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TUB BVTIiBR CITIZBiS,
BOTLER. PA.
BOOTS & SHOES.
THE OLD AND RELIABLE
BOOT AND* BOUSE
B. C. HUSELTON,
Is now Receiving Fresh New Qoods ia the Latest Styles the Eastern
Markets produces. All his
Spring an<l Summer Stock
OP
BOOTS m SHOES
Are now ready for inspection. These goods are made to his own
special order by the largest manufacturers, and coming direct from
them to his House there are NO MIDDLE PROFITS TO
PAY. lie 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
Above a/11
in the prices, are such that no one can resist going to the
LARGEST BOOT £ SHOE HOUSE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
B. C. HUSELTON,
MAIN STREET, BUTLER PENN'A.
Some and 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 $2.15 and upwards.
" Brogans and Plow Shoes, 90c and upwards.
Large Hoe of the very finest Machine and Hand sewed goods in stock.
Ladies Serge Congress and Polish, 75c and upwards.
" " Grain Fox and Polish, elegant goods, SI.OO and upwards.
" Grain Peg Polish, elegant goods, SI.OO.
" " Standard Polish, elegant goods, $1 25, all warranted.
" Kid Button Boots, $1 .50 and upwards.
" Grain and Peb. Button Boots, $1.40 aud upwards.
" " Sewed Polish Boots, good, $1.25 aud upwards.
Very large 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.
telipDers, Low and 1-s"utton New ports-
BOYS AND YOUTHS' SHOES in proportion to Men's. Can't give many prices,
space will not permit, suffice to say you find every thing in the Boot & Shoe
line and verv low figures at
B.C.HUSELTON'S.
LAIUIE STOCK or LEATHER & FiNDtNoa 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.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
or
FAIRVIKW TOWNSHIP .SCHOOL .DISTRICT.
TUKAHUKM'H AO'OUXT-MONKY KKCKIVKD.
Balance on hand fniiu last year $3,128 01
Received from State appropriation 1,00:1 HO
From collector. Including taxes cf all kind 4,«>H 42
From sale of bouses and lands 23
Total receipt 73
M OXKV PAID OUT.
For nurchastiu grounds 9 la". 00
For buitdiui; leases
For teaeners' wagon 3,0«0 uo
For rent and repairs 75 «
For fuel and t'outliigencles (»
Fees of Collector lft"> 16
Fees of Treasurer 113 12
Salary of Sec'y, expns, statuy, |io«tage, &c So 00
For printing and auditors' fees 10 00
For all other purpose* and sundry ex prises. 249 70
Total money paid out 95,964 47
RKfIOUIH'KH AND LI AHi LIT] KM.
Cash on hand s2,2fl# 26
Amount due district :tar; 12
The above account has beeu duly audited by the
auditors of this district ann certified by them to be
correct. W. P. CAJII'BEI.I., Sec'y.
•f. K. RANKIN, 1 AlMlu -_
B. S. KANKIN, . itt «' tors -
VIA-SANO
THE GREAT
a mma mm lucalfptaa. Saraaparilla, Mudritl.
I I IICD Daadalloa, Kidoaj-Wurt. Hue ha,
Ibl V it I*. B.pi. kt.. Which KU promptly o»
m m m n ■ ■mm I m tho Ufir, Kidaajra, Blood, Stomach
If 111 111. V »*l Bow«l» atthe aama Una. Thou
■ Minir V "l>« *r» ao latiaiauljr aooaartod
|\|Ul Ik I that ahn uaa it tbor all
AKB haeataa »<n or laaa affacud. man
■k ■ A A M tha (raw aaluo aad auporiurilr o!
HI II II II thl» cooipoaad. which raatoraa than
0 W W W V all to hoolthy actioa, aad aa a loaic.
OWfTtV hullda up tho oatira ajatora. It la
AjbJufil/I alao a aoa»Tal*ah)a raaMdy for tlaad
lAnM-BHiou.
Mulaa.r>cU. Lanatottlaa.tUfta. AlMraCfiaUaadooantrjr
atoraa h»»o it, of win |o« it tar yoa. Alao praparod is aa(ir
""NOTICE TO FARMERS.
number of Farm* for sale or exchange
at low prict and on easy payment*. Several
•malt farm* from 35 to 50 acre* wanted. Alao,
loans furnished to farmers hiving improved
lirnit on long time ar.d at low rates. Address
W. J. KIBKADDEN, Freeport. Pa.,
Or call on Office days: Every Monday at
Freeport. Every Tuesday at No. #O, Fourth
Avenue, Pittsburgh.
Union Woolen Mill,
BUTLER, PA.
H. FULLEKTOX. Prop'r.
Manufacturer of ULAXEKTS. FLAMKBLS, Y'AKNS,
Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as
curding Rolls, making Blankets, Flannels, Knit
ting and Weaving Yarns, Ac., at very low
prices. Wool worked on the shares, it de
aired. my7-ly
Special Notice.
