VOL. XXIV. ESTATE OF JOHN WOLFORD LATE OK DONKCAL TP. Letters of administration having been granted to ttie undersigned In the estate of John Wol ford, dee d, late of Donegal tp. Butler comit). Pa., ai(persons knowing themse l vm ( ' to said estate will plea.se make immediate pa>- ment and am having claims against said estate wil' pn-eti!jH«m dnly authenticated for settle ment HAKKIKTT WOLFORD. HarnliarLs MiiLs, P. O. F. 11. MU.V.MK. Souora. P. 0. 8. F. Bowser, Att'y- Administrators, Estate of C. A. McKinney. I.KTT. OF COSSOQCEKESSISH TWP., MtC'l). Letters testamentary on the estate of C. A. McKlnii'-v. Lsq., dee'd. late of Connoquenesslng TWO., Butler Co., Pa., having been granted to the undersigned, all persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate wIU make diate payment, and any having claims against said es'.aie will present them duly authenticat ed tor settlement. KOBEKT McKINMA.I Ex rs. A. K. MOKISSKY ( Connoquenesslng P. Buiier Co.. la. Estate of David Humell, LAKE OK CIIEKitY TWP., DEC'd. Letters testamentary on the estate of I'avld liun'ell of Cherry twp.. Butler Co.. P*l huvinn tie.-n granted to the undersigned all nereis iiuowlng themselves Indebted to said estate will please make immediate pa.vment. rtiid anv having claims against said estate will present them uuly authentl«tedfor settlement. 1 Twos. BISOHAM.) Kx rs L. U. Ut UELI.. ( CoalvUle P. 0., Butler Co.. I a. Estate of David Marshall, LATE OF PROSPECT, UEC D. Letters of administration having been graJited to the undersigned on the estate of Uavid Mar *hitii Esii clec'tl, laU* ot Frospe<-t, Butler to., Pa., ail persons knowing themselves lwiebtcd 10 said estate will please make immediate pay ment ; iid any huv ing clalnw against said estate will present them utuy ror sc-ttle mciii. MAKTIIA MARSHALL. Adni x. I'iospect. Butler Co., 1 a. Lev. Mcyulsttlon, Att'y. Administrators' Notice. JiSTATE OF R. H. HABBISOS, DEC U. Whereas letters of administration have been granted by the Regtater of B"Uer ul « ilar -10 the unaersigr.ed on tlie estate of it. M. liar l.Lson hit"of Buffalo twp., Butler county. 1 .-.i ,v > > TH*rwiii4 vvlio know tbeuiselv es In debted to said estate will make Immediate oavment and those having claims against the same wiU preaent.iheic properly authenticated lor settlement to the uiiderslgned.^^^^ JOUS 11ARBI80S, FMWTOET. r, P., Pi. Administrators. ESTATE tiy CHUISTOPHEK MtJIICHAKI., LATE OF CLAY TOWNSHIP, DEt'l). Letters testamentary on the estate of Christopher McMichael, deo'd, late ot Clay township, Butlei county, Pa., having been granted to the undersigned. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please moke immediate payment, and any having claims against said estate, will present them duly authenticated for settle- Inent ' JAPIIIA McMICHAEL, Ex'r. EUCLID P. 0., Butler C'o. Pa. TOR SALE ORTXCHANGE. FAUM of 175 acres near It. K. station. 00 acres Improved land,convenient to Pittsburg; barn is IUOXCO and cost s4.:oo— is good a-s new- a giio(l 6 room frame house, good orchard. Price S*ioo - CHI PAY A CASH DIFFERENCE on a trade We have small and large farmsfor sale or trade. Patent and Pension eases prosecuted. Head the new pension laws aud write to us J. H. STKVKNHOK » & Co's Agency, 100 Fifth AVC., PittsburK. Pa- Application for Pardon. Notice is hereby given that I, William Mc- Keever, of Butler Co., Pa., convicted of as sault and battery in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bntler Co.. Pa., No, 38 March sessions, 18&7, will apply for pardon before the Board of Pardons in Uarrisburg, Pa., at the next meeting of said Board the third Tuesday of May, 18157, being the 17th day oi May, 1887. WILLIAM MCKKEVF.r. April 22, 1887. Executors' Notice. Letters testamentary having been granted Ui the undersigned on the estate of Koliert Ueasel- Jresser. it - l late of Wlntleld twp.. butler Jo., Pa., all persons know ins tnemselves In debted to said estate will make immediate pay ment, and those having claims against said es tate will present the same properly authenticat ed for settlement. .1A MEH IIESBKUI ESSKIt. > DAVID HKSSEI/iESSER,< Kx'r's. April IS, X 7. I/jaaurevllle, Butler Co.. Pa. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Y ai-cl J. L. FUKVJB. L. O. PUKVIFC*, S.G. Purvis & Co. MAWUJAOTnKBKS AND DIALSTtSIH Rough and Planed Lumber CK l\fkV DIWfJBIPTIOS, FRAWES, MOULDINGS, SAMIJ, DOOKB FLLOiUHG, AIDING, BATTENS Brackets,Suajred Cornice Boards. SHINGLES&LATH PLANING MILL AND TAKD KearUerinnn Oatliollc Ctaorclt MO raom LIVEIIY. W. Jefferson St., Butier Pa. Flick & Kennedy Have opened a first-class livery stable on Wei>t Jetfernon Bt., with everything new— horeea, harness and wagoni. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Particular attention paid to the trnnnient trade. When in Butler nive ni a call. 12-21-6 m FLICK it KENXKDY. KNOX HOUSE. J. B. KNOX, Prop'r. NO. 44.E.JEFFERSQKSTREET, BUTLER, Boarding by the week or day. mi'.iute from Court 110-.ise. The¥olonteerjoldier'HS ! S of the mo t lllus- n I L I I voU&v. ben. John A. Logan. The volnnt.'er service defended and upheld. l»gan'4 Tersonal Itemiiiisceneps of Armv Lift*. J.arKe Octavo Volume, Bt-antlfiillv Illustrated. Circulars free p. j, FI.EMJM; A co., t Fifth Ave., I'ittNixirg. SURVEYING LAND, COAL BANKS, AND LEVELING. Particular attention given to the Retracing ot old line*. Address, B. F. lIILLIAKD, Co. Purveyor Nortb Hope P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. B,ft^4.ly THE BUTLER CITIZEN. 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YOU CAN'T BEAT THE HOP-PLASTER Tseclluß^^oS!ea«e3^7^S?Tnd B|ESv^ne<ll dnAl amenta for the core of pain and disease. Prepared from the complete virtues of fresh Hops, Burgundy Pitch.and Ghims. The greatest strengthening plaster ever invented. Apply one to Baokache, Crick, Hheumatisin, Kidney Pains, Stitches, Sciatica, Sore Chest, or pain In any part, local or deep-seated. Cures instantly, soothes and stTcngt hens the tirod muscles. All ready to apply. Sold by drug and eountry stores, 25 cents, 5 for iI.OO. Mailed for price. Proprietors, HOP PLASTER CO., Boston, Mass. g S\vox\m\ awA \ Tutt's Pills Mtlmnlatc the tori»l«l liver, stpenarth en lhe(ll|;eslivenrßui.K,rearalatc the bowels Hixl nre uiiequulcd us iiu aiiti-biiiouM tucUlcliie. In Malarial Districts their virtue* arc wl«le!y recoKiili.'il, antliev ikwsohn perullur |>ro|ier.it« |u freeliiK I he Hjxlcm from flint |H>l - TIIIH i»o|»ular rt'inedy rarely fails to elTectuuliy curt Dyspepsia, Constipaiion, Sick Headachs, Biliousness aiid all disorders arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion. A Proclamation! Dr. I. <>iiy I.CMIk, Fulton. Ark., nay*: "A year agro I had lillioni. fever; Tnlftt Pills were so highly reecoin. mended that I used them. Never did medicine have a happier effect. Af ter a practice ».»f 11 quarter of t> cen tury, I proclaim lliem the best ANTI-BILIOUS medicinecvcr nsfd. I always pre scribe them in my practice." Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray St. Kcw York. Tutt's Manua. of Useful Receipts sent Free■ CATARRH mm ii» o J HAY-FEVER ELYS CREAM DA LSI It not a liquid, gnuJf <yr povdrr. Applied into nostril* in quickly abx /rUd. It clcanus the land. Allays inflammation. Heals th* gores. Restores the sense* of tost* and smell. f>o cents at Druggists; by mail, ELY BROTHERS, J>ruggists,owego,NY. Swithin C. Shortlidge's Academy, For Vimmr Jlcii anil Boy*, Xcilla, Pa. 13 miles from Pbllmlclplila. Fixed price covfirs every expcnsi-. rvcu i.ooku. AC. NO extra No InciUentul expenses—No examina tion Tor adinlssion. Tuelve esperli'in ed tein-l. ITR, all men and ail graduates, .special oppov tiinllieH for apt student-, to advance rapid,y. Kpitclal drill for dill a::d l.nkuiird I ovs. l*a trons or Htudeni:- may aeli-.-t any st.idles or ciiooMe Mi.- regular Ki. iLsh.Scleiillllc, Buhlnean, • lassleal orcivli KiigltieerlUfr cour.se. M udeni i Hilled at Media Acndeiny are now In Harvard. Vuli', l'rfnei Inn mid t. it ollirr ivjjinjfes and rolyC'ciirii.' Hi.hi/Oi|.i students sent to col m i-'.i, r. in in In I»*j. 1» in A (rrailuailiiif cli.sx every i e:»r l:i tUe i iirumorei I uepartment. A Phj-sdej..! and < l emicui I, i.- r.lor*. <l\ imia-du.n and I;• 11 iirr: , :.id. 1.-nii vos, added u> Library In l'li.v.-ilcal apparatus douMed in Ih.u. Mi ilia Ins seven cliiifclie.) and a tempt rancc eh.ii l,i rvvlileii piohlliilH the s;do of all intoxicating drisiky. Fur new Ulu lrau d circular address ih» Principal and Proprlet »r. SWITHIN HlfOltTl.llit.i:, A- ."1., (Il uvard Uruduate) Media, I'a. s-n-sn iy A.l FRANK CS DRUGS, WF.UICINE.S, avi) CJIBMICAI-S, FANCY AND TOILKT AKTICES, SI'ONGICS, lUtUdiiKH, PEUFirMKKV, &.<•. C jC"l'l.yfilelan:i' I'lescrlptlotts carefully c 0... pounded, and ordoiH uiwiveiwl wttli euro aJ.a dlwpatcli. (».ir sto 'K ofii.eillili.es Is con.filet", w.irrauted y nuiric, at.d of lie- best f[ti.dify. 45 South Main Street, BUTLER, - JPJi.. County Auctioneer, JAMES R. KEABNS, IIUTIiER, PEXVA. Is prepared to sorv, tliu pnl.lic of thin section at vendues, etc. had many yeaiH of experience he can guinntee perfect p.ifi»fac tlon at rates thai will suit all. Leive word at ihie ollioe. 3,5,84.1y file I*i Piillmlelptil* I H2b rMI Cn ut u " : -'l»per AUrtr. I ii si I . " tiriliK AfV DKy ut Mfßkll H. WTAVER * 80N, Our f'bJriied THE SCHCOLMARM. Sc-e where she conies adown the lane, With gladness in her laughing eye, And in her hacd the rattan cane Will murder laughter t>y and by. lovi lurks in her merry tone, And nsstles in her roguish looks, And long, hard, rr»»ked questioos moan And sob and snitlle in her books. Her dimpled hand, that seeks the eurl C( queuing with her graceful head, Car. make a ears ring r.r.d whir! And make the toy wi-h he were dead. How mue'i she knows, th;- blooming rose Ofhuuian will and human won't: One wonder is, how mueh she knows, The other is, how much she doa't. Sweet pedagogue. I envy not The inerry boys who greet thy call; Thy mother enff«d ray earc, gojd wot, When she was y< ung and I was small. —Buvl-th in the Brooklyn Kifjie. A BROKEN BRIDGE. It ba3 been declared by a profound observer of human nature that the most awkward predicament a man can be placed in is to be unfxpected !v called upon to mix in society with out his trousers I dare say it is a trj in? position, but there are worse "fixes" thau even that. I say it ad visably, that if, after my recent ex perience, it were to come to .1 ques tion of dispensing with either my nether garments or my spectacles, I think—l really think —I should cm brace the former alternative. As the reader will probably have inferred, I am extremely—' xcoptioa ally shortsighted. Without my atd without a competent dog. I should make a very tolerable blind man. I think I should know whether the parties who dropped cop pers into my hat were short or tall, male or female, but there my knowl edge would end. With my glasses (the very strongest concaves known to optical science) I can rub along very fairlv; but without them I am lost, helpleFS, imbecile. My specta cles are the last thing I take eff at night and the first I put on in the morning. Meanwhile they rest ready to my hand on my little table de uuit, in company with my watch and water bottle. It wa9 late in last November. I had been spending the evening with some musical friends. The party wa3 small, but successful; and I had contributed in some small degree (my friends were good enough to say in a considerable degree) to its success. Mv rendering of the "White Squall" and "Tom Bowling Lad been much admired, and I had every rea son to suppose that I had made a favorable impression in a quarter in which—in wbieb, in point of fact, I was rather anxious to make a fa vorable impression. It will therefore be readily imagined that I delayed my leave taking till tfco latest possible moment. 1 bad before me a short ride by train (th 6 last train), a walk of a few minutes, and theu an omni bus (the last omnibus) would bear me to my dwelling, which was situ ate in Wisteria Terrace, Higbgate. The first stage of my journey was quickly accomplished, but when I got out of the railway station I iound that the weather had materially changed for the worse. It had begun to do something which was not ex actly raining and not exactly snow ing, but a sort of unhappy medium between the two. A vague sort of fog, too, was gathering in the air. However, I turned up the collar of my coat and turned down the brim of my soft felt hat, and stepped out manfully for tho omnibus, for there was no time to be lost. When I reached the spot where it should pass, it had not yet come ia sight, and 1 sheltered myself within the doorway of a shop to uwait its arri val. When safely ensconced, and be ginning to look about me, I found that the sleet had settled on my spectacles, increasing my normal dif ficulty of vision. I took them off and bfgan to wipe them with my pocket