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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
New Uses for Peat.

Germen chemists have been expert
menting with Irish peat, and have
secured such remarkable results tina.
a syndicate has been formed for the
manufacture, on a commercial scale,
of the various products that may be
obtained from Ireland's bog ilands.
One of these products is an antiseptic
"woor' for dressing wounds. It pos.
sesses absorbant qualities so great
that it will soak up nine times its
weight in moisture. The medical de.
partment of the French army has
adopted this substitute for lint, and
$4,000 Kilograms of it were sent with
the expeditionary force to Madagascar.
BY different process of chemical
treatment the peat is formed into a
material from which any article re-
quiring hardness and durability can
be produced. The German syndicate
has now on exhibition in London in
sulatoIs, axle boxes, machinery bear
ings, gun stocks, pianoforte legs and
numerous other things to illustrate
the possibilities of this new material.
C1U LUIS OCCA uoOd III lA1o COnAtly
for lining refrigerators and cold stor-
age rooms and to some extent as q
covering for steam pipes, because of
its value as non-conductor of heat.
But by these new German processes a
wide field appears to have been
opened, in which capital and labor
may be profitably employed, and the
Irish peat bogs acquire value hith-
erto unknown. One of the largest
beds of fine peat in this country un-
derlies the Great Dismal Swamp OF
Virginia. II the experiments of the
German chemists should ultimately
result in large utilization of Ireland's
great deposits, it will not be long be-
fore some American chemist deter.
mines whether Virginia peat can be
treated in like manner and the same
products be 'obvaiued. Worcester
Mass. Spy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
LAPoRTE, pa FRIDAY NOVEMBER Is. 1895.
being but little sought after by tho

being but little sought after by tho
shining lights OF the profession.
When Daphne's husband entered he
was engaged writing to the Board, de-
manding for the sixth time, an in
crease in his meagre salary.
He looked up, and, seeing the man
before him, said roughly:
"Well, what do you want?"
The carrier shuffled from one foot
to the other with evident uneasiness.
"Beg yer pardin, sir, an sorry for
interruptin' but the missus axed me
to ak you if it were likely yer'd have
any objection to 'er walkin' alongside
the team when she comes out?"
"Whose missus?-Oh I under
stand; the woman in the ward there.
Walk beside the team? Good heav.
ems, man! What are you talking
about? Are you mad? How on earth
can she walk beside the team?"
II mean, in course, sir, when she's
we'll enough to come out. !"
"Well enough to come out? Why,
man alive she's as we'll now as ever
she will be. It was compound frac-
ture of both femur, and double
amputation. She hasn't leg to stand
on, much less to walk with! Mo-!
No! You'd better look out for a
house in the township, and find some
body to move her about for the rest of
her life. She'll never be able to trav.
Ell with you again. Here! hang it,
man, 90 outside if YOU are going to be
ill!'
II ak yer pardin' sir, buff yer
don't mind, I'll just sit down for a
minute. Everythin's-a-goin' round
an' round, an I don't somehow feel
kinder well. Chambers's Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
LITTLE Krr,DNEssEs.
II you were toiling up weary hill
Bearing load beyond your strength t


II you were toiling up a weary hill
Bearing load beyond your strength to
bear,
Straining each nerve snsir;ugly, and still!
Stumbling and losing foo.hold here and
there,
And each one passing by would do so much
AS give one upward lift and go :their way
Would not the slight reiterated touch
OF help and kindness tighten all the day
If you were breasting keen wind, which
tossed
And buffeted and chilled you as you strove
Till, baffied and bewildered quite, you lost
move,
And one. if only for moments space,
Gave you shelter from the bitter blast,
Would not the touch give you the strength
to face
The storm again when the brief rest was
past?
There is no little and there is no much;
We weigh and measure and define in vain
A look, a word. n light responsive touch
Can be the ministers of JOY to pain.
man can die of hunger walled in gold,
A crumb may quicken hone to stronger
breath,
And every day we give or we withhold
Some little thing which tells for life o.
death.
Sunday School Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

