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STATE OK PENNSYLVANIA, BLTLEU CO., SS.
At an Orphan's Court held in llutler, in and
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on the Ifu'-i of April, 18*1, said sale to be on
Monday 2d, J line, 1881, at lu o'cloek, M. of
said day, on the premi-'-", the following de
scril»ed real estate, Ui wit: All that certain
piece or parcel of land situate in Washington
township, Butler county, I'a., bounded and
describeil :IH follows: Oon the norlli by lands of
Annie Nilts, on the south by lands of K. ii.
Kvans, on the east by lauds of Joseph Blakely
ami on the west by lands of .101111 i'arder and
C. Harris, containing lilty acres, about forty
acres of which are cleared and under fence
with a story and a half frame house, frame
barn and ottt-huilding* thereon, also apple and
peach orchard.
Also that certain other tract of land situate
in Washington township, ISntler county, I 'a.,
bounded and described as follows: <>ll the
north by lands of K. I. Kvans, on the south by
lands of Henry Wadswortb, on tiie by
lands of Ueddiek and on the west by
lands of T. H. Conn, containing thirty acres,
more or less, being posture land well watered
and under fence.
Also that certain other uiemiagc or tract of
laud situate 111 the village of Parsonvilie,
Washington township, Uiitler county, I'a.,
bounded and described as follows: On the
north by lands of Jacob Daubetr peck, on the
south by lands of James Grant, on the east by
State lload leading from North Washington to
Kmlcnton and ou the west by
containing about three-fourths (}) of an acre,
with a story and a half frame house erected
thereon.
Public notice of time and place of sale to be
given according to law. Said administrator to
adjourn to a different time and place if no suf
ficient bill shall be obtained, by giving public
notice of time and place of adjournment.
Terms of sale one-third in hand and tiie bal
ance in two equal annual payments with inter
est, to he secured by bond and mortgage on the
premises sold, <Stc.
S. C. HUTCHISON,
Adui'r. of John Conn, dee'd.
I in tho CITIZEN
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. 1884
The Inspiration of ihe ISible.
A lecture by 11. 1.. H;. stings, before tic Massa
chusetts Annual Convention ot th • v. M.C. AM
cialions, at Spencer, October io, lssi.
[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ]
Suppose, for example, all the good
people of this town should try the
Bible, say for a single year. Suppose
you start to-night, and say, "We hare
heard about the book, aad now we will
begin and practice its teachings just
one year." What would be the result?
There would be no lying, no stealing,
no selling rum, no getting drunk, no
tattling, no mischief-making, no gos
siping, no vice nor debauchery. Every
man would be a good man, every
woman a good woman; every man
would be a good husband, father or
brother; every woman a good wife,
mother or sister; every one in the com
munity would be peaceable; there would
be no brawls, no quarrels, no fights, no
lawsuits; lawyers would almost starve
to death; doctors would have light
practice, and plenty of time to hoe in
their gardens; courts would be useless,
jails and lockups empty, almshouses
cleared out of their inmates, except a
few old stagers left over from the past
generation; taxes would be reduced,
hard times would trouble nobody,—all
would be well dressed and well cared
for; and presently the news would go
abroad, and we should hear in Boston,
"What wonderful times they are hav
ing up there in old Spencer. The peo
ple have all gone to living according to
the Bible." The news would get into
all the local papers'; the Springfield
papers, the Boston papers, the New
York papers ; the telegraph wires
would be kept busy with the news;
they would hear of it in Cleveland, in
Cincinnati, in Chicago, in St. Louis,
in New Benford, and Pall Itiver, and
Portland; and the reporters would
start off to investigate. One would be
inquiring, "Are there any houses to
let in Spencer? any to sell? any build
ing lots? any farms for sale?" Capi
talists would come here; some man
from Boston would say, "I am going
to move to Spencer; lam sick of the
noise aud hurry of the city, aud I want
a place where I can bring up my chil
dren, and not have them go to perdi
tion;" there would be a general rush
from all quarters to Spencer. It would
raise the price of real estate twenty
five per cent, in six months, taxes
would comedown, property would go
up, and good people from far and near
would want to move into town, and
then nobody who was worth having
there would want to move out. Aud
this would be the direct result of read
and obeying this book. Mow, if a
book will do that for a community,
what kind of a book is it? Is such a
book the Lord's book or the devil's
book It seems to me that such a book
which will do such work as that, must
be the Book of God, inspired by the
very breath of the Almighty.
