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The 3.15 tiain connects with traiu on the west Peun road '.hroutth to Pittsburgh. -tHENIN'OO ANt> ALLBOHESV KAIT.KOAD. Trains leave HilliurdV Mill, Butler county, for Hwirisvllle, Greenville, etc., at ...>oa. m. and "2.25 p. m. . Trains arrive at Hilliaid's Mills £t l:4o A, M., Hi'.cks t<> and from Peirolia, Mr.rlinsburir. Fairvicw, Modoc and Tioiitin in, connect at Hil laid wuh all iriins on the <*: A road. rBSNSTLVAMA RA!t.BO*D. Train« leave Butler {Butler or Pittsburgh Time.) Market at 5 0(1 a. in., goes through to Alle gheny, ar. v'.uir at 9.01 n m. This tram eon Beits at Free port with Freeport Aceommoda tion, which arrives at Allegheny at 8.20 a. m., railroad time. , . Express at 7.21 a. m, connecting at Rntler Juiicli 'ii, without change of ears, at 8.26 with Kxp.es-s west, arriving In Allegneny at H.ob a. ni.. and Express east arriving at Bliirsville at 10 55 a. ra. railroad time. Mail at 2 2fl p. m , connecting at Butler Junc tion without change ol ears, with Express west, arriving in Allegh-ny at 501 p. in., and EX LIP-- east arriving at Bliirsviile Intersection at 5 55 p. in. riilroad time, whieh connects wUh Philadelphia fcxprc.* ea: t, when on time. TKe 7.21 a. m train connects at Hlairsville at 11 05 a. in with the M ill east, and the 2..5(i p.m.'train ai 'i.o'J with the Philadelphia £x '"VriiV's arrive at Bntler »n West I'enn K R at f> 5i a in , Os and 7.01 p. in .Buller lime. The p.r.i; ai d -I ;J8 lrain> rouiiecl with trains on the Butler iV Parker R. K. Mom Line. Tbroo"h ir-ins leave Plusburirh to. the Ea " Jt •» .v. and 8 a. m. and 12 51, 431ai d 8.0« p. m anivn ■ at Philadelphia at S -iO and 721 Jn mil 3.00, 7.0 and 7.40 n iu.; al Baltimore al>oui the in e t me. at New Y<-rk three hours • later, and at Wa-btntion about one and a hall hou's later. Siine <>l llnldiiijr («»irw. The several Courts of the county of Buller commence on the ft st Monday of March, June. September and December, and continue two weeks, or so long as n eessarv to dispose of the business. So causes are put down for trial or traverse jurors summoned for the first week ol the Bevel al terms. ATTORNE YS AT I, A \v BUTLER. PA.. ' J. p. 13 RI TTAINT - Office with L 'L Mitchell. Diamond. ~ ATISTCUNNINGHAM, Office in Bradv's Law Building. Butler, Pa. s. hTPIERSOL: Office on N. E. coiner Diamond, F.iddle build ing ,novl2 JOHN M GREER. Office on N. E. comer Dia olid. novl2 \Y.\l H MJSK, Office with W H. H Riddle. Esq. NEWTON BL U'K. Office on Diamond, i.ear Couit House, south side. ~~ E. I. BKUOH, Oftteein Kiddie's Law Building. S. F. BOWSER. Office in Riddle's Law Building [marß'7B J. B. McJUNKIN. Special attention given to collections Olllc opi>osUe Willard House. JOSEPH B. BRED IN, Oflicu nortb-oast corner ol Diamond. Builei Pa. _ H. H. 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BI,ACI£ & BRO^ Office on Main street one door south o Hrr.dv Block, Buller. Pa. fser.. 2, 1874. JOHN M MILLER & BRO. Office in Brad/'s Law Building. Main street, south of Court House. EUOE>E O. MILLEB, Notary Public. • tnn4 lj THOMAS ROBINSON, _ BUTLER, PA. srrj A WI FE. *l2 a day at bome easilvmade '« C< st!v Oulflt free. Addies» TKUE A Co. Anpn-U JOHN H. NEGLEY, Cvs"(lives panicuiai attention to transaction! in real estate throughout the county. OFFICEOS DIAMOND, NEAR COCHT HOUSE, T CITIZEN RiTii.niNG E. K. ECKIEY, KENNEDY MAHSHALI. (Late <>K Ohio.) KCKLKY & MARSHALL Olflft* ji» Ri-j/lvV I »w KuildiiiiT. riTriißlSTlE. Attorney at taw. Leiril business care full* tr>n-acti-d Colleetinns made and promptlj rcmittea. Busines- correspondence promptly atlen led t<> and an-iwered. Office opposite Lowrv House, Butler, Pa. MISCELLANEOUS. McSWEENY & McSWEENY, Hmethport and Br dford, Pa. M. N MILES, Pctrolia, B ute-.-eonniy, Pa. |]nS M. C. BENEDICT, jan6 tf Peirolia. Butler co., Pt (YSK)IAN h. 