VOL. XXIV. Administrator's Notice. Letters ot Administration bavin? been grant ed to the undersigned on the estate of Franklin Fisher, late of Allegheny township, de«d. notto Is hereby given to all parties knowing- them selves Indebted to said estate to make immedi ate payment, and those having claims aifnlnst salil estate to present them duly authenticated for settlement. BARBARA FISHKB,) Aelmr's W. A. FI -HSR. f „ sandy Point, Butler Co., Pa. A. E. Reiber, Att'y, Administrators' Notice. ESTATE OF R. M. HARRISON, DEC'D. Whereas letters of administration have been granted bv the Register of BuUer county. Pa.. to ihe undersigned on the °I H, M- Bar bison, late of Buffalo twp.. Butler county, l a., flec'd. all tiersons who know themseHes In debted to said estate will make immediate payment, and those having claims against the. same will present.; hem properly authenticated lor settlement to the undersigned. rei3oK lout; HAUBI.-ON! FREEPOKT. P. 0., PA. ' KSTATK Oi' CHBISTOPHF.it XrXICHAEL, LATE OF CLAY TOWNSHIP, REC'D. Letters testamentary on the estate of Christopher McMichael, decM, Jate ot ( say township, Butlei couuty, Pa., having beeu 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' JAPHIA McMIOHAEL, Ex'r. Euei.lD V. P., Butler Co. Pa. Executors' Notice. Letters testamentary having beon g™n r <"d to the undersigned on the estate of Bobert Be«el- Bcsser. deceased, late of Wlnfleld twp.. Butioi Co l'a., ail persons knowing themselves In debted to said estate will make immediate paj aient, and those havinK claims against said es tate wlil present the same properly autneuttcat ror settlement. ~ , OT . T> . JAMES HESSELGESSEIU DAVID HESBELGESSER.( Exrs. April is, 'BT. LcasurevUie, Butler Co., la. Estate of Zephaniah Snyder, LATE OP BRADY TOWNSHIP,-BEC'D. Letters ot administration C. T. A. on the es tate Zephaniah Snyder, late of Brady twp., But ler Co., i'a.. having beeu granted to the under stpned, all persons knowing themselves lndebt cXto said estate will please make linmedlato imyment, a:ul any having claims against said jstaif wUI present them duly authenticate*! or setUemeut. y SNYI)EI , AdmY , We3t Liberty P. o„ Butler Co., Ha. Partition Notice. In repetition of Henry W.) Watson anel Sarah J. Watson, i O. c. No. 48. for partition of the real cs-1 June Terra, tate of Thompson Lewis,dec'd l v>T. late of Muddle reck, twp. > To the Honorable, the Judges of the Orphim' Court of ISuller CourUv, renn'a. The petition of Henry W. Watson, of Muddy reek township. Butler county. Pa., and Sarah i.Watson, his >\ its. iu tlio l ight of the said Sarah J Watson, a sister of Thompson Lewis, dee'd, of township and county, respectfully repre euts fiat the said Thompson Lewis, deed, die d on or about April luth, 1887, Intestate seized It 11Us demesne as of fee. ot and iu acertaln piece el land situate In the township of Muddy creek, county oi Butler, and State of Pennsylvania, bounded anl described as follows: On the north by lands of Samuel lirenneman and ... U. Glenn; on the east by lands of Peter Hehelde mautie and Itobert Glenn; on the south by lands of Wm. Bander, Henry Watson and Wm. S. Duncan; on the west by lands of John Fore man and Wm. MeClymonds. containing two hundred and flit}* acres, mare or less, with the appurtenances, Said Tlieimpson Lewis left no wiuow or Issue surviving him, but left two brothers, to wit: MWlln U-wis. or Tama county. lowa, aged over seventy years; .John I'. Lewis, In the state of Ohio, aged over slxiy years; Mrs. Mary Fry, married to Soloman Fry, and living in Perry township, Lawrence county Pa., and .Mrs. Sarah Y. Watson, married to Henry W. Watson, living in Muddy creek township. Butler county. l"a., she being the petitioner. Also. Kate Stanton married to Stanton. anel Phrebe McsulTln. widow, living in New Castle. Lawrence county, Pa. Emma Wallace married to Wallace, living in Colorado ; Children of 11. J. Lewis, dee d, a brother of Thompson Lewis; Mary .Miner, marrried to li. F. Miner, and living In Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wm. C. Sharp. Uvingat New Brighton, Beaver county. Pa.; children of Eliza Sharp, a dee'd sister of the said Thompson Lewis; orlanda Young and Beß Young, children of llettle Young, a dee'd Bi*ter ot th<* said Thompson Lewis, living in Tama county, Iowa; C. L. Duncan, Alfred B. Duncan. Thompson Duncan and Bell Duncan, living In Perry township, Lawrence county. Fa.. Wm. Duncan, living in Osage county, Kansas. All children of Lamsln Duncan, a de ceased sister or Thompson Lewis, that the; above parties are all over twenty-one years of age, except Thompson and Bell Duncan, who ore minors ; their father, Wm. S. Duncan, Is living In Perry township, Lawrence county. Pa. That no partition of said land lias been made, nor can a jury for that purpose be agreed upon tor that purpose, owing to the