VOL. XXI. A. TEOUTMAN & SON, BUTLER, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RCOS, ETC. We have just received and placed on sale onr Spring Stock of Carpets in all grades and descriptions, from the Lowest Prices to the Best Quality We Especially Invite you to call and Examine Stock and Prices. EMBR OIDERIES Just opened a Splendid Stock ot all kinds and styles of Em broideries in Swiss Nainsook 'and Hamburg and Inserting to match, and we are offering the whole lot at astonishing LOW PRICES. New White Qocds of all Descriptions. UCt cumins, UCE PILLOW SHIMS, Lace Bed Spreads, Muslin Underwear, Skirts, Night Dresses, Chemises, Drawers, Infants' Robes. Our inducements.—We vo Largest Stcck and guarantee you th LOWEST PR ICES. TROUTMAN & SON, MAI* HTBIiET, BUTTER, FA. H. Schneidem Trading fjlothier IN BUTLER, PA., CiRBIES Id! IMGIST STOCK Of IMS', THUS' IID BOTS' CUIUS 111 THE COBIT). Call and examine our Goods and Prices, and if we cannot do better with you in both respects, we will not ask your patronage. Goods guaranteed, and if not satisfactory money will be refunded on return of goods. LARGEST STOCK, LATEST STYLES, LOWEST PKICES. Headquar's for G. A.R. Suits, Suits with Gilt Buttons, $9.50 worth $11.00; $10.50 worth sl2. ALL-WOOL GUARANTEED COLORS, All-wool Sack Suite $7.50, worth SIO.OO. Mens' Good Working Suits $3.50. Jean Pants 90 cts, worth $1.20. We have the best Over-alls in the market 75 cts., sold elsewhere at 90 cts., guaranteed not to rip. We are the Exclusive Agent for Warner Bros., Celebated Clothing. First Class in Every Respect. A LARCiE LIKE OF TRUXKN, VALINEB.AND ALNOA FULL KTOCK OF UEXTK' CiOOUN. 3?. B.—Clothing Made to Order- H. SCHNEIDEMAN, ATationnl Bank Untitling, Butler, Pa. ' JAMES J. RHEINLANDKR, Machinist. I have oecured CUTIIBERT'B MACHINE SHOP and t- CJ 1a « n Machinery I am now prpae <1 to do all repairing in the Machinery line. ENGINES, THKEBIIEIW, HAWMILLB, MOW KICK, lIOKSE POWERS, and all Agricul tural Machinery repaired. O Mote to Farmer*:—l have Patterns of all kinds of Thresers and Horse Powers. Casing and all sizes of pipes cut to order. Steam connections and fittings made. CAR WHEELS, AXLES, AND COAL DRILLS for Mining purpose* made to order. Special attention given to repairing OIL ENGINES. ISLACKHMITIIING AND FOUGINO piomptly attended to (,'at-h paid forWUADOIIT UHASH ami COPPER SCRAPS. All work Hatinfactorily guaranteed. Worlcw on South Hide of P. &W. R. It., near Camp bell'* Foundry, Butler, Penn'a. JAS. J. RHEINLANDER. BUY YOUR CLOTHING, Hats, Caps, Gents' Furnishing Goods, BOOTS AIM) SHOES, At tho New Store of JOHN T. KELLY, Jefterwon HI., Fast« f Lowry Houwe, ltutler, I*a. CHRIS. STOCK, Dealer in STOVES, TIN-WARE AND GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, Agent for Bradlej'n well-known Sloven, KatigeH und Heaters. Ko ifing, Hpoutlng and repair ing done on hhort notice. Store on Main St., corner ol North. Sign of Lurge Collee hot. nov 2»:08-Iy. If and If. "If yon are suffering from poor •health or languishing ou a tied of eick 'neee, take cheer, if you are (-Imply *il •ing, or II you feel weak and dlspiiited, 'without clearly knowing why, Hop •Bitter 6 will surely cure you." "It you are a minister, anil have overtaxed •vourfell with your pastoral duties, or a Mother 'worn out with care and work, or a man ol bus iness or laborer weakened by the strain of your every day duties, or a inau of letters toiling over your midnight work, Hop bitters will surely strengthen you." '•JI you are suflering 'from over-eating or 'drinking, any iudes 'crclion or dissipation, •or are young and 'growing too last, as 'is often the case." "Or if you are in the workshop, on 'the tarrn, at the desk, anywhere, and 'feel that your system needs cleansing, 'toning or stimulating, without intoxi 'cating, il yen are old, blood thin and 'impure, pulse leeble, nerves unsteady 'faculties waning, Hop Hitters is what 'you need to give you new lite, health 'and vigor." II you are costive or dyspeptic, or suffering trom any other of the numer ous diseases of the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault it hou are ill. It you are wasting away with any form ol Kidney disease, stop tempting death this moment, aud turn f«r a cure to Hop Bitters. If you are sick with that" terrible sickness Nervousness, you will iind a 'balm inGilead' in Hop bitters. If you are a Irtquenter, or a resident ol a Miasmatic district, barricade your system against the scourge ol all coun tries—malaria, epidemic, bilious and intermittent fevers—by the use ol Hop bitters. II you have