VOL. XX.
BOOTS and SHOES
SPRING STYLES NOW OPENING AT" THE
Bonf li Ifiof iiE
i|OF||-
I. C. fIDSETOS.
Ltirseoi aud Fliknl Slyles and Lowest Prices ever shown by
any lloiihc in Bnller. All Frewli CJoodH
MADE TO MY SPECIAL ORDERS
an.l warranted. Our motto is FAIR DEALING WITH EVERYBODY, goods just as we rep
resent them, same price to all. Quick sales and small profits.
I WANT THE LADIES
To look at my French Kid Turn Button Boots (Cur Kid. Mat Top Cur. Kid
Fox Boots.) Gondola, (St Goat, Pebble Goat.) Serge, (Goat Fox.
Cloth top Boots.) Pebble Grain, OLD LADIES' WIDE SHOES
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Ladies' Button Boots from SI.OO and upwards. Ladies can
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I WANT THE OEWTLEZHEBT
To step in and look at my Calf Boots, Calf Bals, Button Shoes London toe and
tip, Veal Calf Shoes cloth tops, Congress Gaiters, Base Ball Shoes,
Oxford ties strap shoes, Plow Shoes, Brogans, Hob Nail
Shoes for miners, all of these are cfcsirable goocjs
frofn the cheapest Brogan to the F' n ® s t
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X WANT THE BOYS AND GIRLS
To see our School Shoes, Fine Button Boots and Bals, Slippers, &c., all
New and Nice Styles very cheap. Infants' and childrens' Shoes
in endless variety, from 25 cents upwards.
The Largest Rtoelc of Leather and Findings of any House In
Butler. Lowest Prices.
New Goods Constantly Arriving.
piMIRIXG.—AII kiudH done at Reasonable Kates.
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B* C, UUSELTON, Butler, Pa.
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All Kind* of Repairing will Receive Prompt At^tiop.
ft* yiwtiie ;alj Md exau>Ti,e
Plastering Hair Always oil Hand.
CANII PAID FOR HIDEH AND PELTH.
C. ROESSING,
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SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes th«
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Kheumatism ; general loss of appetite; Bowel»
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax.
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cougn
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complain*
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feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
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Persons Traveling or Living; In Un
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IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
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(Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor's Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for s me time, and I am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga..
says: Have derived some benefit from the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
"The only Thing that never foils to
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Kpsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
ve found anything to benefit me to the extent
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such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
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P. M. JANNKT, Minneapolis, Minn.
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WM. CAMPBELL, TREASURER.
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JUDICIAL HISTORY.
An Interesting Resume of Old
Time Legal Proceedings as
Presented Before the
Western Pennsylva
nia Historical
Society.
At a recent regular meeting of the
i Western Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety, the eveniny was devoted to the
! Hon. Judge White in a lecture on the
"Judiciary of Allegheny County."
He began with the first court held
west of the Allegheny mouutaius, in
Bedford, April 16, 1771. Two years
later Wtstmoreland was formed out of
a part of Bedford, and embraced all
the province west of the mountains.
The law directed that the court should
be held in the house of Robert Hanna,
three miles north of the present site
of Greensburg. Hanuastown wa3
formed and afterwards burned in 1782,
but for fifteen years court was stiil
held there. A low jail was erected
near Hanna's house. William Craw
ford was the first Presiding Judge.
He served for nine years, and died a
horrible death at the hands of the In
dians, in the fatal expedition against
the Sandusky villages. The Justices
of the Peace in the county formed the
court, both civil and criminal.
Three of them formed a quorum,
with one acting as president judge.
Later in 1777 they were appointed and
commissioned. Edward Cooke, Esq.,
was the first appointee. In 1785, John
Moon, a Justice of the Peace, was
commissioned as the first resident
president judge west of the mountains.
The Pittsburgh courts, up till 1788,
were held at Hannastown. The jail,
a log pen, was not for imprisonment as
a part of the sentence, but a place
where prisoners were kept pending
trial. The penalties were usually fines,
whipping, standing in the pillory stocks,
and clipping of ears. The whipping
post was a stout sapling with a cross to
which the prisoners were tied. The
pillory allowed the prisoner's head to
be exposed, at which, at common law,
each passing citizen was allowed to
cast a stone.
