VOL. XXI LEOAL ADVERTISE EMate of Leonard Wise. LATK OR THE BOBOCOH OF BCTLBB, DEC'D. Letter* ot Administration upon the estate of Leonard Wise, dec'd., late of tbe Borougn of Butler, Butler connty, Pa , having beeu grant ed to tbe undersigned, all persons knowing themselve# indebted to said estate will pleaae make immediate payment, and any having claim* igainst said estate will present tLelr claims dulv authenticated for settlement. CAROLINE WISE, Administratrix, Jan. 30, 'S4. Butler, Pa McJunkin A Galbreath, Atfys. Estate of John Rosenberry. LAT* or ALLEOHKNT TWP., D*C*D. Letteis of Admini trs lion C. T. A. on the es tate of John Kosenberry, dec'd., late of Alle gbenv township, Butler county. Pa., having been'jr ra,lied 10 tbe undersigned, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please make Immediate payment and any having claims against saia estate will present them duly authenticated for settlement to 8. P. EAEIN, Adm'r Parkers Landing P.»»., Armstrong Co.. Pa. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Simeon Nixon. Assignee of John A. Harris, has tiled his final account in the office of the Prothonotory of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county, Pa., at M's D., No. 4, March Term, 18#2, and that the same will be presented to the said court for confirmation fluid allowance on Wednesday, the 6th day of March, 1884. M. N. GREER, Prothonotary. Prothonotary's office, Feb. 4, 1884. HOT ICE* Notice is hereby given that Jacob F. Wise, committee of Jacob Gerlmch, haß filed his final account in tbe office of the Prvthonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler oounty, Pa., at C. P., No. 375, January Term, 1874, and that the same will be presented to the said Court for confirmation and allowance on Wednesday, the sth day of March, 1884. M. N. GREER, Prothonotary. Prothonotary's office, Feb. 4, 18X4. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that application will be made to the Law Judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county, on Monday, the third day of March, A. D., 1884, under the Act of the Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to provide for the Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Corporations," approved April 29, 1874, and the supplements thereto, for a charter of an intended corporation to be known as The First Presbyterian Church of Centerville, the char acter and object whereof is the support of tbe public worship of Almighty God in Centerville, Butler county, Pa., according to the faith, gov ernment and dieiplint of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America and for the purpose to have, possess and enjay all the rights, benefits and privileges of the mud Act of Assembly and its supplemets. Norman Patterson j Henry Wilson C. O. Coulter f ,„_ Wm. Kaufman Joseph Bestler Robert Kissick notice. Public notioe is hereby given that an appli cation will be made to the Governor of tbe Commonwealth for a Charter of incorporation to be calieil tbe Workingmaus' Building and Loan Association of Butler. Th« character and object of which shall be to enable persons to borrow money on Bonn and Mortgage by the payment of weekly dues. Application to be mad* on or about 6th day of March next. WALTER L GRAHAM, Feb. 2, 'B4. Att'y for Applicants. FORSALE! Over THREE HUNDRED CHEAT FARMS In West Virginia. 200 ol these (arms are located In the Shenandoah valley, famous for liealthfiilness and productiveness. Improved farm* at *5 to (50 per acre. Coal, Umber and grazing lands, $2 to tW per acre. Have a few large tracts suitable for colonies. For circulars, giving description, loca tion, price, &c„ address J. H. BBMTOK, Martins burg, W, Va. JaitfO-tt. niLL FOR MILK. A 3 run grist mill, near Wbltestown, this coun ty. Mill Is In good repair, has both steam and water power. Hood dwelling house and other necessary bulldiugsou the premises. Running ex pense very low. liood reason for selling. Must be sold liefore Ist of April Only those who mean business need address for particulars. W. L. ALLEN, Whltestown, Pa. Jan3o-4t. rORSALE. 