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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

A report on the uncultivated bast
fibers of the United States by Char les
Richard Dodge, special agent in
charge of fiber investigations, has inst
been issued from the Department of
Agriculture. Among the plsuts de-
scribed are species found in every sec
tion of the United States, from Maine
to Florida and from Minnesota to
Arizona. Some of them are iute sub
stitutes, while others. if cultivated,
would produce fiber rivaling hemp.
Over forty fiber plants are treated in
the report, the history Of twenty
forms being given in full with state
ments regarding past efforts AMI ex-
periments toward their utilization
Special chapters are devoted to the
asclepias or milkweed fibers, olrA,
cotton stalk fiber. the common abuti.
lon-known commercially as "China
jute," but growing in the fence
corners of every Western farm Colo
RADIO River hemp and many others.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

The Republican Senators whose
terms will expire in March next are !;
Joseph NJ. Carey, Wyoming; William,
Chandler, New Hampshire; S. NJ. Cul
lom, Illinois; N. L. Dixon, Rhode
Island; j. N. Dolph, Oregon; William
p. Frye, Maine; A. Higgins, Della
ware; G. F. Hoar, Massachusetts,; G.
F. Manderson, Nebraska; j. McMil-
Ian, Michigan; r. F. Pettigrew, South
Dakota; L. G. Power, Montana; G. S.
Shoup, Idaho W. d. Washbnrn, Min.
nesota; j. F. Wilson, Iowa; and Z. o.
Wolcott, Colorado. The Democrats
are: J. H. Berry, Arkansas; NJ. c.
Butler, South Carolina; ID. Gallery,
Louisiana; J. n. Camden, West Vir-
ginia; r. Coke. Texas /. G.. Harris,
Tennessee; Z. Huntor, Virginia; w.
Lindsay, Kentucky; J. Martin, Kan.
sas A. ]. McEaurin, Mississippi; j.
r. Mcpherson, New Jersey j. I. Nor
gan, Alabama NJ. w. Ransom, NORTH
Carolina, and p. Walsh, Georgia. In
number of States, the Atlanta Con.
stitution remarks, tho election of Senr
tors has already either been made or
has been settled. George Peabody
Wetmore will succeed Dixon, of Rhode
Island Ex-Governor Gear will take the
place of Senator Wilson, q! Iowa, and
J. S. Martin will succeed Hunton.
Lindsay and Gallery have bal thoii
seats already voted 20 them and Nor.
9an's return is assured Other Sena-
tors, including Doph, Frye and others.
viii be returned without euy great
effort.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

lightning does strike twice in the
same place, the New York Mail and
Express maintains, and a Honesdale,
Penn. farmer who was stunned twice
during one storm in his barn one day
last week lives to certify that an old
belief to the contrary is erroneous.
When even electricity takes to repeat
ing, the need of reform must be ad.
mitted.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

Colonel Thornton w. Washington
of Washington, d. c., is dead. His
death removes one of the direct lineal
descendants of General George Wash.
ington. He was a great grandson OF
Colonel Samuel Washington, the old.
est brother of the illustrious first
President of the United States, and
the fifth generation in descent from
Colonel John Washington, the first
immigrant of the Washington family
in America, who came over in 1868
and settled on the border of Pope's
Creek, near its junction with the Poto
mac River, in what is now Westmore.
land County, Virginia. He served in
the Confederate army. His wife and
seven children survive him.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

Statistics show that in 1000 mar
riages, 332 men marry women younger
than themselves, $40 marry women OF
their own age or near it, and eighty
nine marry women older than them
selves. The most notable difference
in ages brought to the notice of the
New York Mail and Express was in
Camden, N. j., last year, where the
bridegroom was twenty-five and the
bride sixty-nine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

THE CLOSING CENTURY.

