VOL. XXI. A. TROUTMAN & SON, bxjtler, DEALER IN- DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, ETC. We have just received and placed on 6ale our Spring Stock of Carpets in all grades and descriptions, from the Lowest Trices to the Best Quality We Especially Invite you to cull and ExamlneSK. A. UK'll- MONI) MEI). CO.. Proprietors. St. Joseph, Mo. Chas. V. Crit'.esUs, Agcat. I'm "o:i City. (4) TUTT'S PILLS TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From theso sources urise three fourths cA the diseases of the bum an race. These symptoms indicate their existence : Loss ol Appetite, Itowrls costive, (siiek llead aciic, fullness after tilting, n\ersi<>n to exertion of body or iniu<], ICiml-atlon of food, Iri liability of temper, Loir spirits, A feeling of liuviug neglected some duty . Illuiiien4, Klut te ring at (be Heart, Itots be lore t lie e > es, highly col ored I'rliir, « O.\STII'.tTIO\, anfl Vf.. Sold by Druggists, i>r sent by express oil receipt <>rsi. Office, t l Murray Street, New York. TUTT'S MAKUAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREL Oranges and Florida. Better than Breezes and Blossoms —Under a New Flag. Even the baliny 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 amang the pines of the north. "And, chief among the blessings which are adap ted to al! zones," writes Dr. J' <». Wallace, of l'"ort Dade, Flu., "is PA ttk Kits TONIC. IT seems to have the world for a Held, and most of the current dis eases yield 'to its action, f have used it m the case ofja delicate and dyspeptic young lady, with the most gratifying results. It seemed to accom plish with ease what the usual prescriptions and treatment for that miserable malady failed wholly to bring about. I am also glad to state that the Tonic has relieved me personally of a troublesome atonic condition of the stomach of long standing. It is the Ideal purifier and invigoraut." Messrs. Hiscox & Co. call especial attention to the fact that alter April 1«, 1883, the name and style ol this preparation will hereafter be simply Parker's Tonicr, the word "(linger" is dropped for the reason that unprincipled dealers are con stantly deceiving their patrons by substituting in ferior preparations under the name of < linger: and as ginger is an unimportant flavoring ingredient in our Tonic, we are sure that our friends will agree with vs as to the propriety of the change. There w ill lie no chaime, however, in Ilie prepara tion itself; and all bottles remaining in the hands of ilic dealers, wrapped under the name of "I'.wt- Ki-.it > (;i M. i ll Toxic," contain the genuine ineil ieine if the signature of Hiscox&Co. is at the bot tom ol outside wrapper. PSALMS. j 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 hiyh, rich and poor know the value of Hop Bitters lor bilious, ncrvou and Rheumatic complaints. 5. Cleanse me with llop Bitters and I shall hive robust and bloomini; health. li. Add disease upon disease and let the worst come, I am safe if 1 use Hop Bitters. i. For all my life I have been plagued with sickness and sores, and no until a year ago was 1 cured, by Hop Bitters. K. He that keepeth bis bones from aching f:oin Rheuanitisin and Neuralgia, with Hop Bittern, doeth wisely Though thou hast sores, pimples, freckles salt rheum, ervesipelas, blood poisoning, yet Hop Bitters will remove them all. 10. What womau is there, feeble and sick from female complaints, who desireth not health and nselh Hop Hitters and is made well. 11. Let not neglect to use Hop Bitter* bring on serious Kidney and Liver complaints. 12. Keey thy tongue from being furred, Ihey blood pure, and they stomach from indigestion by useing Hop Bitters. 1.1, All my pains and aches and disease go like ehufl before the wind wheu I use Hop Hit ters. 14, Mark the man who was nearly dead and given up by the doctors after useing Hop Bit ters and bccometh well. 15, Cease from worrying about nervousness general debility and urinary trouble, for Hop Bitters will restore you. Union Woolen >lill, BUTLER, PA. 11. FDLLKKVOW, Prop'r. Manufacturer of BI.ANKBTS, FLANNELS, YAKNS, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as carding Rolls, making Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, &c., at very low prices. Wool worked on the shares, it de aired. iuy7-ly BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10. 1884 License Court. MESSRS. EDITORS: —Having attended the license court on several days, we imagine we learned some things that might be useful toothers interested in temperance work throughout the coun ty. The learned Judge gave us some interpretations of the law and some excellent temperance addresses While we could have wished a different in terpretation sometimes, had it been consistent with his oath of office, we freely accord to him the credit of an honest, consistent application of the law as he interprets it to the several cases before the court. SOME THINGS I.EARNED. Ist, The value of remonstrances— TLe law provides for them and the Court will patieatly hear them. It may characterize them as undue pres ure occasionally, but they are desired nevertheless. And whether desired or not they are as legitimate as the applications for the law express ly provides for objections by "evidence, petition, remonstrance or counsel." But the Court holds that the remonstrances to be of value must cover some requir ment of the law. A general remon strance on moral grounds does not meet the case. Remonstrance must be of the nature of evidence or it will be of no avail. We will speak of some points of the law upon which attack may be made by and by. Next year let re monstrances come from all points and be largely signed. Let them be in various forms, that if an individual cannot sign one he may be able to sign another. For example some will sign against the necessity of restaur ants who will not sign against hotels. 