VOL. xxr. "A. TROUTMAN & SON, ] BUTLER, I>Y. DEALER IS DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, ETC. "We have just received and placed on sale our Spring Stock of Carpets in ; all grades and descriptions, from the Lowest I'rices to the Best Quality We Especially Invite yon to call and E*nmineStoek and I'rice*. EMBROIDERIES Just opened, a Splendid Stock ot all kinds and styles of Embroideries in Swiss Nainsook and Hamburg and Inserting to match, and we are offering the whole lot at astonishing LOW PRICES. Hsw White Goods of all Descriptions. UC! WHIMS, lltt PILLOW SHWS, Lace Bed Spreads Muslin Underwear, Skirts, Night Dresses, Chemises, Drawers, Infants Robes. Our inducements—We vo Ltrgest Stcck ond guarantee you th LOWEST v KICKS. TROUTMAN & SON, 91AIX STKKBT, liL'TLEK, I*A. //. Schneideman, The Leading fjlotliier —-iisr KUTLEII, PA., CHOILS THL liRSEST STOCK OF MENS', TOOTHS' mo BOW wilts 10 it: comm. 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 PRICES. Headquar's for G. A.R. Suits, Suits with Buttons, $0.50 worth Si 1.0(1; worth sl2. ALL-WOOL GUARANTEED COLORS, All-wool Sack Suits s7."io, worth SIO.OO. Mens' Good Working Suits $1.50. Jean Pants 00 cts, worth $1.20. We have the Over-alls in the market 7"> cts., sold elsewhere at 00 cts., guaranteed not to rip. We are the Exclusive Agent for Warner Bros., Celebated Clothing. First Class in Every Respect. A URGE 1,1 XE OF TIUI.MiS, VAI.ISKS, AXD ALSO A FUIL STOCK OF CiEXTS' Il ItMHULMi WOODS. I^-H.—CJlotliing JVlside to Order- H. SCHNEIDEMAN, Xaiioiial Hank liuilriliig, Itiitlcr, l*u. JAMES J. RHEINLANDER, Machinist. I have secured CUTHBKRT'S MACHINE SHOP and IT irst- Ola M a c li i 11 e r y I am now prpae <1 to do all repairing in the Machinery line. ENGINES, THRESH ICRS, SAWMILLS, MOWEIJS, HORSE POWERS, and all Agricul tural Machinery repaired. o IVole lo Farmers;—l have Patterns of all kinds of Thrcscrs anJ Horse Powers. Casing and all sizes of pipes cut to order. Steam connections and fittings made. CAR WHEELS, AXLES, AND COAL DRILLS for Mining purposes made to order. Special attention given to repairing oi TJ e isr c; iisre y. RLVCKSMITIIINO AND FORGING p»omptly attended to Cash paid forWRAUGHT liRASS and COPPER SCRAPS. All work satisfactorily guaranteed. Works on South side of P. &W. R. R., near Camp bell's >undry, liutler, Pcnn'a. JAS. J. RHEINLANDER. BUY YOUR CLOTHING, Hats, Caps, Gents' Furnishing Goods, BOOTS A> I > SIIOI2S, At thi: New Store oi JOHN T. KELLY, Jefferson St., Fast « I Luwry Houses ISuller, I*a. CHRIS. STOCK, Dealer in STOVES, TIN-WARE ANDGENERAL HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, Agent for Bradley's well-known Stoves, Ranges and Heaters. Ho >lii s, spouting and repair ing'done on short notice. Store on Main St., comer of North. SIL'H of I.atge Collce Pot. uov.'JiS'B:i-ly. Half Out cf His Heal 'Blessed in- tin' man," said Don Quixote's weary Mjuirc, "who invented sleep." Saneho's gratitude is«uirs. but what if one cannot for any reason enjoy that excellent invention? "Nervousness innie had becoineadisca.se," \. rites Mr William Coleman the well known wholesaledruggist of IlutTalo,N. V. "I I'ouhl not sleep, and my niglits were either passed in that sort of restlessness which nearly crazed, or in a kind of stupor, haunted by torment ing dreams. Having taken I'arker's Tonic for other troubles, and tried it also for this. The re sult both surprised and delighted me. My nerves w ere toned to concert pitch, and. likeC;esar'> fat men, 1 fell into the ranks of those who sleep o'nights. 1 should add that the tonic speedily did nwav with the condition of general debility ;md dyspepsia occasioned by my prertous sloepiesß lM—and gave me strength and perfect digestion. In brief, tin* use of the tonic thoroughly re-estab lish* il my health. I have used I'arkei 's Tonic \\ith entire success fi»rs«*;i sickness and for the bowel disorders incident to ocean voyages." This preparation has heretofore been known as Parker's (Jinger Tonic. Hereafter it will be ad vertised and sold'under tiie name of Barker's Tonic- omitting the word "Ginger" Hiscox & Co. are induced to make this change by the action of nnpiiucipled dealers who have for years deceived their customers by substituting inferior prepara tions under the name of ginger. We drop the misleading word ail the more willingly, as ginger is an unimportant flavoring ingredient in our Ton- Itense remember that no change lias been made ir will