The book is its own witness. It
bears its own fruits and tells its own
story. The great trouble with us is,
we do not read this book, we do not
use it, we do uot understand it. It is
a sorrowful fact that you can hardly
go iuto a prayer-meeting but you are
likely to hear a quotation from the
Scripture that is not in the Bible and
never was. You may hear, "In the
midst of life we are in death," from the
prayer-book; "He tempers tho wind to
the shorn lamb," from an old romance;
"God unchangeably ordains whatso
ever comes to pass," from the Cate
chism; accompanied by passages mis
quoted, misunderstood aud misapplied,
which show that the people do uot
read their Bibles, aud do not under
stand them: and the worst thing about
it is, one-half the people who go to
meeting do not know the difference.
We need to read the Bible, to search
it, study it, believe it, and obey it, and
we shall find that it js filled with
sanctifying power to our own souls,
and that it is the word of salvation to
the lost and perishing.
But says one, "I do not understand
the Bible. I read it but I cannot
make anything of it. Somehow it is
ob:-cure, and my mind does not take
hold of it." How do you read your
Bible? "Oh, 1 read a chapter now
and then; I read it here and there."
Suppose your boy comes home front
school aud says, "1 can't make any
thing ol this arithmetic; it is all dark
to me." You say to him, "How did
you study it?" "Oh, I read a little at
the beginning, and then I turned to
the middle and read a little here and
there, aud skipped backward and for
ward. But I don't understand it, I
can't see into it."
You say to him, "My son, that is
not the way to understand arithmetic.
You must begin at the beginning with
the simplest elements, master every
principle, learn every rule, solve every
problem, and perform every example,
and then the whole book will open to
you as you go on."
When you read a novel do you begin
in the middle and read a page here and
a line there, and skip about hither and
thither, and say, "1 can't make any
thing of this book?" No; you begin
at the beginning where "A solitary
horseman was seen one dark, tempes
tuous night, riding along upon the
margin of a swollen stream which
wound about the base of a lofty moun
tain, on which stood an ancient castle,"
etc., etc. There is where you begin;
and you read every line and every
page of the book until you get to tho
end. Sometimes tbey print a column
or two of a story in a paper, and go
and scatter it through the town, and at
the end of it you will read, "The re
mainder of this thrilling story will be
found iu the columes of the Weekly
lilazimj Cornel] and then you start off
down to the news room and buy the
"Blazing Comet" to find out how the
story ends! Why wiil you not take
the Bible and read it in the same way?
Why will you not give as much atten
tion to tha faithful words of the living
God as you will to a pack of lies spun
out by some sinful man? Why will
you not take the Bible aud read it from
beginning to end, and see how it conies
out? You will find it tho grandest and
most thri!lin<r siory ihe world Las ever
{ known. Sometimes, whin you have
I not time to read a novel through, you
read the first chapter or two, to find
out who the hero is, and then skim
through the pages and read the closing
chapters and find out who was murder
ed, who was hung, and who was mar
ried; aud then you can guess the rest,
for there is usually about so much
sawdust put in the middle for stuffing.
