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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

Malvern w. Cresworth, an English
mining man well known throughout
Southwest Mexico has arrived at Ma
pine, Mexico, from long overland
journey through the Sierra Madre
Mountains, his starting point being
Culican, near the Pacific coast, in the
State of Sinaloa.
He claims to have discovered large
and beautiful deserted city. He says it
is situated about eighty miles west of
Lake Colorado, in the very recess of
the Sierra Madres, and occupies basin
ten miles long by eight miles wide
Perpendicular cliffs surround the basin
on all sides, rising to the height of
hundreds of feet The only entrance
to the city is through deep canon
thirty feet wide.
Mr.. Cresworth says he stumbled
onto the secret entrance by accident.
The buildings, he says, are con-
structed of blocks of red stone re-
sembling granite The business
blocks are two and three stories in
height and are different in architec-
tural design from the structures built
by the Aztecs and Spaniards.
The streets are narrow, but are laid
out in regular order. In the city is a
small park, which is overgrown with
rare flowers and tropical vegetation.
He found many strange ornaments,
but little of value. While no Que in
that section ever heard of the city,
Mr.. Cresworth's story is generally
believed New York Telegram.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
Mutton Growing in Popularity.

The rapid increase in the consump
tion of mutton in this country is large
ly due to improvement in the quality
of the meat. People who formerly
objected to what they termed the
"woolly" taste soon lose their preiu
dice when persuaded to try really good
mutton.
The disagreeable odor which is apt
to accompany this meat can be avoided
if, as soon as the animal has lost suffi
cient blood to render it insensible, an
opening be made in the abdominal
cavity to allow the gases TO escape, and
and the wool then rapidly removed.
The carcass should be quickly cooled
and washed out with cold water.
The sheep should be kept without
food for several hours before killing,
and the latter operation should be per
formed out of doors, as fresh meat is
peculiarly susceptible TO bad cdors. A
little more attention to these two
points would go far toward still fur
ther popularizing mutton among con,
sumers. '.~New York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

Development of the coal beds in
Western Texas promises, according to
the st. Louis Republic, to add very
materially to the wealth of that por-
tion of the State. Fuel is very scarce
at present in the surrounding coun-
try, but that is because of the lack of
roadways from the coal fields. The
best road there until recently was
burro path. A wagon road was
finished last year and railroad is now
being built. 1t is to connect with the
Texas and Pacific at Van Horn and the
Southern Pacific at Haskell. The
State Geologist of Texas has just made
his report on the coal in Preside
County: 'On account of it's quality
and extent as well as from its location
in region otherwise practically desti-
tute of fuel, this deposit of coal must
prove, he says, ''to be a prominent
factor in the development of the west
ern portion of the State" Western
Texas is to be congratulated on the
prospects, as are also the gentlemen
of st. Joseph, Mo-, who recently in
vested in some 1856, 900 acres of land in
Presidio County.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

Authorship and book publishing are
in bad way in France, according to
a number of experts who have been
figuring on the situation. 1t is said
by M. Albert Cim, and corroborated
by other experts, that there are
scarcely six novelists in France who
can count on receiving equal to or
above 10000 francs year for their
literary work: An examination of the
books of prominent publisher of Paris
showed that two-thirds of the accounts
opened for works of fiction, verse,
travel, domestic economy and military
science showed considerable losses.
A volume of reasons are offered in ex-
planation of the situation, but the
facts are admitted
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

M. Martin Conway, who is lecturing
at the Royal Institution in London on
his recent exploration in the H1ma-
layas, has traSersed more ground in
those perilous regions than any other
explorer. Although his iourneyings
there have covered over 5000 miles.
he says that the section of country
which he explored compared with the
mountainous region that has not yet
been touched is as the size of post
age stamp to that of large quarto
page.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

