VOL. XXIV.
Administrator's Notice.
Letters of Administration having been grant
ed to Ui" undersigned on the estate of I rankllu
Fisher, late of Allegheny township, dee'd. notice
Is hereby given to all parties know lng them
selves indebted to said estate to make Immedi
ate payment, and those having claims against
si'ld estate to present them duly authenticated
for settlement. BAKBAKA HI'HKR.I Admr's
W. A. KISUKR. » A
Sandy Point, Butler Co.. Pa.
A. E. Kelber. Att'y,
Administrators' Notice.
ESTATE OF R. M. HARBISON, OEC'D.
Whereas letters of administration have been
granted by the Register of Butler county Pa
lo tlie itndersiTDed on the estate ol K, M. llAT
trtaon, late of Buffalo twp.. Butler county. Pa.,
dee'd, all persons who know themselves In
debted to said estate will make Immediate
payment, and those having claims against the
same will present,! hem properly authenticated
for settlement to the undersigned.
J. 11. HARBISON,
.JOHN IIARBIHOS.
FKKEPORT. P. O- PA, Administrators.
"ESTATE OF CHUSTOPHEK MCMKIIAKI-,
LATE OF CLAY TOWNSHIP, DEC'L).
Letters teetameutary on the of
Christopher McMichael, dee'd, late of Clay
township, Butlei county, Pa., having been
granted to the undersigned. All persons
knowing themselves indebted to said estate,
will please make immediate payment, and
any having claims against said estate, will
present them duly authenticated for settle-
MENT * JAPIIIA MCMICHAEL, Ex'r.
EUCLID P. P., Bntler Co. Pa.
Executors' Notice.
Letters testamentary having been gron ted to
the undersigned on the estate of Robert Hesael
gesser, dece'ised, late of \\intleld twp.. Butli r
Co.. Pa., all persons knowing themselves in
debted to said estate wIU make immediate pay
ment, an<Lthose having claims against said es
tate will present the same properly authenticat
ed for settlement. _ „
JAMES HESSELFIESSER.L
DAVID HESSELGESSEIM EXR'S.
April 18, 'B7. LeasurevlUe, Butler Co.. la.
Estate of Zephanlah Snyder,
LATE OK BRADY TOWNSHII", DEC'O.
Letters of administration C. T. A. on the es
tate Zephaniah Snyder, late of Brady twp.. But
ler Co.. Pa.. having been granted to the under-
Blgned. ail persons knowing themselves Indebt
ed to sa'd estate will please make immediate
payment, and any having claims against said
estate will present them duly authenticated
for settlement. j. C . SNYDER, Adm'r.
West Liberty P. 0., Butler Co.. Pa.
Notice.
The School Directors of Franklin town
ship will receive sealed proposals for the
building of a new school house up to the Ist
ol'August, ISS7. Bids will be received in
cluding stone-work or separate.
Plans aud specifications can be seen at the
house of WM. DICK, Sec y.
Partition Notice.
In re petition of nenry W. 1
Watson and Sarah .J. Watson, I O. C. No. 48.
for partition of the real es- [ June Term,
late of Thompson f«ewls, dee'd 1381.
late of Muduycreek, twp. J
To tiit. Honorable, the Judy en of the Orp/ian»'
Court of Jlutler County, Penti'a.
The petition of Henry W. Watson, of Muddy
flTeek township, Butler county. Pa., and Sarah
J. Watson, his wife. In the right of the said Sarah
J Watson, a sister of Thompson Lewis, dee'd, of
saM township and county, respectfully repre
sents that the said Thompson Lewis, dee'd.
died oil or about April luth. 18*7, Intestate seized
Inhls demesne as of fee, of and In a certain piece
of land situate In the township of Muddycreek,
county 01 Butler, and State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows: On the
north by lands ot Samuel Brenneman and J. (1.
Glenn; on the east by lands of Peter Schelde
inantle and Hobert Glenn; on the south by
lands of Win. Bander, Henry W.itsoD and Win.
S. Dunc;m; on the west by lands of John Fore
man and Win. Met'lyinonds. containing two
hundred and fifty acres, more or less, with
the appurtenances. Said Thompson Lewis le.t
no widow or Issue surviving him, but left two
brother', to wit: Minim Lewis, of Tama county.
lowa, aged over seventy years; John P. Lewis,
In the State of Ohio, aged over sixty years:
Mrs. Mary Kry, married to soloman Fry, and
living in Perry township, county Pa.,
and Mrs. Sarah V. Watson, married to Henry
W. Watson, living In Muddycreek township,
Butler county, Pa., she being tlie petitioner.
Also, Kate Stanton married to Stanton.
and Phu:t*! McUuUln, widow, living In New
Castle, Ijitvrenee county. Pa. Emma Wallace
married to Wallace, living In Colorado ;
children of 11. J. Lewis, dee d, a brother of
Thompson Lewis; Mary Miner, marrrled to B.
F. Miner, and living in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wm.
" C. Sharp, living at New Brighton, leaver county,
Pa.: children of EU/.a Sharp, a dee'd sister of
the said Thompson Lewis; orlanda Young and
Bell Young, children of Hettte Young, a dee'd
sister of the said Thompson Lewis, living In
Tama county, Iowa; C'. L. Duncan, Alfred B.
Duncan, Thompson Duncan and Bell Duncan,
living In Perry townsldp, Lawrence county,
ra„ Wm. Duncan, living in Osage county,
Kansas. All children ol Duncan, a de
ceased sister of Thompson Lewis, that the
above parties are all over twenty-one years of
age, except Thompson and Bell Duncan, who
are minors ; their father. Wm. S. Duncan, Is
living In Perry township. Lawrence county, Pa.
That no partition of said land has been made,
nor can a Jury for that .purpose be agreed upon
for that purpose, owing to the tact tliat they are
living so far apart, and other circumstances sur
rounding the case.
Your petitioners, therefor, prays the Court to
award an Inquest to make partition or wild
estate to and among the aforesaid parties
according to their rights and they will ever
pray.
IIKNBY WATBON,
SARAH J. WATSON,
BUTLER COUNTY, aa:
Personally appeared be
fore me Henry W. Watson, who being duly
sworn, says mat the above petition Is true and
correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.
HENRY WATSON.
L. P. WALKER, [SEAL.]
BUTLER COUNTY, as :
Certified from the Uecord
this 28th day of June, A. D. ISH7.
HEUBEN MCELVAIN, Clerk.
BUTLER COUNTY, M:
To Peter Kramer, High
Sheriff of BuUer County. Oreetlng:
We command you, that you make known to
the several lielra of Thompson Lewis, dee'd,
named In foregoing petition, the contents of the
same and cite them to be and appear before the
Judges of an Orphans' Court, to be held at Uut
ler, peun'a, on Monday the Gth day of Septem
ber, then and then- to show cause, If any they
may have, why the prayer of the Petitioners
should nJI he granted, and a writ of Partition
awarded.
witness the Honorable Aaron L. Hazen, Presi
dent Jutltfe of our said Court, at Uutler, this
28th day of June, A, I). 18*7.