rough, pimply or sallow skin, bad breath, Hop Bitters will give you fair skin, rich blood, the sweetest breath, and health. SSOO will be paid lor a cue they.will not cure or help. That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother, or daughter, can be made the picture of health by a lew bottles of Hop bitters, cost ing but a trifle. In The Pilot House. "Yes, sir; this kind of work obliges a man to keep sober as a judge, Of all men in the world, steamboat pilo's and railroad engineers should let liquor alone. For on their clear ness of sight and coolness of head depends the safety of life and property." Keeping his hav*d on the wheel as he said this, Mr. A. Brockman, of No. 2'Ji Silver street, Chscago, added : "Of course some of'em drink, but the sober ones have tha best positions ana the best pay. Yes, the work and exposure sometimes tells on us; but for my part I find PAKKEK'S TOXIC to be all the inyigorator I need. I've got a bottle aboard here now; never go on a trip without it. When I havn't any appetite, or am in any out sorts.it sets me up in no time. If drinking men would use the Tonic it would help 'eru to break off. (No, that isn't a light house; it's a star low down near the wa ter.) As I was saying, the bottle is a new life bottled up. You see that flag-staff? Well, with a bottle of Parker's Tonic in the locker 1 csn keep malaria as far from me as that, all the time. My wife has used it for three years for summer complaints and colic, anil as an invig orant, when she's tired out from overwork. ■She says the tonic is a daisy. Good-bye ! Don't break your neck going below." This preparation, which has been known as PAHKKKS GINGEE TONIC, will hereafter be ad vertised and sold simply under the name of PA KKEU.S Tonic, As unprincipled dealers are constantly deceiving their customers by substi futing inferior articles under the name of gin ger, and as ginger is really an unim|>ortant in gredient, we drop the misleading word. There is no change, however, m tin- preparation ltsvlf, and all bottles remaining In the hands of dealers, wrapped under the name of "Parkers (#lnger TOIIIC" contain the genuine medicine if the facsimile signature of HIHCOX & Co. Ls at the bottom of the outside wrapper. * TUTT'S PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER 18 THE BANE of the present generation. It !■ for the Cure of this disease and" its attendants, BICK-HEADACHE,_ BILIODBKEBB. DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc , that rtrft'S PILLS have gained a world-wide No Remedy has ever been discovered that acts no gently on the dhteirtlTe organs, giving them vigor to a»- ■Tmilite"foocT Aa a natural result, tha Kervoua System is Braced, j|Ee Muscles are Developed, and the Body Hobust. Chills and Fovor. E RIVAL, » Planter at B»you Ham. L»., nay* : My pl»ntaUon la in n. malarial district, Pot several yearn I could not make half a crop on account of bllloua dleeaeea and chllla. I waa nearly dlacouraged when I began the use of TOTT'B PILLB. The result was marvelous my laborers soon became hearty and robust. «nii l have bad no further trouble. They rrllnr Ike engorged Uv«r, cleanse Ike Blood front poisonous human, and cause the bowels to art naturally, with out whlrh no one eaa feel well. Try this remedy flalrly, and you will gain a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Bod v. Pure Blood. Mtrong Kerres, and a Mound tl»»r. Priee.«a Cents- omee, »S Hurray at-, U.K. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. OKAY ITAIB or WNISKRAS changed toaOuissr BLACK by a single application of this IJY K. It imparts a natural color,and acts ln*taiiUin<-ously. Hold by Druggists, or sent by express ou receipt of One Dollar. Office, Sn Murray Street, New York. (t»r. TVTTH XI AI. of I'aluablav Information and Vmrfu l KcMlplt I teiif fce mailed *UI on ajmlleaMos./ Is the wonder of the world. It has cured many cases of Consumption when all other utter ly failed. K.J in Chronic Itliemna tlsm. In this dlseosJnnTiui never ran* In a solitary case. In SerofnlajWheth erof the fli-sh, glands an un failing cure, as can bo seen on inside of front lid of " Ills of Life," a book fur nished gratis to all who ajiply forlt. For Female Wmknfw tbum never was a remedy like It, curiiiK every case alter everything else had failed. Hack. freoMcnt .tllrhuranon, 3C f'rimrrliT7*niirilliidder,TlTeet S nts.- ..f J.; Uy»n.. n..j fid aud cverr other Illsenseof the ft,IPEniTKrA. It Is the foe of pain, and brlnirs jicaco to the suirer'T. (ror a book on the " Ills of 1.1fe," a«k vonr nearest UriiKxlst, or ad dressS. 