VOL. XX.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS/
Estate of James Young Dec'd.
Letten of Administration in the estate of
Jaraen Young, dec'd., late cf Clav towusliip,
Butler eouuty, Pennsylvania, having been
r ran ted to the undcrbiiined, all persons know
ing ihemaelte# indebted to e.dd es
tate will plea«e make immediate pay
ment and any having claims against laid estate
will present them duly authenticated for settle
ment. ROBERT A. BROWN,
Administrator.
Coulteraville P. 0., Butler county, l'a.
Eslaleol W. P. Brown,
LATE OF HARRISVILLB.
Letters testamentary on the estate of W. P.
Brown, dec'd, late of Harrisville borough,
Butler Co., Pa., have been granted to the un
dersigned, all persons knowing themselves in
debted to Slid estate will please make immedi
ate payment and any having claims against
■aid estate will present them duly authentica
ted for settlement.
R. L. BKOWN, 1 EL .„ #
ROBKRT BLACK. J
Harrisville, Butler County, Pa._
j Orphans' Court Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the Orphans' Cour
of Butler county, to us directed, as well as l»y
the authority given us in the last will and tes
tament of Samuel G. Meals, dec'd, we will offer
for sale at public outcry on the premises in
Washington township, on
MONDAY, FEBUARY 5, 1883.
at 1 o'clock P. M., the following real estate:
80 Acres and YS Perches
more or less, out of the northwest corner of the
farm lately occupied by the said Samuel G.
Me-'!- 'Vc'd. About7s acres cleared, bulunee
gixiti v ~ >er; Good two-story frame housirand
bunk U..ra recently erected thereon.
-One-tHird of the purchase money
on co'": irmfttion of sale by the Court, and the
n-"i t I rr in tw<» equal annual installments
WII\ . . v:.il interest from that date, to be secured
b> . ..iJ and mortgaga. G. W. MEALS.
OQe of the Executors.
" ASSIGNEE'S SALE.
' : 'Ue nLder»igned offers for sale 70 acres of
Uml, more or less, in Yeningo twp., Butler
coii'n y. P*.. bounded on the north by Kelly
l.e,r, e*4t by Siipual 3talker. south ay; Julia
and on the \T6«t by Joseph Murrin
und l:e;ra of John Murrin; 60 acres cleared. 10
of Which aro meadow, good orchard, all under
laid with coal, good dwelling house, two stones
ligj, part log and part frame, with kitchen at
tached. good frame stable and hay house, well
watered; one mil<> and a half east of Jlurrins
vifcte. Sato on the premies on January 13th,
J#M. at one o'clock P. m„ with privilege to ad-
JiHiro to tlie Court Ilou-e in Butter, on the 15th
d&v 01-Januarv, 1883, at o'clock, P m.
Terms cash on delivery of deed.
Dec. 18, 1882. MICHAEL McBRIDE.
Assignee of James Murrin.
" ASSITIXEE'N SALE.
The undersigned, Assignee of David Zeigler,
Jr., will, in pursuance of an order from Court,
offer for sale the followinz property on the
{Premises, in the borough of Harmony, on
Tuesday, January 30th, 1883.
atone o'clock, p. M.:
One Steam Flouring Mill, situate in the
bapoagh of Harmony, Butler county, Pa., with
ail the machinery Ac., necessary to run said
mill, on a lot of ground in said Borough,
bounded north by an alley, east by an alley,
■ou(h by a lot and woolen factory of John
Pearce, and west by a street, said lot being
00X80 feet, more or less.
TKKMS: —One-third in hand on confirmation
ofUJe, one-third in one year; and one-third in
two years with interest, secured by bond and
mortgage. F. A EDMONDS,
Assignee ofD. Zeigler, Jr.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court
of Butler coanty, the undersigned aa Adminis
trator of Charles Oswald, late of Oakland twp.,
dec'cL, will erpoee to public sale on the prem<s
on.
Friday* January 19th, A. D., 1883,
at 2 o'clock, P. x., all that valusble tract of
land situate in Oakland twp., said county;
bounded and described as follows, viz: On the
north by lands of Dennis O'Donnell: on the
east by laoda at Egid Neff; on the south by
lands of M. (Bouse, and on the west by lande of
C. Kelly aiM John Bippus; containing about
sixty thtei'acres.(subject to survey). Log house
and barn thffeon erected, about forty five seres
cleared, under fence and in good state of culti
v at ion.
