VOL. XX
B.W.FBHGH. JMIWHMM.
I A NEW FIRM. |
DRY GOODS I NOTION HOUSE
IIOFII
PBDGH fi WEITZEL
WILL, OX OK ABOUT
APRIL 2nd, 1883,
Open Their New Stock of Dry Goods and (lotions
For (i 0 exMlßAtlon oflhe pnbllr, in the room formerly
occupied by Scolt'B Confectionary,
UNION BLOCK, MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA
§T KR M 9 CA.S H §
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JOHN BICKEL,
WHO IS
lit SUE KOI m TIBI SHIES II 111111,
And Who Takes Orders for the Custom Work of this Firm.
ALSO
Kso pairs pf Slippers, bought at Sheriff's Sale to be closed out cheap.
ALSO
SOO Pairs of Plow Shoes, all sizes, to be sold cheap.
ALSO
A. large assortment of Mens' Fine Wear in all the Latest Styles, Low and
Pigh Cuts English Bals, Buttons, Dom Pedro, etc.
ALSO
All the Beit New England, New York and Philadelphia m a kes of all kinds of
boots, shoes and slippers always on hands.
ALSO
All {finds Q( Leather and findings, large stock of French Calf and &ips,
American Calf and Kips, Moroccoes, Linings, Sheffield Red Sole
and Baltimore Oak-Sole Leather.
ALSO
Our owfl Hand Work, whieh CANNOT be excelled in Butler either for Style,
Work or Material.
ALSO
Farmers can have their repairing and mending done on the same day they
bring it in.
JOHN BICKEL,
MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA.
NEW STORE. NEW STOCK
a NUW AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
" miiii iin mplitis just ntcne.l ~
OAK AND HEMLOCK SOLE,
FRENCH AND DOMESTIC KIPAND CA t.F.
COI.I.AR. WEI.T, SKIRTINO,
CPPER, BELTING, HARNESS AND LACK LEATHER
JEt OA"N AND IFTIINIK: LININGS, ETC.
—ALSO HiKVPACTDRKROF ALL KINDS OP
Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Collars, Etc., Etc.
And carry a foH stock of Whipa, Robe®, Bliukete, Brushes, and all other Goods belonging to
the Bubinend.
AJI Ipfidf of Repairing will Receive Prompt Attention.
fßrPleaee pali and examiue oar Goods and get price® before you purchase elsewhere.
Plastering Hair Always on Hand.
CASH PAID FOR, HIDES AND PELTH.
C. ROESSING,
Beiber'a Block. Jefferson Street, opposite Lowry House. Butler, Pa
I *C/ k Ilot wtlf U' 4cht rkHK to'ill +hu apply Customers of
I T'JVfk, l as * need trot write for it. All seed teat from my
I establishment Warranted to be both fresh and true to name,
I *° f >ir - that should it prove otherwise, agree to refill the
I \p order gratis. My collection of vegetable seed is one of
C D Wf •• —the most extensive to be found in any American catalogue,
and • larfe part of it-is of my own jrrowing. Aa the
a n d a score or other new Vegetable*. 1 "Invite the pafrt>p
■Vp ajre of the public. In the jrardeaa and on the farms
■ uToae <rho plant my seed will be found my best advertise-
gillei Jjgggj, fttira^t.
For I);iprpiil,
■ ■ CostiTenen,
jßJLiitll'ikrjksick Headache.
Chronic l>iar- ,
H rhcra, Jaundice,
lin puri l_v of tho
Blood, Fever and
sssr.
jpL caused by De
rangement of Liver, Bowels and Sidney*.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED MVER.
liad Lreath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken lor
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowcn
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied j
with a painful sensation of leaving undone somethii.?
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry couca
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startle-,
fc-t cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of ;hc skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude ta
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Severa.
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but casei
have occurred when but few of them existed, yes
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should bo used by all persons, old and
young, whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living In Un
healthy Localities, t>y taking a dose occasion
ally to keep the Liver in hcalihy action, will avoid
all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc # It
will invigorate like a glass cf wine, but is no in
toxicating: beverage.
If You liavo eaten anything hard ol
digestion, cr feel heavy after meals, or sleep
less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved.
