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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
Father OF Protection Talks.

The tariff was claimed by those in
power to have been excessive on for
eign trade and productive of too
much revenue, but the protracted
agony and C@sarian delivery of the
tariff reform bantllng, and the pro-
gressive Treasury deficiency thus pro-
voked, far transcends the sentimental
agony of a surplus, which long ago
ceased to vex any financiers. 1t is al
ways something too much, whether of
O surplus or of deficiency. Two
years ago some thought we had too
much of McKinleyism. More now
think we have got too much of Will
sonism. The tariff pendulum swings
to and fro between protection and
free trade, tiring out even the President
in dreaming dreams, alas! of "iron
and coal. From Speech of Senator
Justin s. Morrill,. of Vermont.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
Real Cookery Teaching.

Butter aud new-laid eggs figure
largely in cooking schools, aud as the
teacher has not to pay for them. she
WAKES eloquent and insists upon such
lavish use OF both that were her les
sons generally acted uponth would
soon be mighty famine in the land.
hut the poor don't come the rich
can do without such teachings, for
others DO their work and only u few
ladies ia the middle classes with very
inquiring minds put imam appearance.
"I.et the teacher" said poor wo-
man. ''come to my house and show mo
how to cook there, aud then shall be
obliged 10 her" Here Is the test of
good. cheap cooking-to cook with
little money /; u small. smoking lire a
miserable oven; u couple OF sauce
pans. and no scales; aud sometimes
mere mouths 10 feel than food 10 put
into thom. - All the Year Round.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

The Savannah, Ga, News reioices
that on December 81, 1894, the last
remaining rate of duty provided by
the Mckinley law gave place to the
Wilson tariff in the wool schedule,
saying:
"rhe rate on wooden goods is con-
siderably reduced by the new bill,
and the effect will be gratefully felt by
consumers when they go to buy.
Under the Democratic bill manufac-
turers are given free wool, hence they
will be able to make better and cheaper
wooden goods than before, and thus
be better able to compete with i'm.
portations. There will be sharp
competition, of course, ell Of which
will be of benefit to the great majority
who buy. Cheapened coats and cheap
ened blankets was Democracy's New
Years gifts to the people,"
The Savannah News is quito right
when it says that the rate in the
wooden schedule is considerable re.
duced, and also that there will be
sharp competition with WOODEN i'm
portations; and really its dream Of
cheap things may be realized meas
urably, and these cheap things will,
unquestionably. be free trades gift to
the people. But tho News should be
honest enough to state that the things
given by the Democracy arc stolen
goods. filched by peridious aud dis
honest party from large class of our
people, who even now are suffering
most seriously because OF the theft
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

The fattening OF live stock on cot
tonseed hulis and meal is becoming
quite an important feature in South
trn business affairs, announces the
Manufacturers Record. 1t promises
to add materially to tho prosperity Of
the South, and to enable that section
not only to supply its own wants for
good beef, but TO ship fattened beeves
North in competition with the West.
The cattle can be fattened on cotton
seed meal and hulls at q total cost OF
about ten cents day. while IL is esti-
mated to cost at least twenty cents a
day in the West and Northwest,
where hay. corn and other foodstuffs
are used.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

A few days ago tho little son of
well-known physician was entertain
ing playmate at his fathers house.
As children will, they ransacked every
nook and corner OF the building.
Their curiosity led them to explore
the recesses of closet in which the
doctor keeps his instruments and other
personal effects, among which is
complete skeleton. Tho strange boy
was frightened when he first beheld
tho grinning remnant of what once
had been human being and started
to run away. The doctors son, how
ever. had seen the skeleton so often
that he entertained for it only that
feeling OF contempt begotten by
familiarity. and in little while sue
eeeded in SO allaying the fears of his
companion that tho youngster began
to handle the thing aud rattle its dry
bones. "Whero did your iather get
it?' he finally asked. ~ don't know"
was the reply; "bnt guess il was his
first patient. for he's had it an awful
long time. Butte Miner.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
Mixed Up the liabies.