TIIp FIRST EXECUTION.
The records of those days show
many sentences to each mode of pun
ishment. Sometimes the whipping
post, the pillory and the ear-clipping
process were combined. The first
person convicted of murder west of the
mountains was an Indian of the Dela
ware tribe. In 1785 he, while drunk,
killed one of the Smiths on the Alle
gheny side of the river. He plead
guilty before Chief Justice McKean.
While in jail he was twice allowed to
go to the woods, once for roots to
cure a sick child of the jailor, aud
once for roots with which to paint him
self on the day of the The
rope broke once and the whole mat
ter was a bungling affair. He died
like a warrior. The first courts held
withiu the present city limits were
under the laws of Virginia iu 1775,
under the authority of Lord Dunmore.
Pennsylvania and Virginia both claim
ed the territory, and the organization
of Westmoreland county in 1773 rous
ed Virginia to an active agspft'PH fcf
her claims. L or( l Huumoio appointed
Dr. John Connolly bis agent here to
urge Virginia's claims A Westmore
land county justice threw Couuolly
into prison. When Couuolly came out
he|put the Westmoreland county justice
iu jail. When the Revolutionary War
broke out, Virginia abandoned her
claims, Lord Dunmore and Dr. Con.
Nolly both fleeing the T°»'y headquart
ers. In 1776 the tcrritovy was
DIVIDED INTO THREE COUNTIES,
called Ohio, Yohogania, and M°nonga
hela. Pittsburgh wa» in Vohogania
county, cumprised of the present terri
tory in Allegheny and part of Wash
ington counties. The courts were
held regularly until 1780, sometimes at
Pittsburgh, sometimes near the pres
ent site of Washington, but oftener on
the farm of .Andrew Heath, on the
Monongahela River, near tip jinp be
tween AUeglipny and Washington
counties. A ducking stool was built
at this point to punish scolding wives.
It was a large see-saw arrangement
with a chair near tho
water, in the victim way lash
ed, and her virulent temper cooled by
repeated tills into the cold water.
Two thousand dollars Continental cur
rency, worth two cents on tho dollar,
were expended on a whipping post
and stocks in the court house yard on
Heath's farm. The following sched
ule of prices was decreed by the
court in 1777 for tavern-keepers :
Halt pint of whinky 'h
The same made '.nto tcd«!ty .... l» <id
, Beer, pyr quwL.UU.J.;.'.,'
' Hot breaktuai In fid
Cold breakfawt Is
Dinner 2s
Supper Ih lid
For lodging, with clean (>d
Allegheny county was established
September 24, 1788. It embraced all
tho territory now iu Allegheny county,
Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie, l aw
reuce, Mercer, yenanuo, Warrpn, and
parts of Indiana and Clarion. Tho
first Court of Quarter Sessions was
held December 16, 1788, by George
Wallace, President Judge, and James
Scott, John Wilkins and John
Johnston, assistants. The first term
of the Common IMeas was held
March, 1789 The appearance docket
had 56 cases, but all that the minutes
of the court of that date say about it
is, "Cpurt vy&3 (leld before John Wal
lace and 'hi.T assistants," not' even giv
ihg their names. •
CHANGES IN TIIF. JUDICIARY
Radical changes were made in the
judicial system t<W tft time,
changing 'Up "terms of office of the
judges from "for life" to a term of years.
Justices of tho Peace ceased to be
judges. When the courts were organ
ized under the constitution of 171)0, Al
exander Addison was appointed Presi
dent Judge. He became a lawyer after
beinjr refused a license to preach by the
old Redstone Presbytery, lie
poaed from by the LitaUf
Senate in I Hti.'J ou account of politics
with but two unfounded charges.
Samuel Roberts succeeded him aud
held the oflice until 1820.