Time and Doctors' Bills will be saved
by always keeping the Regulator
in the House!
Fvr, whatever the ailnien: may be, a thoroughly
safo purgative, alterative and tonic can
never be out of place. The remedy is harmless
an<l does not interfere with business or
pleasure.
IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE.
And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor's Testimony.
Siinmons I.iver R<-£ulator has been in use in my
iaiD.iy for s me time, and 1 am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. GILL SHORTER, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga.,
sn\.;; Have derived some benclit from the use of
Sim.uons Liver Regulator, aud wish to give it a
further trial.
<*Thtf only Thing that never fails to
Relieve," —I have used many remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
nave found anything to benefit me to the extent
Simmons I.iver Regulator has. I sent fn. m Min
nesota td Georgia for it, and would send further for
such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that never fails to relieve.
P. M. JANNEY, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. T. TV. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice 1 have been and am satisfied to use
an" I prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
enly tho tienuino, which always
has on the Wrapper the red 2 Trade-Mark
and Signature of J. 11. ZI'IUN & CO.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS^
■ i ii I————
Noted MEN!
DR. JOHN F. HANCOCK,
late President of the National Phar
maceutical Association of the United
States, says:
•'Brown's Iron letters has a
heavy sale, is conceded to be a fine
tonic; the character of the manu
facturers is a voucher for its purity
and medicinal excellence."
DR. TOSEPII ROBERTS,
President Baltimore Pharmaceutical
College, says:
*'l indorse It as a fine medicine,
reliable as a strengthening tonic,
free from alcoholic poisons."
DR. J. FARIS MOORE, PII.
D , Professor of Pharmacy, Balti
more Pharmaceutical College, says:
" Brown's Iron Bitters is a safe
and reliable medicine, positively
free from alcoholic poisons, and can
be recommended as a tonic for use
among those who oppete alcohol.'*
DR. EDWARD EARICKSON,
Secretary Baltimore College of Phar
macy, says •
" I indorse it as an excellent
medicine, a good digestive agent,
snd a non-intoxicant in the fullest
sense."
Dr. RICHARD SAPINGTON,
one of Baltimore's oldest and most
reliable physicians, says:
"All who have used it rraise its
Standard virtues, and tne well
knowr* of the house *UicW
makes it is a sufficient guarantee
of its being all that is claimed, for
they are men who could not be in
duced to offer anything else but a
reliable medicine for public use."
A Druggist Cured.
Boonsboro, Md., Oct. 12, xSBo,
Gentlemen; Brown's Iron Bit
ters cured me of a bad attack of
Indigestion and fullness in the stcm
ach. Having tested it, I take pleas
tire in recommending it to my cus
tomers, and am glad to say it gives
en* : re satisfaction to all."
CKO. W. HOFF-IAN, Druggist.
Ask your Druggist for BROWN'S
IRON B'*TERS, and take no other.
One trial v.ill convince you that it
is just what you need.
BUTLER CO UN TY
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts.
Gk C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT.
WAL. CAMPBELL. TREASURER
H. C. IIEINEMAN, SECRETARY
DIRECTORS:
J. L. Purvis, j E. A. Helraboldt,
William Campbell, ; J. W. Burktiart,
A. Trout man, Jacob Scboene,
G. C. Roessin;*, I John Caldwell,
Dr. W. Irvin, ' J. J. Croll.
A. 15. Rhodes, . H. C. Ileineman.
JAS. T* M'JUNKIN, den. Ag't
BUTLER ZP.A..
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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21. 1883
INGERSOLL ON LINCOLN.
His Introduction to a Lecture on
"Lawyer Lincoln by the
-Crier of the Court."
The following is Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll's introduction to a lecture de
livered in Washington by Mr. Kidd,
who was once crier of a court in which
Abraham Lincoln often practiced law :
"We are to hear this evening a lec
ture about Abraham Lincoln. Not
about Lincoln the President, the pre
server of a nation; not about Lincoln
the statesman or liberator, but about
Lincoln the lawyer—something about
him as he really was before he fell
heir to agony and fame—something j
about his peculiarities, his habits, his ,
thoughts, aud common words—that is :
to say his daily life.
