SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Per year, in tdTiooe M Otherwise No subscription will be diacontinned until all arrearages are paid. Foetmasters neglecting to notifv u when subscriber! do not take on! their papefa will be bold liable for the subscription. Subscribers removing from one poetoffice to another ahonld girt na the name of the former •a well aa the present office. All communications intended for publication n this paper most be accompanied by the real name of the writer, not for publication, bat as a guarantee of good faith. Marriage and death notices moat be accompa nied by a responsible name. Address TBI BUTIiBR CITIZKV. BCTLEB. PA. TRAVELERS' QUIDS. BUTLER, KARSS CITT AKD PARKBR RAILROAH Train* leave Butler for St. Joe, Millerstown, K aru g City, Petrol la, Parker, etc., at 757 a. tn, and 255 and 755 p. m. Trains arrive at Butler from the above named points at 7.17 a. m., and 2.15, and 7.15 p. m. The 2.15 train connects with tralu on the West Pcnn roid Ibrough to PHUburith. SHRNASOO AND ALLBOUBJIT RAILROAD. Train* leave Uilliard's Mill, Butler county, for Harrisville, Greenville, etc., at 7.50 a. m. sod 2.25 p. ID. Trains arrive at Hilllard'* Mills at 1:45 A, M., and 5:55 P. M. Hack* to and from Petrolia, Martinsbors. Fairview, Modoc arid Trontiuan, connect at Hil lard with all train* on the 3 A A road. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Train* leave Butler (Butler or Pittsburgh Time.) Market at 5.06 a. m., goes through to Alle gheny, arrivlug at 9.01 a. m. This train con nects at Freeport with Frccport Accommoda tion, which arrive* at Allegheny at 8.20 a. in., railroad time. Express at 751 a. m„ connecting at Butler Junction, without change of cars, at 8.26 with Expre?* we*t, arriving In Allegheny at #.SS a. m., and Express east arriving at Blairsvllle at 11 00 a. m. railroad time. Mail at 2.36 p. m., connecting at Butler Jnnc tlonwithont change ol curs, with Express west, arrlviDg in Allegheny at 526 p. in., and E pre** cast arriving at Blnlrsviile InterMsctioi. at 6.10 p. m. railroad time, which connects w'th Philadelphia Express eaiit, when on time. The 7.21 a. m. train connect* at Blairsville at 11 05 a. m. wiih the Mail east, and the 2.36 p. m. (rain at 6.59 with the Philadelphia Ex press east. Trains arrive at Butler on West Perm R K. at 0.51 a. m., 5 06 and 7.20 p. m., Butler time. The 951 and 506 train* connect with traius on the Butler <£ Parker R. R. Bun ay train arrive* at Butlc at 11.11 a. m., connecting with train lor Parker. Main Lint. Through train* leave Pittsburgh lor the Eitf' jt 2.56 and 8.36 a. m. and 12 51, 4.21 and 8.06 p. 18., arriving at Philadelphia at 8.40 and 7.20 |>. m and 3.00, 7 0 and 7.40 a. ra.; at Baltimore about the same time, at New York three hour* |a:er, and at Washington about one and a hail hour* later. PHYSICIANS. JOHN E. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, my'Jl-ly] BUTLER, PA. DENTISTS. iDENTISTRyr 0 1/ WALDRON. Omduate ol ibe Phil » adclphla Dental College,l* prepared s II «to do anything in the line of bis profession in a satisfactory manner. Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block, up suirs. apll LAN irFOR SALE. FOR SALE. A hendfome »l*-room fiame house, located on Blull street, north western part of Butler. L"t 50x176. All Bceewsry ou> buildings. I ERMS—Ore lhirtl cash and Wilai.cc In (our equal annual payment*. Inquire at this oflice. J juHtf For teale. The well-improved farm of Rev. W. R Hutch ison, in the northeast comer of Middlesex town ship, Butler connty. Pa , is now offered for sale, low. Inquire of W K. FBIHBEE, on the prem ises. aplfitf FOR SALE. f.'i will buy a one-hall interest in a good bus- Incus in Pittsburgh. One who knows some thing about farming preferred. An honest man with the almve amount *lll do well to address bv L iter. SMITH .IOII.VB, care 8. M James, 9J; Liberty str et, Pilt-burgb, Pa |au27-ly ~ INSU R ANCJi Incorporated IHIO. /ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. A«ets $7,078,224.40. I.ofsrr paid In Si years, SBI,OO ,000. J. T. McJi'NKIN A HON, Agents, Jan2Bly Jt-llcrson street, Builer, Pa. ~ BUTLEITCOUNTY^ Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROESBING, PRESIDENT. WW CAMPBELL. TREASURER II C. IIEINEMAN, SKCBKTAKT DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, E. A. Hclmboldt, William Campliell, J. W. Hutkhnrt, A. Trontman, Jacob Schoene, O. C. Roesslng, John Onld well, . Dr. W. Irrln, W. W Dodd*, J. W. Christy H. C. Heineman. JAS. T. M'JUNKIN, Gen, Ae't- BUTLER PA. 11EMRY G. 11.41,F, FIRE lERCH&KT TAILOR, COB. PENN aim SIXTH STREETS, I'il.tuhuruh /'a B. (Successor to A. C. Roessing k Bro.] DEALER IN Groceries GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED, OIL, -AND- Anihracite Goal. THE HIOHEBT MARKET PRICE PAID IN wC-ASH-w FOR ORAIN OP ALL KINDS. scp4tf PRNSIONf?) the U. H. service. LA WEX PI RES JUL Y1 st, IKBO, for ARREARS. PENSIONS INCREAS ED. Thousands of Pensioners are rated too