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A Fine Single Sleigh, made in the Iritest style, swell bed. Also a fine two horse sleigh cau be bought cheap. Terafe' feVdy. Ri'qtrirt; at CKfze'a Uffiiv. Corsets. Corsets. Corsets. A large stock to select from. GIOVPS. Gloves. G'oves. Kid Cloves, Silk Gloves. Lisle Thread Gloves. Cashmere Gloves, and Berlin Gloves. Yarns. Yarns, Yarns Germantown Yarns. Saxony Yarns, Cashmere Varus, German Worsteds, Factory Yarns, Berlin Zepher. Underwear, Underwear, Underwear. For Children, Ladies' and Gentlemen. Hosiery, Hosiery, Hosiery. Large assortment for Children Ladies' and Gen 'tlemeii. Union Woolen >lill, I UTLEK, fA. 11. FIJIJLEIMO\. f»rop'r. 4 Manufacturer ni UI.ANKBTS, FI ANNEI.S, YARNS. | Ac. Alto custom work done to order, such :>► I carding Rolls, making 15uiiikelf, Flmuels Knil ■ Weaving Yarns, (Sc., at very low prices. Wool worked on the sLares, it de j sired. rriv7-K Administratrix** Xoiiee. ' Notice is h-reb* civeii that I, Kate R. Rowe, liave taken out letter* of administration on the estate of Lewis l ow, 1 ite of Karns City, Butler county, I'a., dec't', all 'perrons having claims or i demaudn against tno estate of aaid decedent ore ' requested to present the same to me at once. KATE K. R AVK, Adoix of Lewis Hone, dee'd, Kit tanning, Ta. decS-Gi JjgPeuWcriljb' for tifae CfrrfifEN. BUTLER, HA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMB 'IK 22. 1880. [From Harper's Monthly for December J MRS. FLINTS MARRIED EX PERIENCE. The deacon forgot he was not in a prayer-meeting, and so dropped into the hymn book, as Mr. Wegg did into secular poetry. 'H'm, well, there's a good deal to be thought of for and against it. too,' re marked Mrs. Gold, not willing to give an easy assent, and so cheapeu herself in the eyes of her acute adorer; but when her thoughts were sternly sifted down they appeared to be slight mat ters, and the deacon soon carried t is point. He wasted no time iu this transaction ; having 'shook hands on it,' as he expressed himself, he proceed ed at once to arrauge the programme. 'Well, Sarepty, we're both along in years, and to our time o' life delays is dangerous. I think we had better get married pretty quick. I'm keepin' that great lazy Polly Morse, and payin' cash right along ; and you don't need to fix up any, you've got good clothes enough; besides, what's clothes to worms seech as we be? The catechism says, 'man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever,' and if that's so—and I expect 'tis so—why, tain't nothin' to be concerned about what our poor dy in' bodies is clothed in.' Mrs Gold did not agree with him at all; she liked her clothes, as women ought to, but his preternatural piety, awed her, and she said meekly enough, 'well, I don't need no great lot of gowns. I shan't buy but one, I don't believe.' A faint color stole to her cheek as she said it, for she meant a wedding dress; and Deeon Flint was acute enough to perceive it, and to under stand that this was a point he could not carry. 'One gown ain't neither here nor there, Sarepty, but I aim to fix it on your mind that, as I said afore, delays is dangerous. I prppose, with the Di vine blessin', to be married this day two weeks. I suppose you're agreea ble V The widow was too surprised to deny this soft impeachment, and he went on : 'Ye see, there's papers to be drawed up; you've got independent means, aud so have I, and it's jest as well to settle things fust as last. Did Eth:in Gold leave a life-interest in your thirds, or out an' out?' The widow's lip trembled ; her dead husband had been careful of her, more careful than she knew, till now. 'He didn't will me no thirds at all ; he left me use and privilege for my nateral life of everything that was his'n, and all to go to Mindwell when I'm gone.' 'Do tell! He was forehanded, I de clare for't!' exclaimed the deacon, both pleased and displeased ; for if his wife's income was to be greater than he sup posed, in case of her death before his there would be no increase to his act ual possession. 'Well, I always calculated you had your third's, au' probably, knownin' Ethan was free-haiided, you had 'em out an' out. This makes some differ ence about what papers I'll have to have drawn up. Now I guess the best way is to have an agreement like this: 1 agree not to expect you to hev and to hold none of mine ; but I to have the use of your'n, and you to have your livin' out of mine. You see, you don't have no more'u your livin'out of mine. You see, you don't have no more'n your livin' out of yourn'n now ; that's all we any of us get in this here world: 'hevin food an' raiment, let us there with be content,'as Scripter says. You agree to this, don't ye ?' Bewildered with the plausible phras es, ballasted by a text, unaware that even the devil can quote Scripture to serve his turn, Mrs. Gold did not see that she was putting herself entirely into the hands of this man, and meekly agreed to his arrangement If this story were not absolutely