"Nearly all the characters of history
are impossible monsters. We know
nothing about their peculiarities.
Washington is only a steel engraving.
About the roots of these oaks there
clings none of the earth of humanity
Lincoln had the advantage of living
in a new country, of social equality,
of seeing in the horiaen of his future
the perpetual star of hope. He saw
and mingled with men of all kinds;
and, after all, men are books. He be
came acquainted with nature—with
things; he lived and appreciated the
poem of the year.
"It is no advantage to live in a city.
The fields are better than paved streets,
and the great forests than walls of
brick. Oaks and elms are more poetic
than the stacks of chimney of factories
In the country is the idea of home.
There you see the rising and the set
ting sun; you become acquainted with
the stars and clouds; you hear the
rain upon the rocf and listen to the
sighing of the wiud. Every field is a
picture, a landscape; every landscape
is a poem, and eyery forest is a fairy
land."
"You have no idea how many men
are spoiled by what is called 'educa
tion.' For the most part colleges are
places where bricks are polished and
diamouds spoiled. If Shakspeare had
graduated at Oxford he might have
become a quibbling attorney or a hypo
critical person.
"Lincoln was a many-sided man
He was acquainted with smiles as well
as tears. He was never afraid tQ
He was not top dignified to admit that
he did not kuow. He was not solemn.
Solemnity, as a rule, is a mask, hiding
the features of ignorance, aud when
ever a man is too dignified to ask he
ceases to learn. Lincoln was a com
bination of wisdom and shrewdness.
He was a logician. Logic is the nec
essary product of intelligence and hon
esty." It cannot be learned; it cannot
be taught. It is the child of a good
head and a good heart. He had in
tellect without arrogance, genius with
out pride, and re'igjon without cant—
that is to say, humanity without hy
pocrisy. He was au orator—that is
to say he was natural. He never pre
tended. He did not say what he
thought others thought, but what he
thought.
"Ifyou wish to be sublime, you
must keep close to ti}e grass. You
must sit by the fireside of human ex
perience, of human emotion. Above
the clouds it is too CQld. Too much
polish suggests insincerity. If you
wish to know the difference between
an orator and speaker, between what is
felt and what is said, read Lincoln's
immortal words at Gettysburg, and
then read the speech of Edward
Everett. The one gathered flowers
from his heart, the other words from
his brain. The words of Lincoln will
never be forgotten! The speech of
Everett will never be read. The elo
cutionists believe in the virtue of voice,
the sublimity of syntax, the majesty of
long senteuces auu the genius of gest
ure. Great ideas should be expressed
in tho shortest words. The greatest
statues .should have the least drapery !
"Nothing discloses real character
like power. It is easy f or thp weak to
be gentle. Most people can bear adver
sity; but if you wish to kuow what a
man really is give him power. This is
the supreme test. It is the glory of
Lincoln that, having almost absolute
power, he never abused it except on the
side of mercy. He would never turn a
man out of even the smallest office, and
leave a stain upon his name without
having giviug him a full and ample
hearing. He loved to pardon He
loved to see the tears of joy upon the
cheeks of a wife whose husband he had
rescued from death.
"He will be known through all the
years as Lincoln the Great, Lincoln the
Gentle, Lincoln the Just."
A Brilliant Meteor.
PETERSBURG, YA., March s. —The
most remarkable phenomenon ever
witnessed in this vicinity occurred
early yesterday morning. An im
mense ball of Are darted across the
heavens brilliantly illuminating the
city. The witnesses of the phenome
non were considerably frightened. Its
course was northwest. An explosion
was heard shortly after its flight At
Fredericksburg the explosion was fol
lowed by the loud detonation and tre
mors of the dearth. The light was
very brilliant aud of a blue tint. All
along the route traversed persons
were awakened by the noise and
shocks.
Johnie was sent to town for a quar
ter of a pound of salt-petre. He as
tonished the stoorkeeper by asking for
a quarter of a mile of salt-petre.
Roy's grandpa to Frankie (aged 5)
"Fraukie, Roy's grandpa was a littie
boy like you ouee.'' Frankie—"My
grandpa wasn't never a little boy, I
know. Coz I was to his house a great
while ago and he wasn't then."
