SUBMCBIPTION BATES S p«I JMI, in idnnc* 50 Otberwiaa * 00 No subscription will be discontinued until all arrearage* are paid. Postmasters neglecting to notify us when subscribers do not take out tiueir paper* will be held liable for tbe snbvcripticn. Snbacribets removing from one pustoffice to another should give as tbe name of tbe former u well as the present office. All communications intended for publication n this paper most be accompanied by the real name of the writer, not for pablicat.on but aa a gau an tee of good faith. Marriage and deUli notices most be aocompa iied by a responsible name. Address THE BVTI EB CITIZKS. BCTLER. PA. Planing Mill —AXD— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS S.G. Purvis & Co., ■ UK AMD DEALER!) !» Rough and Plansd Lumber OK EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMEB, MOULDINGS, SASH, D< H)HS, FLOORING, HIDING. BATI ENS. Brackets, Gauged Conicefioards POUCH POSTS, STAIR 14 AILS Newell Post* and Balusters FKNCE PAI.IMIS, Ac., Ac , MICHIGAN SHINGLE Barn Boards; Plastering Lath ; lien look Bill Staff, such as Joist Raf ter*, Scantling. Ac., all oonstantly on hand. All of which we will nell oi» reasonable terms «nd guar antee satisfaction. PLANING MILL AND YARD Hear German dalhallrrliarpb fag,ma A. Haffner, SUCCESSOR TO H. BAUERIBROS., BIITI.KK. PA., PLANiNG HILL AND Lumber Yard, KAXOACTtaiI AND I>XALKB I* Rough and Planed Lumber OP EVERY DESCRIPTION. DOORS, SASH, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SIDING, FLOORING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gaug d Gomice Boards, PORCH POSTS, STAIR RAILS, NEWELL POSTS & BALUSTERS, FENCE PALINGS, Ac., Ac. MICHIGAN SBINOLES Barn Boards, Plastering Lath, Hem luck Bill StafT, of all kinds, constantly on band, All of which I will sell on reasonable terms and guarantee satisfaction. Planing Mill and Lumber Yard on Jefferson street, Butler, Pa. ldecly A. lIsFFNER. _JiOTELH ■J"IIE .SBfIKEniE K BOUSE. L- NICKLAS Prop'., MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA. HtTing taken poMiMion of th» *bov« well ko*Q Hotel. and It being fnrninhel in tlie bewt of iityle for tlie aeconnKlMion of gnfteta. the public «re respectfully invited to give me A call. I have *lm> pimxewiou of the barn in rotr of hotel, which furnieliee excellent iit»t>li»((, ac comodAtioiiN for my patron*. L. NICKI.AS. BUTLEK COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sis. G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL. THEASUKKH H. C. IIEINEMAN, SKCBETAKT. DIRECTORS: J. L. KorrU, I E. A. llelrot>oldt, Willlntn CAinpboll, |J. W. Hurklmrt, A. Troutnim, Jacob Rflun-iie, 0. C. Rneiflng, John Caldwell, Dr. W. trrln, J. J. Croll J. W.OhrtotT i 11. C. lleiucniAn JAS. T. M'JUNKIN, Gen- Ae't- BTTTLJER PA. th. RESOURCES of KANSAS AOOOMPANICO OV A COUNTY MAP OP THC STATI AMP A FINE MAP or THC UNITED STATES, WILL M MAILED FREE. W«ITI torn * oorv to A. 8. JOHNSON. LA« TOPEKA, KANSAS. H. X3icltel, LIYKHV & FKKDSTABLE JEFFERSON STREET, WEST OV LOWBY HOUSE, BUTI.ER. PA. Having removed all my stock *o the above Stable, the public are r.-*pect fully invited to call. The best Horses, Carriages. Bug gies, Ac. kept constantly for hire. Open all hours, day and night. NOTICE. In Re the petition of citizenn of Butler town •hip, at Q. H., No. 46, Bept., IHHO. Praying the <'ourt to appoint viewer* to change and lay nut a dividing or boundary line between Butler and Summit towinhipv a< will lie in accordance with the draft or line* an made and decreed at Q. S , No. 23, Jine, 185.1, and In make draft and report whether <mch change ax prayed for would be to the benefit of the inhabitant* of the respective townvhip* or either of them. March "th, IMI, report of viewer* filed. March 10th, 1801, report confirmed nisi. I»T TUK COURT. Now, therefore, all paraon* lntere*te<l will take notice that the alx>ve report will be pre aented to the Court of Quarter Htiwion* for con firaMttOß VB WedutMtUy, tbe Htli day of June, VOL. XVIII. BOOTS&SHOES. THE OLD AND RELIABLE BOOT AIM HOUSE B. C. HUSELTON, Is now Receiving Fresh New Goods in the Latest Styles the Eastern Markets produces. All his Spring and Summer Stock OF BOOTS AND SHOES Are now ready for inspection. 1 hese goods are made to his own (special order bv the largest manufacturers, and cominar direct from them to his House there arc NO MIDDLE PROFITS TO PAY. He intends to give to the public BOOTS and SHOES at prices that they can find no where else. It pays to sell goods low and he means to do it. The attractions which he offers in the as sortment, in the quality, and in the prices, are such that no one can resist going to the LARGEST BOOT & SHOE HOUSE 111 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. B. C. HUSELTON, MAIN STREET, BUTLER PENN'A, Some und only a few of the Bargains Offered •. Gents' Fine Buff Congress and Alexis $1 25 and upwards. " " Strap Low Shoes, SI.OO and upwards. " " Calf Boots, warranted s2. lf) and upwards. " Hrogans and Plow Shoes, 90c ami upwards. Large lioe of the very finest .Machine ami Hand sewed goods in stock. Ladies Serge Congress and Polish, 75c and upwards. " " (irain Fox and Polish, elegant goods, $1 00 and upwards. " Grain Peg Polish, elegant goods, $1 00. " " Standard Polish, elegant goods, $] 25, all warranted. " Kid Button Boots, $1.50 and upwards. " Grain and Peb. Button Boots, $1.40 and upwards. " " Sewed Polish Boots, good, $1 25 and upwards. Very largo stock of the very finest styles in Kid, St. Goat and Peb. Button Side Lace Shoes. Old Ladies Shoes Wide, Low Heels a Specialty. In Ladies, Misses and Children, the stock is the largest I have ever offered. Hlipoers Low and Kutton Newports BOYS AND YOUTHS' SHOES in proportion to Men's. Can't give many prices, space will not permit, suffi.