fact that they are living so r.ar apart, and other circumstances sur rounding the case. Your petitioners, therefor, prays the Court to award an Inquest to ntalx* partition of said estate to and amoc.'mthe aforesaid parties according to their rights and they will ever pray. IIKNKT WATSON. SABAH J. WATSON, Btm.Bß COt'NTT, ss: Personally appeared be fore me Henry W. Watson, who being duly sworn, says that the above petition is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. HKNKV WATSON. L. P. WAI.KEH, [SEAL.] BUTLER COUNTY, as: Certified from the Record this 28th day of June, A. D. 1887. IIEUSEK MCELVAIN, Clerk. BCTI.EBCOCNTY, SS: TO Peter Kramer, Illgh Sheriff of Butler County. Greeting: We command you, that you make known to the several heirs of Thompson Lewis, dee'd. named in loregolng petition, the contents of the same and cite them to be and appear before the Judges of an Orpliaas' Court, to be held at But ler, penn'a, on Monday the sth day of Septem ber, then and there to show cause, if any they mav have, why the prayer of the Petitioners shoui i n;t be granted, and a writ ot Partition awarded. Witness the Honorable Aaron L. Hazen, Presi dent, Judge of our said Court, at Butler, this 2sth day of June, A, I>. 1887. ItEt'KKN MCELVAIN, Clerk. irilßS' COURT Sill. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Butler County, the undersigned Ad ministratrix of John C. Blair, dee'd., will offer at public, pale on the premises in Slip perjrock township, Butler couuty, Pa., on SATURDAY, AUG. 20th, 1887, at 10 o'clock A M., the foliowiug dtscribed lteal fcstatc of said decedent: Ninety Acres of Land, more or less, situate in the Township, County and State above mentioned. Bonn.led and described as follows, to-wit: North by land of John Keisler, East by Slipperyrock Creek, South by lands ot Paul Keistcr and West by lands ot Lewis Patterson. A Two-story Frame House of eight rooms; Log Barn and numeious outbuildings there on. About 25 acres in timber, the balance cleared ami in a good state of cultivation. TEBMS:—One-third of purchase money in hand on confirmation of sale by th 3 Court, bala'uce iu two equal annual installments with interest. Deferred payments to be se cured by bond and mortgage. MAIIY A. BLAIR, Adm'rx., Biownsdalc, Pa. FARM FOR SALT I will scell my farm, located in Franklin township, Butler county, Pa. It contains 220 ACRES of Kooel, well watered land, both ridge and swamp; goes! grain land and good grass land, about :I0 acres of good chestnut timber, three orchards, GOOD BANK BARN, 50x00 feet, frame and log dwelling, cod sptiug and goe>d spring house near house; well in kitchen, good corn crib, pig pen and all nccestnry improvement*. For teriu3. etc, inquire of me on the prem ises. OKOKGK C. MCCANDLESS. Prospect, Pa. FARM FOR SALE In Sugarcrrek township. Armstrong county, near Adams P. o„ one and one-fourth mile east of the new oil development In Sugarcreek twp. Farm contains 100 ACRES, with bank barn, 32XG0 feet; BRICK HOUSE, jKx.to feet, 2 stories, with cellar, frame kitchen, 1 Ixlii feet; goeiel spring of water, farm well wa tered, good orchard of graftwl fruit. Farm In a good suite etf cultivation. About 75 ACRES CLEARED, balance in good timber. Will sell extremely low for cash. For particulars Inquire of J. It. WICK, Hlmersburg, Clarion Co.. Pa, FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. Two farms, one has 112 acres fine, rich, level land, wiili house, barn, ALc., also 27u acres of good, rich laud adapted to dairy, slock lias a xood house aud three bank barns. Both near a |nosi»ere>uous Penusyluanla city. liiiod mortgages wauled on farms. J. M. STKVKNSON'H & T'O's AG^^^H THE BUTLER CITIZEN. A DRAMATIC SENSATION, The Throbbing, Thrilling Drama. How to Save Monty. By D. HECK, Author of the -The Bride Won; or.WhataNew Suit of Clothes DlJwill ho enacted every clay and evening during the coming season at D. A. lIECK'S GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM, Xo. 11, North Main St., Unity's Mock. SDTLEK, - PA. Until further notice. This powrii'.tl work is a wonderful and variegated combination of tragical comedy, and comical tragedy and never falls io brlnsj down tlie house. The actors are all Stars. The e • sst umliv , win be a strong feature. The icliowlng briefly outlined Is the PROGRAMME: SONG— Tlie bnppy man no more reflects. Who buys his clothing at 1). A. Heck's Aet I,—SCENE I—Time 9 n.m: Enter young man with friend. Voting man tcans to lils friend thai ihe duvet cause ut ills t u;: ige ment to the wealthy I'tnuor'a daughter was his purchase oi an elegant suit ut V>. A. BECK'S Great Clothing Emporium. Friend tumbles to the Ide a ami is made happy vitha new suit. Hat, Slilrts. collars Ties, I'nderwear, eaoves. flo-e, _ Trunk Valise, Umbrella, etc. Scene closes with song, joined in by the audience. SONG—The dav v. 11l t;o Intensely cold. When I>. A. Ucek Is und'.