be made in the preparation itself, md all liottles remaining in the hands of lealers. wra|>i>ed under lite name of "l'arkers iiinrer Tome" contain the genuine medicine if he facsimile signature of Hiscox & Co. is at the lottoni of the outside wrapper. Loss and Gain. CHAI'TER_ I. l l wait taken sick a year ago with bilious fever.", "My doctor pronounced me cured, but I got sick again, with terrible pains iu my back and sides, and 1 got so bad I Could not move! I shrunk! From ! lbs. to 120! I bad been doctoring lor my liver, but it did me no good. I did not expect to live more than three months. I be gan to use Hop Bitters. Directly my appetite returned, my pains lclt me, my entile system seemed renewed as if bv magic, and alter using several bottles I am not only as sound as a sovereign but weigh more than I did bclbre. To Hop Bitters I owe my lile." Dublin, June 0, T Bl. R. FITZI'ATHICK. CHAPTER 11. "Maiden, Mass , Feb. 1,1883. (ientlen-cii— I sullered with attacks of sick headache." Neuralgia, female trouble, for jears iu the most terrible and excruliallng manner. No medicine or doctor could give me relief or cure untii 1 used Hop Bitters. "The first bottle Nearly cured me;" The &econd made me as well and strong as when a child, "And I have been so to this day." My husband was au invalid lor twenty years with a serious •'Kidney, liver and urinary ccmpl&int. "Pronounced by Boston's best physicians— "lncurable!" Seven bottles of your bitters cured him and I know of the •'Lives of eight persons" In my neighborhood that have been saved by your bitteis, And many more are tisiug them with [great benefit. "They almost Do miracles?" . MRS. E. D. SLACK. flow TO (IET SICK —Expose yourself day and night: eat too much without exercise; woik too hard without rest; doctor all the time: take all the vile nostrums advertised, and then you will want to know bow to get well, which is answered in three words—Take Hop Bittcre! When every other remedy has failed thero is hope In Pernna. Thousands are now ia the enjoyment of perfect health from its use who had been given up hopelessly to orous plaster in | B j absolutely the heat ever H Jf* made, combining tho j m m , . virtues of hops with D I A C fl ET D (Turns, balsams and ex- ■ ■ *■ lm tracts. Its power in wonderful in curing di*ea.scß where other planters simply relieve. Crick in tho Hack and N. rk, I'aln in tho Si.le or Limbs, Stiff Joints and Muscluf, Kidrn y Troubles, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, 8«»ro Chest, Auctions of tho Heart and Liver, and all jtains or aches in any part cured instantly by the J/op Plaster, t v Try ■ ja mm ■— it. Price 25 cents or live for SIOO. 5 JA iwl E. Mailed on receipt of price. 5.»!. l by all drutftfists and country hlorcs. j D If //"/' Plaster fjompany, D Proprietors, lioston, Maas. 11 r~ t y"Forconsti|»atioii, loss of apfx-tite and diseases of tho bowels tak»- Ifiiwh'y'H Stomach a-id l.iv< rPi IK y> cents. SURVEYING LAND, COAL UANKS, AND LEVELING. Particular attention given to the Retracing o old lines. Address, li. F. 111 1.1.1 A ICI>,Co. Surveyor North llopc I*. 0., liutler Co., Pa. : vV4.iy Union Woolen MilL UUTLEK, I*A. 11. FHI.IiKItTON, Prop'r. Manufacturer of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, YAHNS, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as carding Kolls, making Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, Ac., at very low prices. Wool worked on the shares, if de sired. mjr7-ly G. D. HARVEY, Bricklayer and Contractor. Estimates given on contract work. Ilesi deuce, Washington street, north end, Butler i'a. janli.ly. BUTLER, PA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25. 1884 BLAINE AND THE BLIND. The Presidential Candidate's Life in Philadelphia as a Teacher. From the Philadelphia Press.] "Yes, i remember voung James G. Blaine distinctly,"said William Chapin principal of the Pennsylvania Institu-j tion for the Instruction of the Blind, ' yesterday. "He was principal teacher I on the boys side for two years, and i when he departed he left behind him not only universal regret at a serious loss to "the institution, but au impres sion of his personal force upon the work and its methods, which survives the lapse of twenty years." The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, at Twen tieth and Race Streets, is the second place where Mr. Blaine taught after his graduation from Washington College, He rang the bell at tne front door