REUIIEN MCELVAIN, Clerk.
MINIMS' com Slit.
- B y virtue of an order of the Orphan*'
Court of Butler County, the undersigned Ad
ministratrix of John C. lilair, dee'd., wil'
offer at public sale on the premise! in Slij
peryrock township, Butler eouuty, Pa., on
SATURDAY, AUG. 20tli, 1887,
at 10 o'clock A.M., the following described
Ileal Estate of said decedent:
Ninety Acres of Land,
more or less, situate in the Township, County
and State above mentioned. Bou ndu<l and
described as follows, to-wit: North by land
of John Keister, Kant by Slippcryrock Creek,
South by lands ot Paul Keister and West by
lands of Lewis Patterson.
A Two-story Frame House of eight rooms;
Log Barn aud numerous outbuildings there
on. About '25 acres iu timber, the balance
cleared mid iu a pood state of cultivation.
TEHMf:—One-third of purchase money
in baud on confirmation of sale by the Court,
balance in two equal annual installments
with interest. Deferred payments to be se
cured by bond and mortgage.
MAItY A. BLAIR, Adm'rx.,
Brownsdale, Pa.
FARM FOR SALE.
I will seell my farm, located in Franklin
township, Butler county, Pa. It contains
220 ACRES
of good, well watered land, both ridge and
swamp; good grain land and good grass land,
about 30 acres of good chestnut timber, three
orchards,
GOOD BANK BARN,
50xli0 feet, frame and log dwelling, ood
spring and good spring house near house;
wall in kitchen, good corn crib, pig pen and
all necessary improvements.
For terms, etc, inquire of me on lue prem
ises. GEOBUK C. MCCASDLKSH,
Prospect, Pa.
FARM FOR SALE
In Sugarcreck township. Armstrong county,
net Adams P. 0., one and one-fourth mile east
of t» • new oil development in Kugarcrcck twp.
Kari, contains
100 ACRES,
with bank barn, :r2xij» feet;
BRICK HOUSE,
18x3*i feet, t stories, with cellar, frame kitchen,
I4xli; feet; good spring of water, farm well wa
tered, gooa orchard of grafted fruit. Farm lu a
good state of cultivation. About
75 ACRES CLEARED,
balance in good timber. Will sell extremely
low tor cash. For particular Inquire of
J. It. WICK,
Uimersburg,
Clarion Co., Pa,
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THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
A DRAMATIC SENSATION,
The Throbbing, Thrilling Drama. How to
Save Money.
Trty r>. .A.. HECK,
Author of the Tli" Ilridc Won; or. Wliat a New
Suit of Clothes DM." will be enacted.every
<lay and evening during tlie cowing
season at I>, A. llE' K'S
GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
So. 11, North Main St., Osffy'n Block.
BOTtrER, -
L'ntll;furthcr notice. This powerful work Is a
wonderful and variegated combination of
yagicul comedy, and comlc.!l tragedy
and never ialls to bring down tlie house.
TUo actors are all stars. Tiie costuming
will be a strong feature. The following briefly
outlined Is the
PROGRAMME :
Sosu- l'he liappj man no moiv reflects,
Who buys hLs clothing at I>. A. Heck's
ACT I,— SCRSE I— Time 9 a.M: Enter young man
with friend. Voiing man explains to Ills
friend that the direct cause of his engage
ment to the wealthy farmer's dau/liter
was his purchase ot a:i elegant suit a»
I). A. HECK'S <ireat Clothing Emporium
Friend tumbles to t lie idea and is luude
happy with a new suit. Hat, Shirts, Collars
Ties, Underwear, Gloves. Hose,. Trunk
Valise. L'mbreUa. etc. Scene eiosc-s with
song, joined In by the audience.
SONO— The day will l»e Intensely cold,
When D. A. IXeck Is undersold. Arc.
ACT IC.—SCENE 2— Time 11 a.m. Enter throng ot
people, old men, young men. ladles, chil
dren. managing matrons v.'itli marrlarable
daughters, who with one accord fairly
shriek with delight at the wonderful bar
gains shown. The beautiful young lady,
Cinderella tlnds some leweiery, a pair or
Corsets, a pair of Kid ({loves, an elegant
pair 01 Hose t hat set her off so exquisitely
that a dnde fr«:n ITnlonvlUe and a young
man from Greece City both propose,as the
Greece City man has on one of 1). A. Heck's
IrreslstaWe suits. Cinderella ueeldes to
patronize home Industries and accepts
i!lm. The I nlonvillc dude talks of duels,
sulfides. &c., but decides not to leave this
world while he can get clot I«ng so cheap
at I). A. Ill# ICS Great Emporium.
Song by company, Joined by audience:
Tla our experience, one and all.
A lid every OIK? who J rics It knows.
That I>. A. IIE' K lias got the rail,
And takes the town in selling clot lies.
ACT 111.— SCEMS 3. —Time ten years later:
HECK'S LARGEST EMPORIUM.
Ten years are supposed to h;-ve elapsed.
D. A. HECK'S Stole (piadrupled In size.
Butler a metropolis. Arrival of several
excursions, electric trains and a number
of balloons, with crowds of people to buy
Clothing, Underwear,
Hats, Caps, Collars,
Neck Ties, Hosiery,
Suspenders, Uandkereiiiefs.
Umbrellas. Trunks
Valises, Satchels,
EIU and Pocketbooks,
Cloth. Hair and Tooth Brushes
and Innumerable other articles which
space forbids to mention. Scores of pros
perous men and plump matrons gather
around the proprietor, all agre.-'lng that
their rise In the world began from the mo
ment tliey began to buy their goods from
D A. HECK.
Cinderella and her husband about to de
part for Mr. Chestnut (this Is no chestnut)
The I'nlonvllle dude, a dnde no longer but
a rich business man In the city of Butler.
Population 10.000, noted chiefly for being
the rnijst enterprising city In the county,
and for fair dealing and ror tlu: fact I), A.
IIIX'K'S Em;»orluiii, Duffy's Block, is the
headquarters lor good goods, fair dealing
and low prices.
All will now Join in singing:—
How D. A. Heck Is selling clothes,
Way down at bed rock-
Just watch the crowd that dally goes
To l>. A. Heck's In Dulf'y Block.
Curtain falls to slow but sure music.
Tutt's Pills
BEGULATE THE BOWELS.