In the effort to prevent the supply
ing of firearms to natives of the Pacific
islands regulations have Just been
made by the British High Commits.
sioner for the Western Pacific pro-
hibiting British vessels from CARRYING
more than one rife and one pistol for
each member of the crew and each
bona tide passenger not native. 1t
has also been made an offense, punish
able by fine and Imprisonment, for
any person to supply firearms, ammuni-
ton, explosives or Intoxicating
liquors to the natives of any of the
Pacific islands under British control
or protection. Unscrupulous traders
have recently supplied the natives of
several of these islands with Win
chester rifles and ammunition, with
the result that the natives so armed
have made raids on neighboring islands
and slaughtered the inhabitants. A
British war vessel on recent tour of
the islands found that II party of these
armed marauders, notorious cannibals,
had visited nearby island and
butchered the inhabitants of largo
village, leaving every evidence of sub
sequent horrible cannibalistic prac.
tices.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

Mrs. Eliza Archard Connor's sermon
to young women, which won the prize
among more than 1000 submitted was
elaborated under the following heads ::
''Do some useful work, and do it with
enthusiasm. Lay up some money.
Be sincere. Be helpful to others. Be
neat. Stand by your own sex. Up
hold forevermore the purity, dignity
and worth of womankind.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
A Marvellous Tale.

Mr.. Coonrod Stiwinter, our esteemed
fellow-townsman, caught swapping
turtle, carried it home, cut off its head
and threw the head over into the back
yard and ate the turtle. A day or two
afterward some chickens came near the
turtles head, and one was caught by
the jaws of the head and the head held
its grip until it thundered. Gave
Spring (Ga.) Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Brick is made from Stag.

Brick is made from Stag.
Machine glass blowing is failure.
The only use of birds tail is to
serve as a rudder during flight.
The Georgia thumper" grasshopper
has wing spread equal that of arobin.
The pearl is only carbonate of lime,
is readily effected by acids and burns
into lime.
The diamond has been found on all
continents and in almost every country
in the world.
Alcohol is distilled from sweet
potatoes, one bushel of the potatoes
yielding gallon of the fluid.
Motormen who ring gongs with
their feet get peculiar pedal malady
which they call "trolley foot"
In square inch of the human scalp
the hairs number about 1000, and the
whole number on ON adult scalp is
about 100000.
The latest pattern of rapid-fre guns
throw projectile through the air at
the rate of 2287 feet per second, or
1868 miles an hour.
English opthalmic authorities say
that the incandescent lamp judiciously
placed and shaded is superior to any
other artificial illuminant in it's effect
on the eyes.
Taking the earth as the centre of
the universe and the polar star as the
limit of our vision the visible universe
embraces an aerial space with diam
eter of 400, 900, 100000 miles and a
circumference of 1929, 742, 900, 900
miles.
The Chicago municipal authorities
have instituted crusade against GER
tain stockyard packers, who have been
slaughtering diseased cattle and plac-
ing the meat on sale. The present
faulty in the extreme. In future the
license of every violator of the law
will be revoked.
1t is fair to presume that vessel
which has developed high speed under
trial will always be swift vessel under
ordinarily favorably conditions, and
the new ships of the United States
Navy may, therefore, well be regarded
as among the foremost examples OF
what can be accomplished by modern
naval architecture applied to purposes
of war.
In children of consumptive parents
number of deep respirations accom-
panied by horizontal extension OF
the outstretched arms at each inspira,
tion distend every part of the lungs
and expand especially the apIces where
this insidious disease first appears. In
cases of contracted lung from pleurisy
such exercise Will break up old ad.
hesions and restore lost breathing
power. This pulmonary gymnastic
exercise in moderation should be
practiced by all persons of consump-
tive parents.
The name of the Chinook wind is
taken. according to H. NJ. Ballou,
from that of the Chinook Indians,
near Puget Sound. During the prev
alence of the wind the thermometer
rises in few hours from below zero
to forty degrees or forty-fve degrees.
1t is analogous to the Fohn of Switzer-
land, and similar winds are reported
from various parts of the world. All
that is needed to produce them are
high and low pressure areas, whereby
the air is caused to pass over the
mountains, depositing its moisture on
the ascent, and descending on the lee
ward side.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

The British training squadron,
which consists of four training cruis-
ers, and in which about 1900 young
officers and seamen have annually been
trained in the management of vessels
under sail, is to be abolished. The
Admiralty evidently assumes that it is
unnecessary to teach an art which, in
these days of steam war ships, might
never be practiced.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
A Great Lake State,

Florida is one of the greatest OF
lake States, il the number of it's lakes
and lakelets emile it to he so clussed.
1t has a half score OF considerable
lakes, including Okachobee. with more
than 800 square miles, and many
scores of small lakes aud ponds scat
tered over All area forty Or fifty miles
wide aud several hundred miles long.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
The Silk Hat Still on TOP.