-rsol!, &C. ACT II.—SCENE 2—Time n a.m. Enter throng of peoole. old men, young men. ladies, chil dren, managing matrons wii marriarn •le daurhiers. who with one ac ord fair.., shriek with delight at th • wonder! ul bar guins shown. The Ueautiiul.vonng iaiiy, e iiuler.'lla tinds some jewe.ery, a pair of Corsets, a pair of Kidtiloves, «u elegant pi.tr oi lio:,e that set her o-f so exquisitely that a dude from t'nlouvllle anil a young i:iuu from (ireeceCity both propose.as t he e.ree■••• <'U y man ha.- on one el 1). A. Beck s iiresLstable soils. Cinderella decides to patronize lioaiJ industries and nc.vpts film. The Unlonville dude talks of eiuels. sui."..ie-:, ~e., Cut, decides not to leave this world wiiile lie can get Clothing so cheap a; l). A. 11 lie'K'S Great Emporium. Song by company. Joined by audience: ■1 Is our experience, one and all. ,\n>i ever/ oii ■ • who tries it knows. Thet i). A. HE' ;e ha-> got ihe call. And takes tile town iu celling clothes. ACT III.—SCOT. 3.—Time ten years h ten HECK'S L AUG EST EMPORIUM. Ten y0.r,.; are supposed to have e lapsed. J). A. lii.-'K's More quadrupled in size. Uuller a metropolis. Arrival ot several excursions, electric trains and a number or balloons. Willi crowds of people to buy Clothing, Underwear,. liats, Caps, Collars, Neck Tics, Hosiery. Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Umbrellas, trunks Valises, Satchels, Bill and Pocketbooks, » cloth. Hair ami Tooth Brushes and Innumerable other articles which space forbids to mention. Scores of pros perous men and plump matrons gather around the proprietor, all agreeing that their rise In tin world began from the mo ment they began to buy their goods irom • D A. HECK. Cinderella and her husband about to de part for Mt. Chestnut (this Is no chestnut) The Vnlonville dude, a dude no longer but a rich business man in the city of Butler. Population 10,000, noted chleil.v* for being the most enterprising city in the couuty, and lor l'alr dealing and lor the fact B. A. llKCiv S Emporium, Butty's Block, is the headquarters for good yoods. fair dealing and low prices. Al! wUI now Join in singing:— llow ]>. A. Heck is selling ( lollies. Way down at bed rock- Just watch the crowd that daily goes To P. A. lie k's in Duffy Block. Curtain fails to slow but sure music. stlinnlate llic torpid fiver, strength cn llieUlfyeMtive organs, reflate ">e l>oaciv. uuei are unequalcd us uu uiili-t>i2ion» medicine. Iu Malarial Districts tbeir virtues are widely recognised, a* tliey posscHH peculiar proper!ion iu freeiiiK tlseMyslein from that poi son. This popular remedy rarely fails to effectually en re Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness and all disorders arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion. A Proclamation! Dr. I. <Jny I,enis, Fulton. Ark., nayst '•A year ago I Eiiid bilious fever; TiKt'sfillNWcrc NO highly recrom mcndeil that I used them. Neverilid medicine have u happier effect. Af ter a practice of si quarter of a cen tury, 1 proclaim them the best ANTI-BILIOUS medicine ever used. S nln uyn pre scribe them IEI iny practice." Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray St. New York. Tutt's Manual of Useful Receipts sent Free. CATARRH aiYKVtD ™IvTEV£R I:ostriK teav " lum £?MI <nd throat, afreet ic; id seere yHw .lirnin's sensa ion. I'i.crc a e severe HAY-fever ISISr' T(j the cure Ely's Ceam Balm, V particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price . r io cents at liruggisls :by niatl, registered, 60 cts. Circular; free, EIA I'.KOS, 23.) Greenwich St. New York. Mighty Funny - Agents Wanted PAMANTUA UAKATOSiI. BBKiHT HITS. < 03110 i'l'TS. —BOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION— Hep tiie Nplomliil Kaecess oi' Asfcnl*: One made a profit first s weeks of Stw ; One first f. d;iys .?:H.50 ; One llrst to days Si ir, ; One firstdays , one first :i vieeks SiO3,V); making a clean i>ro!il tn 7 weens works e.f $.".00, It takes olf Haratoya lollies, flirtations, low necks, dudes, ptij; dusrs. etc., in tiie author's in imitable mirth-provoking st.> le. The (100) pic tures by "Opper" are "just killing." People crazy to get it. ACKNTS are making iso to a week. Price 32 so. Ac.EXTS WA.VTF.d. Apply to IK UItAHII HUMS., 72:1 Cliislnul St., Philadelphia. iyl.v» ~A J FRANK & CO. DEALERS IS DRUGS, MEDICI XKB, AND CIIKMICALS, FANCY AND TOILET AUTICES, SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, &c. £r»-phy : lclnns' Prescriptions carefully com pounded, and orders answered with care una dispatch. Our stock of medicines is complete warranted genuine, aud of the best quality. 