of the building one summer afternoon in 1852, in answer to an advertisement for a teacher. "There were thirty or forty other applicants,''said Mr Chapin, "but his manner was so winning and he possessed so many manifestly valuable qualities that I closed an en gagement with him at once. He was married, and his wife and little son Walker came here with him, His qualities which impressed me most deeply, were his culture, the thorough, ness of his education and his unfailing self-possession. He was also a man ol very decided will, and was very much disposed to argument. He was young then only twenty two—and was rather impulsive, leaping to a conclu »on very quickly. But he was always ready to defend his conclusions, how ever suddenly he seemed to ha?e them. We had many a familiar dis cussion in this very room, and his ar guments always astonished me by the knowledge they displayed of facts in history and politics. His memory was remarkable, and seemed to retain de tails which ordinary men would for get. BLAINE'S FIRST BOOK. "Now, I will show you something that illustrates how thoroughly Mr. Blaine mastered anything he took hold of," said Mr. Chapin, as he took from a desk in the corner of the room a thick quarto manuscript book, bound in dark, brown leather, ana lettered "Journal" on the corner. "This book Mr. Blaine compiled with great labor from the minute books of the Board of managers. It gives an historical view of the insti tution from the time of its foundation up to the time of Mr Blaine's depar ture. He did all the work in his own room, telling no one of it until he left. Then he presented it, through me, to the Board of Managers, who were both surprised and gratified. 1 believe they made him a present of SIOO as a thank offering for an invaluable work." Indeed, this book, the first historical work of Mr. Blaine, is a model of its kind. On the title page, in ornamen tal pen-work, executed at that time by Mr. Chapin, is the inscription : o I JOURNAL of the PENNSYLVANIA INSTITI TION j for the INSTUUCTION OF TIIK BLIND, j from its foundation. Compiled from official records I ky j JAMES (J. BLAINE, | UN. | A MODEL OF METHOD. The methodical character of the work is most remarkable. On the first page every abbreviation used in the book is entered alphabetically. The first entry reads: "On this and the four following pages will be found some notes in regard to the origin of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, furnished by I. Francis Fisher, Esq. From this page to the 188 th, in which is the last entry made by Mr. Blaine, every line is a model of neatness and accuracy. On every page is a wide margin. At the top of the margin is the year, in ornamental figures. Below is a brief statement of what the the text contains opposite that portion of the marginal entry. Every year's record closes with an elaborate table, giviag the at tendance of members of the board. The last pages of the book are filled with alphabetical lists of officers of the in stitution and statistical tables, eompil by the same patient and untiring hand. One of the lists is that of the "princi pal teachers." No. 13 is followed by the signature of "James G. Blaine, from August 5, 1852, to"—and then, in another hand, ihe record is complet ed with the date November 23, 1854. "I think that the book," remarked Mr. Chapin, "illustrates the character of the man in accurate mastery of facts and orderly presentation of details. We still use it for reference, and Mr. Frank Battles, the assistant principal, is bringing the record down to the present time. "I recall one incident," Mr. Chapin continued, "which indicates Mr. Blaine's mode of discipline, and shows, too, that he was in those days some what impulsive. It was one of his duties to take charge of the boys at breakfast, and sometimes there would be a few sleepy laggards. One morn ing a whole room-full of boys, five or six of them, failed to appear. Mr. Blaine quietly walked up stairs and locked them in. The boys had a screw driver and unfastented the lock; but by the time they reached the breakfast room the tables had been cleared. 