To all parties troubled with Baldness, Un
natural heat in the head, and Headache, the
Alpha Hair Restorer in the first and only reme
dy ever discovered, that has never failed in a
single case ; and we defy anyone to produce a
ease of baldness where it has failed to make
hair grow, even in cases o;' thirty y«ars stand
ing. Send for circular and sworn testimonials
to JAMES MURPHY 4 CO., General Agents,
23 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
For Sale or Exchange for a Farm
Three acres of land, large honse, store room
and hall above, and stable and out-buildings six
mile* from Butler, on the Glade Mill and Han
nabatjwn road at Jefferson Centre. Young or
chard of good fruit thereon. Any person want
lug to purchase or exchange for a farm will in
quire at CITUKM office, or addresa
MRS. KATE I. NF.OT.EY,
Saxonburg, Butler county, Pa.
Advertise in the CITIZEN.
VOL. XVIII.
PHYSICIANS.
JOHN E. BYERS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
myai-ly] BUTLER, PA,
Office on Jefferson street, opposite
Klingler's Flour Store.
DENTISTS.
JDEHSTTXSTIR, * .
0 1# WALDRON. Graduate of the PliU-
K adclpbla Dental College,is prepare''
■ 11 ato do anything in tbe line of hi>
profession in a satisfactory manner.
Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block,
op stairs. apll
DIRECTIONS.
■lmiyi ...nil LIU K(>r Catarrh, hay fever
mr L.KPAM RM," ■ cold ill the Head, &c„
mmf*S'oMmZr.
■LATArrh COLO* 'iySl a particle of the Balm
H HAV-A-f.CJttLma-it rir. tfllll Into tlie nostrils; draw
'OiT> P I strongbreaths through
W- m>-~' CaNja the nose. It will be
ftua sCjrlfabsorbed, cleansing,
f»UBALP**Tr« .Vf-fcJm aml healing the dls
sV#o«"-*.leased 1 eased membrane,
•£gM For Deafness,
apply a particle Into
ELY'S CREAMBALM
HAVING 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
ers. It effectually cleanses the nasal passages of
Catarrhal vims, causing healthy secretions, al
lays inflammation and irritation, protects the
membranal linings of the head from additional
colds, completely Heals the sores and restores the
sense of taste and smell. Beneficial results are
realized by a few applications. A thorough treat
ment as directed will cure Catarrh. As a house
hold remedy for cold iu the head is unequalcd.
The Halm U easy to use and iigreeahle. Sold by
druggists at 50 cents. On receipt of vt cents will
mail a package. Send lor circular with full Infor
mation.
ELY* CREAM BALM CO.. Owego, N. Y.
For sale In Butler by I). 11. Wuller, J.C. Kedick,
Zimmerman & Wuller. Coulter 4 Linn.
EXECUTORS* SALE!I
The undersigned executors of Robert Thomp
son, deceased, late of Chuton township, Butler
Co., Pa., offer for sale the following described
property, located in said Clinton township :
One hundred acres of laud, partly cleared,
bounded on the south by lands of John Glasgow,
on Iho east by lands of James CrisweU's heirs,
on the north by laud of Wm Thompson and on
the west by land of Absoloin Monks, situated on
tbe three-degree road, which pauses near the
house. GO to 70 acres iu good state of cultiva
tion, good frame and log bouse, wagon-shed and
spring house, good Bpring of water nesr the
house, and a first-class young orchard of bearing
fruit trees. Convenient to schools, churches,
mills, coal bank, etc.
ALSO—Farm of Wm Thompson, adjoining
same tract, and containing about 101) acres, and
liavii.g on it a good,brick house, good ue't frame
bauk barn and outbuildings, good orchard, it
being part of same farm.
MONKS, I
J. W. MONKS. f " n
of Robert Thompson, doc'J, late of Clinton twp.
Summer Normal Term.
The Summer Normal Term of the Wither
spoon Institute, Butler, Pa., conducted by Pro
fessors P. S. Bancroft and J. C. Tinstmaii, will
open ou Monday, June 'M, 1881, continuing six
weeks and closing July 30. Tuition J*4.50. A
thorough course of instruction will be given in
all branches taught in the public schools.
WANTED ■general housework.
Inquire of Henry O. Hale, corner of Penn and
Sixth streets, Pittsburgh. 3tmy2s
I Planing Mill
—AND—
i
Lviml>ei' Yard.
J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS
S.G. Purvis & Co.,
MANUFAC'TI REKS AND DEALERS 131
Rough and Planed Lumber
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
FRAMES,
MOULDINGS,
SASH,
DOORS,
FLOORING,
SIDING,
BATTENS,
Brackets, GaugedC ornic t foards
PORCLI POSTS,
STAIR RAILS
Newell Posts and Balusters
FENCE PALINGS, <fcc., Ac ,
MICHIGAN SHINGLES,
Barn Boards; Plastering Lath ; Hem
lock Bill Stuff, such as Joist Raf
ters, Scantiing, tfcc.. all sizes
constantly on hand
All of which we will sell OD
reasonable terms lud guar
antee satisfaction.
PLANING MILL AND YARD
Wear Gcruinn Catholic Church
j in7-80-ly
A. Haffner,
SUCCESSOR TO .
H. BAUERIBROS.,
BITI.ER, PA.,
PLANING MILL
AND
Lumber Yard,
MANUFACTUBEB AND DEALEB IN
Rough and Planed Lumber
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
DOORS,
SASH,
FRAMES,
MOULDINGS,
SIDING,
FLOORING,
BATTENS,
Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards,
PORCH POSTS,
STAIR RAILS,
NEWELL POSTS <fc BALUSTERS,
FENCE PALINGS, Ac., Ac.