The first person convicted of murder
in Allegheny county was Thomas
Dunning. He was tried before Judge
Addison and hung on Boyd's Hill,
January 23, 1793. James Ewalt was
then Sheriff. Wm. Wilkins succeeded
Judge Roberts. Roberts died un the
13th of December. Governor Findley'a
term of ollice expired on the 18th, aud
Wilkins' representative only reached
Ilai risburg by horse one hour before he
would go out of office and be succeeded
by Joseph 1 leister, of the opposite
party. WilkiDS was appointed. He
held many ollices, from State to L'nited
States Senate, and was Minister to
Russia. He was first President of the
old- Bank of Pittsburgh. He died at
Homewood, Juu« 23, 18G5, iu his Bf>th
year. Charles Shaler succeeded him
as President Judge in 1841, but resign
ed the office in 1844. As a man of honor
he was widely respected. His legal
knowledge was wonderful. T. B. Dal
las succeeded him.
A Grain of Wheat.
Although we partake of the manu
facture of this staff of life daily, how
few have ever thought of the marvelous
complexity of a single grain. An ex
pert in the "American Miller" gives
the following description of it, which
doubtless will be read with interest by
every one :
Through the centre of the kernel
runs a groove, so that a horizontal
section is heart shaped. Under a glass
we see that it is very composite in
structure. The outside layer or cuticle,
which forms the bran, is composed
mainly of silex, the mineral base of
sand, which by means of the potash iu
the soil is made soluble, and is carried
by the little veins of the wheat plant
and deposited with the wood tissue.
The nutriment in this triple coat is not
digestible by the human stomach, but
is excellent for cattle. The layer next
inside this is the styled gluten. This
is a complex substance and in the
highest degree nutritious, esj>ecially to
the muscular tissues of man. Gluten
pure is composed mainly of protein,
which is the basis of the nitrogenous
compound albumen, fibrin aud casein,
with a slight addition of sulphur. Oil
this layer depends largely the nutritive
value of wheat. When flour stands
for some time after grinding some of
the gluteu changes its form to albumen,
aud thus improves its bread making
quality, to that the baker considers
flour a month old better than the fresh
ground. The substance is not strictly
limited to this layer of the grain, but is
found both iu the bran and distributed
through the starch. Within this gluten
layer lies the Btarch constituting the
mass of the kernel. The starch con
aists of minute granules about 1.000 of
an inch in diameter. The nuclei around
which cluster these tiny granules some
think are gluten. This is certainly
true of oats. On the mingling of the
gluten with the starch depends the
value of wheat for making bread. For
besides the protein, crude gluten con
tains sugar, gum uoluUu albumen.
I'he decoßmouition 0 f sugar in fermen
tation produces carbonic acid, which
becomes entangled in the tenacious
gluten, expands in the heat of baking,
aud renders the loaf light and spongy.
In the centre of the kernel, when the
outer layer turns into the body and
doubles around, forming an inner heart
shaped section, lie the phosphates of
soda, lime anil nwju«sia, 1 which are the
hone an(l Uraiu making elements of
wheat, in the crease, near the large
cm} of the kernal, lies the germ, which,
though rich in gluten, contains oily
and dark matter that injures the color
and quality of the flour, and should bo
removed. Over the germ is a thin
scale like pellicle, easily removed with
the thinnh nail, revealing the little
germ containing cells beneath. The
germ, by slight pressure, may bo re
moved, leaving the cell, whiph, how
ever, is coated oily flatter, which
should also bp kept out of the flour. At
the other end of the kernel is a sort of
fine brush appendage formed of ntimer :
ous downy filameut£ of a slight salmon
tint- are useful to the seed in
the.ground as absorbents of moisture,
but in the flour impair both its color
and flavor, and should be eliminated
This brush end and the crease, with
the wrinkled surfnee of the grain, are
grand dust and dirt catchers, and a
large amount of the machinery of our
modern mills is for the solo purpose of
cleaning the grain from dirt and freeing
it of the bran germ, brush and oily
matter, whi< h injures its capacity for
making white, v,nd nuUitious
About Dogs.
Little Johnny relates an amusing
anecdote about dogs : One time there
was a feller hot a dog of a man in the
market, and the dog it was a biter.
After it had bit the feller four or five
times he threw i\ cloc ovei its
,jc'v.k and led it back to the dog man in
the market and he said to the dog
man, the feller did, "Die man, didn't
y<iu use to have this dog?" The dog
man he lucked at the dog, and then
thot a while, and then said, "Well,
yes, I had him about half the time and
the other half the time he had me."