2d. The law—lgnorant laymen may have opinions of their own, but we are authoritatively informed that "no lawyer whose opinion is worth having" will interpret otherwise as given below. As to hotels and restaurants, the ap plication being regularly before the Court,and no remonstrances appearing, nor objections from any source, the Court is compelled to grant under the law. It matters not how many ap plications are from a single point, a prima facie case is made out in each case and the Court has no discretion. The private knowledge of the judges cannot enter in except an applicant happens to be found drunk upon the streets of Butler. But objections may be made upon several grounds. It may be shown that he has not two j beds used exclusively for the accommo- J dation of strangers and travelers. The , fitness of the applicant may be attack- ! ed and it may be shown that his moral j character is not good enough to be en- i trusted with so important a matter, j Iu the same way the character of the i bondsmen and signers of the application may be assailed, and if the number of reputable men who are signers can be reduced below the required number of 12, that will be fatal to the application. I Next year it is hoped that a Legal ! Intelligencer will bear to every part of the county the names of those who sign the applications, that intelligent action may be taken. Then the licenses may be further re- | sisted on the ground that they are not j necessary for the accommodation of j the traveling public. If the public j can be otherwise accommodated by j temperance hoteb, boarding houses ; and eating houses, and if this can be made to appear to the Court, no license ' will be granted. In one or two in- j stances we were aboutbeginniugtohope ' that a stronger position was to be j taken, vi 7: that if the applicant had : sufficient business to justify him in ! keeping his house open without a i license, it would not be granted. But that view did not come to the surface often enough to justify us in promul gating it as law. As to wholesale liquor stores they rest on the same basis as any other' business, for example a grocery store, j except that it requires a man of certi- j lied moral character to keep a liquor store, while any disreputable character 1 may keep a grocery store. I n other j words the ouly opposition that can be j made is on the ground of unfitness, and j their necessity cannot be questioned. 3d. The necessity for more law. I Verily, if this be the law, and we are told no legal mind worth considering will gainsay it, there is crying need for more law. We heartily second the suggestion of the Judge to turn the pressure on the Legislature. Until prohibition comes, let it then be enacted that "tosell drinks to any but strangers and travellers is j an indictable offense." By all means j let us send Legislators who will cham- { pion the Judge's proposed new law. I Moreover, if the matter of necessity j cannot be considered in regard to J wholesale liquor stores, let a remedy \ be sought here also, otherwise they will be applied for rather than restaur- j ants because more easily obtained, and S unless the experience of Butler is ex- j ceptional they will be a worse calamity ; to all our small towns throughout the county. When may a man be said to be in temperate ? I>oe.s the number of drinks taken have anything to do with it? If so, how many might be considered a | moderate number ? Or is it determin ed by one's ability to stand it ? It seemed to be confessed that if a man was a "common drunkard" he was an intemperate man, others seemed to think that if a man got drunk occasion ally he might be included under the same head; some thought a man was a temperate man if he could "drink and go about his business." lie might be bloated and re.l and be the cause of anxiety to his friends, or he might be long to a crowd that tipple and guzzle ad libitum, or his tongue might run at rather lively a rate, but as long as he could attend to business he was a sober man. It never seemed to dawn upon them that temperate means "not exces sive," not too much, and that when a man has too much he is intemperate. Not too much to carry, as some seem to think, but too much for his good. If a man from the use of drink is not at his best, has he not used too much'r And if that is his habit is he not an intemperate man ? When is a man rightly spoken of as a man of kuown intemperate habits? Is it necessary that the witress be able to tell how many people he has heard sav so ? Are not the things we know best, the things we do not talk about ? We are more apt to express opinions about things that are under discussion. If, for example, I should say "W. D. Brandon is known to be a temperance man," that would be true, yet I cannot now recall more than a single instance l in which I was told so. The evidence j is before the public and the public know I the truth. So a