-e to say you find every thing in tbe Boot <fc Shoe line and verv low figures at B.C.IIUSELTON'S. LAR/.E STOCK OF LEATHER & FINDINGS. REPAIRING of all kinds done at Reasonable Prices. Be certain to examine this stock and prices before you buy. Thanking you for past favors I still solicit a continuance of the same. EVERY MAN, WOMAN"AND CHILD SHOULD ÜBK IT. Herbali n e Syrup, TIIK OKRAT MEXICAN RRHDEDY. The only Medicine in the World Compunded from tlx* Natural Roots ami Herbs of Mexico. j HKRBALIN b: S Y RXJ Jr\ (NO AIX'OIIOLIf DIIINK.) Tlie most valuable remedy ever discovered in the Vege table Kingdom lor Ihe *|>e»-dy and permanent cure of Dyspepsia. Ilabittial C'ostlver.ess, l.iver end Kidney Complaints, Scrofula, Klieutnalbun, Piles, Dropsy, Heart DiseiiM.', Ner vous Affect tens and Chronic Diseases. H E K B A L I N K H Y R tJ P. (NO VINKOAR COMI'OtTND.) The purest and lust M« ulcilie in the world for delicate Female*. whether young or old, married or single, at. the I'awn of womanhood or the turn of life, relieving and curing their complaint# as If by .Magic. For the aged and the feeble this I'onic Syrup lias no equal. H K R BAL I N E IS Y R XJ (NO MINERAL POISON.) A swift and sine n lirf in Mental and Physical Prostration caused by over-taxing tlie imnd and body with liusincs* and professional cares. H E R B A L 1 NT E BY R UP, (A VITALIZING TONIC.) L'neqnaled as a medlclnn for Children, being easy of admin istration, tileasant and refreshing to take, prompt In It* action ; certain In its results, and always safe Hlid reliable. No Vermifuge, Lozenges, or other medicines will free the sys tem from Worms like this wonderful Wild Herb Tonic. HERB ALINE SYRUP, (TIIK LIKE (JIVINO PRINCIPLE.) Skin diseases of whatever name or nature,such as Eruptions, (notches. Pimples, Ringworms. Scrofula. are literally due "p and carried out of the system by this UREAL Tonic and Alternative, while the complexion IN rendered I clear and beautiful. H E R B ALINE S Y R XJ P, (PURKI.Y HERBAL) A genuine medicine warra itcd free from Calomel. Arsenic, i Opium, (Juinine, and Alcohol In all Its forms. Tlie most valuable Family Medicine in the i World. ft •• /Wk ■ & ■» Is offered for a ease of Chronic Disease that this great Tonic Syrup will fail to cure or greatly iM'neflt, If the directions are strictly followed. TRY IT, PRICE SI.OO PER BOTTLE. PREPARED BY THE STANDARD MEDICINE COMPANY, PITTHBURGH, I»A. fob sale by all DRUGGISTS. ]). L. Cleeland, (FOItMEULY OF HAURHVILLE) t'F.A I.KII 15 WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY SPECTACLES A VIOUN STRINGS, t3r Fine Watch and Clock repairing » speci ality AH work warrented. Store between W niter's Druir store and Hutlnj Savings Hank. M iin street. Butlor. Pa. ORPHtHS' MUM Silt. By virtue of nn order of the Orpbm*' Coart! of Bailer count), the underpinned administra tor ol J II Winter, lute ot Worth township, Butler rounty, Pa., will expose to mile t>y pub lic vendue or outcry, on Weilnodny. Mny 25. 18W1. Nt one o'clock, t*. m , on tlie premise", nil liie riubt, title. Interest itnd claim of said decedunt, I'.elnu the undivided one hall of ull tb-it eertiilu tract of Inud situate In Worth township, Butler county, Pn., hounded on the north ty innds of J onnlhan \Vliner, dec#used; on the east Uy lands of Catharine Kuullinnti; south hy hind* of .J. Wl mer, et *l., containing about thirty-four ucru«, ail denied; lon house thereon. TERMS OF PAYMENT: On'-third of purchase money in hand on con firmation of ft ilc. and the bilance In two equal annual Installment* thereafter with interest, to be secured by bond mid mortiraue, lo< ludltiK ; live per cent, attorney'* lee in cnao the aaine nhall have to be collected hv legal process. JEFFERSON WIMEK. Adt t'r »f J. If, Wlmtr. | } TLv(Pp*cra & tfcoiV, 41v j<. l-TsHB OIBWmONS. ppEAVI BAUfil SKMKfiK Mari fios/n L./y Insert with little flnger ©tATARRK,COLD*'}. «rfl it particle of tlie Balin I® ytAV[•*. JL..,.. into the nostrils ; draw fuL^Cv C^^^^ £ <ff/r r I slroiighrealhs through the nose. It will Tie \ afoaorbwl, For I),,ftfnt ' BH ' T )y 1 ,>,ir " <:l< * i>>t " i ELY'S CREAM BALM HAVINO gained an enviable reputation, displac ing all other preparations In the vicinity of discov ery. Is, on Its merits alone, recognized as a won derful remedy wherever known. A fair trial will | , convince the most skeptical of Its curative pow- ! i ers. It effectually cleanse* the misal pass»«es of [ 1 Catarrhal vims. causing healthy secretions, al- i lavs inflammation and Irritation, protects the ! meinbranal lining* of the head from additional i colds, completely heals the sores and restores the j sense of taste and smell. Beneficial results are i j realized by a few applications. A thorough treat- J I incut as directed will cure Catarrh. As a house hold remedy for cold in the head Is iincijunlcd. j The ltalin is easy to use and agreeable. Hold by i dmgglsls at "0 cents On receipt of Vi cents will mall a package. Send for circular with full Infor mation. ELY'S CREAM BAI.M CO., Owcgo. N. Y. For sale In Hutler by I). 