'Y r ou can have no breakfast,' was the teach er's announcement. The boys there upon declared that they wouldn't go into Mr. Blaine's classes. He reported them to me. Although I thought it perhaps a little severe to deprive them lof breakfast, I felt obliged to sustain Mr. Blaine, and told them to go to their class rooms as usual. They still refused and I suspended them for the dav. The next morning they rose in time for breakfast, attended their classes, and 'he little rebellion was over. "Mr. Blaine taught mathematics, in which he excelled, and the higher branches. His wife was universally beloved, and often read aloud to the pupils. When lie went away to be come editor of the Kennebec Journal, we felt th.it we had lost a man of large parts and we have watched his upward career with great interest. \es, in deed, we're all for Blaine here. lie has called here a number of times «vhen he stopped in the city on his way to and from Washington. '1 he last time he was here he heard with great inter est of the progress ofl>. D. Wood, the blind organist at St. Stephen's Church, who was one of his pupils, and recalled Mr. Wood's proficiency in mathematics. A PUPIL'S RECOLLECTIONS. Three persons then holding positions in the Institution, Michael Williams, William McMillan and Miss Maria Cormany were pupils uuder Mr. Blaine. Mr. Williams said yesterday: "Every body loved Mr. Blaine and his wife. Both were always ready to do anything for our amusement in leisure hours, and we had a great deal of lun, into which they entered heartily. I think Mrs. Blaiueread nearly all of Dickens' works aloud to us, and Mr. Blaine used to make us roar with laughter by read ing out of a book entitled 'Charcoal Sketches.'" Mr Williams led the visit or to a large room at the right cf the main entrance to the building, separa ted by folding doors from another room, and added: "In the eveuing he used to throw these doors open and sit there uuder the gas light, reading aloud to both boys and girls. Then we would wind up with a spelling bee. Some times Mr. Blaine would give out the words and sometimes one of the bigboys would doit, while Mr. Blaine stood up among the boys. Then we would have great fun trying to spell the teacher down Hired Men and the Law. Few farmers have a correct idea of the extent of their liability for acts of hired help. Judge Parish, in a late ad dress before the Grand Rapids (Michi gan) Farmers' Club, explained the rules of the common law in relation to the torts and negligence of farm em ployees. The essential portions of his remarks we condense for the readers of The Prairie, Farmer. The farmer, according to this authority, "is respon sible in damages to third persons for wrong acts or negligences of hired help occasioning injury, whether the act be one of omission or commission; whether in conformity to bis orders or even in disobedience to them, by negli gence, fraud, deceit, or even wilful mis conduct, so long asMt was iu the course of the employment. For instance, the farmer has a horse affected with glan ders or heaves, and he orders his hired man to take it (flit on the road and sell it or trade it off. lie is told not to warrant or recommend the horse, or to resort to any jockey tricks in order to make a sale. The first person met is stumped for a trade. The hired man is asked if the horse is sound, and he answers, 'perfectly so; not a blemish or a fault about him; and that he would not be afraid to warrant him." The trade is made, and the employer is lia ble for the deceit, because the swindle was in the course of employment. A hired man in driving a neighbor's cow out of his employer's cornfield, killed it with a stone. The court held the employer liable for the value ol the cow. A hired man taking by mistake a bag of barley instead of oats, fed some of the grain to the horses, put a clevis iu the bag and left it in the old place, saying nothing about the matter. The matter. The farmer filled the bag with ears of corn and took it to the mill; in grinding the clevis injured the cracker. The farmer was held for the damage. A farmer is liable for trespass of his hired man, done honestly in the course of his employment—as cutting timber on lands of an adjacent proprietor. It being the duty of the employee to unload a certain load of wood, and by throwing it overboard he accidentally or purposely wounds a by-stander, the employer is liable. But if the unload ing was no part of his duty at the time, there would be no liability. The test of responsibility is not whether the act was done according to instructions, but whether done in the prosecution of the work he was doing for his employer. If the hired man, in performing a par ticular act in a particular manner, de parts from instructions to inflict a wan ton injury on a third person, the em ployer is not liable. We give the above as both import ant and interesting information, and to impress upon farmers the necessity of extreme caution in choosing help. There are other grave reasons why care should be exercised iu this matter, but this is sufficient for the present. Negligent, careless help can inflict ser ious loss upon their principal, even when he thinks himself least liable.