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ITHK SYMPTOMS OK LIV KH COMPLAINT are uneasiness and pain in KTMMnWK the side— sometimes the ixAvAi o p aln is j n t i, p shoulder, and is mistaken for rheu matism ; the stomach is with loss of appe ite and sickness ; bowels, in general, costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain and dull, heavy sensation, con siderable loss of memory, accompanied with pain ful sensation of having left undone something w|iieli ought to have lit <-u done ; often complaln of .weakness, debility and low spirits. Some times many of the above T TT7PIJ symptoms attend the dls- A J A * -C.lv ease and at other times very few of them, but the liver is generally the organ most involved. CURE THE LIVER with Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator, a preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strictly vegetable, and can do no sort of injury to anyone. 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Zeilin & Co. [22juuely PATENTS. T. F. LEHMANN, Solicitor of Patents, cor ner Sixth avenue and Smithfield St.. Pittsburgh Pa. Branch office at Washington, D. C. No patent, no pay. Send for Circulars. [Sjelm THAN A TOP SIS. BY WILLIAM CCLLEN BRYANT. To him who in the love of nature holds Commuuion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of biautv, and she glides Into his iarker musings with a mild And healing svmpathv that steals away Their sharpness, 'ere he is aware. When tho'ts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over the spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall, And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart; Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around— Earth and her waters and the depths of air— Comes a still voice—Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding siin shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the oold ground. Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human traoe, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be ft brother to th' insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magni Scent. Thou shalt lie down "\Yith patriarchs of the infant world —with Kings. The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good. Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past. All in one mighty sej>ulcher. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of Heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings Of morning, traverse Barca's desert sands Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings—yet, the dead are there; Aud millions in those solitudes, since first The flight ot years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone, So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will )augl) When thou art gone, the solemn brood or oare Plod on j and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments and shall come And* make their bed with thee. As the long train Of the ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron and maid, And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man ; Shall one bv one be gathered to thy side, By those, wno in their turn shall f6llow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-alave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed Ey an unfaltering tryst, approach thy grave ike one who wraj>s the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams. THE FIRST MRS. PEPPERTON How her Husband once came to Imag ine he aaw her Spirit. 'Believe in ghosts ? I hope I am not such a fool as that,' said Mr. Pep perton, scornfully ; and he looked with an air of supreme contempt, at his ques tioner. When I can put my hand upon a sensible sort of a fellow, who has seen one in broad daylight, when be was quite awake and quite sober, then I'll give the matter my attention ; but until then I shall keep to my opinion that there never were such things, and it's only asses who believe in anything of the sort.' 'Thank you, Mr. Pepperton,' return ed the young farmer, laughing. 'But seeing is believing, and if I didn't see my mother three days after she was buried, my name isn't Timothy Lane !' 'Pshaw!' exclaimed Mr. Pepperton : when people are nervous and out of sorts, tney can fancy anything.' 'Only it's odd. I never imagined anything of the sort before or since.' 'No, it isn't odd,' replied the other, dogmatically. 