11. Wuller, ,1. C. Hedick, Zimmerman & \\ uller. Coulter & Linn. Union Woolen Mill, BUTI.ER, PA. If. FUMjERTON. Pro§»'p. Manufacturer of Bi.ankrtv, Flansbl«, Yarn*, Ac. Also custom work done to order, aiich as carding Roll*, mik in/ Blankets, Flannels Knit ling and Weaving Yarns, Ac., at very low prices. Wool worknd on the shares. It dc • ircil m»7-lv 1 BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 18.1881. MMI FOR RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of th 9 Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frostod Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals ?T. JACOB"- Oil. as ■ anfi' 9 Kurr, r.imple an'l rlirnp Extcniul HemcUy. V trial entails but the comparatively trifling outlay . i' Oa fonts, and every or.c MifieriiiK Willi jaiin , an have cheap and positive proof of ita ciaaiu. Directions in Eleven Languages. SOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALEES 15 MEDICINE. A. VOGEIJ2R Sl CO., JBaltimore t Md., XJ. S. X MRS. LYDIAT. PINKHAM. OF LYNN, MASS. DISCOVEREIt or LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B VE&ETABLB COMPOUND. ThcPosßlvt^ure For all Female Complaints. ThUi LT« nam© RONRTRTU of VCIOTABLE Tropc/tiea THAT ARC Ltrn:* to thc lUO>t del icate Invalid. U;»on one trial tlio n.orlta of thi« Com pound will bo RECOFRNT 2 as relief i.I immediate ; a:II trhon ITI twe In eo3t!r.Ul>«J, In nlnety-nino CPJICJ In a hua drod, APT ni%ncntciirci*cfl>« %r!L| tc» tifjr. Oa account of It s proven merits, it H R+ commen'LFKL and pre»orib?J by tbo BE-T p!iysiciana IA the country. It will cure entirely tl»O trorrt forr.l of FNILINF ef the utrnm, Menstruation, all Ovarian Troubles, lll.laxnniatiMa a:.d Ulceration, F!oo<!insr«, a!l Wrplacf.nent* and the con eequer.trpinal weakness, *r.d is adaj.trd to the CHANGE of I-ife. IT will dlaoolvo and ezprl tumors from t!.E uterasin an oar!y rtr.go of development. TH« tendency to cancerous hurno; S thoro B cLocked viry speedily by Its use. LA faet It has proved t> »e the (NEAT EST and L#est rem <<ly that liae ever U«n discover ed. It permeates every portion of thc rjoJ givee new lifcand vigor. It removes frdctac: *,J!a tulcrxy, do ■troy* ail CRAVING for ctliaulaota, an 1 relieves WCYINEN of the aionuv H It euros Klontlnj:, ?>rvous Trostratlon, General Debility, niecplciucrna, T>c;»rcaalon tnd Indt gestlon. That feeling of bear! NJ<*ov.'n, causing PAIN, WEIGHT and bcrkache, Is always f* rrnanently currd ly its u*a. It will at all tlmc4, r.ad uadcrrH clrcumatan oes, act In harmony with tho law that govei us the female system. For Kidney Complaint* of either SE* this compound ia unsurpaaaed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is prepared at 233 and 213 WESTERN Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price SI.OO. 82* bottles for £:.. W. Sent by mail L:I the form of pills, also In the form of Loscngt s, on receipt of price, SI.OO, per bo*, for either. lira. HMvILUI frec!y answers all lvttcn of Inquiry. KI nd for pam pbU t. AtMr«na AT AU»VE Jlrntio* ihU paprr. Ko family should be without LYDIA E. lINKHA3I' LT.XR. RXLL3>. T!»ey EIIRO CONRTLRTATLOR, I.iliouaneas, ai.d Torpidity of tbe Liver. L.j " nts per hot QKO. A. KELLY & CO. General Age ts, Pittsburgh Pa. Sold by I). 11. Wuller, - Dutlor Ta. HOP BITTERS?! (A .llodlcloe, not a Drink.) D CO.ITAITOS E ncrs, mrciir, MANDRAKE, H UAXDEMON, ■ A*i> rar. l'rr.r.nr »*n Ily.«TMrl>|f QI'AU- I rii H or ALL. OTIIZI: ItrrraiM. n TIIEY CUKE I All PISEAM^a of theF.tomach, R»F»WRL». Nl'»od, ■ L.lver, KITLIX'ys. a: >d Urinary Organs. Ner- H \ouanoaa, enpeclally Bl Fcuialc (OMl'laluUi. SIOOO IN COLD. WILL HE T"*M ' OR 11 R ** NR>T RINR litlp, or for nnytlilnir L:I ;»tirc or lujurious ■ found in tli« m. W A'k f Mir for lion NITERS AND t-y ■ IH« in before you sh op. Take UO I#tta<*r« ■ p T.C Is an absolute and I* resist !M<* cure for I L>runk.c;uie»s, USE of opium, tobacco and S narcoths. BMH BBXD FOB ClIKt-LA*. ■■■■■■■ All A»OL«L »«Y H LL'F Btllwn MFF Co., O'IMLFR, N. \ A R>NI. J WILL IT CORt ME? Said a man. whose woebegone eounten nuee ami broken-down constitution plain ly showed traces of disease —a MifTerer with Nervous liyspepslr. In whose stomach till? most delicate morsel lay tike lead Re freshing sleep and quiet nerves win- stran gers to him. unit he despaired of ever helng well. We advised him to lake SIMONS LIVER REGULATOR, which lie did. and in a short time was not onlv relieved hut cured. Header, if you arc suffering