Then the feller was fewrious mail auU
he sed, "Wot did y V Ii me such a
dog ihisn tori'" And the old man
spoke up and sed, "For four dollars
and seventy-live cents, loflie money."
Then the feller guessed be would go
home if the dog was willing. Uncle
Xed, which hay
u h t fe, hp says the Mexican dogs don't
have itu hair ou 'em. Dogs bowl
loudeiu oats, but cut* Is more furry
tifjd can wok on top of a fence and
blow up their tail like a bloon when
they wan't to spit.
—Jefferson Davis says Providpftce
decreed that slavery pml as it
did. Still Ml'. Day is fe(t called upon
to lj,.ad an uymcd appeal from the de
cree through four years ul crimson dis
putat ion
POLITICS A BAD TRADE.
The Record that 1435 Men Have
Left Behind Them in the
Legislature.
! Correspondence of the Phila. Press.
HARRISBURQ, April 21. It Is
strange that so uncertain and so unre
munerative an occupation, or profes
sion, or whatever it may be called, as
politics should have so may persistent
followers among men of average abili
ty and intelligence. I know scores of
men who have sacrificed a score of
their best years and all the business
opportunities those years afforded in
the scramble for a sect iu the Legisla
ture. Some have succeeded, if a terra
of one, two, OP even eight years in an
i effort uf twenty can be called success,
! aud if the cost in time and money, ami
sometimes character, is not reckoned.
But iu what have they succeeded?
In achieving distinction? In
making for themselves a name to live
after they are dead ? How many of
the members of the Legislature since
18(i() are remembered even by the peo
ple of their own districts ? Their
bills, their speeches, their years of ser
vice, their names, even, are forgotten.
In the seventeen years since I came
to Ilarrisburg, exactly 1435 different
men have occupied seats in the Legis
lature. In that time, out of exactly
126 different members chosen, fifteen
—Charles E. Boyle, Hiester Clymer,
F. D. Collins, W. A. Duncan, Daniel
Ermentrout, Russell Errett, James B.
Everhart, H. G. Fisher, George V.
Lawrence, Levi Maish, John I. Mitch
ell, L. D. Shoemaker, Morgan R.
Wise, Harry White and William A.
Wallace—reached Congress from the
Legislature ; two—Mitchell and Wal
lace—the United States Senate; two
—John Latta and Charles W. Stone
—The Lieutenant Governorship; two
—Aaron K. Dunkel and William Mc-
Candless—the office of Secretary of In
ternal Affairs; one—William P. Schell
—to that of Auditor General ; one—
Samuel Butler—to that of State Treas
urer; six—Edwin Albright, (). P.
Bechtel, James A. Hunter, William P.
Jenks, John II Orvis and Cyrus L.
Pershing—to the judgeship of their
districts, and eight—Charles It. Buck
alew, Clymer, A. H. Dill, William T.
Davies, John Fertig, John M. Greer,
Pershing and John Stewart, to State
nominations, to be beaten. In all, out
of 1435 men who occupied seats in the
Legislature since January 1, lSGfi,
but twenty-nine have received political
promotion. Has the result been
worth the effort, the game worth the
powder ?
THE FABCINATION OF OAPiTOL HILL.
But the "Hill," like the gaming
table, and the life of the showman and
the newspaper man, has its fascina
tions to those once there almost irre
sistible, and often seemingly uncon
trollable. I can name a few men who
made a position on the "Hill" a step
ping-stone.to a seat in the Legislature '
Alexander Adair aud Horatio P. Con
nell, of Philadelphia, and Alexander
Godshalk, of Lancaster, in the Lower
House; and Fred Braggins and James
C. Brown, both of Mercer, aud A. I>.
Harlan (just elected in Senator Evcr
hart's place) of Chester, in the Senate
—and mauy who made it a plank to
slide down into a position of simple
bread and butter. Let me name thoso
only which now occur to me: Adam
Woolever, Harry Iluhn and William
C. Shurlock, from a scat in the House
to the desk of a chief clerk; I). L. Ini
brie (once a Senator) and Robert S.