A certain little threc-ypar old likes
very much to go to church, and especi
ally enjoys the singing. One day, the
choir sang, "Rock of ages cleft for me"
and after she coiue borne tjip little ouo
was heard singiug, very seriously,
, "Rock the babies, kept for me."
Alexander Hamilton Stephens,
The deuth of Mr. Stephens will're
call not merely the more recent events
of the Rebellion and that short lived
"Confederacy" of which he was the
second executive officer. Long be
fore those dark days he had as a
public man acquired a national reputa
tion, aud had been recognized as a
leading spirit of the great Whig party.
In his support of Mr. Clay there was
something chivnlrous, which had en
deared Mr. Stephens to the many
friends, both North aud South, of the
great man. In the National House of
Representatives Mr. Stephens was the
brilliant and effective champion of the
Opposition to the Administration of
Mr. Polk and to the Mexican measures
of that President. He came at last to
be regarded as one of the most moder
ate of the members from the slave
States. Up to a certain point he had
been an unswerving friend of the
Union. As the hour of dismember
ment approached, he seems honestly to
have used all his power, authority,
eloquence, against the increasing mad
ness; but when the time came for
standing almost alone or for yielding
to the current of Southern opinion, he
made the great mistake of his life, sur
rendered to the turbulent influences by
which he was surrounded. He was
not a man to do things by halves, and
accepting office under the Confederate
Government, he did his best to main
tain its desperate fortunes. Unques
tionably he accomplished a great deal
of mischief by misleading those who
were still wavering; and he has tho
credit, whether it belongs to him or
not, of turning the soale against loyal
tv by a speech which he made in the
the Virginia Legislature. Yet even
then he was longing for a return to the
Union. Whenever negotiations were
set afoot lor conciliation, or at least for
peace, Mr. Stephens was full of activi
ty, however small his influence.
After all was over and tUe uause of
secession hopelessly lost, Mr. Steph
ens accepted the result gracefully and
with good sense. He came back to the
House of Representatives, after a long
abscence, a feeble, worn-out and prem
aturely old man. Always an invalid,
he was no litter for the sick chamber
than for the Housej hut i»o exerted
himself with indomitable resolution,
aud participated in many of interest
ing questions. The country liked to
hear from him aud was interested in
his personal welfare. Of all the lead
ing men of the Rebellion, he seems to
have been regarded by the loyal with
the greatest leuiency, and to have been
the most readily forgiven. There was
an impression that with the political
crimes now indelibly associated with
his name his sympathy had never been
great or cordial; aud that he had J'iejd*
ed to the influences which tho most
pertinav-ious Union man, under the
same circumstances, would have found
it hard to resist. Possibly posterity
may judge him with less consideration;
but we think that the presumption is
that he will appear in history as he ap
pears to us, as a man of pub
lic intentions, though found unfortun
ately deficient in strength of character
at a critical moment. At the sam®
time let it in his favour be remembered
that the strength demanded was of a
specially elevated kind, and one of
which universal history furnishes few
instances.— N. Y. Tribune.
Easter Eggs
Easter comes very early indeed this
year, upon the 25th of March, which is
almost as early as it ci\n ever he, aad
before long, children will begin to
think about preparing, what in old
times, used to be called paas eggs. It
is a good plan, too, for the egg colorers
of a neighborhood to hold a sort of
"bee," and unite in the production of
the dyes, thus saving time and money.
The exchange of eggs between
friends as a token of loye or friendship,
is a very ancient custom, dating back
aluiOot io the flood, for it is a symbol of
the ark, as well as of the resurrection,
which is the reason we present tbem at
Easter. It is moreover a very univer
sal custom prevailing among different
nations snd religions. The Jews
place eggs on their Passover tables,
the Druids used them in their
monies, and the Persians frequently
gave them as New Year's gifts. If
you should happen to bo in Russia
this month, a Russian would greet you
on Easter morning with "Christ is
risen," and offer you an Easter egg,—
aud stranger still, if you were in the
far East, a Mohammedan would do the
same. At city confectioners, fancy
sugar eggs—some of them of enor
mous size, and containing panoramas
pf landscapes and figures, or else filled
with bonbons be had at all
prices; but appropriate home made
ones are worth twice as much.