true, I should scare dare to invent such a character as Deacon Flint, but he was once a liv ing man, and hesitating to condemn him utterly, being now defenceless among he dead, we can but hope for him and his like that there are purify ing fires beyond this life where he may be melted and refined into the image of Him who made him a man, and gave him a long life here to develop man hood. Not till after he was gone did Mrs. Gold begin to think that he had left her to explain his arrangements to Mindwell and Sam and instinctively she shrank from doing so. Like many another weak woman, she hated words, particularly hard words ; her life had flowed on in a gentle routine, so peace fully that she had known but one sor row, and that was so great that, with the propensity we all have to balance accounts with Providence, she thought her trouble had been all she could bear; but there was yet reserved for her that sharp attrition of life which is so differ ent from the calm and awful force of sorrow—so much more exasperating, so much more educating. Some in stinct warned her to avoid remonstrance by concealing from her children the contract she was about to make, and she felt, too, the uncertainty of a wo man unaccustomed to business about her own clear understanding of the sit uation ; so she satisfied herself with telling Mindwell of the near approach of her marriage. 'Oh, mother ! so soon 1' was all Mind well said, though her eyes and lips spoke far more eloquently. 'Well, now the thing's settled, I don't know but what it may as well be over with, We ain't young folks, Mindwell. 'Tisu't as if we had quite a spell to live.' Tears ; tood in her eyes as she said it; a certain misgiving stole over her, just then it seemed a good thing that she could not live long. Mindwell forced back the sob that choked her. A woman of single heart she did not consider a secoud marriage sacred. For herself, she would rather have taken her children to the town farm, cold as corporative charity is, than married another man than Sam uel, even if he had been dead thirty years; and she bitterly resented this default of re: pect to her father's memo ry. But her filial duty came to the rescue. 'Pear motty;r, I bear to tbmk of ft Wb'ut' bVuli I <J\j t Svhftit will tw children say ? I did hope you would take time to consider.' 'lt ain't real dutiful in you to take me to do, Micdwell ; I'm full old to be lessoned, seems to me. As for you and the children, I don't feel no gfeat dis tress. Love ruus down, not up, folks say, and I don't believe you'll any of ye pine a long .'pell.' . This weak and petulent outburst dis mayed Mindwell, who had never seen her mother otherwise than gentle and pleasant ; but, with the tact of a great heart, she said nothing, only put her arms around the elder woman's neck and kissed her over and over. At this Mrs. Gold began to cry, aid in sooth ing her distress Mindwell forgot to ask any further questions, but set herself to divert both the minds from this brief and bitter outburst by inquiring what preparation her mother meant to make in the fortnight. ' I don't look to no great preparation,' sighed the widow. 'I have always had good clothes enough, and there's a piece of linen I wove before we come here, that'll do for all I want. I sup pose I had ought to hev a new gown to be married in. When I was mar ried to Ethan I had a white dimity gown and a blue levantine petticoat and if he didn't fetch me a big bunch of sand violets—they was blossoming then—for to match my eyes <*nd my skirt, he said; but that's past and gone as the hymn-book says. Ido want to huve one good gewn, Mindwell; and now I'm a little along in years, I guess I'll have a dark one. T'other night when he was up to 'Squire Barnes' to tea, Miss Barnes was telling about a piece of plum-colored paduasoy Mr Battle bought in Hartford for Lecty's weddin' gown, and she wouldn't hev it. She said 'twasn't lively enough, and so she's set her mind on a piece of blue laventine; but I should think the plum-color would become me real well.' So the plum colored silk was bought, and arrayed in its simple folds, with a new worked collar aud a white satin bow, the widow Gold was dressed for her second wedding. Did she think as she looked into her oval mirror that morning, what a dif ferent vision was this quiet, elderly, sober woman in decent but not festal garments, from the smiling, blushing, blue eyed creature, iu