The Volk points out that the Ger
man courts discriminate in favor oi
duelling. Ii tailor or cobbler re-
sents an insult by knocking down his
defamer he suffers imprisonment with
all its rigors, but if an officer or othe,
chap of quality" Furnishes a similar
insult by shooting his adversary, o,
running sword through his body, he
is merely detained within the confines
of some fortress and there treated as
gentleman.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

Maine is we'll in line, potes the New
York Sun. Her corn crop this year
Will be one Of the largest ever known.
1t is also great year for beechnuts
in Maine. It's been big year for
Holsters, too, over 100000 Holsters
having been taken along the Maine
coast this season, according to the es.
innate of the Fish Commissioner.
This is greater quantity than was
taken on all the rest of the Atlantic
coast from New Hampshire to Florida.
The fishermen got an average price of
eight cents apiece for the fish.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
A Remarkable Dog.

II have dog" said minister, who
had just heard a precocious crow story,
"who is very sagacious. One Sunday
he followed me to church and sat
among the people and watched my
movements in the pulpit. That after
noon I heard terrible bowling in nv
back yard, and of course I went to see
what it meant. found my dog was
in a woodshed, standing on his hind
legs in dry goods box. He held
down torn almanac with one paw and
gesticulated with the other, while he
swayed his head and howled rs to an
audience of four other dogs even more
sadly than I had done in the morn
ing"
The narrator of the crow story
threw up the sponge. London Tit.
Bits
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

There is considerable talk again in
the Michigan peninsula about the pro.
posed canal to connect the southeast
end of Lake Michigan with the west
end of Lake Erie, that is, to connect
Chicago and Toledo, and thus save the
several days of transit through the
length of Lake Michigan and Lake
Huron. 1t is said Chicago capitalists
have recently been making investiga-
tions in connection with the scheme.
The undertaken is spoken of as the
'Trans- Michigan Ocean Ship Canal. .
1t looks fascinating on the map.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

Batavia, N. Y, formerly paid ST..
200 for seventy-two arc lights, or $10O
light. By the issue of bonds new
municipal plant costing $3.50 was
completed one year ago. The number
of lights was increased fourteen, max
ing eighty-six in all. The actual cost
of running the eighty-six lights was
s3570.08, or $41.62 per light per
year-less than eleven and one hall
cents per night. Adding extraordi.
nary expenses, Batavia paid for eighty
six lights under village ownership S.,
055.57, or at the rate of sixteen cents
night per light.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
A False Balance Sheet.

The Treasury Department has pre-
sented a statement for last month
showing receipts somewhat over
So. 900, 900 in excess of expenditures.
This statement is cheat. The sugar
producers of the United States have
not yet been paid the S5,0oo,00o due
to them, the authority to pay which
was given by the last Congress. 1t is
a just debt owing by the Government
and SO long as 81 of 1t remains unpaid
the Administration cannot claim that
its revenue exceeds the needs of the
Government. The September state
ment is false. While Uncle Sam owes
money to the sugar producers, or to
any one else, asurplus of revenue can
not be claimed. False balance sheets
represent nothing but Democratic
chicanery.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

The Department of Agriculture is
preparing a gigantic road map of the
United States. The map when com.
pleted will show the condition as re.
CARDS paving or macadamizing, con.
struction and repair of every highway
in the United States The first step in
the construction of good roads il to
find out how many bad ones there are,
which this map will set forth.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

A lumber dealer in New Hampshire
OF advanced age, and who retired
from active operations many years ago,
expresses great surprise at the rapid
change in the distribution of wood
and lumber since his active business
period. He referred to many piles of
Southern pine timber alo ng the tracks
of repair shops and railroad yards,
throughout New Hampshire and Ver-
mont. ready for use in bridges, plat.
forms, car construction and general
repairs. He also referred with disap-
pointment to the almost total cessation
in the use of hard wood for fuel by
the railroad corporations. These COM
panies in years gone by made large
contracts ut almost every station along
the road for hundreds or thousands of
cords of firewood for the engines and
boilers, also for the stoves in the rail.
wav cars. Now the amount of wood
consumed by the railroad corporations
is quite insignificant and only fol
kindling purposes. Thus large in.
epme is withdrawn from the towns
and villages along the lines of New
England railways. and the price Of
cord wood has sunk to an unremuner.
atiye rate, diminishing the present
vala. Of hard wood lands. but allowing
the same to grow up and finally to be
used as tifaber for many and vetied
industries which are sure to be saTa
duced in the future economy ef MN
Elglsnd.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
An Extraordinary Beggar.