To dye eggs, ouion skins put in the
water in which they are boiled will
make them a bright yellow, or, if left
longer in the solution, a rich brown.
Log-wood or violet ink, gives a royal
purple. Cochineal pink, and crimson
and many pieces of chintz or bright
ribbons that fade easily, round the
eggs, will color them nicely in figures,
stripes or dots, pother wny ia to
dip tiie egga in hot water, and then
write a name or motto on the shell
with tallow. It is then boiled in the
solution of dye-wood, when the inscrip
tion will appear in white upon a color
ed ground.
Those who are skillful with pencil
and paint brush can present their
friends with really exquisite souvenirs,
by ornamenting eggs with Sowers and
butterflies, or appropriate texts of
scripture. For these painted eggs, it
is better to puncture a tiny hole with a
pin in each side, and blow out the in
side, leaving a clearer shell to ,
boil them, and tl,e apertures can be
ooneealed by stars of silver or gilt
paper.— Agness Carr, in Am. Agri
culturist for March.
—The bottom of the strawberry
boxes this year will be on the top.
They have been going up every sea
son.
The Planet Mars.
If an inhabitant of Mars, after ad
miring the starry beauty of the earth
seeu from a distance of many millions
of miles, could approach near enough
to get a bird's-eye view of what is now
going ou upon its surface, he would be
astonished at the scenes of devastation
and ruin which had been concealed in
the serene rays of his evening star.
All quarters of our planet appear to be
suffering from extraordinary displays
of the destructive forces of nature.
While the thickly populated valleys ol
the Rhine, the Danube, and the Ohio
have lieen desolated by great floods, a
severe drought has prevailed in the
central part of South America, and
L ike Titieaca, on the borders of Peru
and Bolivia, famous for its great eleva
tion above the sea and its islands, con
taining some of the most remarkable
ruins in the world, is reported to be
drying up at an extraordinary rate.
This has caused consternation among
the Indians in the neighborhood, who
are reminded of a curious tradition con
cerning a subterranean channel con
necting the lake with the sea, which
has come down from the days of the
Incas.
The disturbance of the earth's crust,
which was manifested by sharp earth
q'i::ke shocks in Europe, in New En
jjnnd, aud in some of the Western
Slates a few weeks ago, is yet felt in
various parts of the world. News has
lately reached us of great destruction
of property, and the loss of many lives,
by earthquakes in the island of
Formosa, and of a volcanic eruption on
the shore of Lake Hakono, fifty miles
from Yokohama, during which neigh
boring villages were damaged by lava
and falling rocks. The mountain from
wh ; ch the lava burst forth had not
been known as a volcano, and this fact
is all the more interesting because no
volcunio eruption has occurred in that
neighborhood since the eruption of the
celebrated Fuslyama in 1707.
China, too. is suffering from floods.
The Yellow River burst its bauks near
Wooting recently, and about 10,000
square miles of territory were inundat
ed. If Mother Shipten's evil prophecy
had been ftimed at 1883 instead of 1881,
how well all these events would have
chimed in with the menacing jingle of
her rhymes.
Important to Pensioners.
The following circular has been is
sued by the Commissioner of Pensions
and approved by the Secretary of the
Interior :
The following regulations are pre
scribed for the purposes of earrying
into effect as speedily as possible the
provisions cf the act of Congress ap
proved March 3, 1883, increasing to
f3O per month the pensions of those
who lost a leg at or above the knee, or
an arm at or above the elbow, and of
these who have been so disabled as to
be incapacitated from performing any
manual labor, hut so much as to re
quire regular personal aid and attend
ance and who are now receiving a pen
sion at the rate of $24 per month, and
to $24 per month the pensions of those
who have lost one band or one foot,
or have been totally deformed or dis
abled in the tame, or otherwise so dis
abled as to render their incapacity to
perform manual labor equivalent to
tbe loss of a hand or foot and now
receiving $lB per month. Inasmuch
' as said act has immediate effect upon
such admitted cases as have been ad
judicated at the ratos of $24 and $lB
per month respectively no formal ap
plication by the beneficiary is necessary
to be made other than to forward to
the Commissioner of Pensions the
pension certificate, accompanied by a
letter stating in the handwriting of
the pensioner his present postoffice
address, and as soon as possible after
the receipt of the pension certificate
aforesaid tho commissioner will reissue
to him a new certificate for the new
rate and will forward the same to the
proper pensioner to inscribe the name
of such pensioner on the role at the in
creased rate and to make to the pen
sioner the proper payment. In this
oase amputation certificates will be re
issued without any further medical ex
amination. The intervention of the
agent or attorney in such admitted
cases as are effected by this act being
unnecessary will not be recognized.