low. BOUNTY AND NEW DISCHARGES PRO CURED. Information freely given. Send •tamp for blanks. Address. BTODDART £ CO., Room £, St. Cloud Building, Washington, D. C. Notice Extraordinary. Persons desiring to have their Old Furnitnre repaired, or New Work made to order, snch as Music Stands. Book Cases, Wardrobes, Office Desks, Office Tables, Ac., would do well to call on ■A.. B. WILSON, Practical Cabinet Maker. I bold that a piece of furnitnre made by hand » worth two made by machinery, and will cost nut littls more, if any. Then whv not have hand made ? All work made in tbs latest styles and of the best material. I guarantee entire sat isfaction in style, workmanship and price. Oive me a call. Shop on Mifflin street, four doors west of Main street, and opposits A. Troutman's ■tore, Butler, Pa. sepl7-ly BAUER & BAXTER. Livery, Sale and Feed Stables, REAR OP VOQELEY HOUSE, juno-3m BUTLER, PA. C f rt d>»n per day at home Samples worth S3 10 AZU $5 free. Artdrs— STIR son A Co., Portland, Mailt*. deoft-ly VOL. xvir. BOOTS and SHOES AL. RUFF'S irVIOTY BLOCK, Main Street, - » - ■ Butler, Pa. I have just received my eDtire Spring and Summer stock of BOOTS and SHOES direct from the manufacturer, and am able t H § HECK & PATTERSON'S £ ! IIEf CARPET ROOM > < P M NOW OJPE3ST! H ©CT@ BOOT South of Qtething fCojtse, q Dafty'w Block, septao-tf Builer, Pa. 2 iSQOHHIVXS iSXVW iSILLOI0 r IIO iSItfdHVD Time ol Holding "_Coiirtn. The t-ereral Court* of the county of Enller comirence on th»* flint Monday of March, Jnne. September and December, ami continue two weeke, or BO long a* n> century to (linp'me of the bti«incsM. So caunes are put down for trial or traverse Jurors t-ummcned for the Unit week ol the several term*. ATTORNEYS AT LAw! BUTLER, PA. J. F. BRITTAIN, Office with I, Z Mitchell. Diamond. A. M. CUNNINOHAM, Office in Brndy's Law linildii.g. Under, Pa. S. H. PIERSOL. Office on N. E. comer Diamond, liiddle build ing tnovl2 " JOHN M GREER. Office on N. E. corner Diamond. novl2 W.M Ti LUSK" Office with W IT. II Kidillc. I'>|. NEWTON BLACK. Office on Diamond, near Court Houne, south fcido. k. i. irnuoii, Oflice in Kiddle's Law Huildlnjr. S F. HOW SKK. Office In Riddle's Law Building. [marS'76 J. B. McJUNKIN. Bpeci.il attention (riven to collection* Ollic Opposite Will-ird IIOHM*. " JOSEPH H. BKEDIN, Officii north-caet corner of Diamond, Bullci Ph. H.~H: GOUCHER, Office in Schneidemsn's building, up otaiis. jT T. DONLY Office Dear Court House. t 71 W. I). BIiANiION, ebl7-76 Office in Berg's building CLAKKN CK WALK KU, Office in Brcdin building- marl7 —t FKKD UEIBEK, Office Id Berg's new building, Main ttlWUpd) FM. EAST .VAN, Office in Brcdin building. LEV. Mt QIJIS'I ION, Office Main street, 1 door south of Court House JOS. a VANDEKLIN, Office Main street, 1 door south of Court Hoaxe Wm A. FORQUEK, W Office on Main street, opposite Vogeley Raan, GEO. lT WHITE, Office N. E. corner of Diamond KHANCIS S" PCTTVTANCE^ Office with Oen. J.N. I'urviance, Main street, south of Court House. j7l) — McJUNKIN, Office In Schneideman's building, west side ol Main street, 2nd square from Court lloute. AG? WILLIAMS, Office on Diamond, two doors west of CITIZBH office. ap'iti T CTCA MPHELU Office in Berg's new building, 2d floor, eait side Main st., a few doors south of IAIWTJ House. mar3—tf r. A. & M. SULLIVAN, may 7 Office S. W. cor. of Diamond. BLACK & BRO., Office on Main street, one door south o. Hrad v Block, Butler. Pa. (scp. 2, 1H74. JOHN M MILLER & BRO Office in Brady's Law Building, Main street, south of Court House. EUOKHE G. MIU.EH, NotaryJ'ublio. )nn4 ly THOMAS ROBINSON, BUTLEK, PA._ _ JOHN H. NEGLEY, 49"Oives particulai attention to transactions IN real estate throughout the county. OmCROK DIAMOMII, WEAK CoDIIT HotJUE, I* CITIZEN KUIMHWO K. K. ECKI.ET, KENNEDY MAKSUALL. (Laic of Ohio.) ECKLICY A MARSHALL. Office In Brady's Law Building. H«-i>t.9,7-l C G. CHRISTIE, Attorney at Law. Legal business carefhll) transacted. Collections made and promptly remitted. Business correspondence promptly attended to and answered. Office opposite Lowry House, Butler, Pa. MIBCELLANBOTYAT/ McSWEEN Y & MoSWEENY, Hmethport and Bradford, Pa. M N. MILES, . Petrolia, Butler county, Pa. |)nll WILLIAM R.7CONN] Office In Brawlov House, GREECE CITY |June7-ly M. C. BENEDICT, j«n6 tf Petrolia, Butl«r co., Pa HOTELS GIUNFBOULEVARD HOTEL Corner 59th St. ronrion of the abovo well kcown Hotel, and it being furnished in the best of style for the accomodation of guests, the public are respectfully invited to give me a call. I have also poarevriMi of the barn in robr of hotel, which furiinliCH excellent stabling, ac comodations for mv patrons. L. NICKLAH. JAMES J. CAMPBELL, Coiaaaty 4 *«» m~mm m m Office in Fairview borough, in Telegraph Office. JanlS] BAI.OWIN I'. 