AS one who, reused from sleep, hears far
away
The closing strokes of some cathedral bell
Tolling the hour, strives all in vain to tell
II denser grows the night, or pales the day
30 we reused to life's brief existence, say
I'VE on whose waking falls century's
knelD.
Is this the deepening dusk of years, the fell
And solemn midnight, or the morning gray Z
We stir, then sleep again IA little 81 eep
(Howbeit undisturbed by another's ring y
For though, measured with time, a century
Is but vanished hour tolled on the deep,
Yet what IS time itself? 'Tis but a swing
Ofthe vast pendulum of eternity.
Henry J. Stockard, in the Century.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07
nitteCl

One after another, notes the Chi
cago Herald, the theological sem.
inaries of this country are opening
their doors for the admission of women.
and especially for such as would fit
themselves for labor in the mission
field. The Cumberland Presbyterian
Seminary at Lebanon, Tenn, is one
of the last to fall into line in this
great matter.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07
NO. 49,.
a SEA SHELL,
Sea shell

Sea shell
Murmurs swell
To the roaring OF the sea,
When my ear is laid to thee,
From thy walls
A storm sprite calls
With sirens voice to me.
Sea shell
Fairies dwell
In thy tiny tinted hall;
Dainty, fieeting footsteps fall
To rhythmic strain
And sweet refrain,
Dancing at the sea nYmphs' ball.
Sea she'll
Dulcet bell
In thee I hear it ring,
While ethereal voices sing
Charmingly
Ofthe sea
To the lute's enchanted string.
Sea she'll
In cell
All the world prison find
Far sweeter than them in kind,
Thy fair portal
Is to immortal
Palace OF a dreaming mind.
Sea shell
Tolls knell,
While hear thy whispers sound
OF the waves unceasinS bound,
To the shore
"Evermore,"
Saying as they sweep the ground.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

The New York independent ex-
claims: cone man, Josiah W. Leeds,
succeeded in having the wholesome
laws SO far enforced as to remove
from the news stands of Philadelphia
the papers which are devoted to illus
trations of crime"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

A steel rail costs twice as much ms
ali iron one, muses. the New York Re
corder, but the universal use of the
former means millions to the farmers
of the West. II has enabled railroads
to use larger and heavier cars, and the
results are cheaper freights and
quicker transportation.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

Mr.. Murray, the head of the fa.
nous London publishing house, holds
that novels should not be admitted to
public libraries until, by having lived
five years, they have proved their
permanent value.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

The most wonderful cliff dwellings in
the United States are those of the
Mancos, in Southern Colorado can.
yon. Some of these caves are 500 to
coo feet from the bottom of the per.
pondicular sides of the canyon wall,
and how their occupants gained in.
gtess is Il mystery.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

Tbs colored element is increasing
much less rapidly than the white
not only in the country at large but
in the Southern States, AYERS the Chi
cago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

The long distance electric railroads
are coming rapidly. One is to be
built from Columbus, Ohio, to Gin
cinnati, 120 miles, and is expected
to be in operation by December, 1896.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

There are $50 iron and steel manu-
featuring establishments in Pennsyl
vania, with an invested capital of over
5000, 600, 600.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

The chief maritime cities of the
United States in their order If i'm
portance, are New York, Boston, New
Orleans and Baltimore.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

Writers on vital statistics state that
there are two persons sick for every
death during the year.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07
The Atlanta Journal calls fol- an in
CT ease of the army.

1t is estimated that England ex-
rends annually 15,000,0 900 on pic
lures
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07
LOST AND FOUND.
RS. VAN ALTINE

&N @hA< - Il - -
WAS saunt e r i Il e
leisurely down one
of the boulevards
in Paris. 1t was q
lovely spr i n g
morning; the air
was crisp and ven
dure fresh and in
viting-just t h e
kind of a day for
n stroll, and so the
American woman
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

A shortage of billions of feet of pine
lumber is predicted from the great
Northwestern territory.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

According to the Catholic Herald
there are about 152, 900 colored Cath
olics in the United States.
, 1894-10-20