— Prairie Farmer. —There is a woman in Newport who moves so often that sometimes her husband doesn't know where she lives. —A farmer cured a horse of balking in this way : He went to the wood for a small load of wood, but his horse would not pull a pound. lie did not beat him, as most men would, but tied hint to a tree and left him there. At sundown he went to the lot, and asked tho horse to draw, but ho would not straighten a tug. So he put a blanket on him and left him there for the night in the morning he still refused to draw; but at noon, l>eing hungry and lonesome, he started at once, and drew the load to the house. The farmer returned and got another load before feeding him, and then gave him a good dinner. He has not been troubled since that time. If the horse is disposed to balk, lie has only to start on ahead, and the horse will follow at once. The United Pipe Lines and the National Transit Co. From the Petroleum Age.] Few people outside the oil regions have an adequate conception of the la bor involved, the capital engaged and the business energy displayed in the storage and transportation of crude petroleum as it is brought forth from its hidden recesses in the earth's crust and delivered over to the manufactur ers of the refined product. The owner of an oil well is in direct communica tion with a freight carrier and a mar ket at all seasons of the year. No sooner has he produced a hundred bar rels of oil than, by proper notification, his tank is measured, its contents re moved from his sight, and a receipt given him for the amount, which is in stantly convertible into cash at the ruling market price. The United Pipe Lines is the prin cipal corporation engaged in running oil from the wells through pipes to the immense storage reservoirs in which it is held until delivered to buyers. As a matter of fact, the process of taking the oil of the producers to the tanks ol the company, and from thence deliver ing it to the railroads or the seaboard pipe lines for shipment to the remote refining and exporting points, is a con stant one. Every thousand barrels of oil in the posession of the pipe lines, with the ex ception of the amount necessarily kept on hand to offset evaporation, waste, etc., is represented by an acceptance or order. These acceptances or certifi cates are payable on demand in crude oil at any shipping point within the oil regions. They are subject to pipeage charges of twenty cents per barrel, when oil is delivered to a purchaser, and to storage charges of $<1.25 per, thousand barrels for every fifteen days the oil remains in the company's tanks. The company is never a holder of oil on its own account, and simply acts in the capacity of a common carrier be tween the oil producers and the oil refiner. These certificates have acquired a spccfllativo value, and exchanges in various cities are entirely devoted to their purchase and sale. The pipe line is a natural outgrowth ot the petroleum business. It has per fectly solved the problem of oil trans portation. The railroad tank car and shipping rack, though still in use, are now only of secondary importance. The Oil Creek teamster with his jaded horses and load of wooden barrels, dragging the crude petroleum over mountain sides and down muddy hill sides, from the wells to the Allegheny river flat-boat, or to the nearest railroad station, is no longer a familiar object iu oil region sceuery. 