'Those things depend upon a person's state of mind, and you were naturally excited and upset at such a time. You had been think ing of Mrs. Lane all day, and, there lore, it was not surprising that you saw her at night—' 'lt wasn't night at all; it was in the afternoon. I was going down the path in front of our house, when 1 saw her standing at the gate Just as plain as I see you now. As I near she gave me one earnest look, and then faded out, and though she has never come since visibly, I often think she is nearer than I know.' Mr. Pepperton started and glanced round the bar parlor of the George with I an uneasy air. I * 'I don't believe anything of the sort,' he said, sharply; 'it's all a humbug ! Besides, it stands to reason it wouldn't always be convenient for dead people to come back to their old haunts. The first Mrs. Pepperton, for instance, wouldn't just care to see some oue else in her place, and, of course, if she came back, she would have to—' 'Unless she gave you notice of her visits beforehand, and you hid the sec ond Mrs. Pepperton in tbe cupboard,' observed the landlord, laughing. Mr. Pepperton laughed, too, but not exactly as if he enjoyed the joke, but as he wended his way through the church yard he was not so hilarious. The wind whistled drearily in the tree tops, and there was not so much as a light in the rectory windows to give a feeling of company. But he could see his way perfectly now, and he could also see the grave-stones gleaming palely against the sombre background of sky and view. He made a few timid steps forward, and then stopped short, shuddering. It had suddenly occurred to him that this was the anniversary of the first Mrs. Pepperton's death, and he should have to pass her grave presently. If she were disposed to 'walk,' as it was called in the village, what an op portunity ! Now, he had a great re gard for the first Mrs. Pepperton, and from some points of view, he thought her superior to the second, but under the circumstances, he had no wish to see her again, and devoutly hoped that if it had occurred to her to 'walk,' she would think better of it. At this moment the clock struck eleven, driving the blood to his heart and making him shudder in hia shoes. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER '26,1881 And then he remembered again that this was the very hour the first Mrs. Pepperton had left this sorrowful world for a better, and his legs began to knock together with fright. 'Come, Josiah Pepperton,' he said to himself at last, in a disparaging tone, 'I never saw a man make such an ass of himself as you are doing at this pres ent moment. What are your princi ples, I should like to know, and what motive could the first Mrs. Pepperton have for molesting you, considering that you treated her well when she was alive, aud buried her comfortably after death ? Get along home with you for a miserable coward, and don't let me bear anything of this sort again in a hurry, or—^or-^' He was searching for a threat that would impose on himself, when he turned round the church and came full in sight of his first wife's grave. He had decided in his own mind that he would pass on and not look that way, but some magnetic attraction drew his glance in that quarter, and there, crouching down close to the headstone, was a snow-white figure, with awful eyes that turned on him with stony in tentness, and seemed to defy him to advance. Mr. Pepperton stood like one stunned tor a minute, and then he went down on his knees, and murmured, hoarsely, through his chattering teeth,— 'My dear Maria, 1 am sure you mean this kindly, when you were always such a good-hearted woman when you were alive, But I can't bear it—l can't bear it—l can't indeed. lam very grieved if I have hurt your feelings by giving you a successor, but, on my honor as a man, I never cared for poor Mary Anne as I cared for you, and you know I planted some flowers on your grave myself last summer, which shows that you are always in my thoughts But my poor nerves can't stand this sort of thing, and if you are going to take to walking, the sooner I lay be side you the better—4or there will be nothing to live for 1 A hollow groan answered him; and poor Pepperton went on, frantically: 'Pray don't take my representations in this spirit—l mean, don't take this tone about them,' he substituted, quick ly, feeling that any refereuce to the spirits in such company might be con sidered personal or rude. '{ don't mean any harm, and of course I should be delighted to see you again in any j way if it weren't for my nerves being ! so upset. Is there anything I could do to make you rest more quiet? Don't i hesitate to speak. Even ii it took all j my savings to make you lie comforta* i ble, I wouldn't hesitate, Marie—l ; wouldn't indeed.' Another groan, a little fainter, but still more harrowing, was the only re sponse, aud poor Pepperton felt as if nis brain were giving way. Seen from that distance, the ghost was terrible enough, aud quite as much as his rea son could stand ; but when she began to raise herself slowly from the ground, still keeping her pale, dim eyes fixed upon him, and showing a disposition to advance, the horror of the situation generally, and the fear lest she should take him into her cold embrace and claim him for her own, overcame him utterly, and he fell on his face in a dead swoon. Wheu he returned to consciousness, Timothy Lane and another young man were leaning over him, and poor Pepperton said, with a gasp, as he pulled himself together: 'l've had a terrible experience—a terrible experience, Timothy ; the first Mrs. Pepperton has—eh, hulloa !' and he showed a disposition to collapse again, as he pointed toward the grave, only that they held him fast and burst out laughing in a most reassuring man ner. 'That is what you took for a ghost, is it?' said Timothy, wheu he could command his voice. 