The silk hat continues to hold its
ground in London, but in the prov
inces it has lately been almost entirely
displaced by the hard felt Derby.
There is brisk and increasing demand
for rescusitated chimney pots in South
Africa and Australia, whether by thu
natives or the whites is not apparent
Chicago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Sweet meets--Lovers' appointments.
Never strike man for five dollars
when he is down.
Life is SO short that man is but paper
collar on the neck of time.-Puck.
The worn-out clock usually comes to
an untimely end. .--Glens Falls Repub-
lican.
Yes, Minerva, there is vast differ
ence between fast days and fast nights.
--Elmira Gazette.
Delsarte was nowhere alongside OF
dogs tail in the art of expression
Boston Transcript.
When money talks, even the deaf
mute can get on to its meaning with
out the aid of signs.
"The modern servant doesn't know
her place" ''She can't. She changes
it too often. Puck.
When friend turns out not 30 be
trump, then is the time to discard
him.-Boston Transcript.
There are some friends who can't be
good to you unless you will let them
own you.-Atchison Globe.
A girl may be almost pardoned for
throwing herself at man if he is
good catch. Albany Press.
''There is a time for everything"
when the boardinghouse cook makes
hash. -Binghamton Republican.
Woman may be the weaker vessel,
but it's always the husband that's
broke. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
You can always tell the boy who has
no skates, by his industry in breaking
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bakers ought to make good friends.
They can always raise something for
YOU in time of knead, Hartford
Journal.
with bloodless lips, the villain
glared at her" His eyes, doubtless,
were otherwise occupied.
Transcript.
"The great trouble with Duff is that
he doesn't know anything" "Oh on
the contrary, that doesn't troubl lie him
at all. Puck.
Be careful of your language when
q talking with the elevator boy; he is
apt to take You up very quickly
Boston Bulletin.
"How did you discover she was
woman masquerading as man?" "She
sent me letter with two postscripts.
Yankee Blade.
Hicks ''Snider says he hates hum
bug" Wicks-"Well, there S nothing
egostical about Snider, is there?"--
Boston Transcript.
She--''This is so sudden" He
"That's where you are mistaken. I've
been thinking about it for whole
year. New York Press.
A scientist, who is probably still
owing his tailor, claims that all the
diseases of humanity are due to wear
ing clothes. -HartfordJournal.
Wife, "What would we do without
doctor?" Husbend-"Well We
might get along, but what would the
druggists do?"--Texas Siftings.
That Nicetown man who named his
hen "Macduff'' has neigbbor who
called his rooster ROBINSON" because
he crew so. Philadelphia Record.
"Have you gained her fathers con-
sent to your marriage?" 81 can't
tell" Hes away, eh?" ''No; her
mother is Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mrs Hicks--"That girl broke only
one dish to-day" Hicks How did
that happen?" Mrs Hicks--"It was
the only one left. - New York Herald
you cannot judge man by the
umbrella he carries. "Why mott"
Because the chances are it belongs to
somebody else. New York Journal.
Uncle--"We Robbie, how did you
stand at school last term?" Robbie
Sometimes with my face in the cor
ner and sometimes mp at the teachers
desk, Chicago Inter-Oceap,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
China is furnishing chain of forts
along her seacoast with Krupp guns.

F. G. Selous, the celebrated African
hunter, says the flesh of the lion is
capital eating, lion pie being almost
as good as veal pasty and quite as
white
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

England is to have no poet laureate,
not, at least, until one arises of sutfi-
cient distinction to be worthy to sue
ceed Wordsworth and Tennyson.
Gladstone thinks that there is no such
man in England at the present time.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
RUNNING AWAY FROM MAMMA.