MICHIGAN SHINGLES
Barn Boards, Plasterinj? Lath, Hem
lock Bill Stuff, of all kinds,
constantly on hand,
All of which I will sell on reasonable
terms and guarantee satisfaction.
Planing Mill and Lumber Yard on
Jefferson street, Butler, Pa.
ldecly A. HAFFNER.
HOTELS
-JpHK SBHREIBER nOUSE.
L. NICKLAS, Prop'.,
MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA.
Having taken posession of the above well
known Hotel, and it being furnished in the
bent of style for the accomodation of guests, the
public are respectfully invited to give me a call.
I have also possesion of the barn in roar of
hotel, which furnishes excellent stabling, ac
comodations for my patrons.
L. NICKLAS.
BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts.
J. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT.
WM. CAMPBELL. TREASURER
H. C. HEINEMAN, SKCRETAKY.
DIRECTORS:
J. L. Purvis, E. A. Helmboldt,
William Campbell, ' J. W. Burkhart,
A. Troutiuan, Jacob Schoene,
Q. C. Roesslng, ! John Caldwell,
Dr. W. lrvin, J. J. Croll.
J. W.Obrlity H. C. Heineman.
JAS. T- M'JUNKIN, (Jen. Ag't-
BUTLER PA.
I). L. Cleeland,
• (FORMERLY OF HARRIBVILLE)
DEALEB IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY
BPECTACLEB * VIOLIN STRINOS,
Fine Watch and Clock repairing a speci
ality. All work warrented.
Store between Wuher's Drug store and Butler
Savings Bank. Main street. Butler. Pa.
/ "I\>r p-'a la tho limbs, back, itooachTK
J rhoul'lcr blades, t.-.to 1*1:-1 >
/ 'Tor cnunp of tho stoninrh. colic, dlar-|i
t rtJaa, or Voiultl:ij, t::ko I'e:.l'NA. '' ISBSBH \
J "For cwiifh, Tili'at tv/cats. short- V
' ncssof breath,taLol*-;ji;.». A. EHSMHMBI
/ ''Forchronic catarrh, bronchitis, pleurisy. \
/ and torn tiiruatof any kind— I'taoKA." OH V
i 'TIRCXAb th'i purest, most prt.mnt ami ,
/ cmclwiitiiiuUlcliio k.'iu.i it toiuun. 1 ' \
/ i 3 V" ,iCst •jpetlicr, purest V
/ inT'ldl
j "If yen nn't cleon, tako I'cnrKA tU v
i 7 e . worried Mentally, can't rc.' t, take \
J - I.UL'.V A. '' I
, "JIOOO will Txj paid forttie li»i«tlmnnrlty or .
/ mh.«ral ttat ii>ay bo found la I'tnt A." ■■ \
/ Bold everywhere. For pamphlet write to V
' S. IS. 11ALTM AX li Co., Osboru, Ohio.
/ If you ero rick, feel badly, or In nny way \
j unwell, takoPiiiLMA and regulalo tho bow- k
r cU with
PKKIM and MAN A LIN
FOR SALE BV
zmnEUKAsr a WULLEB
BUTLER, PA.
w, ' ek 1,1 > o,,r ow " town. Term* and IB
vUU.mtnt free. Address 11. HALLKTr & Co.,
Portland, Maine.
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 20,1881
toiSttii
FOR
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout,
Quinsy, Sora Throat, Swellings and
Sprains, Burns and Scalds,
General Bodily Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, frosted Feet
and Ears, and all other Pains
and Aches.
No Preparation on earth equals ST. JACOB.* OH as
A MM re. mi nipt f find clirap External Remedy.
A trial entails but the comparatively killing outlay
of SO Cents, and every one suffering with jialn
can have cheap and positive proof of Its claim*.
directions In Eleven Languages.
SOLD BY ILL DRUGGISTS AND DEALEBB IV
MEDICINE.
A.YOGXLLER 3c CO.,
Baltimore, Md., XT. A, Am
II f ill in s insH ynn are a
of man of Irt
med by the strain of ter*tciliiiKo ver mld
your duties tnitl W niifl't work, to res
•timulautft and use W tore bruin nerve and
Hop Bitters. B wa*tc, uw Hop B.
If 70a are younfr an 11 suffering from any IB
discretion or di4*i|>a ■ tion , if you are mar
ried or sinffl**. old or ■young, buffering from
poor health or languish ■I ng on a bed of sick
neat, rely on Hopl Bitters.
Whoever v o-tt are, flP| Thousands die an
wheuever you feel |W (1 nually fro in some
that roiir *y»tern JBTJJ form of Kidney
ilrr- '-jr '— Wl» that mltfht
Injr or stimulating, have been prevented
without intoxicating, [fl -1 by • timely use of
take Hop Hopßitt.ra
• itt.r a.