Why will you not do as much lor the
Bible? Begin at the beginning, and
read until you find out who is the hero
of the story. You will find that the
presence of one Person prevades the
whole book. If you go into a British
navy yard, or on board a British ves
sel, and pick up a piece of rope, you
will find that there is one little red
thread which runs through the whole
of it—through every foot of cordage
which belongs to the British govern
ment—so, if a piece of rope is stolen,
it may be cut into inch pieces, but
every piece has the mark which tells
where it belongs. It is so with the
Bible. You may separate it into a
thousand parts, and yet you will find
one thought—one great thought run
ning through the whole of it. You
will find it constantly pointing aud re
ferring to one great personage—"the
Seed of the woman" that shall crush
the serpent's head; "the Seed of Abra
ham," in whom all the cations of the
earth shall be blessed; "the Seed of
David," who shall sit on David's
throne and reign forevermore; the de
spised and rejected Sufi'erer, the Man
of Sorrows, the Christ of God, born in
Bethlehem, crucified on Calvary, rising
triumphant from Joseph's tomb, as
cending to sit at God's right hand, and
coming again to judge the world and
reign as King and lord of all forever.
Around this one mighty Personage
this whole book revolves- "To him
give all the prophets witness;" and
this book, which predicts his in its
earliest pages, which foreshadows his
person and his ministry through all its
observances, types and sacred prophe
cies, reveals in its closing lines the
eternal splendors which shall crown
and consummate his mighty work.
God's word declares the end from
the beginning. It is not only the
chart which guides each weary wan
derer to his eternal rest, but it is the
record of the great plan and purpose of
the Almighty concerning the world
which he has made, and the church
which he ht.s redeemed. It unfolds
God's everlasting purpose, as manifes
ted in Jesus Christ; and if one will
rend three chapters at the beginning of
the Bible and three at the end, he will
be struck with the correspondence
which there exists.
At the beginning of the Bible we
find a new world: "In the beginning
God created the heavens and the
earth " At the end ot the Bible we
find a new world: "I saw a new
heaven and a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed
away." At the beginning we find
Satan entering to deceive and destroy;
at the end, we find Satan cast out,
"that he should deceive the nations
no more." At the beginning, sin and
pain and sorrow and sighing and
death find entrance to the world; at
the end, there shall be no more pain
nor sorrow nor sighing, and no more
death. At the beginning, tha earth,
for man's transgression, is cursed with
thorns and thistles; at the end, "there
shall be no more curse: but the throne
of God and ot the lamb shall be iu it."
At the beginning, we find tho tree of
life iu paradise, from which the sinner
is shut away by a flaming sword, lest
he eat and live forever; at the end, we
find the tree of life again "in the midst
of the paradise of God," and the bless
ed and the blood-washed ones have a
right to the tree of life, and "enter in
through the gates into the city." At
the beginning, man was brought be
neath the dominion of death and the
grave; at the end, "the dead, small
and great, stand before God," the sea
gives up its dead, and death and hell
are destroyed in the hike of fire. At
the beginning, the first Adam lost his
dominion over earth; and was driven
out of the garden of Eden in shame
and sorrow; at the end, we find the
second Adam, victorious over sin and
death and hell, enthroned as King and
Lord of all, and reigning in triumph
and glory forever.
Now, when you get the plan of this
book, you find that it is something
more than a book of detached sen
tences, good maxims aud comforting
words. It is a book which unfolds the
divine purpose, aud not only reveals
the wiiy of salvation, but marks the
pathway of the people of God through
this wilderness, aud foreshows the
destiny of tho world which he has
made and the church which he has re
deemed.
When we look at these facts we see
that this is no man's book. When
Columbus saw tho river Orinoco, some
one said he had discovered an Island.
He replied: "No such river as that
flows from an island. That mighty
torrent must drain the waters of a
continent." So the book comes, not
from the empty hearts of imposters,
liars, and deceivers; it springs from
the eternal depths of divine wisdom,
love, and grace. It is the transcript
of the divine mind, the unfolding cf
the divine purpose, the revelation of
the divine will. God help us to re
ceive it, to believe it, and be saved
through Christ our Lord. [Aniens
from audience.]