handkerchief, when—oh, horror! the bridge suddenly Huapped in the middle and I was left at midnight over two miles from homo and as blind as a beetle. The omaihu3 would take me the greater part of the way, but 1 had still nearly half a mile to walk beyond, and how I was to do it heaven only know, for I didn't. However it is proverbially useless to cry over spilt milk and it is equally ineffectual (for I tried it) to swear over broken spectacles A moment later the omnibus came up and after an ineffectual attempt f o got into it through the horses (thereby causing the driver to express a harsh aud wholly unfounded judgement as to my sobriety), I finally succeeded by dint of holding up one of the severed glasses to my right eye, in clamber ing into the vehicle and finally, after blindly plunging on to various pas sengers' laps and being violently pushed off again, in settling dowu in to a seat "Room for one on either side," the conductor had shouted There may have been but I couldn't see it. At last I ascertained, more with my elbows than my eyes, that there wa3 a vacant space on my right and I dropped exhausted into it. There was a scrunch somewhere be tween ine and the cushion, followed by a scream from a fornale voice; "If he hasu't bin aud sat on my best Sunday cap !" "My good lady," I gently interpos ed, beaming mildly around in tho di rection of the voice "Good lady! Your good ludy, indeed ! If I was your good lady I'd take the conceit out of you, you nas ty, spiteful jacksnap!" "It was quite accidental, I assure you," I mildly urged. "Dont tell me, with your 'acciden tals.' Accidentally done a purpose, that's what it wa«i. I see him look straight at the box, and then he claps his ugly, great carcass squash down upon it." Here the conductor iuterposed: "Look here missus, just keep a civil tongue in your head. It's your own fault, for putting o' the box on the seat 'stead of under it. 'Taiu't likely the gen'leman would a set upon it a purpose." "I certainly did not," I said, men tally resolving to give the conductor sixpence when I got out. "I am very sorry I have injured the lady's property, and if she will tell roe tho value I am quite willing to make it good." "Didn't I say so ?" said tho con ductor, "The gen'leman can't say no faiier than that, can he, missus ? Any gent may take a drop once in a while, and when he's had a drop he naturally sits down 'eavv like. Bat ; if Le pays up fair and honorable, j v.-hat more can a gen'leman do?" The man's intention was friendly, ; no doubt, but the form of hi* defense, to one who like myself is only five or six removes from a tetotaler, was ex- . tremely humiliatiag, and my yiews as to the sixpence underwent conrid erabh modification. "Conductor," J said, "you are wrong—quite wrong. I assure you I have only taken"— But here I paused. A delicate mind naturally hesitates to explain these little per sonal details, however innocent, to an omnibus load of total strangers. As a matter of fact I had only taken tLree glasses of champagne, one ot dry sherry and a mere nothing of cold whisky and water. The man mistook the cause of my hesitation. "All right, sir, he said, and I felt— I couldn't see him, but, I felt that he winked. "It's the werry dose I tukes myself " It was useless to argue the point, p.nd I turned to my neighbor, who had cooled down considerably when she found that there waa a prospect for a compensation for her damaged property. "What do you value your cap at, madam ?" I inquired. "Well, sir, since you're so pressiu'," she replied, "the cap was four and eleven iu the Upper street ouly two weeks since. Then there was a rose I put in special, thirteen pence half penny, and a extry bow of ribbing at fifteen pence a yard, and cheap at the prico. Call it, seven and six, and we'il throw the box in." It struck me that the good lady was disposed to make a market of her misfortune, but I was not in a position to contest the matter. Ac cordingly I opened my parse, and, holding it close to my eyes, managed to couut out the required amount,and banded it to her As ill-lack would have it, at that moment the omnibus, which had pulied up to set down a passenger, went on again, and the sudden movement jerked the open purse out of my band and scattered its contents on the floor of the vehicle. I made an eOort to pick them up again, but with small success, and ia a manner which, I felt, tended still further to confirm tho conductor's mistaken impression as to my sobrie ty. The other passengers leutly aided me to recover my scat tered property, but with only limited success. After settling for the dam aged cap, I had left iu my purse a sovereign, some six or seven shillings in silver. The three halfpence were restored with the most conscientious exactness, but the silver had dwin dled down to four shillings • and a threepenny piece, while the sover eign had vanished altogether, I mentioned the deficiency, and every body began to search again still more diligently, but without effect. "It is an unpleasant incident," said an elderly gentleman. "Avery unpleasant incide nt," re plied an elderly lady. "Unpleasant for all of us," said an other gentleman, "if their really was a sovereign iu the purse." Ilia in tonation implied clearly that he enter tained a doubt upon the matter. "Ob, as to that I'm quite sure—" I said; but the last speaker, who was now just getting out, interrupted me: "1 really doa't think, sir, if you'il excuse me, that you are iu a condi tion to be quite sure about any thing." It wa3 a most unfounded insinua tion, aud I should have liked to wither him wilh some scathing retort, but I always require time to think of unything particularly withering, aud by the time I was ready with an ap propriate rejoinder he was several yards off. It would have been hard ly dignified to shout it after him, and I therefore remained silent. We rode on a little farther, but it was an uncomfortable journey. An atmos phere of suspicion pervaded the om nibus. The passengers all seemed more or less to suspect each other, but it wa3 evident that they unani mously suspected mo. A little far ther the omnibus stopped, aud the couductor put his head iu: "Waterloo station! Anybody for Waterloo station?" "Waterloostation!" I exclaimed in horror. "Isn't this a Highgate 'bus?" "Highgate!" said the conductor. "Lor', you must be farther gone than I thought you was." I was farther gone than I thought I was, aud iu the wrong direction. I paid the mau