BARE TOO DY
ptpaia. kUlnn O | e.
or u rinary com- . . .
plaint, dl*e»»e JT J 1 J®
bt the Btomach, ft UC\T) £. D,! lrreuiH }^
bowrlt. blood, H HILL blerjire for
liver or nerres f lIU 1 (Irunkenne s• ,
_ ~. . H use of opmrn,
You will be RITTrnO tobacco, or
H IIFRS Dircotlc *
If yooarrsim- 9 Sold by drn»-
CY weak and . nrwrn J-}*"- Seadlor
W ■pirlted, try JJ NEVER Circular.
it llt may ,1 r-» ■■ HOP DITTOS
FAIL
saved hun- ; | «. T.
dra<T«. H - [ A Toronto, Oat, )
If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have fre
quent headaches, mouth tastes badly, poor api>E
tite and tongue coated, you art- suffering from tor
pid liver, or "bllliousni'ss," and nothing will cure
you so »|>eedilv and ixTiuauentiy as to take SIM
MONS LLVKK ItKCfLATOIt OK M KI>ICIN K.
mid Ilest Family Medi-
AN EFFECTUAL SPK- ILI"LICS
nine lor all diseases of
MALAUIOUS 1 K KKV'-
KKS, BOWEL COM- lrH(iUi;l<ll t '|
PLAINTS. RESTLESS- V V "J
NESS. JAUNDICE and •
NAUSEA.
&RRATUI
Nothing is so unpleasant, nothing so common as
had breath, ai-d in nearly every case it comes
from the stomach, and can" he su easily corrected
if you will take Simmons' Liver Regulator. l)o not
neglect so sure a remedy for this repulsive disor
der. It will also improve your AP|»etlte,Complex
ion and Gnueral Health.
9It.ES /
How many suffer torture day after day. making
life a burden ami robbing existence of all p> isur--
owing to the secret suffering from Piles. Yet re
lief IN ready to the hand of almost any one who
will use systematically the remedy that lias jier
manently cured thousands. SIMMONS' I.IVKB
RKUUI.ATOK, is no drastic violent purge ; hut a
gentle assistance to nature.
CQJTB TlFfi TIOX /
SHOULD not be regarded as a trifling
ailment— in fact nature demands the ut
most regularity of tlic bowels, and any
deviation from this demand paves the
way often to serious danger, it is quite
as necessary to remove Impure accumu
lations from the bowels as it is to eat or
sleep, and no health can he expected
where a costive habit of body prevails.
SfCK KKiiVXCIgK t
Tiiis distressing affliction occurs most frequent
ly. The disturbance of the stomach, arising from
the imperfectly digested contents, causes a severe
pain in the head, accompanied with disagreeable
nausea, and this constitutes what is |S>pularly
known as Sick Headache.
MANUFACTURED ONLV BV
J, 11. ZEIU.V A CO.,
PHILADELPHIA. PA,
22Jely) SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
YOUNG CLYDESDALET
Prince of Scotland,
Can be seen at the stable ol'thc subscrilier, near
Lcasureviile, Winfleld township, Uutlcr Co., Pa ,
the llrst three days ol each week, and Thursdays
and Fridays at the stable oi Joseph Flick in
Coylesville.
PRINCE OF SCOTLAND
is a beautilul dapple bay, rising six years old,
with immense bone and muscle, superior action,
and a perfect foot, wherein most heavy horses
lack, and for disposition is unexcelled ; stands
16% hands high, weighs over L,HOO pounds, and
w:is bred trom one of TLIE finest draught horses
in ttcolluiid. Further truce of pedigree Is un
necessary, as his appearance will recommend
hiui to competent judges.
ROBERT H ESSE LG ESSE R,
-o»pr2m Owner.
CR YSTALEN E.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST
i' A. I N T,
in the market. It can BE USIM! 011 Wood, Iron.
Tin, leather. I'lanlrr or Paper.
Mixed Ready For Use.
ALL COU)RS.
It goes further, lasts longer, liMiks better and Is
F'HKAPEIt than any other paint. For painting
Houses, Barns, Roofs, Fences, Wagons, &c„ IT
11 AS NO EtJI'AL. Call ami examine samples.
J. C. REDICK,
ATEPKTM] GENERAL AGENT. BL'TLER, PA.
A C* CMTC i WK WANT YOU In every
A vT EJI.> 1O I County, TO sell our NKW AU
TOMATIC CAKPKT SWKKI'KU. You can make
from J.TOO to * R ..U) |H-r day the year round. Good
prollts and rapid sale*. Capital not necessary if
you can furiiisli go<«I references. Address at once
I'AliK CAIII-KT SWKKI'KU CO.
Toledo, O.
WEEK, FL'.'A day at home easily made
▼ " "Costl v 1 liit lit free. Address TIL UK & Co.,
> Augusta, Maine. 2tnarly
FORTY DOLLARS.
'What! Forty dollars more ? Forty
dollars more? Forty dollars for trim
mings ? My mother never spent so
much on any dress. And you have
the dress ? I hate to seem cross, my
dear ; but with so many business men
failing every day, one sees the wisdom
of economy. Explain, my dear.'
'Well, papa,' said Emma, 'it is just
this: Madam Farine says that I need
ten yards of trimming at four dollars a
yard. The dress is half finished—and
really, money goes so. There were
other things to get. I'm ashamed to
ask, but I was obliged to.'
'Very well, my dear,' replied the
merchant; 'there is the rnone; ; but I
don't think you'll need any more before
Christmas. Times are not good, you
know, and dear me ! forty-dollars for a
trimming! Women are worse than
ever.'