Habitual Costivenesa
Canari derangement of tho efitiro system, and txv
set* disease* that are hazardous to life. Pomona of
a costive habit are subject to Hoadaeho, Defective
Memory, 0 loom y Foreboding*, Ncrvousnehs, Fevers,
Jjrowntneiw, Irritable Temper and other symptoms,
which uuQts tlio nUterer for business or agrecabla
associations. Regular habit of body alono can cor
rect these cvlU, and nothing succeeds so well la
nchlevlngthlacondltlon ajiTutr* Pills. By their una
not only la tho oyxtem renovated, but in conse
auenee of the harmonious changes thus created,
lore pervades a feeling of satisfaction; tho men
tal faculties perform their function* with vivacity,
and there la an exhilaration of ndnd, freedom or
thoiiKht, and perfect heart'* ease that bespeaks th»
(all enjoyment of health.
SECRET OF BEAUTY
Is health. The secret of health la the
power to digest it proper quantity of food.
Tblacan never be done when the liver does
not act lta part. It U the driving wheel in
the mechanism of man, and when it la out
at order, tho whole ayalem become* de
ranged, and Fever, Dyspepsia, Mick Head
ache, Constipation, Juundlce. BtlloasCol
le and Ueneral Debility enaae. To reitors
the functions of the Liver and Impart that
beaatr which a I WHY H attend* a healthy
coqstitatlon, l>r. Tutt'a Liver Pllla are
recommended. They are not a cnre-all,
hut are dealened wolely lor the disordered
Liver and the dlteatci which It produces.
Tutt's Liver Pills
BTIB UP THE TOEPID LIVEE.
■OLD BI ALL ÜBVUGISTS, 38c.
RMT^H' s il "
<liti«>n of the lining
I wlt&fa/i HEArJ"" mI riinc ° r ,he
¥HMtVr&W2 Pj' lOS ' ri,s '
T htf mx throat, artect
;wrld iiiih us issijcrt;-
burning sensation.
-pasnis of stic-ezinjr.
m£MM / USA. Ifrmment attacks of
■J PPMP mm headache. watery
a V Km and inflamed eyes.
Try the cure El/s Ceam Balm,
K. particle N applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at i>, .legists ;bv mail,
registered, <W cts. Circulars free, ELY HltOS,
235 (Jreenwlch St. New Yoik.
MILLER'S OIL UKFINING WORKS,
A UH ■':.W-V ■'■'" W.
Olllco 32* Liberty St.. Pittsburg, Pa.
A. I). MILLKIt A SON,
ManufacturerM of !li«li Test oils, for export ami
home consumption. Would call public
attention to our brand
OLEINE TKST
Warranted None Ilettcr.
Gasoline for stoves and pas machines, 71, KG, 37
Bft. and !)0 gravities. Lubricating oils.
JiT"Staves aud heading wanted, [4-l»-'w;-1y]
Mighly Funny - Agents Wanted
0 AM ANTRA
Uaratcsa.
HUIOHT HITS. COMIC CI'TS.
—SOLD BY 6UHSCIIIPTION—
See the Splendid Success of Agents:
one made a profit first :i weeks of si:w ; One
llrst'i days ; One llrst 10 days SH.%; One
11 rstdays 524.50 , One llrst :s weeks SIU.V" ;
making a clean pro lit in 7 ween* works of S">oo.
It takes otr Saratoga follies, flirtations, low
necks, dudes, pug dogs, etc., in the author's in
imitable inirth-provokinsr st. !e. The (KiOj pic
tures by "Ojijier" are •'just killing." People
crazy to net it. AUKXTM are making to S7O a
week. Price 92 J0. Auk.vis WANTKU.
Apply to HiUIIAUI) HKOS., 78=1 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia. Jyls,4t
A J FRANK & CO,
DEAI.EHH IK
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
AND CHEMICALS,
FANCY ANt> TOILET ARTICES,
SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMEKY, Ac.
Presorlptlonti carefully com
pounded. and orjera answered with care ana
dispatch. our stock of medicines Is com pie to
warranted genuine, and of the best quality.
45 South Main Street,
BUTLER, - PA.
WAIT A BIT.
When Johnny came a-eotirting,
I thought him overbold,
For I was but a young thing,
And he w; s not very old.
And though I liked him well enough
I fent him on his way,
With "Wait a bit, bide a bit,
Wait a week and a day?"
When Johnny passed me in the lane,
And pleaded i'or a kiss,
And vowed he'd love me evermore
For granting of the b!i»<-:
Ai though I'd liked it ovorwel 1 ,
I ran from him away,
With "Wait a bit, biJc a hit,
Wait a week and a day!"
When Johnny fell a-ranting,
With "Jenny, be my wife?"
And vowed 1 never should regret,
However long my life,
Although I liked it best o' all,
I turned from hira away,
With "Wait a bit, bide a bit,
Wait a week an<l a da>!''
Oh, Johnny was a ninny:
He took me at my word!
» And he was courting another,
The next thing that 1 heard.
Oh, what a ninny was Johnny,
To mind me when I'd say:
"Wait a bit, bide a bit,
Wait a week and a di'y!"
Iltigii-ho, I've met my Johnny,
I gin him a blink o' my eye,
And then he fell a-raviug,
For want o' my love he'd die!
I ne'er could be so cruel!
So I set the wedding day,
With "Haste a bit, nor wasle a bit,
There's danger in delay!"
BUTLER COUNTY.
Her Gas, Coal and Oil.
GAS
More tban 20 years ago petroleum
was found in the oil fields of Venango
county, which joins Butler county on
the north, and during the oil excite
ment which followed and extended to
Butler county, gas was found in
great abundance, but attracted little
attention till within the last few
years. The producers however have
been using it for running their pump
ing wells for at least 17 or 18 years
in the counties of Venango and But
ler, and for several years farmers have
used it for heating and light. The
Carbon Black works, loeated a few
miles south of Butler, have been
making lamp black for 10 or 12 years
and about five years ago the citizens
of Butler obtained a charter and
formed a gas company, furnishing for
the people the heat aud light which
ever since has taken the place of coal
aud artificial gas, at less than one
third the cost lor the amount of heat
produced, dispensing with smoke and
ashes, proving to be one of the great
est discoveries of the age, opening
within the last 3 or 4 years anew era
in the history of petorlium. The
cheapness of this product as a fuel
gives new impetus to manufacturing
in this part of the country because no
section without this product can in
any way compete with a county
whose every hill abounds with this
snbstance, which when brought to
the surface can be utilized at a mere
nominal cost. The use of gas is no
new experiment in the Butler oil
field; it has been tried and found to
far exceed anything heretofore discov
ered for heating furnaces and running
machinery, and its continuing for at
least 15 years shows the durability of
it. The pressure iu this region is so
great aud the quality to good that it
seems to be almost iuexhaustable And
while there are perhaps many prob
lems with regard to it yet unsolved
by the scientific world yet enough is
already known to show Its incalcula
ble value to a manufacturing commu
nity.
Closely allied with this subject is
that of the
COAL FIELDS OF IJUTLER COUNTY.