with Dyspep sia or l.iver Mlsea.se in any form, do not nail until the disease lias taken a fast hold j upon you. hut use the ItegulilTor when the symptoms first show themselves. SIM ! MO.N'M 1,1 VKit HKIitiI.ATOK Is not an al coholic stimulant, hul a IM'ItKI.Y VKGh- TA HI,IO ItKMKIJV hat will eure when everythingeise fail-. II Is a faultless fam ily medicine. I toes not disarrange the system. Is no vlolert drastic purge, hut nature's own remedy, flic friend of eve ryone. and will not disappoint you. A I single trial will convince \ou that it Is the I cheapest, purest and best Family Medicine In tlie world. ASK tlie recovered dyspeptics, billions I sufferers, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial diseased patient how tlieey re covered their health, cheerful spirits aud good nppclltc they will tell you liy taking ' Simmons l.iver ltegnlator. ASK YODR DRUGGIST FOR Liver Regulator! Ordinal and genuine prepared only bjr J, 11., ZfclLIN * CO., I'kiU. 1 apt rt-tV TORPEDO JIM. The Story of a Moonlighter. 'I am dying; yes, dying.' Away up on the Bingham lands, in the great northern oil-field of Pennsyl vania, a man lay dying. The flare of a huge gas jet came struggling through the wide crack of the rude hemlock board shanty and fell on the form of a man upon whose features the hand of trouble and sorrow had left heavy traces. He was alone, save the writer of this, and as the hours drugged slowly along he grew uneasy, as if he feared and dreaded tbe end which was inevit able. With an effort he roused him self. 'What time is it?' he asked. 'Nine o'clock.' 'big Jack won't be home till half past twelve, and before that time I will be locating wildcat' wells in another world.' 'Shall I go for him ?' 'No; oh, no! Don't leave me I couldn't watch out the last tour and run the last bit alone. I want to tell Big Jack something, but you will do just as well. Can you keep a secret ?' 'Yes.' 'Well, it's a strange story I'ye got to tell, and I want somebody to know it before—' He paused a lonj? time for breath. Tbe cabin or 'shanty' in which he lav was situated in a sheltered spot among a cluster of piant pines, and was the only habitation for miles around. It was far beyond the line marking the extreme front of oil operations, and had been hurriedly thrown together as a cabin for tbe drillers and tool-diessers of a test well since become famous among oil men as 'the duster that sent the market flying into the nineties.' It wasn't much of a shanty even for the oil country; the boards had been nailed together with more than usual care lessness, and the heat from the rough stove inside had warped the boards so that snow and rain sometimes blew in on the 'bunkers' during the night und frosted each man's beard and hair like a net-work of lace. Outside, & few rods from the door, a gas-light flamed and flared ucross the snow aud played ghostly pranks with the giant trees in the darkness of the night. I had sought the shelter of the rude cabin one cold day during the winter just passed, for I bad l»een delayed while 'out in tbe big woods' prospecting for new territory, and had not set out on the return journey soon enough to reach civilization by night-fall, and had been hospitably invited to stay as long as I pleased, providing I could accom modate myself to tbe surroundings. Five men occupied the cabin—two drillers, two tool-dressers and a male cook. Two of the men were, at nine o'clock at night, busy at the test well a half-mile away, two others were on a visit to Bradford for provision supplies, and the fifth one lay in a rude bunk above tbe pas stove, tossing from side to side and waiting for the 'silent sum mons.' It was Torpedo Jim, the moon lighter. What bis real name was no one knew ; be went under the dime novel name of Torpedo Jim. Some men called him Jim Barton, but wheth er or not that was really his name none of his friends aud acquaintances could tell. Jim had In-en sick for three days, so the head-driller, Big Jack Sanford. said ; and as 1 stood by the f-ide of his bunk and watched the pain-contorted face I wished I might lift the veil hang ing over this man's life, and so learn the tragedy and romance lying deeply hidden ben«ath the blue shirt and heavy coat. As I stood watching and waiting he started up in a fright 'My Ood, did you hear that?' he al most shrieked. 'No; I heard nothing. What was it ?' 'A woman's scream I have heard it before moie than once. Go outside and listen.' Curiously wondering what the man could mean, I opened th door and stepped out into tbe night. All was still and dark save a low whispering among the pines and the flure of tbe burning gus. Away off down the val ley, at the test well, I could hear the puff, puff of the laboring engine us it swung the ponderous drilling tools up and down and the ring of the heavy hummer as the tool-dresser pounded the bit into proper shape. No other sound broke the stillness of the night, and the little cabin under the pine was us silent us the grave. Into the room again and by the invalid's bunk was but a step, and as his eyes met mine the mute question was quickly answer ed : 'I could hear nothing except thc well; all is still,' was my reply. 