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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
"FAILED."

Failed of the goal which once had been
my aim,
The distant port which I once had sailed,
think the craven words above my name
Must be ''He failed"
Failed to achieve the vision and tho quest,
The self-forgetting and self-sacrlhcoi
Failed to attain the heritage of rest
Beyond all price.
Failed to retain the birthright, having sold
For passing pleasure AMI fro IL fear OF
pain
Paying the wage OF Coils eternal gold
For timely gain.
Failed OF the purity that purges sight,
The faith that nourishes with daily bread !:
Failed of the han that reaches through the
night
To guide our tread.
Failed. having laii his hand upon the plow,
So soon to falter and so soon to tire
Failed. though the Col OF life may even
now
Save rs by fire.
However bright lifes alter-giow may fam",
If storms retreat that have so long as
sailed,
l think the craven wor Is above my nlms
Must be "He failed"
Arthur L. Salmon, in The Academy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Shocking casualties resulting from
balloon ascensions have lately been so
frequent that it seems to the New
York News high time for legal inter
position. Several women have lost
their lives during the summer by mis-
haps in essaying the parachute act.
1t speaks i'll for the civilization of the
time when great throngs of people
will congregate to see poor woman,
in the effort to earn a living, take the
horrid chance of plunging through
space to an appalling death.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
Brazen Impudence He Thought.

A west-bound train had just pulled
out of the Union Station at Albany,
says the Express, and the conductor
was harvesting tickets. All the seats
were taken and several passengers were
obliged to stand up. Among the latter
was itlident-looking, mildmannered
man, who refused to give up a ticket.
when | get a seat, you get ticket,
he remarked mildly, but firmly; you
are probably aware that the company
can not collect fares from passengers
whom 1t does not provide with seats. "
''Oh, come now, that don't go; want
your ticket, see?" Thus spoke the
conductor. ''No seat, no ticket" la
conically observed the passenger.
"Well see about that, growled the
conductor, who hustled around and
finally found a brother-conductor who
was going up the road way, whom he
induced to give up his seat to the
mildly firm passenger. "Ihere's seat
for you; now give me that ticket, said
the conductor, in a ferocious tone.
Certainly, here it is. And the mild,
but firm, passenger handed out pass
good to Chicago.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Bran, the refuse of wheat, and
which at one time was considered SO
worthless as to be spouted into the
river at Minneapolis, now sells within
fraction of the wheat itself, an
nounces the American Cultivator
And oats, hulls and all, bring nearly
as much as the finished product. The
following comparison OF wholesale
bulk values per ton will show how
matters stand: Bran, per ton, Sic. % |;
corn, $19.25; wheat, $3.50; oats,
$24.50; -four (best st. Louis), $26.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
Improvement in Balloons,

A description was given in a con-
temper ary of the Government balloon
establishment near Farnham, which is
under the direction of Colonel Tenn
plar. Balloons are made there of sew
eral thicknesses of gold-beater' skin,
and are charged with hydrogen in
stead of the customary coal gas. The
hydrogen is obtained either by the re-
action of zinc and sulphuric acid or
by the electrolysis of water, and costs
about eight shillings per 1000 cubic
feet. For transport it is compressed
into iron cylinders to II tension of
about 100 atmospheres. A properly
and symmetrically made and mounted
balloon is said to gyrate comparatively
little, and it goes without saying that
such increased steadiness renders bal
loon photography easier and much
more accurate. Invention.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

1t begins to look to the New Orleans
Picayune as though one outcome of
the late strike would be compulsory
military service for the whole Nation.
General Curtis, of New York, who is
a military enthusiast, has prepared II
bill which has received the sanction of
the House Militia Committee. The
National Guard is subject to be called
by the President into active service,
for time not exceeding nine months,
to repel the invasion of foreign foes,
to suppress rebellion, or to put down
Indian uprisings While in active
service it is to besubject to the same
regulations as the regular troops of
the United States, and to be entitled
to the same pay and allowances.
Such plan as this would turn the
whole Nation into vast military en-
camnment AMI make a soldier ofevery
citizen
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Little shops ape the ways of the big
ones sometimes with absurd results,
muses. the Chicago Herald. One sees
now aud then tiny ten by twelve
shop fairly hidden beneath hysterical
declarations that great stock must
be sacrificed. Sometimes a shop that
could by no possibility hold more
than few hundred dollars worth of
goods, announces Il great clearance
sale, when half-hour's rush such as
the big shops occasionally have, would
leave the place as bare as Mother Hub
bard's cupboard.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