Which ars it would Heem but an ex
tension of the vaat coal fields at and
around I'itthburg. Though the strata
Bcemß more broken and scarcely equal
in quality, yet it is of the same for
mation, a good quality of bituminous
coal. This belt extends northwest
ardly from the Pittsburg region
through the southern part of Butler,
embracing the most if not the whole
width of the county, extending clear
through to Mercer county, with sur
face and lower veins varying from
one foot to G or 7 leet in thickness of
good marketable coal as free perhaps
from Bulphur aud other deleterious
substances as most other bitnminous
coal mines of our country. Many
mines have beeu opened throughout
the county of Butler and the majority
of them are in working order. lu
aud arouud C'oaltown and Ililliards,
on the north, large slopes and shafts
have been put in working order and
this product is shipped to other mar
kets in the north and west But of
lato years the local coal trade of this
county has been some what deteriorat
ed by the use of natural gas,produced
to such an extent as to render any
other fuel for home consumption ot
less vaiue. With these great sources
of heat and light perhaps no section
iu our country offers the same induce
ments for the cheap running of heavy
machinery, and at a mere nominal
cost, aa docs the town of Butler and
vicinity.
We have substances here sufficient
to feed furnaces aud forges for centu
ries to come. The S. &A. it. It.
with its branches to Ililiiard and
Coaltown makes the transportation of
coal to its junction with "the**other
roads at Butler easy, and if one of
these products fail to supply our man
ufacturing establishments we have the
other iu great abundance which iu our
opinion insures for Butler a better
out-look than other loealities less for
tunate in their natural resources, and
the one great barrier, viz: the expense
to manufacturers in creating motive
power to a very great extent taken
away.
PETROLEUM,
The oil production of JJutler coun
ty, while not as large as pome other
sections, stands nevertheless among
the large and productive fields of our
country. Oil was discovered iu aud
around l'etrolia, Greece City and
Millerstovvn several years ago, of
good quality,at an average depth aud
while the wells in this county may
not be as large as a rule as in some
other territory, they are reputed to
hold out much longer than in most of
the other oil regions. Some of the
wells have been pumping for 10 years
and still said to be paying. Many of
the small wells that produced but lit
tle 8 or 10 years ago have kept up to
nearly the same standard till the pre
sent time. The oil fields of this
county have ever since the discovery
j of oil here offered fair inducements to
! operators, So that even iu the pro
duction of oil Butler county takes no
mean place iu the record of produc
tion but presents a creditable page ia
the history of petroleum. D.
She Found Her Mamma
The northbound train had left
Austin, and Conductor Hughes was
making his usual round collecting
tickets. He stopped in front of a lit
tle girl who was crouched iu u corner
near the stove. Notwithstanding
that a cold northwester was blowing,
she was thinly ciad in torn ca i.-o
dress, and her feet were destitute of
shoes and stockings.
.As she appeared to be alone, the
conductor asked:
"Have you a ticket, little girl?"
"What is that?"
"Pidu't whoever put you cn the
car give you a ticket?"
"Nobody put us on the car. We
came all by ourselves, didn't we
dolly," she said, hugging a dilapidat
ed old doll.
"Didn't your papa put you on the
car?"
"No, we didn't tell him we were
coming, did we dolly."
The conductor took the little girl's
hand in his. It was burning hot.
Her thin features were flushed and
her eyes were glistening with fever.
"Your clothes are tin. Don't you
feel cold sometimes?"
' Yes, we ffel so cold, but we hug
up close together, don't we dolly.
VVhen 1 find mamma she'll give us
some new clothes and some new
shoes."
"Where is your mamma?"
"I don't know, but I'ii find her.
She told me to come to her. She
came into my room last night and
put her hands on me and kissed me
just as she used to before she went to
sleep iu a lon# box and went off on
the railroad "
The conductor was puzzled. Hid
the fever aff-.cted the child's head t
"I think you are lost little girl.
What is your name?"
"My name is Fanny, but mamma
used to call me 'little pet.' "
"I'll send you back to your papa.
You iiave got a pnpa, haven't you, in
Austin?"
A look of terror was frozen on the
little pinched features. Two thin
anus were thrown around the conduc
tor's neck.
"Please don't send me back to pa,"
she said in piteous accents. "My
new mamma will whip me and lock
me up in dark closet. Oh, please
don't send me back! I'll be so good,
I'll give you dolly. No; I can't give
you dolly. Mamma gave me dolly,
but I'll let you play with her. Please
let me slay with you till I Gad n<y
mamma."
"This is a bad case of step mother,"
gaid the conductor to himself. "This
ia some poor, neglected little creature.
I've a notion to take her home aud
leave her with my kids. One more
won't muk3 much difference."
' I'll not sead you home. Just lie
down here," he said, fixing her up a
place tc lie on one of the seats.
The little'fvaif was contented and
happy. She laid down and the con
ductor covered her with his overcoat.
Once or twice as he passed by, he
heard Lis little dead-head passenger
talking to her dolly about what thsv
would do when they found mamma.
At Taylor the north-bound and
south-bound trains meet, and the pas
sengers got supper. As soon a3 Con
ductor Hughes stepped on the plat
form the operator called to him:
"Here, Bill, here is a telegram for
you."
He opened the envelope and read
"Put runaway child iu charge of
conductor of south-bound train for
Austin."
"Poor little creature," he muttered;
"she has a hard time of it in this
world; but I'll wake her up and give
her some supper before I send her
home to her folks."
He turned back into the car and
threw back the overcoat from the
sleeping child. She was hugging
her dolly to her breast. There were
tears on her pale thin cheeks, but a
happy smile on her pinched features.
"Little pet" had found her mamma.
—Alex fiweel in N. Y. Mercury.
Starvation in Labrador.
Rev. F. W. Colley, missionary at
Labrador, has written a graphic ac
count of heart-rending destitution pre
vailing there. He has traveled the
whole coast and declares that words
cannot describe the sufferings of the
poor, lie tells of families of helpless
old people and equally helpless chil
dren enduring the rigors of the late
winter with the thermometer 38° be
low zero, living in huts, sleeping on
bare grounds, covered only with old
sails and subsisting on rock cod, the
poorest kind of codfish known, and on
hard-tack supplied by the Govern
ment. To catch the fish the perish
ing people had to travel five miles
over bare rocks. Bread, tea, molas
ses, flour, meat of any kind or any of
the necessities of life are unknown to
them. Slow starvation had driven
the father of one family mad and the
poor wretch had brcn trying to eat
his own boots. The puny cod for
breakfast, dinner and supper, weeks
upon weeks and mouLhs upon months,
while keeping the poor wretches from
actual death, only served to be a daily
torture to them, and was of itself en
ough to drive the whole population
into raviug maniacs.
Missionary Colley declares that he
was implored for help at every sec
ond house visited in all the vast re
gion. The inhabitants were driven
to such desperate straits that wives
and mothers even had to sell their
wedding rings lor bread. At Grady's.
