VOL. XXI. A. TROUTMAN & SON, BUTLER, PA. . DEALER IN- DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, ETC. We have just received and placed on sale our Spring Stock of Carpets in all grades and descriptions, from the Lowest Prices to the Best Quality We Especially Invite you to call and ExamlneSioek and Prices. • (o) EMBROIDERIES Just opened, a Splendid Stock ot all kinds and styles of Embroideries in Swiss, Nainsook and Hamburg and Inserting to match, and we are oftering the whole lot at astonishing LOW PRICES. New White Qoods of all Descriptions. UCt COBTimS, UCE PIILDW SHIMS, Lace Bed Spreads, Muslin Underwear, Skirts, Night Dresses, Chemises, Drawers, Infants Robes. o- Our inducements.-We offer vou the Largest Stock and guarantee you the LOWEST PRICES. TROUTMAN & SON. JHAIHr STREET, BUTLEB, PA. FARMERS READ THIS. The Bissell Chilled Plow Is made of the best material, by skilled mechanics, under the {supervision of Mr. T. M Bissell, a veteran plow manufacturer and inventor, skilled in his art, and after 38 years' experience he feels justified in claiming for these plows that they are more neat y perfect and have more points ot improvement than an\ of their predecessors, Mr. Bissell is the patentee of the Oliver Chilled Plow, the South Bend Chilled Plow, and the Bissell Chilled Plow, which is his last and best. We also sell the Diamond Iron, North Bend and Hillside Plows. THE CBIBPIOH ItVEBS, MOTS HO BINDERS, The Hoosier Grain and Corn Drills, the best Fertilizer Drills in the market, Victor Horse Dump Wheel Rake, Stan Hand Dump Rake, the Western Washer—the best in the world—the Champion Separator and Clover Huller, the Harrisburg Traction & Portable Engines. Buffalo Phosphate, Acknowledged by farmers to be the best. Also, a line of Build ers' Supplies, Blacksmiths' Supplies, and House Furnishing Goods JACKSON & MITCHELL, BUTLER. PENN'A. 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As a Liver medicine TCTT'S PILLS have no equal. Their action on tho Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing all impurities through these three " scav engers of the system," producing appe tite,sound digestion, regular stools, a clear skin anil n vigorous body- TCTT'S I*l LL* cause no nausea or griping nor interfere with daily work and are a perfect ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. HE FEELS LIKE A NEW MAIV. "I have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa tion,two years,and have tried ten different kinds of pills, and TITT'S are the first that have done me any good. They have cleaned me out nicely. My appetite is splendid, food digests readily, and I now have natural passages. I feel like a new man." W. I>. EDWARDS, Palmyra, O. fold everywhere, 2.» c. Office,44 Murray St.,N'.Y. TUTTS HAIR DYE. GRAY HAIR OR WHISKERS changed in. •tantly to u GLOSSY 11L.U K by a single ap plication of this DYE. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of 91. Office, 44 Murray Street, New York. T'JTT'S MANUAL CF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREE. Oranges and Florida. Better than Breezes and Blossoms —Under a New Flag. Even the balmy air and the orange groves of Florida fail to keep its people full of happiness and comfort. Art must help nature everywhere —in the tropics as uniting the pines of the north. "And, cliiet among the blessings which arc adap ted to all zones," writes Dr. J- G. Wallace, of Port Dade.Fla., "is PAKKF.KS TONIC. It seems to have the world for a Held, and most of the current dis eases yield "to its action. I have used it in ;the case olta delicate and dyspeptic young lady, .with the most gratifying results. It seemed to accom plish with case what the usual prescriptions and treatment for that miserable malady failed w holly to bring about. I am also glad to state that the Tonic has relieved ine personally of a troublesome atonic condition of the stomach of long standing. It is the ideal purifier and invigorant." Messrs. Hiscox & Co. call especial attention to the fact that after April It), 188.1. the name and style of this preparation will hereafter l>e simply Parker's Tonicr, the word "Ginger" is dropped for the reason that unprincipled dealers are con stanjly deceiving their patrons by substituting in ferior preparations under the name of < linger ; and as ginger is an unimportant tlavoriug ingredient in our Tonic, we are sure that our friends will agree with vs as to the propriety of the change. There will be no change, however, in the prepara tion itself ; and all bottles remaining iu the hands of liie dealers, wrapped under the name of "PAK KEK s GIM;KR Toxic," contain the genuine med ieitie'il the signature of Hiscox &Co. is at the bot tom of outside wrapper. PSALMS. ( REVISED.] Hear this, all ye people, and give ear all ye invalids of the world, Hop Bitters will make you well and to re joice. 