VOL. XX. BOOTS and SHOES SPRING STYLES HOW OPENING AT THE iofmWii !lOF|| B. L HDSETOS. I a most and Fines! Sljle* ami lowest Prices ever shown toy I,ar«esi an^, J , loMße f u miller. All Fresli Goods MADE TO MY SPECIAL ORDERS ana warranted, jUSt reP " I WANT THE liADIES To look at my French Kid Turn Button Boots (Cur Kid. Mat Top Cur. Kid Vox Boots.* Gondola, (St Goat, Pebble Goat ) Serge• * ox " Cloth top Boots.) Pebble Grain, OLD LADIES WIDE SIIOEb AND SLIPPERS. Walking Shoes, Sandals, Opera Slippers, Ladies' Button Boots from SI.OO and upwards. Ladies can find in this Stock any style and priced shoe they want. I WANT THE GENTLEMEN To step in and look at my Calf Boots, Calf Bals, Button Shoes London toe and tip, Yeal 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 desirable goods from the cheapest Brogan to the I' inest Hand Sewed Boot and Shoe. I WANT THE BOTS 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 Stock of Leather and Findings ol any House in Kutler. Lowest Prices. New Goods Constantly Arriving. KEPAIRIIKO.- —All kinds done at Reasonable Rates. COME AND SEE THIS STOCK BEFORE YOU BUY. B. C. HUSELTOUf, Butler, Pa. NEW STORE. NEW STOCK * SJ4W AH P. COUPLETS BTOC£ OF \\Wi\m IHD HHniHGS JIIST BUMP] °.K s[ , _ tiTi|KR roat"« erery* Hers, or atiftl bf mail fur cent* in »Uiup«. fctpfl (iff n O 178 for »«QCABBor UPBI6IIT ROSEWOOD OX / / O pf iiniFOKTE. with Stool. 13ook and Mu>ic. e On!yTkHuTT7™B!lsiit Mop, Sub-Bass ami Octave-Coupler OBtiAK. Chtpe) Organs £OS, Pip* Organs OTHKH BAUWAINS fully described io Illustrate* inlalogne which U sent FIiEK with lull particulars. war VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME. Addrm or call upon DANIEL i . 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Hoys and young men can have lots of fun by putting them on in a crown of friends who will be greatly astonished at the transformation. We will send you a mustache for only 5 three-cents stamps (15 cents), or a mus tache and goatee for 25 cents. There are three colors—light. dark browe and black. State which color you want. Address HUDSON MANUP ni n i.\u co.. Astor Place and Broadway. X. V. ■ || M A|| |"» that will send us the 11 HI « II|U L names and address of io |4 |l I Ull L u ' their friends, and en close 20 cents (in stamps.) to cover expense of packing and postage, we will send tlieni for their trouble any of the following wonderful books : "Ready-made Autograph Album verses," "Ball Room Dancing WitYiout a master," "Fortune Telling made easy "The mystery of love making solved, or "The American Business man." We make this liberal offer to get names to send our new, manmotli, illustrated 04 page Catalogue to. I)ou't fail to send for our catalogue. Address all orders to Iltt-2m, Road Reports. Notice is hereby given that the following Road Report has teen confirmed nisi by the Court and will be presented for confirmation ou Wednesday, June tith 1883, and if uo excep tions are tiled it will be confirmed absolutely. No. 3 December term, 1882, Road in Adams and Middlesex, beginning at or near the house of R. Mcf'andless, in Adams town ship., to lead to Denny's Cross Roads, in Middlesex town ship. W. B. DOPPS, Clerk y. S. Estate oW. P. Meehliiig, «lee'«l Letters of administration in the estate of W. P. Met'liling, deo'd, lute of Washington township, jlutlor Co., Pa., having been grant ed to the undersigned, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment and any having claims against said estate will present them du ly authenticated for settlement. W.J. CAMPBELL, Administrator. Baldwin P. 0., Butler county, Pa. Estate of Mary Wright, Letters testamentary with the wjll annexed having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Mary Wright, late of Jefferson t«p., Butler oountv, Pa., all persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment and any having claims against said estate will present tlum duly authenticated for settlement. REBECCA WALTER, Executrix, Saxonburg P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. SELECT SCHOOL, The undersigned will open a Select School in the Public School Building after tte closo of the Public Schools. Term will commence MONDAY, MAY 21st, 1883, AND CONTINITE EIGHT WEEKS. The Course will embrace the common and higher branches. Other subjects may be taught by special ar raugement. E. MACKEY, apr4,St E. S. HASSI.ER. |D, L CLBELAND,! " WATCHMAKER