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.
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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
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RHEUMATISM
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scorrs
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And HypopliosphitßS of Lime & Sctla
Almost as Palatable as Milk.
The only preparation of COD I.ITEft OITJ that
em be taken readily and tolerated fur a long time
by delicate stomachs.
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la the countries of the world.
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for Pamphlet on Wast ina Ao
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g S\vox\m\ awA \
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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
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(rrailuailiiif cli.sx every i e:»r l:i tUe i iirumorei I
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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.
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avi) CJIBMICAI-S,
FANCY AND TOILKT AKTICES,
SI'ONGICS, lUtUdiiKH, PEUFirMKKV, &.<•.
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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.
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