0.. Butler Co., Pa. FF.ltltlH ARMOR, »Justice of tbe lr*eace, Main street, opposite PoktofUee, Jlylß ZELIENOPLE, PA. Union Woolen Mills. I would desire to rail the attention of the public to the Union Woolon Mill, Butler, Pa., where I have new and improved machinery for tlie manufacture of Barred and Gray Flannels, Knitting and Woavlng Yarns, and I can recommend thern as being very dura ble, as they are manufactured of pure Butler . county wool. They are beautiful in color, su perior in texture, and will bo sold at very low prices. For samples and prices, address. H. FULLEUTON, Ju1514.'75-ly) liutlnr. Pa QTS flf IT XT W IS stops, 3 set Heeds, 2 Knee Swells. Stool, Book, only %H7.80. 8 Htop Organ. Wool, Book, only $53.75. Pianos, Htool, Cover, Book. tt9o to t'255. Illus trated catalogue free. Address apM-.'lm W. C. BUNNELL, Lewistown, Pa. Public Nale. Tlie undersigned, surviving executor of Jacob Hhanor. late of Centre townsnip, Butler comity, Pa-, dee'd, will »ell at public sale on the promi ses, in Centre township, ou SATURDAY, SEPT. 18th, 1880, at 2 o'clock p. m. of said day, the following property : Heventy-five acres of laud, in Centre township, being that part of tlie farm of Jacob Hhanor, deo'd. lying east of the graded or Franklin road, about forty acres cleared and the rest in good timber, no building* thereon. DANIEL BHANOR, JulySMt Butler P»- BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1880 TRYING THE EXPERIMENT. 'A girl! My dear Carry, what are you thinking of?' Peter Carver pushed his chair ab ruptly back from the table, and survey ed the faded little face on the opposite side of the tea tray with a gaze of in nocent astonishment. Faded enough now, though 3he was barely twenty-seven, you would hard ly have believed how fresh and pretty Carry Carver had been on her wedding day, with cheeks like newly opened quince blossoms, and lips like tbe first strawberry on tbe upland meadow. Seven years of matrimony bad dimmed tbe pink and scarlet, and stolen the light elasticity of the step; her husband saw the change, but somehow he sup posed all women faded just so. 'They were frail things at best, but not much better than a piece of washed out cali co." And so Mr. Carver dismissed the subject from his powerful mind. 'There is so much to do, Peter, and the children demand so much of my at tention,' pleaded the meek wife, wink ing back two bright drops that began to sparkle ominously under the eye lids. 'I tell you what, Mrs. Carver, if I were manager in this household, things would happen very differently.' 'I have no doubt of it,' said Carry, quietly. 'There's no earthly reason,' went on Mr. Carver, ignoring the sarcastic meaning of her tone, 'why the work shouldn't be done, and you dressed and enjoying yourself, cultivating your mind or something, at eleven o'clock every morning that you live. Wash ing up a few dishes—sweeping a room or two—brushing the children's hair— what doeß it all amount to? Why, my dear, don't you see the folly of ask ing for a servant to help you do noth ing at all ?' Carry rose to her feet, as near being in a passion as her gentle nature ever came—a state that reminded you of a white dove with its feathers indignaut ly ruffled up. 'Peter you have no right to speak so when you have no practical knowledge of the subject.' 'Any man knows what housekeeping amounts to,' returned Peter, drawing up the strings of his purse with a jerk. 'There's not a bit of science in it—a mere knack.' Carry stood watching her husband as he brushed his hat, buttoned up his overcoat, and slowly sauntered out of the room. She did not slam the break fast dishes nor bite her lips, nor clench her teeth, as some women would have done under similur circumstances, she j merely sat down and bowed her head on the table, crushed and weary and sick at heart, feeling as some poor East ern devotee may be supposed to feel after the wheel of Juggernaut has roll ed over it, whelming sense and reason, and volition itself under the iron weight. Poor Carry, how many wives have fallen under Juggernaut besides you ! 'This will never do,' she said at length, rising slowly. 'Slow death— hlavery worse than that bound with chains—l must find some escape from this bondage, before it undermines life and health, and leaves my little ones motherless!' The morning sunshine crept down the pale green wall paper, sprinkling drops of gpld on tbe few little geranium plants that Peter called a 'waste of time,' and lay in noon splendor on the carpet and still Carry Carver stood there thinking—thinking. * * * ♦ 'Carry ! Wife ? Aren't you going to get up this morning? It is half past seven and the ' 'I cannot, Peter,' groaned Carry, turning her face away from the light, 'I am suffering such dreadful pains in the foot 1 sprained last night. I wish you would reach me tbe camphor bot tle and some fresh bandages.' 'I am sorry, Carry—l hope it isn't very painful,' said Peter, making a dive ut the pomatum pot instead of camphor. 'But what the deuce is a fellow to do for bis breakfast—and Tommy and Pet are sailing their shoes in the wash basin, and the fires are all out ? Suppose I send over for Widow Simmons to come and help round a bit ?' M rs. Simmons has gone to visit her daughter,' answered Carry, faintly. 