Sugar and Flour.
The statement that some families
pay as much money for sugar as for
flour has been treated as ridiculous, but
it is not far from the truth. With flour
at less than five cents per pound and
augar costing more than ten cents it is
quite easy for some families to pay as
much for sugar as for bread and yet
not indulge in confectionery. A pound
of sugar per week is not a large allow
ance per individual for sweetening tea
and coffee if these beverages are used
in average quantity. Fruits that are
stewed or cooked in any way are en
tirely healthy, and should be used more
than they are, but even the homely ap
ple sauce requires a great deal of sugar.
Oatmeal, cornmeal and various prepar
ations of are popular in most
families where children abound ; all are
nutritious and cheap, but they also de
mand sugar to make them palatable.
There is no sanitary objection to the
use of sugar in the ways indicated, for
sugar itself is a highly concentrated
nutriment and is not injurious when
combined in proper proportions with
other food. Why, therefore, it should
be treated in the tariff list as a luxury,
or why its cost should be enhanced
one-third for the sake of protecting
American planters who never can hope
to meet one-fourth of our home de
mand, is inexplicable by any honest
course of reasoning. If lawmakers
were intent upon devising a tariff
strictly for revenue thore might be
some reason in taxing every man's
sugar bowl, but no such principle of
taxation can hope for any consideration
from the present Congress.
—The apothecary clerk and the bar
tender mix in all kinds of company.
A Remarkable Poem to Which
38 Poets Contribute a Line
Each.
I
The following very remarkable little
poem is a contribution to the San Fran
cisco Times from the pen of Mr. H. A.
Deming. The reader will see that each ,
line is a quotation from some one of the
standard authors of England and
America. This is the result of years
of laborious search among the volumi- j
nous writiugs of thirty-eight leading
poets of the past and present. The
number of each line refers to the author
below:
1. Why all this toil tor triumphs of an hour?
3. Life's a short summer, maa's a flower.
3. By turns we catch the vital breath and die.
4. The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
5. To be is better far than not te be.
6. Though all men's live* may seem a tragedy;
7. But light cares speak when might griefs
are dumb.
8. The bottom is but-shallow whence they
come.
9. Your fate is but the common fate of all;
10. Uniuingled joys here no mau can be&ll.
11. Nature to each allots its proper sphere;
12. Fortune makes folly her particular care.
13. Custom does often reason overrule.
14. And throws a cruel sunshine on a fool.
15. Live well; how long or short, permit to
heaven ;
16. They who forgive <nost shall be most for
given.
17. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see
its face—
-18. Vile intercourse where virtue haa no place.
19. Then keep each passion down, however
dear.
20. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
21. Her sensual snares let faithlesa pleasure
lay.
22. With craft and skill to ruin and betray.
23. Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.
24. We masters grow of all that we despise.
25. Oh, then, renounce that impious self-es
teem !
26. Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream.
27. Think not ambition wise because 'tisbrave ;
28. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
29. What is ambition t 'Tis a glorious cheat—
-30. Only destructive to the brave and great.
31. What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
32. The way of bliss lies not on beds of down.
33. How long we live, not yean but actions
tell—
-34. "that man lives twice who lives the first lite
well.
35. Make, then, while yet you may, your God
your friend.
36. Whom Christians worship, yet not compre
heud.
37. The trust that's given guard and to yourself
be just,
38. For live we how we can, die we must.
1, Young; 2, Dr. Johnson; 3, Pope!