18 Acres of land, with large two-story brick houae and large barn thereon erected. Good orchard; situated in Butler twp , Butler county, Pa., adjoining Butler borough on the south, will be sold cheap and on easy terms. For particu lars inquire of Lev McQuistlon, Esq., Butler, Pa. LOST. On the 23rd of January, iwu, on the road from Hunnyslde Station to the Hrownsdale M. K'Church a uochetbook about four Inches long by two and a half wide, and containing one hundred and twenty dollars-four twenty dollar gold pieces, two ten dollar gold pieces, and the balance in notes. Any person finding and returning the book and money to me, at Brownsdale or leaving It at this office can have *2* 00 for his or her trouble. J. K. BLAKKI.KY. Brownsdale, Butler Co.. Pa. HOCHEAUD LOT FOR HALE. A VEKT COZY Two-Storied Frame House oi six rooms, cellar, out bouses snd two lota ot ground In Bntler will b sold on reason abte terms. Csll at office of F. M. EASTMAN Mar-14tf. Bntler Pa. COKTINENTU NURSERIES Rochester, N- Y. GEORGE A. STONE NURSERY COMPANY. Fruit and Ornsmental Trees, Shrubbery, Roses, Creepers, etc. Moore's Raspberry, Pockllngton and Em pire State Grape, and other choice varieties of all finlta. B. W. DOUTHETT, Brownsdale, Butler County, Pa Jant*-9tn J. 11. Stevenson A Co.'s REAL ESTATE AGENCY, 100 Fifth Ave.. Pittsburgh, Pa., Offer for sale a No; 1 Stock or Grtin Farm in Peoria Co., 111., near railroad and river; has three booties, good barn, scrtber continues the making of bricks common, pavement, bay-window and other qual ities at his kiln on tbe Fair Ground road, half a mile west of Butter He will keep on hand a lot of bricks at all times. He will also make and burn brick ui the country for anyone desiring to have them made on their owu farm or premises. As be Intends carrying on the brick making business, he Ir.vltes tbe custom ol all. promising to give entire satisfaction to all who may patron ize liim. All orderf promptly filled at reasonable rates. Call on or address, J. CEO KG E HTAMM, auurffc-'&i Butler gillet Citizen. REMEMBER THAT Patterson, the One Price Clothier and Gents' Furnisher haa a Fine Stock of new Winter Clothing for Mens', Boys' and Children?' Wear at one extremely Low Price to all. PATTERSON'S, Dufiy Block, Butler, Pa. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PUEVIB. L. O. PURVIS, S.G. Purvis & Co., KAWUFACTFTBKRT- AND DEALERS IK Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOOH&, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD Year German (JgthollctJharcb PKBMANKXT NTAMI'IXU FOR KENSINGTON, ARRASENE AND OUTLINE WOBK DONE, Also lessons in same given by ANNIE M. LOWMAN, North ftrcet, Bntler, Pa. jneao-ly EXPOSITION Vibitors should not fail to call and examine the largest and finest stock of Imported and Domestic Liquors in the State, at Dlax Klein, 82 Federal Street, Allegheny City, Pa. Opposite Fort Wayne Passenger Depot. Hard Wood Furniture lor sale at extremely low Azores, A great variety of Beds, Tables, Chairs, Cbildrens' Chairs, Ladies' Rockers, Kxlra Heavy Arm Rockers, Marble and Wood Top Parlor Tables Bureaus, Stands, Double and Hingle l.oungee, Spring Mattresses, &c., . w 2 <3 V. f. ■ 1 V-Wt. J t O J k P ■■MHriWteiimm ? ~ ClydetdaU, Prrchmm-Nitmuint Englith Ih-aft Ilortet, Trotting-Bred Roruhtrrg, Shetland Ponies, Ifnlttein and Devon Cattle. Our customers have the advantage of our manv years experience in breeding and import ing large collections, opportunity of comparing different breeds, low prices, because of extent of business, and low rates of transportation. Catalogue* free Correspondence solicited. POWELL BROTHERS, Hpringboro, Crawford Co., Pa. Mention CITIZKN, july2r>-!»m. NEW LIVERY STABLE, Henry Leibold, Continue* the Livery Business on Jefferaon St. first door below Bickel & Gallagher. Good rig*, first class teams always on hand* Horses fed on reasonable terms, also horses bought an \ \ DHD j 1 (conqueror.) I A SPECIFIC FOR mr EPILEPSY, SPASMS, CONVULSIONS, FALLING SICKNESS, ST. VITUS DANCE, ALCHOHOLISM, * OPIUM EATING, SYPHILLIS, SCROFULA, KINGS EVIL, UGLY BLOOD DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUSNESS, SICK HEADACHE, RHEUMATISM, NERVOUS WEAKNESS, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, BRAIN WORRY, BLOOD SORES, BILIOUSNESS, COSTIVENESS, KIDNEY TROUBLES AND IRREGULARITIES. BTsl .50 per bottle at druggists. *^o Tie Dr. S. A. Blctunond Med. Co., Proprietors St. TCGOJ>2=L. l/I-S. (1) Correspondence freely answered by Physicians. C. N. CRITTENTON, Agent. New York. TUTT'S PILLS TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From thesis sources arise three fourths of tho discuses of the liiiujun 111 c*:. These symptoms indicate their existence: of Appetite, UuwrU 10.live, Mick llead acUr, fullne»« after eating, M vernion to exertion of It >d digests readily, and I now have natural pastures. I feel lik- a new man." VV. K. I.UW AEDS, Palmyra, O. ftoMevrywl..-i. 