Franier, to clerkships iu the Auditor
General's office; 11. S. Grcenawalt and
E. 11. 11. Stackpole to the Treasury;
M. Edgar King, to the Auditor Gener
als department, Lucius Rogers ar.d |
J. B. Agnew, to that of Internal Af
fairs; J. Q. Stewart, to the School De
partment; J. E. Allen, A. W. Bell and i
James J. Monagban,
The point that I would make in all i
of this, and which I would impress'
upon the young men especially, is that I
there is nothing in politics a*i a busi- '
ness. If successful, nothing more
than a haro living; if unsuccessful,
nothing but an outlay of time and
money. A government clerkship
makes u man a machine, stunts his
business development, and dwarfs all
his uobler aspirations into a simple de
sire to keep on the pay roll. Any
honorable occupation affords as good a j
living; anything reputable is just as '
honorable; anything honorable more
permanent and independent. The
chances, as I have endeavored to show
by the actual figures, for either promo
tion or permanent are «t
- the chances of being
struck by lightning. If what I have
written deters any young man with
the legislative or any other political
bee in his bonnet from further follow
ing the ignis fatuus of politics my
object has been accomplished.
—The Governor of North Carolina
said to the Governor Caro
lina . "Sir, the best remedy in the
world is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup" aud
Ihe latter seconded the assertion.
—A girl has been born out West
with three tongues. If she does not
die young some poor man will com
mit suicide.
Nothing so simplo autf per
fect for colojiag *s trie Diamond Dyes,
i'oi carpet rags, better ami cheaper
than any other dve-stuffs.
—"Here I've been talking for half
an hour," said the auctioneer, "and 1
havn't got au offer." "Half an hour,
indeed, murmercd an elderly maiden,
"what's half an hour to many long
yeafs, and still no hope of an offer ?"
—That poor bedridden, invalid wife,
sister, mother or daughter, can be
made the picture of health by a few
bottles of Hop Bitters, Will you let
them suffer? \vh.'« »» easily cured!
('-eople who have been bostercd
up and levered all their lives are sel
dom good for auythiug in a crisis.
When misfortune comes they look
around for something to cling to or
lean upon, li the prop is not there
down they go.
Simple Remedies
Half a teaspoonful of common table
salt dissolved in a little cold water and
drank, will instantly releave 'heart
burn' or dyspepsia. If taken every
morning before breakfast, increasing the
' quantity to a teaspoonful of salt and a
| tumbler of water, it will, in a few days,
j cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if
at the same time due attention is paid
to the diet.—There is no better remedy
than the above for constipation. As a
gargle for sore throat it is equal to
chlorate of potash, and is entirely safe.
It may be used as often as desired, and
if a small quantity is swallowed each
time it will have a beneficial effect upon
the throat by cleansing it and by allay
ing the irritation. In doses of one to
four teaspoonfuls in half a pint to a
pint of tepid water, it acts as
an emetic : and iu case of poisoning is
always at hand. It is an excellent
remedy for bites and stings of insects.
It is a valuable astringent in hem
orrhages, particularly for bleeding after
the extraction of teeth. It has both
cleansiDg and healing properties, and is
therefore a most excellent application
for superficial ulcerations.
Mustard is another valuable remedy.
—No family should be without it.
Two or three teaspoonfuls of ground
mustard stirred in half a pint of water
acts as an emetic very promptly, and
is milder and easier to take than salt
and water. Fqual parts of mustard
and Hour, made into a paste with svarm
water, and spread on a thin piece of
muslin, with another piece of muslin
laid over it, forms the often indispensa
ble "mustard plaster." It is almost a
specific for colic, when applied & few
minutes over the "pit of the stomach."
For all internal painsl'&nd congestions,
there is no remedy of such general
utility. It acta as a counter-irritant,
by drawing the blood to the surface,
hence iu severe c ises of croup a small
mustard plaster should be applied to
the back of the child's neck. The same
treatment will also relieve almost any
case of headache. A mustard plaster
should be moved about over the spot
to be acted upon, for if left too long iu
one place it is liable to blister. A
mustard plaster acts as well when at
considerable distanco from the affected
part. An excellent substitute for
mustard plasters is what is known as
"mustard leaves." Tbey come a
dozen iu a box, and are about four
inches long; they are perfectly dry,
and will keep for a time. For
use, it is only necessary to dip one iu
a dish of water for a minute, and then
apply it.