2. It shall cure all people and put sickness and suffering underfoot. 3. Be thou not afraid when your family is sick, or you have Bright's disease or Liver Com plaint, for Hop Bitters will cure you. 4 Both low and hUrh, rich and poor know the value ot Hop Bitttrs for bilious, nervou aud Rheumatic complaints. 5. Cleanse me with Hop Bitters and I shall hive robust and liloomiug health. tl. Add disease upon disease and let the worst come, I am safe il 1 use Hop Bitttrs. 7. For all my lite 1 have been plagued with eickue»-3 and sores, aud no until a year ago was I cured, by Hop Bitters. X. He that keepeth bis bones from aching from Uhcnamtisin and Neuralgia, with Hop Bitters, doeth wisely !t. Though thou hast sores, pimples, freckles salt rheum, eryesipelas, blood poisoning, yet Hop Bitters will remove them all. 10. What woman is there, feeble and sick from female complaints, who desireth not health and useth Hop Bitters and is made well. 11. Let uot neglect to use Hop Bitters bring on serious Kidney and Liver complaints. 12. Keey thy tongue from being furred, they blood pure, aud they stomach from indigestion by useing Hop Bitters. 10, All my pains aud aches aud disease go like ch;ill before the wind wheu 1 use Hop Bit ters. 11, Mark the man who was nearly dead aud eiveu up by the doctors after useing Hop Bit ters aud becometh w ell. 15, Cease from worrying about nervousness general debility and urinary trouble, for Hop Bitters will restore you. Union Woolen >lill, BUTLEB, PA. 11. FULLEItTON, Prop'r. Manufacturer of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, YARNS, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as carding Rolls, making Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, Ac., at very low prices. Woo! worked on the shares, il de sired. ray7-ly BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1884. VICTIMS OF TRICHINAE. Microscopic Study of the Para sites From Pittsburgh Telegraph of March 29.] Professor Francis Phillips, of the Western University, has received a piece of the specimen taken from the limb of Mrs. Marv Schulties, who died of trichinosis at Loyalhanua recently. Professor Phillips will g're the speci men a microscopic examination, and report upon the state of the parasites found. There is everything yet to be learned about trichina*, aud apparently the only way in which they can be studied is under the microscope. The prevailing impression is that the para sites do their great damage while young, and in passing through tho body until they find a permanent loca tion. It is thought that after they be come surrounded by a capsule they lose their power for active evil. A promi nent Pittsburgh physician told the re porter that there were a number of parasites inhabiting animals, and that man, perhaps, has more than his share of them. But of all, the trichina is the most dreaded, as it alone proved fatal to life. "I presume nearly all swine is more or less infected with them," said he. "Where they do not exist to an excess, the animals give no sign that they are affected; but it frequently happens that a whole band is attacked, and then we have what is known as hog cholera. In that case the animals have them in excess, and they die with them the same as human beings/ 'Have other cases occurred in Penn sylvania besides this one at Courtney?' was asked. 'Oh, yes; there have been a great number, I think if you call of doctor of Sixth avenue, he can tell you where he attended an entire settle ment up in the Allegheny Valley some two or three years ago, among which the trichinosis bad become epidemic.' 'Does it ever assume the epidemic form?' 'lt is said to do so. We have ac counts where it has been epidemic and prostrated nearly the people in a special locality in Europe. It can only become so by that locality being freely supplied with pork greatly af fected by it.' 'ls their no way of combatting the evil?' 'None that has yet been devised. All pork is dangerous unless thorough ly cooked. it takes 212" of steady heat to kill the parasites when they are encysted in muscles, and in a large piece of meat, like a ham, or shoulder, for instance, when it may appear to be thoroughly cooked there are still para sites with vitality in it The trichina) are very tenacious of life, and will sur vive a great deal.' 'Why have not more cases become prominent?' 'Probably the attending physicians have not had time or have not had the inclination to make post mortem exam inations. Besides the disease is by no means thoroughly understood by the best of the profession. Its pathology and treatment are still in their infancy.' 'Do you think there are people walk ing around the streets with trichinaa in their system?' 