'itUn-,41 Murriiyßt.,N.Y. TUTTS HAIR DYE. BmT Hair ok Whisker* changed In stantly to a closbv Kla< K by ii Mingle ap. plicutio'i of thin live. Sow I by iJrugglattf, or neiit by expreflfi on receipt of si. Office, H Murray Street, Srw Vork. TUTT'S MANUAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREE. PLASTK H LiSTa. The undersigned intends to remove to liutler ori the Ist of April n«-xI. anil hereby Informs nil per sons, that lie will In- prompt in executing any work that may be entrusted to his eare. STUCCO AND MASTIC Work executed In the tiest anil most satisfactory manner, Olve me a call. Jao3» «. JOHBPH I!. PIZER. G. D. HARVEY, Bricklayer and Contractor. EntiniateH given on contract work. Ileni dcnco, Washington wtroet, north end, liutler, *• jan^.ly. MORRIS NURSERIES, West Chester, IPa., GROVER & KINNE. Fruit, and Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Hose", C'C., etc. JAS. M. AIM MS,Agent, □ov2l-8m Hullcr, Pa. Union Woolen Mill, BUTLEK, PA. 11. FUIiLKKTOV. Prop'r. Manufacturer of Bi.aneeth, Fi,annblb, Yahni, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such ai> carding Unlit, making iilaukeih, Flannel*. Knlt- Ing and Weaving YitrriH, Ac., at very low prices. Wool worked on Itie shares, 11 do- Kr«d. uij7-ljf BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1884 Self Culture. For the CITIZEN.] Man is a wonderful union of mind and body, and to form a perfect being a high degree of cultivation is required for each component part. You should not cultivate one part to the neglect of the others. Those who cultivate the mind to the neglect of the body are as much in error as those who - cultivate the body to the neglect of the mind. The aim of all attempts of self-culture should be the highest and most appro priate development of the entire being —physical, intellectual and moral. It comprehends the health of the body, the expansion of the intellect and the purification of the heart. It guards the health of the body, because if it becomes feeble it acts powerfully on the mind and is a clog to its progress ; it cher ishes the intellect, tecause it is the glory of the human being, and it trains the moral nature because if that is weak and misdirected a blight falls upon the soul and rests upon the body. As each faculty re-acts upon all the others, true 6elf-culture attends with a due proportion of care to each. Self culture includes a proper care of the health of the body ; to be careless of your health is to be stunted in intellect aud miserable in feeling. The body is often injured by self-indulgences; such as eating and drinking too much; and sometimes by working or studying to hard. The body requires a certain amount of exercise and at the proper time. How many bright minds have failed to make any impression upon the world ? simply because they neglected the rules of health. Solomon says: "The glory of a young man is his strength." Some have ruined not only body but also the soul by tbe use of strong drink. Self-culture also implies Buitable efforts to expand and strength en the intellect by reading, by reflection and by writing down your thoughts The strength and vigor given to tbe mind by self-culture is not materially different from that expressed by the term education in its broadest and most comprehensive meaning. The intellect being the crowning glory and chief at tribute of man, there can be no nobler aim to set before ones self than that of expanding and quickening all of its powers. Books are no doubt very use ful helps to knowledge, aud in some measure to the practice of useful arts and accomplishments; but they are not in any case tbe primary and natural source of culture ; they are not creative powers; tbey are only artificial tools, and the use of them should never tempt us to undervalue or neglect the use of our eyes: the original and primary sources of knowledge are not books, but life experiences, personal thinking, feel ing and acting. Ido not want to be understood as saying anything against the stu''y of books; I mean to ineour age it if possible; but I want especially to incourage you in making use of your eyes and ears. It is the trained and disciplined intellect which rules the world of literature, science and art. Knowledge is an engine of power, it is the secret that gives us our dominion over nature, the key that unlocks the store-house of creation and opens to U3 tbe treasure of the uniyerse. It is that which forms the difference between savage and civilized nations, and makes the distinction of men as they appear in society. It is that which has raised man from tbe humblest walks of life to positions of influence and power. It is not necessary that I should dwell much longer on this part of the subject. I only wish that all would value the culture of the intellect as they should. You should improve every opportunity that you have to develop the intellect, and in the selecting of your literature you should be careful to read something that will be a bene lit to you, and in reading you should read with care anil always try to understand tbe meaning the author intends to con vey. But man possesses something more than a mere body and intellect; be possesres moral faculties as well. A true self-culture will be none the less careful to have the moral nature refined and pure than it is to possess physical health on tbe one hand and mental