Stable Bay, llocky Bay, Spotted Is
land and Seal Island whole families
were slowly starving in January.
llow they existed through the iviuter
God only knows. The scanty aid
sent by the Newfoundland Govern
ment was distributed before half the
winter was over. Mr. Colley declares
that only fear of a repetition of the ter
rible sufferings induces him now to
make the terrible facts public.
The missionary concludes a three
column narrative by demanding in
the name of humanity that the New
foundland Government immediately
send relief to that district and also
provide means for transporting the
wretched people to some other coun
try.
—The charge of f»0 ceuts udrnisaion
to one of Sam Jones' meetings in
Baltimore cut his audience down from
5,000 to less than 100. Tho Balii
moreans plainly believe Ihiil they
must have their salvation without
money and without price.
BUTLER, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 2', 18M
Married in her Sleep.
Abigail Stork, a yonng and prepos
sessing girl of the Fifth ward, is a
somnambulist, and a most thorough
one a;, that, says the Toledo Blade
She has been known to walk a dis
tance of two miles at a stretch with
out wtikiug up, and on one occasion
she frightened a sleigh load of people,
who were returning late at night from
a party, half out of their wits. It
was some time before Miss Abigail's
parents learned of their daughter's
peculiarity, and ever after they kept
close watch of her. Xow, Miss Stark
was courted by a young man from
the Third ward, John Derby, a likely
fellow, but for some reason he and
the old folks could not get along to
gether, and the upshot of the matter
was that he wa3 denied admission to
the Stark mansion, a proceeding
which quite disgusted the youthful
lovers.
But they were not to be outdone
so easily, and from the time of the
estrangement between the young man
and the old folks the girl seemed to
lake a certain fancy lo an aunt who
resides in Lower Town. Strange to
say, the coincidence in time did not
manifest itself to the Stark elders,
and they merely expressed delight
that their daughter should take pleas
ure in visiting her aunt, who was
Mrs. Stark's favorite sister.
One night, while John and Abigail
were returning from a party, John
proposed that they should get married
without further delay. He said there
was no prospect of Abigail's parents
ever liking him, aud so long as the
climax had to be reached, he wanted
to reach it by the shortest way. He
did not believe in long courtships.
To all of which Abigail replied that
it would be impossible for them to
get married without thev eloped, for
her aunt would never sanction their
marriage unless her parents gave
their consent.
"Let's elope, then," said John; "I
am heartily .sick and tired of the sub
terfuge which we are practicing upon
your parents. Let us get married,
and then if they do not care to see us,
we can live without them."
Abigail hesitated before taking so
important a step. She wanted time
to think it over. Of course she ex
pected to marry him, even if her par
ents did object, but the proposition
was so sudden that she would a.-ik
him to wait until the next evening
for her answer.
"I have already engaged the min
ister," said John, as he bade her fare
well at the gate, "and he promises to
marry us, if he has to get out of bed
at midnight to do it."
When he had left Abigail be walk
ed slowly up town, picturing in his
mind the happy home he would have,
wiih Abigail aa its mistress. The
bright fire, the cozy chair, the com
fortable slippers, aud all the etcetera?
that go to make up the picture of a
perfect home came up before him.
Suddenly it occurred to him that he
had promised to call upon his chum,
who lived near the aunt's residence,
and close up a business matter of
some importance. Although it was
late he knew his chum's penchant lor
late hours, und therefore had uo
scruples.
110 retraced his steps, and was
about to ring the bell of his friend's
house when ho happened to see a
woman coming up the street. The
figure was so familiar that he invol
untarily sought the sidewalk. As
the figure approached the belief that
it was Abigail became a certainty,
and he hastened forward to meet her.
He \7as not aware, so absorbed had
ho been in making family pictures,
that one hour had passed since he had
left Abigail. In his impetuous way
he had but one thought, and that vva.s
that Abigail had concluded to accept
his proposition and had come out in
the hope of overtaking him.
Hut he was surprised at her silence
When he spoke to her she answered
in quite as endearing terms as ho had
used in addressing her; then she took
his arms, and the two walked rapidly
away. JIo asked her if she had real
ly decided to marry him that night,
and was sure she said yes. Anyway
he was so overjoyed that he nearly
forgot the way to the minister's. AH
was dark when ho got there, but a
vigorous ringing soon brought the
divine to the front door. John was
not long in explaining the situation,
and the minister soon had the front
room in order for the couple's recep
tion. lie also pressed his wife into
service as a witness, and in a very
brief period the knot wa3 tied aud
John wa3 happy.
Abigail bad answered all questions
properly, and was apparently as hap
py as John over tha result. She had
not withdrawn her veil during the
ceremony, nor had John in his rapt
ures thought of asking her to do so.
They decided that she should return
to her aunt's house and remain there
for a day or two until the final prep
arations should be made, when they
should go into their own home.
When John loft Abigail for tho
second time that night ho felt that he
no longer held the uncertain position
of a lover, but that she was his wife
by divine decree. Visions of tho per
fect home, of the comfortable slippers,
cosy chair and warm fire followed
him home and became a large part of
bis dreams when he dropped off.
And all the next day they still occu
pied his thoughts. In the evening
he was at Abigail's side. His first
words were:
"My wife now, in spite of every
one."
She looked at him as though she
thought him crazy. "Your wife,
John?" she exclaimed. "But I have
not accepted your proposition yet.
You presume too much, sir," ami she
drew herself up in a mock defiant
manner.
"You are a Dig tease," said John,
"but I could scarcely believe my
senses."
"What are you talking about,
Jobu?" looking at him seriously.
"Why, our marriage," replied he,
also serious.
"It seems to me that I did dream
something about getting married,"
said Abigail.
"Dream about it! You amaze mo.
If 1 remember aright, we had all the
paraphernalia for a genuine wed
ding," said John. ''There was the
minister, his wife as a witness, and
we two, who were married. And
here is the certificate, if you do not
believe it," and he drew that precious
document from his pocket.
Abigail was astounded. To think
that she had *boeu married without
being cognizant of it, was too much
even for her strong mind, aud she was
more than half inclined to cry. Thea
the ridiculous feature occurred to her,
i and she was for some time in midair
I between laughing and crying l . When
she hid calmed down and her mind
became settled the true stutus of af
fairs began to dawn upon her. Hith
erto she had never mentioned to John
her somnambulistic escapades because
she had been half ashamed of them,
but now that she was married she
thought it her duty to explain.
She told hiui all about it, and how
on the that he had left her at
the srate shd had to her room,
and beiug unusually tired, had laid
down upon the bed without undress
ing, and bad fallen nsieep. The cir
cumstances of the marriage had all
come to her as a dream, and when she
arose that morning she hud not given
the matter a second thought. But
now that he had recalled the mar
riage, she remembered all the detrils.
Overreached Himself.
Justice Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court, was conversing in 0.
street car not a#o with Seuator
Cockrell,of Missouri,when the judge re
marked, falliug into a reminiscent
mood, as the Boston Journal's corre
spondent tells the story: "It is singu
lar what shrewd plans are resorted to
to ascertain the way the Court is in
clined to decide cases. Some years
ago we had the silver mine case
before us for decision. At that time
we bad not our own marshal. The
district marshal was the marshal of
the court. An immense amount was
involved in the case, and there was
naturally a good deal of anxiety to
know how the court would decide it.