A Maine lumberman says the wild
lands OF his State would make thirteen
States as large rs Rhode Island, two
as large rs New Hampshire and Yer
mont, and one twice as large ms Mas
sachusetts. These lands are located
in the following counties: AroCstook,
.,s3G, ,5lS acres; Franklin, $50, Col
acres Hancock, 1862, s93 acres; Ok
ford, 5j3, 65l acres; Penobscot, s27,-
G0l acres; Plscataqis, 1000, fli acres !;
Somerset, 1.735, S3S acres Washing
ton, O. +, 1913 acres. Tho spruce tim
ber Ian l. of Maine are worth more
today than the pine lands fifty year.
ago. This statement, observes tho
New York sun, IS basse1 on the opin-
ion of lumbermen who have been en-
gagged IN the business for forty years.
The value of these spruce Ian Is has
bseu srsstly enhanced by tue engl.
nous demand loF pulp WOOL
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

The twelfth reporS of the Illinois
Bureau of Labor Statistics says OF
some of the contracts made by coal
mine operators with the miners: "The
tendency of these contracts is to cause
the signers to be considered more in
the light of chattels than free men.
BY the terms certain rights are waived
that are common to all men, while
the provisions seem to be in violation
of the laws of the State and are ap-
parently imposed on the miner to cir
cumvent all laws that may be passed
for his protection.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

American interest naturally attaches
to the japanese Navy from the fact
that her first armed ship of modern
design was an American vessel, and
her first admiral was IN American
officer. The vessel was the ram Stone
wall, which was captured from the
Confederates while at Havana, and in
1868 was sold to Japan and taken to
Yokohama by way of the Straits of
Magellan, in charge of Captain George
Brown, United States Navy. The first
japanese Admiral was Walter Grin
nell, who was appointed to that office
while an ensign in the United States
Navy stationed at Hiago.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

E. 7. Simcox in his Primitive Civil
ization" says the two occupations in
China are learning and agriculture.
The standard of comfort for the le
boring masses is fixed by that of the
smallest cultivators, who form the
largest section of the population.
Poverty never involves actual starva-
tion, except in times of famine. 1t
means having to eat plain rice. The
average man in China probably gets
enough to eat, such as it is. in ordinary
times. The farms are small, from
half an acre to four aud half acres;
the estimate is that one acre will sup
port twelve persons in abundance.
Wages are very low. A recent Chinese
writer states that the average earnings
of workmen are twenty cents u day,
and that hall of this is enough to sup
port n family of five, after Chinese
fashion. The new Penal Code fixes
the value Of labor impressed into the
public service n fourteen cents day.
But these are minimum rates In
eitios carpenters and masons got thirty
cents a day without food: servants,
81 month without food; farmhands,
sl7.5oa "A year without food \ sol
dior's pay Is s. month with board.
but half Of this = paid ia rice In
eQag of the cities common laborctl
will work for siS cents day,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
Sea Waves May Make Electricity.

A number of men are at work erect.
ing portable houses near the coneourse
at Coney Island, Brooklyn. Inquiry
as 10 what they were for elected the
reply: "For Edison. Watch and
wait. 1t i said that Edison is going
to experiment in using tho sea waves
~ motive power for generating elec-
tricity. IL has long boen known to
him that hy floating u series ol large
casks attached "a each other BY chains,
aud anchored So as t. rise ana fall
wlth the waves, they could. by means
of rods communicating With raehet
wheels placed n power houses 1n tho
shore. be male O. rey0lye dYuaia9s
and Evasgata ulessEisisy. -CAseago
Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1894.