TERMS OP SALE:—One-third purchase mon
ey on confirmation of sale and residue in two
equal annual payments, with interest from con
firmation of sale. Unpaid purchase money to be
secured by bond and mortgage on the premises,
embracing attorney's commission of 5 per cent.,
and waiver it the year and day. or ali the pur
chase money at confirmation of the sale by the
06art, at' tlie option of the purchaser.
J. B. McJtJNKIN, PHILIP OSWAT.D,
Att'y. Adm'r. of Chas. Oswald, dec'd.
i| , i. jan3.3t
Notice.
Application will be made to the Legislature
o&this State at its next session, for the pa-ssage
of, a law changing the Road laws of Jeffer
son. township, Butler eounty, Pa., and ex
tending to said township the provisions of
the Act of Assembly approved April 2nd,
1869, and the supplememt thereto, so far as
the same may.be applicable thereto.
HENRY BOWMAN
AND OTJTERH,
Citizens of Jefferson township.
Dec. 13, 4t 1882.)
Notice.
A general meeting of the Farmers Mutua
Fire" Insurance Company of Hsnnahstown
BHW county, Pa., and vicinity, will be held
atthehonae of Mrs. Krausie, in Hannahstown,
on Saturday the 13th day of January, 1883, at
one o'clock, P. m. All members are respec
tively invited to attend.
JACOB BECK, Pres't.
HKKRY HECK, Sec'y. aecl3,3t
KOTICET
The partership heretofore existing between
D. A. Hdck add J. N. Patterson, under the firm
nrme of Heck * Patterson, expires by limita
tion April Ist, 1883. Persons knowing them
selves indebted to the above firm will please
call afi4 Stttfe the same on or before the first of
April, as after that date all claims not paid will
bo left with an attorney for collection Any I
periohi having claims against the linn will
present same for settlement
HECK A PATTERS :>N.
BYE WANTED.
TS® highest market- price Vill he paid by us
for rye delivered at our wholesale liquor store
in Butler.
jlO 2m JACOB REIBER & BRO.
ELECTION NOTICE.
There will be an election of officers of the
Glade Mill Mutual Insurance Company, on
Saturday, the 13th of January, 1883, at one
o'clock r. u., at the Glade Mill School House.
H. OSBOIIN, President.
d2O-3t.
~ NOTICE
is hereby given, that applicstion will he made to
the Legislature at the next session for the par
age ef a law entitled. "An Act requiring exe
cntort, tdminbtrators and guardians, to give
public notice of the sale of personal property of
decedents within the county of Butler." The
object of said act is to compel executors, admin
istrators and guardians, to give public notice of
the sale of personal propeity of decedents by
publication in one ot more newspapers or other
wise. JAMES T. AUSTIN.
d3O-4t
NOTICE.
PLTTBBL'BGH A WKSTERN R. R., OFFICE OK
GENERAL MANAGES, PITTKHIKGH, PA.
On and January Ist, ISB3 the Foxburg
Division of the Pittibnrgh ar.d Western Rail
road Co., wjll be open for Freight and Passen
ger Traffic. Agents are now prepared to name
ratea and receive freight for all points on line
of tike Pittsburgh and Western.
E. K.HYNDMAN,
jsn,3-3t. General Manager
Cftfiawerk m yftiirr.wn town. Terms and $
»«WCOTLLT free. Address U. HALLKIT & Co
Portland, Maine. inar£),iy
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BL'TI.EB, PA.
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Manufacturer of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, YAKHS,
Jfcc. Also custom work done to order, sn LI as
carding Rolls, mikinsr Blankets, Flannels, Knit
ting and Weaving Yarns, <xc„ .it very low
prices. Wool worked on the 6Lares, il de
«tr«d. rav7 1 y
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CACHAR. KANGRA VALLEY, OAKJEEL
-ING, DEIIRV DOON, at.d cthei>. At'eolutely
Pure. Superior in Flavor. Tne Most Eeonoin-
Icul. Requires only half the u»u il quantity.
gold bv all Grocers. JOHN C. PHILLIPS &
CO , Acenlß of tLe Calcutta Tea Syndicate,
130 Water St, N. Y. Novß-ly.
"BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main and Cunningham STS.