JEWELER, 1 1 " ■■ " Main St., Butler, Pa, Keeps Constantly on Hand a Pull Stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, -9PECTACLEH AND SILVERWARE, At the Lowest Cash Prices. Fine Watch Repairing a Spec* laity, LOVE NUIHGE^IH liappv wives, and bachelors become happy hus bands. This wonderful book tells pl-.inly how to begin courting; the way to get over bash ful ness: how to find the soft snot in a sweetheart's breast; how to write a love letter; how to win a girl's consent; how to pop tho question; how to make wifo and husband real happy, Ac., .tc., Ac. This is tho book that had long been wanted. It is the most conplcte work over published. Evory bachelor. mar.ind man or woman, widow or widower, young or old, should have it. Sent i postpaid for only 23 cents. Address HUDSON \ MANUFACTURING CO.. Aster Plaeo and ' Broadway, New York. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. 1883 For Djip«piii, : lick Headache, Chronic Dlsr- Fj rhcca. Jaundice, Blood, Fever jnd t-Utill t-l frllf iTan gj* UU|i€( ] by D,. ranpement of liver, Bowels and Kidney*. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED I.ITER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; 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 cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene filial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Sever* of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be uaed by all persons, old and young, -whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, Dy taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but la no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard ol digestion, or feel heavy- after meals, or sleep loss 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! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy is harmless and does not Interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLK, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor's Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has beta in use in my family for some 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 falls to Relieve.*'—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. 1 sent from Min nesota to 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 tliat never fails to relieve. P. M. JANNBT, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice 1 have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only tho Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the reil Z Trade-Mink and Signature of J. 11. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ~ Is a new remedy, originally compounded rn . and Introduced to tbe medical profession, JJ ami then to tho public at large, by S. B. P o Ilartman, M. I>. He has prescribed it to u •3 over 40, patients with the most gratify- • S ins results. ■■■■■■■■■ W Q Its effect upon li'e system ts entirety un- 2. Jlke th4t of any other remedy, and Is the rj a only medicine needed In almost every dls- ® 3 ease to which flesh Is heir. [ln Constlpa- M _ tlon. Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, M <3 MASALIS should be given with it.*■■■ o 3 PEItCNA Is Composed of purely vegetable o «g Ingredients, each one, according to medt- -• 5 calauthora, a great remedy in Itself. ■■ a) 2 l)r. Hartmau has succeeded In extract- r? ft lng and combining the active principles 3 0f these Ingredients Into one simple com- W pound, which perfectly coincides with the 2 Vis MEDICATKIX NATURA in eveiYdls- g >, ease, and a cure necessarily follows. There a 6 is not an organ It will not reach nor a dls- •• ease It will not cure. ■■■■■■■■■■ w JJ Aslc your druggist for l>r. Hartman's S o pamphlet on the ••Illsof Life, " I)r. S. B. v Ilartman A Co., Osborn, 0., proprleturs. S 1 For Piles aud Pelvic ~ THE TESTS OFH 40YEARS PROVE PEYQND DOUBT TIIAT Perry Davis'sPainKiller IS THE GREAT HEALTH KEEPER TIIE RELIEVER OF DISTRESS THE COMFORTER FOR PAIN THE ENEMY OF DISEASE AND A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, WHICH SHOULD ALWAYS BE AT HAND. EVERY DRUGGIST KEEPS Perry Davis'sPainKiller i BUTLER COUNTY " Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TREASURER. 