Emma Rome slipped the roll of notes
into her purse with a feeling that it was
dearly bought; but fate has placed so
many women in the condition of beg
gars, and it is so customary to do as
Emma did, that she almost wondered
at the little pang which shot through
her breast. Besides, her father seemed
to forget the matter soon, and she knew
that he was called rich—that actually,
forty dollars was but a small sum for
him. So, breakfast over and Mr. Rome
off for that mysterious region known
as 'down town,' she dressed herself be
comingly and started on her shopping
expedition. On the way, thoughts of
her new dress ran through her mind,
She intended to wear it on an occasion
which to her seemed very important.
Some one was to be present whose
opinion she valued—some one she her
self admired very much. Did he ad
mire her?
She bad asked Jierself the question
over and over again. She had even
pulled away the petals of a marquerite,
one by one, counting as they fell with
the words, 'lie loves—he loves me
not.' And there were to be many
handsome girls present, and she was
not vain ; but she must look as well as
possible.
Thus absorbed she suddenly found
herself several blocks below her desti
nation. There was nothing for her but
to walk, and the way led through
streets filled with miserable tenement
houses. The fashionable girl hurried
until, all at once, she found a sort of
barricade across the street. The mid
dle object of this barricade was a sew
ing machine, to which ou one side
clung a woman. The woman was cry
ing; the tears splashed down on her
hand. An attendant crowd of residents
contemplated the scene with evident in
terest, and Emma Rome became per
force one of their number.
Scarcely ever before in her life bad
Emma Rome been in close contact with
actual misery. Poor, to her, simply
meant not rich. Now she was among
rags, dirt and misery, forced to stand
still for a moment and luok upon it.
At first the only emotion it excited was
disgust. But as she was about to seek
a passage through the squalid crowd
words fell upon her ear that arrested
her attention.
'Forty dollars I've paid on that ma
chine, and now you'll not giye me time.
I only ask time. I'm an honest woman.
I'll pay you. Man do you know its
all there is between us and starvation ?
Let me have the thing back. It's but
ten dollars I owe you.'
'You've owed that two months,' re
plied the man. 'Come, let go, Missus
I don't want to hurt you. I've got to
obey orders. 'Money or the machine,'
was what the boss said.'
But the woman did not relinquish
her hold. Still clutching the machine,
she turned her agonizing eyes upon
the bystanders.
Forty dollars,' she repeated, 'and
the machine but fifty, and he's takiDg
it. I never failed until Jim broke his
leg, and bis work stopped, and his
wages with it, and I'd doctor's bills
and all.'
'No, that she didn't,'cried a voice
from the crowd 'I am knowing to her
honesty.'
'And he'd better be off with his cart.'
cried a man who had stalked out of the
entry of the house near where the
crowd had gathered, rolling up his
sleeves.
'Look here, good people,' explained
the man who held the machine,'l don't
want to do this. I must obey orders
or lose my place and my bread and
butter. She'd better go to the boss
and talk to him—not to me.'
'l've been,' said the woman. 'He's
made of stone. I told him he'd starve
us. He will. There, what's the use
of my fighting like a drunken body in
the street—a decent woman ? They've
more than the worth of the thing now,
Cod knows; but they've the power.
Take it.' And she let go her hold and
covered her face with her hands.
But instead of those rough, red fin
gers, others, dainty and small and well
gloved, came down on the cover of the
machine.
Emma Rome had pressed forward, and
now spoke:
'Stop,' she said; 'will you let the
woman keep her machine if I pay you
ten dollars ?'
'Them's the bosses orders, Miss,' re
plied the man, 'and I'd be glad to do
it, too.'
Then, while the crowd gathered, and
the woman who had told her piteous
tale sobbed with joy, Emma drew the
sum named from her purse, received in
return a receipt, which she gave the
poor woman, and experienced for the
first time tho delight which the per
formance of an utterly unselfish ac
brings with it.
Moreover, when tbe machine had
l>een borne up stairs, Emma, who had
exchanged a few words with its owner,
followed her tQ her miserable room, no
ted its poverty, heard all tbe bitter-tale.
It was a true one—the hot ears told
that.
'But I don't mind anything now,
Miss,' sobbed the narrator. 'Now the
machine is my own, I don't mind how
hard I work. And the only great tug
now is the landlord—four dollars a
month for rent."
,As much a month as a yard of that
trimming,' thoaght Emma, with a little
pang.
She questioned the woman furtLer,
and found that her landlord lived
'down .stairs.' And before she turned
from the door she had emptied her
purse, and had paid three months' rent
in advance.
'Your husband will be well and at
work by that time,' she said ;and there
were no regrets for the lost fringe as
she took her Way homeward. Nay,
she was not even stung to the soul
when Madam Farine remarked, with a
glance that said volumes:
'The black lace from your old gren
adine dre33? Certainly, since it is
your taste.'
The dress, however, was not unbe
coming, despite the unfurnished lace,
and Emma wore it to the party. She
was quite conscious that every woman
of her acquaintance knew what the
dress was trimmed with, but her con
science whispered to her that she had
done right. Moreover, the light of the
better thought was on her face.
Somehow, Arthur Maine found himself
more than ever attracted to it, and as
she drove home that night, Emma felt
that the Marquerite which had said to
her, 'he loves,' had been no false
prophet.
She had learned two lessons in a lit
tle while; one that the poor might be
clothed and fed from the trimmings of
the rich ; the other, that extravagance
in dress never yet won any man's
heart.