'Undoubtedly. Many, no doubt, here in Pittsburgh, have the parasites located in them, though I do not know how it can be told. Why, the cele brated Virchow, iu one of his reports, states that he found trichinso encysted and alive in portions of the muscles of a cancerous tumor that he removed from a patient, aud the previous his tory of the patient showed that he had been affected by trichinosis twenty four years before the tumor was re moved.' The trichina) discovered in the speci men taken from the body of Mrs. Schulties appeared to be from 1-75 th of an inch to i-20th of an inch long, and from 1-I,oooth to 1 -500 th of an inch thick. The following official report of the treatment and condition of the patients at Sniderstown will be of interest to the medical profession, as assisting to the diagnosis of the case and its symp toms. When the physician first saw Mrs. Schulties. March 7—(nine days after eating the infected pork) she was suf fering with violent muscular pains of the arms and limbs. The knees drawn up and the arms sharply bent, unable to move, some difficulty of swallowing and chewing. Irritable stomach, nausea and vom iting, and severe diarrhoea which were very thin and watery. Severe neural gic pains in the abdomen and profuse sweats. Pulse 100, temperatuse 102°, respir ation 30. These symptoms varied more or less, some abating, other aggravated, until March 13, when all the symptoms became more intense, diarrhoea more severe, a perverted sensibilty of limbs and an exalted sensibility of the body, severe pains in the ears and throat, difficulty of speech and almost inability to swallow, and severe attacks of short ness of breath. Marked swelling of the face and ex tremities and the patient in a stupified condition; on being roused she would again fall into this condition. Pulse, 130; temperature, 104 3 , res piration, 40. These symptoms con tinued until March 15, when she died. Mr, Shulties went to bed March 13. His symptoms from then until now were as his wife's, though not so in tense. Though still living grave doubts are entertained as to his re covery. To-day (Saturday), pulse 120, temperature 120'. A provision broker on Wood street, said : 'I do not think these reports of trichina- have any effect upon the pork market. In every instance where peo ple have been made sick by trichime it has been traced to their eating raw pork. There was a very bad case of it iu Chicago not long since, in which, I think, two or three children died. But it had no apparent effect upon the sale pork.' 'Do you think pickling or smoking pork kills it V 'Oh, DO. Of course from a personal knowledge I cannot, state, but 1 think all authorities agree that neither pick ling nor smoking the meat affects the trichime. It has to be cooked, and thoroughly cooked. You ask me, how ever, if this trichinae case will not affect the sale and price of pork. I do not think so. They have been used for that purpose before, aud without effect. You see they are, in one way, too seldom and too isolated, and they do not attract grave attention. Even with the recent contest over American pork in Germany, and cases of triehina 1 right there, in Chicago pork is the highest article on the list to-day. It is now selling at $17.65, and firm.' Another gentleman repudiated the statement that all cases came from eat ing the raw meat. He said that while many originated in that manner of using the food, that there were numer ous instances where peasons had taken the worms into their system by eating undercooked, or rare-done pork. There was more danger from cooked than un cooked pork. Very few people, he thought, would eat raw meat, and his impression was that it mattered little if such cannibals did die prematurely. But persons cook pork and do not cook it enough. More especially around the joints of the bones, where a chop will frequently be found rare when all the rest of it is 'done brown,' or near the bone on a slice of smoked ham, which, while it may appear cooked, is really rare in the centre but next to impossible to perceive on account of the smoked taste of the meat. In these instances the capsuled trichinae are alive in the rare places and are so taken into the system. Probably thousands of per sons have them coiled up in their muscles to-day who have not had them in sufficiently large quantities to cause a known disturbance. It may be perti nent to state that what is termed 'mus cles' means the flesh or the lean meat of the body, and not a cord or sinew. The Indian to be Made a Person The Senate on Wednesday last pass ed a bill which, if it becomes a law, will work, gradually, a most important change in the status of the Indians. It provides for the allotment to them of lands in severalty, and declares that every member of the respective bands or tribes of Indians to whom allot ments are made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the state or territory in which they may reside. It is provided further, that "no state or territory shall pass or inforce any law denying any such Indian