Running away from mamma,
Bareheaded up the street,
Kicking the dust into yellow smoke
With little roguish feet.
Tossing 1t over his clean white dress
Into his stocking heels,
Checking the little wooden horse
That trundles along on wheels.
Dreaming away with wide blue eyes,
And speculating why
God won't give him the golden ball
That drops in the quivering sky.
What is the use of that pretty pink cloud,
Sailing away so high,
If he can have q ride In 1t?
And it's no use totry.
If that woman grew with glasses on,
II this house is papa's;
Whythat nice red COW won't talk to him
Looking across the bars.
Into the neighbors' gates and doors,
Under their cherry trees,
Into mischief and out again,
Wherever he may please.
WdhusTluB Ut luSt W buoOiu ohuhOh otoPS'
Little horse and all,
Climbing up laboriously-
Too bad If he should fall
Pushing in with dimpled hands
The great doors strong and tall,
Letting the warm, sweet summer light
Slide down the shadowed wall.
Standing still in the solemn hush
OF chancel. nave and dome,
Thinking 1t is prettier
Than the sitting room at home.
Not a bit afraid, ah no, indeed,
OF the shadows vast and dim,
Quite at home, and sure it was made
All on purpose for him.
The old, old story comes up to me
Written so long ago,
About the heavenly temple,
Where you and must go,
The beautiful waiting temple,
That has no room for sin
Something about a little child
And the way of entering in.
Boston Transcript.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
THE FLOWER OF SORROW,
AUNT TABBY'S UMBRELLA.

NO of the three
Fosdick girls as
pired to wealth and
s o C al position.
They claimed a
few rich relatives,
who visited them
occasionally and
raved over the
''lovely fields and
darling cows. -
but nevertheless
would have suf-
fered the pangs of
hunger before they
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
TIME TO STOP GRUr1BLING.
[LOuiSburg TimeS.l

Continual complaint about this, that
and the other does not make times
better. There are bright hopes all
around u.s. The trouble is too many
people are looking for great revolu-
tons and expect the big end of the
cornucopia Of prosperity to be turned
into their laps while they sit with
folded hands and prate about the
country going to rack. Their eyes
are shut to the blessings and encourage
ment of the little world around them
and in which they move. Instead of
walking they want to make the trip at
one jump.
The gratifying evidence of the bet
ter times coming, are seen on all
sides. The respondent tone of the
press is fast disappearing, and every
body is looking as if glad to be rid of
the weary load that has SO long op-
pressed. Quick to feel the least signs
of depression, season of stagnation
caused a shutting down of many
capitalistic enterprises but consump-
ton has been going on all the time.
The situation has taught many the
much needed lesson Of economy, and
made plain to them that expenses must
be lessened. This has in a measure
caused the prevailing inactivity. Large
mills and mines are opening up again.
The crops prospects are good. The
Democratic party is in good shape to
fight its battles this fall, and he who
reads as he runs, can see much to
encourage in the present outlook.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
WHEN TO CUT CORN.
Interesting Experiments Conducted
at the Iowa Station.

At the Iowa experiment station in
1893 plats OF corn were cut Sept. u
and "a and Oct. /, s and IS respect
lively and shocked in the field An
adjoining plat of equal size left stand =
ing until Dec. II, when ii was
harvested. The corn from plants was
husked Dec. II, and brought in, at
which time samples were taken of the
corn and fodder from each cutting
and analysed. The yield of the
different plats ranged from 251a to g.
bushels per acre, increasing gradually
to the fourth date of cutting.
The largest amount of dry matter
in the slower was secured at the time
of cutting the second plat, Sept. "a.
The greatest amount of dry matter
secured in the kernel vas reached at
the time OF cutting the third plat Oct.
1. The highest aggregate of dry
matter from an acre of both slower
and kernels was 6,7S2 pounds, an d
was secured from rhe second cutting
Sept. "a and the next highest 6,5Is
pounds from third cutting. The
above sesults indicate that the best
time for cutting corn according to
these experiments is between Sept. "a
and Oct. /. The loss resulting from
leaving corn in the field until Decem
Der amounted to nearly half the total
yield in weight besides in deterioration
III feeding matter.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
: Harmful Rather Than Beneficial
Norfolk Nirginian. |