Julia |" he commanded, with iovial fa-
miliarity. "My friend John Har-
court-Mrs. Ives, Miss Ives, MIR.
Ives"
Julia was looking her best, in pale
green silk and cloudy chiffon; but
when she looked up at the judges
friend, she gazed and smiled and
blushed till she looked quite dazzlingly
pretty.
"Allow me ~ he said.
Somebody had taken her first dance,
but she forgot it. She took Mr.. Har-
courts proffered arm and walked away
with him.
Neither of them spoke, but in n Sc
cluded corner of the room he pulled a
dried rosebud out of an inner pocket
and dangled it before her eyes.
81 was so glad you let me keep it I"
he murmured. '1t was kind in you. p"
''I didn't know you had it" said
Julia, striving to frown, and smiling
instead, with the happiness she could
not smother. "Give it right back to
me-"
"Never |" said Mr.. Harcourt. If he
had been handsome in dilapidated
coat and slouch hat, he was a strik-
ing in dress suit, with white flower
in his buttonhole. "You see your
self how | have carried it around witt
me. Give it back?"
Julia met his bantering look and re-
turned it.
"You looked precisely like tramp, U
she remarked, "or farm laborer, and
thought you were. Are you?"
"Come out on the piazza, said Mr..
Harcourt, laughing, in gay content
ment. "No, I'm not farm hand,
Miss Ives. I'm lawyer up in the city,
and when | feel the need of total rest
l bury myself down there in the woods
with the McIntyres for two weeks or
so, and hunt and fish. Sometimes the
Judge ferrets me out and makes me
stop night with him and go to some
function here in Pelham Heights.
SO bring my dress suit along as a
provision against that catastrophe.
This time, Miss Ives," said Mr.. Har-
court, slowly and softly, "it is not a
catastrophe. This time l bless the
dear old Judge from the bottom of my
heart ~
Six months later, Miss Ives's engage
ment to Mr.. Harcourt, the prominent
young lawyer, was announced with
pomp and ceremony, and nobody was
surprised.
Julia's mother drew long breaths OF
peaceful relief.
II am so glade" she said to her hus-
band, in her thankfulness. ''Do you
remember what alarming notions the
child had awhile ago! She worried
me terribly. And now she is going to
marry John Harcourt, the most de
lightful society man | ever met, and
have an establishment right here in
Pelham Heights for all but few
months in the winter, and do every
thing just as we could have wished.
And she is so happy with it all Don't
you feel thankful"
Julla's father chuckled for several
moments.
Didn't I tell you she'd como out
in good shape!" he queried. ''She
did have some notions one while, didn't
she? It's the point of view, you see
it's the point of view. Saturday
Night.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

A school census of Chicago, inst
completed, puts the population of
that city at 1,567, T27, which is less
than the total claimed on the basis of
The names in the directory. OF this
number Cos, $50 are under twenty
years of age. The number of pupils
attending private schools is 43, SAG.
The same census places the foreign
born population Of Chicago at 61S, 500.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
Saws the Buffalo News. Th,

Says the Buffalo News: The frc-
auent reference to the midway" in
the newspapers, periodicals and the
everyday speech of the people proves
that the unique thoroughfare on the
Worlds Fair grounds took wonder
fuld hold upon the imagination of
those who visited that most peculiar
feature of the fair. The "Midway"
as found entrance to church ex-
hibitions, to society festivals and pub
lie amusements of various kinds, and
Midway" seems to be word that
fingers longer upon the lips of the
people than any other term connected
with the great Columbian festival of
last year.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

The American eagle must spread his
wings over miasmatic domain alto
gether, the New York Mail and Ex-
press concludes, ii the quinine con
sumed by Americans is any indication.
Uncle Sans subjects swallow just one
half of all the quinine produced in the
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

1t is said that set of harness is on
exhibition in London, England, which
slips off a horse when it
falls down, leaving the animal per-
fectly free. If safe, remarks the New
York World, this harness will meet q
long-felt want, especially in cities with
asphalt pavements.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

About $7,O00,0 900 in cold cash has
been expended thus far on Chicago's
big ditch-tho drainage canal. Pub
lished estimates, according to the
latest authorized revision, put the
cost of the work ut $21, 900, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

The engineer who is installing the
electric power plant of the Metropoli-
tan Elevated Railway in Chicago
figures that the use of electricity will
save that company $500, 900 year in
operating expenses, compared with the
cost of running trains by anthracite
burning locomotives.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Some one, who has evidently con-
siderable time ON his hands, estimates
that of 1000 men who marry, 332
marry younger women, 579 marry
women of the same age and eighty
nine marry older women,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
A LITTLE WHILE.