45 South Main Street, B'OTLEB, - PA. PERMANENT STAMPING For Kensinglon, Arraseno AHD OUTLINE WOEK DONE, Also lessons in same fciven by ANNIE 41 The Pulpit and the Press. J I Together they lay in a homely crili, ' Two flax-haired babes with eyes of b'ue; j In ehildi*h play ami iu daily 101 l j Together upon one farm they grew; ; Then one chose preaching the word oi grace, j • Ami one iilied up an editor's place. The parson preached an l expouneljd well t'o-pel truths and the power of prayer His sermons—sweeter than tlermou's dew— His labors blessed with a tender care; But the church was stylish and well fenced in From the eoumon saints and the elves of sin. j The editor toiled with weary brain, { To steer the world in its destined way; j His words were cl: of en earthly Mrain, But he'prerd them broad ca t—dr.v by day— | On a plain, navßrnished business tdsii, j Atid no one called him a piou man. j They died, apart, in the same i.onr, Aud Mingt.d tlieir v.sy to the gold -.is gate, ! Where the pa.son enter d filled with joy, Toetetre his "acrad and high c.-tate. Ti.e angles met him with welcomes sweet, i But ltd him oil to a lowly sent. Tiie editor meekly entered in And lookcfsround for the humble t 3ut the angles—clustering round about ■ While anthems e hoed and songs cf "ra. e, Brought crowns of laurel and wands of palm. And chanted o'er him a triumph 'i-.uien: "Blessed is he who overcomes, Yv'orUic.g bravely, dtinar.eUnc natighl; Nothing expei fing, ha snail l>e crowm •! With all the jewels his !::l ,-r wrought." i Then they plaseil him upon his th.-o:.-"\ Thus did the heirs come !•> their own. —X. f l JiHC3. MY TWIN BROTM&B. When I arore on the morning of jmy twentieth birthday, and nodded [ merrily to my own reflection in the glass, the bright young face that I laughed back at me was that of aj handsome, happy and very fortunate ! sirl "Good morning, Miss Lydia Searle," I said. "And if aii goes well with us you won't be Miss Ly dia Searle at all this time next year, but Mrs. Harry Hattcn, instead." It wanted but three weeks of my wedding-day, I was as happy as I was busy just then, lor I loved the man whose bride I was so soon to become,with ail a young girl's warm, untried affection. "Better than auy one in the world but Tom, 'I thought. "And surely nobody could or ought to be dearer to me than Tom." Tom was my twin brother. The usual strong' affection existing be tween twins was exceptionally power ful in our case—from circumstance??. Oae of us was born strong and ro bust, and the o.ber frJl and small. Notwithstanding my sr-x, I was ti.e favored one by nature, while Tom was the weakly tv, in. That was the first of bis misfor tune, which naturally gave him a claim on me,and at the same lime at tached bim to me as a heartier, man lier boy would not have done. The second misfortuue was <hat he resem bled our father. Poor fellow! As if he could help thc.t! And yet Uncle Elliott resent ed it in bim just as if he had been to blame for it. "Not a fraction of my money sbnll go to the second Tom Searle," he used to sny. And be kept his word. He had adopted us at poor mother's death. Our father hau died years before. He gave us both u good education, and got Tom a position iu a 1banl;; but when he died —just a year before that twentieth birthday of mine—l was his sole heires. lt grieved me terribly. I loved Tom better far than myself, and would have shared anything with him; but he was proud, poor dear, and wouldn't hear cf such a thing. So the be&t thing I could do was to spend as much money upon him as possible, and lend bim all he wanted to use. He had no objection to that, because, as ho would say: "Some of these days, when I'm par partner in tbe bank, I'll pay it ail back again, Lyddy." And, of course, it was quite proba ble that some day he would be part ner, since I was about to be married to the banker's only son and heir. I was puzzled sometimes to know what Tom did with so much money; ho had "speculations on hand," he told me. J thought that perhaps he was rather extravagant, too—perhaps inclined to be wild. "He is so young autieo handsome, I thought. I was always makin# excuses for him to myself; but, of couree.commou senfcc taught mc that if ho would be steadier, and attend to business bet ter, his chances of promotion at the bank would be improved. As I thought of him on that birth day morning—of course, it was his birthday too—tbe face iu the glass ceased to smile, and a new anxiety crept into my thoughts, I was think ing of tho night before, Tom had acted very strangely. I had lain awake a long time thinking of it last night and a vague utiensi neKS smote me as I remembered it now; what could have ailed him? lie hud come iu, at about ten o'clock, to the parlor where Harry and I were sitting together, aud had remained with us, restless, agitated, nervous, aoel showing so plainly that he wished to see mo alone, that pres ently Harry, half vexed, ball' amused, took the hint and left us. And then he asked me for money. No trifling sum, either. He im plored me, almost wildly, to "give him six hundred pounds, then and there, for God's sake!" He almost toe>k my breath away. I had no such sum of money in the house, of course, nor could I get on such short notice. My fortune con sisted of real estate, from which 1 dej rived a moderate iucome, and a few thousands iu ready money, which, what with Tom's extravagance, and my own preparations for my marri age were neariy gone. Quite aghast at his agitation, as well as at his request, 1 explained to him the utter impossibility of com pliance. 