A prominent North Carolinian who
attended the Southern Development
Convention recently in session in
Washington says:
\ feeling was created among the
delegates that the taking up and send
ing of minerals and timbers from the
States was harmful rather than bene-
fetal. A main spring Of inspiration
along the line of Southern development
in the future, if this convention fore
shadows anything, will be the utiliza-
ton Of raw material of every de-
scription in the immediate locality in
which it is found. Tie south is being
impoverished by selling for a song its
raw material and buying the manufac-
tured product at five to twenty-five
times the price of the material from
which it was made.
The Petersburg Ln0er-AbbfaI, in
commenting on the above, very truly
says that it is the true policy, mean
ing, the utilization Of raw material
Of any DESCRIPTION in the immediate
locality in which it is found" and il
the South is developed along these
lines it will achieve genuine prosperity
There is every reason why the South
should manufacture its raw material
instead Of sending it away and then
bringing it back in the shape of manu-
featured articles. No greater prosperity
could come to the South through any
other channel than that here out
lined.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
QUIT YOUR FOOLISHNESS.
Wilmington Messenger

1t is fact that in 1894, the farmers
OF North Carolina had more bacon
and greens, more hog and hominy
than they have had since the war
times. They planted the right crops
in 1898, and went to work to get
their hog pens at home instead of so
unwisely keeping them two thousand
miles away-in Chicago or Cincinnati.
The result has been less mortgage, less
poverty, more money, more pleasure,
more to eat, more excursions, more
contentment.
How have they acted in 1894, as
to crops and hogs? SO far as we
know they have something mended
their ticks and have now or will have
little later more hog and homny
than they got from their efforts last
year. 1t ought to be SO now and
henceforth. ct North Carolina with
its very marked advantages raise all it
consumcs-every mouthful of bread.
There is no necessity or sense III eat
ing bread raised out west when North
Carolina has all the advantages within
itself. 1t is very ridiculous to see
North Carolina looking to the West
for its hay, for its hog meat, for its
beef, for its -four, for its corn, for
vegetables, &c.
North Carolina in the war not only
raised all it ate at home, but it pro-
duced an immense surplus for the
army. Think of that. And who
raised all that? The answer is-the
old men, the boys and the negroes.
TO look to the West now is folly run
to madness. North Carolina can
easily raise all it consumes, and it can
raise immense quantities of corn, rice,
wheat, trucking, fruits, &C., for ship
ment.
1t ought not to be ever published
again that any Southern State has
failed to raise its breadstuffs and meats.
The Charleston Ne7o5 and Courier,
referring to its annual review of last
year ofthe business in Charleston, notes
this unpleasant feature. 1t says
1t is true that more bacon was raised
in the State last year than in any year
since the war, but the fact remains that
$40 car loads, OF 41,OOO,OOO pounds
OF bacon were brought from the West
and sold in Charleston during the last
twelve months. The hay was brought
! from the North and the corn and bacon
| from the West. None OF it was made in
| South Carolina and great deal of it
was sold to South Carolina farmers who
should raise their supplies on their own
| farms.
Let North Carolina farmers ever
hereafter "quit their foolishness. "
Raise Oh your farms all you need and
much more for market.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
THINGS TO FORGET.

IT, you would increase your happiness
and prolong your life, forget your
neighbours faults. Forget all the
SANDER you have ever heard. Forget
the temptations. Forget the fault
finding, and give little thought to
the cause which provoked it. Forget
the peculiarities of your friends, and
only remember the good points which
make you fond of them. Forget all
personal quarrels or histories you may
have heard by accident. and which if
repeated would seem a thousand times
worse than they are. Blot out as far
as possible all the disagreeables OF life;
they will come, but they will only
grow larger when you remember them,
and the constant thought of the acts
OF meanneSS, or, worse still, malice,
will only tend to make you more
familiar with them. Obliterate every
thing dlagreeable from yesterday, start
out with clean sheet for to-day, and
write upon it for sweet memory's sake
only those things which are lovely and
lovable. durham San.