man may be a man of known intemperate habits when bis i acts make him known to the commun ity he lives iu. Should then the fact that a man cannot give names weaken his testimony ? Whether he can or can not give them should not his word stand for all it is worth when he delib erately says that such a man is a man ■ of "known intemperate habits?'' Temperance friends, there is ground for encouragement, public sentiment is growing in our favor and is affecting | courts and attorneys. Men no longer I need to apologize for presenting remon strances. The apology is more likely | to be forthcoming if an earnest p'ea is made for license. Let us keep on striving for better laws and especially for the entire prohibition of the traffic and in the meantime seek to enforce the law we have and confine the traffic within the narrowest limits possible. YOURS FOR TUE WAR, An Exemplary Citizen NEW YORK, March 27. —The move ment on the pert of friends of Carl Schurz to raise him a testimonial of SIOO,OOO has been abandoned at the earnest request of Mr. Schurz. A con siderable portion of the sum named had already been paid into the fund, and without doubt the full amount would have been raised. The matter coming to Mr Schurz's knowledge, he requested that the money be returned to the subscribers, and out of regard for his feelings this has been done. The following personal letter from the ex-Secretary expresses his views: 45 EAST SIXTY-EIGHTH STREET, ) FRIDAY, March 21, 1884. ) To Mi/ Dear Mr. Schwab. I saw the Tribune only late this afterijoon, and found in it a statement that some of my friends were engaged in raising a fund of SIOO,OOO to be presented to me. Upon further in quiry I learned that you are the treas urer of the committee organized for that purpose, and that a very consid erable part of the sum is already avail able. Let me confess to you that this matter is very embarrassing to me. Not as though I were in doubt as to a general line of conduct to follow, but because I should be exceedingly sorry in obeying my impulse to do anything that might in the least be liable to be interpreted as want of appreciation on my part of the generous motives of my friends who prepared this valuable sur prise for me. Let me assure you that I esteem it a great honor to have such friends, and that I am proud of being thought of by them deserving of such rewards. Nobody can appreciate this more than I do. At the same time I could not accept such sums of money without giving proper equivalent for them. This may be a matter of feel ing; but, as such, it is of great impor tance to the person concerned. To this feeling I should have given decid ed expression had I been consulted when the enterprise was begun. I consider it, therefore, proper, before any formal presentation is made to me, to ask, through you, my friends to for give me if, with the highest possible appreciation of their generous senti ments, 1 feel obliged to decline in ad vance this valuable sign of their friend ship and esteem, so that no further steps be taken; and I wish to say further that I shall be indebted to you, dear Mr, Schwab, if you will kindly return to the respective con tributors the various sums paid into this fund. I am cordially and gratefully your friend C. SCHIRZ. To Gustave Schwab, Esq. Going for the Mail. For years the children of Col. Mott, of Westbury, Conn., were in the habit of harnessing the family horse and driving to the post office for the daily mail. Last fall the old horse, with others, was turned out to pasture, but it seems that he remembered his duty. About the usual time of the day he es caped from the lot ami trotted to the post office, where he was observed to wait patiently. The postmaster sur mised the animal's mission, and he se lected Mr. Mott's mail, tied it up iu a package, and adjusted it to the horse's head The mail arrived at its destina tion safely. The animal ever since has appeared daily at the regular hour at the post office for Lis master's mail. —The lioston Pout tell of some col lege boys who after dark took an entire load of wood from a farmer's sled, left in the street over night, and with great labor piled it up in a citizen's wood shed, under the impression that he'd be charged with stealing it. They found the next morning that the citizens had bought that wood the night before. —Neighbors are very considerate in Norway. When a baby is born a placard is nailed upon the door inform ing the community of the fact. Those who wish to move out of the vicinity are thus enabled to do so in good sea son. American Art. Photographs, Engravings, etc., can be exquisitely colored with Liquid Art Colors made front Piamond Dyes. Full directions for this beautiful art wot k, with a handsome colored cabinet photo sent to any address for 10 cents. Wells it Richardson Co., Burlington, Vt. Blaine's Strength at Chicago There is'no reason to doubt that Blaine will exhibit greater strength in the next National Convention, on first ballot, than he did in Cincinnati in 1876, or in Chicago in 1880. The pop ular sentiment will be more fully and freely expressed, and the delegates will not be hampered by instructions or so easily stayed by the [party leaders. There will be a larger and more liberal exercise of individual judgment than ever before, because there is a wider and more general demand for the se lection of a candidate who will best meet