Yet little while to be
Here, where few have love for mel
Yet another cross to bear
Day by day are nearing home!
Aching heart and feet that roam,
Yet little while to be
Where the dark night shadows mel
Yet another song to sing
Yet another broken string =
Then, the rest in roses given, =
Aud the sleep that wakes in heaven!
Atlanta Constitution.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Forty-fve pounds of corn are said
to be worth only cent and half in
Russia to-day, and many farmers are
sending their cattle into the fields, as
the cost of harvesting would exceed
the price Of the corn.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

The plague raging in China is said
to be identical with that which de-
vastated London in 1864, when there
were IS, 500 deaths in population of
46O 900
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

1t is said that the world uses 49,
500, 900, 900 bushels of wheat and 25,-
900, 900, 900 bushels of Indian corn
annually. OF the latter about $780,
900, 900 bushels are used by man, the
rest being fed to animals
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

"There ought to be a law compelling
every man to read petition before
signing it, thinks the Atchison
(Kan.} Globe.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
TIE POINT OF VIEW,
DY EMMA A. OPPER.

JUST hate it - said
Julia Ives, not vio-
lently, but plain
lively.
"What ?" her
m o t h er ques-
toned, in anxiety.
And her father
l o o k e d up in
startled apprehen-
sion.
Not that they
were astonished at
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
The annual taxes fthe world aggre-
gate the enormous sum of 81, $50, 000,-
900.

According to statistics, women to-
day are two inches taller, on an aver
age, than they were twenty or thirty
years ago.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Land forces have most Influenced
the destinies of mankind through
warfare.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

Not until tho close ol the last cen.
tuFy Mas torture II erlmlnaly general.
ly abolished IN Europe,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21

There was hop at Pelham Heights
club house, week later. Ii was small,
because the club was exclusively aud
oarly.
Mr. ard Mrs. Ives enl their hand
solne daughter came into the ballroom
at nine o'clock, aud were hemmed ia
directly by snail crowd Of men Mr.
unham and Mr. Prescott, aud halt a
iuzcn nthers
Ani Miss tves'a earl WIS almost full,
when old JUDGE Lambert reached over
The heed If tha shortest man IN the
eHrsoau lius thFoas, aul touched her
uEm.
'SaYv dance for Jack Hareourt,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27
MARCHING ON FREDERICK.
COxey Cohorts Leave Their Camp at Ha-
gerstown, Md.

BtTstOWn, Mu.
HAGERsTowY, Nd, April 24.-After
three days stop in this place, the
Coxey cohorts marched on Frederick
this morning.
Browne last night in speaking of the
proposed can p in the arsvnal grounds,
said he had concluded that the
grounds around the foot of the Wash
ington monument would be more con-
venient and appropriate, and an.
nounced that he would telegraph Col
onel Redstone to make a request for
the grounds on the secretary of war.
Mayor Fleming of Frederick is pre-
pairing frosty reception for the army.
He has announced that no public
meeting would be allowsd unless in
hall, and that there shall be no pa
rade on the street. Browne says he
would like to see the mayor stop
procession of American citizens with
the American flag at its head.
The Sunday services in Camp Naz-
areth were attended by crowd of
$50 persons. Fifty dollars in all were
taken in at the gate. Browne DOTTED
his boot and sombrero in honor of his
appearance as a minister and put on q
suit of store clothes of clerical black.
His sermon was on his own ideas of
theosophy.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
THOUSAND MEN OUT.
TWENTY THOUSAND KORE TO QUIT.
President Mcbride Has Hopes That the
Men in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and
Colorado Who Are Still Working
Will Go Out When They Learn
of the Magnitude Of
the Strike.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 24.-Presi-
dent Mcbride Of the National United
Mine Workers association claims that
kilograms received by him from dis
trict presidents show that 13O, 900 coal
miners in various parts of the coun-
try are now on a strike in obedience
to the national order. He declares
that BY tomorrow the number will in
crease to 10000 and he has hope that
the mel in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa
and Colorado who have refused to quit
work will do so as soon as they learn
positively the magnitude of the move
ment.,
The strike so far includes all of the
bltumlnous MINIS Of Pennylvania
and Maryland, and all the men in Ohio
and Central Illinois, part of the men
IN Indiana, the miners at Bevier and
Lexington, Mo-, and part of the men
IN Southern Illinois and other sections
OF the country. So far there has not
been a single report OF any disturb
ance and the national officers declare
that there will be none. Troubles are
reported in Alabama, but the miners
OF that state are not organized under
the United Mine Workers association.
and therefore the order cannot be held
responsible for the disturbances there.
Mcbride gives figures of strikers as
follows; $4,000 in Pennsylvania, 300
in Missouri, $4,000 in Ohio, $1,000 in
Illinois, 1000 in the Indian Territory.
1900 in Iowa, and 5000 in Indiana
with IA, 300 idle elsewhere.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27
HANGED IN A COURT HOUSE.
A " !ssissipTi LOB Lynches Three Negroes
in the Halls of Justice.