Common baking soda is the best of
all remedies iu case of scalds and
burns. It may be used on the surface
of the burned place either dry or - wet.
When applied promptly, the sense of
relief is magical. It seems to with
draw the heat and with it the pain,
and the healing process soon com
mences. It is the best application for
eruptions caused by poisonous plants,
as also for bites and stings of insects.
Owing to colds, over-fatigue, auxiety,
and various other causes, the urine is
often scanty, highly colored, and more
or less loaded with phosphates, which
settle to the bottom of the vessel on
cooling. As much soda as can bo dip
ped up with a 10-cent piece, dissolved
iu half a glass of cold water and drank
every three hours will soon remedy the
trouble and cause relief to the oppres
sion that always exists from interrup
tion of the natural flow of urine. This
treatment should not be continued more
that twenty-four hours.
Consoling Widows.
Jeremy Taylor is of all the old
divines one of the most devout and
sober-minded, yet there is a veiu of
humor in him that breaks out most
(piaintly oven iu his "Holy Living and
Holv Dying." In his consolations to
widows he cautious them against con
soling themselves too soon with fresh
husbands, and by way of an example
of unseemly haste ho cites tho widow
of Kphesus whose story is told by
Petronius:
Her beloved spouse was laid in
the tomb, and the same night she came
and went down into the vault to weep
and die with him. In the midst of the
cemetery was a gibbet, on which was
the dead body of a murderer, and a
soldier stood guard. Ho saw the
woman go into the vault, and finding
it yery lonely where fie wus standing,
lie presented himself at the door of the
tomb and scraped acquaintance with
the disconsolate woman. Slio permit
ted htii) to come in and then told him
that she was there to perish with her
dear departed. Ho succeeded ic the
course of a few hours in convincing her
that it would be .much more sensible to
live for him than to dio for tho dead
man, and they struck up an engage
ment before the morning light returned.
This being settled the soldier went up
to look after his charge on the gibbet,
when, oh ! the friends had been there
and stolen him, and the soldier, rushing
back to the vault, drew his sword to
kill himself, for his life would be the
forfeit of his neglect of duty. Hut she
told liiin she could show him a trick
worth two of that; tho dead husband
was nothing to her now she had a live
one, and so together they managed to
get tl e corpse out and upon the gibbet
in place of tho murderer. Thus the
life of the soldier was saved and the
widow didn't starve to death in the
tomb.
Jeremy Taylor thinks tbis was un
becoming haste, and we quite agree
with Jeremy.
—lf an idea strikes you forcibly rub
arnica on the bruised part, and you
m»y never bo utfected in like manner
ngaiu.
Talent is power; tact in skill. Tal
ent is weight; tact is momentum.
Talent knows what to do; tucts knows
how to do it. Talent mukes a man re
spectable; tact will make him respect
ed. Talent is wealth; tact is ready
money. For all practical purposes of
life tact carries it against talent in
the proportion of ten to one.
BREVITIES.
FIRSTLINGS OF SPRIXf.
Pretty'golden dandelions
With your seeds of feather.
Starring all the country side
In the sunny weather;
Violets filled with dewdrops,
Pilicateand sweet.
Giving out your fragrance
rnderueath our feet.
Daisies in the meadow.
With your silver frills:
Hoses by the wayside,
Kingcups ou tiie hills:
Star dowers and innocence:
Windy, clouds swept clover;
Lovely little blossoms
All the wide world over—
When I see you crowding
I know that Summer comes
Soou, I know, the birds sing.
Soon the wild bee huni'..
When 1 see you blooming.
All a honeyed crew,
Into songs and gladness,
My heart blossoms too !
The Vastness of the Goal Area.
In a paper read before the Mining
Institute of Pennsylvania we find the
following:
In the event of the exhaustion of the
Anthracite coals, in 300 years, or less,
what then ? One hundred years ago,
perhaps, the same query might have
been uiade with reference to the rapid
destruction of our forests of timber.