vigor on the other. The moral nature of man supplies hirn both the motives and the regulative powers, being, in fact, the governor and lord and legiti mate master of tbe whole machine. Moral excellence is therefore justly felt to lie an indispensable element in all forms of human greatness. A man may be as brilliant, as clever, as strong and as broad as you please, and with all this, if he is not good, be may fie a paltry fellow Let every one therefore who would not suffer shipwreck on the great voyage of life, stamp seriously upon his soul before all things tbe truth of the scripture text, one thing is needful, that is morality. J. W NET.MAN. Iliedsburg Pa. Eggs. A certain degree ot moisture is neces sary for tbe hatching of eggs. The biddv which hides her nest away in some secluded spot on the ground usually comes out with a fine brood of young chickens, while the one which had her nest made high up from the ground iu some dry place very likely failed to hatch the most of her eggs Generally the hen will hatch the most of her eggs when her nest is placed upon tbe ground. If it is not practi cable to build the nest upon the ground, it is advisable, in order to maintain a certain degree of moisture, to place a few shovelfuls of earth in a box and place the nest upon that. When nests are made of straw and placed upon the floor the air circulates throughout the nest so rapidly that tbe eggs become too dry to hatch well. —This beiog leap year, the man who was born on the 2!lth of February will bo able to celebrate his birthday. And he ought to make a grand time of it. When a man's birthday only comes once every four years he is justified in treating it with distinguished consider ation. Pork and Wheat. Rigilo in X, Y. Sun.] Chicago was no less desperate in her speculations than New York. Grain j and provisions, especially the latter, i were pushed up without regard to facts or value. Pork sold quite recently at sll a barrel; it is selling now at sl7 tor May options. As Billy Murray, ! formerly the Cammack of Chicago, re marked on Saturday: "The pork pack ers are all crazy. They ask more monej for mess pork than chickens are selling for. The other day chickens sold wholesale at 7 cents a pound in Chicago, while a 200-pounds barrel of pork at sl7 makes a pound of pork worth 85 cents." It must be said, however, that a considerable shortage haa been recently discovered in the visible supply of hogs. Some time ago the country was reported to be all black with hogs. It was said that yoa could not take a drive out of any Western town without running over any number of bier, fat, black hogs. Now it appears that tbe country is short of 700,000 hogs, as compared with last year, which was itself a poor one. The quality of hogs is also re ported as being lower, consequent upon the poor quality of corn fed to them this year. Tbe packing season, which begins in November and ends in March, will be over in a month, and packers are talking S2O a barrel between now and then. But if the supply should prove short, summer packing will be resorted to, and, with modern appli ances for using ice, just as good pork can be made in summer as in winter. It will not produce merchantable or "cortract" pork, but the lumbermen, tbe backwoodsmen, the miners, and tbe negroes in the South—and these are tbe largest home consumers of porlf —buy it readily The upward movement in tbe price of grain is, if possible, still more per plexing:- The visible supply of wheat is some 13,000,000 bushels larger than this time last year; of corn about 3,000,000, and of oats about 2.000,000. Of foreign demand there is none. Most of the shipments made are purely spec ulative, there being always some de mand for American wheat for the pur pose of mixing it with Russian, In dian and Australian, the flavor of all of which it is said to improve in mill ing. It seems that American wheat plays the same part to other kinds of wheat as American cotton plays to the short staple coHon of India. They rarely use Indian cotton by itself in England. But for these mixing pur poses ample supplies have already been forwarded, not to speak of tbe steady exports of flour. It has now been fully established that all the European markets are glutted with wheat, and, with the opening of tbe Baltic aud Black Seas in a few weeks, an additional quantity of breadstuff* will be brought into the markets. No wonder, then, that grain merchants are "busting" all over England, and that the price of wheat is there steadi ly going down. It is known that the Liverpool banks alone hold some 2,- 000,000 bushels as collateral security for Itad debts, and are only waiting for an opportunity to get out even if they can. It has been established be yond any possible doubt that the world is at present producing nearly 