her spotless di minity gown opening over a blue pet ticoat, and clasped at the throat with a bunch of still bluer violets ? What does a woman think who is married the second time ? A man is satisfied that now his house will be kept once more, his clothes mended, his whims humored, his table spread to his taste and his children looked after. If it is needful he can marry six wives, one after the other. They are a domestic necessity. The Lord himself says it is not good for man to be alone; but it is quite auother thing for the woman, Such a relation is not a movable feast to her; it is once for all; and if circum stance or pique betray her into this faithlessness, what does she think of herself when it becomes inevitable ? The widow Gold did not tell. She was paler when she turned from the glass than when she first looked into it, and she trembled as she went down stairs to sign the papers before Parson Roberts should arrive The best parlor was opened to-day. The high-back d chairs with old bro cade cushions that had belonged to Sam Pratt's grandmother were ranged along the wall like a row of stiff ghosts; the corner cupboards were set open to display the old china and glass that filled them ; there was a "bow-pot" of great red peonies, abundant and riotous with color and fatness, set under the chimney in the well-whitened fire-place; and a few late roses glowed in a blue china jar on the high mantel-piece. On a square table with a leaf lay a legal paper that Sam was reading, with his hands supporting bis head, as if it was hard to understand the document. The deacon, in his Sunday garments, was looking at him askance; and Mind well, with the little girls, Edeand Syl via, clinging to her gown, was staring out of the window, down the road— staring but not seeing, for the splendid summer day that lavished its bloom and verdure aud odor on these gaunt New England hills, and hid their rude poverty with its royal mantle, was all a dim blur to the heart rung woman 'Mother,' said Sam Pratt, raising his head, 'do jou know what's the sum and substance of these here papers and do you agree to't ?' The widow glanced aside at Deacon Flint and caught his 'married eye,'ear ly as it was to use that ocular weapon. 'Why, yes, Sam ? I don't know but what I do,' she said, slowly and rather timidly. 'Well,' said Sam, rising and push ing the paper away, 'if you do, why, then ynu're goin' right into't, and it's right, I s'pose : but, by Jinks! I think it's the d—" Mindwell's touch on his arm arrest ed the sentence. "There's Parson Roberts, Sam ; you just help him out of the gig, will you ? He's quite lame I see.' Sam Pratt went with the half finish ed sentence on his lips. He was glad his wife had stopped him, on many ac counts. but did long to give Deacon Flint his own opinion of that prelimi nary contract. lie indulged himself to this depriva tion after the stiff and somewhat mel oncholy wedding was over, and the staid couple had departed for Bassett in the Deacon's wagon, by freeing his mind to his wife. 'Miss Pratt, I was some riled to hav you stop me when I wasa-goin' to tell the deacon that I thought about that there contraci ; but I don't never stay riled with you, marm, as you'd ought to know by this tuue,' and Sam em phasized this statement with a hearty kiss. "Besides I will own on second thoughts I was glad you did stop me, for it's no use pinchin' your fingers iu a pain o' nippers ; but I do say, now and here, it was the damdest piece o' swindlin' I ever seen done under a cover of law an' gospel you may say, for the deacon had stuck in a bit ol Scripter so's to salt it like. He's got the best of the bargain. I tell ye, a long sight, i'm glad vour ffyber and tijfled Vim property bo she* bW We use on't only, for she wouldn't htve two cents in two years' time, if she'd had it to do with what's she's a mind to.' 'l'm glad he did,' said Mindwell. 'I have fe't as though mother would be better su'ted if she did hive it to do what she liked to with it ; but if she is provided lor, she can't waut for nothing now." 'I guess she'll want for more'n money, and mabbe for that to>. The paper says she's to have her livin'; now that's a wide word; folks can live on bread and water, I expect, and he cau't be holden for more than he's a mind to give.' 'Oh, Sam, you don't think Deacon Flint would grudge her a pood living? i Why, if be is near, as folks toil he is, j he's a professor of religion.' 