11. liartmanA Co., < 'ol uiubus, O. They will seud you one gratis.) PrleeSl.oo per Buttle. Ml* Bottles <a.OO. Hold by nil Druggists. No. 1. BALM WtftAM BWI Causes no Pain. ■ ( ji VCH Relief at once. Thorough Treatment will with Finger. Give it u Trial. s I •" , '" ,s :i1 druggists. HAY-FEVER ered. Send for clrcu ELY BROTHERS, l>rug«lsts, Owego, N. V BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1884 CARTER'S EXECUTION. Singing and Praying on the Scaf fold. From Pittsburgh Corn-Gazette, June 4.] The execution of Jesse Carter yes" terday in the jail yard was most im pressive. He died protesting his inno cence of complicity in the murder of John Foster, aud demonstrating entire confidence in his acceptance to Al mighty God as a Christian. His last night in jail he spent very restlessly, writing letters until midnight and toss ing about in bed the balance of the night. He arose at 7 o clock in the morning and ate a substantial break fast. Rev. Lewis was with him most of the morning praying and singing with him, and during these services his legal counsel, Messrs. Davis and Hunter, were also present. By Car ter's own request none of his relatives were permitted to see him. He dreaded the parting with them. BIDDING HIS FAEEWEI-L. In the jail yard there were not more than twenty spectators, outside of the doctors, officials and reporters. With out the walls Ross street was throng ed with a motley crowd of people. Sheriff McCallin, with a bevy of depu ties, brought the condemned man out at 10:35 o'clock A. M. For a mo ment Carter stood at the foot of the scaffold gulping in the free air from which he had so long been kept, aud gazing on the clear sky. Then, accom panied by Rev. Mr. Lewis, he ascend ed the stairs firmly. He had previously asked permission to sing and pray on the scaffold, and he was told that his wish should be com plied with. After he had taken his position he repeated his assertion of his innocence. "If not afraid to die," he continued, "but it is hard to think of being brought here when innocent. I hope the good God will forgive those who brought me here as I do now." His voice was tremulous while giving utterance to these remarks, but when he commenced to sing "Farewell to the World" it grew full and strong, and he seemed to throw his full force iuto it. He then delivered an earnest prayer, committing his soul to God, expressing hope in the glorious immortality and earnestly invoking blessings for the Sheriff, who had an unpleasant duty to perform, and for bis counsel for their untiring efforts in his behalf. He clos ed by pleading that his soul be receiv ed into heaven. He then bade good bye to those on the scaffold, bowed to those present, and then whispered to the Sheriff that he was ready. THE EXECUTION. The white cap was drawn over his head, and he seemed to nerve himself, but not a quiver was perceptible. At two minutes before 11 the drop fell. At the end ot one minute the pulse show ed 64 beats; at two minutes, 75; at three 69, and before the end of the sixth minute it was imperceptible. At the end of six and one-half minutes the medical staff, pronounced life extinct. It was supposed that the neck was broken, and the death was not attend ed with any unusual muscular convuls ions. HIS STATEMENT. During the morning Carter dictated the following to his counsel: "Sol C'oulson offered me money if I would swear that George Jones shot Foster. Everybody at that time said that 'Babe' Jones did the shooting. Coulson further told me that I could go free and he even went so far as to get George Waters to come into the lockup with a bottle of gin and black berry to see if he could make me drink. I threw the bottle against the cell aud broke it. I would not say it because I never saw it. Sol Coulson said to me: 'Jesse, if you do not say it I'll lay this murder to you.' I uttered an oath and he got mad at me. 1 had told him that John Foster and I were good friends, and we were. I had asked to see Fos ter and he would not let me. This was after I was locked up. As 1 under stood it, John Hughes add I were com mitted to jail in order to hold us as witnesses against Jones. Mayor Lyon came to the lockup where I was and asked me my name, where I lived and where I worked. I told him that I lived ou Tunnel street, worked in the Keystone iron works and was going to work on the following Monday morn ing. The Mayor then said we can let Carter go, we can find him whenever we want him. Sol Coulson then call ed the Mayor aside and I overheard him say, 'we had better keep Carter, he knows a good