Here were the stalls packed with the choicest
varieties Of almost everything in the fruit and
vegetable line grown here, and here also were
the Fancy Work and Notions offered by an
enticing lot of girls who seemed to have
studied the manner Of extracting change from
unwilling purchasers. Here, too, were good
specimens of animal life in the shape of tur-
KEYS, ducks, ct cetera, while nearby stood
captive q fine milchcow, goats, pigs, and
Other members IF the cIoven-foot tribe. AS
to prices nothing can be said against them,
the articles beng, on the whole, reasonably
marked, and considering rhe limited pnr-
chasing power of most of the visitors, sales
were brisk. The n0n-alcoholic counter, ut
which was dispensed all kinds of ~carbonatod
drinks, had also some busy urs, and 50
had the cake stalls. on which We're piled
q profusion of delicacies. At dusk attention
was generally devoted to the bread-basket,
and the inner man having been supplied
with such ailments as could be procured on
the spot, the evening programme was i'm
mensely enjoyed.
The scene, of course, was then completely
changed. The sun, which during the after
noon was bright, but not hot, had retired, and
been replaced by a mellow moonlight. The
breeze was soft and gentle, and the glowing
night, in fact, completely put the gloomy
morning to ahame. Besides the moonlight q
number of eliminating lamps, coIoured Ian
terms, and bonfires were scattered over the
grounds, all combining to produce a most de-
lishtful spectacle. Later on a handsome
pyrotechni2 display was made from the hills,
and the Military Band enlivened the pro-
ceedings 10y dropping sweet mOrsels of melody
to the multitude around. Meantime pur-
cha8ers continued depicting the numerous
stands (and their own pockets) Of their con
tents, until at ten o'clock a warning
was sounded to buyers and sellers alike to
suspend operations. The curtain thus fell
upon. one Of the most agreeable scenes wit
messed here for many a day, and all who, by
their presence or otherwise, helped the cause,
will not readily forget the Fair at Nisky..
, 1894-10-20
RACE ACROSS TWO OCEANS;
(Argosy Is Sept.)

One Of the longest-if not the longest ocean
sailing races on record was decided last year
between five British grain laden ships. The
competing vessels were the Lord Temple
more, Bowdon, Pinmore, Lochee and the City
of Athens. All the ships We're from San
Francisco. and with the exception of he first
named they were bound to Queenstown for
orders. The race was round the Horn to
Queenstown, a distance of about 1880 miles,
though in the case of the Lord Templemors
some proviso must nave been made or allow
ance given. The BowdoD, Lochee, and Lord
Templcmore left the Golden Gates Of the
West on March 22nd, the City of Athens on
the 90 d, and the PinmOre on the 24th. TIL
Captain of each vessel had staked $50 dollars,
the winner to take 1000 dollars, and the
second to rave his stake.
The Pinmore was the fret to arrive at
Queenstown on July 18th, being the winner
of the first Prizes The second prize 10 CO.
yer stake) would 90 either to the City OF
Athens OF the Lochee, these two ships having
arrived with the same tide five days later.
The Lord Templcmore was sighted off the
Old Head of KinSaie seven hours later, and
this closed the list, as the remaining ship, the
Bowdon, was totally lost off 0peo Island on
the 9th of April, bat, happily, all on board
were saved.
The fact of the three ships arriving within
a few hours of each other is very rem arkable,
considering the length of the voyage over two
oceans, though the time occupied is by no
means a record. The shortest p assage is
about 80 days, and these vessels were 120
on the passaGe.-AnSrerS.
, 1894-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
(Spectator Sept, l5th.)

Professor Won HelmhoItz, the greatest of
the German men Of science died at Chariot
tenburg on Sunday, the immediate cause Of
death being an attack of appoplexy. The
Professor was seventy three years old, hav-
ing been born ut Potsdam ON August '3lst,
1921. The world will remember him most
by his far reaching discovery .of the
ophthalmOscope the instrument by which
the Youngest practitioner is'nOw able to tell
more about the condition of a patients Vi
sior than could the most skilful o%culist Of
the last generation. The ,Opthalmoscope
allows the doctor to look into the
human eye and see the exact condition
of the nerves and blood vessels. 1t
substitutes certainty for guesswork. But
though the world at large will bles,
the brain and hand which did 50
much for the most precious of the
human senses, the men of science will
probably declare that Helmholtz, did
even great work in the regions of
pure science, and in his studies of SEN
sation and voluntary motion. One of
his greatest discoveries was in the re-
gion of sound. He first fully analysed
and set forth the vibrations which form
the basis of music. A writer in tho
Times declares him to have been to sol
enc6 what GOetne was 10 literature.
Breadth, universally . of comprehension
and sympathy, and a certain. u~lnmistakablo
Intellectual serenity are Characteristic of
both" Like Goethe, too, Hemhoitz found
that philosophi calm led on to world
ly victory. He was hr lOured by his
country men and by all Europe, and ten
years ago the German Emperor lised
him to the ranks of the hereditary no.
bility,-a very rare honour in a country
where caste-feeling reigns supreme.
We regret to record the death of Pro-
fesser Brugsch, at Berlin, on September
10th. He was one of the greatest of
Psychologists, and an EgyptologisC is a
great deal more than an antiquarian.
lie must also be an artist and an engineer
and is investigating in the only place
where such investigation is possible
the early history of civiiisation. Egypt
is. moreover, the only land whence we
may expect documents of value: No
thing perishes there except through violence,
, 1894-10-20