'Why, it is Barnaby's white cow; she is always getting through the hedge and stray ing over into the churchyard.' Pepperton sat upright; and now that he had companions, and found courage to exrmiue the thing more carefully, it certainly lost a good deal of its ghost ly appearance. But as he did not seem entirely con vinced, and Timothy saw that his lit tle joke—he had been the author of the hollow groans, hidden behind a tombstone—had gone far enough, he told his younger companion, who hap pened to be Barnaby's son, and, there fore, in one sense, the owner of the cow, to drive it away. To see Barnaby go willingly, ap proach the apparition aud give it a kick in the ribs, dispersed the last remnant of Pepperton's fear, and he said, in a nervously-apologetic way, as he stumbled up on to his feet: 'You'd do me a kindness, Timothy, and so would Barnaby, if you wouldn't talk of this little affair to the other fel lows. I should be jeered and joked out of my life, and it is never pleasant to be made a butt of. 'The fact is, I was a little out of sorts, and my nerves weren't so strong as usual; and then this being the an niversary of the first Mrs. Pepperton's death, and your story put together, finished me off—although, as you know, I've been through this church yard night after night, and never had aay fancies of the sort before.' 'We won't mention tbe matter, old fellow,' answered Timothy, whose conscience pricked him a little when he saw how white and shaken his friend looked. 'lt's lucky we happened to be here, though ; for if you hadn't had some body with you when you came to your self, you would have dashed off home, maybe, without knowing that was Barnaby's cow yonder, and then you would have believed you had seen the first Mrs. Peppertou for the rest of your life.' Timothy had to turn away here, he was seized with a strong inclination to laugh, but as he did not want to look unfeeling, and poor Peppertou had really suffered, he suppressed the impulse and offered, with proper gravi ty, to see the farmer home—an offer which was thankfully accepted. But, somehow, Pepperton never quite got over his adventure in Derby churchyard, aud is often heard to say that he thinks a man is best off at bis own fireside, after all, on winter nights, and that Mrs. Pepperton finds is rath er lonely when he is out. Nobody knows what brought him into this becoming fortune of mind ex cepting Timothy Lane and his friend Barnaby. They have kept their promise faith fully, but when Timothy sees the white cow, he gives Barnaby a sly poke in the ribs, and savs : 'The first Mrs. Pepperton, eh, Tom ?' And they have a good laugh all to themselves, as young men will. AN EXTRAORDINARY SWIN DLE. A correspondent of the New York Sun writing from Frederick, Maryland, says: Yesterday about 2,000 of the suits instituted by Dr. Harrison War ner, the professional litigant, against citizens of this county, were settled, the defendants being compelled to pay various sums ranging from fifty dol lars to seventy-ffv'e dollars in each case. The operations of Wagner are without a parallel in the United States. About two years ago be was consid ered to be harmlessly insane. His ac tions were calculated to confirm this theory, and his eccentricities were re garded with indifference by every one who knew him. In the fall of 1879 Wagner caused much amusement by going before an obscure county magis trate and entering several hundred suits for damages against leading citi zens chosen at random in all parts of the county, who had never seen or had any dealings with him. The amount of damages sued for in each case was between ninety and one hundred dol lars, the limit for which suits can be brought before magistrates in this State. No attention was paid to the supposed lunatic's suits, and the cases were soon recalled to memory by no tices of hundreds of other suits being brqught by Wagner, who frequently entered as high as one hundred claims against one person Early in 1880 Wagner disappeared from public notice, but in the fall of that year the entire community was thrown into a furore of excitement when it was learned that Wagner bad commenced paoceedings to enforce judgment ia I,BOQ of the. suits. It was then learned for the first time that the persons sued, having failed to ap pear before the magistrate to answer, judgement had been entered in each case for the amouut named in the com plaint. Wagner made no effort to col lect the judgments until a year had ex pired, when by law the power of ap peal had passed. In November last, therefore, he was possessed of 1800 judgmeuts, averaging $75 each, against about 300 county residents and cor porations. Each judgment was en dorsed—'By default' and 'no appeal taken,' and, of course, they amounted to a lieu on any property owned by the defendants. During Wagner's absence several persons against whom he had obtained judgment died, and his first move was to file the judgments in the orphans' court as claims against the estate. Martin Shank, one of the victims, had died and left an estate valued at $8,500 to his wife and three small