'lt must be that I am dying ; yes, dy ing,' the man murmured once more, 'and I cannot go with a secret on my mind. Say, stranger, said he sudden- i ly, 'do you think Ood forgives the , blackest sins and crimes ?' He waited eagerly aud with emotion I for my answer 'Yes, if you ask it in the right spir- ; it.' 'Do you think so ? Well, lam glad of it, and I have been praying a long : time these three days I have been sick for Ood to wipe out tbe black spots j and stains in my life ; and oh, I do hope He has heard what I asked. But I feel that the end is near, und I'll tell you my story.' After having been proped up with a pillow of old coats and boots lie l»egan: 'I s'pose you've beard of Torpedo Jim, the moonlighter ? Yes? Well, that's me; and 1 got the name liecause I'm the only living man that took an active part in two glycerine explosions and lived I've handled hundreds of tons of the infernal stuff, both in tbe employ of Roberts, the torpedo monopolist, and working for myself, skulking aroung the woods at night and shoot ing wells against the law. I've been a pipe-line man, a tool-dresser and a driller, and a heap of other things lie- Rides, but the worst business I ever got into was this same moon-lighting. A man will stay ont of it so long as he fears Ood and regards man, and I tell you be gets pretty well hardened be fore he can sneak around nights with enough frozen bell to blow him into four tiifftfeot towasbiptt iu UiO of an eye. When a man gets so that he don't care whether he lives or dies the next minute, he goes into moon light ing and makes a heap of money. Oh, yes, there's lots of money in it, but it is dearly-earned cash. But I wasn't always a moonlighter. Oh, no; I used to be as promising a boy as ever walk ed. and that was only a short time ago. I am only twenty-six years old now, but I have felt to" be nearly fifty for the past two years. What made me a moon-lighter ? I'll show you. There —that made me a moon-lighter and—a —murderer!' It was a picture, a small locket pic ture of a beautiful young woman with dreamy browa eyes, sweet pouting lips and a wealth of dark-brown hair A most lovable young lady, surely, if the picture might be taken as a basis of calculation. The features were strange ly familiar to me, for they resembled the features of the wife of a prominent oil operator whom I had met several times at private receptions and small parties The man continued without interruption : 'Ah, you start,' he said with a fierce luagh. Jseen the orignal ? Yes? And you will see her again, roo. Four years ago I was engaged to that woman, and I was as happy as the day was long. I had bright pros pects in the life then, and ray father, who was in business in Philadelphia, where we lived, was supposed to be pretty comfortably fixed in life. But somehow or other, after he died and his affairs were straightened out, my mother and I hadn't a cent to give a beggar. I tried clerking and book keeping in Philadelphia for awhile, but it was no go; and to cap the climax of my misery the young lady I was en gaged to broke off tLe engagement with the polite excuse that she thought too much of me to hamper me with an en gagement, and that I could climl) the ladder of fortune much better if 1 was not bound by ties of any kind. Very tender and cousiderate, wasn't she ? She never cared for me as much as she did for my money, but I just worship ed her, and when she threw me over in that cool way I wilted right down aud left tbe city. I landed in the lower oil country and tried to do something. And then when I saw my mistake it was too late to get good bargains on leases in the northern field, but I came here all the same aud tried to make my way. I had my mother to support in Philadelphia all the time, aud it was through btr that I learned of the mar riage of the woman I loved to a wealthy man from the oil regions. I was sick for two weeks after that, stranger, und when I came to my senses I wasn't tbe same man. I didn't care to live ; and if it hadn't been for my poor old mother 1 should have killed ni}*- self. I became rough and reckless and did the roughest work I could fiud. I drove team awhile, and then built rigs und dressed tools. After awhile I turned driller and tried to save money for my mother, but I did't make it fast enough. The lonper I lived in the northern field the more reckless I be came, and it wasn't long before 1 was a moon-lighter. I made topedoes for shooting wells, against the law, aud out in the woods in a little log hut and hated the sight of man. I soon became the boldest and most successful moon lighter in the country, and every cent of money I could get above expenses I sent to Philadelphia. I got on the in side of a lot of information some lucky speculators had, and took a flyer <>n the market with splendid result. I made money hand over but fortune came too late to do me any good, aud though I was still a younjr man I looked for wurd to nothing this world could give. 