11. C. IIEINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, | E. A. Hclmboldt, William Campbell, < J. W. Burkhart, A. Troutman, ! Jacob Scboene, G. C. Kocsalug, John Caldwell, Dr. W. lrvin, j J. J. Croll, A. B. Rhodes, \ H. C. Hoinemaa. JAS. T* M'JYNKLN, (Jan. AE'T BtTTLER PA. Sellers' Liver Pills] Act Directly on the Liver. I CURES CHILLS AND FEVER, DYSPEPSIA, ■ SICK HEADACHE, RILIOITSCOLIC,CONKTIPA- ■ TION, RHEI MATISM. PILES PALPITATION ■ OF THE HEART, DIZZINESS, TORPID LIVER, ■ COATED TONOCK, HLEEPLESNNESS, AND ALL ■ DISEASES OK THE LIVER AND STOMACH. IFH you do not" feel very well," u single pill at ■ bed-time stimulates the stomach, Kfi the appetite. Imparts vigor t\xc - ■ SALESMEN WANTED 1 PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT for Honei-t En ergetic Men. Salary and Expenses paid. The Business easily learned. THE CIIASE XUItSERtEH Kieffer Pear. Champion Quince, Hansall lias berry. ainl all tho most ilosiralde frails and orna mentals. Only those need apply who can devote their entire"timo and attcnuon to tho work. Addreiss, R. G. CHASE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. Spring Notes for the Vegetable Garden. The vegetable garden is a case of rap id evolution. All the old roots have been turned out as uneatable. The newer roots are certainly far more palatable and digestible. One who only knows the old style carrot can hardly imagine what a table luxury is to be now found in the French Short horn or Danvers Yellow. These are not only better for soups, but are near ly equal to the potato as a table escul ent. Boiled and mashed they are lik ed by all who use them during the fall as well as winter. Among the very best of the new things are the improved Lima beans. The Lima is very seldom raised, from & mistaken notion that it is tender and difficult to bring to perfection. This is a mistake. It will readily perfect it self as far North as Canada, if rightly trained. It should be pinched back at four or five feet und tied two hills to a stake. The improved bean that I like best is received from the Rural New Yorker. It fills the pods with square beans, and is perhaps a trifle earlier as well as more prolific than the old variety. A second luxury in the same line is the Golden Wax bean, as a string bean. In fact, however, it is string less, and no more like the old string bean than it is like the Lima. There are a dozen or more varieties of Black Wax, Golden Wax, Crystal Wax, etc., but in quality they do not differ; that is, there are half a dozen or more of good varieties. The Golden Wax, a red striped bean, is as good as any. This is a fair bean for baking, if a large quantity is left from Summer use. The Lima is best for all purpose, green or baked. The old cauliflower was a treacher ous affair, full of disappointment; and as a consequence few farmers know anything about the vegetable. But there are now several varieties that are, according to vegetable morals, sure to head, and are every way delicious. The Erfurt, the Snowball, and the Walcheren are very reliable a3 well as very fine. The only secret with the cauliflower is, keep them well watered and hilled up while hoeing. They will keep quite late into Winter; often heads will form on late plants if trans planted to the cellar. Tbe long white Dutch parsnip is a remarkable improvement on the old woody, indigestible parsnip of ten years ago. Of all the peas I have tried, the best early is Bliss American Wonder; the be3t late the Telephone or Telegraph, for they do not differ. For careless culture the Advance has done remark ably well with me, giving good re turns when planted with potatoes. The vines should be pulled up when the peas are picked. Among the new potatoes some are absolutely worthless. The Burbank is a great yielder, but is so inferior for table use that it will soon be dropped. The Peerless is also good cropper, and good I'or very late table use; but not on the whole desirable. The White Elephants a yellow-fleshed po tato of good quality, and so enormous ly productive that it will be a perman ent fixture. Of all table potatoes amone: some twenty varieties I prefer decidedly the Late Rose. It yields finely, good size and shape, and is good to eat from September till the next June. Ido not believe we have a bet ter potato. Of early varieties I prefer, next to Early Rose, Clark's No. 1 Early Ohio is excellent, as also Beauty of Hebron and Snowflake. Mammoth Pearl, Climax, Late Snowflake are not desirable all in all, especially Mam moth Pearl. Too much money is made from new varieties for us to get honest advertisements. The new tomatoes are nearly