children. Wagner filed judgment against the es tate amounting to $6,200, and ibe Or phans' Court was compelled to post pone the hearing of the claims several times in order to avoid the necessity of admitting their validity. At length several citizens employed counsel for Mrs. Shank, who filed an application for an arrest of judgment on the ground of fraud. The same policy was pur sued by all other victims, and since that time the cises have been dragged along into the courts, the indications pointing to Wagner being eventually successful in enforcing all of them. The courts ruled that the failure of the victims to contest the suit was in law a virtual acknowledgment of the jus tice of the claims, while the further failure to take an appeal from the mag istrate within the period prescribed by law placed them beyond remedy. After he had begun to enforce the judgments Wagner lound the country too hot to hold him, and went to New York city, where he now is. The pro ceedings against his victims have been carried on by counsel here and his set tlement made in nearly all the cases a few days ago, it is thought will net him nearly SIO,OOO. He does not pretend that he ever had any legal claim for damages in any of the cases, but he has succeeded in obtaining considerable por tions of the estates of several deceased iesideuts of the county, besides mulct ing hundreds of farmers of hard earned money. An KiFeolive Sermon. Last Saturday night some sinner stole chickens from the coop of Rev. Aminadab Bledso, of the Galveston Blue light Tabernacle, and the next day the Keverend gentleman preached a powerful sermon against the sin of stealing chickens, and promised ever lasting punishment to the man who stole his two chickens. Early Monday morning Jim Web ster called at the parson's door with scared face and some poultry. He said : 'Parson Bledso, dat ar sermon most scared me to death. I couldn't sleep a wink, so I fotched your chickens back.' 'I don't keer for the fowls, Jeems, but in pleases me mightly to know dat I am an humble instrument in de hands of de Almighty to bring sinners to re pentance and to cause dem to lead a new life. But, look here Jeems, dese chickens aint do same ones yer stole from me.' 'I knows it. Your chickens am done eat up ; but your sermon opened my eyes to der sinfulness ob stealing your chickens, and I felt so bad about it dat the fust thing I did when church was out was to climb ober into Colonel Jones's yard and stole two ob his fat test pullets to replace the chickens you missed.' Anybody can catch a cold now. The trouble is to let go, like the man who caught the bear. We advise our readers to keep a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup handy. Employ no more quack doctors and quack medicines; rely wholyon Peruna UNIQUE JIREACH OF PROM ISE CASE. A recent publication gives us the opinion of the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania in a breach of promise case which presents some interesting facts and decides some novel points of law. The plaintiff was a domestic servant and the defendant a well to do farmer, worth from ten to twelve thousand dollars. After courting ber assidu ously and loving for nearly three years, with all tho bucolic accessories of church pic-nics, country parties and other rural entertainments, which in good time fructified iu a matrimonial engagement, he suddenly discontinued his visits in consequence of an inevita ble lovers' quarrel and as suddenly transferred his atTections to a hateful rival. But, worse than this, the hard hearted man and bis newly found mate indulged in open demonstrations in church and elsewhere which were only too plainly intended to cast ridi cule and insult upon the unhappy and discarded one. This was more than the latter or human nature roulu bear. Having before written in vain a for giving and suppliant note to her faith less suitor she now denounced him in the most unsparing terms in a long letter which became a leading feature of the evidence and the law in the case. Still addressing him by the once en dearing appellation 'Jim,' she thinks 'it id a sin and a disgrace,'reminds him that if he imagines he has 'got a rich one now' he is very much mistakeu, as 'every one knows how rich they are,' and adds, triumphantly, 'Well, if I am poor, I don't wear the one hat for Gve or six years, like she does, and turn it hind part before like she does.' Hav ing enjoyed this fling at her odious rival she frankly confesses that she 'did wrong at first,' but 'now I don't want you and am going to use you as bad as the law will allow me to do it. If you were poor I would not do any thing with you ; so rich, so grasping, so deceitful, so fun making, underhand ed and sneaking, I just pray night and day for every hair in you head to come out.' Having relieved her feelings by giv ing the cruel wretch this piece of her mind she sought further consolation in an action for Jbrcach of promise. The defendant pleaded—First, that he nev er promised to marry her ; second, that he did not refuse to marry her ; and, third, that she released him from his promise to marry