fourpence for having brought me three miles out of my way, and having cautiously descend ed made my way (through an ankle deep pile of swept up mud, by the way) to the pavemeut. Whit was to be done now? There were no more omnibuses, and ufter waiting some two or three minutes or so and hail ing two private carriages aud a milk cart, under the belief that they were four wheeled eabs, I succeeded in ar resting a wanderiug Jehu, aud strug gled through another heap of mud to his cab, "No. 33, Wisteria Terrace, High gate," I said as I got in. The man drove a few yards, and then got dowu and came to the win dow. "Axin' yer parding, guv'uor," he said, hoarsely, "wheer was it as you was wisbiu' to be drove to?" "Iligbgate, Wisteria Terrace, No 33," I said reversing the order for greater clearness. "All right, guv'nor, we can do it, me an' my 'orse can; but its a mortal long way, and we ain't bin 'ome to our tea yot. I don't deceive you, guv'ner; its worth seven and-eix of anybody's money to take ver that distance at this time o' night." "Very well, you shall have seveo and six," I replied wearily. But drive on, for lieaven'3 sake, or I shan't get home to-night!" He drove on, and after three-quar ters of an hour or so succeeded, by dint of questioning passing policemen (for naturaliy I could not see to di rect him;, in bringing me to Wisteria Terrace and set me down at No. 33. "You will have to wait while I go in and get you your money," I said "for I have not enough in my purse." "Right you are, guv'ner," he re plied; "and if so be as you did hap peu to have a drop o' somethin' short 'andy—not to deceive you, guv'nor— it'd warm a chap's cockles uncommon. It's cold work up there on the box, an' it is a mortial long way, ain't it now, guv'nor?" "You shall have it," I said, glad to have reached home on any term-i, "Step inside, if your horse will staud still, and I'll give it you." "That 'orso stand still !" he replied wilh a chuckle. "That's his best Bi'TLER. I'A.. FRIDAY, MAY 6,1887 pace, that is. Lor', gur'nor, you might 'arness that 'orse to a church, you might, an' he wouldn't run away with it " By this time I had descended, and groping my way cautiously up the gravel path, bad reached the front door. I took out my latch key and i let myself in. It 6truck me that the ; lock was somewhat stubborn, but it ! yielded, and I passed into the hall,fol lowed by my charioteer. The gas was our and all was dark, save where a dim light, just darkness visible, in dicated the position of the window on the landing. I felt my way to the hall table, where on such occasions a 1 candle and matches were wont to be ; placed by my housekeeper, but she had apparently forgotten th m. I opened the dining room and groped my way to the mantlepiece, on one corner of which was usually a provis ion of lucifers, but again I was dis appointed There was nothing to be done but to find my way to my own bedroom on the first floor, where on ray dressing table I always kept an amp'e supply. Accordingly, with nearly as much precaution as it I were attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc, I began to mcunt the stairs. I proceeded as softly as I could, for being a bachelor, I only occupied part of the house, and I did not wish to disturb my neighbors. I don't know why boots should creak more after midnight, but they certainly do. I would not have believed it possible that half a dozen pairs of boots, far less one, could have made such an atrocious noise. And the stairs, too, seemed to have joined the conspiracy, for they creaked and cracked as if the house was corning down. When I had proceeded seven or eight stops in this fashion I felt tint as a man and a Christian I could not go any farther like that. I must take my boots off. Accordingly, I did take off one of them, which rewarded my precaution by falling down half a doaen stairs, with an audible bump at each I was more successful with the other, and again resumed my journey, holdinj on well to the handrail, till I reached the door of my room. Hete the geography was more familiar, and I was advancing with calm confidence to my dressing tabie when my head came in violent contact with some extremely hard substance, which I instinctively guessed to be a bedpost A female voice said in an alarmed tone: "Is that you Philip?" and a baby began to cry lustily, Now my name is not Philip, but Augustus; I sleep in a French bedstead, and I don't own a baby. lam not an ex citable person,"and rather pride my self, under ordiuary circumstances, on my coolness and presence of mind; , but such a combination in my bed room at, 2 o'clock tn the morniDg, ac centuated by a severe blow on the nose, was enough, I submit, to up set the equilibrium of even the calm est of men. I began to feel nervous —I own it. Obviously the first step toward clearing up the matter was to get a ligtit, and consequently, I made no reply, but still moved forward iu the direction ef the drese'ig table. Instantly there was a cry from the samo voice: "Help! Thieves! Help!" followed by a blast, loud and long, of the most tremenduous whistle I ever heard in my life. This was followed by the sjj(uud of a violent seuffie iu the hall beneath, and then some one rushed violently up the stair and into the room, "Where is he? Where is the villiau?" It suddenly dawned upon me that I was the vil liaa, and I put myself into a scientific poaturo of self defense, but in vain. A pair ot long arms, apparently swiuging every way at once, beat down my guard, and after a moment ary struggle grasped me firmly round the shoulders "I've got him," ehouted the pro proprietor of the arms. "Now, Eliza, throw a blanket over his head while I hold him.,' There was a inometary pause, and the voice said iu a tone of muflied ex postulation: "Take care, L:z, that's my bead you've got hold of." The apparent mistake of identity, however, v/as speedily corrected. A woolly mass descended over my head, and 1 was borne, half suffocated to the ground. I have a vague general im pression of somebody sitting upon me, but here I may be mistaken. It must not be supposed that I submit ted tamely. On the contrary, I con tinued to roar, "Murder!" "Fire!" "Thieves!" and "Police!" as loudly as a mouth full of blankets would let me. The baby, not being hampered by a similar impediment of spoech, roared still more lustily. My 'tn presssiou so far, as 1 was abie to think at all, was that I had somehow interrupted the proceedings of a