Gilbertian humor has been exem.
piifiei by an inciiout at Southport,
England. Last week births took place
in two families living Ia tho Same
house. In ono case twins arrived and
one baby in the other. IS u Joke the
three babies were placed in ono bed
10 make the father Of tue twins he,
lieve that his wife had given birth TO
triplets. Everything passed OF pleas.
antly and satisfactorily until ths
s'lsrk" sns explained aud tho busi-
ssss Of restoring the Infants Ia their
respective methoEs hogan. Here q
serious difficulty presented iIself, fur
tho attendants were Unable "a say
ahieh Ma vhleh. The Identification
has not sst been satisfactorily esl.<
lizhssl --Chieago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
THE EMPIRE STATE.

Her Manufacturing Interests More
Valuable Than Foreign Commerce.
New York is called the Empire State
because ,she surpasses every other
State in population, in wealth, in the
extent of her manufacturing indus
tries, in her commerce, in her moneyed
institutions, in educational facilities,
and in the enterprise and intelligence
of her people.
New York State has 65, $40 manufac
turing establishments. which employ
an aggregate capital of 81 l30, l61, 1875.
They give employment to $50, sS4
hands. that are paid annually Si66,
SAC, GAG in wages. The cost OF raw
material used annually amounts te
sS71, ,06i, 0s5, and the value of the pro
duets of these factories amounts te
81, ,7ll,577,671, which is S92, ,672, see
more than the entire assessed value OF
all the property Of the city Of New
York in 1894.
The number OF factories in New Yorb
State increased 20, l01 during the do.
cade from 1880 to 1890: there was an
increase of S615, Ola. 6l9 in tho capital
invested; of 3tS, ,55l in the hands em
ployed of S26s, 2l2. 6l3 in wages paid !
Of S10l, 1851 $40 in the material used,
aud OF $3.50. ssl, ,075 in the value o.
manufactured products.
The growth OF the manufacturing
industries of New York during the last
census decade snrpasses anything that
has ever occurred in the history OF
any country Of like population. And
this enormous growth has taken place
under a protective tariif.
The products OF the factories of New
York State alone amount 10 si0t..
903, ,973 moro than the entire exports
and imports of the whole United States.
The amount paid Tor raw material In
these faetoriee. annually. Ia s2i6. 0ds..
e3l more than our foreign imports. Ia
1890 the amount paid Ia wages 10 en-
ployes in these factories was only
siss. las, 800 less than tho total
amount Of our foreign imports. II
would be less loss 10 the people Of this
eauntry b. eloss our poEts eatlrsly TO
foreign eemmefea taan - ruin the
manufacturing industries OF this
stats.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

G. Rugg Thompson, the six-year-
old son of DR.. Thompson, OF Glens
Falls, is the owner.sf large st. Ber-
nard named Nero. The animal has
light-brown coat and weighs about
$50 pounds. Nero is an unusually
intelligent dog. He has great head
for mathematics and can add, sub
tract, divide and multiply with sur
prising celerity. Let a certain num-
Der of persons enter room. Then
let half the number depart, and Nero
will notify his master by barking how
many there are loft in the room.
Should others enter the room after
Nero has notified his master of tho
number present, he will quickly and
accurately indicate the new number.
Some of tho problems worked out by
this canine wonder would prove diff
cult for en.year-old boy to demon
strate. An interesting example of
Nero's ability as mathematician is
shown when series of figures run
ming from one to nine is placed on u
blackboard. AS each figure is set
down, either in rotation or at ran
dom, the dog will signify by bark
the number.
On one occasion Nero entered ho.
tel with the doctor. A number of
guests were standing, sitting. or NOV
ing about a room. When asked how
many persons were present, Nero de-
liberately walked about until he found
four men behind counter. Then he
sagely trotted back to his master and
announced the correct number, fif-
teen. He informed his master how
many of the number were sitting and
how many standing. Troy Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
LAPoRTE, pa FRIDAY, MARCH 8. 1885,