THE END.
|CgT"In the Diamond Dyes more
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brilliant colors 10c. at druggists.
Wells, Richardson k Co., Burlington
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—Gunners should wear neckties of
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—Deep-arted spirits—defunct con
jurers.
—An obstinate man does not hold
opinions—they hold him.
COMMUNICATED.
W. C. T. U. at Harrisville.
MESSRS. EDITORS: —The W. C T.
U. of Butler county, held its semi-an
nual meeting at this place on the Bth
inst The local Unions throughout
the county were generally represented.
The exercises were interesting and pro
l fitable and the business was transacted
|in a very orderly manner. Mrs. Dain,
the President of the association, prcsi
! ded with dignity and ease and is cer
; tainly the right person it the right place,
i and the same may be said in re_ r ard to
i the other officers. Mrs. Reese gave
an admirable lecture to a large and ap
preciative audience in the evening.
The people of Harrisville were es
pecially well pleased with the entire
proceedings, and more than pleased
with the christian and lady like deport
ment of the delegates. They were dis
appointed only in one thing, and that
was in the number of the delegates.
The supply came far short of the de
mand. Come again, Sisters, at as ear
ly day as will suit your con venience.and
come with increased numbers.
Harrisville, Pa., May 10, 1884.
K.
EDS. CITIZEN :—A friend desires me
to inform the public what action on
on temperance was taken by Butler
Presbytery at its late meeting. A per
manent committee on this subject, con
sisting of Kev. Samuel Williams, and
elders J. 11. McJunkin and W. D.
Brandon was appointed. A paper,
signed by a large number of the con
gregation of Martinsburg, asking Pres
bvtery to comply with the directions of
Synod in holding Temperance Conven
tions, was read ana placed in the hands
of the committee. The chairman of
the committee inquired whether it will
be in accordance with the wishes of
Presbytery to hold Temperance Con
ventions in connection with its next
meeting, which will beat Martinsburg,
on the fourth Tuesday of June. As no
objections to this were made, it is ex
pected that the committee will make
arrangements for such a convention,
j The matter is in their hands.
J. li. COULTER.
A Sad Story of Real Life.
About thirty years ago there came to
Holidaysburg, in company with some
emigrants from Ireland, a beautiful
girl who called herself Mary O'Neil.
Being poor and having neither parents
or friends with her, she was compelled
to care for herself, and subsequently
went out to service, finding employ
ment at the Mountain House, in Pun
causville, on the portage road. Her
great beauty attracted universal atten
tion, but she was as modest aud retired
as the humble violet and shamrock of
her native land, and was known to be
as purs as she was beautiful. But one
dreadful morning she was found in an
out-of-the-way place in an insensible
condition, aud it was further discover
that she had been shockingly outraged.
Medical attendance was immediately
summoned and she was at length
arroused from her stupor, only to show
that her mind was gone, the shock and
the poisonous drugs being too great
for her to withstand, aud reason had
flown forever. Nothing could ever be
discovered as to her autecedents, and
having no one to care for her, she win
placed in the almshouse, where her
life has been spent in blank uncon
ciousness of her real condition. One
phase of her mania was that she imag
ined every man who. came to the alms
house was her father, and once a well
known citizen of llolidaysburtr, who
was then a young man, went there on
some occasion, and saw her staudiug
in the hall like a beautiful spectre, pale
aud wan, with her black hair hanging
over her shoulders like the mist of
darknesss that enshrouded her mind
and history, and no sooner did she be
hold him than giving a piercing scream,
,'() father! father!" she ran to him,
threw her arms around his neck and
sobbed most violeutly. Of late years
she has become more violent aud un
controllable, refusing to be clothed, and
tearing to shreads anything put upon
her, until at last her entire clothing con
sisted of a long, straight bag, like a
coffee sack, in which she wes confined
to a cell. It has been deemed best to
send her to an asylum, and last week,
in company with a number of others,
she was taken to Danville and placed
in the asylum there ; and so practically
to tho world ends the history of the
once beautiful, but unfortunate. Mary
O'Neil. The perpetrators of the das
tardly deed were never arrested, al
though suspicion pointed to a well
known party ; but if it has not already,
God's vengeance will surely fall
upon the wretch iu a way most fearful
and hard to be borne, for it is written,
"Vengeance is mine, aud I will repay,
saith tho Lord of Hosts."— Altoona
Suntlai / Morning.