The marshal went up to Brother
now dead—as pure and honorable
aud unsuspicious a man as over lived
—aud said: "Well, judge, I presume
we will have a decision soon in the
silver mine case?' 'Yes,' sr»id Broth
er , 'very soon ' 'I suppose
Judge Clifford will write the opin
ion?' 'Oh, yes,' said Brother ,
'Brother Clifford will be the organ of
the court.' This was all the marshal
wanted to know, for Justice Clifford's
habit was to break in upon an argu
ment with queries which clearly in
dicated the drift of his mind on the
questions under discussion,and when
the marshal heard that Justice Clif
ford was to write the opinion he
knew a3 well as if he had been told in
as many words that the decision
would be in favor of the mining com
pany, so he went to work and bought
up all the stock he could on a margin.
'And made a pile of money, I sup
pose?' Seuator Cockrell asked,
'Well no he didn't,'replied Judge
Miller with a hearty laugh. The re
sources of the mine had been so ex
aggerated in the course of the argu
ment that the stock had risen on the
maiket beyond its real value, and
after the decision of the Court it fell
instead of advanced, and the marshal
lost all he had put up. 'Upon the
whole,'added the Judge, 'I am inclin
ed to think very highly of the purity
of the American bench. There are
cases we decided last year, which
would have enabled any member of
the Court by simply taking advan
tage of the knowledge he had of the
views of the majority—' 'Or hinting
them to his wife, or some confidential
friend,' interrupted Seuator Cockrell.
'Yes, in that or any other way,' con
tinued Judge Miller, 'he could have
put a million dollars in his pocket,
but here we are just as we were last
year, and no whisper of anything of
that kind has ever been heard."
Another Land Ruling,
WASHINGTON, July IS.—A general
principle of long standing and consid
erable importance in the administra
tion of public matters is reaffirmed by
Acting Secretary Muldrow in his rul
ing upon the case of James Young, a
homstead entryman of Salt Lake City.
Its purport is that no amount of cul
tivation and improvement and no
showing of good faith in other re
spects can atone for the lack of actual
residence upon the land sought to be
secured, and that actual residence
does not give validity to the claim ex
cept in so far as it shows an Intention
to make such residence permanent
beyond the acquirement of title
Young had cultivated fifty acres of
his claim, constructed irrigating
ditches and constructed a house in
which he personally lived. Ilis im
provements were valued at from
SI,OOO to $1,200. Ilis family, how
ever, the place c wnedby
him half a mile distant, and it was in
evidence that he designed abandoning
his new claim as a place of residence
as he had made his title secure, A
contest was made by one Van Os
trum, a professional contestant, who
purposes gaining some preference
righLs and selling them out. The lo
cal officers and commissioner decided
for Youag and against Van Osti um.
The acting secretary orders a notifica
tion of this decision. He says that
while Van Ostrum caunot acquire
any rights in the matter the govern
ment is not estopped from acting up
on the information it has gained, and
thatjjjhe directs the cancellation of
Young's claim. The geueral princi
ple influences the decision in the ease
of Frank Youag, a homesteader, of
Huron, D. T. lie has three yoara of
military service to his credit and was,
therefore, not required to live more
than two years upon his claim. He
left his family in Illinois and only
spent about half of hi 3 time on the
claim, rendering it a matter of doubt
whether he ever changed his resi
dence from Illinois, The local offi
cers held his final proof sufficient, but
the commissioner reversed the find
ing and held the entry for cancella
tion. The acting secretary gives the
claimant the benefit of the doubt, in
asmuch as there is no adverse claim,
orders that he be given another op
portunity to furnish final proof within
the lifetime of his entry.-*
A Farm Laborer's Estate.
Robert S. Frazier. Esq., of Pitts
burgh, has filed his report as deputy
escheator of the estate of Jacob I)ietl,
of Wexford, Pine township, Alle
gheny county. Dietl was a Bavar
ian, u njjjiarricd, and 52 years old. For
many years he worked as a farm la
borer, and accumulated $1,400, which
he invested in judgments. When he
died he left no will, and had no rela
tives to tuke his property. 11. S. Siil
then notified the Attorney General of
the effects, and Mr. Frazier was ap
pointed to take testimony, and, if he
found no heirs, to escheat the eatate
to the Commonwealth, Theescbeater
finds that Dietl has no relatives in
this country or in Bavaria, and, if
this report is sustained, the estate
will be confiscated to the Stale, less
one-tlurd, which goos to Sill as iu
iormer.
Dangers ol Baldness.
"Bald-headed men die sooner than
those who possess a full head of hair,"
s; id a physician to a New York Mail
and Express reporter the other day.
"Then, doctor, your life is shorten
ed," interposed the reporter,
"I have adopted a protector, you
see; the skull-cup. If I have no hair
to cover my cranium, Ido the next
best thing md use a warm cip. I
never go bald headed, no matter
where I am, and by that means I
uever take.cold. The majority of
men who have bald Leads wear noth
itg to protect the exposed surface, not
even a wig. The result is many of
them take cold and go off with pneu
monia or contract some deep seated
disease like bronchitis or consump
tion. Yet if I told a bald-headed man
to wear something warm on the ex
posed spot he would, nine times out
of ten, pay no attention to my warn
iug. It is a growing cause of increas
ed mortality, and deserves great at
tention, both from scientists and em
pirical layman, liaid heads are the
signposts of high testhetical civiliza
tion, and at the same time the epi
taphs of a physical degeneration.
Luxury, ease, high living and heredi
tary characteristics have to be taken
into ccnsideralion when analyzing the
problem of bald heads. If the futu-e
race is to be devoid of hair, then it
must necessarily be a short lived one,
because more susceptible to sickness,
I have noted many cases of pneumo
nia, aud where the patient is a male
over forty years old the proportion is
over one-half in favor of his being
bald headed. Whenever I have a
bald-headed patient I never rest until
he consents to wear a skull-cap. If
the hair was no protection to a man
he would have baen created without
any, and his skin mude tough and
thick to stand the weather. The
wise provisions made to insure perfect
physical comfort never contemplated
a period it the world's history when
man should go about with his head
slick as a peeled onion. The man
who does it repeatedly sooner or later
pays the penalty.
"Cesar was bald in his last days
aud shielded his cranium by wearing
a crown. In those days, when hats
were not worn, few people were bald,
and those who were attempted to con
ceal the fact. It is said that Cie3ar
wore the crown to hide his bald head,
aud it may be added correctly that he
did it for comfort as well. Women
do not sufl'er from the exposure of
bald beads because they wear false
head rigging which generally pro
tects the scaip. Then females are
not predisposed to baldness as males.