gang of burglars engaged in rifling my apartments, though even then 1 won dered (and I think the fact is some proof of my presence of mind) why on earth they should have brought "Eliza" and the baby with them. I also remember wondering how many minutes it usually took to suffocate anybody with a blanket, when I heard another person rush up the stairs and enter the room A gleam of light shone through my blanket. "YVe've collared the cabmau," said a strange voice, "uud my mates a watchin' him down stairs. Ilave you got tho other one, sir?" "Yes, here ho is, with a blanket over his head, and the sooner you can get a pair of handcuffs on him and lug him off to the station the better." Handcuffs! Station! Then some body, it appeared, took me for the of fender. Meanwhile I was suffocating "Help! Help! Police!" I roared. "The police ain't far off, my fine feller," said one of.the voices. "You needn't holler so loud. But you may as well take off that blanket, mister, or you'll make the chap a case for the coroner 'stead o' the magistrate. I'll be answerable for him now." The blanket was accordingly re mo veil, to my great relief, The gas had by this time been lightod. Be ing still in my purblind condition, I could not distinguish details; but that certainly wasn't my bed, and that cer tainly wasn't my dressing table, nor was the lady sitting up la bed—in point of fact, it wasn't my room at all. "Now, you atrocious scoundrel" shouted the person who had removed the blanket; theu iu a changed tou«; "Good graciou-! Why, surely its Mr. Prebble." "Prebble is my name," I said, "but really" (my native politeness reassert ing itself even undar these trying cir cumstances) "I haven't the pleasure of " "My name is Gibbes," said my in terlocutor, "your next door neighbor. There ia some mistake, I atn afraid, though I can't imagine for the life of me how it has come about " I did, or rather I didn't see, for I I couldn't see anything without my spectacles, I understood. My be muddled cabman bad set me down at the wrong bouse, and in ray sightless condition I did not detect the error. Wisteria Terrace was the property of a speculative builder, and it was found on subsequent inquiry that all the front door locks were exactly alike and that the same key would open everf house ia the terrace. My next door neighbor was a journalist, whose professional duties kept him out very late at night and he had re turned just in time to see the cabman set me down at his door and to ob serve my cautious journey up the gravel walk Not unnaturally, per haps, be assumed that we had bur glarious intentions, and only waited to secure the assistance ot the police men before following us in and pro ceeding to capture us a3 described. The eclaircissement, of course, was gradual, for there was much to be ex plained on both sides. Before the ex planation had proceeded far, a voice from the bed (where the blanket had by this time baen replaced) said in chilling tones: ' Excuse m«, Philip, but don't you think the rest of the matter might be discussed down stairs?'' Philip being of that opinion, we proceeded down stairs accordingly, and there in the dining room, found tha cabman in the custody of a sec ond policeman. On seeing me he said with an injured voice: "Look a here, guv'oor; you never said nothin' about this. If I'd know ed as you was on the burgling lay, blow me if I'd brought you under fif teen shillius." "Its all a mistake, it seems." said Policeman No. Ito his mate. "The gent's only a amatoor like; lives next door, and got into the wtong crib by mistake." "Whaat!" said his mate with a disgusted look. "Then hasn't there been no crib cracking at all?" "Seems not," said the other. "Any how, the gent has squared it." "And we ain't even to run in the cabman? Well, this is a go! Our time regler wasted, along o' people not knowing their own miuds. Come along Jim." Anil, with an express ion as if his faith in human nature was for ever destroyed, the disap pointed constable preceded bis mate into the street. Mr. Gibbes lent me the where withal to settle with the cabman, in cluding a reasonable compensation for his temporary loss of liberty, aud then assisted me to regain my own dwell ing. Since my experience of that night I have bad a new Chubb's lock, warranted uuique, put on my front door, and I never venture out, even to the postoffice round the corner, without a second pair of spectacles iQ my pocket. Gibbes aud I are very frieudly, but I have never been able to make much way with his wife. I could not understand the reason until, cheucing one day to made some refer euce to the subject, he revealed to me the mystery. "Don't seem to get on with the missus! No, old boy, and you never will. You've done the one thing a woman never forgives. You've seen her in curl papers."— London Society The Temperature of a Room. A learned physician, Dr. D. Ben jamin, of Camden, New Jersey, in making some observations regarding the varyiDg temperature of our dwelling rooms, gives some hints that are of much practical importance. We all know that the air of rooms is colder nearer the floor aud windows than elsewhere, but Dr. Benjamin has taken the trouble to measure the dif ferences of temperature with accura cy and the results are somewhat striking. For example, in a room ten feet high, twelve wide and twen ty long, with a good stovo and steady heat the temperature in the centre was found to be 78 degrees F ; four feet from the window it was 70°; one foot from the window 54°, and at the window 40°. At the height of the head the temperature was 75°; at the floor 50°; a differenco of 25°. At the ceiling the temperature was 90°, when the temperature at the height of the head was 80°. The Dr. believes that the fact that the temperature of dwelling rooms differs so widely explains the frequency with which young children and even adults take cold in a houso. A child sitting oa a mother's lap in a temperature of 70° gets dowu and plays on the floor in a tomperature ton or more de grees lower, or ruus to the window, a change of twenty or thirty degrees. The habit which ladies have of wear ing slippers or light shoes ia the house is the cause of many troubles, for these same reasons. The temperature of a room should be about 70°. F. The hot furnace heated houses of our cities cause a vast deal of nervous and respiratory trouble. Tho thermometer should be hung at about the height of a per son's head, and, of course, not near the window or stove. Naming the Baby. In the old town of H , in Ver mont, lived an old man to whom the unique idea had occurred of following the order of the alphabet in naming his children. In accordance with this plan, No. 1, a boy, was named Ash ley Brigbam. The brief existence of No. 2 was shown by her name Death-born Epithenia Then follow ed Forrester Oilman, Hilarity Juno, Kathira Lolona, Melina Nolilla, Oba diah Polnner, Quiretta Rosena, Ser viah Trusty, and when this point was reached the old gentleman died, leav ing a girl without a name, and his widow finished the list by skipping the intervening letters and calling the unnamed baby &.