all es sentially duplicates and no improve ment at all over the o|d Trophy, ex cept in early ripening. The best to mato is not yet secured. Among the corns we have as good as we ca'n ask for or desire. (1) Early Marblebead; (2) Moore's Early; (3) Egyptian These will cover the sea son finely. There is little difference in quality between Early Minnesota and Early Marblebead. Among the cucumbers there is no better in quality, shape, and yield than Tailby'e. The addition of "Hybrid" may as well be left off from this as well as many other vegetables, as they are nearly all hybrids in the same sense, The vegetable garden is quite as good a place for hybridizing and secur ing novelties as is the flower garden. All of the vegetables may be improved with a little care ; and experiments are very delightful. I have, during the past two years, secured about thirty varieties of self crossed h.eans. They preset some exceedingly beautiful colors, stripes and flecks, with gray, green, chocolate, and other ground colors. The vegetable oyster should be taken in band. I have an aspara gus that is nearly white, without any artificial blanching. It came from two roots ; probably at first one, which was a shoct of Conover's Colossal. The Argenteuil is a promising looking as paragus, but I have not fully tested it. NOTES IN THE FRL'IT YARD. It is getting to b? ft prime matter in planting apple trees to secure varieties that are hardy. The old seedling orchards were as secure as elms, but not so our finer sorts. Evolution in quality does not secure a survival of the toughest wood. The tendency is rathe? tho other way. Of the hardier sorts of late introduction the Spy ranks high. Tbe Roxbury Russet does not easily kill, while the Kirkland is at tough as tbe toughest of the old time seedlings. These are the three best late winter keepers and most hardy trees. Those who plant pears should select those which do not need to be hurried to market. Of these the three most profitable and beet are Sheldon, D'An jou and Clairgeau. The two f>st i.re also shapely Ue?s and ftU tlifese are hardy, A few peach trees from seed should be on every farm. They will give a great deal of satisfaction when they do bear, and take little room when they do not. Seedlings from Early Crawford are likely to give hardy as well as good varieties. The Wager is also quite reliable as well as Amsden and Alexander. No fruit is more pro6table with proper care than the quince. The trees must be sheltered from cold winds and protected from the frost. This last can be done by a liberal mulch of coal ashes. The quiuce is easily prop agated by planting cuttings six inches to a foot long, set in good garden soil. The trees must be well cultivated to be of special value. It is impossible to get a good crop of quinces from trees grown in green sward. The best variety is still the old Orange. Among the new humbugs, or new things that will soon be discarded, are the Kieffen pear and several of the new varieties of quinces. The only new pears now needed are very late winter pears of the first quality ; a D'Anjou that will keep till May. The Josephine de Malines and Beurre D'Aumberg are excellent, but the latter is not a good market pear. A pear that will not blight when all others do is a hopeless acquisition. A pear thus advertised may be pronounced a mistake at the mildest. The best plan is to plant the very best varieties and keep tbem well trimmed and thoroughly mulched. It is astonishing as well as painful to observe about the country how many yoang orchards have been plant ed and then neglected until hopelessly diseased. After suckers have grown freely about a young tree for two or three years the vitality is so much lowered that it will never, by any nursing, become a sound, vigorous tree. Any one wishing to plant a small yard of grapes for home use, will not go amiss on the following list: Dela ware, which still retains its position, Duchess, Herbert, Lady, Prentiss, Agawam, Brighton, Lindley, Worden, Rogers 30, Walter, Wilder, Martha, Massasoit. Of the newer ones I am convinced that Yirginius and Pock lington will hold a high place. The same list will make a good one for a vineyard of a larger size. The two best grapes when ripened with us are Goethe and lowa ; but the Gcethe I cannot easily get to ripen, and lowa is decidedly too tender. We want grapes that can stand our climate