J. C. ROESSIXG, PRESIDENT
\VM CAMPBELL. TREASVKKIS
H. C. HEINEMAN, SKCBBTARV
DIRECTORS:
J. L. Purvis, E. A. Ilelmboldt,
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Dr. W. lrvin, J J. Croll
A. B. Rhodes, H. C. Heineman.
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BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IT. 1883.
AN INSECT MENAGERIE-
| A VISIT TO A QUEER OLD
CURIOSITY SHOP AND
ITS KEEPER.
1 Mrs. Mary Treat and Her Swarm
of Insect Companions—How
Spiders are Tenderly
Taken Care of.
VINELAND, N. J., Dec. 29.—Most
readers of the Preis are doubtless
familiar with the name of Mrs. Mary
Treat, whose studies in natural history
have been from time to time recorded
in the columns of the monthly maga
zines and other periodicals. At pres
ent Mrs. Treat's observations are con
fined chiefly to spiders, she and the
Rev. Dr. McCook, of Philadelphia, be
ing the only persons in this country
who are making a speciality of study
ing the habits of the little creatures.
Calling at her cottage in the suburbs
of this city, where she is cosily, "at
home" in a suite of sunshiny apart
ments, which she occupies alone, I
found the spider-lover—a cultured, re
fined, delicate little lady, whose hair
is lightly touched with gray—return
ing from a morning spent in an oak
epening at a short distance in the rear
of the house. In this bit of woods it
is her habit, when the weather is fine,
to devote a portion of the early part of
each day to Taking observations of all
sorts of homely wood-born things
which live in the bark of trees, crawl
upon the ground and burrow under de
cayed logs and dry leaves. After a
pleasant apology for ber serviceable
dress and stout boots, I was ushered in
to the study of the specialist. Books
and papers marked "with the author's
compliments," occupy the reading
stand ; in the sunny bay-window a
microscope is stationed ready lor use;
bright woods, gathered leaves, souvenirs
of an autumn journey in the North,
adorn the walls, and a small table
placed at a sufficient distance from the
window to allow easy passage around
it, holds several large boquets of more
brilliancy than beauty.
A BUILDING SITE FOB SPIDEBS.
"Those are not placed there to ad*
in ire," she says, in answer to the notice
they call forth, "but to intice some
spider, out in search of a building site.
Several have settled down to business
olready. Would you like to take a
peep at them in their own domiciles?"
moving around the table with as much
pride as though it was a plush-em
broidered sunflower she was about to
exhibit. "There is one of my especial
pets; isn't he a beauty?" There he
was —a brown, hairy, long-legged fel
low, sitting with his knees doubled up,
evidently waiting for some uncautious
visitor in the edible line to come along
and supply him with a meat dinner.
"How do they subsist now that fly
time is over ?" I a.-^ked.
"Oh, I forage for them," she answers.
"When the weather is cold they eat
nothing. There is a colony of them
now un er that bell-glass in the light;
they have gone into winter quarters.
Sometimes they keep active the winter
through without food ; but whenever
days are sunny dinners are plenty, for
I throw open doors and windows, set
out some growing things to make the
room bright as possible, and the flies
come buzzing in and I am able to
harvest a nnall crop. It is a poor day
when my spiders and I together cannot
lure a few unwary victims into a neat
little trap. By moderate strategy I
make the c- pture and they put the
prisoners to death."
"Is it true that they devour their
kind ?"
"Sometimes. The male is a hen
peeked fellow, and the female will eat
him if she gets a chance. Occasionally
a mother spider kills some of her nu
merous progeny to feed her remaining
ravenous brood of spiderlings. At one
time I brought up aa entire family in a
bottle, and you can have no idea how
interesting I found them. The babies,
in astonishing numbers, swarm on the
mother's back and crawl over her body
until big enough to wean, which is not
until they are from four to si\ weeks
old. At that time she kicks, shakes or
scrapes them off by the dozen, and after
a few rebuffs they run away to set up
house-keeping for themselves. It is
amusing to watch the mother feed her
brood. I have frequently offered her a
nice plump fly, which she accepted
eagerly, and immediately several of the
little ones were bidden to the feast.
Three or four would gather around and
suck the juices while she held the dain
ty morsel for them- When they had
drawn plenty off they scampered and a
new relay came up to lay hold of the
tid-bit."