100,000,000 of wheat a year mora than it can consume. There was probably always a surplus of production, but in the absence of railroads the grain grown in the interior of lands had no market, and was often used for fuel; while to-day every bushel of it is brought to the seaboard and shipped at once to that part of the world which telegraphs a good demand and offers the best prices. Yet our speculators insist upon keeping the priceß here from six to eight cents above those of the European markets. How they can expect shipments under such cir cumstances is more than any man of average intelligence can conceive. Management of Young Fowls. With the little chicks the trouble is gaps, and we have a great many reme dies for their relief, but tbe gapes is a disgrace to tbe poultry yard, and its prevention should be sought instead of its cure. The disease can be avoided altogether by feeding the chicks on a board or some other hard, clean sur face; tbe food, if soft, should be freely mixed at every feeding aud all traces of the portion not consumed cleared away. If confined with the hen iu latticed coops or small runs the chicks should be removed to a uew location duily. The gape worm is the result of filth and decaying matter. Young turkeys, and in fact all young fowls, should be kept away from wet grass or exposure to damp ness until well under feather. The down on young fowls is not a protec tion against moisture; it is simply nature's covering for retaining warmth until the bird is feathered. They should all be fed regularly, at stated periods and often, especially during the process of feathering. With young turkeys the feathering season is a very critical period, and a heavy drain is made on the system thereby. The omission of a single fee>l is sometimes fatal, for once the young fowl becomes debilitated its progress receives a check from which it seldom recovers. Young turkeys are very tender, but they take good care of themselves when of suf ficient age. The change of the cover ering from down to feathers is tho turning point with all young fowls. Vermin, such as lice and parasites, will ruin any flock, no matter how cared for otherwise; hence the strict est watch should be kept for their ap pearance and extermination. Some heathen, ure not an much of the hethen as we think; read a Mahometan proverb, "(iod hat* bestowed the good things of this world to relievo our ne cessities, not to reward our virtues; these will be rewarded in another world " We know of no greater neces sity to UJ relieved, to be relieved than a stubborn cold, ami we know no bet ter r«lwf tiiau lir. UuJl'e UoDgL Syrup. Esq. Wilson's Game Dinner. Some days ago James Wilson, a Justice of the Peace of Rollandsville, this State, was arrested on a charge of having venison in his possession in violation of the game law. He had won a deer at a raffle. It had been put up by Jordan Mapes and Frank Grov er, who asserted that they killed it in self-defence. They were threatened by John Rollands with arrest for killing deer after the season had closed by law, and compromised with public opinion by raffling it off and dividing with the township the money thu3 received. Justice Wilson wa3 arrested on his way home with the deer on a warrant sworn out by John Rollands, who is a candidate against Wilson for Justice of the Peace for a new term. On Thursday night last 'Squire Wilson invited a nnmber of personal friends to join him in a game supper at Rice's tavern, when the choice morsels of the deer were to be served. The party broke up late in the evening and Wilson went home. Others of tbe party went to Rolland's house and serenaded him by pounding on tin pans, hooting and firing off pistols. Rollands finally appeared at a window with a shotgun. He pointed it at the crowd and told them that if they did not leave at ODce he would fire into them. They dispersed. On Friday morning Rollands met Wilson in the street. He charged him with being in the crowd the night be fore. Wilson denied the charge and declared that he new nothing about the affair. Rollands called him a liar, and Wilson knocked Rollands down. Rol lands had the Justice arrested on a charge of assault and battery. Justice of the Peace Clark held him in S3OO bail to answer the charge in court. Rollands then swore out warrants against 'Squire Wilson, Wm. Wilson, his son, Jordan Mapes and his son, Frank Mapes, and several others on a charge of disturbing tbe peace. Justice Wilson and young Mapes were dis charged, as they proved an alibi, and the others were held in S2OO each to answer. After leaying Justice Clark's office, Mapes, who was a member of the lumber firm of Mapes & Gunn, went to the sawmill belonging to the firm. Samuel Gunn, his partner, is a son-in law of John Rollands, and has warmly espoused his father-in-law'B