At Bilboa, Spain, beggar died
lately at the age of one hundred and
three years. There are said to be quite
a number of centenarians in the land
Of the Hidalgos, and the beggar's
death would hardly have been deemed
worthy of public notice if the autopsy
of his body had not disclosed the very
extraordinary fact that the deceased
Lazarus was aconsumptive for certain.
ly Mt less than hall u century. New
York World,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
What Senator Brice Did.

In case the farmers OF Ohio have
forgotten that Senator Brice, while
caring for the interests of the Sugar
Trust in the German tariff, failed to
secure protection for Ohio wool grow
ers, they will see from the following
figures that the average price of Ohio
washed wool is from 13 to 16 cents per
pound less under free trade, which
Senator Brice approved of, than it was
under the protection given to the wool
growers in Governor McKinley's tariff
period:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

New Resident lat Faraway) "Who
is the best physician in the pIace?'
High Local Authority ''Dr. Germs,
by all means. He is becoming very
famous man. Why, people are send
ing for him from everywhere. 1 adj
wise you to try him..
New Resident "What is his spe-
cialty?"
High Local Authority with pridel
"Autopsies, I believe, sir. Judge.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
Wool EN- Mill Prospects.

Machinery is better employed to-
day than it Is likely to be two months
from now. and the fact that the mills
are fairly busy now is misleading to
.he average man, who points to IL as !.
favorable condition. Herald, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

Our War Department cost last year,
1894, $54, 1913 Our army is the
most expensive, proportioned to its
numbers, in the world, states the New
York Mail and Express.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
pn1cE pER POUND IN cENrs.

Wool in the markets of the world is
higher than it was in October, 1891,
aud therefore the decline OF from u
to ID cents per pound on feeces and
from Is to 27a cents per pound on
secured in the United States is the eff
feet of the removal of wool duties and
of nothing else.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
DAPHNE.

ALL. angular and
peculiarly plain,
she was the wife OF
q Queensland Bush
Carrier ; and it is,
I believe, an &C.
cepted fact that
ladies Of that sta.
tion are not noted
either forl their
culture or their re.
&nnraonf
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
NO ACCIDENT.

Mr.. Grogan with the evening
paper) -"Phwat's this Oh see Two
yachts turned oopsoide down.
Mrs. Grogan turning the steak in
her excitement)-"Rade it, Moike!
How many drowndid?"
Mr.. Grogan--"W "Wait bit, thin
it's moi mishtake Oh hod the papir
oopside down. Puck.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORMS THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

Fulhlment - Rejected Very Prof.
cient There-And He Owes Every
body--A Martinez, Etc, Etc.
She grasped the bar, arranged her skirts
With dainty little tucks and flirts;
Posed on the saddle, felt the tread
OF pedal, and, "Tm of, !" she said.
A whirl of wheels. swerve and sway,
And from the roadbed, where she lay,
She realized in full degree
The climax of her prophecy.
Richmond Dispatch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
CRAFTY.

Doctor-'I really don't understand.
There is no reason why you should go
in for reduction of corpulency.
Patient -"Still I want You to put
me through course of anti-fat treat
ment. My Eulalia shall see with her
own eyes how pine away for love of
her.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
NOT QUITE HOPELESS.

Husband latter long tirade)-
t'You have talked for an hour about
chat letter forgot to mail"
Wife-.I have a right to. just
think how"
'And you are sure ! am just as bad
as you make out?"
"You are utterly and entirely"
Zone moment. Give me credit for
at least one thing"
"Well, what?"
''I didn't steal the stamp. New
York Weekly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15

A Babylonian tablet in the British
Museum which has just been de-
ciphered has an account of the death
of King Sennacherib, almost identical
with that in the Bible III. Kings,
xix. 37.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
Right Kind OF Governor.

Governor Morrill,, OF Kansas, says:
"There is q genuine revival in busI-
ness in Kansas, but it is due to the
large crops rather than the Wilson
tariff" The Governor is right.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
A GENEROUS LAD.