"It is plain you do not share the
popular antipathy to spiders," I re
marked, endeavoring to make satisfac
tory inspection and still maintain a rc
speetful distance from a sprawly black
creature that goes Stalking about on
some mysterious errand connected with
its spinning.
"No, I have no antipathy for them,"
she says warmly. "They are pretty
good companions when one lives alone
I have spent several years studying
them here and in portions of New
England, cultivating their agriculture
closely, and yet I feel that I am only
beginning to know their ways. They
are learning to know me and will take
building materia! from my hand when
I offer it. A spider lives several years,
and besides their domestic life, their
building and spinning and weaving
which are beautifully and systematical
ly carried on, there are births and
deaths to be chronicled and curious
characteristic traits which only the
close observer discovers.
MOURNING FOB TIIE DEATH OK A SPIDER.
i At the time of my last visit one
fine specimen had just met an un
timely death, and his skeleton, packed
with care, had been sent by mail to
I)r. McCook who pronounced it a genu
ine epcira slellatu, a valuable acquisi
tion which—while the doctor profound
ly regretted that Mrs. Treat could not
| have had more ample opportunity lor
studying its h in life—be was
proud to add t-i his collection now
tliat it was dead. Stella la'a disease
had also brought letters of condolence
from nieu ofeiuiuencrf of our own ami
other nationalities, to who-n the death
of a spider, and su"h a spider, was a
deplorable event. Oa the occasion of
a yisit in late autumn, Mrs. Treat was
manifesting great enthusiasm over a
tent-building spider wbieh had finish
ed off a queer little triangular ediflce
under the edge of the table, a dainty,
gausy affair, more rare than but not
as beautiful as the orb-weaver's struct
ure. Another busy worker had struck
his tent under shelter of a big leaf,
were the least touch would apparently
be Hke an earth quake among such
fairy-like formations; a:;d I—who had
ruthlessly demolished many a fragile
structure by a vigorous stroke of a
broom found myself involuntarily
walking about on tip-toe and speaking
in hushed tones while makinga sur
vey of these dainty specimens of spi
der-crochet. Certainly it is a generous
house mistress who not only offers
these little creatures building spots
rent free, but helps them to the
choicest noolfr for no-ting. A lover of
spider-kind like Mrs Treat might find
opportunity to study antiquities in
web-weaving by going into a certain
old curiosity tbop which I explored in
San Francisco not long ago. "Not a
cobweb has been removed, not a spi
der's nest disturbed for twenty odd
years," proudly asserted the gray old
proprietor of the years' accumulated
dust, and of the strange birds and
monkeys; and then he added, plaintive
ly, "Yes, there were three that were
brushed down somehow. I was sorry
to loose them." It looked as if many
generations of spider families had
found occupancy there and all the
tribes of spiderdom had been engaged
in spinning fresco.
"Ilere is a gift which came from the
North,', Mrs. Treat said, holding up
a pretty gray cocoon that looked like
soft woven silk attached to the foliage
ends of some dry grasses, the whole
snugly packed in a box, like a jewel
in its case and sent by mail. 'This holds
the eggs of a different species. I
shall put it in the sunshine to hatch,
and by-and-by, when the baby spiders
issue from the cocoon, I shall have an
excellent opportunity to study them as
they are growing up. 1 get a great
many specimens from New Hamp
shire put up in wooden boxes and
bottles— spiders, nests and cocoons,
some have their houses sent with
them; and others build when they
reach here."
A little tray was next set out for
inspection, the contents of which
were very interesting, as they con
sisted of nests of various construction
brought from the spiders' out-door
haunts. They were of surprisingly
beautiful workmanship, and their style
of architecture is as varied as beauti
ful. "I have seen even a naturalist
search a plat over and over for a loug
time for one of these r.ests," Mrs.
Treat continued, "aud then failed to
find it, although I confined him to a
space of but a few inches, so cunning,
lv are they interwoven among the
grasses." Various materials are used
in their composition—fiuesticks, moss,
drj r oak leaves, blades of grass and cot
ton. In some the tiny sticks, an inch
or mose long are pilled up in real log
house fashion and hidden away
among the moss heads, like a toy
bouse iu a mimic forest. Others
dwell in a rolled leaf held together
with stitches. A little to one side
iu the rear of the cottage, a large
circular plat is enclosed by an ar
bor vitae hedge, so compact that
only ants and spiders can pass iu at
random. A narrow gateway lets the
outsider iuto this enclosure. In the
centre a line maple tree offers shade
in summer; birds' baths are scattered
about, seats are at the disposal of such
favored visitors as are allowed to
invade the privacy of the Insect
Menagerie, as the spot is called. Mrs.