mississippi lob Lynches Three Negroes
in the Halls of Justice.
Vi"EsBU2G, Miss, April "a. - Four
negroes have already been lynched
for the assassination of Manager
Boyce of the Baunne plantation in
Madison parish on Saturday, and it is
not unlikely that several more will be
disposed of.
Cne OF the negroes inculpated in the
assassination of Boyce was shot Satur-
day after being caught That night,
at Tallulah, mob gathered in front
Of the Jail, held conference.
decided upon the guilt of three
men in Jail, went deliberately
to work with batter
ing ram, burst in the side of the jail
and forced open the door. Sam
Slaughter, Tom Clafton and Dave
Hawkins were led out and swung up
to the balustrade of the court house
until dead. Their bodies were hang
ing there this morning.
ClaxtOl and his four pals are still in
the swamp north Of II; railroad be-
tween Milliken's Bend road and the
river. The hunt is being vigorously
pressed, but the dogs yesterday could
not follow the trail owing to the cold.
The river AMI all avenues of escape
are closely guarded and the capture
and lynching of the five men is re-
garded as only question of time,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27
TRIPLE LYNCHlNG.
Three Men Hanged From a Railway
Bridge in Alabama.

Bridge in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 24.-At Tus-
cumbia at midnight Saturday night
Tom Black, John Willis and Tony
johnson, all negroes, were lynched.
About week ago these men were ar
rested for the burning of the barns of
Claude King. Their arrest was kept
very quiet, for fear of mob violence.
Late Saturday night a masked mob of
200 men went to the jail and called the
jailer ont on pretext that they had a
prisoner When he came out the mob
took him in hand and carried him some
distance from the place, where he was
compelled to keep quiet.
They then entered the place forci-
bly,, taking the keeps from the jailers
wife, and entering the cells took the
three negroes out and led them to the
Tennessee river bridge, which is in
the corporate limits of the town.
Ropes were placed about each of the
negroes necks, and with the end tied
to the bridge timbers they were COM
PEELED to jump off. The fall broke
their necks, and the bodies, after be-
ing filed with bullets, were left
dangling where they hung.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27
EARTHQUAKE VISITS GREECE.
Three Villages Partially Destroyed and
1919 People Are Killed.

ATHENS, April 2i.-The earthquake
shocks that began about 7:3O o'clock
Friday night continued with more or
less frequency until noon yesterday.
In three villages, Malesina, Proski-
ma and MARITIME, all in the province of
Locris, 1?9 persons were killed. The
Larymni telegraphs that a heavy
shock occurred at Proskina while
vesper service was being held in
the parish church. The walls of the
church fell burying all the worship
pers in the ruins. Hardly person in
the church escaped without injury.
Thirty were taken out dead. Houses
were thrown down in other parts of
the village, and the money loss is
great. Some of the villagers are
practically ruined.
At Malesina houses tottered and fell
as though built of cardboard. In this
little village 60 persons were killed.
In some cases entire families, fathers,
mothers and children were taken out
Of the ruins dead.