her. The fair plain tiff won the case and got two thous and dollars damages. The appeal taken raised among others the legal questions whether the action could be maintained, in view of the fact that the defendaut had not formally refused to uiarry the plaintiff or raised a legal bar to such marriage by his nuptials with another, and whether the plain tiff had not released the defendant from the engagement by the letter from which we have quoted. In overruling the exceptions taken by the defendant and confirming the judgment against him the Supreme Court tersely sums up the law on the first point in these words:—'lt was not necessary that he should say to her in express words, 'I will not marry you,' nor that she should run after him and say, 'I en treat you to marry me.' Marriage is a civil contract.. A refusal to fulfil it may be as unmistakably manifested by conduct as by words. The true ques tion was whether the acts and conduct of the defendant evinced an intention to be no longer bound by the contract.' As to her letter, the Court ruled that her expressed determination to use him 'as bad as the law will allow,' and other references to legal proceedings, amounted to an expressed notice that she would hold him responsible for bis breach of contract.— N. Y. Herald. A Ghastly Wedding. A very extraordinary and somewhat repulsive marriage ceremony took place not long ago at Portsmouth, England, conceruiug which the English papers are having a pood deal to say. It seems that a Miss Mainwaring, the daughter of an army officer, was about to be mar ried, and, after her wedding trousseau had been prepared and all arrangements made for the ceremony, she was taken sick and in the course o f a few days died. Heretofore it has been consider ed that the death of one of the parties to a proposed wedding effectually put an end to the matter, but the family of Miss Mainwaring and the gentleman to whom she was engaged evidently did not view the matter in that light, since they 'decided to go through with the marriage ceremony as far as pos sible before interment,' as an English paper puts it- In order to do this the coffin containing the body of the young lady was taken to the church, the friends of the deceased accompanying it iu wedding costume, and a wreath of orange blossoms being placed on tho brow of the dead girl. Several clergy men were present, and after the mar riage service Lad been read and the proper responses had been made by the groom, that for funerals was proceed ed with. The company then proceed ed to Portsmouth Cemetery where the interment took place. Anything more ghastly than this cannot be imagined, and it is to be hoped that the fashion of marrying a live person to a dead one will not become general. [New York Union.] I>id lit itt Good. Mr. Charles 11. Bauer, editor of the above paper and Notary Public, in a late issue mentions the following: Patrick Kennv, Esq., some time ago, suffered much from rheumatism and tried almost every means to rid him self of this paiuful evil, but in vain. He was advised to use St. Jacobs Oil, which lie did so successfully, that all pain has left him and he is as healthy and strong as ever before. Mr- Kenny is as enthusiastic advocate of St. Ja cobs Oil, and it has done him good. A celebrated English breeder says that he did not find over oue in 300 of his rams that he was willing to breed from. By being so particular in his choice, he got the very best, aud con sequently improved his flocks much more rapidly than those breeders who were less careful than himself in mak ing their selections. WHERE THE PRESIDENTS ARE BURIED. The body of George Washington is resting io a brick vault at Mount Ver non, Va-, in a marble coffin. John Adams was buried in a vault beneath the Unitarian Church at Quincy, Mass. The tomb is walled in with blocks of rough-faced grauite. John Quincy Adams lies in the same vault by the side of his father. In the church above, on either side of the pulpit, are tablets of clouded marble, each surmounted by a bust and in scribed with the familiar epitaphs of the only father and son ever held the highest the gift of the American people. Thomas Jefferson lies in a small, unpretentious private cemetery of one hundred feet square, near Monticello, Va. James Madison's remains rest in a beautiful spot on the old Madison es tate, near Orange, Va. James Monroe's body reposes in Hollywood's Cemetery, Va., on an em inence commanding a beautiful view of Richmond and the James river. Above the body is a huge block of polished Virginia marble, supporting a coffin shaped block of granite on which are brass plates, suitably inscribed. The whole is surrounded by a sort of Go*,hie temple—four pillows support ing a peaked roof, to which something of the appearance of a bird cage is im parted by filling in the interstices with iron gratings. Andrew Jackson was buried in the corner of the garden of the Hermitage, eleven miles from Nashville, Tenn. The tomb is eighteen feet in diameter, surrounded by fluted columns and sur mounted by an urn. The tomb is sur rounded by magnolia trees. Martin Van Buren was