Treat speaks enthusiastically of the
mats of English violets that stud the
sod in spring, and of the tall ferns
that shoot their fronds through the
evergreen wall. It is bleak aud de
serted now; the spiders which spun
their white tents and hung their
gossamer patterns all along the arms
of the trees aud from tip to tip
across the hedge rows, have disap
peared in the depths and closed the
doors of their burrows upon them.
The birds know that they are wel
come and their merry twitterings
is heard all day long. In autumn a
small forest of pokeberries was allow
ed to rljien its fruit under the cot
tage window, the birds coming regu
larly from their outlying haunts to
get their daily rations. When frost
fell the remaining crop was harvested
and stored in the cellar, and now
each day brings the little pensioners
in hungry broods awaiting to be
fed.
Mrs. Treat gives her whole time
to her work, and her lield of study
widens every day, "There is enough
to fill up a lifetime if I were to stay
here and watch the small life that
populates my own house aud garden,"
sho said in reply to a question. —
Philadelphia Press.
At a recent agricultural exhibition
at Ludenburg, Germany, was exhibit
a threshing-machine which was driven
by electricity at the rate of 1,400 revo
lutions a minute, and which at the
same time, illumined the enclosure in
which it worked.
At the eighty-fifth annual Fat Cat
tle Show in Islington, the <£ueen and
Prince of Wales were among the ex
hibitors. The Queen won a prize of
i ")0 at the Birmingham Agricultural
Exhibition, and expressed her desire
to have a cup in lieu of the money.
"If you would be truly happy, my
dear," said one New York lady to
another, "vou will have neither eyes
nor ears when your husband comes
home late from the club." "Yes, I
know," answered the other, wearily
"but what am I to do with my nose ?'.
| Blown up on a Steamboat.
"I>id }ou ever meet with an acci
dent while traveling?" inquired the
reporter of a clerical looking individual
as they sat smoking on the upper deck
of a Sound steamer.
"Well, I don't know whether it was
an accident or not," he replied, "but I
was once blown up on a steamboat."
"Ah !" ejaculated the scribe, as he
i whipped out his pencil and note book ;
i "Tell us about it."
' Lighting a fresh cigar the pious
faced chap began :
"It was in the summer of' 74, and I
had just com deted a big contract up
iu Albbny, and sacured passage for
myself a d wife on one of the steam
boats for New York Being very
tired we went directly to our state
room Just as I began to doze, my
j better-half exclaimed: "John, where
I are the checks for our baggage ?"
"Don't know," I growled.
"But didn't you have the trunks sent
aboard ?"
"Guess not," says I.
ell you are a nice one you are,'
1 she shrieked, 'Don't you know, you il
j lustrious, half-baked idiot, that all my
best clothes are iu those trunk? ? don't
you know you miserable villian, that
every valuable I have is in that bag
gage? Ob, you confounded fool!"
"She kept a running fire of abuse
nearly all night long. I could hear it
in my sleep, and when I told her as
soon as she became exhausted, that
the baggage had been sent by rail, she
started oil again with the fury of a
mad bull.
Here he stopped and relit his cigar.
"You must have had a hard time of
it," said his companion, "but how
about the accident
"Why I have just been telling you,"
he replied.
"Well, there's nothing brilliant in
that."
"There isn't, eh ? If you've never
been blown up on a steamboat by a
mad woman, then you don't kuow
anything about explosions, that's all."
lie flung the stump of his cigar
over the rail, and went below to seek
the seclusion that the cabin grants.
Why De Long Perished.
"Senator Jones, who is in Carson,
Nev., gives au account of De Long's
Arctic expedition, which be got from
Captain Nerbaum iu San Francisco.