We can answer to our own questions
by referring to the 11,000 square mile 3
of Bituminous coal in Western Penu
sylvania; an area more than twentv
times that of the Anthracite coal field
From the Alleghanies. we move south
ward over a vast sea, as it were, of coal
area, stretching iu one continuous line
iuto Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia,
1 ennessee, Alabama and Georgia.
1 hen farther west, iuto Michigan, In
diana, Kentucky, Illinois, lowa, Kan
sas, Missouri, Arkansas, and away info
lexas. But these States contain only
the true Bituminous coals that lie east
of the Rocky mountains. Beyond
theso fields we meet the post cretaceous
fields of Colorado, New Mexico, Wy
oming, and those of the far away Cali
fornia, Washington and Oregon.
\\ bore, iu this vast world of ours, mav
not coal be found ? What shall we say
of Mexico, South America and Furope':'
\\ hat makes Great Britian prominent,
buther coal mines? Three hundred
and seveuty millions of dollars repre
sented the product of all her mines in
1880 Her iron, copper, tin, lead,
silver, salt, etc., yield her an income ol
fifty-eight millions of dollars ; her coal
miues, three hundred and twelve mil
lions, or over five times more than all
her other mineral products added to
gether. Iler resources arc truly won
derful.
Then, too, coal is found in Germany,
France, Asia, Africa, China, .lapau,
Russia, and even up in Siberia ; as if
1 rovidentially provided for all nations
of the earth. No trade, commerce, or
civilization, can now exist without this
great fuel, which has been provided,
not only for a limited time, but for all
the ages of the world.
There is more sense than poetry
in the remark of somebody's wife, who
said she was glnd the family was not
rich, ' for then we wouldn't hnvo half
the fun we now have in paying our
bills and trying 1 to nave a dollar for a
rainy day.
—At a school in the north of Eng.
land, not long ago, u class was recit
ing in natural history. Said the
teacher: "Can any boy name to 1110
an animal of the order of Kdentata
that is, a front toothless animal?"
A boy, whose free beamed with pleas
ure at the prospect of a good mark, re
plied: "I can." "Well, what is.the
animal ?" "My grandmother!" replied
the boy in great glee.
—An old lady who had purchased a
new bonnet received it on Saturday.--
Not long after she was missed, niid iier
absence was so protracted that the
family became concerned about her anil
instituted a search After lookiug
the premises all over, her daughter
found her in the chamber, sittiugquiet
ly with the new bonnet on. The
daughter exclaimed:—"Why, mother,
what are you doing here ?"~"Go along
down," the old lady replied ; "I'm
only getting used to This thing, so that.
I shall not bo thinking about it nil the
time in church to-morrow.
A son of toil from one of the
woodsy counties entered a village
jewelry store a few days ago, after a
walk ofseven miles, and said to the
proprietor :
"Me an' the old woman have been
disputing for tho Inst three months
about eight-day clocks, and now I've
dropped in to let you settle the mat
ter."
"Well?"
"The old woman says that an eight
flay clock is a clock which runs eight
days if you forget to wind it up every
night, wbila I say it's a clock which
takes you eight days to wind it up "
"Your old woman is right."
"Is she?"
"She is; she's got the best of you ill
the case."
"Waal, I'll l>« shot! 1 >itt she
needn't do any crowing over it! I'vo
just heard that her brother WIIS dead,
and being that she's ahead on the
clock, I'll keep the news to myself, to
got even with her."
To Physicians.
We do not Hntl fault, reproach or condemn
the practice of any regular physician this W
not our nihwion but we do Hai'm if he were to
add Peru nil to his prescriptions a- directed in
hook on the "1 lis of Life" (furnished gratui
tously by iili dr«l£ttists), he would eure nil his
patients.
'•OSWKC.O, l'otter County, Pa ,
IT. HAIUNAN J>ntr Sir: The smnll uloer*
are all healed, and the two larne ones are not
more than half so larye as they were. 1 am
t'« eliiiir quite well. Ihe people *ay your Peru
mi and Manalin are doing a mira< le. Ido uot
take nearly so mtieh opluin as t did Iwlore.
MItS. KI.LKN MAYNMID."
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