply of all kinds of ma.
terial is making speculation almost ar
impossibility.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
AN ATONEM ENT.
A RUSSIAN LOVE STORY.

RENE VRADSKI
and Vladimir Pc.
niatef occupied
very different sta
tions in life. AL.
though he was uni
versally esteemed
for the fairness of
his judgment, his
superior ability as
a counselor in the
village mir, aud
hia up1 n ,,o<o 4
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20

There is tremendous agitation in
England against the ust of canned goods
from America.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-01-20
All of Southern Mexico is now opened
up to Northern capital and enterprise.

The navals vessel now being con-
structed by our Government will cost
$50, 100000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-01
j uneAU.

A number of families having recent
ly moved into town, houses to rent
are again getting quite scarce, notwith-
standing that several new ones have
been built during the past season.
Rev. Lawrence Sinclair has taken
charge of the Episcopal churches at
Beaver Dam and Fox Lake.
The county clerk, under the provi-
sions of law enacted last winter, adj
vertises for bids from banks and bank
ers, for the deposit of the county s
money for the coming year.
The county board meets in regular
session on November 10. The election
of resident superintendent of the
poor for the coming year appears to be
the only event that is attracting atten-
ton.
A large number of members of the
Lutheran church here attended the
dedication of the Lutheran church at
Hustisford last Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Lowell, of Hus-
tisford, where they have resided for
more than thirty years past, are about
to remove to Waupun, where their
sons are about to 60 into business.