within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." This important measure, which makes Indians for the first time persons under the law and opens the courts to them to maintain and defend their rights, passed the Senate after a very brief discussion, as nearly all the Sena tors were familiar with its provisions The measure has been before Congress for five years, and in the Forty-sixth Congress the debate upon it ran through several weeks. It did not se cure a majority, however, until the last Congress ; but, with many other ex cellent Senate measures, it was not acted upon by the House. A second time the bill goes down to the House -of Representatives, aud the friends of the Indians should organize public sen timent in support of it, lest it again perish through the indifference and in attention of the more popular branch of Congress. The shifty policy of moving trouble some Indians to the farther West can not longer be pursued. The territories are filling up. The Indian reservations are being pressed in bv whites on all sides. The time has come when the Government, if it does not wish to ex terminate the Indians or let them starve, must either put them in a way to take care of themselves or make them permanent paupers. The object of the present bill, as its chief sponsor, Senator Coke, of Texas, describes it, is, "in a slow and gradual way, to bring the Indian out of his tribal con dition and relation which surrounds him and individualize him, make him a member of society, and throw him upon himself for support." The bill provides that the reserva tions occupied by Indian tribes shall be patented to the tribes, the fee to vest in them at the expiration of twen ty-five years. That in any case where the President shull believe that an al lotment of lands iu severalty would be of any advantage to a tribe located on a reservation, he shall cause the reservations to be surveyed, and allot to each head of a family 160 acres; to each single person over 18, or orphan under that age, eighty acres, and to each other Indian in the tribe, forty acres. If the reservation is not large enough for such a distribution, it shall be allotted in the proportions indicated as far as it will go. Provision is made for allotment of other Government lands to non-tribal Indians. Patents are to be issued in the name of the al lottee, stating that the United States will hold the land in trust for the own er for twenty-five years, at the end of which time the United States will con vey the land to the allottee or his heirs absolutely. This is to protect the In dians in the possession of the land, as an absolute grant in their preseut state of ignorance would soon be purchased from them and leave them no better than before.— Philadelphia Press. —Liverpool is the greatest shipping port of the world, its annual tonnage being 2, 647,342. London is the next port with 2,330,588 tons. Glasirow ranks third with a tonnage 1,432,354. New York comes fourth on the list of shipping ports of the world with a ton nage of 1,153,676. —An instance of the inconsistency of infidels occurred recently iu Paris, during the session of Congress of the Free thinkers, when one eminent thinker, striking an attitude, passion ately exclaimed, "Gentlemen, I am an atheist— (hunk Qud v The Judgeship. | From Greenville Advance Argus of March '27. The following, relative to the selec tion of a Judge iu Mercer county, will apply to this and all other counties nominating and electing Judges this year. It is not remarkable that the people of this county are deeply interested in the coming contest for the Judgeship. It would be much more remarkable if they were not. It is not an unimport ant matter they will be called upon to decide next November wheu they de posit their ballots for a candidate for the high position which Judge Mehard now holds by appointment of the Gov ernor. The matter of the Judgeship touches society at vital points. It has to do with life, liberty, property and the performance of engagements, and these are essential to the very exis tence of human society. There an other interests of great importance in volved in the coming polical campaign, and which have to do with the weil be ing of society. But the administration of justice, having to do with the existence of society itself, is immeasurably su perior in point of urgency and import ance to anything t.uil everything which rises no higher than a matter of ex pediency. It is true that we are governed by written constitutions and fixed laws, to which Judges as well as others are re quired to give heed; but still judges are interpreters of the laws, and as such are clothed with much power which is akin to absolutism. By the terms of our laws much is left to their special judicial discretion, which may be often exercised to the detriment of individuals or community and this without hope of speedy remedy. In