110 said not a word, but dropped into a seat, and sat looking at me as if stupefied. Every vestige of color had gone from his fair, handsome face, aud the delicate, clear-cut features looked hag gard and careworn. A pang shot through my heart as X saw his dis tress, I ceased to care or wonder what the mobey was wanted for. I knelt beside him: "I'll get it for you to-morrow," I said, "if I have to mortgage my prop —fclllllhl dtolllir '-'Y until As mv hirtd touched his bo started nn<i looked down at m-\ He was r.ev?r very stronger briive--nevcr lit te» »y"ttle with trouble. It seemerl to Lave crushed l.im now; tears feii i'roui hi? eyes my face. "Never mind!'' ho moaned. "Poor Lyddy! Poor tfii!.'"' be patted my hand fondly. "1 know you'd give it to me if you cou'd. Ah, I've been a bsd brother t'> yo:i, t'ear. Say yen forgive me to-night!" Aua of course I said s >—said so weeping. His numier di tr».-ed me so; but I did no. know whut tLcre was to forgive. I was wi.er before tba f liinhd.'.y was Llf over, though the know', seenud the greatest calamity cf my life. ' Som iLii g has gone wrong at the batik," Harry told me. lie broke the bitter news to me as gently a-3 be could, with a grave, pile face. "Six hundred pounds, which hud been ea nti.-ie d to T in to deliver somewhere several wteks H.'O, bail not been ac counted for, and—tht re were errors, too, iu bis tee aunts—" I heard no more. Insensibility snatched me for awhile from the agony of Tom's ruin and my own dis gr»ce. For must not his sister share his dishonor? Ift It tbut bitterly at first —I who bud been so proud of him. jiut by-and-by indignation, shame, anger, all gave place to love and love's anxiety. Tom was missing. What mattered it to me that fce bad fc'niied? He was still my brother, and I loved him. I bad not waited for that, however, before taking steps to shield bim from tie coEJequei.ces ot bis crime. Mr. llatton waf: merciful. He had no wish to bring public disgrace upon the family of his old friend—upon the girl whom his own son was engaged to marry. I was permitted to make up the de ficit In the bar k's accounts. In crder to do £o, and fur another reason, I in structed my htwyers to dispose of my property. And that other reason was a letter from Tom, received just otiC week from hi t departure. A pitiful letter—tie outcry of a penitent and ahuo.- t broken heart, He had not appropriated the six hun dred pounds, thank God! but he bad been out and drinking with the money in his possession, aud had been robbed of it. Oh, how grateful I wae! Every other mi-fortune iu the world might be borne with patience now; since Tom was not dishonest. lie confessed to me a thousand in discretions, follies, sins; told me of many and serious debts that he bad left behind him. Most startling of all, he told me he was married, and implored me to ss>- k out and protect his wife and child. Tom's wife r.nd child! Who was she? After" the first surprise was over, I found myself longing to see my new sister aud the little one. I wernt to the address Tom had sent me—went with a carriage to bring my relations home. Disap pointment mot me. Mrs. Searle and her child had gone. ' They were behind with their rent," said the landlady, and the hus band went away, so I couldn't keep her. She left to-day. 1 returned home discouraged I did not want to see or speak to any one just then, so it was peculiarly annoying to find that a young woman whom I had employed to do sewing more than a year ago, had called, and wa3 waiting to seo me. I went down to her. She arose to meet me I entered the parlor. Lit tle Eva Robinson! I remembered the girl well—a pretty, gout'e, timid crea ture. 1 started when I saw that she had an infant in her arms. "Why, what is this?" I cried. "My baby," she said, timidly. "I've married since I saw you last, miss." "I sat down, and bade her do tho same, and then asked her what I could do to serve her. For all answer she burst into a passion of tears, aud rising suddenly, cinie and laid the infant in my lap. "Have mercy on me!" she cried, falling on her knees. "This is your brother's child aud mine, and I—l am his wife!" I was proud girl, and this blow was a heavy one. My brother, so hand some, such a favorite, so unfit for wife and child—he might have