Tommy
No answer.
"Tom-m m-mee I"
"Well?"
"What are you doing to your broth
er Willie?"
''Nothin'"
''Yes, you are. You are making
him cry"
sNo, I ain't--I'm bein' generous.
I'm givin' him half o my codliver
oil. "-Harper's Round Table.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
A MARTINEZ.

A soldier leaving the barracks is
stopped by the Corporal of the..Guard.
"You cannot go without leave.
''I have the verbal permission of
the Captain
"Show me that verbal permission. +"
London Globe.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
REJECTED.

Business Man--"Are you good
whistler. my boy?"
Applicant-"Yessir daisy"
Business Man Sect" - Boston
Courier.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
All prosectionis's Are.

Great expounders OF protection to
home industry. like Henry Clay, were
not manufacturers nor interested pecu-
niarily in factories. But they were
patriots.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
7 The Duke of Argyle CO mplains that
the Highlanders are too prolific.
'The bicycle is responsible for
serious decay in public manners, de.
clares the New York Sun.

China proposes to fortify Pekin by
building chain of huge forts, pro,
vided with the best of artillery,
around the city.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
AND HE OWES EVERYBODY.

"Jones has good deal of money,
hasn't he?"
"Well, he ought to have"
Chow is that?'
"He never pays any out !"--Chicago
Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
An Interesting Study.

The tariff question should be studied
in every household. Women can
readily master its details.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
SHY.

Lothair- ''How do you manage
about your poor relatives now you
have got rich?"
Staythair- "Oh, I sift all my rela-
tions, rich and poor, the good from
the bad, and keep 'em strained. >
Judge.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
IN NEED OF REPAIRS.

Sandstone weren't you dancing
with Miss Galloway last night?"
Fiddleback-"Yes; how did you
know?"
81 saw her go into u chiropodist's
this morning. Life.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
VERY pRoFIc1ENT THERE.

"They say that Gertrude's husband
is almost illiterate."
''Well, he signs check beauti-
fully"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
Loss 1895 50, ,744 ,ei2 sl.9I8, ,299 s4,es7, ,941


1t cannot be claimed that the Cor
man tariff is new thing. 1t had been
in force year at the close of last
August, and there should surely have
been time for us to reap some Of that
golden harvest that was promised us
when the wall of protection was brok-s
en- down and we were enabled to reach
out into the markets of the world.
Unfortunately, however, in the case
of our wheat and -four export trade
the only golden harvest has been
loss of $4,6S7,941 as compared with
trade transacted in the same commod-
tiles year earlier, before there was
any breach in the wall and before we
could let ourselves out into the mar :.
kets of the world, but yet while we
still managed to get there.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-15
WHEAT AND FLOUR.
HOW FARMERS ARE LOSING THE
MARKE rs OF THE WORLD.

Sales Diminishing at the Rate of
Nearly $50. 100000 a Year-A
Demand for Our Wheat Decreas-
ing by "a. 900, 900 Bushels Year
And Over $500, 600 Less Bar
rels Of Flour Shipped.
|. The official statistics of our exports
OF wheat and -four continue to be very
interesting though, we must confess.
somewhat disappointing inasmuch as
the returns fail to show what was
promised us by the free trade party
SHOULD they succeed in demolishinp
the Mckinley tariff. The exports of
wheat during the months of July and
August, 1894 and 1895, were as fol-
lows:
BUSHELS OF WHEAT EXPORTED.
July. August Total.
1894 ......... 5,557, $40 8,546.645 IA. .104 615
1885. 4,271 ,4ss 4,265,597 1851, ,OsO
Lossin 1885, 1856, ,4s7 4,2s1, ,04s 5,567 7,535
VALUE OF WHEAT EXPORTED.
July. August. Total.
lS94. ...$3. Sizes $5,0l3, 1853 $s, 1856 1856
1880. 2,7ao,7c4 2,s11, ,1os 5,641. .s1S
Lossin 1895. se41 1888 s2,1 $50 s2,744, ,642
1t seems that during the first two
months of the current fiscal year we
exported 5,567. 900 bushels of wheat
less than we exported during the
corresponding months of the previous
year, the money loss this yer being
So, ,744, 642.
Our foreign trade in -four can hardly
be regarded as anv more satisfactorv
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
Climbing vines.