view of these facts, the manner of man who shall be clothed with the judicial ermine by the suffrages of the people of Mercer county next November, be comes an exceedingly important mat ter. We may make mistakes with reference to the men selected for other positions to be filled at the same time, as we have often done in the past, but such mistakes may be speedily correct ed, or borne without great suffering, loss or menace. Not so with the judge ship. A mistake in this direction is a mistake of infinitely greater moment, and beyond correction, except in ex treme cases, lor a period of ten years. With all its boasted intelligence, cul ture and Christian civilization, the world has not made rapid advances in the matter of its estimate of its judges and in its method of administering jus tice. It is true that it is not frequent that the moral sense of communities, iu these days, is shocked by the unseemly exhibition of corrupt, iguorant and un just judges. It is creditable to out civilization that but comparatively few unworthy men are ever clothed with the judicial ermine. It cannot be claim ed, however, that the people, who are the sovereigns now, are more exacting and watchful of their judges, and ready to denounce and depose them, than were the sovereigns of a much earlier and less favored age. It is said by historians that the Persian Kings were extremely careful to have justice ren dered with integrity and impartiality by the royal judges who held their places under them, and that one of these judges having suffered himself to be corrupted by a bribe, was condemn ed by Cambyses to be put to death without mercy, aud to have his skin put upon the seat where he used to sit and give judgment, tind where his son, who succeeded him in office, was to sit, that the very place whence he gave judgment, should remind him contin ually of his duty. It is said by historians that the Athenian Council or Senate known as the Areopagus, a body whose duty it was to see that the laws were duly ob served, and especially to sit as judges in crimiual cases, held their sittings in the night, that they might not be soft ened by sight of the guilty, and might judge solely according to justice and the laws. In the presence of these judges the orators or lawyers, were not permitted to any exordium c-r perora tion, or indulge in any style of speecti calculated to excite the passions, but were obliged to confine themselves solely to the subject matter of their cause, a course of proceedure and sys tem of legal practice which it would be well were it more closely followed in these latter days. It is greatly to be regretted that a matter of so much sacredness, and one freighted with so much good or evil as the choice may be wise or otherwise, should be subjected to the chances aud uncertainties of a political scramble for a place. Our laws have given us, whether wisely or not, an elective ju diciary. Political parties have given us systems of nominations for all elec tive offices. All existing systems are more or less defective. The delegate system as used iu this county aud else where, has degenerated, as we have heretofore said, into a miserable, trad ing, trafficing, bartering abomination. It should be discarded at the earliest possible day. It would be even well at the coming Republican County Con vention for delegates who are ostensibly sent there to represent their constitu ents, to break a.va.y from)the pernicious custom of representing only local can didates, and manlully strike out upon the idea of being in fact, what they are now, only iu theory, the representa tLesofthe people. But a candidate for Judge must be nominated and elected, whether an elective judiciary is wise, or a vicious system of making nominations is re formed, or otherwise. And it will be the part of wisdom to make the best of our surroundings aud opportunities. We need for Judge a good lawyer; one who has not only mastered the general principles of law, but who is thoroughly conversant with statute law and the current decisions of our higher courts. He should be a man whose education enables him to be an intelligent student of all that pertains to his high position; and coupled with this, he should be of studious habit, aud never content only j when abreast of his times iu all that 1 ertaius to the legil profession. Withal lie should be a man of mature mind The Persians were in the habit of choosing their ordinary judges from a class of old men, into v.hieh none younger than fifty years were admitted. They believed that too much maturi ty could not be required in an employ ment which decided upon the fortunes and lives of their fellow citizens. This was probably carrying the matter to an uuneecessarv extreme, but it re mains a fact still, that a novice in the law is an unfit person for Judge. Of course a judge should be an hon est man, and this beyond