— Harper's Maijazine. A Hen's Nest In a Tree. Edward Fowler Bird, the Warren oouuty snake cradler who lives at the Shades of Death, N. J., has a Hou dan hen that has built her nest high up in an old willow tree. The nest is 27 feet from the ground, and con tains 14 eggs. The Warren county farmers say they never heard of a hen making ber nest in a tree before. Mr. Bird often goes on top qf his house to look into the nest. —lt matters not the ago of suffer ers from colds, coughs, or croup, "Dr. Seller's Cough Syrup" id good fox alike. Price 25 ceqts. —Glass manufactured think their strikiog teasers really doservo that name. GLADSTONE ON AMERICA i Eloquent Words from the En glishman at the American Exhibition. LONDON, April 23. Mr. Gladstone visited the American Exhibition to day and also the Indian camp of the . braves attached to Buffalo Bill's ' Wild West Show. He was much impressed with the scenes at the latter place where he was treated to a special exhibition, which startled the visitors and affected Mr. Glad stone with a child like delight Af ter the performance Mr. Gladstone was introduced to Chief Bed Shirt, with whom he held a lengthy conver sation. Mr. Gladstone asked Red Shirt if he noticed any difference be tween the English and Americans and whether be regarded them as brothers. Red Shirt replied that he did not notice much about the broth erhood. Fifteen hundred workmen who were in attendance at the Exhi bition wildly cheered Mr. Gladstone and Home Rule. Mr. Gladstone was accompanied by his wife and both smiled and bowed repeatedly in acknowledgment. A lunch was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs Gladstone. Colonel Rob erts, of Boston, presided, Mr. Glad stone made a notable speech. He said it was impossible for him not to express very great interest ia the spectacle that had that day bean pre sented to him. The institutions of America and the progress of Ameri ca had always been to him a subject of yery great interest. Ever since when many years ago he had studied the lief of Washington, he hid be eome aware of two things, first of the magnituJe of the destiuy reserved for the people of America; secondly, that the period of the birth of the Anieri cau state was of more interest than auy other it was possible to study. When any young man desirous of studdying political life consulted him as to the course of study he should pursue in the field of history it had been his invariable practice to relor him to the early history of America. Now their destines were assuming such great dimensions aud the pros pect of what was contained in their future became an almost overwhelm ing thought; but with progress came responsibilities, and the stonger and greater they became as a peopla the more it would be incumbent upon them to set to the world an example to be followed He could not injustice to them lay before them the impressions of all he had seen that day. They had sur passed Englishmen in feats ot horse manship, although Englishmen be lieved they had surprised all other nations, and he hoped their exhibition would stir up British emulation and lead to further developments of what he might call a noble art. He under stood that the main purpose of the exhibition was to bring American life before the English people. If that were so, he could only say there was no purpose he valued more. He be lived that the exhibition was a com mercial speculation, and be hoped that it would be a good speculation, but it was more than that. There was nothing more desirable on this side of the water than a true and ac curate representation of the Ameri can world. About sixty years ago there existed, as he believed, a preju dice against England in America and a prejudice in England against America. He believed thosa prejudices had disap peared. He believed every workman engaged on that side rejoiced in being employed in a task the execution of which would bring Eugland and America moro closely together. God Almighty had made English men and Americans kinsmen and they ought to have affectious tor one another, and if they had not, human ity would cry shame upon them. He rejoiced that the clouds that had parted them had almost disappeared from the political sky and that the future was as bright and promising as the warmest-hearted amongst them could wish it to be. A half century ago some admirable works on America had been published by, he regretted to say, not by English men but a French writer. Since theu we had learned but little of America, which had during that time devel oped to an extent almost incredible, so that the America of to-day was as different from the America of sixty years ago as the America of to-day was from prairie life. America had not been idle since that time. She had gone through oue of the greatest struggles known in the history of man, and he be lieved that the result of that struggle was what the mass of the people of Eugland wished it to be. Ho be lieved that if they had to go through another similar trial, though that was scarcely possible, the result of the issue would be the same. In con clusion he said that he could only express his warmest appreciation of the international character of the ex hibition, and he had great pleasure in proposing the greatest prosperity to this wonderful enterprise, the American Exhibition. The Dangers of Immigration. The announcement that the ocean steamers carrying immigrants to this country are overburdened with appli cations for passage, and that hun dreds are eucamped in Queensto wn awaiting accommodations, shows that the tide of immigration which has been steadily falling for four years past is again on the rise. In 1882 immigration reached its flood-mark, 788,wy2 persons having been added in that year to our population in this way. The following year