Nerbaum is a Russian who has been
for many years in the service of the
Alaska Fur Company. He was the
last man from whom the De Long far y
received provisions. lie says: De i
Long left my station, at almost the j
northern part of Alaska, and I furnish
ed him, at the order of iho Alaska Fur
Company, with sledges, dogs and pro- |
visions. He took 27 dogs and one In- i
dian. I account for the los 3cf
the party on the theory that !
they killed the dogs. Ido not believe j
that De ljong knew anything about the ,
undertaking he was grappling with i
and was ignorant of the means by I
which he could move in that region. :
I see by his diarv that there was but
one dog left a few days prior to bis I
death. He must bate killed the dogs'
without knowing their great value, .
and when the dogs are gone there is i
absolutely no hope left. The dogs
could not have died or been lost They
were killed. The scent of these ani
mals is remarkable, and they will de
tect provisions no matter where they
may be. When men in these regions j
kill Polar bears and have more meat
than they can eat, they cache the
moat, and it sometimes lies in the ice
for years until discovered by dogs. ;
The ice is full of those places. If you
meet an Indian in that region and kiil
his dog he lies down and dies, consid
ering that the better part of him is
goue. Another great oversight was
the neglect to take the right sort of
guns. I offered De Long a fowling
piece made expressly for use in the
Arctic seas and calculated to stand the
climate. He refused it because he
wanted a gun to kill bears. I explain
ed that be needed guns for birds and
not bear-, lie would not listen to me,
and took Remington rifles, the weight
of which hampered him and were of no
use. He must have seen seafowl fly
ing over bis head all the time, but
couM not kill them. The diary says
the Indian, after drawing the sledge
all day, would go out at night and
get birds and kept the party alive two
weeks. Anywhere you cut a hole
through the ice fish will swarm, but
the party had no fishing tackle. All
their chances are thrown away through
ignorance. lam not saying a word
against He Lon?. I liked him person
ally, but he was not the man to com
mand the Arctic expedition. The j
north pole, in my estimation can be
rea.'.'bed oiriy by following up the
warm current which flows to the pole,
and beyond is an open sea. I'ut men
in such an expedition who have been
raised in the northern part of Alaska
aiul who know nil about the region
and there is a strong chance of suc
cess."
It i-i better that onions should re
main frozen through the winter, pro
vided they can thaw gradually, than
to put them in the cellar or other
warm place where vegetive power
will be aroused. If put in large heaps
onions will be sure to spoil, but if
spread iu thin layers and covered
with hay or straw, so if frozen the
thawing will be gradual, they will
keep well all winter.
Fanny, the mare belonging to Lieu
tenant-Colonel John Hodges, Jr., died
at Salem, Mass., recently, aged about
thirty years. She accompanied ber
late master (the major) with the Fif
tieth Mas->achus'tts regiment to Port
Hudson to their nine months' cam
paigne, and afterward with the !• ifty
ninth into Virginia. Fanny carried
her master through the Battle of the
Wilderness, and swam North Anna
river with him on her ba-k. She was
rever wouuded, and afte. - Colonel
Hodges's death at Peters ur,', .lulv
30, 18U4, was returned to h s family in
Salem.
Learning the Grocery Business.
A Smull Boy in Detroit Free Press.
I went to learn the grocery business
with Mr. Ginger, and found him the
clear ginger itself, and he found me
ditto.
I was only fourteen years old, but
was lut older in my own war of think
ing. und stood risrht on my dignitv the
first day I was there. It only «O i;
me abemt half an hour to learn the
i business, anyway.
1 I-arnt the candy, sugar, oppl",
j orange aud raisin business in less time
! than that, for I knew all about it before
I got my hat off. After I had been
there about twenty minutes, and was
pretty well through with a bottle of
gum lirops, the boss asked nie if I hail
ever been in a grocery store before. I
was too full tor reply—at least nty
mouth was—but as soon as 1 got mv
rnoulh nearly empty I said: 'Often;
been iu bigger ones than this, too.'
'Well,' he said you seem to take
hold of some parts of it pretty quiek '
OL, ye-! 1 can lesr i anything
quick that I set my mind to.'
'See.' said IK-, 'if you can learg t<>
dust off those haip chimneys, wasii off
those shelves, bring up some potatoes
out of the cellar and ieave off eating
candy.'
'I don't think I can set my mind to
do that. Have you no man to do
these sort oi things?'
'No; We always make the boy do
th?.t.'
'Well, where's the boy? Ain't he
come yet? I'll bet you a quarter that
before I'm here long he'll have to get
Here earlier in the morning than this.'
'Who ?'
'The boy.'
'What boy?'