a doubt. Anything short of this is a defect, for which uo number of other shining qualities will atone. He should be one who could truthfully at any time challenge the world atid adopt the language of one of Israel's noted Judges, at the close of bis official term : "Be hold, here I am : witness against me before the Lord, and before his au nointed: whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I op pressed ? or of whose hand have I re ceived any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it to you." Law and Lynch Law The riot and bloodshed at Cincinnati was simply the result of the outrageous verdict rendered by the jury in the Berner murder case. The crime for which this young man was tried was peculiarly atrocious, and his guilt was exceptionally clear. It was a brutal murder, deliberately committed by the prisoner aud an other man for the sole purpose of robbery. Their victim was their employer, who was clubbed to death in a stable and then robbed of a roll of bills which he had iu his pocket, amounting to two hundred and forty five dollars, which was divided among the murderers. The facts ascertained left no room for doubt as to the guilt of Berner. Indeed, he confessed the crime. On the trial both the evidence and the law were overwhelmingly against him There seemed to le no escape from con viction of murder in the first degree. It was generally believed that there was no alternative but a verdict of murder or an acquittal, and the latter was deemed wholly out of the question. The jury, however, found the prisoner guilty simply of manslaughter. This unexpected and unwarranted verdict was characterized as "an outrage" by the Judge and was denounced still more emphatically by the spectators iu the court. It was universally condem ed by the press and aroused a popular indignation which broke forth in threats to mob the jury, next found expression in a vast public meeting, and finally led to riot and bloodshed. This outbreak in Cincinnati is not a matter of local concern It springs from a cause of general operation. Is is a consequence'of a flagrant mis carriage of justice, aud both the cause and its affect are growing common throughout the country to an "extent that may well cause alarm and arrest attention. The failure to bring murder ers to punishment has become so gen eral and so gross as to call in question the efficacy of our criminal administra tion and to sound a warning to the whole nation. It id a startling fact that escape the of murderers from the penalty of the law is the rule and conviction the exception. A writer in the current number of the Century has collected statistics show ing that more than fifteen buudred murders were committed in the Uni ted States last year, while the number of legal executions was only ninety three. One year affords but an approx imative ratio of hangings to murders- But the same writer reaches the gener al conclusion that the number of yearly murders in the country is thirteen or fourteen hundred and the number of ex ecutions less than one hundred. In other words, out of every fourteen mur derers only one sufferers the extreme penalty of the law and thirteen escape the gallows. Another most significant fact reported by the same authority is that in 18SK the lynching in the Unit ed States outnumbered the legal exe cutions by twenty-five per cent—there being a hundred and twenty-five of the former and ninely-three of the latter. Death -From Glanders. HARTFORD, Conn., March *2B.— The medical profession of Connecticut are deeply interested in a case of human glanders, which has resulted in death, and, as there has long been a dispute regarding the possibility of death from the disease when communicated from beast to man, the case will probably attract wide notice. Two weeks ago Orrin S. Todd, a farmer living in Tol land, | purchased a horse. Believing the horse had a cold, he proceeded to treat it in various ways One of his methods was to blow smoke in the horse's nostrils. This caused the ani mal to sneeze, blowing partieles*of mu cus in Todd's face. A week or so ago Todd was taken sick. The symtoms at were at first believed to be those of pneumonia, later the}' assumed those of rheuma tism, being followed by a swelling of the joints and the breaking out of the face with pimples or blisters and dis charges from the nostrils. I>r Johnson, of Mansfield, had charge of the case, and was satisfied that it was an actual case of glanders communicated from the horse. A consultation of physi cians was held a day or so ago, and the verdict was the same as fouud by I»r. Johnson. Medical aid was una vailing and the sufferer died yesterday after terrible suffering. Local physi cians say that deaths from primary glan ders haze for some time been known to the profession, but the Todd case estab lishes the fact of the similarity of the characteristics of