'Well, what shall I do?' 'You must take charge of the house keeping yourself, Peter,' said Carry, hiding a smile in the folds of her pil low, 'lt's only a day or two, and I don't know of any help you can obtain. It won't be much, you know, with your ideas of system.' 'That's true,' said Peter, somewhat encouraged. 'Anybody could get a breakfast couldn't he ?' •Oh, certainly. But, Peter—' 'Yes, my dear.' 'Please darken the room, and keep the children away, and don't speak to me if you can help it. I have such a racking headache, and the least excite ment almost drives me wild.' Peter shut the door with distracting caution and went down stairs on creak ing tiptoe. As he passed the nursery a duet of voices came shrilly on his ears: 'Papa! Papa! we are not dressed.' 'Dress yourselves then, can't you ?' said Mr. Carver, pausing. 'Pet is to little to dress herself,' said Tommy loftily, 'and mamma always dresses me.' 'Where are your shoes V 'I don't know,' said Tommy, with his finger in his mouth. 'I know,' said Pet, aptly revenging herself for the hit at her diminutive proportions—'Tommy dropi>ed them out of the window.' 'Tommy is a bad boy,' said the vex ed pater familia, crawling under the bed for sundry little stockings that had been thrown there apparently as balb. 'Where are the clothes?' 'ln the bureau,' answered the child. 'But where V 'I don't know.' Crash went a fancy bottle of cologne off tbe table, as Sammy groped for his castle garters. Bang! fell Mrs. Car j ver's rosewood writing desk to the floor I bursting off the frail hinges and scat- tering pens, envelopes and postage stamps far and wide! Pet pounced upon the ruins like a vulture on the battle field, while Tommy burst into a loud wail. Mr. Peter Carver was an affectionate father in a general way, but human na ture could not have endured all this. He promptly gave in bis adhesion to King Solomon' wisdom, by administer ing brisk personal chastiscmeut. Tom my roared, and Pet joined in with a a treble scream of sympathy. 'I never saw such children in my life,' said the chagrained parent. 'lt would take oue person's whole time to keep 'em out of mischief.' And be bundled the two little crea tures miscellaneously into whatever articles came uppermost, rending off strings, and fracturing button holes, in frantic desperation. 'There ! now see if you can behave yourselves while I get the breakfast.' 'Papa,' snivelled Tommy, 'you have buttoned my frock in front instead of behind, and Pet has not had her face washed.' 'I can't attend to you now,' said Mr. Carver, banging the nursery door to with a sigh of relief. 'Children are a great trial; I never realized it before.' The range looked black and cheerless enough as he stood staring helplessly at it. 'I don't know much about making a fire,' but I suppose a newspaper and a lot of kindling are about the right thing with a shovel full of coal on top. Bless me ! there's nothing you cannot reduce to theory.' But the fire obstinately refused to burn, setting theoretical perfection ut terly at defiance, alt Lough Mr. Carver opened the oven doors alternately, and drew out all the dampers he could spy. 'Confound the lire !' said Mr. Carver moping his wet forehead with the stove cloth ; 'it won't go. I'll have a blaze of kindling and try the breakfast on that.' He seized on an oleaginous ham, and carved several thick slices which he transferred deftly to a gridiron, and then elated with his success, broke sev eral eggs over the ham. 'Bless me how they run !' he ejacu lated, rather puzzled. 'But I know I ant right ; because if tbe eggs don't cook on the ham how the deuce do they come there ? I wonder why this co- 1e don't boil ; I'll stick in a few more kindlings—that's the idea. There are the children crying up stairs—hungry, I suppose. Ido believe they do noth ing but eat and cry. Here—Pet, Tom my come here, and I'll give you a little bread and molasses.' And while the little creatures were gradually becoming hopelessly sticky and begrimed on the kitchen floor, Mr. Carver rushed to attend to the peremp tory summons of the milkman. 'How much milk? I don't know— a quart I suppose. Fine morning, Mrs. Grey,' bowing chivalrously to a laciy who was tripping down the street, and adding sotto voice, 'but I don't see any thing to laugh at in the remark. Some women are always giggling.' 