'A year ago this winter I took to drinking 'tangle-foot' whisky, and after two or three sprees 1 got to going it at a terrible rate, and one day in the ear ly spring of 1880, some time in April, f think, I got into a row with a man at the head of Tram Hollow, and we had a red-hot fight. We were both drunk; and when I found I was getting tbe Ix'St of him a wild thrill rau through me, the devil took full posses sion of my actions, and before I could think twice I had stabbed him to the heart, und my hands were stained with the blood of a fellow creature!' The dying man shook with agony as the thoughts of that terrible deed came upon him, and his pain-distorted face was lifted in prayer for mercy and for giveness. It was a solemn hour for a stranger to that country—the death bed confession under the moaning pines and the long shadows of the giunt trees casting their somber forms about in the flickering light of tLe gas-jet. A silence fell upon us suddenly; the moaning of the pines sank to the faintest of whis pers, while from ufHr down tbe valley came the whirr and rour of the bull wheel as the cable of the heavy drill at the well ran with lightning speed over the crown-pulley do vn into the earth two thousand feet. 'Hark!' t-aid thc man whom death was about to claim. 'Big Jack is run ning the tools and is letting them slide so that I can hear. It is the last time I will ever hear that sound. I have heard it often and handled the bull wheel brake many times. I never will again ; no, never uguin on this earth.' He was silent again, and so still was the wintry night that I could hcur the thud of the walking-beam und the rat tle of the cable against the derrick. The silence Itecame absolutely painful, un til at last the melancholy face of the dying man was raised again. 'Stranger, come nearer; I'm going fast, snd I must tell you the rest. After I killed th.it man I hid the body in a clump of brush and searched him to learn who he was. I never found out, for he had on his oily clothes' and there was nothing in his poekets only this, a little piece of paper, and on it is written, 'What is life? 'Tis but a vapor, soon it vanishes away.' True, isn't it? At last I have found it so. WelJ, after I hid that man in the brush heap I wandered around the country and couldn.t eat nor sleep. It was glorious weather at that time ; every thing wa« as dry as a bone, and the next day I stood l>eforo that brush pile by some power of attraction that made me go tbere, saw a great column of blaek suioko rise up near (lew City. I ku*w ft to c/il 6h>, and 1 ko*w it would sweep a large area of couutry and leave nothing but ashes and the casing in the oil wells. The grouud was sprinkled with oil all over the fields and leaves were as inflammable as powder. Well, I watched the Hew City fire grow larper and larger, and all at once I became a fiend incarnate and set the leaves and oil soaked brush on fire around the big tinder pile that bid the body of the unfortunate pauper I had killed. Instantly the whole place was a blazing mass, and the fire spread so fast that I had to run for my lite. Did you ever see an oil fire? Yes? And saw the fires in Rew City, Tram Hollow aud Foster Brook ou that awful day? Is that so? Well, then, you know how fast they run and what a roar they make. It was just awful that day. 1 never saw any thing like it. It was reported that the Tram Hollow fire was accidental and that the fire started from some sparks that had been smouldering in a stump pile. That is all nonsense, for I star ted the fire myself and had to run for life to keep out of its way. Like a crazy fool, I ran down the valley with the wind, and the fire followed me like a monster ready to avenge itself. There were some houses down in the valley, and they used to call the place Oil Center, and when I reached the first house the fire had caught up with me, and I jumped into the creek and ran down in safety out of reach of the fire. 'Pretty soon I came to a house that belonged to a woman, and it was all she had between her and poverty, and I saw her trying to carry out some things; but before she could do anything the fire swooped down and caught up that house like whirlwind. That woman turned to me, gave one unearthly, heart rending scream aud fainted away. I took care of her until she was able to walk, md then put her in charge of some of her friends. Oh, that awful scream. I have heard it mauv times since; I heard it to-night while you were here. It has haunted me day and night; it has given me no rest. I sometimes think that the pauper I kill ed was some relative of hers, and that her scream comes to me in punishment for the deed. 