cause through all the difficulties the political campaign has made. He took Mapes to task for his offensive conduct toward Rollands, aud hot words followed. The men finally clinched aud but for the in terference of others a bloody fight would have resulted, as both are powerful and passionate men. Gunn soon afterward apologized for words he had used, and made Mapes an offer for his share in the business. The offer was accepted, and in fifteen minutes the firm was dis solved. It had been in existence twen ty years, and there had never been one word of difference or dispute between the partners. Frank Mapes, the son of Jordan Mapes, is an industrious carpenter, aud one of the most respected young men in the neighborhood. He is engaged to be married to John Rollands' daughter Marv. On Friday night he called upon her as usual. While they were talking together in the parlor, the girl's father entered. "Frank," he said, "who are you for in this light ?" "Under the circumstance," said young Mapes, "I think I ought not to be expected to take sides at all in the matter." *,Yes you are !" exclaimed Rollands. "1 expect you to side with me, all the way through, or you can't enter my family. If you're not for me, you must leave this house at once !" Miss Rollands protested against her father's decision, but to no purpose, and the young mau left the bouse. Efforts are now making by friends of all con cerned to have the difficulties amicably arranged. Keeping Cream. Next in imporance to having milk perfectly pure and sweet, and free from all animal odors, comes the n.atter of keeping tho cream after it is taken from the milk. In the first place, the less milk there is with the cream better. A great deal of carelessness is shown in this matter, for be it known that milk makes cheese, while the cream only makes butter, and the more milk there is in the cream at the churning time the better, and therefore the more lia ble to spoil afterwards, unless very highly salted. Really pure, good but ter requires very little salt, while but ter as ordinarily made will sour again unless well salted or kept covered in brine. Secondly the cream jar must be of the best quality of stoneware—thick glass would bo better—and must have a cover that will exclude all dust and insects. Thirdly, the cream jar should be kept in a place whore no noxious odors or gases can be absorbed when the jar is opened to receivo more cream, aud also where the temperature can be kept cool and equable—say about sixty de gree; and lastly, the cream is to be made into butter as soon as it begins to sour; and when the jar is emptied it must be thoroughly cleaned and scald ed before being used again. Mr. George. P. .James, Newville, Pa , says: "Brown's Iron Bitters com pletely regulates my bowels aud is a good appetizer." —"Hello, old boy; how are you ? You look particularly happy. "What's up?" "Nothing much. Just been getting married. Self-preservation, you know. I thus escape the snares and pitfalls of leap year." —A careworn husband, who came to the office to advertise for a "girl for general work,' 1 volunteered some good advice to the polite clerk ha met at the desk. He said : "Young man, if you must marry, marry the hired girl; you iiaye (jot to liavv ber w»yt»ow " A Fancy Farmer. "You don't say! A thousand dollars for a cow! well, a fool and Lis money are soon parted." Ben, said 1, Squire Landers is no fool. I remember when his father farmed it here, and the Squire was the smartest boy around. And he was smart enough to pick out the best calves from the farmers, and take them home and rear them, aod when they were cows to sell them back to the same men who sold them for two or three dollars, and get fifty for them It wasn't many years before young Landers was in a law office, and then a lawyer; and he was smart enough to gain a great case in court, and that made his fortune. No, he's no fool. If he gives a thousand dol lars for a cow, it is because it is a good one, and he will get the money back from it, and he knows the man who reared that cow fairly earned the money. Now. look here, Ben, if you take a cow to Squire LaDders' young bull, you pay him $25 dollars for it. "You dou't say!" Yes, I do. And it's worth it, too. Yes, as you say, it is as much as the cow is worth. You are right theie, my boy. But your $25 cow has a calf that makes let us say 300 lbs. of butter in a year and she has not cost you, all told, more than SSO. I come to you and &ay, Ben, I want to buy that cow. You say she she is too good a cow to sell for less $150; she makes as much butter as any two cows round Here. Well, this is true, and I give you the money for your cow. You get your $25 back very easily, with SSO more to it, and I get my money back in two or three years out ol the butter. So wo