'Didn't you say that the boy did all
the dirty work ? Come, old fellow,
you can't fool me. If you think I'm
green, why you have got a hold of the
wrong man, and it's me that's telliug
you.'
'Ju.-t then there was a lady come iu.
She ask"d the price of our best Hour.
I referred her to the boss, 'flour has rais
ed,' he said, 'i;nd we couldn't let you
have a barrel for less than seven dol
lars.'
'Oh, I can get it for six dollars aud
fifiy cents,' she said.
'ln your misty mind,' says I.
'Hold your tongue, boy'! says the
boss.
'Mv advice to you missus,' said 1
'is if you cm get as good Hour as
we have for six dollars and a half
you'r a tangled up monkey if you
don't go and get it, if your credit is
creditable.'
'You're an impudent puppy!' remark
ed Ibe boss, savagely.
'The some to yourself and many of
them,' says I, meekly.
With this the old lady marched out
sedatelv.
'Hold on, old lady,' I says; 'don't go
oil' mad. I'll let you have a barrel at
six doliars and seventy-five cents cash!'
She kept on out, without let
ting ou she heard me.
I sang out: 'Good-bye, while you're
hanth!'
As soon as shj was gone the boss
said:
'Boy, you won't suit me. You
would drive ail my customers away
with your sauce, besides driving me
crazy.'
'Neither one of them would be a
very long drive, if I'm properly ac
quainted with myself, and I guess I
am.'
'Clear out!' shouted thj boss, 'before
I kill you on the spot.'
'Which spot do you m3an?'siid I, at
the same time laughing hea. lily in his
face.
lie threw a pound weight at me.
I made a nice catch, aud said, 'out on
Prst base.'
He looked wild.
I threw it back to him, but he
mtiffed it and it went out through a
window.
I don't know where this would have
stopped had not a customer conic in.
I looked down the street ami saw
the boss coming with a policeman.
1 quickly got inside, locked the door
anil ducted out the back way, resolved
to srive up the grocery business, and
I have luver been in that town since.
Twenty-two State Legislatures a e
n >\v at work. We are certainly a law
making people, if not law abiding.
It is said .Jay Gould is changing his
habits. We know an industrious
scribe who would like very much to
catch on to those he is discarding.
How many calendars and almanacs
for 1883 have you collected? This
new rage has apparently taken fast
hold upon those who indulge in it, and
is spreading all over the country.
Malaria is no longer a fashionble
complaint, and you must now complain
of an 'awful cold on your cheat.' If
asked where contracted, give the name
of some rich person who recently en
tertained company.
'Johnny,' said the teacher, 'a lie can
bo acted a.- well as told. Now, if your
father should put sand in his su<;ar and
sell it, he would be acting a lie ami
doing very wrong.' 'That's what
mother told him,' said Johnny.
There were 46,1G2,738 bushels of
grain shipped from the port of New
York in 1882. The grain was carried
in 103'J steamers and 240 sailing ves
sels, but not a pound of it in an Ameri
can vessel.
The name of Washington appears to
be regarded with extraordinary vener
ation in Oriental countries,'eyen among
roval personages, who might naturally
be expected to admire King George and
his redcoats rather than the leader of
tho ragged Continentals. Prince
Taruhito de Arisugawa, the uncle of
the Kikadoof Japan, recently made a
pilgrimage to the tomb of Washington,
and now we learn that the King of
Siam, has sent 'roval contributions'
to the Washington monument. Per
haps when the tall shaft is finished
some other Oriental prince will send
i uu a gilded pagoda t) tcp it off with,
AT THII PA WN-SHOP DOOK.
: Iu the winter mornine, ea-lv when onlv a f< vr
C
were astir.
And the Gutters were up at the wind<.wt>
anil the snow lay whit? n the street's,
AH the wh<el< of travel and trallic were begin*
ninsc t" whin and whirr,
And the sunshine drove il.c shadows alike
ghosts from their ilark retreats,
Frm r.u: tiip tenement Louses, from cellars so
cold ,-nJ iia iip,
That the humid blorsoms of (Jea'h gleam
v. lil.e'y on wall aad tioor,
The \ta' V'ul eutinels sto'e away from the
waking camp.