THE MANUSCRIPTS ON
WHICH THE BIBLE RE
VISION IS BASED.
The original manuscriptsof the gospels
and epistles have long since disappear
ed, and all that we now have to de
pend upon for our translations are
copies, ancient versions, translations,
and the quotations made by the Fath
ers of the Church. The manuscripts
of the New Testament are of two kinds
—the 'uucial,' the oldest class of man
uscripts, written in capitals and without
puuetuation, and the 'cursive' manu
scripts, so called from their being writ
ten in a running hand that began to be
used in the tenth century. Those of
the old class were written between the
fourth and tenth centuries, the others
after the tenth century. Of the old
manuscripts there are 130 in existence;
of the new about 1,500. The very old
and very valuable manuscripts are only
five. Of thiae the Alexandrian Codex
was originally discovered at Alexan
dria, and was sent to Charles 1., in
1028. It is now in the British Muse
um. Nothing is known of the origin
of this, but it is usually assigned to the
middle of the fifth century. It is much
mutilated, twenty-four chapters of the
first Gospel, two of the fourth, and
eight of one of the Epistles being miss
ing. The next is the Vatican manu
script, supposed to have been written
in the fourth century. A copy of this
was never made till 1868, when fac
simile was issued. The condition of
this is much more perfect. The third
manuscript is that in the National Li
brary at Paris, whither it was brought
by Catherine de' Medici. This had
been overwritten—that is, the parch
ment had been used for other writings;
but, in spite of that, the original has
been deciphered. It is assigned to the
early part of the lifth •century. The
fourth manuscript is that now at Cam
bridge. This is the least valuable, as
it is much mutilated. It belongs to the
sixth century. The manuscript found
in 1844 in the Convent of St. Cathe
rine on Mount Sinai by Tischcndorf,
and copied by him in 1859, is the most
valuable of the five, as it contains the
New Testament complete. This is
to have been written in tie
fourth century. None of these most
valuable authorities were consulted in
preparing any of the English versions
of the Bible, even that of King James'
time. The Latin Vulgate, the plenti
ful cursive manuscripts, and the trans
latians were used. Errors and addi
tions like the Doxology at the end of
the Lord's Prayer had crept into the
translations, even into the Syrian,
which was as old as the second century.
The Latin Vulgate was probably an
excellent translation, as it must have
been made within a few years after the
death of St. John. The changes that
have just been made have been made
only when the weight of authority left
no doubt of their necessity. The text
is not a question of taste, of like and
dislike, but of historic testimony ; and
the revision represents the prevailing
view, at the present day, as to the pre
ponderance of this testimony.
THE VILLAGE POSTMIS
TRESS
The son of this postmistress says of
his mother: 'She's gettin' a little hard
a' hearin', though; but I tell her that
ain't strange, seein' she's heard so
much in her day. Ears can't last for
ever you know, Mis' Linton, an' for
fifty years there ain't been nothin'goin'
on among the neighbors that ma ain't
heard. Bein' in the postoflis is wearin'
to the hearin' ez well as the eyes.
Folks com in' an' goin' for their letters
generally leave as much news ez they
take away. By the way. Mis' Linton,
yersister, Miss Bradleigh's.comin' back
to-morrow. Ma was readin' the postal
cards last night, and she came across
one from her." 'Reading my postal
cards ?'exclaimed Mis' Linton. 'Why,
yes. Ma always reads 'em—leastways
she reads such as isn't took right off. She
says it's her duty. Might be news of
sickness or death or suthin else, that
we 4 d ought to send right along.
Tbey'er dreadful aggravatin' readin'
through. People don't write ez well
as they used to, an' don't make things
clear, nutber. When anybody writes
jes' 'Yes' or 'No' 011 a postal, 110 post
master in creation can make anything
of it But your Bister's postal is plain
enough, Mis' Linton; thar ain't nothin'
indefinite about her. She savs: 'comiu'
Thursday, 5 o'clock train. Have Fac
totum meet me,' Ma puzzled a good
deal over that word 'factotum,' and we
both concluded that 'twas the name of
your help. Furrin' name, ain't it? I
told inn 'twas new, any how, an' ez we
had a young ealft we was goin to raise,
an' hadn't named it, we coucluded
we'd call her Factotum, like that furrin'
1 kitchen girl o' yourn. Mis' Linton.
THE ONL Y PARA LLEL IN HIS
TORY.
Walt Whitman's Account of the
*assination of Lincoln.
Friday, April 14, 18t>5, seems to
have been a pleasant one throughout
the whole land—the moral atmosphere
pleasant too—the long storm, so dark,
so fratricidal, full of blood and doubt
and gloom, over and ended at last by
J the Min-rise of such an absolute Na
tional victory, and utter break-down of
secession—we almost doubted our own
| selves 1 Early herbage, early flowers,
! were out. (I remember where I was
1 stopping at the time, the season being
1 advanced, there were lilacs in full
I bloom. By one of those caprices that
( enter and give tinge to events without
| being at all a part of them, I find my
! self always reminded of the great trage
dy of that day by the sight and odor of
these blossoms. Itnever fails.)