edge of books and accounts in earlier
years assumed the habiliments OF the
ruder sex, believing that I could thus
better earn sustenance.
81 came here, entered your service,
saved few hundred dollars-and you
remember the terrible occurrence
which Immediately preceded my dis
appearance3"
s"The accident on the steamer"
eyes. We were hurrying about
among the wounded, as you recollect,
when the figure of one Of the dying
sufferers approached u.s."
eyes, yes, I remember.
"That man was my husband"
There were tears in the eyes Of the
little coterie who listened to this sim
gular tale of woe.
81 recognized him, and he half pro-
nounced the name of Mary, my bap-
tismal name, as I hurried about amid
the frantic crowd on that fearful oc-
casion. Stunned with the recognition
under such circumstances, bewildered
by the trying position in which l thus
suddenly found myself placed, and
fearful of the results of exposure, I
knew not what to do, or scarcely what
I did.
"He did not survive the accident.
however; and, two hours afterwards,
in homely female attire, I claimed his
unfortunate remains. None recog-
nized me in my plain apparel, and
surely none could suspect that the
yelled and humble woman who fol-
lowed the corpse to it's last resting
place was In fact the bookkeeper of
the well-known Mr.. Corlis.
'I left town forthwith. Through
your kindness and liberality l had
been able to lay by considerable
sum of money, and 1 departed for the
West, and, once more among total
strangers, I continued the resumption
of the habiliments and habits of my
sex. With the means ut my COM
mand, I continued to live quietly and
respectfully, until some two years ago
I met this gentleman, who offered me
his hand. I am now Mrs. Ervine, and
this is my husband, SIR"
As may well be imagined, q happy
reunion succeeded this denouement OF
the longtime mystery which had
shrouded the sudden disappearance of
Mr.. Corlis's bookkeeper. And the
reader may be assured that Mr.. and
Mrs. Ervine were not only very well
come in the rich merchants family,
but that the newly welded pair be-
came the future fast friends of "May-
woods" former employer and his ex-
tended social circle. New York News.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

According to the New York Sun,
American cheeses used to be sent
abroad by the thousand pounds
twenty years ago and returned by the
same steamship line properly labelled
as English. 1t is perfectly well
known that most of the popular for
eign cheeses are more or less success
fully counterfeited in this country,
and il would DO interesting to know
what proportion of the large ex-
portations Of American cheeses return
as foreign.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
The japanese alphabet of forty.

The japanese alphabet of forty.
eight letters is written in four diff
ferent characters, one of which is re-
garded us especially appropriate for
men and another for women. Works
OF science and higher literature of an
official nature are written in the
Chinese characters. At present, adds
the New Orleans Picayune, Japan is
writing the history of the Japan
Chinese war in characters of blood.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
rIs BUT A LITTLE THING.
Tis but a little thing to smile