11 is occupation ceased with the advent of the massive steam pump and the huge cistern ol boiler iron. The United Pipe Lines Association, first known as the Fairview Pipe line, was orgauized by Capt. J. J. \ ander grift and George \ . Forman. It is incorporated under the provisions of the general Act of the Pennsylvania Legislature of the 29th of April, 181 1. It commenced busiuess on a compara tive small scale, and at a time when there were numerous lines in existence, all actively engaged in a ruinous competition*. The new company en deavored to avoid this suicidal policy and was successful. Other lines were merged with it from time to time, until it became the rich and powerful organization of the present day. The lines that have been bought and consolidated with the United since 1877, are the Antwerp, Oil .City, Clarion, Union, Conduit, Karns, Cirant, Pennsylvania, Relief, the Clarion and McKean divisions of ofthe American Transfer Co., the Pren tiss lines, the Olean I'ipe, the Union Oil Co.'s line at Clarendon and the McCalmont line in Cherry (Jrove. The United Pipe Lines cover the oil region from Allegany to Butler, with a net work of iron through which the wealth of the country continally pulsates. Its only competitor of im portance at tho present day is the Tidewater Pipe Line a much smaller organization, but a persistent and en ergetic rival The United Lines own 3,000 miles of iron pipe, and control a storage capacity of 40,000,000 barrels. With its present force it can remove 10,000 barrels from the producer's tanks in a single day, and place it where it can be taken out of the region. One hundred and eighteen pumping stations are required to do the work of transferring from one part of the field to the other, These stations range from the smallest boiler and engine to a rude hut in some remote section, to the nicely fitted buildings containing from one to five seventy-horse-power boilers with engines and pumps of commensu rate magnitude. The largest of these stations are at Tarport, Duke Centre, Richburg and Kane. Of the entire number, 51 are located in the Bradford and Alleghany fields, ;!2 in Warren and 35 in the lower country. The United Pipe Lines employ 87 guagers in Brad ford and Allegheny and .'52 in the other portions ofthe field. The chief officers are at Bradford and Oil City, and each station is connected by telegraph with one or the other of the n.ain offices. The employes at the pump siations are required to be telegraph operators as well as engineers. When the ganger measures up the tank ot a producer and the oil is passed into the pipe line, the report is wired to the central point of that section of the field. Here accurately prepared tables representing tho measurments of pro ducer's tank in the region are at hand, properly labelled and numbered. A reference to the right table shows at a glance the amount of oil In barrels that corresponds to the feet and inches run as reported by the gauger, and this amount is immediately credited to the producer on the books of the Pipe Line office. There reports are carefully summed up, and the company knows exactly how much oil has been rceeivep, and the total amount it has under its control at the beginning and close of each day. This system involves a vast amount of book keeping ami em ploys a large clerical force of expert accountants ami telegraph operators. An ingenious method of checking re sults has been devised, and so system atic and well regulated is everything connected with the business that any carelessness or dishonesty on the part of the employes that may result in loss or waste of oil can be promptly traced to the proper source and corrected. The business plant of the United Pipe Lines was formally transferred to the National Transit Company on April Ist, but there has been uo change in the officers of the company, who still remain as follows : President, J. J. Yandergrift; Vice- President. 1) O'Day; General Mana ger; W. T. Scheide; Secretary, 11. D. Hancock; Treasurer, John R. Camp bell: Register, A. Pitcairn; Auditor, Cl. W. Moltz; In charge of measuring tanks, James Robison; Telegraph Ship ping Agent, E. Ford; Chief Engineer, A. C. Beeson; Superintendent of Tank age, J. B. Maitland; Superin tendent of Cojstruction, A. Smedley; Superintendant of Machin ery, J. S. Klein: Superinten dent of Fuel, W. C. Henry; Superin tendent of Telegraph, W. W. Splane; Superintendent Butler and Clarion, C. A. Hite; Superintendent Middle Divis ion, S. M. Rose; Superintendent Up per Division, L. A. Stanford; Superin tendent Running Oil and Pumps, Up per Division, W. J. Alexander; Super intendent Running Oil and Pdntps, Middle and Lower Divisions, Wm. Miller ; Agents—Pittsburgh, Thos. Chester; Oil City, O. P. Swisher; Bradford, E. R. Shcpard; New York, G. W. Stahl ; Philadelphia, J. B. Young. THE NATIONAL TRANSIT COMPANY. The National Transit Company is the organization engaged in the trans portation of oil from the regions to the seaboard and the interior refineries. It takes the producers' oil from the tanks of the pipe lines, and delivers to the New