and competent excavators like Professor
Brugsch may yet discover papyri of in
ostimable value, early narratives explain
ing his. ry, or early letters confirming
statements now the cause of endless
questioning. An Psychologist to succeed
must be one of the most many-sided
Of mankind and Professor Brugsoh aid
succeed.
, 1894-10-20

the national and traditional Monarchy,
and declares that he went to FrohsdOrf in
@order to give an example Of absolute respect
towards the hereditary principle in the House
of France II may" he says, have been
mistaken now and then rs to men and things
the Boolanger business but my object has
always been to preserve the traditional plinci-
pie and prove that it contained nothing inca
liable with the modern ideas, with our
present social state" II cannot believe that
God has for ever abandoned France, and
France to recover must again become a Chris
tan nation. "A nation which has lost the
religious sentiment, where passions are no
longer restrained BY any moral check while
those who suffer do not find a motive for
resignation in the hope Of a future life, Is
destined to division, to liberation. The first
duty Of my friends, therefore, is to wrest
Fra ce from tire terrible path which would
lead to such IA CATASTROPHE That is The tes-
lament Of a man of genuine piety and very
narrow views. A Republic can he as pious
az a Monarchy, nor is it possible to deny that
earthly success is independent of belief.
France is very like Japan, and it would be
difficult to prove that japan is either re-
ligious-it lis probably the least religious
State on earth-or on the road to ~'laceras
ton" The reward for piety is not always
fairness.
, 1894-10-20
Spectator, 22nd Sept.

Spectator, 22nd Sept.
Bv far the most serious result of the
Japanese victory is its effect on Chinese
opinion. The people of Pekin and ShanShm
are. it is said, in CONSERVATION, and there Is
4 kind Of anarchy IN the Palace, the young
Emperor blaming his councillors, and declar-
ing that he will take AL affairs into his own
hands. lie can DO it il he likes, for he IS
twenty and quite absolute but there Is no
proof that he is competent, or. indeed, knows
how to work the vast machine at all. The
danger of rebellion is very great, tor the
pride both Of Tartars and Chinese Is wound
ed to the very quick. They can explain
defeat by Europeans, for Europeans WELD
magical powers but to be beaten by the
Japanese, whom they desplse, is a humiliation
20 severe as to suggest that Heaven has con-
demned the dynasty. They will take heart
again if they win the struggle by sea, but II
thew do not. and Pekin is threatened, we
NAV see something like anarchy among three
hundred and fifty millions of people. Europe
combined could of course prevent such a
calamity to the world but there is no proof
that Europe, unless its own subjects were
massacred. would combine, on even realise
IuIIV WHAT WIS IdPpCHlHS' ! A1 = nv -
particular, and the Russians, would DO tar
from sorry if the Chinese Government
could neither threaten Tonquin nor protect
Manchuria.
The battle off the YaIoo is the first great
naval engagement which has occurred since
iron superseded wooden men-of-war. and tho
interest taken in the struggle in all Admiral
ties is intense. Details, however, are re-
quired before the nav. profession can mako
up its mind. TO lay Observers, with tlo
Incomplete information as yet to hand, 1T
appears that the frsts.class irunclad has the
best chance, the "Chen Yuen, Of 1000 tons,
living through the whole business that the
torpedo is a far better engine of destru"Tion
than the huge gun, as it destroys, if 1t hits,
at once and that the supply Of ammunition
is of more vital Importance than ever. Sea-
battles may last so long with ironclads that
no single vessel can carry anything like
enough of an arsenal. No attempt, it will
be observed. was made to ram. The public
should note ca efully, for it concerns the
whole future of Asia, and especially of Brit
ish power. that the sailors on both sides
fought as we'll as any Europeans. No men
can do more than fight till they die or
drown, and both Chinese and japanese did
that. We cannot discern the faintest trace
Of skulking on either side, though the
theory has been that most Asiatics in the end
skulk.
The Madagascar Consul in London told
'Reuter' on Tuesday that he thought NJ. de
Vilers would hardly ask from Madagascar
so much as was proposed. He would ask an
acknowledgement of the Protectorate, and
this the Ho,as would grant but if he claimed
any right of interference in internal affairs,
they would fight. He denied that annexa-
ton was possible, as Great Byitain would
prevent it, but limited that part on the north
ern division of the island might be coded.
, 1894-10-20