IT'S but little thing to smile
Approvingly once in a while;
To speak word Of praise, of cheer,
VIII en- things seem rather chill and drear
To sometimes fondly bold and press.
Some hand caress.
IT'S but little thing to 60
And strive to soothe anothers woe,
10 gently stoop and whisper low.
You understand, you feel and know
That you will help him all you can
To be a man.
.Tis but little thing to bear
The daily trivial wear and caro-
Without complain or needless fret
IT'S but little thing, dear-yet
'Tis Just such simple loving deedp
The Father heeds.
Kathleen Kavanagh, IN Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Half loaf is better than no vaca.
tion.-Life.
1t is all up with the centipede when
he is knocked off his feet.
Family ties-The one your brother
is always borrowing from you. Puck.
There are conspicuous exceptions
to the rule that short accounts make
long friends. s.-Puck.
It can not be said of the profession
al bankrupt that "his failings lean to
virtues side, Puck.
The longest pole won't knock the
persimmons unless the right kind OF
q man has hold of il. it.-Statesman.
After bank cashier has feathered
his nest he fancies that he has plumed
himself for flight. News.
Suffragist- tell you the women
are advancing right along" Gayboy
Eyes, the married ones; single ones
never get beyond certain stage. -
Boston Courier.
Mr.. Cawker latter his wife has read
several pages)-"Is there any news
in your mothers letter, dear?" Mrs.
Cawker-"I haven't come SO the post
script yet. Truth.
Bobby-''You ought to see my big
sister. Everybody says she's beau
ty." Johnny-'I bet she can't hold
a candle to my sister fer looks. Why
my sister sold twenty-five tickets for
charity concer.. Good News.
"What are you writing, Hawley?"
"A story. I'm going in for fiction"
Greatly? For magazine" mo.
For my tailor. He wants his money,
and Pm telling him I'll send him a
check next week. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The one unnoticed point which the
present food of illustrated Napoleonic
literature has made moro prominent
than any other is that throughout the
great Corsican's whole early life he
needed hair-cu Buffalo Express.
Mrs. Houser--"Have you any idea
what speaking terms means, Mr..
Houser?" Mr.. Houser er-"Certainly,
madam. Anywhere from $50 to $10O
per night, according to the promi-
nence of the lecturer. Buffalo Cour-
ier.
81 see," observed Mr.. Chugwater,
looking over his morning paper,
"they're making another effort to put
a tax on bachelors" els that the
single tax I've heard so much about?"
inquired Mrs. Chugwater. Chicago
Tribune.
She was a new telephone girl
"What number, please?" "One hun
dred and fifteen" 81 didn't catch
that" "One hundred" eyes "
"And fifteen" "All right. Here is
100. Fifteen is busy just now'-
Harper's Bazaar.
Contributor-"Pretty poem, isn't
it?' Magazine Editor-"Yes, very;
but we cant publish it. Contribu-
tor-"Why not?" Magazine Editor
-"Why, anybody can tell at the first
reading precisely what it means
Somerville Journal.
81 don't believe you can read minds,
doncher know" said chappie to
professional mind-reader. ''Oh, yes,
l can," replied the latter, pleasantly.
"Bring around somebody with mind
and I'll soon prove that l can. -
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Johns Wife-"John, wish you'd
saw up some wood for the house"
John-'I wish you wouldn't ask mo
to do such work, Maria. Saving
woods thing that even the poorest
tramp refuses to stoop to. and you
know me. South Boston News.
A little three -year-old girl went to
children's party. On her return
she said to her parents: eat the
party little girl fell of chair. All
the other girls laughed, but didn't
swell, why didn't you laughY
"'Cause 1 was the one that fell oif.'
-Tid-Bits.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

The figures of the New York Build
ing Department show that in the last
fourteen years 1926, 600, 900 have been
spent in building flats and tenements
in New York, and the st. Louis Star
Sayings estimates that ut least $780,
000,0 of this amount has been
wasted in needless brickwork, which
only obstructs light.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

The prospects will be brighter,
The burdens will be lighter,
An the souls of US be whittier
When the skies clear off.
With sweeter roses springin',
An sweeter birds a'slngin',
An all the bells a-ringin'
When the skies clear offI
Tho silver-it'll Jingle,
Till your fingers tingle, tingie;
Old friends'll meet and minglo
When the skies clear off.
An trouble. like o feather.
viii go sailin' out the weather;
Wen sing an dance together
When the skies clear off!
There's sign o. light a-comin';
An you hear tho wagon hummin';
You'll be marchin' TO the drummin'
When the skies clear off.
No matter what's tho trouble
I,'ll break jest like bubble,
An you'll drive in harness double
When the skies clear Off
Atlanta Constitution.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
HEAVY LOSSES.
WHAT DEMOCRACY HAS DOME
FOR AMERICAN INTERESTS.