deal about these negroes, and I will get it out of him.' I then said I know no more than I have told you, aud 1 then and there told the Mayor I waa present with Jones when the revolver was purchased, but that I did not know who shot Foster until Foster himself told me that Jones did it. J ESSE HENRY CARTER. ( REV. A. LEWIS, Attest— 'T. 11. DAVIS, (.I. P. HUNTER. The following letter, spelling correct ed, was also written by him to his lawyers. PITTSBURGH JAIL, June 2, 1884. T. 11. Davis and J. I' Hunter, Esqs.. Sins—l, knowing this to be my last night upon earth have 1 his to say, wl.ich are my dying words: I am inno cent, and although I am to die, I feel sure lam going home to Heaven. I ask you to please follow me, not to the scaffold, but to meet me in Heaven. In my statements to you I have told you the truth. I always said I was with Joues when he bought the revol ver, but did not know what he bought it for. I doa't believe Jones told any body I knew he was going to shoot my friend ; oh, no, 1 can't believe it. So farewell, both ol you meet me in Heaven. They took the advantage of both you and 1, but I forgive all. and will you write a letter to my friends for me ? Good-bye. I being yours in memory of JESSE 11 ENKY CARTER. Carter wrote a similar letter to Rev Mr. Davis, advising young people to beware of bad company. Mr. Davis implicity believes in Carter's inno cence. THE FUNERAL. Shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a hearse and single carriage drew up before the door of the Univer sity building in the midst of the dust and debris caused by the removal of the old Court House and the blocks of buildings near by. A few idlers lounged about the door. Directly after ward three deputy sheriffs and an un dertaker issued from the building carry ing a plainly painted coffin. As they hoisted their burden into the hearse a whirlwind ol dust swept up the street and for a moment enveloped the little crowd, causing them to bow their heads and hold their hats. The doors of the hearse were hastily closed and the deputies entered the carriage. They had not driven a dozen yards when the hearse door fell open. The driver dismonuted on hearing the shouts of the bystanders, closed the doors and then drove after the carriage to Uniondale Cemetery. Such was the funeral of Jesse Carter. An Ancient Camel Story. Abou Ben Eli M'Guffin, being full of years, died, leaving his three sons his seventeen camels for the simple reason that he could not take them along with him. The will, duly at tested, said the eldest was to have one half, the second soc one-third and the youngest one-ninth of the seventeen camels. The boys were a little per plexed at this as it seemed to involve the cutting up of a camel, and camels were worth $3 a day on the Sahara that season. But the boys, if not first-class mathematicians, had level heads and did not go to law to prove the old man insane, but went instead to the good old Cadi Hassan O'Dono hue, who had taken a medal in mathe matics at Ann Arbor. "Boys," said the good Cadi re proachfully, "you should not bother me with these little matters. Ask me a harder one." But seeing they were troubled the benevolent old man asked the hostler to trot out his own dilapidated camel, which had seen its best days travel ing with Barnum as the Sacred Gnu of Persia. Placing the aged brute with the seventeen camels the boys had brought along, he said: ' There are eighteen camels. I shall now give you half of eighteen which is nLne. How does that strike you?" "It hits me where I live," said the eldest, who was slangy, but withall pleased at getting half of eighteen rather than half of seventeen. "The next boy shall have one-third of eighteen which is six. Are you there Moriarity?" "You bet," said the boy. "The next will have one-ninth of eighteen which is two," and so the third youngster collared two camels. Thus two and six and nine made sev enteen and still was - the good Cadi's aged animal left unscathed. The peo ple marveled, as the Cadi had given each more than the will called for, which is rather unusual in courts of law. And they said one to another, "that's what it is to be good at fig ures." Pennsylvania Wheat Cf*op PHILADELPHIA, PA , June 3.