Nature has given them an abundance
of hair, and those who grow baid
bave some kind of skin trouble. Yet
there are more bald-headed women
than the world imagines. My argu
ment against going about the
scalp exposed is merely from a hygie
nic point of view and not because of
any false notions about how it makes
a person look, Old men, middle
aged men, gilded youths, and unfor
tunate womankind, if you are bald,
don't grieve over the inevitable, but
wear something warm and upon all
occasions. Your days will be longer
in the land and your progeuy will be
leas apt to inherit the hairless tenden
cy-
Reviving a Bride.
Assistant Secretary Thompson, of
tie Treasury Department, is said to
be aa expert in reviving swooning
persons, writes a correspondent of
the Baltimore American, but not un
til recently did he have an opportuni
ty to display his skill in that line for
the benefit of his official associates.
A party of New England excursion
ists were passing through the depart
ment, among them being a newly
married couple. In consequence of
over-exertion or the poor sanitary
condition of the Treasury, the young
bride fell in a faint immediately in
frontjjof Mr. Thompson's office. Hear
ing the commotion in the corridor,
Mr. Thompson opened his door, and,
taking in the situation at a glance,
directed that the fainting lady be laid
upon the sofa in his room. The
young husband was almost frantic,
and with an utter disregard for the
presence of strangers, ho endeavored
to restore her to consciousness by
pressing her to his bosom and caress
ing her extravagantly. Mr. Thomp
son suggested his infallible remedy of
stretching the pa.ient upon her back
with her head downward, so as to al
low the blood to circulate to the
brain, The young husband at first
remonstrated against what seemed to
him to be treatment too heroic for his
better half, but he finally consented,
and in a few moments the young lady
was restored and the happy couple re
joined their friends, and continued
their sight-seeing expedition. Mr.
Thompson says he obtained his expe
rience in faintiog cases from old Dr
Gittings, of Columbia, S. C. The
doctor was called upon to administer
to a lady who bad fain! ad. Upon his
arrival he found the lady stretched
out upon a sofa, with a high pillow
under her head. Tho doctor's first
instructions were to "take the pillow
from under her head and place the
family Bible under her heels, and she
will be all right in a moment." Mr.
Thompson never forgot this remedy,
and ho has practiced it repeatedly
with great success.
Arresting a Man in Church.
The worst thin? I think I ever did
was to arrest a man iti church. I
took him right of! his knr?e*. It was
a fuiiuy case. I was chief of police of
Oil City, and there had been a sys
tematic series of burglaries from the
cars of the I'ennsyl vania road, tho
robbers doing their work in such a
manner that it baflled the detectives.
A whole car load of fine shoe 3 had
been side-tracked at Oil City, and
while there a case of fiue shoes had
been stolen from the car. There was
no clew to the thief, and although
wo suspected the members of a pretty
tough gang there was no proof. One
morning I saw ODO of this gang walk
ing along the street, aud I thought
I'd get close to him, for it struck me
he had a new pair of shoes on. He
got on to me aud popped into a
church. It was Sunday morning,
and the church was crowded. Ho
went in and knelt down near tho door,
and I saw tho bottoms of his shoes,
with the nmrk of the company whq
had shipped the stolen articles Uruuil
ed in the shank. I clapped him on
the shoulder and took him outside.
Thou I placed him uuder arrest, and
he gave the entire gang away, so
that we had no difficulty in breaking
it up for Q<)o<l,—Qlobc l)emo<:ral.
Of a Very Inquiring Mind.
Oje day we sat in a car seat on a
southern railroad behind a pale, care
worn lady, who was talkiug to a lit
tle boy. As tha little buy was of a
very inquiring mind, and everything
seemed to attract his attention, I
I could not help listening to some of his
questions.
"What is that, auntie?" the little
boy commenced, pointing to a stack
of hay.
"Oh, that's hay,defr," answered
the careworn lady.
"What is hay, auntys"'
"Why, hay is hay, dear."
"But what is it made of?"
"Why, hay is made of dirt and
water and air."
"Who makes it?"
"God makes it."
"Does he make it in the daytime or
in the night?"
"In both, dear,"
"And Sundays?"
"Yes, all the time."
"Ain't it wicked to make hay on
Sunday, auntie?"
"Oh, I don't know. I'd keep still,
Willie, that's a dear boy; auntie is
tired."
After remaining quiet a moment
Willie broke out:
•'Where do stars come u'om aun
tie?"
■'l don't know; nobody knows."
"Did the moon lay 'em?"
"Yes, I guess so," replied the
wicked lady.
"Can the moon lay eggs, too?"
"I suppose so. Don't bother
me."
Auother short silence, when Willie
broke out:
"I think a whale could lay eggs—
don't you auntie?"
"Oh yes, I gues3 so,"said the shame
less woman.
"Did yon ever see a whale on his
nest?"
"Oh, I gue3s so!"
"Where?"
"I mean no. Willie, you must be
quiet; I'm getting crazy."
"What makes you crazy, auntie?"
"Oh dear! you ask so many ques
tions."
"Did you eyer see a little fly eat
sugar?"
"Yes."
"Where?"
"Willie, sit down on the seat and
be still or I'll shake yon. Now, not
another word."
And the lady pointed her finger
sharpely at the little boy, as if she
were going to stick it through him.
If she had been a wicked woman she
would have sworn. There are eisjht
million boys like Willie in the Unit
ed States, and half as many in Eug
lana.—Texas Ski/tings.
Does Labor Produce All the
Wealth?
Rev. Dr. G. M. Steele, in Work
and Wages : "Is it really tjue that
labor produces all tho wealth of the
world? Of course, by labor here is
meant the putting forth of physical
energy, otherwise the succeeding sen
tences have no meaning. Does any
one who thinks at all about the sub
ject believe that the great factories,
the docks, the vast buildings of stone
and brick and iron in our great cities,
the railroads, the mighty steamships,
the complicated machines and innum
erable other structures are the result
of manual labor alone? Suppose
there is a line of railway fifty miles
in length to be built, and five thous
and steady, and reliable laborers
are told to go and built it. Will they
be able to built the bridges, to make
the deep cuts, to construct the cause
ways through treacherous swamps,
to calculate the grades, and do other
equally difficult parts of the work?
How many ordinary wage laborers
would it take to produce a Corliss en
gine, the first of its kind? No; there
must be much besides muscular effort
in order to attain these results. There
must be toil of brain, long and pro
tracted, aud often exhausting thought,
sometimes accompanied by great
hardships. In order to extensive
production there ure required great
mental qualities, some of thorn of a
rare kind. There is needed puwer to
contrive, to invent, to organize, to di
rect, or little can be achieved. Tho
man who blows the organ might claim
that he produces all the music of the
instrument. It isjtrue he is generally
an essential condition, but not by any
means the only or the most essential
condition, No more is manual labor
the only or the most essential condi
tion of the production of great
wealth.
She Sat in His Lap.