the num ber fell to 603,322, and 1883 saw a further decrease to 518,592 The year 1885 sliced off another large large fraction, leaving the number at 395,346; this was only slightly di minished in 188(J, 392,887 having im migrated in that year. But tho re turn of business prosperity promises, as it always has done, to put the fig ures again on the asceuding scale, and add, perhaps, a polyglot bost of 500,000 persons to this country dur ing 1887- The growth of Socialism and Com munism within the past few years has drawn serious attention to the question whether this country can safely permit any longer the indis criminate immigration wbioh has gone ou during the past thirty years. The cussias of 1880 showed that there were 9,679,943 people of foreign birth in this country and that their cbildreu numbered 8,319,053. The tutal for eign immigration since since 1880 aggregates 3,354,262, so that, allow- ; iny for deaths, probably <,ce in e\cry j eight of the present populati >n is of (foreign birth Staii.»ties >ho<v that . from this class oomcs To p«'r cent of fof the criminals, about the same pro portion of 'paupers |aad probably 60 percent cf the saloon keepers Bat even these are uot the worst results to the nation from indiscriminate im migration. The Anarchists and So cialists whose proceedings have threatened the stability of social especial!}' ia the Western cities are made up almost wholly of niea of foreign birth. It was the German Sod ilifts who conceived and carried out the Haymarket plot iu Chicago, and thj Milwaukee rioters were al most to a man Polish Anarchists Put along with this increase in the criminal, pauper aid communistic element is another evil, and one in separable from it. It is the alarming growth of the illiterate class. The state c.-m<us of Massachusetts taken in 1885 is the latest aud most sig nificant authority on the subject. It shows that in that state there are 121,572 per,sous over 10 years of age who cannot read and write For nearly all this illiteracy the influx of foreigners into the seaport aad inn ufacturing towns is responsible. Fall River alone has 0202 persons unable to rea l and write. Iu Low ell and Adams the illiterates number one in ten; in Blaekstone, Douglas and Webster, cue in in Iloly oke and Spencer, oue in seven. A special examination made in some of tte mills discovered the fact that from one-nfeh to one-third of the employ ees betweeu the ages of 14 and 16 are totally illiterate. The fishing towns present au exhibit equally startling and discouraging, growing out of the presence of large numbers of Italian auJ Portuguese fishermen That this great mass of illiteracy is almost wholly due to foreign irnmi gration is shown by tho fact ihat less thau 1 per cent of the illiterates were born in Massachusetts. This exhibit ia a state which pos sesses a school system as nearly per fect as Massachusetts does may well cause apprehension as to the possi bility of dealing with the promiscu ous immigration, tho tide of which has again begun to roll upon our shores in increasing volume. It would be unfair to elass ail immi grants as ignorant or oven a majority of them, and the question is how they can be sieved aud screened aud the worthy ones admitted while the crim iuais and paupers and illiterates are returned to the countries which glad ly spewed them out. Some method of dealing with this subject will have to be found and as the states them selves cannot impose restrictions the question rests with Congress. That the people are becoming aroused to tho importance of tho matter is shown by tho growing strength of what is known as the ' American movement," which seeks to establish an immigra tion quarantine. Whether this plan is the best or not, it is plain thai some restrictive methods must be adopted which will prevent America from being any louger the human dumping ground for Europo and Asia.— Philadelphia Press. Something New About Eggs. '•lf I owned all the hens in this country," said iba marketmau, as he counted out a dozen eggs and put them in a customer's basket, "and had a place to pasture them, I would ask just ten years in business and I'd be the boss millionaire." "How's that?" "How's that. May be you don't know,young man, that over 2G,000,- 000 cackles each day, announcing the birth of the same number of eggs, kept the farmer boya bu3y last year gathering in the efforts of 8ti,000,000 hens? Hut they did. Well, those efforts for 305 days resulted in tf,GOO,- 000,000 separate and distinct eggs or 800,000,000 dozen, as near as I can calculate. Now, it took just 750,- 000,000 dozens of those eggs to sup ply the demand for Tom and Jerries, puddings, hard and soft boilad eggs, egguog and ham and eggs at that. 1 figure that thirty ceuts a dozea, for 183 G. was about the average price Thirty cents a dezeu for 720,000,000 dozeu climbs up to the comfortable little purse of $225,000,000. There's nothing mean about me, and if I had the handling of those offerings of the nation's hens I'd be satisfied with a profit of two cents oa a dozen. "Last year must have been a good one for people visitiug in the coun try, for folks broiled, fricasseed and roasted something like six hundred million chickens, young and old That used up the little balance of fifty million dozeu eggs. That fifty miliiou dozen were turned iuto chick ens that gobbled up $300,000,000 of the bard earned coiu iu this realm, ciphering the thing down close, at 50 cents a chicken. I don't deal in poultry, but from the size of the dia mond pius of the ones that do, I don't hesitate a minute to say that there can't be less than five cents profit on every chickeu they sell. Last year New York took 25,000,000 dozen of eggs to satisfy her, and she paid $'.1,000,000 to get them Now, New York State only keeps hens enough to lay about 8,000,000 dozeu, aud so, of course, we havo to go knocking around all over the country and part of Canada to keep up with the cry for eggs It would take all the eggs that New York, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts hens are responsible for to supply New York cil'y with nil the eggs it wants. The 25,000,000 used last year, if laid iu a single line, one after another, without ti hair's spaco be tween them, would reach from Boston to San Francisco. I tell you, there's a big thing waiting for some one who can get a corner on eggs." Some Old People. A native of Richmond, now living in New Holland, O , is said to be 109 years old. 1 lor name is given as Mrs. Margaret Arnold. On the com ing 4th of July, if alivo, she will cele brate the number of years accorded her. Present people of Richmond, even if on the fourth decade, must know her derivation and bo interest ed in a lougevity so extended. Mrs. Arnold is said to have two sisters, one living in lowa, who is 112 years old, and the other in Dakota, who is '.)