But I must not dwell on this occa
sion. The deed hastens. The popu
lar afternoon paper of Washington, the
little Evening Star, had spattered all
over its third page, divided among its
advertisements in a sensational manner
in a hundred different places. 'The
President aud his lady will IK; at the
theatre this evening.' Lincoln was
fond of the theatre. I have myself
seen him there several times. I re
member thinking how funny it was
that he, in some respects the leading
actor in the stormiest drama known to
real history's stage through centuries,
should sit there and be so completely
interested and absorbed in those human
jack-straws, moving about with their
silly little gestures, foreign spirit and
flatulent text.
On this occasion the theatre was
crowded, many ladies in rich and gay
costumes, officers in their uniforms,
many well-known citizens, young folks,
the usual magnetism of so many peo
ple, cheerful, with perfumes, music of
violins and flutes—and over all, and
saturating all, that vast vague wonder,
Victory, the Nation's victory, the tri
umph of the Union, filling the air, the
thought, the sense, with exhilaration
more than all music and perfumes.
The President came betimes, and,
with his wife, witnessed the play from
the large stage boxes of the second tier,
two thrown into one, and profusely
draped with the American flag. There
is a scene in the play representing a
modern parlor, in which two unpre
cedented English ladies are informed
by an impossible Yankee that he is not
a man of fortune, and therefore unde
sirable for marriage-catching purposes;
after which, the comments being finish
ed, the dramatic trio makes exit, leav
ing the stage clear for a moment. At
this period came the murder of Abra
ham Lincoln. Great as that was, with
all its manifold train, circling round it
and stretching into the future for many
a century, in the politics, history, art,
etc., of the New World, in point of fact
the main thiug, the actual murder,
transpired with the quiet and simplici
ty of any commonest occurrence—the
bursting of a bud or pod in the growth
of vegetation, for instance. Through
the general hum following the stage
pause* with the change of positions
came the muffled sound of a pistol-shot,
which not one-hundredth part of the
audieuce heard at the time—and yet a
moment's hush—somehow, surely a
vague, startled thrill-and then, through
the ornamented, draperied, starred and
striped spacewav of the President's box,
a sudden figure, a man, raises himself
with hands and feet, stands a moment
on the railing, leaps below to the stage
(a distance of perhaps fourteen or fif
teen feet), fulls out of his position,
catching his boot-heel in a copious
drapery (the American flag), ialls on
one knee, quickly recovers himself,
rises as if nothing had happened (he
really sprains his ankle, but unfelt
then) —and so the figure, Booth, the
murderer, dressed in plain black broad
cloth, bareheaded, with a full head of
glossy, raven hair, and his eyes like
some mad animal's, flashing with light
and resolution, yet with a certain calm
ness, holds aioft in one hand a large
knife—walks along not much back from
the footlights—turns fully toward the
audience his face of statuesque beauty,
lit by those basilisk eyes, flashing with
desperation, perhaps insanity—launch
es out iu a firm and steady voice the
words, Sic temper tyrannin ! —and
then walks with neither slow nor very
rapid pace diagonally across to the
back of the stage and disappears. (Had
not all this terrible scene—muking the
mimic ones preposterous—had it not
all been rehearsed, in blank by Hooth,
beforehand ?
A moment's hush—a scream—the
cry of murder—Mrs. Liacoln, leaning
out of the box, with ashy cheeks and
lips, with an involuntary cry, pointing
to the retreating figure: He has killed
the President ! And still a moment's
strange, incredulous suspense, and
then the deluge!—then that mixture
of horror, noises, uncertainty—(the
sound, somewhere back, of a horse's
hoofs clattering with speed)—the peo
ple burst through chairs and railings
and break them up; that noise adds to
the scene; there is inextricable confu
sion and terror; women feint; quite
feeble persons fall and are trampled on;
many cries of agony are heard; the
broad stage suddenly fills to suffocation
with a dense and motley crowd, like
some horrible carnival, the audieuce
rush generally upon it; at least the
strong men do; the actors and actresses
are all there in their play costumes and
painted faces, with mortal fright show
ing through the rouge, some trembling,
some in tears; the screams and calls,
confused talk redoubled, trebled; two
or three manage to pass up water from
the stage to the President's box, others
trying to clamber up, etc.
Iu the midst of all this, the soldiers
of the President's Guard, with others
suddenly drawn to the scene, burst in
—some two hundred altogether—they
storm the house, through all the tiers,
especially the upper ones, inflamed
with fury, literally charging the audi
ence with fixed bayonets, muskets and
pistols, shouting; Clear out.' Clear
out! you son aof ! Such the wild
scene, or a sugg( stion of it rather, in
side the play-house.
And in that night pandemonium of
AI)VFKTISI\<i Kim,
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quent insertion, 50 centH. Yexrly advertisement
exceeding one-fourth of a column, f 5 por inch
I Kijjuro work doable tho»e ratet; additions
charge* where weekly or monthly changes are
iua<lc. Local advertisements 10 cents |er line
for liret insertion, and 6 catits per line for each
additional insertion. Slairiages and deaths pub
lished free of charge. Obituiry notices charged
as advertisements. and |livable when handed iu
Audi tors' Notices, #4 ; Executors' and Admini*
tratora' Notices. 43 each; Estray, Catition aiie
Ihfsolation Notices, not exceeding ten lines
each. '
From the fact that the Cmzns is the oldes*
established and most extensively circulated Ke
tmblican newspaper in Butler comity, (a Repub
lican coantyj it must be apparent" to business
men that it is the medium they should u»e in
advertising their business.