'l'd a durned sight ruther he was a ! practicer on't Miss Pratt. Religion's about the best thing there is, ami makin' believe it is about the wust. I b'lievc in Aniasy Flint's religion jest so far as I hear him talk, an' uot an inch further. 1 know he'll pinch an shave an' spare to the outside of a cheese rind; and I haven't no great reason to think Jie'll do bett.r by Mother Gold than he does by himself." M.ndwell turned away, full of forebod ing. and Sam, following her, put his arm about her and drew her back to the settle 'Don't worry dear; she's made her bed, and she's got to lie on't; but after all it's the Lord who lets folks (lo that way, so's to show 'em, I expect, that beds ain't always meant to sleep on, but sometimes to wake folks up. We're kind of apt to lie long an' get lazy on feathers. I expect that's what the matter with me. I'll get my husks by-and-by, I geess.' Mindwell looked up at him with all her heart in her eyes, but she said nothing, and he gave a sly laugh; their deep love for each other was "a f mntain shut up," and so far no angel had roUeu away the stone and jfiveu it visible life ; it is still voiceless and sleeping. Before her wedding day was over Mrs. Flint's new life began, for Polly Morse had been sent off the night be fore being the end of an even week, lest she might charge ninepence for an extry day ; so her successor without wages had to lay aside her plum-color ed silk, put on a calico petticoat and short gown, and proceed to get supper, while Polly, leaning over the half door of the old red house which she shared with the village tailoress, exchanged pungent remarks with old Israel on the topic of the day in Bas se tt. 'No, they didn't make no weddin', Isr'el; there wa'nt nobody asked, nor no loaf-cake made for her ; he wouldn't here to't noway. I'd have staid and fixed up for her to-day but he was bound I shouldn't. As for me, I'm most amaziD' glad to get hum, now I tell ye. I'd a sight ruther be in Simsburg prison for a spell, if it wa'nt for the name on't.' 'Say, Polly, do you call to mind what I said three weeks back about M iss Flint comin' home? Oh, ye do. Well, I ain't nobodvs' fool, be I ? I guess I can see through a millstone, providin' the hole's big enough, as well as the next man. I'm what ye may call mighty observin', now. I can figger consider'ble well on folks, ef I can't on'rithmetic, and I know'd jest as well when I see him rigged up in his Sabba'-day go-to-meeting's, and bis nose p'inted for Colebrook.what he was up to, as though I heard him a askin' her to hev him.' 'Well, I never did think Sarepty Gold would demean herself to have him. She's got means and a real good home, and Mindwell sets a sight by her, a-id so does Sam Pratt; but here she's ben an' gone an' done it. I wouldn't ha' thought it, not if the angel Gabriel had have told me on't!' 'Guess he's in better business than goin' round with Bassett gossip, any how ; but what was you so took back by? Lordly ! I should think you was old enough to get over bein' surprised at women folks;them and the weather is two things I don't never calc'late on. You can't no more tell what a woman 'll do, 'specially about marryin', than you can tell which way iu the road a pig 'll go; onless you work it back'ard same as some folks tell they drive a pig, and then 'tain't reel reliable— they may go right ahead when you don't a mite expect it.' 'That is one thing about men, I allow, Ira'el ; you can always tell which way they'll go for sartin, and that is after their own advantage, au' nobody else's, now and forever.' 'Amen! They'd all be fools, like me, if they didn't,' assented the old man with a dry chuekie as he drove off his empty cart. Yet, for all his sneers and sniff , neither Polly nor the new Mrs. Flint had a truer friend than Israel; rough as he was, satric as a chestnut burr that shows all its prick les in open defiance, conscious of a sweet white heart within, his words only were hitter, his nature was gen erous, kindly, and perceptive; he had become the peripatetic satirist and philosopher that he was out of this very nature, 'Dowered with a scorn of scorn, a love of love,' and free with the freedom of indepen dent poverty to express pungently what he felt poignantly, being iu his own mind and measure the 'salt of the earth' to Bassett. But in spite of comment and pity the thing was a fixed fact. Mrs. Flint's married life had begun under new auspices, and