? years of age. The combined ages of these sisters is 318 years—an aver age of 100 years each. It is doubtful if t'jere are three members of another family in tho United States who can beat this record.— Richmond Stale. —Always soothe and strengthen. Hop Plantera cure pain and disease when other remedies fail. MURDER IN OHIO. Dr. Northup, of Haverhill, Bru tally Killed by "Whisky Men." Portsmouth, 0., April 28 —At Haverhill, a small town in the East ern part of Sciota Connty, on the Ohio River, Dr. W. T. Northup, a prominent physici&n and vice-presi dent of the Scioto County Medical Society, was brutally murdered yes terday afternoon by Thomas McCoy, a saloon keeper, and bis brother Al fred, the postmaster of Haverhill, aided by Pierson aud James McCoy, ! sons of Alfred, and aged 20 and 15 respectively. The McCoys are whisky Demo crats and Dr. Northup was a Prohi bitionist Republican. The McCoys had always run the township elec tions to suit themselves till Northup's arrival five years ago. He at once 1 changed things, and was working hard to introduce local option. This ■ usurpation of what the McCoys con | sidered their political rights, followed , by a state of affairs that threatened to ruin their business, incurred their bitter hostility. THE MI RDEIIERS LAY I« WAIT. Yesterday afternoon the four Mc- Coys, learning that Dr. Northup had neglected the precaution to arm him ! self, a measure which the Doctor had ; adopted some time ago in deference jto his friends' wishes who knew of ] tie McCoys' enmity, lay in wait for | him. Just as Dr. Xorthup reached a i point in the street opposite the poat | office, Fred McCoy ran out and headed him off** from reaching his office, the others meanwhile opening fire with shotguns upon the Doctor from the house of Thomas McCoy. The Doctor attempted to retreat to his office, bat was intercepted by Al fred. Drawing his pocket-knife the Doc tor stabbed the Postmaster in the side cutting him badly. Young Piersou McCoy fearing their victim would escape, although he had been fl-ed at eight times, three loads tak ing eft'jet, ran from the house and up to the doctor, and placing his gun al most against bis breast, fired both barrels, the loads passing entirely through the poor man's body and tearing out his heart A WITNESS TO THE TRAGEDY. W. A. Yanderrist, of Grannan's Detective Agency of Cincinnati, who happened to be in the Tillage visit ing, was a witness of the tragedy, but was too far off to prevent it. He succeeded in arresting Alfred McCoy, who was lying on the ground bleeding from Northup's knife thrust, put him in jail and at once started in pursuit of the three others. He captured them late last night at a point several miles down the river. They are now safe in jail. There is tremendous excitement over the bloody affair and a lynching is not unlikely. Dr. Northup was 35 years of age, hod a large practice and many per sonal friends. He came from Gallia Couuty five years ago. He was en gaged to be married to Miss Ella Oukes, daughter of Joshua Oakes, a wealthy farmer. Alfred McCoy is badly wounded. He is a man 37 years of age. Hi 3 brother, Thomas, is 35. Alfred was recently appointed postmaster of Haverhill. A Curiosity of Commerce. Along the northeast coast of Africa, south of Cape Guardafai, there are no towns worth mentioning for some hundreds of miles. The Somali na tives who live along the coast have had scarcely any dealings with white traders. A little while ago a smart firm in Aden made np their minds to that by maintaining regular commun ications with this coast they would be able to build up a good trade. They therefore bought a little steam vessel and sent their agents along tho coast to tell the natives that at a cer tain time, if they would look out on the sea, they would see a steamer coming, laden with beautiful goods, to give them in exchange for hides, palm oil and the other products of the Somali region. The little vessel has now made soveral trips, and the experiment has proved a great success. Knowing that they may expect the steamer at the date, fixed, the natives for many miles in the interior flock to the shore at different points where the vessel stops. A large crowd well burdeued with objects of exchange await the steamer, which anchors off tho coast while trading boats put ashore, and a lively market is soon in progress where a few hours before nothing could be seen but the wide stretch of sands that border this coast.— Chica go Time*. Short-Horned Girls. The mistakes sometimes mado in "making up" forms for the press are irresistibly funny, and withal, very annoying to the editors, The editor of an American paper recently spoke, of a herd of short-born cattle, an£Tue same week the ladies of Ottawa, Can ada, gave a concert which the editor puffed in flowing language. The items got somewhat mixed. Imagine his consternation when he picked up tho paper and found the items to read as follows: "The concert given by sixteen of Ottawa's most beantifnl and interest ing young ladies was hitrhly appreci ated, They were elegantly dressed and saug in the most charming man ner, winning the plaudits of the en tire andience, who pronounced them the finest short-horns in the country. A few of them are rich brown color, but the majority are spotted brown and white. Several of the heifers weigh as much as 1,500, fine bodies and tight limbered animals. They are said to be excellent milkers aud as high as twenty-five pounds of but ter have been made from one in a week," "Don't tell us what you heard or thiuk: It can't be that you're BO obtuse Tell only what you saw, my man; llerenay evidence'* of no use." "Tliat'« funny, jedge, I do declar! I've got a 'bile' upon my ueck; 1 never iced it, yet I'll iwar Upon my honor that it,t thar!" —Just look at the trade dollar. It has limped aroand remarking, "In God we trust," and its faith is re warded with redemption. —The railroads between the oil regions and the State capital made tho most out of the Billingsley bill agitation. NO. 25
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