the exigencies of the party and give the surest promises of success. In 187G Blaine received 285 votes on the first ballot, the whole number be ing 754, and lacked but 93 votes of a nomination. He gained 11 votes on the second ballot, and when the seventh ballot was cast he had 345. or 33 less thaik a majority. He was by all odds the most popular candidate and was fairly entitled to the nomination, but his defeat was compassed by influences which it is not uecessary to dwell upon now. On this last ballot he received 140 votes from the Southern States, and he should have had at least an equal strength from that section in the next convention. In 1880 Blaine received 284 votes on first ballot, or 20 leis than were cast for UraDt. He maintained his strength with remarkable steadfastness all through the subsequent balloting, up until the thirty-fifth ballot, when the break was made in favor of Garfield. At no time during that wonderful con test did Blaine's vote fall below 240, and for the most part it vibrated be tween 280 and 284. When the last ballot but one had been reached, Oar field jumped from 17 to 50, and on the last ballot he received 399, Blaine hav ing but 42. Orant still held his 306, so that it was the friends of Blaine who nominated Garfield. At Chicago, the States from which Blaine received his chief support were California, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Pennsyl vania. He had no support four years ago in Massachusetts, where he will now have a number of delegates. In Pennsylvania he had but 23 delegates, but now he will come pretty near sweeping the State, In Ohio, where he had but 9 votes in 1880, he ought to have more than double that number now, and the same is true of other sec tions. In a word, he has lost none of his old-time prestige and power, and will undoubtedly lead all other candi dates at the opening of the balloting. If the South comes up as fully to his sup port as it did in 1876 he will be the winniug mau.—Pittsburgh Commer cial-Gazette. Why Apprentices are Scarce, A contemporary writer says it is principally beciuse of the conceit of foolish parents, who could not think of allowing their boys to soil their hands with manual labor, or tarnish their pedigree by associating with common workmen. Many and many a young man have I known whose aptitudes called to him with all the imperious de mands of instinct to learn a trade, but he was prevented from doing so by his parents, who preferred to see him filling the more important and dignified posi tion of clerk, often working fifteen hours a day for sls per month, and sometimes yielding to the small temp tation to leave unpaid his tailor's and washerwoman's bills, Or if he es caped the clerkship, he was almost surejto be found among the luckless nine ty and nine professional men who stand off and eye with green envy the one in the round hundred who has made a suc cess Itis notlackof attention to the new workman that is lowering the standard in mechanical trades, but the folly of parents in closing the doors .of trades in the face of their sons, and in the absence of good material we get bad. It is often the case that we get hold of a boy who has but few or no qualifica tions, natural or acquired, for a trade, but he can probably make more money at that than at common labor, and as we can get no better, we have to do the best we can. There is no doubt but we are getting poorer subjects every year for apprentices for this very rea son. But we can reach a point so low that is impossible to go any lower, and and I believe we have reached that point in some lines of business. Some parents, and boys too, are getting their eyes opened. They are learning that they cannot plant dudes and raise men. Many bubbles have been pricked, and gilding has worn through. Labor is becoming more dignified, because more than ever before is it wedded to thought. The manual training schools which are springing up in nearly all of our large cities are giving instructions to boys whose parents, perhaps, would not at the start consent to them entering the shops These schools are doing a good work in teaching the principles of trades, in fostering a genuine love for mechanics, and in pointing out the special field where the yonng man can labor with the assurance of receiving his highest reward. With such bright ening prospects as the work of the man ual trainig school warrants, we see no reason for fearing that the race of good workmen in any trade will soon die out. Ou the contrary, we believe we will see mechanics increasing in numbers and skill fro m year to year. If all the treos in all the woods were men, And each and every blade of grass a pen; If every leaf on every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap, every sea \Ver« changed to ink, nnd ail earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, And for ten tho'isand ages, day and night, The human race should write, and write, and write, Till all the pens and paper were used up, And each great inkstand was an empty cup. Still would the scribblers cluster round its brink Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink. illanlic Month.u. Running for a Train ia tbe course of some rather ill-na tured comments on tbe manners of Americans, Oscar Wilde recently ob served that tbe citizens of tbe great Republic "are always running to catch a train." Like moat foreign