York and Philadelphia export ers and refineries, and the manufactur ers of illuminating oil at Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo. This company received its charter at the hands of the Pennsylvania legis lature. It holds the original charter granted to Andrew Howard, J. S. Swartz and others, under the name of the "Pennsylvania Company," by the Act of April 7th, 1870. Four years ago it absorbed the business and plant of the American Transfer Company, a corporation engaged in the same line of business. The officers at the present time are, (/. A. Griscom, President; Benjamin Brewster, N ice President; .John Bush nell, Secretary; Daniel O'Day, General Manager; and James 11. Suow, Gen eral Superintendent. The approximate cost of its property was $15,000,000. It owns 15;000,000 barrels of iron tankage aud several thousand miles of iron pipes, besides pump stations, machine shops, etc. Its six lines of pipe connect the oil regions with the sea shore and refineries at New York, Philadelphia and Balti more, and with the interior refiueries at Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Butl'alo. The New York division consists of two six iuch pipe lines, from Olean, N. Y, to Bay on no, N. J., and a con necting link across Saddle river to the refineries on Long Island, A third line is already laid half the distance between Olean and Bayonue. This division is nearly 100 miles long and has eleven pumping stations located at the following places: Olean, Wells ville, Cameron's Mills, West Junction, C'atatunk, Osborn Hollow, Hancock, Cohecton, Swarthout, Newfoundland and Saddle river. Each station is pro vided with seven one hundred horse power boilers and two largo Worth ington pumping engines. The boilers are in brick houses, each forty feet square and covered with roofs of cor rugated iron. The pumps are in separ ate buildings of the same class as the boiler houses. There are two 35,000 barrel iron tanks at each station, and a telegraph office with all the latest elec trical improvements. The Pennsylvania division is 280 miles long, and has but a single six inch pipe, which extends from Cole grove, in McKean county, to Philadel phia. There are five pumping stations on this line, viz: Colegrove, North Point, Pine, Dirnsife and Millway. A branch pipe extends from this line to Milton, Pa., whore tank cars are load ed for Philadelphia on the P. & E. 11. E. The Baltimore ilivision consists of seventy miles of five-inch pipe connect ing Baltimore with the Philadelphia division at Millway. One pump sta tion is sufficient for this line, and it is located at the last named place. The Cleveland line begins at 11 il - in Butler county, and ends at Cleveland. It is of five-inch pipe and one hundred miles in length. There are four stations on this line, llilliards, Warren and Mantau. Tho Buffalo division is seventy miles in length and consists of one four-inch pipe, with its initial station at Four Mile, Cattaraugus county, N. Y. There is another station at Ash ford and one at the terminus of the line in Buffalo. The Pittsburgh liue is sixty miles long and extends from Carbon Centre, in Butler county, to Pittsburgh, with a central station at Freeport. The National Transit Company, bv the acquisition of the United] Pipe Lines, becomes one of the most power ful orgtuiizations in the country. It is controlled by men who are entirely familiar with all tte details of oli trans portation anil storage. Its capital is amply sufficient for every emergency that may arise, and the enterprising character ol its projectors and controll ers is clearly shown by the manner in which past difficulties have been en countered and overcome. —Gentlemen's handkerchiefs now have a border of red or black devils in grotesque attitudes. They raise their satanic majesty every time they flirt. CAMPAIGN SONG. AIR—"DEAREST MAY." Hark! from hill ami valiey far, A joyful soi>j» there comes; It L;r(et< us in the city mart, And in our quiet homes. CHORI'B. Hurrah! for Jimmy Hlaine! Hurrah! for Logan, too! . Pennsylvania's son the fight leads on, And Illinois will see it through. An honest man for President, L- what the people want; The true Republicans are tired to death With "Kings" ami all like that. —t'hprus. Chet Arthur may retire again, To the Custom House once more; And the Government, perhaps, may give hiui leavu. To operate it o'er. —Chorus. The Camerons may fret and swear, But broken is their slate; The day of