'You know the result of that Tram Hollow fire? Scores of people thrown on the world homeless and penniless ; thousands upon thousands of dollars lost; children crying for broad about th<> skirts of their heart-broken mothers. I have since done what I could in a feeble way to see that those homeless people did not suffer for the necessaries of life ; but, oh, the remorse that has gnawed at my heart since that fatal day ! Why, oh why, did I ever touch the accursed whisky that made me a fiend? Why, oh why, did tho woman I loved drive me to this? Oh, curse—' He stopped as if stricken dumb, hi* eyes glaring wildly from their sockets, his face a picture of horror and fear. My God 1' he shrieked ; 'that scream again! Did you hear it? No; bow could you ? for it comes only to me. I feel that I'm going very fast now ; and oh, 1 hope God has forgiven me Come closer. Heie, take the picture and keep it, and—some—day show it—to the woman it represents —and tell her —and—tell her—l—l loved her—to— the—the—last!' The gas-light came struggling through the crucks in the rough cabin and fell upon an upturned face, from which had faded sorrow and care and hate and fear and all things earthly, and which, as the Angels of Death re leased the suffering spirit, reflected from its cold form the look of peace and love of the dead but unfortuuate past. Slowly, reverently, I closed the door of the rude building and left the dead alone with the changing shadows under the moaning pines. Ontj in to the wintry night, down the little valley to the test well I walked as in a dream, and as I opened the door of the derrick and stood before the giant form of Big •Jack Sanford that large-hearted man gazed at me in surprised silence. 'The man up at tho shanty—l be gan, and a lump seemed to come into my throat all at once. 'Yes?' said Jack interrogatively. 'He is—is—dead!' and I sat down on the anvil in sheer despair. 'What! Jim Barton ? Torpedo Jim?' I could only n<<d assent. 'Dead! Torpedo Jim dead! I'oor Jim!' And a great sob shook the burly form of the driller as he groped blindly for the throttle-wheel. With a creaking and jarring, the ponderous machinery came to a stand still, and honest-hearted Jack Sanford leaned against the back brake ol the sand-reel and wiped the moihture from his eyes with a kind of a groan. Tho tool-dresser came rattling into the der rick with a Gem Theater song on his lips, but as he saw his fellow-worker the song died awav, and he stood in amazement before his friend nervously wiping his grimy hands with a bit of waste. 'What—what's tho matter, Jack? Lost a bit down the hole, or is she stu k fast in the rock ?' inquired the tool-dresser No reply. •Ain't broke tho temper-screw nor nothin', hev ve ?' With an effort tin driller aroused himself and started the heavy tools once more. Then nodding tov ard the bull-well, and then at the tug-wheel rope-belt, he soon had the tool-dresser busily : n preparing to raise the tools from the hole two thousand feet under the snow. Have you ever stood in an oil der rick and watched a heavy set of drilling tools being raised from the bottom of a hole two thousand feet deep? How the cable springs and stretches; how the timbers creak and groan as if every revolution of the monstrous bull-wheel was attended with pain, and how the engine labors and fiercely coughs forth its discontent at such hard Work. As Big Jack Sanford turned on the steam that cold night and started the drill from its rocky l>ed every piece of timber aod every bit of iron aeomtd to cry out against the proceeding. Never had tho thickly-braided cable shot out from toe hole with such lightning speed, and never before had the tool droaaor forgotten to pour water down tUwb'olfl Rl tfrt) iwqriog ftbtf CWffe ADVERTISING} BATES. One square, one insertion. 91 ; each ail bee quent insertion, 90 cents. Yexrly advertisement exceeding one-fourth of a column, f6 per inch Figure wort double these tatee; addition* charges where weekly or monthly changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cents per tine for !i»t insertion, and 5 centa per line for each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub lished free of charge. Obituuy notices charged as advertmemeuts, and payable when handed in Auditors' Notices, $4 ; Executors' and Adminis trators' Notices, *3 each; Estray, Camion an* Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten linee, each. From the fact that the CITIZEN is the oldes' established and most extensively circulated Ke publican newspaper in butler county, (a Kepufc licau county) it must be apparent to busineeh men that it is the medium they should use ib advertising their business. NO. 2(5 rushing to the surface. How the dirty water and bits of Hand did fly about as the cable rattled on the boards of the derrick! But the nerve of Big Jim never faltered, aud 'n the midst of the rush aud roar he found time to order the tool-dresser.to put out the fire under iSe boiler and close up for the night. At last the unwieldy drill stood dripping on the derrick floor, and silently the driller led the way through the snow-path up through the wooded valley to the lonely cabin. As we neared the place I gently held the tool-dresser's arm and allowed Big Jack to go on and enter the cabin alone. All this time the tool-dresser was pro foundly ignorant of the whole affair, and as I broke the news to him as gently as possible the usually thought less-spoken man sjbered down and said nothing for a long time. At last with * a suspicious huskiness in his