—A Colorado paper says: The
worshipers of the Fairfield church went
on Sunday night as usual to service,
but found that the bats had takeu pos
session of the house and were so thick
and aggressive that the service was
necessarily postponed. Tuesday tho
deacons inaugurated a bat hunt and be
hind one of the window castings found
and killed 241 of them.
liOrd Coleridge tells a very good
story of Mr. Evarts, in connection with
his own visit to this country Inst year.
He was at Mount Vernon with Mr.
Evarts and, talking about Washington,
said: "I have heard that he was a very
stong man physically, and that stand
ing on the lawn here, he could throw a
dollar right across the river on to the
other bank." Mr. Evarts paused a
moment to measure tho breadth of the
river with his eye. It seemed rather
a "tall" story, but it was not for him
to belittle the father of the country in
the eyes of a foreigner. "Don't you
believe it?" asked Lord Coleridge.
"Yes," Mr. Evarts replied, "I think
its verv likely to be true. You know
a dollar would go farther in those days
than it does now."
I THE YATHIVW, BINK
To THE CITIZEN.
The national banking law docs not
protect against losses, except >o f<.r as
the note h»lder is concerned, but if the
law is observed it is an extreme case
when loss is visited upon depositors;
the losses must be so heavy as to ab
sorb the capital stock of the bank and
its surplus.
One section of the act provides that
! the loans to a single individual shall
i not exceed one-tenth of the capital stock
of the bank, unless the paper discount
ed is actually owned by the one obtain
ing the discouut, and signed vr made
i by another.
It will at once be seen that before a
depositor can loose a dollar in a nation
al bank on account of unpaid and un
collected discounted paper, if the law
is regarded, ten men at least must re
fuse or be unable to meet their paper,
and those ten men must have obtaiued
discounts equal to the amount of the
capital stock. If three men in Butler,
CHARLES MCCANPLESS, THOMAS ROB
INSON and JOHN M. GREEK had paid
before, or at any time since the
failure of the First National Bank of
Butler, their liabilities to the bank on
account of paper discounted, not inclu
ding the liability of McCandless for as
sessment on his stock, the bank with
the assistance of its other assets, would
not ouly have paid its depositors in
full, but the stock of the bank would
scarcely have been impaired, aud if
John M. Greer alone had paid his lia
bilities to the bank instead of paying
the depositors seventy per centum it
would have paid eighty-five to ninety
I per centum.
The writer has as much sympathy
as anyone for an honest debtor who is
unfortunate and becomes unable to
pay his debts, but for a debtor who
' contracts a debt dishonestly aud in
violation of law the mantle of his char
ity has no protection. It is now pro
posed to show that that Greer did
contract illegal debts in the Butler
bank.
' The capital stock of the bank was
SIOO,OOO until 1877 it was reduced to
$50,000. It faiicd in July, 1879 for
upwards of SIOO,OOO. At the time
the bank closed, some small
discounts ranging from thirty to live
hundred dollars or thereabouts and
aggregating over nine hundred dollars,
the liabilities of Greer to the bank are
shown by the following:
First National Hank ) Circuit Court
of Butler, |of the United
vs. )■ States, Western
John M. Greer. j District, No. 62
j Nov. T. 1879.
I'ebt $4,991.62
Interest from Jan. 29. 1879.