It was a hot perspiring crowd that
found its way to the President's re
ception at Washington on Friday.
One of the newly married couples
seemed to afford tho President consid
erable amusement. The husband oc
cupied one of the easy ctairs. His
bride sat in his lap. There they bill
ed aud cooed during tho entire recep
tion. They were apparently oblivious
of their surroundings, but none of
those present seemed oblivious of
them. Every few minutes the Presi
dent glanced in their direction, and
each time their amusing antics caus
ed a broad smile to illuminate his
countenance.
Finally, when all the visitors had
paid their respects and the room was
deserted, with the exception of a few
newspaper men, the President cross
ed over to their corner and disturbed
their dream of love by suddenly ask
ing if he could have the pleasure of
shaking hands with them. The
young husband was so confused he
nearly threw his bride to the floor in
his effort to gain bis feet. The Presi
dent without apparently noticing
their embarrassment chatted pleasant
ly with them a few moments. When
they took their departure the Presi
dent gave them a cordial gra3p of tho
hand and invited them to call and
see him again when next they visited
Washington, an invitation they wero
not slow to accept.
They Never Caino back.
"I don't believe in feeding tramps,
at the door,"' said Mrs. Crimsonbeak;
"you feed them once and they are
sure to come back. i
"Well, I don't know," replied Mrs.
Yeast; "I always give them bread
when they como to iny door, and I
can't say that 1 ever know a tramp
to come the second time."
"Oh, well, Mrs. Yeast, you make
your owu bread, do you not;"'
This was all that was said, and
yet Mrs. Yeast went down the street
like a straw hat on a windy day.
—There is no Suuday law able to
keep all nature from smiling.
The Toothpick Business.
I "Are you aware of the extent of
t!ie toothpick business in Maine ?"
Mr. .1. C. Bridguian, who represents
the National Toothpick Association.
u:-ked :i representative of the Portland
(Maine) Press the oilier day. "That
seems to be a pretty big name for
snaall business, I suppose you think,"
!ho continued. "But you will be sur
pised wliau I tell you that our asso
-1 ciation have contracted for enough
toothpicks to be made iu Maine the
coming year to load a train of fifty
; cars with nothing but toothpicks.
I We shall take out of Maine before
next J line five thousand million tooth
i picks. A pretty fair sized wood lot,
yon see, will be slit up to go into
■ the mouths and vest pockets of mill
ions of Americans. Maine furniabes
the larger portion of all the toothpicks
used in the country. Our association
controls the trade. It is something
like the Standard Oil Trust, the
Cottou Seed Oil Trust, and the lately
formed Rubber Trust. It regulates
the price and output of toothpicks as
the big trusts regulates the prices and
OIK put of oil or rubber goods. We
hare not adopted the name Tooth
pick Trust yet, however. We have
a mill at Belmont, X. Y. ; Harbor
Springs, Mich. ; and Fond du Lac,
W is. Besides these, all our mills
are in Maine ; one at Strong, one at
Furruington, one at Canton, and two
at Di.ifield. There is a small mill at
Mechanic Falls, aiso, but it has not
joined our association. In Mass
achusetts, there is one small mill not
in the association. So you see
Maine is the great center of the
industry of toothpick making."
The Public Road Law.
It is a general doctrine of law in
the country that the land in the high
ways belong to the owners of land on
each side. The farm generally ex
tcuds to the middle of the road, and
the public ha 3 only the right to pass
and repass in orderly manner, and
kecp the road in repair. The farmers
owu the highway, the soil, grass,
trees, stones, gravel and everything
else upon the surface or under it, and
may use them in any way that does
not effect the public right of passage,
and ihe law will protect his owner
ship in them just as much as if it lay
iue.de his own fence* Notwithstand
ing the fact that the farmer owns the
laud of tho road, he cannot use it
himself for any purpose which at all
interfered with the public right there
to* He cannot put his wood-piles,
wagon or pig-pons thereon, and if he
does, and the traveler runs into them
at night and is injured, he would not
only be liable for the private damage
sustained but he may be indicted for
obstructing the public highway. No
person has a right to pasture on the
side of a farmer's highway any more
than in the enclosed lands, nor can he
hitch a horse to a tree there without
beiDg liable for trespass, especially if
the horse should knaw the tree or do
other damage. If a person let his cat
tle go into the highway he is liable
for trespass they commit by simply
being their unlawfully; for the injury
tbey occasion to the sod or barking of
the tree, and for any other damage
they may do. If while there they
hook or kick, or bite any person, law
fully using the way, he would be lia
ble for tho injury.— Ex.
A Hateful Man.
Now York News.]
Wife (to husband, who has just re
turned home) — What's tho news
dowu town?
Husband —Nothing.
Wife—Of course not.
Husband—Why, of course not?
Wife— Oh, well, there is never any.
news for a woman unless she finds it
out herself.
Husband (after a long silence—lt
does seem to me that people ought to
be more careful.
Wife—What about?
Husband—l was thinking-of some
thing that happened down town to
night. Major Buxtor and his family
sat out on the front steps until quite
late, aud when the Major got up and
went iuto his room he had not noticed
that his prankish little son had slip
ped a«vay. .lust as the major step
ped into his room he heard something
under his bed—in fact, saw some
thing—and, thinking that a robber
had secreted himself there, seized a
pisiol and fired under the bed and
Wif'- Merciful heavens, and shot
bis little son!
Husband—Who said he shot his
son?
Wife—You said that his son went
under the bed.
Husband—l didn't.
Wife—What did you say?
Husband—l said that the major
did not notice his son when he slip
ped away from the front steps.
Wife (still excited) —And was the
boy under the bed?
Husband—No, a cat wa3 under the
bed.
Wife—You are the most hateful
man I ever saw.
Husband—Why so? Just because
tho boy did not go under the bed aud
get shot? I had nothing to do with
it.
—A great temperance lesson—A
drink of cheap whisky.
—The earth owes a living to e7dy
man who hoes the earth.
—lt is bad enough to be a dude,
but to be sub dude is worse.
—When the knight of old wanted
to protect bis girl he put his armor
round hor.
—The bluest fellow in town to-day
is tho one who painted the town red
last night.
—I Lis officially denied by tho bald
headed grand candy-puller to the
royal household that Queen Victoria
ever chewed gum.
—JEFF. DAVIS is too old now to
rune any disturbance, but the south
ern watermelon can do the work just
as effectually.
—There is a cute Yankee in an 111-
nois town who plants a sunflower
seed in every hill of beans. The stalk
serves for a bean-pole, while the seed
is utilized for chicken feed.
—A Cincinnati phrenologist after
examining Henry George's head said
lhat he has little acquisitiveness but
great benevolence. This soems to
explain the fact that not having ac
quired any land himself, he is willing
to give away that of other people.
—Tho Washington Post has started
a"word hunt," the words to be form
ed from the letters in Mrs: Cleveland,B
full name— Frances Folsom Cleve
land.
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