mar ried so advantageously, I thought, and- hen-e I was called upon to wel come as a sister my own sewing girl. But I did. I may have shrunk from her for an instant, perhaps in the first surprise, but next minute the thought of that other disgrace, which Tom had not brought on himself aud me, returned to me, and iu my grati tude at escaping that I could uot murmur. She was a dear little thing, too, af ter all; aud the baby charming. Ah. j I had reason to be thankful for the j comfort of their presence soon. For the very nert day, meeting an ac qaintance in the street, she eniel: "And so I hear that your marriage is prtstponed, my dear." My heart sank down like lead. "Who informed you?" 1 asked, qui etly. "Your intended bridegroom, Mr. Harry Hatton, himself. Is it not true?" "Perfectly true," "And postponed until when?" '•lndefinitely." I wrote the same day to Harry: '•You desire your it You will never be called upon to ful fill your engagement with me." And he took me at my word. He called, certainly, and made a pretense of explanation aud regret. The almost entire loss ot my fortune had influenced his father, not himself, but my brother's conduct—" 1 stopped him there. "Tom was innocent," I said; "and what he lost I have restored. You have acknowledged that there was nothing wrong iu his accounts. You need seek uo excuse iu his conduct, sir." He lost his temper. "Do you excuse his destruction of an innocent girl, and abandonment of her aud her child?" he said, With one ejuiek movement I threw open the folding doors, and showed him Eva and her son. "Al'ow me to introduce you to my brother's wife and child,wUom he left iu my protection." But his words had made me un easy. That evening, seated with the baby ou my lay, I asked Eva where she had been married. "Alas!"she cried, "if I only knew! Tom took me to church in a carriage. BUTLER, -PA., FRIDAY, AUGi: ST 5,1887 I know where. It was because I had no certificate of my marriage, that I J dare uot go to my brother—my deer, poblt) brother—who had struggled so • hard, made himself, unaided, an | honorable pcsit : on and a name. I know that a cruel s'ander concerning |me has bfou carried to him that j must almost have broken his | heart." I took her hinds away from her | face ftnd kissed her, j "We'll find the church. There | must be no slander about my dear brother's wife." And I did find it, after a few days' search. Then I got John Robinson's i address—Lo was a lawjer, I found— j and requested him to call on me. Ho came, a wonderfully grave, ha tdsome man, with something sin guLuiy manly and impressive about him. In my heart I thought: "No wonder Eva wept at thought of bis displeasure. He is worth pleading surely." 1 took him to the parlor. "I wish to reconcile you to your sister," I said. "She is my brother's wife." Then I left them together. After an hour or more, Eva came for mo. "John wants to say good-bye be fore he goes." He took my hand in his, and look ed into my eyes. "You are a good woman," he said, earnestly. "Mey God bless you, and meke you as truly happy as you have to-dav made me!" There was something in his mere , look and tone—strength, a truth, a ] thorough reliability—that gave me comfort, somehow I found myself thinking: "If it had bsen my fate to love such a man as that, I should be nearer happiness than I urn to-day." But. I kept my thoughts to myself. Only from that hour I was sensible that 1 regretted my lost hopes and happiness for their owu sake,far more than I mourned for the false lover on whom they were founded. One week later all my property was sold. I had paid off Tom's de'.- and, accompanied by his wife and child, joined h.'ui in a distant home. There wo began life anew. I had n small it:come still, and Tom obtain ed a lucttitive position. The lesson of the past was not lost upon him. Tho sacrifice 1 bud made was not in vain. Dear Tom was a changed mau —changed for the better. Whatever I had lost, had been bis gain. And what had I lost? The money I counted less than nothing,ami Har ry H ilton's love was not worth a re gret. What was it, then? I sighed for the trust betrayed—tho glamour and illusion gone from life so ear ] -Y- --"Oh, to be well and truly loved!" I thought. And then—my thoughts never went back to Harry. Another filhd them. Strange im pivf sion that man had made upon me; seen oulv ones, never to bj forgotten. I thought of him constantly, and heard from him, through Eva, every now and then. "What is your brother's wife like, Eva?" I her oacc, just to try her. "He has none. I know what I should wish her to be I ke, though." And her eyes dwdt ou me iu a way that made my tdl-ia!e color rise. A few days afterward she came to mo laughing, "I told .John of your question, and only hear what he says." She read aloud: "Tell Lydia my wife (that is to bo, I hope,) resides iu your