generali zations on tbe customs of a country, tbe statement is broader than tbe facts warrant; but the sarcasm conveys a bint which many of oar people may well ponder with profit. Mr. Wilde, looking at the subject frnm the "aesthetic" point of view, sees in this headlong American habit simply a proof of tbe lack of that dignified re pose of manner which be regards as a mark of true gentility. So far, it ia only a question of taste, as to which opinions may fairly differ. But there is also a practical side to it. Running" for a train" ia more than undignified— it is attended with risk to health and life which few suspect. On this point the Medical and Surgical Reporter makes some important statements which we commend to those who travel daily on the cars. These daily travelers form a numer ous growing class. We bare not the statistics at hand ; bat the number who ride on the steam-cars every day counts far up among the thousands, and the great traveling public all oyer the land, forms a populous State constantly on the move. And it may be safely said that a majority at least of the diurnal travelers are accustomed to delay in starting for the train until they are obliged to hurry, even to ihe point of running, to catch it. But, according to the re ferred to, this dangerous business. The combined haste and anxiety exert a most pernicious influence upon the action of the heart. Even if the heart is perfectly sound, running when not practiced as a regular exercise, is not beneficial to the delicate cords and valves of that sensitive organ. In case it is weak by disease, such violent movement must prove very injurious. As a matter of "fact, it is aways peril ous, and sometimes immediately fatal. The writer of the article says he has known of several instances, within his own experience, where men who had supposed themselyes sound have run for trains, and getting on board have fallen exhausted into seats from which they never arose. But if not at once the cause of death, the constant wear and tear upon the heart, when "run ning for the train" is a common prac tice, induces a disordered condition which will ultimately give serious trouble. "Better miss a train," the Reporter wisely says, "than run the risk of running into the jaws of death ; for this strain on the heart cannot prove bene&cial to one that is sound, while it is likely to prove disastrous to one that is weak. The habit has its ridiculous as well as its serious side One can scarcely pass a railway station without seeing some ope running as if his life depend ed on his speed, and dashing furiously up the stairway to "catch a train," when another one will come along in a short time. An ordinary train hardly ever leaves a station bat the spectacle may be witnessed of a belat ed passenger harrying toward the moving cars, out of wind and ready to drop with unwanted exertion, and get ting on at the peril of his life—and all to save perhaps twenty or thirty min utes' time in reaching the city. This is very foolish, and our daily travelers would do well to think it over with proper seriousness. The impulse is a strong one to hurry when one is late; but the gain is so small compared with the risk incurred, that wise men, when they know the peril, will try to avoid it, either by starting earlier or philosophically waiting for the next train. Have Juries too Much Power? In discussing the jury system in the light of the Cincinnati riots, it is well to distinguish between the system it self and the abuses to which it is sub jected. The laws will generally be found less objectionable than the man ner of their enforcement, hence the best way to reform the jury system would be to correct the abuses which inhere in it by reason of the lax administra tion of the laws under which it was organized. There is a strong disposition, how ever, to question the soundness of the laws in relation to jurors. The pro visions under which intelligence is ex cluded and ignorance invited into the jury-box; the fact that juries are made judges of the law as well as of the facts; the requirement that they must be unanimous in order to find a verdict; that they are permitted to acquit if they enterU-in a reasonable doubt as to guilt, they themselves being the judges as to what constitutes such a doubt— these, and kindred provisions are re garded by many writers as conferring too much power upon juries, especially when so little care is exercised in get ting the right kind of men to serve as jurors. In some States, notably Illinois, vigorous efforts have been made to have the criminal code and practice BO amended as to compel juries to take the law from the courts, but as yet they have proved unavailing. The same law prevails in this State, in New York, and throughout the country gen erally. It is of little avail for judges to instruct juries in the law, when the law has already vested them with power to determine the law for them selves so far as the particular case be fore them is concerned. It is under this authority that they are able to find murder of the first degree man slaughter, or to acquit a defendant when there is indubitable proof of his guilt. This power is all the more dan gerous since there is no remedy against those who abuse it, and no power in the court to set aside verdicts which are palpable perversions of both law aud justice.