it was not a path of roses upon which she ent« r. d. Her housekeeping had always been frugal, with the thrift that is or was charac eristic of her race; but it had been abundant fur the wants of her family. The viands she provided were those of the place and period, simple and prim itive enough ; but the great brick oven was well filled with lijrht bread of wheat and rye both ; pies of whatever material was iu season, whose fhiky crust and well-filled interiors testified to her knowledge of the art; deep dishes of baked beans, jars of winter pears, pans of golden sweet apples, and j <ords of yellow gingerbread, vviih rows of snowy and puffy biscuit. Ede ami Cmvfe tAAv reW SvMQ wlAj/re to' fiuu j cisp cookies and fat nut. cakes, and pie was reiterated three times a day on Sain Pratt's table. It was a part of her 'pride of her' that she was a good housekeeper, and Mindwell had given her the widest liberty; but now the tide had changed She soon found that Deacon Flint's parsimony extended into every detail Her pies were first assailed. 'Sarpty, don't make them pies o'vour'n so all-fired rich. They ain't good for the stomach; besides, they use up all the drippin's, and you had ought to make soap next month. Pie is good, and I think it's savin'of meat; I nt it pompers up the flesh, too good livin' does, and we have got to give an account, ye know. I don't mean to have no wicked waste laid to my ac count.' So she left out half the shortening from her crust; and felt ashamed to see the tough substance this economy produced. Next came the sugar ques tion. •We buy too much sweetenin', Sarepty. There's a keg of tree mo lasses down cellar. I expect it's sour, but you jest take an' bile it up, an' stir considerable saleratus into 't, an' it 'll do. I want to net along jest as reasonably as we can. Willful waste makes woeful want, ye know.' Yet in his own way the deacon was greedy enough He had the insatia ble appetite that belongs to the people of his figure far more often than to the stout. 'He's a real racer,'said Uncle Israel, reverting to his own experience in pigs—'slab-sided an'lank I bet you could count his ribs this minnit; and that's the kind you can feed till the day after never, and they won't do ye no credit. I never see a man could punish vittals the way he can; but there ain't no more fat to him than there is to a hen's forehead.' Mrs Flint was not 'hungry or han kering,' as she expressed it, but a rea sonable eater of plain food; but the deacon's mode of procedure was pecu liar. 'Say, Sareptv, don't bile but a small piece 'o pork with that cabbage to-day. I've got a pain to my head, an' I don't feel no appetite, an' cold pork gets eat up for supper when there ain't no need on't.' Obeying instructions, the small piece of fat pork would be cooked, and once at the table, transferred bodily to the deacon's plate. 'Seems as though my appetite had reely come back. I guess 'twas a hungry headache.' And the tired womau had to make her din ner from cabbage and potatoes, season ed with the salt and greasy water in which they bad been cooked. There were no amusements for her out of the house. The younger peo ple had their berrying frolics, sleigh rides, kitchen dances, nuttings, aud the like, and their elders their husk ings, apple bees, and sewing societies, but agaiust all these the deacon set his hard face. 'lt's just as good to do your own extrv chores yourself as to ask folks to come an' help. That costs more'n it comes to. You've got to feed 'em and l : ke enough keep a big fire up in the spare room. I'd ruther be dilligent in business, as Scripter says, than de pend on neighbors.' The sewing society too was denied to poor M-s. Fiint, because tbey had to have tea got for them. Prayer meetings he could not deny her, tor tbey cost nothing, and officially he at tended them. Meeting on Sunday was another outlet; when she could see friendly faces, receive kind greet ings, and read in many eyes a sym pathy and pity that an once pleased and exasperated her. Another woman in her place might have had spirit or guile enough to have resisted the pleasure under which she only quailed and submitted. She was one of those feeble souls to whom a hard word is like a blow, and who will bear anything and everything rather than be found fault with, and who necessarily become drudges and slaves to those with whom they live, and are despised and ill-treated simply because they are