city. 1 hope to visit you before long,and introduce her to you." And he did. With the merry Christmas season John came. 1 think that was the very happiest season of my life. Of course you guess how it all ended. I smile now,looking back ar.d remembering that I fancied once that I loved another than John. That was a dream, but this reality. All my sacrifices have been well re paid.and all my loss was gain; I real ize that every time I hear pre'.ty Eva speak of me -as I first spake of her— as "my brother's wife." Why Go West. Oae of the readers of the Evening Sun asks us to give him some advice upon a matter to which many oLhers have given no little thought: He sayt: I am twenty-four years old, and I have saved a little money. I have been worked to death, aud I see no prospects for future advancement I wish to go West, and either get a place or start in business with my few hundred dollars. What part of the West would you advise me to go to? 1 have thought of Kansas City and of Minneapolis, but I know nothing of either place. It all depends upon our young friend himself whether he succeeds in tbe West or not. But of one thing he may be assured. He will not succeed there unless he works as hard as he has in New York. The west is a very dangerous place for a young man with a few h uudred dollars to go to unless he is possessed of groat business shrewdness. The opportu nities are grc3t there, to be sure; but they are much greater for losing money than many persons realize. Kansas City business men are a very sharp, pushing, driving lot, aud are always ready to welcome anybody with money, but our friend will have to be very wise and wary with them. This is also true of Minneapolis. But why should our young friend go West? A great business man once said that he would settle in New York if he wanted to do auy kind of bu &iness, even to selling peanuts. If a man can succeed iu the West with a small capital to start with, he can succeed in this city, and the prizes of business here are greater. Besides very many business men who have been successful in the West have given up that field and ere coming by hundreds to New York. But if our friend has made up his miud to go West it makes little difference whether he settles in Min neapolis or Kansas City. Wherever ho goes he must work very hard to succeed— N. Y. Sun Who Will Get Ihe Money ? James Lick died in San Francisco 10 years age), leaving in tho hands of trustees an estate of about $:>,000,000 to be divided among various charit able aud scientific societies. The es tate is yet unsettled, but the trustees ' have drawn over SIOO,OOO in salaries r and have paid out nearly $200,000 in : Gen. Butler on a Lawyer's Duly j General B F. Butler recently de- j . livered an address before one huu- ; ! dred and fifty embryo lavvyera jrather- ; ed at the Boston University Law School. "Tiie first duty of the youDg j lawyer,'' said General Butler, ' is ab solute fidelity in one's client. The I I lawyer is tbe adviser and director of ! j bis client iu his business ufFairs. You ! | are to do for him what he would do j i for himself did he possess your learn- j | ing and talents. ' Some say, 'Oh: you must not de- ; . fend a guilty man.' Why not? Would | ! be not defend himself? You must ; delend him as fully teed honorably es j if you knew him innocent. If you j : kuew him innocent it often unfits ; | even the strongest man for the de- j fense, I pjver wish to defend a man ! unless I know that he is guilty. Be i sure that you find out thai fce is £<iil- J ty. Some men dislike to confess j their crime to Ihe lawyer fur fear that j I hen he will not undertake the case. J You must establish a feeling of confi- j dt nee with such. Let them know j that you must have all the facts. Never allow yourself to state to the ! jury that yt.ur client Is innocent. It | is your buritess to act as though it | were 80. If you know nothing about | the circumstances you are like au ass i jumping around in a tanyard and uot I knowing where the pits are. Again, never bargain with your clients. Get vcur fees, awfr»get them early. If the case fails, you will then liud it some what diftiiuit to collect your fees. Apply to them the adage; When the devil was sick, a monk he would be, But when he wa i ; well, the devil a monk was he. "There is no necessity to say that one should not disclose the secrets of the client. We seldom hear of a t-ust being betrayed. Iu the making of wills, the text-books give the forms, It is a case that calis for thought. A sou calls you iu to uiako the will of a dying father. You are uot the law yer for the sou, but for the father. Tell him thy legal effects of every part. Again, if you are ever asked to be r.n executor, a.