5, Prior; 5, Sewell; 6, Spencer; 7, Dan
iel ; 8, Sir Walter Scott; 9, Longfellow;
10. Southwell; 11, Congreve; 12.
Churchhill; 13, Rochester; 14, Arm
strong; 15, Milton; 16, Bailey; 17>
Trench; 18, Somerville; 19, Thompson;
20, Byron; 21, Smollett; 22, Crabbe;
23, Massinger; 24, Cowley; 25, Beat
tie; 26, Cowper; 27, Sir Walter Dev
enant: 28, Gray; 29, Willis; 30, Addi
son; 31, Dryden; 32, Francis Charles;
33, Watkins; 34, Herrick; 35, William
Mason; 36, Pill; 37, Dana; 38, Shaks
peare.
Daniel Webster.
Mr. J. Emery writes: There is one
incident in Daniel Webster's life that I
have never seen published or heard
mentioned since it happened. In 1819,
I thick it was that year, the United
States Supreme Court gave its decision
in the famous Dartmouth College case.
At the commencement in 1820, Mr.
Webster was present and addressed the
students. At a meeting of the trustees
and faculty a draft of five hundred
dollars was drawn in favor of Mr.
Webster. Our president, Dr. Francis
Brown, was very much out of health,
and Mr. Webster urged him
strongly to go south. Dr. Brown re
plied that perhaps it would be better
to do so, but that he was poor and un
able to bear the expense. Mr. Web
ster, without saying a word in reply,
stepped to a desk in the room, took
from his pocket the draft of five hun
dred dollars that had been given, in
dorsed it over to Mr. Brown, saying,
"that will help you, sir." On Mr.
Brown's attempting to reply, "not a
word, my dear,sir, not a word, but go
south and thank God for the means,"
said the certainly then "God-like
Daniel." Mr. Brown did go south,
but died the same year, in the autumn
of 1820. This one act will balance all
that the Ghouls are trying to dig up of
faults in his character.
The Price of a Burglar's Kit.
Bank burglars' tools are generally
of a superior order, gathered with care
and piece-meal until their kit is made
up. A full kit of the best order is
worth $2,000. This may all go in the
event of a failure of a job by disturb
ance, and generally does go when a
successful piece of work is accomplish
ed, as the booty is heavy enough in
itself, so that the tools are left behind.
Mechanics of a superior class exist in
large cities who make a speciality of
fashioning burglars' tools. In the ab
sence of such a mechanic, the tools are
oollected in parts, but as this is a
risky way of obtaining them, it is
avoided, if possible. Kits of the toby
man's tools are kept on hand for hire,
and a good collection can be obtained
in the centres of the business for from
SIOO to S2OO. These tool-renters are
generally tool-makers, also, but often
the tenoe has them on hand, and it is
part of the business of old cracks-men
to keep them. Fifty per cent of the
noted burglars are practical smiths,
and thoroughly understand the temper
any capacity of their tools. Sometimes
a gang, each owning implements of
various kinds, pool their possessions
and thus make up a full "kit." The
tool-makers have their specialities.
Some are famous for chisels, others for
punches and jimmies, and one maker
made a national reputation for a sledge
of lead and copper that entirely super
seded that formerly used of steel, be
cause of the dull, almost noisless, blow
it strikes.
—A bad lot —The lot you have to
pay taxes on and can't sell.
Poultry Raising as Employment
for Women;
1 wish to give my experience in
poultry raising. I bought twenty-five
common hens and two Plymouth Rock
roosters. My hens were young and
healthy and good layers, because well
fed. About the Ist of March my
brother came to visit me and make me
an incubator, that held 240 eggs. The
materials cost $6, and it took him two
days to make it. Between March Ist
and July Ist I hatched five incubators
full of chickens, or 968 chicks ia all. I
sold them, when they were about three
months old, at the hotels in some vil
lages near by. The first sixteen dozen
chicks brought me SIOO, or $6.25 per
dozen; the next sixteen dozen I got SBO
for, or $5 per dozen. The next sixteen
dozen brought $72, and the remaining
twenty-seven dozen I got $Bl for. Total,
$333. I paid for feed $47.25, leaving me
for my labor $285.75, and this without
any capital at all to start on. An incu
bator is easy to manage and takes but
little time, one hour a day being suf
ficient. You can hatch all the fertile
eggs, and you can hatch them early,
before you can get hens to sit. I have
now live incubators made and expect
to raise 5,000 chicks next year, and I
know I can clear 50 cents on each
chicken. I only have a small house
and lot; but you need but little room
when you sell them so young This is
work that any woman, though in
feeble health, can do. In fact, it is
only good exercise and it ia very prof
itable. I know there are thousands of
poor people who would turn their at
tention to poultry raising, if they only
knew how much money they could
make at it. I hope that many of
your readers, who are out of employ
ment or who have leisure time, will
try the poultry business and report
their success.— Evening Post.