The Austrian Chancellor. Count Kalnokv,
on Monday addressed the Delegations in "a
long speech, of which part was important.
He re~neated his masters declaration that the
Powers wished peace, though for the safety
of she Monarchy the national aumaments must
still be increased. The Triple Alliance must
continue. and indeed It had been informally
Joined by Roumania. The Austrian Govern
mcnt did not intend to interfere in the Bal
k1ns, had made no military convention with
Serviu. and wouIl not interfere with Bal
garia if other Powers did not. The Cham
cellor, however, admitted subsequently that
Austria had witnessed witt! pain the dis
missal, aud the subsequent treatment, Of
M. Stambouloft. He spoke with kindness Of
England as "A Power which, though outside
the Triple Alliance, eve are accustomed by
old sympathieS and constant identity IT
interest, to find at our side ana attributed
much Of the dread Of war which existed, to
the sensational and often mischievous manner
in which the nerves of the newspaper
reading public are played upon" The
newspapers are very angry at this but
there can be little doubt chat the temptation
to make every incident look exciting, is
We y strong, and is often yielded to. There
would be war every year but that peace
and war still remain within the control Of
statesmen.
, 1894-10-20

The political testament Of the lSle Ccmte
de Paris was published ION Monday IT is a
pathetic document, obviously published 10y
a man of high character, who felt that he had
failed. He maintains strongly the clam IF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-24

a writer in the ST. Louis Republic de-
scribes Mrs. E. D. e. ~ Southworth as
q beautiful old lady, with frank, cor
dial manner, which at once puts stran-
gers at ease She IS II years old and
still lives at Prospect Cottage, where
she has lived for nearly half a century.
1t is said that with the single excep-
ton of the White House, there is no
residence in Washington where there
have been so many distinguished visit
ors as Prospect Cottage
Mrs. Southw orth is a notable house
wife, and her fame as a hostess extends
far back into the antebellum days Her
recipes, carefully compiled and handed
down through several generations of
Virginia grandmother, are held in high
repute by the housekeepers Of the Dis
trict. Thus, surrounded by her children
and her frienus, this lovely and serene
old gentlew0man passes the evening Of
her busy and evearful life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-24

The most of the advocates of woman
suffrage in the United States are wom-
en- who. from the very circumstances of
their lives, hardly know for what they
clamor- They are not usually the WON
en- who have been thrown into most
contact with the world. The little local
suffrage clubs here and there. if analysed
without prejudice, viii be found to
consist Of the woman physician. the
women who have not married and are
victims Of a conserved longing which
they hope to satisfy by Intellectual pur
suits, and women disappointed in mar
riage. 1t is to me the beating of the
bird against the bars to see these WON
en- long so ardently for woman S suf-
frage, because 1 fear that it will not
give them what they need, but be s
burst balloon when once possessed -
WOmankind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-24

Apparently the entertaining of royal
ty has its little disadvantages. When
the Princess of Wales accepted Lazy
Dudley's invitation to her dance last
week, she stipulated that only $50 peo-
pie were to be asked When the list OF
the chosen was sent to Marlborough
House, SO many We're struck on that only
80 unmarried girls were left, several Of
the hostess own near relatives being
ruled out The consequence was the
ball was a failure, for the few guests in
yited could hardly 1iud each other in
the vast rooms Of Dudley House. Lon
don Correspondent