First National Bank ) Circuit Court
of Butler |of the I'nited
vs. J- States, Western
John M. Greer. | District No. 01
! Nov. T. 1879.
Debt SI,OOO.
Interest from June 2, 1876.
John M. Greer for] Common Pleas,
use of 11. B. Cul- { Butler Co., No.
lum, Receiver, vs 1 274, Dec. Term,
Thomas Robinson J 1879.
Debt $3,2Gf,.95.
Interest from July 29, 1879.
Chas. McCandless aiid ] Common P.
John M. Greer tor use I Butler county
of 11. B. Cullum, lie- j- No. 259 Dee.
ceiver, vs. | Term, 1879.
W. 11. Colbert. j
Debt $4,423.40
Interest from Jan. 29, 1879.
First National Hank] Circuit Court
of Butler, | United States,
vs. \- Westeru Dis't.,
L M. Cochrau. j No. (13, Nov.
j Term, 1879.
Debt $2,868.43.
Interest from March 18, 1879.
Greer was endorser upon the notes
on which the judgments against Itob
iusou, Colbert and Cochian were enter
ed and on the Robinson note Kobiuson
got the money, Upon the two notes
made for Greer on which the two lirst
judgments were entered and amount
ing to $5,991,02 not one dollar has been
paid. Robinson claims to be entitled
to a credit upon his note of $3,220.90
for some political services rendered lor
the bank in connection with the Har
vey & Co. Distillery, although his
modesty has heretofore prevented him
from naming the amount,though press
ed to do so. No credits are on the
note. No credits except $50.00 are on
the Colbert note of $4,423.40, although
at one time there was 1000 barrels of
of oil upas a collateral on it that was
abstracted by some of the bank officers,
and on the Cochran note Greer paid
some $1,500 and the receiver took his
note with that of W. 11. 11. Riddle and
a mortgage for the balance, and releas
ed Cochran. This note and mortgage
has not been paid. No other pay
ment has been made upon account of
this large indebtedness.
Neither Cochran nor Colbert ever
got one dollar from the bank upon the
notes signed by them. The money
went into Greer's pocket. They were
induced by Greer to the notes for
him, Colbert being in his ollice ft stu
dent and without property. Greer's
own especial indridual indebtedness
to the bank amounted when it dosed to
$13,283.45. Uut it will be asked in
what manner this indebtedness was in
curred dishonestly. Hail he not the
l ight to borrow the whole capital of
the bank if the bank was foolish
enough to lend it to him ?
The officers of the bank dealing di
rectly with Greer when he got these
of money were nottheonly persons sums
interested in the bonk. If so they got
what they deserved, but they were not.
Those in interest may be divided into
two classes. To the lirst class belong
those who know or can know and
ouirht to know all about the bank bus
iness, to-wit: the board of directors,
and to the second class belong those
who don't do the business but invest
their money in the bank, to-wit: Stock
holders oth-r than the directors, and
the depositors. These men and women,
however, had reason to feel easy
about the matter, for was there
not an ofticer, called a hank
examiner, who was appointed to
protect their interests, and was it
not his duty to call upon the hank and
exainiue Ks books and see that every
thing was conducted in a proper man
ner and that no mac, not even Mr.
Greer, would pull out of the bank's
vaults more than one-tenth of the cap
ital stock? Yes, but there was a way
to deceive the examiner aud it seems
to have been easily learned by Greer
and his associates. They knew tl at
if the examiner found out from the
books that Greer was borrowing more
than the "limit allowed by law he
would be compelled to pay enough to
reduce his loans to that limit or the
bank would be closed. So he gets ac
commodation makers to sign notes that
amounted to about $7,200 payable to
( Continued on second paye.)
Siam's Floating Capital.