are both satisfied. Now, Squire Landers' bull can earn SI,OOO a year in that way, and the first year's income, you see just pays for the cow. Ob, yes you see it now, of course. But there are forty farmers who have calves from that bull worth $25 each, and every heifer will make a cow worth twice as much as she cost. And in a few years you see all around the marks of that bull. The butter is more than doubled. The farmers take a fancy to the stock and the handsome cows get better sta bles, better pastures, better feeding, better care all around. In ten years you won't know the places. The houses will be painted up, the gardens will be neatly planted. There will be new barns, and the old ones will be enlarged. All the extra money made will add to the comfort of the farmers. The girls will be better dressed; the boys will be better educated, and in ten years' time it will be hard to say how much money the whole will be worth. And Squire landers will be more pleased to see this than to han dle a thousand dollar bill every day of his life. So you see he makes money and the money makes a good deal of comfort all around. Don't you ever call a mau fool because you think he is a fancy farmer. There are Short Horns and Jerseys, Ayrshires and Dutch cattle all around here, and they are making money for us; but if you trace up their pedigrees, Ben, you will find a fancy farmer at the end of the the line oVery time. And some of these fancy farmers can teach us green horns a good many things. They may not beat you and me plowing or bowing corn, but they can tell you all the ins and outs of it and what we do it for, and how it should be done, and that's the biggest part of doing it. Borough Officers. As was stated by us two or three weeks since, an act passed by the last Legislature allows members of borough councils to be elected for longer than one year, if the voters choose. It i optional, however, and the several par ties should agree at their nominating caucuses to act uniformily in the mat ter We believe a large majority of our citizens, irrespective of party, think that it would be to the material interests of our town to elect members of council in the same manner and for the same length of term as school di rectors are elected. The following, ex cept the first section, wbicb repeals the former act requiring the annual election of borough councils, is the act in full; SEC. 2 That it shall be lawful for the qualified voters of the boroughs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not oow enjoying this right by special statutes, at the first election of borough officers, next ensuing the passage of this act, to elect one-third of the wbolo number of councilinen to serve for one year, one-third to servo for two years, and one-third for three years, and an nually thereafter to elect one-third of the whole number to serve for three years: Provided, That in boroughs where the chief burgess is one of the six members of town council, the chief burgess shall be elected annually, and at the first election held for borough officers two of the council shall be elect ed for one year, three for two years, and at succeeding elections two or three, alternately, for two years. SEC. 3. That it ahull be lawful for the qualified voters or the boroughs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which hare an even number of council men not divisible by three, and which do not now enjoy the right by special statutes, at the first election for bor ough officers next ensuing the passage of this act, to elect one-half of the whole number of councilmen for one year, one-half for two years, and annu ully thereafter to ele:t one-half the whole uutnber for two years: Provid ed, That at the first election for bor ough officers, held after the passage of this act, the voters shall put on their ballots the names of those who are to be elected for the different terms. SEC. 4. That the members of town councils shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur therein by death, resignation, removal from bor ough, or otherwise, until the next an nual election for members of town council, when such vacancies shall be filled by electing a qualified citizen to supply the same, for the balance of the yiMxtyHrai lorm Rev. B. J. Forrester. From Western Instructor.] The subject of this sketch was born near Prospect, Butler county, Pa., on the 12th of June, 1845, and commenced a life which proved to be of checkered | scenes, made np of sunshine and shadow. He commenced hi* education in the common school when about six years of age, but had little desire for study till near ten years; then to be kept at home was a punisbmeut. He was never behind in bis class, but gen erally first. At an early age he com menced his college life at New Wil mington, Pa., and