buried at Kinderhook, N. Y. The monument is a plain granite shaft, fifteen feet high. William Henry Harrison was buried at North Bend, fifteen miles from Cin cinnati, Ohio. John Tyler's body rests within ten yards of that of James Monroe in Hol lywood Cemetery, Richmond. It is marked by no monument, but it is sur rounded by magnolias and flowers. James K. Polk lies in the private garden of the family residence in Nashville, Tenn. It is marked by a limestone monument, with Doric col umns. Zachary Taylor was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. The body was subsequently to be removed to Frankfort, where a suitable monument was to be erected, commemorative of his distinquished services. Millard Fillmore's remains lie in the beautiful Forest Lawn Cemetery of Buffalo, and bis grave is surmount ed by a lofty shaft of Scotch granite. Franklin Pierce was buried in the Concord, N. 11., Cemetery, and his grave is marked by a marble monu ment. James Buchanan's remains lie in the Woodward Hill Cemetery at Lan caster, Pa, in a vault of masonry. The monument is composed of a simple block of Italian marble. Abraham Lincoln rests in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111., enclosed in a sarcophagus of white marble. The monument is a great piece of marble, granite and bronze. Andrew Johnson's grave is on a cone-shaped eminence, half a mile from Greenville, Tenn. The monument is of marble, beautifully ornamented. The body of James A. Garfield has been placed in a tomb at Cleveland. DEA TH OF A HALF-MILLION AIRE MISER. Theodore Stockman, for peculiar reasons one of the most widely known citizens of Toledo, has died amid the surroundings which were a pleasure to his penurious soul in life—a miser's cabin and the abode of filth and dirt. Last week "Uncle Theodore " as he was commonly called, was missed from his accustomed haunts, and it was soon learned that he was down sick with bilious fever in his rude house on the river bank in lower town. On October the 9th he sent hurriedly for an attorney and made his will, be queathing his large property probably to his one or two children who sur vive him. Very little is kuown of Mr. Stockman, although no one was known better. He was one of the earliest settlers in the Mauniee Valley, and by his frugal, almost stingy, habits, coupled with a miser's greed, he accumulated a large fortune, vari ously estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000. Many st ries are afloat about him—how for years he chiefly subsisted on the refuse from the fruit house and hotels; how during the terrible cholera siege he made a for tune in burying the victims, often waiting in front of a bouse until a patient died; how he succeeded in getting one piece of property after another until he was really rich, al though outwardly he was the dirtiest and worst looking pauper in the city. Verily, his life would form a topic for the historian, the novelist, and the scavenger. He died at the age of sixty-eight, in the midst of almost ab solute want, yet bis check was good for thousands. It Wont Pay after so much labor and capital has been expended to build up this medi cine, to allow it to deteriorate. You can take Simmons Liver Regulator with perfect faith, as it is made by no adventurers who pick up the business of concocting medicines, but by educat ed, practical druggists who have made the study of medicine and its com pounds the labor of a lifetime. The care, precision, neatness and perfection exhibited by the very appearance of the Regulator proves it to be the best prepared medicine in the market, and J. 11. Zeilin & Co. fully carry out their motto: 'Purissima et Optima (purest and best). No room was ever made large enough to hold both a fat man and a mosquito. There is hardly a disease considered incurabb, that could not be cured with Peruna. AOVEBTISIHre RATES, One square, on* insertion, 91; each subse q.ient insertion, 50 cents. Yearly advertisement exceeding oiie-fouith of a column, (5 per iwh Figaro wor* double these ratee; addition a charges whore weekly or monthly changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cento par line for first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Main ages and deaths pub lished free of chargo. Obituirj notices charged as advertisements, and pavable when handed in Aaditors' Notices, #4 ; Executors' and Adminjs I rat or*' Notices. 