To Keep Eggs.
Eggs may be kept for an indefinite
time if packed when quite fresh in
boxes with rock alum in shape like
rock salt. Put in a thick layer of
alum, then the eggs, Small end down,
and keep in a cool dry place.
2 Slack fresh lime with boiling
water; when cold, thin with cold water
to thickness of cream. Pack the eggs,
small end down, in a barrel or in stone
jars, then pour on the cold whitewash
covering the eggs. Care must be used
in taking them out, as they are easily
broken. This has bosn used with suc
cess for forty years.
3. Three gallons water, one pint of
fresh slacked lime, one half pint salt.
Use perfectly fresh eggs with sound
shells. If more lime is put in it eats
the shell; if more salt it hardens the
yolk. Put them in carefully; they
will keep perfectly good for a year or
more.
4. Hold perfectly fresh eggs in boil
ing water while counting six. A wire
basket can be used for this purpose.
Be sure to have water enough to en
tirely cover the eggs. Let them dry
and cool, then pack in oats. Put a
layer of oats on the bottom of the keg
or barrel sufficient to snpport the eggs.
Pack them closely, small end down,
and proceed till the barrel is filled.
Shake it gently to settle oats and eggs
firmly. This method has given eggs a
year after packing, in as good state of
preservation as when first packed.
Improvement In Chimneys.
The best chimneys are made by in
closing hard baked pipe in a thin wall
of bricks. Such chimneys not only
draw better than those made in the
usual way, but there is less danger
from "defective flues." A four inch
wall of brick between us and destruc
tion by fire is a frail barrier, especially
if the work is carelessly done or the
mortar has crumbled from the joints.
To build chimneys with double or
eight inch walls makes them very
large, more expensive, and still not so
good as when they contain the smooth
round flues. To leave an air cham
ber between them for ventilating, is
better than to open directly into the
smoke flue, because it will not impair
the draught for the fire, and there will be
no danger of a sooty odor in the room
when the circulation happens to be
downward, as it will be occasionally.
The outside chimney, if there is one,
should have an extra air chamber be
tween the very outer wall and the back
of the fireplace to save heat, a precau
tion that removes to a great extent the
common objection to such chimneys.
A very large per cent, of fires come
defective chimneys.— Scientific Amer
ican.
—Hereafter Cincinnati will date
everything from the "flood" just. the
same as they used to in that other and
more ancient Sodom,
The "burning deck" upon which the
bold boy stood was simply a pack of
cards that caught fire by coming in
contact with a box of matches in his
pocket.
—"Yes, indeed," remarked a socie
ty belle to her good pastor, "I say my
prayers every night and morning dur
ing lent; one might just as well be out
of the world as out of fashion."
—A Londoner advertises a powder
which will prevent cats running around
and making noise at night. It is black
and is put into a gun and makes a noise
itself.— Philadelphia Press.
—A giri just returned from a Boston
high school, said upon seeing a fire
engine at work: "Who would evah
have dweamed such a vewv diminutive
looking apawatus would hold so much
watah."
"Yes, sir," said the wood dealer, "I
prefer to sell wood to men who do
their own sawing. You can't convince
a man who has worked all day at a
wood pile that there isn't a full cord of
it."
—A Nebraska Norwegian, who had
got all ready to hang himself, discov
ered that his pipe was out, and he
threw off the noose and walked two
miles to obtain a light. By that time
he concluded to live.
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