'Papa,' said Pet, innocently looking up, 'your nose is all black with char coal.' "You look so funny, papa," said Tommy, "with that big towel pinned around you." Mr, Carver turned scarlet; this was the mystery of Mrs. Grey's uncontroll able amusement. "A man cau't cook and keep himself clean," said he pettishly. And then he remembered with a re morseful pang, how white Carry's cuffs and collars always were, and how spotless and pure her morning wrap pers invariably looked. And then he sat down, tired and spiritless to a repast of half-cooked meat and liquid mud, by courtesy termed coffee. "Stuff!" he ejaculated, throwing the beverage spitefully into the sink. "I wonder how Carry did it—l'm sure it seemed easy enough. Now I suppose I've got to wash these dishes. He looked despairing around at the chaos that reigned in the kitchen. "Nine o'clock as I live—and noth ing done. Well I see very plainly there's no oflice for me to-day. Now then, what is wanting?" "The clothes for the wash, please sir ?" said a little girl, curtysing hum bly at the door. Upstairs and down stairs, and in my lady's chamber, went Peter Carcey, laying hands on wbut he considered proper prey for the wash-tub, rummag ing bureau drawers, upheaving the contents of trunks, and turning ward robes inside out, lx;fore he had com pleted the requisite search. The kitchen was empty when he re turned. 'Where are the children," was his first alarmed thought, ex pressing himself unconsciously in words. "I saw them go out of tho dooor, please sir,' said the little girl. 'Was it long ago V "No sir—not very; it might be ten minutes.' Peter rent off the towel wherewith In; bad girdled himself, and set off in hot baste after the missing ones. The July sun was beginning to glow in tensely in the heavens—the pavements reflected the ardent shine with ten r old heat, and poor Peter Carver was near ly melted into nothingness, ere he spied, in the train of a hand organ and monkey, his hopeful son and heir, with Pet following, both nearly un recognizable from dust, perspiration an.* molasses. "Come home this instant, you little wretches !' ejaculated Peter, quite for getting in his rage the emollient pre cepts inculcated in the parent's guide, and lavishing a shower of not very caressing words on his offspring, he he promptly arrested them. Neither of them would walk—in fact, the little wanders were far too weary. So Mr. Carver mounted one on each arm and carried them, limp, and unresisting through the streets. 'Good day, Mr. Carver,' said Judge Mason, with rather a surprised look, 'have you been for a walk ?' Peter thought of his dripping face, and hatless head, and looked at the dirty scions of his race, ere te ans wered, sheepishly enough: 'Ye-e-s—that is I haire taken a little exercise.' A little ! It seemed that every acquaintance he mustered on his bowing list made a point of meeting him on that particu lar morning of all others, and his con fusion and mortification were acute in the extreme, ere he reached home, tired, panting and breathless, as the clock struck eleven ! 'l'll have a nurse for you, my youug friends, before the world is a day older,' he said, gritting his teeth with impo tent wrath, as he deposited Tommy and Pet on the floor, and went weari ly to his household duties. 'How are you now, Carry ?' ho said, about an hour afterwards, throwing himself into a chair by the bedside, and fanning himself with the newspa per he had laid there that morning. About the same, dear. How does the housekeeping get along?' 'lt don't get along at all.' 'ls dinner ready ?' "Dinner?' echoed Peter, in a sort of dismayed tone; "why I havn't got through with breakfast yet!' "But it is twelve o'clock.' 'I don't care if it is twenty-five o'clock—a man can't do forty things at once.' 'Yet,' remarked Carry, quietly, 'you would scarcely have remarked the force of that remark, as coming from me, if any meals were not punctual to a minute.' Mr. Carver begun to whistle. 'Where are the children V asked his wife. 'ln bed. They were to much for me, so I undressed them and put them to bed, to get them out of the way.' 'Poor things,' said Carry. 'Poor me, I should think,' said Car ver irrately. I bad quite enough to do without them. I have broken the plates and scalded my legs with a kettle of boiling water, and melted off the nose of the teapot, and lost my diamond ring in tbe ash barrel, and cut my fingers with the carving-knife already. Isn't that enough ?' 'I should think so,' smiled Carry. 'Have you looked after the pickles and baked fresh pies ?' 'No!' 'Nor blackened the range, nor clean ed tbe knives, nor scrubbed up the kitchen floor ?' 'No!' 'Nor made the beds, nor swept tbe chamber, nor dusted tbe parlor, nor polished the windows, nor heard the children's lessons, nor taken care of tbe canary birds, nor—' 'Stop—for mercy's sake, stop!' ejac ulated Mr. Peter Carver, tearing wild ly at bis hair—"You don't mean to say that you do all these things every day ?' 'I do most certainly—and long be fore twelve o'clock. And yet you wonder that I ain not dressed and cul tivating my mind before eleven.' 'l'm a donkey,' said Peter Carver with charming candor. 'And you say,' jiersisted the merci less Carrie, 'that a child of ten years old could do tbe work of this family; you declare that were you manager things would be altogether differnt.' 'So they would,' admitted Peter; but I don't know that the difference would be an improvement.' 'I)o you wonder uow that I am weary and worn out, and that I feel the necessity for some ?' 