—Sec retary Edge, of the Board of Agricul ture, has just received and tabulated the official crop reports of his 450 State reporters up to June 1. If present in dications are taken as a guide the counties of Beaver, Elk, Franklin, Jef ferson, Luzerne, Monroe, Northamp ton, Philadelphia, Snyder, Susque hanna and Westmoreland may be de pended upon for a crop equal to that of last year, while Adams, Allegheny, Bedford, Butler, Cambria, Centre, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Cumber land, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, Fulton, Forest, Huntingdon, Indiana, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Mercer, Miffiin, Montgomery. Montour, North umberland, Perry, Pike, Somerset, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Wayne aud York will increase the coming crop over that of last year var rying from 1 per cent, in Adams, Cam bria, Somerset and Warren toll per cent, in Allegheny and Venango. The greatest falling off, when compared with the crop of 1883, is in Washing ton, where the average estimate of all the reports indicates a possible defi ciency of 20 per c«int. In acreage Adams, Bedford, Berks, Centre, Ches ter, Clinton, Fulton, Monroe, Susque hanna, Union and Westmoreland re port a falling off, varying from 2 per cent, in Crawford, Dauphin, Greene and Potter to 11 per cent, in Luzerne. With these estimates as a basis, and and making no allowance for possible damage done bv the recent cold snap, it is estimated that the wheat crop of 1884 will reach 223,500,000. Western estimates place the wheat crop of our State at 25,000,000 bushels, but since the results of the local re porters have come these estimates have been reduced to a point which more nearly corresponds with that of our State Department. —The following epigram was writ ten on a Mr. Wellwool, who was much given to exaggeration: "You double each story you tell, You doublu each Might that you see; Your name's double u e double 1, Double u double o d.'t —A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper wants to know if there is more than one religious denomination that believes in feet washing. It is sincere ly to bo hoped that there is. —Well-drained land can be plough ed and planted much earlier than un drained. The moral is obvious. Rich phosphate beds have been recently discovered in Autauga county, Ala., and in some other portions of the State. Millions in Petroleum. There are 50,000 producing wells in Pennsylvania, yielding at present 60,- 000 barrels of oil a day. It requires 2,000 miles of pipe line and 1,600 iron tanks ot an average capacity of 25,000 each to transport and store the surplus stocks. There are now nearly 38,000,- 000 barrels of oil stored in the oil re gion tanks. This oil would make a lake more than one mile square and 10 feet deep. The money actually in vested in petroleum production since 1860 is estimated to be more than $450,000,000, of which 200,000,000 was capital from New York city. Since 1880 more than $12,000,000 has been used in building iron tanks, and nearly as much in pipe lines, all of one incorporation. The tanks cost on an average SB,OOO each. A 35,000-barrel tank is 110 feet in diameter and 28 feet high. There is a lateral pressure of 6,000 pounds on each square inch of a tank this size when full of oil. There is 1000 tons of iron used in construct ing one. The speculative transactions in pe troleum represents more than $400,000,- 000 annually. The lowest price petro leum ever bought was 10 cents per barrel, in 1861. In 1859, there was only one well in existence, Col. Drake's Pioneer at Titusville, the price was $24 a barrel. Besides the 5,000 miles of pipe line used in the oil regions, there are in operation 1,200 miles of pipe lines connecting the region with Cleve land, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and New York, and lines building to Philadel phia and Baltimore. In the line be tween Olean and New York 16,000 barrels are transported daily. These ljnes are all the property of the Stand ard Oil Company, except one between Bradford and Williamsport, Pa. The Standard employs 100,000 men. The product of its refineries require the making of 25,000 oak barrels of 40 gal lons each, and 100,000 tin cans holding 5 gallons each, every day. The first American petroleum ever exported was in 1892. Charles Lockhart, of Pitts burgh, sent nearly 500,000 to Europe that year and sold it for $2,000 less than cost of transportation. In 1883 □early 400,000,000 gallons were export ed for which $60,000,000 returned to this country.