incapable of resent ment. They are some persons who stand in this position not so much from waut of streugth as from abound ing aud eager affection for those whom thev serve, suffering, when they discover how vain has been their labor «ud self-sacrifice, is known only Him who was 'At once denied, betrayed, and lied I?y those who shared His daily bread.' But Mrs. Flint had no affection for her husa-jd ; she married him because it seemed a good thing to do, and obeyed him because he was her hus band, as was the custom in those days. So she toiled ou dumbly from day to day, half fed, overworked, desperately lonely, but still uncomplaining, for her constitution was naturally strong, and nerves were unrecognized then. Her only comfort was the rare visits of her children. Mindwell found it hard to leave home, but suspicious of her mother's comfort, she made every effort to see her as often as possible, and always to carry her some little present—a .dozen of eggs, which the poor woman boiled privately, and ate between her scanty meals, a few peaches, or little loaf of cake—small gifts, merely to demonstrate her feel ing. She did not know what good purpose they served, for Mrs. Flint did not tell her daughter what she endur ed. She remembered too well how Mindwell had begged her to delay and consider her marriage, and she would not own to her now that she had made any mistake, for Mrs. Flint had as much human nature in her composi tion as the rest of us; and who does like to hear even their dearest friend say, '1 told you so ?* To be Continued. The will ol the late James E. Brown of Kittanning,bequeathes $25 to every widow in Kittanning and $25 to every wife who shall become a widow, this gift to be made to iuclude those Kittanning girls who shall hereafter become wives. Doubts are traitors and make you lose the good you might receive by fi arrng to try oue of Days Kidney ! I^adV APyEBTIBWOI^TC^ One square, uu« n-rert ou, #1 ; each stibM lucnt insertion, CO cent a. Yearly *dverti» an ent xceeding one-fourth of a column, $5 p*r inch Figure worn donble these rat«t; addition* ■barges where weekly or monthly cbaogaa ara Jiado Local advertisements 10 cent a per line •or fi<*t insertion, and 5 cents per line for eaeli uMitional inoertion. Marria£ei> and pub ished free of charge. Obituary notice* charged a« adverts mentr. and payable when handed in Auditors' Notices, *4 ; Executors' aad -f tratom' Notices, 43 each; Estray, Caution mi Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the CITIZEN is the old as* •wtabliahed and most extensively circulated Be :>ublican newspaper in Butler county, (a Bepufc icati county) it mast bo apparent' to buaineaa ueii that it is the medinm they should nee is .Irertifinp their bn9ine<?B. NO. 6 JUPITER IN PERIHELION. Jupiter Las reached its perihelion, or nearest point to the sun. This is an astronomical event of considerable im inee, as it occurs only once in about twelve years. As the planet is soma millions of miles nearer the earth than usual, an excelleut opportunity is giv en for the study of its features. Even the smallest telescopes will now show some of the wonders of this great plan et and its system of satellites, and with large telescopes astronomers hope, within a mouth or two, to add much to our knowledge of the chief member of the sun's family. Jupiter will re main the leading brilliant in the sky throughout October, shining so bright ly that even Sirius must temporarily yield the palm. There is another reason for the in terest that Jupiter's perihe lion excites. More than a year ago some professed scientific person on the Pacific slope wrote a pamphlet on the tenors of-the perihelia of the four great planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptuue, which, it was represented, would occur nearly simultaneously, and with those planets in conjunction, fear ful results to the earth were predicted. The false alarm was spread by other pretended savants, and, no doubt, awoke the fears, not merely of the ig norant, but of persons who knew enough of astronomy to be aware of the gigantic attractions that the plan ets exert upon one anot her. Stories of plagues, pestilence, famine and death were based u. on the supposed influ ence of the perihelia. Mr. Proctor and other astronomers sought to counteract the effect of this by showing, in the first place, that it was not true that the planets named would all be in perihe lion