without being covered every Winter. I have given up the whole business of Winter protection and have quite as good success as before. The Isabellas occasionally kill back as also lowas, and the Delaware is not always quite safe. There are two rules in planting fruit trees, or for that matter any trees, that cannot be too carefully applied. (1) Always cut back the limbs sharply. If the tree is large cut away nearly all the top. So in planting evergreen hedges; down with tbem ; shear away half or two-thirds. (2) Mulch heavily; mulch everything ; mulch always. Farmers Read This. From the Washington Observer.] We publish elsewhere another suicide by a farmer. It does not surprise us. Indeed we have so often spoken of the isolated, juiceless life of the average farmer that it never seems strange when one of them hangs himself or goes crazy. Farmers need more fun, more books, more music and pictures, more flowers, and more social life, or else it is only a question of time with most of them. Dixmont has had 33 blacksmiths, 89 clerks, 13 lawyers, 17 butchers, 21 doctors, 70 carpenters, 22 printers, and so on, but she has also had no less than 585 farmers, 154 daughters of farmers, 199 wives of farmers, snd 57 widows of farmers. In other words, since Dixmont has been opened about 4000 inmates have been treated, and of these one thousand went from the farms. No people on earth can live so hap pily, none have so much real pleasure, none have the same opportunity for enjoyment, and yet to take a mortgage off their farms they put a mortgage on their minds. Remember this, ye who who never danoe, or sing, or play, or visit, or have fun, that one-fourth of the inmates of Dixmont to-day are from the farms. Knowing this, pitch in and raise a little fun. It is cheaper in the end than board bills at the mad house. Circus People. The average intelligence of circus people—aside from the laboring men— is yery far above the general estimate. Those immediately connected with the executive department, who have to do with newspapers, railroads, city au thorities and hotels, are men of usual intelligence, education and experience in their respective lines, and the sala ries such people commanded in former times served to draw into tl« business the best financiers, advertisers, book keepers and purchasers money could secure. Within the past few years the character of men in these depart ments has improved very consid erably 8Q that now persons posses sed oi the highest order of commercial intelligence freely ofifer their services, and managers, finding more agents than there is demand for, retain the best and pay thesa much smaller Salaries that they formerly had to. Still, there are some men whose sala ries run as high as S7OOO in one in- 1 stance, and quite a number of men re ceive as much as $2500 for the season —usually six months in length. Of ; late years quite a proportion of per formers come from gymnasiums, and, many of these have been young men who have impaired health by too much | study and find in circus life the physi cal exercise necessary to health and tho gratification of a desire to travel in culcated by reading or uamadrc in stinct 90 n«;«u'ai to tbe young. P*r~ A pint of the finest kiud of ink for fam ilies or scnools can be made from a teu-ceut package of Diamond Dye. Try tbem. A Modern Enoch Arden. From the Cleveland Herald.] Eight years ago George Eastwood, a young and handsome artist, came to Cleveland from New York. Cultured and talented, he had little difficulty in winning his way into the center of society, for he had enough of the lucre to maintain a proper degree of style. His fame as an artist was not very ( wide spread, but as he was a gentleman | of prepossessing manners and appear ance, he was universally liked and es teemed. In the course of events he was invited one evening to the recep tion tendered a beautiful West Side girl on the occasion of her twentieth birthday. He attended, and for the first time met the young lady in whose honor the party was given It was the old story,—love at first sight. He did not resist the emotions that took possession of him, but inspired by them, made every effort to be agreea ble. The impulse was mutual. She played the guitar exceedingly well and sang divinely. Before the evening was ended they were singing duets for the edification of the company. The outcome of that evening's meeting