— N. Y. Sun. How Bees Make a Queen. St. Nicholas is one of our best pub lications for boys and girls. It brings them much information in pleasant guise, winning, as it were, the storing of the mind with useful knowledge and scientific facta. The June number is especially good in this respect. One common and curious fact, how bees make a queen, is thus detailed: Bees do not usually want more than one queen. In fact they will not haye more than one unless the swarm has grown so large as to crowd the hive and they are going to found a colony, or "swarm," as it is called; in which case each family will need a soveriegn. As soon as it is clear to the wiseacres that it will be necessary to send off a swarm, the bees go to work to make a queen. A worker maggot, or if there happens to be none in the hive, a worker egg, is selected near the edge of the comb. Two cells next door to the one in which this maggot is are cleared out, and the dividing walls are cut down, so that three ordinary cells are turned into one. The food which the worker worm has been feeding on is removed, and the little creature is supplied with a new kind of food—a royal jelly. Change of food, a larger room, and a different position—the queen's cell hung down instead of being horizontal—these three changes of treatment turn the bee that is devel oping from a worker into a queen. She is different in her outer shape, dif ferent in almost all her organs, and different in every single instinct. There is nothing else in all nature that seems to me more wonderful than this. For fear that one queen may not come out all right the provident little creatures usually start two or three cells at once. It is curious to watch the first queen as she comes out. She moves up aud down the combs, look ing for other queen cells, and if she finds one, she falls upon it in the greatest excitement and stings her rival to death. Sometimes, by acci dent, two new queens come out at the same time; then it is wonderful to see th'j bees. They clear a space and bring the two rival bees together, aud then stand back to watch the fight, and It is a royal fight indeed; a fight to the death, for they never give up till one or the other is fatally stung. The victor is theu accepted as sover An Oce;in Race. A very interesting race between three great ocean steamers ended at Sandy Hook a few days since, without disaster. The Austral and the Arizo na left Queenstown on the 18th, ult., Sunday, at 9 o'clock in the morning. The Aurania left at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. The Ari zona arrived at the bar a little over an hour ahead of the Austral, aud the Aurania came in a little later, beating both of them in the matter of time. While the managers of the great competing lines of transatlantic travel will be quick to depreciate the idea the vessels were racing, it is not possi ble to disguise the fact that such was tht! case. It was an open secret that there was to lie a race, and such con tests, in one shape or another, are in separable from the keen conception which has been brought about by the performances of the Oregon and Alas ka. is a Well Known Fact! In the Diamond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known Dyes, aud they give faster and more brilliant col ors. 10c. at druggists. They are a great success. Wells, Richardson Si Co., Burlington, Vt. —The cow is the foster mother of the family. See that she is kiudly treated and well fed Hydrophobia Cures. M. Louis Pasteur, tbe celebrated French chemist, claims to have discov ered a complete cure, antidote, for hy drophobia. To a Figaro correspon dent he said; "Cauterization of the wound immediately after the bite as is well known, has been more orjless ef fective, but from to-day anybody bitten subsequently by any number of mad dogs. "I have been devoting the last four years to this subject, and have found that the virus loses its intensity by transmission to other animals. With the rabbit, for instance, the virus in creases, with the monkey it decreases. I took the virus direct from the brain of a dog that had died Irom acute hy drophobia, and with this virus inocu lated a monkey, which died. Then with the virus, already weakened in intensity, taken from this monkey, I inoculated a second monkey. Thus with the virus taken from the second monkey I inoculated a third monkey, and so on until I obtained a virus so weak as to be almost harmless. "Then, with ibis almost harmless virus I inoculated a rabbit, the virus being at once increased in intensity. Then with the virus from the first rab bit I inoculated the second rabbit, and and there was another increase in the intensity of the virus. Then with the virus of the second rabbit I inoculated a third rabbit, then a fourth, until the virus had obtained its maximum inten sity. Thus I obtained virus of differ ent degrees of powed. I then took a dog and inoculated him first with the weakest