Climbing vines have many different
methods of attaching themselves to
their support-some encircls a branch Of
the host by twining their main bodies
around the support A hop vine is
familiar illustration of this. More dell
cate ones cannot twist around their
stakes, but have TO have st.Ings or some
similar material to cling to. The ordi-
nary morning glory is an illustration Of
this class; but there are some which
simply climb by twisting the leaf stalk
around the support. This is especially
true of the different kinds of clematis,
yet ii is not unusual in some gardens to
see the stakes as thick as walking canes
put for the clematis to run up on; but
as 1t is unable to do this they have to
be tied to this pole by Irvine, while the
leaves go on twisting themselves In or
der TO find something to cling to, and
as consequence the vital powers of the
plant are exhausted. In many cases the
clematis. especially the variety known
as Jackmanni, will die completely and
suddenly from the attacks of q minute
fungus; but Ii is more likely this occurs
oftener in cases as described, for want
of the proper means Of support. Thread
or Irvine for the leaves to twist around
or even little brush wood, such as
we would give to crop of peas, IS much
vigorous clematises than when they are
deprived of all means of using their
leaf-stalks as tendrils.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
For Memorial Day.

A meeting of the citizens of Lancas-
ter was held in the G A. X. Post hall
last Thursday evening to make ar
rangements for Memorial Day exercis-
es.
Miss Ellen Woolstenholme was
chosen to preside and G. r. Showalter
for secretary.
Committees were appointed as fol-
lows: On Finance: John L. Lane,
Chas, H. Basford, j. S. Wright On
Seating and Grounds, Capt. Schloes-
ser, Sheriff Dyer, Henry Mnesse, r.
Huftil, Jacob Woolstenholme; On
Music: Fred p. Meyer, Will Carter,
Miss H. Blanche Hyde, Martin Oswald,
G. r. Showalter; On Decoration: The
w. r. G. assisted by the G. A. r. and
other citizens On Program. r. B.
Showalter, Theo. Calvin, Mrs. John
Harshberger. On Invitation to Sons
and Daughters of Veterans to partl-
cipate: Mr.. X. Ward and Mrs. VIM.
Starr.
Committees were all authorized to
call on others for assistance as their
work might demand.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
To the Croaker.

Bury the croaker out in the woods
in beautiful hole in the ground;
where the humble bee buns and the
wood peeker pecks and the straddle
bug straddles around. He is no good
to the city to push, too impractical,
stingy and dead, but he wants the
whole earth and part OF the crust and
the stars that shine over his head.
Then hustle him off to the place Of
the dead and bury him deep in the
ground; he's no use to us here. oct
him out OF the way, and make room
for the man that is sound Milford
Mail.
You naughty, naughty Milford Mail
to talk so about our dear old Grandpa
Telleri
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
Taking the Census.

The work of taking the census will
begin June first. Besides the enum-
GRAFTON of the inhabitants great deal
of information will be sought, - vital,
agricultural, manufacturing
The work will be done by town, vii
lage, and city clerks under the general
supervision Of county clerks and the
secretary of state. Blanks for record
ing the facts of the census, instructions
to enumerators, ETC., have already
been sent out by Clerk Eplett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
Was There a Man?

Louisville Courier Journal: And
now the Bible has been brought to
bear on the bloomer question. Here
is the Deuteronomy. chapter
-, verse (Which is hurled against
the women who wear such abomina-
tions.
The woman shall not wear that
which pertaineth to man-for all that
do SO are an abomination unto the
Lord thy God. y
But does that apply to boomers?
Was there ever man who would ar
ray himself in such hideous thingsa
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-16
Good idea.

We notice that some of our sister
cities have organized for the purpose
of holding monthly horse sales. Ey-
erv man who has horse for sale,
brings him to the city on the day set
for the sale, and every buyer in the
country is, of course, ON hand. The
result is that competition is stronger,
sales are reader, and generally better
prices prevail. Darlington Republic
cs1
Why not try this plan in Lancas-
terp