together. In fact, Saturn does not reach its perihelion until 1885. Uranus will be in perihelion next spring, but Neptune will not reach its nearest point to the bun until six or seven years hence. It was also denied bj scientific men of high authority that there was any reason to fear evil re sults to the earth, even though the pre dicted perihelia should occur very near together. Still, alarm was felt, and no doubt many persons will be pleased to know that Jupiter, the most power ful of all the planets, has reached the dreaded perihelion point, and is already turning to retrace his steps, without having in any way injured his sister planet the earth. That the sun has felt the approach of the great planet, as is shown in the prevalence of vast sun spots and out bursts of gaseous matter, is not im probable, and t! rough the reflex action of the sun upon the earth our planet may, oven now, feel the same influence in violent atmospheric phenomena. It is difficult to realize the enormous pow er of the bright speck, Jupiter, shining so quietly in the sky. A recent writer has shown that the power which the sun has to put forth to hold Jupiter in his orbit is equal to the combined strength of 170,000,000 bars of solid steel, each a mile in diameter. Jupi ter's pull upon the earth, according to the same authority, is equal to the strength of 23,000,000 bars of steel, each of them one foot in diameter. So, if the mere power of gravity were all that was required to make Jupiter's approach dangerous to the earth, evi dently he is not lacking in the power. But no one need fear that the sister hood of worlds which acknowledge the dominion of the sun will prove mutu ally destructive — New York Sun, THE PULSE. —Many erroneous im pressious prevail about the pulse as in dicative of health or disease—a common notion being that its beatings are more uniform than they really are. Fre quency varies with age. In the new born infant the bsatings are from 130 to 140 per minute; in the second year, from 100 to 115; from the seventh to the fourteenth year, 80 to 90; from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year, from 75 to 85; from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year, f rom 70 to 75. After that period the pulse is generally thought to decline, but medical author ities differ radically on this point, hav ing expressed the most contradictory opinions. Y'oung persons are often found whose pulses arc below 60, and there have been many instances of pulses habitually reaching 100, or not exceeding 50, without apparent disease. Sex, especially in adults, influences the pulse, and in women it beats more rapidly than in men. Muscular exer tion, even position, materially affecta the pulse. Its average frequency in healthy men is, when standing, 81 ; when sitting, 71; when lying, 66 per minute; in women of the same age and iu the same positions, 91, 84 and 79. In sleep the pulse is considerably slow er than in wakefulness. In certain diseases, such as acute dropsy, for in stance, there may be no more than 20 or 30 per minute Thus one of the commonest diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most experienced prac titioner.—Dr. Footers Health Monthly. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup has been before the public for years, and is pro nounced by thousands superior to all other articles for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza aud all other Pul monary Complaints. It costs only 25 cents a bottle. An Illinois youth invested a dollar and a half in a New York firm to dis cover "how to appear well in society." The receipt, which he received by re turn mail, was short, simple and easily understood: "Always keep your nose clean, and don't suck more than one finger at a time." Pike's Peak has recently been show ing signs of volcanic activity- On Oc tober 29 the Signal Service observer there heard a loud explosion, and the next day found ashes and lava near the summit. About a week afterward he witnessed another eruption from hia station. THE Liver is more frequently the seat of disease th'in is generally suppos ed, for upon its regular action depend*, in a gre.;t measure, the powers of the stomach, bowels, brain, and the whol# nervous system. Regulate that im portant organ by taking Simmons' Liv ely or, aiyl you prevopt juoirt of the dio&sefe that fle'sb' is bfeTr. t<*
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