entered the prepara tory course, and then the regular col lege course He remained out two terms to teach school in order to help pay his expense at college. At the close of the junior year he. with a num ber of his classmates, went to Mon mouth, 111., and graduated at the end of the senior year, June 1870. During bis senior year in college he attended also the theological seminary. From Monmouth he came to Allegheny Sem inary, was licensed by Moaongabela Presbytery in the Spring or 1871, and finished his theological course in 1872. Then he did missionary work for some time in various parts of the church till in 1874, when he accepted a call to the Lisbon Center congregation, New York, and was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of Albany on Janu ary 21st, 1875. lie remained at Lisbon Center two years when be resigned, and again did missionary woik until January, 1879, when he took charge of Marlette congregation in the Presbytery of Detroit. By a unanimous vote the congregation went into the Presbyterian Church, and he went with them, aad was installed by the Saginaw Presby tery. After a pastorate of two and a-half years be resigned because he was broken down in health by over work. He was never again able for ministerial work, but under a decline of health and strength nature gradually but surely gave way. He died at Pros pect, among his relatives, on the 22nd of November, 1883. The following were the prominent features of bis character: As a man he was of the amiable type; as a min ister he was a very pleasing and at tractive preacher ; as a son, of long contioued affection; he was very patient, no complaints, no irots; as a Christian he was one of those whoso pathway bad no clouds of darkness, and no doubts of his interest in Christ. He was cut down by disease and death in the midst of his days and in the meridian of bis usefulness. The watch word receives a new emphasis: "Be ye also ready." He leaves behind a widow and two children. They have been committed to a Father's covenant love and a Shepherd's undying care ; and all the relatives and friends who mourn his loss are exhorted by the dispensation to double diligence while it is called to-day. J. A. C. The Origin of the Potato. The potato, originally a Soutb Amer ican plant, was introduced to Virginia by Sir John Harvey in 1629, though it was unknown in some counties of En gland a hundred and fifty years later. In Pennsylvania, potatoes are mention ed very soon after the advent of the Quakers; they were not among New York products in 1695; bat in 1775 we are told of eleven thousand bushels grown on one sixteen-acre patch in this province. Potatoes were served, per haps as an exotic rarity, at a Harvard installation dinner in 1707; but the plant was only brought into calture in New England at the arrival of the Presbyterian immigrants from Ireland in 1718. Five bushels were accounted a large crop of potatoes for a Connecti cut farmer ; for it was held that, if a man ate them every day, he could not live beyond seven years— January Century, —No one is fatigued after the exer cise of forbearance. —The favorite name for whisky in Chicago is "coffin varnish." —A Congressional cyclone in neces sary to purge Utah of its ill fame. —Allowing cabbage and potatoes to rot in your cellars breeds disease. —One of the cutest valentines shown this year is a pair of paper shears on which is inscribed: "If you love me as I love, These shear* can't cut our lora in two." —Glue is said to be the best thing for frosted feet. It rwstom» them im mediately. Apply it with a brush. It is a simple thing, and should be tried by all who are Buffering with frosted feet. Men love to be big and great to their wives, they say, and such is the reason given why a little helpless wo man can marry three times if she want ed, to a sensible self-reliant woman's none. tise. If you have business, advertise. It is a "poor rule that won't work both ways." A place well advertised is known to many, while one not adver tised is known only to a few passers-by. —Cincinnati has been trying to give a minstrel show with four hundred burnt cork performers. The potential cause of failure was a marked shortage in an adequate number of old circus jokes to go all the way round. JjjJjf Well dressed people don't wear dingy or faded things when the 10c. and guaranteed Diamond Pye will make them good as new. They are perfect. Get at druggists and be eco nomical. Wells, Richardson & Co., liurlington, Vt. —The Greensburg Tribune says that the war horse, "Old Hob," that belonged to Colonel George II Covode, and upon which he was riding when he received his fatal wonnd.diod ou the l*2tb inst, aged tbirty-four yaars. Ha has been in the possession of G. U. Covode, Esq., of Ligonier, over sine* ts>o war .10. 13