Riugism's o'er, Within the Keystone State. —Chorus. Then fling our banners to the breeze, Our leaders' names thereon; The people will haye B. and L.'s From rise to set of sun. —Chorus. Kj:. Y. The Great Desert. A traveller who has journeyed across the great Sahara desert in Africa, thus describes in the New Or leans Times the terrible scenes that he witnessed: Riding five hundred me tres in advance of our little troop, the horseman who acts as guide directs our way over the dead level of the dis mal solitude. For the last ten minutes he kept his horse at a walk, sitting motionless in his saddle, and singing iu his own tongue a melancholy, long- * drawn chant, with singularities of Ori ental rhyme. Wo imitate his pace. Then allf>f a sudden he starts of at a trot, standing in his stirrups erect, with his great burnous floating behind him. And we all trot after him, uutil he draws rein agaiu to recommence a gentler pace. I asked my comrade: "How can he guide us through these naked wastes without a single mark to show the way?" Rut he answered. "There are only the bones of cam els." And in (act every quarter of an hour, we came across some enormous bone gnawed by beasts, cooked by the sun —all white, in strong relief against the sand. Sometimes it was part of a leg, sometimes part of a jaw, sometimes a portion of the vertebral column. The caravans leave behind them every animal that caunot keep up; and the jackals do not carry all the remains away. And for several days we continued this monotonous voyage, always in the saddle, always behind the same Arab, almost without speaking. Now, one afternoon, as we were ap proaching Bou-Saada, I saw, afar off, before us, a great dark mass, made larger by the mirage,—the form of which astonished me. At our ap proach two vultures flew away. It was a carcass,still slimy in spite of the heat, —glossy as though varnished, with putrid blood. The chest alone remained; the limbs had doubtless been torn off and carried,away by the voracious devourers of the dead. "Ab! There are travelers ahead of us!" said the lieutenant. Some hours later we entered a ra vine, a sort of defile, a frightful fur nace, bordered by huge rocks toothed like a saw—sharp, pointed, ragged, in revolt, as it were against the im placably ferocious sky. Another corpse was lying there. And a jackal that had been devouring it fled away. Then,as we passed out of the ravine,a gray heap of something before us mov ed, and slowly, at the end of a dispro portionately long neck, I saw the head of an agonizing camel rise up. He was lying for three or four days, per haps—on his side, dying of fatigue and thirst. His long members that seem ed inert, broken, all mixed up together, were stretched upon the liery soil. And, hearing us coming, he had lifted up his head like a light-house. His forehead, already gnawed by the sun, was but oue wound—a great running sore; and his resigned gaze followed us. He did not utter a moau—did not make the least effort to rise. One woultl have thought, that as he had seen so many of his brothers die in their long voyages through desolation, he knew too well the mereilessness of man. Now it was his turn—that was all! And we passed on. But when I looked back a long, long time afterward, I saw still rising from the sand the lofty neck of the abandon ed beast, watching to the end the last living cieatures he could ever behold, passing beyond the horizon. An hour later it was a dog, erouch ing close to a rock, with jaws wide open and fangs glittering—incapable of moving a paw—with eyes fixed upou two vultures who sat not far off, plum ing themselves while waiting for his death. He was so possessed with ter ror of those terrible patient birds, wait ing for his flesh, but he never turned his head, and did not even feel the stones that a saphi flung at him. And, suddenly at the outlet of an other defile, I saw the oasis before me. It was an apparation never to be forgotteu. One has traversed endless plains, climbed mountains all craggy, Imld, calcined, without ever seeing a tree, a plant, a siugle green leaf; and lo!—right before you, at your very feet, is an opaque mass of sgmbre ven dure—as it were, a lake of foliage ex tending upon the sand. Then, further on. the desert recommences, lengthen ing infinitelv to the indefinable horizon where it mixes with the sky. Why is a girl who takes out fond lings to ride in a baby carriage like a traveler? Because she is a waif-airer. JS C. 02.