Bank Clearings Throughout the
Country Last Year We're the SMALL
est Since 1SS5-Under Protection
the Greatest Prosperity Prevailed
The returns of tine bank clearings
throughout the United States daring
1894 show that they were the smallest
since 1885, proving that the business.
of the country retrogressed decade,
last year under the threat and in,
auguration of policy of free trade.
The tota! clearings during this period
are as follows:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

II is said that the Chinese are the
greatest gamblers in the world. Games
Of chance are the very breadth of their
nostrils. aud they cannot live without
them. Ii IL the one pastime ia life
Of unceasing toll. but the evil does not
sssusas ssf.a;s= phases 90 long an
foreigners DO not meddlo with their
games. A chiaaman may ia rare in.
stances lose his all when gaming among
his eountrymsn, but II he does he
goes eoateatolly bach to work nest
,lay ani j. not. like mosi ruined gam.
hlsrs. ineapacl1alesl tor honest toll.
n Is shen ths Filfsaa Of piher races
aru allowed "a take a baud and b.
utillzs ehiasse gains sahles ani banks
fas the Ffatiaea.iea ef lhslg esa paf
,a.sss chat ie=erssl mlseAlsi il
sroaaht.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

In the course of recent speech Ad-
miral Field, Tory member of the
British House of Commons said /:
"There is no such thing as equality in
this world and there will not be in
heaven" The Liberals among his
constituents have challenged the Ad-
miral to produce his Biblical authori-
ty for the latter clause of this asser-
tion.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

The new State officials of South
Carolina are unusually young in years,
even for the South, says the New York
Advertiser. The Governor is thirty
one, the Adjutant General twenty five
and the Attorney-General only twenty
four. Governor Evans is the young
est man ever elected to the Governor
ship.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

1t has been ruled by Judge Drew,
of Boston, in the case of man
charged with highway robbery that
he was not guilty because after first
demanding money from woman with
threat of death if she refused he
made polite request for it after the
purse was produced. 1t is held that
this was voluntary act on the part
of the victim.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

Italy proposes to encourage the na-
tives of Abyssinia to emigrate into the
valleys of the Nile and open up the
Soudan to civilization. The Italian
colonists on the high lands, now that
the possession of Kassala has opened
new horizons, would protect and en-
courage the native emigration.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

There are in the United States at
present 6,000,O 200 farms. About one
half the population of the Republic or
over 30,000,000 people live on them,
and these dwellers furnish more than
seventy-four per cent. of the total
value of the exports of the country.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
TEs YEARS OF BANK cLEARINas.
Amount Of

During 1894 only 13 out of SO cities
showed increased clear'ngs as COM
pared with 1898. The decrease at New
York was % per cent, at Philadelphia
10 per cent, at Boston per cent,
Chicago only 8 per cent. New Orleans
1874 per cent, Nashville 21.8 per
cent, and at Atlanta 6. 8 per cent.
OF course the largest volume of bank
clearings in the United States was
during 1892, at the time of our great
est prosperity under protection. In
the following year, however, as soon
as we were threatened with free trade,
the bank clearings decreased by eight
billions of dollars, and in the follow
ing year, 1894, there was o further
decrease of eight and a half billions of
dollars, making the total loss in the
volume of trade transacted throughout
the country amount to SIG, 500, 900, 600
less during 1894 than during 1892.
According to sections OF the country
the bank clearings during each of the
past two ears have been as follows:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
A MYSTERIOUS CLERK.

N n DIV Q + t is Q m e n t
of the following
tenor appeared in
one of the daily jour
nails of a prosperous
and rapidly growing
American city some
years since
ACCOUNTANT The
services OF an accom-
plished and competent
person are desired by
the advertiser to take
charge of the books and
correspondence Of II
fourishing business,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
An arehbishop's Diligence.

The Archbishop Of York has com.
plstsd his seli.iiapossd task OF Visiting
the whole of the 900 parishes Ia hts
diocese. Tue wufk has occupied thi &c
years. Many al tha parishes hal NOT
preshmslf hsen visited by q prelata
of ths thareh within living IaemeFy.
--Loadoa Ielesrapt.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
A Reason ior u.

There arc millions Of poor unem.
played workingmen suffering ia this
soantry ta-day from cold. who are ua.
able IA hnY the ehean woolens OF she
sheap bllaheI Democracy. 'iualr lnss
of worA i The resall Of tho theft vi
uleyslaRd. ueTlaaa and Wilzea.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08
OF the white population of America
only eight per cent ore unable to
read or write.

The legislative assembly Of Victoria,
Australasia, has passed bill imposing
tax on the unimproved value of
land.