'My dear Carry,' said Peter, peni tently, 'I have been a brute. 'l'll have a cook and a nurse and a chamber maid here, just as soon as I can possi bly obtain them—you shall be a drudge no longer.' Carry's soft eyes filled with tears as her husband bent to press a kiss on her lips before ho went down stairs to resume his domestic avocations A few minutes afterward the un skilled cook was scorching his whiskers over a gridion covered with hissing mutton chops, which alarmed him by suddenly blazing up into bis face, without the least premonitory symp tom, when a light step crossed the kitchen floor, and a little hand took the handle of the gridiron from his grasp. 'Carry !' • •I release you from duty, sir,' smiled the wife. 'My ankle is better now.' 'I say Carry,' 'Well.' 'Tell the truth now, wasn't that an kle business a little exaggerated, just to give me a lesson V 'Don't you think the lesson was needed ?' He put back tbe brown hair with a loving touch—and she knew that her days of trial and troubles were over. CONS(JIE NT IO (I,S CL ERK. A Galveston grocer has been observ ing for soveral weeks past that a great many of his customers had quit bim and were trading at a rival store over the way. He also noticed that one of his clerks, who had been converted at a revival, rarely succeeded in selling any goods at all to a customer. He bad formerly been a very efficient clerk in selling groceries, hence the proprietor was very much bewildered. Yesterday morning tbe proprietor came down lie fore the clerk had made his appearance, and, biding behind a stack of boxes of Blue Jacket's Liver Encouraging Hit ters, waited patiently for develop ments. Presently the clerk came in, put on his apron, dusted off tbe coun ter, whistling "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" as he did so. It was not long before a wealthy lady, whose cus tom ran up into the thousands annual ly, came in and asked the clerk if ho had the celebrated B No. 3 sugar. Ho replied that he had, showed her a sam ple, and she said she thought she would tuke about 100 pounds. Tbe conscience clerk looked at the lady very earnestly, and asked : "Are you prepared to meet your Maker ?" The latly stared in blank amaze ment. "I want to know if you have family prayers regularly, and if your family arc fully prepared for a blissful here after beyond the grave ? for if you are not you can't get the sugar —that's all. There is enough chloride of tin in one hundred pounds of sugar to kill the last one of you, and I don't want any- body's blood on my bands, particular ly when they are leading wicked lives and not fit to die," and he put the cov er on the sugar barrel and strolled out to the door, whistling "Old Hun dred." The lady flaunted herself out of the store, her face as red as fire, but it was not any redder than that of the proprietor, who was only waiting for an opportunity to rend that clerk limb from limb. Fortunately several cus tomers came in, and the proprietor drew in his breath, gritted his teeth and waited as best he could for the hour of vengence to strike. "Have you got any claret, French claret?" "What do you want it for ?" "I want it for a friend of mine out in the country." "Has he got a good constitution ?" "No, he is in feeble health, and wants it to help build up his system." "We make our genuine claret our selves down in the cellar. The pro prietor attends to that himself. Of late the infusions of logwood and other dyestuffs we get from the druggists have been of such poor quality that our genuine claret won't do for me to recommend. I can't conscientiously do so. You had better let your friend die a natural death." The man said he was very much obliged for tbe information, but the clerk said he was only doing his duty, and he whistled, "When I Can Read My Title Clear," as the customer strloled off. Other customers flocked in, but he firmly refused to sell them a dime's worth. He explained to a cadaverous looking old woman that her dyspeptic appearance was due to the China clay in the flour, and tbe glucose and sul phuric acid in the golden syrup she wanted to purchase. Another wanted tea. The good clerk said, "Madame, if you were to drop dead and wake up where there are weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, I could never sleep at night afterward. You could not buy a pound of tea at this estab lishment for all the wealth of tbe In dies. The color of the tea is produced by Prussian blue, which causes ossifi cation of tho valvular system of the heart. I can see by your leathery com plexion that is caused by the tannin in tea, that you are not long for this world. How do I know you have made your peace with heaven ?" "Got any coffee ?" asked a fresh customer. "We have some beans faced with phosphate of calsium and sulphate of barium, but the man who gets any of it has to show a clean bill of health from his spiritual adviser." There was no trade witli that man either. Finally, when there were no custo mers in the store, the interview be tween the enraged storekeeper and his clerk took place, but the clerk so im pressively warned the grocer—with an axe handle—not to approach too close unless he was prepared to go hence that their business relations were dis solved by mutual consent. The moral of all of which is that things are not always what they seem.