virus from the rabbit, then with the virus from the second rabbit, then with the virus from the third rab bit, and finally with the rabbit virus of maximum intensity. "After a few days more I inoculated the doe with virus, taken directly from the brain of a dog that bad just died of acute madness. The dog upon which I had experimented proved completely insusceptible to hydrophobia. The ex periment was frequently repeated, al ways with the same successful result. But my discovery does not end here. I took two dogs and inoculated them with virus taken directly from a dog that had died of acute hydrophobia. I let one of my two dogs thus inoculated alone, and he went mad and died of acute hydrophobia. I subjected the second dog to my treatment, giving bim the three rabbit inoculations, be gining with the weakest and ending with the strongest. This second dog was completely cured, or rather, be came completely insusceptible to hy drophobia. The Liquor Question. In the Republican National Con vention at Chicago, June 3, 1884, the following memorial from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, was pre sented by Mr. Donan: THE MEMORIAL REAL). The secretary read the) memorial as follows : 'To the National Convention of the Republican party: We, members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Un ion of the States herein represented by the signatures of our officers, believe that, wbile the poisoy habits of the Na tion can be largely restrained by an appeal to the intellect through argu ment, to the heart through sympathy, and to the conscience through the mo tives of religion, the traffic in these poisons will be best controlled by a prohibitory law. We believe the teachings of science and the golden rule combine to testify against the traffic in alcoholic liquors as a drink,the homes of America, which are the citadels of patriotism, purity and happiness, have no enemy so reckless as the American saloon. Therefore as citizens of the United States, irrespective of sect or section, but having at heart the protec tion of our homes we do hereby respect fully and earnestly petition you to ad vocate and to adopt such measures as are requisite to the end that prohibition of the importion, exportation, manufac ture and sale of alcoholic beverages may become an integral part of the National Constitution, and that your party candidates shall be by character and public pledge committed to a Na tional prohibitory constitutional amendment. (Signed.) Franoes E. Willarm, Carolina A. Buell, Corresponding Secretary Mary A. Wooijbridge, Recording Secretary L. M. N Stevens, Assistant Secretary. Esther J'uuii, Treasurer. The petition was referred to the Committee on Rules. —A poet sends a contribution enti tled "Why do I Live?" This is easy to uuswer. it is because he sends his contributions to this office instead of bringing them in person. —An Irishman put up the following notice: "Whoever is caught trespassing upon those grounds will bo given forty lashes on the bare back. Ilalf the pen alty will be paid to the informer." —When sowing small seed care should be taken not to plant them too deep, the smallest seeds need simply to be covered, and the soil pressed down on them to exclude the light. —New decorative wall papers simu late to perfection bronze, brass, old and black silver, old gold and tinted metals, while the designs for friezes, dados and decorations are made up of a mixture, conventionalized and realis tic forms in high and low relief, in the style of the best repousse and carved work. —When a Piute doctor loses three successive cases, tho Indians kills him and elect another medicine man in his stead. This accounts for tho fact that all the Indian doctors have de serted their tribes and gone to doctor ing the white race. It doesn't make any difference among civilized people whether the doctor kills or cures. The Goose Hangs High. In Hung-ary this wretch was hung, and ou the gallows (bund ; for in saloon* when he was young, he would always hang around. Ami when he lear- ned, alas, to love the intox * * icat ing cup, upon the slate * O C* * which hung a * i * bove he'd al * = * ways hang it * * * up. He got I | the hang of swearing, too. Gosh,h'ng it, he would say and hang his cap up eyeing you in quite a hang dog way. A hang er-on, he grew to be. His hand kerchief was red, and if you met him you would see him try to hang his head. One night this hungry, hun gry wretch his gra ndiuother did slay, because she did not run to fetch his din- ner right 'if away. Insan 5 ity an d self-de fence in