—Pittsburgh Com-Gazette. —Though "hope"' contains only four letters it has a bigger stretch than "anticipation." FARM NOTES. A successful Illinois dairyman as serts that he keeps 100 cows and never raises a pound of hay. He feeds his cattle on corn fodder, cut when in blossom, bound aud set np until cured, or until winter, when it is removed to the barn. He gets seven tons of this dry fodder to tbe acre, and affirms that it is worth as much as the best of hay. The most satisfactory grass for gen eral lawns, says an exchange, is June grass. It makes a quick, stiff sod, and holds its own against weeds and other grasses for a long time. It is cheap and easily procured. The famous Kentucky blu«i grass is nothiog but our ordinary June grass, varied by being grown on the limestone soils of Kentucky. A farmer at Dedham, Mass., gets, in good seasons, four tons of hay per acre. He does it by top dressing the grass land with five cords per acre of good barnyard manure, applied with a Kemp manure-spreader. All the manure from 150 head of neat stock and 1,000 hogs is used this way, while fertilizers are applied to the corn grown for ensilage. It is estimated that each inhabitant of the United States consumes, on an average, a pint and a half of milk a day, in the form of food and drink, and as much more in the shape of butter and cheese. To furnish in the form of beef the equivalent of the milk con sumed would require the slaughtering of 24,000,000 fat steers weighing on an average, 1,500 pounds each. The sanitary importance of tile draining deserves to be considered, as well as its agricultural value. This point was emphasized by Hon. Mr. Cumback, of Indiana, in a recent speech. "In this flat State of Indiana," he said, "the thousands of miles of tile ditches that lie buried in our swamp lands have carried off not only the sur face and stagnant water, but ague j enough to shake the world if it wer all let loose at once upon the earth." It is fortunate that ague didn't get loose. In making the butter known as "butterine," leaf lard is run through a hasbing-machine and rendered at a temperature of about 140° Next it is deodorized and cooled for several days, then drained off, melted, churned and mixed with cream butter, the propor tion of the latter varying from 20 to 50 per cent. Various substances are used for coloring, which mav or may not be injurious. Raw fat rendered at a low temperature, says the American Cultivator, cannot be regarded as a healthful food. Spiders. From Good Woods.] Spiders are not insects, as most peo ple think. There is precisely the same relationship between a spider and an insect that there is between a cow and a codfish. Tbe cow and the fish are both vertebrates, and the spider and the insect are both annulates, but there i the resemblance ceases. In every other point of structure they differ widely from each other. The spider has eight legs, whereas an insect can not have more than six. The nervous system is constructed on a totally dif ferent principle, and so are the circula tion and respiration. The eyes are different, tbe insects having many com pound eyes, and the spider never hav ing more than eight and all of them simplo. Then, a spider has no separate bead, as is the case with the insects, the head and thorax being fused together. Neither does the spider pass through the series of developments which we call "transformations." When the young spider is hatched it is a spider, and retains the same shape through its whole life. Again, no insect that is at present known can spin silken threads. Take the silkworm as a familiar exam ple. The silk is spun by the caterpil lar and not by the moth. Now, the spider can produce threads throughout the whole of its life. It possesses, moreover, the faculty of producing dif ferent kinds of silk, according to tbe object for which it is needed. If we watch the first of these creatures we may see all three silks produced. The web of the diadem spider is made of radiating cables, like the spokes of a wheel, and having a slight thread wound spirally over the spokes. The whole web is suspended by cables like those Which form the spokes, and guy ropes of similar structure support it on every side. A bluebottle fly now comes buzzing along and blunders against one of the supporting cables. It is not arrested by the cable, but falls upon the net, where it is at once caught. If we ex amine the web with a tolerably power ful magnifying glass we nhall see that the cables and spokes are quite smooth, while the spiral thread is covered with little globules of a gummy character. There are about 1,400 of these globules in each inch of thread, and on an aver age a complete web contains 87,000 of them. These globules act just like bird lime, and the moment that an in sect touches one of them with it leg or wing it is held tightly by the gum. In fattening sheep for market, Day's Horse and Cattle powder is the thing to give them. Stock raisers knowing this buy it. Price twenty-five cents per package of one pound, full weight. la the Spring th« maiden's fancy Lightly turns to Summer silk, While the dude thinks of his Nancy And her mouth for froren milk The canceled mortgage is devoid of interest. Cincinnati's motto—Be sure your riot, then go ahead. The early bird sometimes catches a body full of shot. I think I had rather trust mi faith than mi judgment. —The uncertaintys ov life are ju&t what makes it endurable NO. 22