— Galvexton News. LIFE IS A STRUGGLE. Allen Eckridge is a darky preacher who suggests man's total depravity in fervid and impassioned language in a church up town. He surrounds a re ligious point like a man surrounds a bull in a pasture. He goes to the bot tom of a subject as if be was an arte sian well, and spouts a stream of relig ious garrulity that well nigh drowns his hearers. Allen has a daughter fourteen years old, called Maudy. She and another girl twelve years old threw rocks at each other. Several neighbors assembled. Maudy's pa hastened to the place. It looked like a Saturday matinee. The girls threw more rocks. The spectators thought the preacher ought to call o(T his daughter. Still the rocks Hew. 'Maudy, you gal,' said the preacher, with religious perspiration on his brow, "drop di m rocks. You hyar me; drop dem rocks an' hitch.' And Allen rolled up his clerical sleeves and scratched his inspired head while Maudy dropped her rocks and 'hitched.' The little girls clinched and fell in the gutter, Maudy on top. The preacher was the only man around. The darkey women could constrain their feelings no longer. One of them shook her fist at him : 'See dem little gals fightin'? Allen Eckridge, ain't you 'shamed of yo' self. I lit is 'bominable. Take dat hussey home'' 'Bite her Maudy. Chaw de ear. De Lord lie is wid us. Close yo' teeth on her cheek.' And Allen religiously speaking, got up on his ear arid walked around ex ulting, looking at the girls clawing each other in the gutter. The women who stood by went up to them and tried to separate them, but the preach er began to pull off his coat. 'Don't you touch dein gals. De las' drop ob blood dat rambles froo my veins will l>e shed ef hit is stopped. Hitch, Maudy. (Jlorv to de lam of salvation. He Lord is in de bush, lookin at yo'. De Bible says dat life am a struggle, lVaise de Lord, we will teach do gals to struggle. Let yo' teef meet, Maudy.' Polieceman King came by at this interesting moment, and asked Allen what was the matter. " VVe's just teaching de gals de strug gle ob life.' The combatants were by this time in a frightful state with blood and dirt. Maudy had bit to good purpose, and her opponent was nearly uncon scious. Eckridge was marched off to jail for his inhuman conduct, and in 1)0 1 ice court yesterday was fined for lis Scriptural lesson.— Little Horh Gazette. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany yesterday declared its usual quar terly dividend of Ijf |>er cent. Its quarterly statement snows a surplus of $332,720. At the charter electiou of San Fran cisco on the Bth inst., the total vote of the city was 23,122. The counting has not yet been completed, but the general impression is that the new charter is beaten by a large majority. iOTEBTISIHO BATEM, One square, one insertion, #1 : each aubet* •|tiont insertion, 60 centa. Yearly advortieompnta exceeding one-fourth of a column, |5 per inch. Figure work double these tatee; additional charges where weekly or monthly chacpo ne mado. Local advertisements 10 centa i-tr lin« for flirt insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. and deaths pub halted free of charge. Obituary notice* charged as aihortnementa, and payable when handed in Auditors' Notice*. 94 ; Executors' and Adminia tratora' Notices. #3 each; Ext ray, Caution ana Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten linee, each. From the fact that the CITIZE* is the oldea 4 established and most extensively circulated Ba publican newspaper in Butler county, (a liepufc licao county) it must be apparent to buainesa men that it ia the medium they ahould use in advertiaing their bnsinesa. NO. 42 REV. EDWARDS IX BAVARIA. MUNICH, BAVARIA, | MONDAY, August ICth. ) reached here this afternoon from Ober-Ammergau and are to rest our selves till to-morrow morning. Yes terday we witnessed tbe celebrated Passion Play and have found ourselves amply rewarded for our efforts in get ting there. It is a service in which tbe villagers engage every ten years, aud in which they set forth vividly in per sonal representation the leading events in our Saviour's life—from his trium phal entry into Jerusalem to his death and ascension. It is a scene, which if enacted anywhere else in the world would be looked upon as sacrilegious ; but confined as it has been for centu ries to this one village, it has gathered around it sacred associations of a pecu liar character. There was a choir of 20 voices who, aided by an orchestra, gave us musical selections bearing on each eveut, and then these were ren dered by others in a manner so impres