was an engagement, and of the engagement a wedding. Six months after the re ception the two loving hearts were made one, and the happy artist and his beautiful wife began housekeeping on one of the most fashionable avenues on the West Side. HAPPY MARRIAUE—TRIP TO EUROPE. The speedy courtship and the happy marriage made the only topics of con versation in their circle of acquaintances for weeks. The young wife had pre viously been the center of attraction of the gallant swains of the West Side. Among them was a young, hard-work ing mechanic, who, despite his brown bands and bronze face, had seemed to be first among the young lady's admir ers. A scholar and a gentleman he was esteemed alike in society and busi ness circles. That the hasty marriage of the girl upon whom he had placed his affections was a cruel disappoint ment no one could doubt. Yet hardly by look or deed did he uxpress it, save perhaps by a more quiet and by an al most universal absence from all society. Two years after the marriage of George Eastwood he began to appre ciate the tact that his talent had ob tained outside recognition. Three years before, c.nd a year previous to his marriage, while passing the Palisades of the Hudson by moonlight, he drew a hasty study of the glorious scene, that on his arrival home was transfer red to canvas. Parting one afternoon with a friend who was on the eve of sailing for Europe, he presented him with his work of art. The picture ac companied its new owner across the sea, and after a few months found its way into one of the most celebrated art galleries in Florence, in Italy. Here it was universally admired, and one day a Florentine artist, learning tbe young artist's name and residence, sent him a flattering letter, in which was made a lucrative offer to come to Flor ence. Encouraged by the hope of a possible fortune, the young artist de cided to leave his young wife and their happy home in Cleveland, and took bis departure for Italy. He had not for a moment conceived of a longer absence tban six months, when he should re turn and accompany his loving wife to their new home in the land of sunshine and flowers. The brightness seemed to have entirely left the little home when he had gone, and tbe mother found her only pleasure in playing with her little daughter Nellie, then approaching her first birthday. A SAD ACCIDENT. In the meantime tbe young artist was on his voyage across the sea. All was bright before him, and he antici pated only fame and happiness. Ar riving in Italy, he resolved to take a month's recreation among the moun tains. But for this resolve the occas ion for this article would undoubtly not have occurred. Venturing out without a guide, be one day received a fearful fail down the mountain side. Brain fever followed. For weeks and weeks he tossed upon a bed of agony, only to grow worse and worse, and finally to apparently lose reason and mind altogether. He was confined in an asylum a hundred miles from Flor ence, where no effort was made to iden tify him. His trunks and letters were at Florence, and when the letters of inquiry from home reached the police of that city, this fact was sent back with the information that their owner could not be found. the artist had he took with him, leaving only enough behind to provide for the wants of the family until he could re turn. A year had already passed and the money was long since gone. Too proud to ask assistance of her friends, the heart-broken wife took to her needle, and between her prayers for her husband's return and her tears over the cruel fate that kept forcing it self upon her, she magged to earn enough to live. Time rolled on, and two, three and four years were added to her widow hood. "He is dead," whispered every breath of wind that fanned her faded and waning cheeks. "Yes, he is dead," she said to herself, and tried to realize the awful fact. So she let it be under stood that she thought ber loving and gentle husband dead, and quietly Bet tied down to tbe terrible realization of her condition. ANOTHER PROPOSAL. While sitting dejected, although re signed, at her table one evening, her fast-flying needle completing a garment for the holy day that dawned on the morrow, there was a knock at the door. She arose, and opening it met : her old friend the mechanic, who bad ! in the meantime prospered exceeding ' ly and bad entered into business for