NO. 34
so useless hate, infuriated soldiers, the
audience and the crowd—the stage,
and all its actor* and actresses, its
paint-pots spangles and gaslights—the
life-blood from these veins, the best
and sweetest of the land, drips slowly
down, and death's ooze already begins
its little bubbles on the lips.
The President was at once removed
to a private house in the vicinity of
the theatre, where he died, at about 7
o'clock the next morning, without hav
ing uttered a word, surrounded by the
members of his family, and a number
of civil and military officers of the
Government.
HOW A WELL IS TORPEDOED.
But few people of the oil country
have a reasonably clear idea of the
manner in which an oil well is tor
pedoed, and that such a state of affairs
should exist is not strange, considering
the great amount of danger involved in
the handling of nitro-glycerine. To
give our readers an idea of how the
operation is performed, a special report
er of the Mail spent one day last week
with Mr. John It. Kuhn, agent of the
Roberts Torpedo Company in the War
reu district, and saw three wells shot.
Nitro-glycerine in a frczen state is
kept in six quart tiu cans in an iron
safe called the magazine. The maga
zine is generally situated in a quiet
spot a mile or so away from human
habitation. When glycerine is wanted
to torpedo a well it is hauled form the
magazine to the well in a wagon, and
is either packed iu boxes made for the
purpose or rolled in blankets Arrived
at the well the cans are placed in hot
water and glycerine thawed so that it
can be poured from the can into the
torpedo shell without trouble.
The torpedo reel—a heavy iron hand
reel—is fastened to the crank of the
band wheel and the line carried into the
derrick and passed over an iron pulley
suspended directly over the hole, and
to the hook in the end of this line is
hitched the lower section of the shell.
A forty quart shell is twelve feet long
and four and one-half inches in diame
ter, and is divided into two sections.
Tin tubes aboutan inch in diameter and
as long as wanted are fastened togeth
er and attached to the lower end of the
shell for the purpose of anchoring the
torpedo at the exact spot wished for
the explosion. Thus if the torpedo
was to be exploded twenty-seven feet
from the bottom of the hole, there
would be twenty-seven feet of anchor
attached to the shell.
When the glycerine is melted it is
poured through a crooked funnel into
the shell while the shell is hanging at
the top ol the hole, suspended by the
reel line. The filled shell is then
lowered until the anchor touches bot
tom, when the hook in the end of the
line is detached from the shell by a
quick jerk and drawn upto the surface.
The second section of the shell is filled
and lowered in a similar manner, the
lower end of the upper shell fitting
closely iuto the top of the lower shell
by moans of its conical shape. The
top of the upper shell is provided with
a 'head' and three percussion caps.
An iron weight called a 'go-devil,' fall
ing on an iron disk to a spindle of
which the caps are attached, explodes
the caps and so explodes the torpedo.
When the second shell is lowered
and the rope drawn up again, the 'go
devil' is dropped into the hole and in
about forty seconds a shock is felt and
a sound heard similar to that produced
by the discharge of a large revolver.
In three or four seconds or longer oil
begins to spout from the hole and in
another seconder two a column of oil is
flowing high above the derrick, accom
panied by a deafening roar of escaping
gas. When the bright, golden-colored
flow of oil has ceased, a column ofdirty,
black oil and sand shoots up, the im
mediate result of the explosion. There
is a smell of burnt glycerine in the air
and the derrick dripps with fresh oil
from samson post to crown pulley.
The glycerine man then picksjup his
tools and leaves the well ready for
tubing.
The torpedoes exploded by the Rob
erts Company are exploded under
several hundred feet of oil or 'fluid
tamping.' A 'dry shot' is one made
without fluid iu the hole. The Roberts
patent is on tie fluid tamping, as the
fluid acts in the well as a tight wad
does in & cannon The explosion opens
up the oil bearing rock and causes the
will to flow.
[Reading, (Pa.) Times and Dispatch.]
Art and Oil.
The Norfolk Virginian of January
IG, 1881, refers to the remarkable cure
effected by St. Jacobs Oil in the case
of Prof. Cromwell, —known the country
over for his magnificent Art illustra
tions—who hud suffered excruciating
torments from rheumatism, until he
tried the Oil whose effects he say were
magical.
The lioston Transcript says that
parents punish their children for being
so much like themselves.
I had Chronic Catarrh for years.
Peruna cured it. I. Strasburger, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The question is asked whether if is
worse for the Chinese to admire a
small, deformed foot than for the
French and English to admire a small,
deformed waist.
For 13 years I had Chronic Catarrh.
The Catarrh is well. Peruna. Mrs
J. Manks, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Another contradiction of the rumor
that the peach crop of Delaware and
Maryland has been 'blighted' comes
from Mr. W. M. Peters, of Snow Hill,
Worcester County, Md. His peaches
are now just forming, and are sound
from skin to pit. His orchard is one
of the largest in the State, containing
20,000 peach, 18,000 apple, 10,000
pear, 3,000 quince trees.
It is not generally known, but chem
istry nevertheless affirms, that a cer
tain gas is generated from ice. An
icehouse is, infact, a regular powder
magazine, and people who have ice
houses should take care to secure prop
er ventilation At a certain state of
heat the gas in an icehouse has l»een
known to explode bv the lighting of a
match. The fact does not appear to
be generally known.