sive that one could not help feeling that be was really present at the g-eat events of our Lord's life. The whole thing was admirably arranged and carried out. There were sometimes as many as 500 persons on the platform engaged in the representations, while 5,000 of us sat from 7 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon, and only left for a short time at noon for luncb People became so interested, they forgot fatigue. The T1 e scene was repeated to-day for 3,- 000 who could not get seats for yester day. Among the spectators yesterday were Queen Victoria's son, tbe Duke of Connaught and his wife and tho Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar. The village itself is not larger than one of your Butler county towns, so you can easily imagine how it was crowded. There is only one house that could be called a hotel, but the villagers all open their little log houses to lodgers. After a great deal of effort and running aronnd 1 got a room with a small cot in it When the gentleman who got it forme came in with me about 10 o'clock on Saturday night we found the floor oc cupied by four slumbering inmates, who wearied and worn, had taken for cible possession ; of course I hadn't the heart to disturb tbctn, although I must say I didn't sleep much. Last night, however, I iiad a snug little chamber to myself. To-day Mr. llted and I met three ladies who live in grand style on Avenues up-town in New York, who very gladly lay on pallets of straw on a cottage floor Saturday night, Mr. Reed and I lost each other last evening as we came out and did not find each other till we came to the railway sta tion, 17 miles away, this morning. Wo were assigned to different rooms, but neither of us knew just where the other abode, and the crowds were like'black surging waves that carried all before them. But in the edifice itself all was reverence and solemnity; indeed, there were few eyes that were not wet some time yesterday ns the Saviour was seen, parting from his mother or strug gling iu his sufferings. The nun who personated Christ is a plaiu peasant, who makes his living by carving fancy wood, but one of tbe most graceful and dignified of men. I met him afterwards ou the street und recognizing him, was very glad to go and shake hands and to thank him in my poor German for the sacred pleasure he had given me. The Dukes vvero his guests, not being able to fiud any better accommodations. There are no villus or chateaus in the neighborhood and the early hour of commencing prevents driving from any distance. I reached here on Friday night and wus very glad on Saturday to get a lot of letters at the Banker's, two from you. Most of my people in Philadel phia are out of town, but work is go ing on nicely in the parish. To-mor row wo leave for Stuttgart which is said to be one of the most beautiful cities of Germany. The day I came from Vienna I traveled all the time through u country more or less flooded. It was pitiable to see the grain aud hay just cut floating down stream. In one place we passed a village where tho stream was sweeping all before it; one poor woman with her child by her side was standing at her wiriHow aud with outstretched hands pleading for some one to coine and rescue her. The peo ple were all flocking to the railroad em bankment which was high and secure. The Emperor I see has given 8,000 florins towards relieving the distress. As we leave early in the morning I must close and be off to bed. HOW TO KEEP COOL. "During the terrible hot nights of the first weeks of July," said a gentle man who had spent several years in South America, "I slept comfortably and kept cool bv adopting tho plau which I learmed and found practiced iu the torrid climate of South America. Just before retiring take a cool bath, not violent, but cooling, after which don your night shirt without drying tho body and lie down. The result is astonishing—it is much like that pro duced by sprinkling water on tho floor in the evening. The water absorbs the heat, and us it evaporates throws tbe beat off with it., leaving the body dry und cool. If tho bath is not con venient, sprinkle the bed with water. If both can be *done it is better. In South America the beds are all sprinkled just before retiring, other wise it would be impossible to obtain any sleep. The recipe is one that is infallible, as I know from long experi ence, aud there is no danger in it.— Milwaukee News. An impecunious fortune hunter hav ing been accepted by an heiress, at tho wedding, when that portion of tho ceremony was reached where tbe bride groom says, "with all my worldly goods I the.) endow," a spiteful rela tive of the bride exclaimed, "there goes his valine." A darkey, who was stopping to wash his hands in a creek, didn't notice the peculiar actions of a goat Just be hind him ; so when he scrambled out of the water, and was asked haw it happened, he answered: "I dunno '/.Belly; but 'pearod as if do shore kinder h'isted aud frowod me."