voice, he spoke 'Poor old boy !' satd he gently and sorrowfully ; 'his troubles on this earth are over forever. And poor Jack, he loved him like a brother, although he knew that Jim was once a high-toned cuss from New York or some big city. And doesn't it seem strange to you that a man who had been through two nitro-glycerine explosions should pass in his checks away out here in this God-forsaken country ? And all alone, too, that is, I mean, with none of his friends near. It seems hard, doesn't that a fellow like what Jim used to be before he struck this country should die all alone up here away from his mother and friends ? They say he had a mother, but be was ashamed to see her as he was, and none of us, not even Big Jack, knows where she is. But I know she has been weli provided for, because Jack told me Jim had giv en her a)>out twenty thousand dollars that he had made up here. She want ed him to come home and live with her; and they say that when he would get a letter from her be would go out into the woods by himself and stay till night, and then he would burn the letter in the fire. Strange, wasn't it? He thought a good deal of his mother; but they say be had some affair of the heart that "broke him all up for good. Women are queer things, anyway. I have always tried to keep away from them, for it's like running your hands into a gas-fire to get mixed up with them. Well, well, I'm sorry that poor Jim run his last bit and struck the sand out here, for he was different from any of us, aud was made for some thing better than to die here all alone. Poor Jim, poor Jim !' Softly we entered the little cabin and stood in the presence of the dead. It seemed so strangely that death should come down and lay his hands 011 the sick man under the hualth-givingpines ; it didn't seem like other haunts of death, like funerals in churches and grand houses, where sorrowing friends crowd around theuilver-trimmed casket and take a last look at the tenement of clay. There it was pomp and worldly sorrow ; here it was poor, unfortunate James Barton" Torpedo Jim. lying in his bunk so cold and still and silent. We satin the little cabin a long while in silence, each man busy with his own thoughts and strangely affected by the presence of death in the lonely forest. The night wore on apace, and alter awhile Big Jack Sanford, the driller, arose aud went out of the room into the early morning, closing the door carefully, as if afraid be might disturb the corpse of his friend. Hours pass ed, and r.s one by one the stars faded away and the Bun came gleaming through the tree-tops the tool-dresser and 1 dropped off to sleep ; and when we were awakened by the sounds of footsteps on the frozen snow we saw Big Jack coming toward the cabin with a rough hemlock box shaped like n coffin. 'lt isn't BO nice as I could wish,' said Big Jack as he deposited his burden on the board table; 'but it is the best we can do.' With the loving tenderness of a fath« er, Dig Jack gathered the inanimate lorm of Torpedo Jim in bis strong arms and laid him gently in the nar row coffin. And then he and the tool dresser lifted tho remains and carried them through the doorway and down the path leading past the well. It was the most sorrowful funeral procession 1 have ever ueen. It wasn't much ofa procession, to be sure, .lack and his fellow-worker .ed the way with tho body and I followed. Yet thero was sorrow there ; sorrow for the dead and oching hearts and broken sighs joined with the moaning pines in chanting a requiem for-one to whom fate had been a bitter enemy. Down past the well to a lightning-blasted giant pine tree, and as its foot was a newly-made grave, the last loving labor that noble-hearted Jack eould do for his dead friend. And then, as we lowered the blue-eved msn into his last resting place, the sun burst through a cloud and fell full upon us and east a halo of golden glory about the scene ; and when all was done tho driller raised his arms and said slowly and solemnly ; •Peace to his dust and ashes through time and eternity. Amen I' Poor Jim ? Yes, poor Jim ; faraway out in the Bingham forests, under the world of snow, sleeps the blue-eyed man who will always be in the great army of those who die unknown to home and friends, and who will to the end of time In? among tho missing. And in her comfortable Philadelphia home the patient, loving mother waits and watches for her boy, the boy who will gladden the old, tried heart and brighten the old home never again on this earth ; and by-and-by she will put away the well-worn Bible and gold bowed spectacles and lie down to sleep the sleep that rights all wrongs, heato all wounds, and gives the beloved eter nal peace and rest. And in a little valley in the great northern oil field there stands a giant blasted pine with these words: 'Sa cred to the memory of Torpedo Jim, who died unknown January, 1881.' From Sassafras, Kent Co., Md.—l find that 1 sell as much of Dr. Bull'* Tough Syrup as of all other cough remedies combined. J. £2. Hartley, tfruggift.
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