93 each; Eetray, Caution au4 Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines each. From the fact that the Omnw is the oidea* established and most extensively circulated Be nublican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county; it most b« apparent to basinet* men that it is the medium they should use in advertising thotr business. NO. 48 "IF I WAS PRESIDENT." "Now, if I was President," began Mr. Butterby the other morning, as be passed bis cup over for a second cup of coffee; "if I was President of the United States—" "Which you aren't, you know," broke in Mrs. 8., in an argumental and confidential tone. "And not likely to be," added Mrs. B.'s mother with a contemptuous toss of her head. "No," assented Mr. B. pleasantly, "but I was just supposing the case-l" "Then suppose something in rea son," retorted Mrs. 8., snappishly "You might as well suppose you was the man in the moon, or the man in the Iron Mask, or—" "So I might, my dear," resented Mr. B. still pleasantly smiling, "but that has nothing to do with it. I was merely going to say if I was President of the United States I'd—" "My" burst in Miss Gertrude, aged eighteen, "wouldn't it be splendid if you was, pa ? Just to think how these Wheedletop girls would change their tune when I met them, instead of throwing out their insinuations about people who consider it Christian like to turn their last season's silk dress that they may have more to give to charity. But they might turn green with envy before I'd ever—" "Yes, and wouldn't I warm Sammy Dugan," chirped in Master Thomas, aged twelve, I'd go up to him an' smack him ou the nose with a brick 'fore he knowed where he was, an' I'd slide ou the sidewalk an' shy snow balls at the p'leeceman, an' sass Miss Ferule, an' play hookey every day when it didn't rain, an' I'd—" "Yes," chimed in Mrs. 8., catching the infection of her enthusiastic pro geny, and I'd be the first lady in the land, let the next be who she would, and the governors' wives would beg to be introduced to me, and I'd have balls twice a week and a banquot every day and—" "And I'd have management of the White House and run things," re marked Mrs. B.'s mother, hor eyes sparkling with the prospect. "Not much you wouldn't," from Miss Gertrude; "not much, if I keep my health and known myself, you wouldn't not as long as I am the President's daughter, and—" "Yah!" ejaculated Master Tom. "I guess the President's son would be the biggest plum in the dish. Wouldn't I be the Prince of Wales then say ? What 'ud you know 'bout "Shut up—all of you !" commanded Mrs. B. "I reckon the President's wife is the highest authority in the land! Anyhow, there'd be a dusty old time if anybody questioned it, and I bet when the exercise was finished, the surgeon would not ask for au electoral commission to decide it over again ! My ; I'd like to see anybody —but, by the way, Mr. Butterby, what was it you was going to say you would do if you was the President of the United States?" "Resign as soon as the Lord would let me!" said Mr. Butterby. calmly but determindly. And then a medita tive silence fell upon the family and remained there until the meeting arose. HOW SHE HELPED HER MOTHER. "I don't see how I'd get along with out Mary, nohow," Mrs. Blucher ob served, pausing to wipe the perspira tion from her aged features and put another ladle of soft soap into the steaming suds, while her daughter's voice at the piano could be distinctly recognized, floating out from the ad joining parlor. "I don't see how I'd get along without that gal, nohow. Al'ays on these days, when I have the tiringest work, she just picks out her nicest pieces, like 'Sweet rest by-and by,' 'Mother's growing old,' and sings 'em fur me afore she goes out on the lawn with the other young folks. 'Taint every gal as ud be so thoughtr ful, I kin tell you. Now, most of 'em ud jest bang away with 'Jordon is a hard road to travel,' or 'Whoop 'em up, Eliza Jaue,' but she ain't none o' that sort. She's a pile o' comfort to me—a pile o' comfort." And Mrs. Blucher fanned herself vigorously with her soiled apron, preparatory to run ning the clothes through the second water. WHAT "WIFE" ME A NS. Says ltuskin : 'What do you think the beautiful word 'wife' comes from? It is the great word in which the En glish and Latin languages conquered the French and Greek. I hope the French will some day get a word for it instead of femme. But what do you think it comes from ? The great value of the Saxon words is that they mean something. Wife means 'weav er?' You must either be house wives or house moths, remember that. In the deep sense, you must either weave men's fortunes and embroider them, or feed upon and bring them to decay. Wherever a true wife comes, home is always arouud her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worm in the night's cold grass may be the fire at her feet, but home is where she is, and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, better than bouses ceiled with cedar or painted with vermillioa —shedding its quiet light for those who else are homeless. This, I believe, is the woman's true place and power.' When a member of the German Par liament is delivered of a joke it goes as unfinished business. They laugh at it next day. A mean man down in Kentucky had a girl arrested for appropriating the tail feathers of his red rooster to trim her bat. It will be safest in the future in such cases to pull the feath ers and let the rooster live. The dead rooster was a bad witness. A man rolled out of bed the other night and was killed; G. A. Rogers fell 150 feet in a collapsed balloon, with 'in conceivable velocity,' last Wednesday afternoon, struck upon his nose on the beach at Lynn, Mass., and is still alivo to describe his sensation during the descent.
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