In many points Bankok is more
Venetian than Venice itself, writes a
traveler. In the queen of the Adria
tic—despite these "bright streamlet
veins" about which modern poets
make such a stir—one can walk
through fully two-thirds of the town
without being indebted to the tradi
tional gondola at all. In the Siamese
Venice it is far otherwise. The main
street is the river, and there are no
side streets at all. Your opposite
neighbor lives upon the other bank,
and before calling on him you have to
call a boat. The native children play
in the water as they would play on
land elsewhere, and many of the
houses, moored to posts by short
cables of rattan, rise and fall with the
tide like anchored vessels. Indeed,
with the exception of one long strag
gling road running parallel with the
river along its left bank, the laud
might just as well not be there at all.
The approach to this singular place is
as picturesque as itself. Far out at
sea you descry along the eastern hori
zon a dim procession of purple shadows,
which, as you near them, resolve
themselves into bold rocky islets, with
green clumps of wooding scattered
broadcast over the dark red sternness
of their gloomy cliffs and craggy ridge.
One by one they are left behind, and
now there begins to rise out of the
smooth sea, far out in front of us,
something that looks at first sight like
an endless line of soldiers in battle
array. These are the trees of the
Siamese coast. Soon the waters all
around us turn thick and soup-like,
wearing a deep dye of yellowish brown,
which announces more plainly than
words that we are approaching the
mouth of the ''beautiful, the pea-soup
colored river" that Hows by the town
of Bankok
A Startling Snake Story.
"Do you want a snake item ?" asked
a man from £lk Neck at the sanctum
door of an Elkton newspaper.
"Yes," said the editor, "come right
in and tell us all about it."
"Well, I killed it to-day down on
the North East road. It was nineteen
feet from head to tail. I took my rule
and measured it."
"How many driuks of pear cider
have you taken to day ?" aekeu the ed
itor.
"Only two," said the man from Elk
neck. "What has that got to do with
the snake item ?" "Ob, a great deal,"
answered the editor. "We always de
duct nine feet from the snake for each
drink of pear cider taken by the man
who brings in the snake item. Mik
ing the usual deduction for Cecil coun
ty pear cider your snake was 12 inches
long. A very good snake for the sea
son. Come in again when you haye a
snake item."
And the editor held the sanctum door
for the man from Elk Neck to pass
out Middletoion Transcript.
—The barkward spring weather
still coutiuues very forward.
—Verily, hypocrites sink into a
lower abyss than any other siuner.
—Never loau your roller skates.
That makes them a wheel borrow.
—Don't talk back to a woman who
handles a lire shovel with grace ajd
dexterity.
—Don't go near a draft, if a draft
comes toward you run away. A light
draft is the most dangerous.
—Don't blow in the gun you grand
father carried in the war of 1812. It
is more daugerous now thau it was
then.
—ln life as at the great competitions
there are some people who obtain hon
orable mention without ever having a
first prize.
—A Vermont man 1 roke his leg
while returning from his bridal trip.
When misfortunes once strike a man
they come thick and fast.
A Cedar llapids editor wants any
young lady who "jumps at conclusions."
to consider him a ' conclusion." An
orphan is preferred.
—Chicago and St. Louis girls are
congratulating each other upon the fact
vouched for by an eminent physician
that small feet signify a quick temper
and an evil tongue.
—A novel reason for asking a new
trial was recently advanced in a Wash
ington court. The counsel ol a convict
ed murderer based his plea on tbe
ground that "Win. M. Frank, one of
the jurors, who Is of the Hebrew faith,
was not sworn as a juryman with hat
on and with his hand on the live books
of Moses, which is the custom of ad
ministering oaths in Jews, and which
manner of taking an oath they regard
as most binding upon their conscience,
but was as a believer in the Christian
religion is sworn."
—Go to Kelly's on Jetl'erson street,
Butler, I'a., (or G. A. R. Suits, buttons
and caps. (Jents Suits $8.50 and up,
Pants 50cts and up, Boys Suits $1 50
and up, Shirts 50c. and up, Hats 10c.
and up, Shoes 50c. and up,and furnish
iug goods at bottom prices.
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