vain his law .yer pi ead, for when was iu the evi dence, his li l'e hung by a thread. Thus he who took a drop too much in life, tooK 1 in death which was so fiery that its touch just took away his breath. May all the wicked men who kill, and to the next world go, find that a hangman with his 'skill gives them their necks twirled low —Pud. ' Farm Notes. —Some one recommends roasting corn before leeding it to the hens, as a means of promoting egg-laying. —Colts should have a good sized yard to exercise in, which ought to be dry, so that they will not fill the hair of the fetlock and pastern with mud, which must be well cleaned if this oc cur. —The planting of the low lands near the Garonne with forest trees is estimated to have added $200,000,000 to the wealth of France, and a tract of country formerly unhealthy and nearly barren has in thirty years become pop ulous, prosperous and active. —Early matured beef is becoming more and more popular every year. So says the National Live-Stock Journal, adding to it the prediction that "three and four-year-old cattle will seldom be seen in the market ten years from now, unless from tbe unfenced range." The American Cultivator recom mends farmers to sow a patch of par snips that being one of the root crops for feeding to milch cows, and one that can be wintered in the field, and taken out in the early spring when other roots have been used up or have de teriorated from long keeping. A nalysis of the twigs of both heal thy peach trees and those affected by the disease commonly known as the "yellows" shows a decided lack of ash ingredients in the diseased twigs, par ticularly of potash and' lime- If this be 80, the peach tree should bo well supplied with these fertilizers. —On the vexed question whether large or small potatoes are best for seed a Maine correspondent of the New- England Farmer says that while he does not deny that good crops have many times been raised from small seed, his own experience shows that the continued use of such seed will in variably result in utter failure. —Sheep droppings, compressed into solid cakes about two inches thick, are now prepared for florists' use. it is claimed that while it promotes growth in a extraordinary degree, it will not injure plants, even if used immoderate ly, and that the liquid does not form crusts and shelter fot insects on the surface of the pots. A bag of 100 pounds is $3, and the same in powder $3.50. —lt ia said that half a teaspoon ful of common table salt dissolved in a little cold water and drank will instant ly relieve heartbutn or dyspepsia. If taken every morning before breakfast, encreasing the quantity gradually to a teaspoonful of salt to a tumbler of water, it will in a few days cure an ordinary case of dyspepsia, if at the the same time due attention is paid to the diet. This is certainly a simple remedy, and easily tried. Rosser Gets Even with Custer. (Jen. Tom Rosser was a gallant Con federate soldier. I saw him the other day in the Girard House. Years and his work on the Northern Pacific rail road have told upon. He looks much older than he did when he left the Southern States poor to become an en gineer for Jay Cooke. Rosser was rather a picturesque character as a leader of a division of rebel cavalry. In a great degree ho resembled Custer, whose classmate be was at West I'oint. Once at Huckland Mills, in Virginia, as he was driven out, he left a message with some ladies at a farm bouse for the gallant leader who died on the Hig Horn. I tread: "You have disturbed me at break fast. I owe you one, and I'll get even with you." He was as good as his word. He allowed Custer to cross the creek, then swooped down upon him while his command was brewing coffee. It took Custer twenty-four hours to gather his soldiers after this dash. Rosser has made money and has a fine position.— Philadelphia Prexn. —A Connecticut man says that ground bono has boon found to l»« an excellent fertilizer for the grass croy. Worked into the soil with the harrow at the time of seeding down, its good effects are seen for yearn. It IM espec ially valuable on rotten, wet or heavy lands, and in seeding down old pas tures. Learn a trade young man. It will give you a solid foundation on which to begin ilfe. You may as well attempt to erect a house on sandy soil without foundation as to build a career without somo practical knowledge. It is a fact that there are nearly as many young men in the penitentiaries of this country learning trades as there are outside of them. NO. 30
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