Anil, shiverin; with cold and hunger, ap
pealed ;■! the pftwn-.diop door.
j i here was one iu lie r widow's weeds who lad
striven lrom day to d«v
To keep her children in comfort, with plenty
of food to eat,
But tl.- ii . would be due to-morrow, she'd not
the money -to pay,
And oh, the disgrace and horror of being
turned into the street
She looked about in her for something
that -he could spare
From her tenderly noarded treasure —»
scanty yet precious store —
Ai.d bearing away the jewel that proudly sl.e
used to wear,
In the dusk of a wintry morning she stood a
the pawn-shop door.
There were others who gathered around her,
\\ hose faces too weil betrayed
The shrine at which they worshiped, the
vice that had bitten iu
Through the fibre of all their being, till un.
blushingly they displayed
The tokens of their enslavement, the taints
and traces of sin. f
They are regular coiners, by the den on o
drink accursed,
The lazy and tattered "hummers," albeit of
breadth and brawn,
Who are driven at early raoruiug by the
scourge of a terrible thirst—
Ah ! little have they to hope for whose soul*
are already in pawn !
l!ut there outside of the group, with finger*
aching and ted,
A little boy with a bundle slips into a vacant
place ;
There are no shoes on his feet, not much of a
cap on his Lend,
And the great big tears run over the shrunk
en and x-areworn face,
lie is hungry and cold and wretched ; there is
no fire on the hearth,
Not a bit of bread in the cupboard, nor even
a scrap of meat; •
And the little brothers aud sisters are strangers
to joy and mirth,
When they're pinched by the old of winter
and haven't enough to eat.
Ah ! sad enough is the picture and little we
dream or know
Of the terrible storms eucountered, the
auguish and sore distress
Of many we daily meet iu our journeying to
and fro,
Whom we never have thought to pity, and
never have cared to bless,
And driven before the wind of a merciless,
cruel late,
Like vessels shorn of their sails and urged to
a rocky shore.
Bereft of their early hopes, and swept from
their high estate,
Pitiful wrecks ! they stranded close to the
pawn-shop door.
—Josephine Pu'ltrd, in Harper's Y.'.eLly.
Hansom cabs are run in Philadel
phia by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and passengers ore carried
to nearly any point in the city for 25
cents, or two persons for the same
price. A livery man has had some
vehicles built in close imitation,
and travelers get into them without
knowing utiy difference, until called
upon to pay a dollar or two
Charles F. Freeman, Who sacrificed
his child in a religious frenzy at Po
cassett, Mass., three years ago, and is
now in a lunatic asylum, is regarded
as having recovered his reason, and is
likely soon to be released. "The
child's life was lost,"' he says, "through
ignorance aud superstition. Knowl
edge and science have saved mine and
restored my reason. I intend to be
guided by reason through the rest of
my life."
The components of Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup are daily prescribed by the
ablest physicians, whose success is
due to the specfic influence of these
components. Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup
skillfully prepared for immediate use,
is for sale by all druggists.
At Little Itideau, East Hawksburg,
Ontario, a hired man murdered a Mr.
Cooke and wife, their eldest daughter
and one son. Cooke was murdered
with an axe in the barnyard; M re.
Cooke and daughter were strangled in
the woodshed. The son George was
killed in bed with un axe. Another
8011 had his thigh broken, but may re-,
cover. Fannie Cooke, coming to
her brother's assistance, received a Se
vere wound in the breast. The mur
derer is still at large.
In October, 18*1, two tramps enter
ed the Utah it Northern Railroad stc
tion at Franklin, Idaho, and, pointing
cocked pistol at Accent Hinckley, de
manded the combination of the sale.'
The pistol went off and killed Hinck
lt;v. The tramps were arrested anil
Michael Mooney, the one who held
the pistol, was hanged last Friday,
lie died game. He refused to disclose
anything respecting himself, his family
or his life. It was claimed that the
pistol went off accidentally.
A Most Remarkable Case.
Dying—yet living. Dr„ filler, of,
129 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia,
Pa., savs: "1 am personally acquainted
with a middle-aged In Philadel
phia, who hail b.-en giveu up to die by •
a consultation of many physicians.
She was confined to her bed for months, (
and was momentarily expected to die.
In this condition she took Manaliuand,
to the surptise and disappoimeutof all,
sherecovered her health perfectly. Her
case is reported in Dr. Hartiudu s book
on the "Ills of Life," 31s', page. Ask
pour Druggists for one, or address Dr.
Ilartman, Oaborn, O.
NO. <)