ultra glanders in man and beast. —The air is springy. Now, do take you take your bands out of your pockets—and keep them out of other folks' pockets A Tale of Ten Travelers. Tea weary, footsore travelers. All iu a woeful plight, Sought shelter at a wayside iuu One dark ami stormy night. "Nine beds—no more" the landlord said, "Have I to offer you; To each of eight a single room, I!ut the ninth must serve for two. A din arose, the troubled host Could only scratch his head; For of those tired men uo two Could occupy one bed. The puzzled host was scon at ease He was a clever man— And so to please his guests devised This most ingenious plan : —BTCTOTE F'T'O'I"H L' I Fu the room marked A two men were placed; The third he lodged iu B; The fourth 10 C was then assigned— The fifth retired to I»; In E the sixth he lucked away, In F the seventh man; The eighth and ninth in (i and II And then to A he ran, Wherein the host, as I have said, Had laid two travelers by, Then taking one—the tenth and last. He lodged him safe in I. Nine single rooms—a room for eneh— Were made to serve for ten, And this it is that puzzles me And many wiser men. An Enterprising Japanese. T. A. Matsdaire, the new City En gineer of Bradford; Pa., is a native of Japan and the first man of bis nation ality to be chosen to a civil office in the United States. He is the son of a wealthy Japanese nobleman and came to this country iu 1870 to be educated, not at the expense of his Government, but at the individual expense of his father, who planned to have his son re turn home and be.appointed to a high position under the Japanese Govern ment. Upon being graduated he asked consent to remain a few years longer to practice civil engineering. His father replied that unless he came home on the next steamer his allow ance would cease, and he need expect no more help from him. The son re plied that he would stay, and the father became angry and wrote to his Japanese friends to have nothing to do with the young man. He stayed and practiced his profession, acting for some time as assistant engineer of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad Com pany, and afterward for three years as chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Eye Service. Upon going into an office, I saw two boys at work addressing envelopes— or rather, one was at work, while the other, with his pen in his hand was looking out of the window. Their employer was seated near by, and when he caught my eye he smil ed. "Which of those two boys is the bet ter workman and of the most value do you think?" he asked in a low whis per. "The one at work. I suppose,'' I re joined. "No, sir; that lad who is looking from the window now does so because he thinks there is no harm in it—does it, you see, under my eyes. On the other hand, while my eyes is on them, the other boy is the most industrious, but I find in my absence he does noth ing. So you see be adds deceit to his faults. 1 would not trust him out of my sight." "It seems to me that neither of them is worth very much " "To be sure," came the immediate answer, "a boy who attended to hia duties at all times would be the best; but a boy who renders eye service merely, who cannot be trusted to work without watching, is not to be tolerat ed." The man who said this had seen much of the world; he knew whereof he spoke, and perhaps some of our voung readers will profit by his svords.. Day's Horse and Cattle Powder pro motes the growth of stunted pigs, and increases the natural tendency of swine to take on flesh. As a cleanser and invigorator for bogs it has no equal. Only 25 cents per package of one pound, full weight. The 84th birthday of the Emperor of Germany was celebrated last Satur day week with general rejoicings. The Emperor ascended the throne of Prussia in 18G1, the best-hated man in that Kingdom. He was a believer in the divine right of kings, and in the earlier part of his reign his attempts to exercise despotic power did not make him more popular. But nothing suc ceeds like success, and the great mili tary successes of his reign have wiped out the memory of his offenses against the rights of the people; so that with out having altered his opinions iu the least aud his practices hardly at all, he is to-day beyond question the most beloved ruler of Europe, unless the Oueen of England be excepted. It is perhaps not necessary even to except her. This great change in the feeling of Germany is the outgrowth of the people's gratitude to the monarch by whose wise reign the long hoped for unification of the Eatherlaud has been accomplished. American Art. Photographs, Engravings, etc., can be exquisitely colored with Liquid Art Colors made from Diamond Dyes. Full directions for this beautiful art work, with a hnnusome colored cabinet photo sent to auy address for 10 cents. 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