himself. "I have come to ask the question I so much wanted to years ago," said ! be 1 ' And I accept," was he quiet ans wer. And then followed the wedding, a quiet affair; after which the newly married couple moved into a new house with all conveniences and sur i roundings on Willson avenue. Little Nellie was now four years of age; a bright-haired, bright-eyed lass, the cen tre of love and affection. In the meantime George Eastwood, under the careful nursing of kind phvs icians, had regained strength and rea son and was preparing for the surprise that he was so sure his arrival home would cause. Sleeplessly he traveled by night and day until be reached the city he had left over six years ago. He approached the little home be hail left, but found only darkness. Cruel ly disappointed, he asked a neighbor for information and received from his lips the cruel, crushing tale. Madly, wildly, almost desprately he rushed away and an hour later, when the even ing shadows were settling over the home of his former wife, a pale, atten uated face peered in the curtainless window and read the truth of the story that had been told. But the newly wedded wife never knew the awful fact and the heart-broken and depressed man quietly left the city. A day or two ago, in an obscure corner of a little Western journal, was recorded the suicide of George Eastwood, a former Clevelander. But no one appreciated the terrible experience the victim had passed through, and but for the knowl edge of the facts by a well-known West Side gentleman, who 'yesterday gave them to a reporter, they would in all probability never have been given to the world. His'.ory in the Jones Family. From Detroit Post and Tribune.] "Pa, asked Willie Jones, as be was studying his history lesson, "who was Helen of Troy ?" "Ask your ma," said Mr. Jones, who was not up in classic lore. "Helen of Troy," said Mrs. Jones, who was sewing a new heel on the baby's shoe, "was a girl who used to live with us; she came from Troy, New York, and we found her in an in telligence office. She was the best girl I ever had before your father struck Bridget." "Did pa ever strike Bridget ?" asked Willie, pricking up his ears. "I was speaking paragorically," said Mrs. Jones. There was silence for a few moments, then Millie came to another epoch in history. "Ma, who was Marc Anthony?" "An old colored man who lived with my pa. What does it say about him there ?" "It says his wife's name was Cleopa tra." "The very same ! Old Cleo' U9ed to wash for us. It's strange how they come to be in that book." "History repeats itself," murmured ! Mr. Jones, vaguely, while Willie look ed at his ma with wonder and admira tion that one small head could carry all she knew. Presently he found an other question to ask. "Say, ma, who was Julius Cajsar?" "Oh, he was one of the pagans of history," said Mrs. Jones trying to thread the point of her needle. "But what made him famous," per sisted Willie. "Everything," answered Mrs Jones, complacently; "he was one who said, 'Eat, thou brute,' when his horse wouldn't take its oats. He dressod in a sheet and pillow-case uniform, and when his enemies surrounded him he shouted 'Gimme liberty or gimme death,' and ran away." "Bully for him!" remarked Willie, shutting up his book of history. "But, say, ma, how came you to know so much? Won't I lay over the other fellows to-morrow, though?" "I learned it at school," said Mrs. Jones, with an oblique glance at Mr. Jones, who was listening a 9 crave as a statue. "I had superior advantages, and I paid attention and remembered what I heard." A Large Turtle. Captain Agustus G. Hall and the crew of the schooner Annie L. Hall vouch for the following • On March 30, while on the Grand Bank, in lati tude 40° 10', longitude 33°, they dis covered an immense live trunk turtle, which was at first thought to be a ves sel bottom up. The schooner passed within twenty-five feet of the master, and those on board had ample oppor tunity to estimate its dimensions by a comparison with the length of the schooner. The turtle was at least 40 feet long, 30 feet wide, and SO feet from the apex of the back to the bot tom of the under shell. The flippers were twenty feet long. 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She had "been given up to die bv three of Allegheny City's best physicians. They all pronounced her disease consumption. Her finger-naiN an