-k thai some member of the family be appointed with you. It will suvo veu much trouble if a contest arises. You will be free from any ensp'cion. You will lose nothing by this. Ju any case you will do all the work; fake care of the estate, and have all the emoluments that fairly belong to you. You Income the counsel of both sides the moment you become the conveyancer and discriminator. You must act thoughtfully and care fully fe>r both. Do not net as a banker, broker or business agent for yeur client., except as connected with his legal rights. Young gentlemen, you ought not to lose any cf your first cases.jfor you will be emrloyed by the pluiatiff. The defendant doesn't employ a young lawyer. You can study a case before as well as during a triai and it is your owu fault if you lose it. I lose three case now where, wbeu I WHS twenty live, I lest one. Then I war employ ed by the plaintiff, now by the de fendant, or in casts that have been tried or half tried, where a'd hope of success was dead and buried. 1 have to take my cases where I can fiuu them. Eu.dy iu my practice a labor ing man came into my office and said: 'Can a wo. au who keeps a boarding house hold a workingman's clothes for his board?" I told him she could not, and was engaged to make out a writ, which was served, but the woman refused to give up the clothes. The ease was to come on trial the fol lowing Monday, vvhtm the man came in and asked; "riquire, doe 3it make any difference if I told her she might keep the clothes till I paid my board?" I told him it did; that he had no ease. 'But she hain't got no wiitiug,' he said. I told him that made uo diSerence; a verbal promise was a pledge, and I would not pre sent his case to the court, but by a fee I was persuaded, much against my will. There was but one witness to the pledge, aud him 1 recognized as a man who had been convicted of larceny. I objected to his being sworn, and us there were no other witnesses,the case was decided for my client, much to my disgust. I tell this to illustrate the importance of never giving up a case, even when there seems to be no hope. When you go in you had better go through, but you had better be careful how you go in. "In your professional conduct with you associates you must preserve per fect faith. Let you yea be yea and your nay nay. If you make an agree ment by word of mouth, keep it, no matter how muca you regret it. I have always made it a rule to keep my verbal agreements in the way they were understood by the other party. But some people always in sist upon a writteu agreement. With such a man I live up to just what is written, but take advantage of the man if I can. "Stand by your own opinions un der all circumstances, not that you will always be right, but you will get your views of law. If you are in doubt, always take exceptions to the ruling of the judge. If you are wrong you can abandon it, but if you let it go you surely lose it. Y"ou will be wrong in many points of law, as I have been, but if you try all fairly you will win some of them. In your university you have been grounded in the principles of law. Apply these principles, and after com ing to a decision search tho books, and will fiud that the point has been decided somewhere, though there may be some point which you Lave overlooked- It is said that law is the perfection of human reason. You have hnd clear aud good instructions. Apply it to any point, and you ought to como to the same decision, in the same manner, as the learned Judge." —Many a man finds it difficult to "rise with the lark" who is not troub led at all about being out all night "on the lark." —The weakest goes to the wall, but he is weaker when he gets out of the street. —The Legislature at its last sess ion took action looking to the exten sion of a system of weather signals to tho rural districts throughout the State, under the direction of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, aud in connection with the United States Signal Service. The object aimed at is to supply daily information in ad vance to the people of the country districts as to the weather probabili ties, by a system of signals located aWnany points. An Example of Lincoln's Elo- I quence. The Century Life of Lincoln • reaches the famous Lincoln-Douglas j debates in the July number. We quote the following eloquent passage ■ from Lincoln's Lewistovvn speech of; August 17 th, 1858. This speech was made during the same can vass for the Senate, but it was not one of the debate speeches : "The Declaration of Independence was formed by the representatives of American liberty frcm thirteen ! States of the Confederacy, twelve of.' which were slave boiling communi-; ties. We need not discuss the way j or the reason of their becoming slave • holding communities. It is suDScieut j for our purpose that all of them j greatly deplored the evil aud thut! they placed a provision in ths Consti- tution which they supposed would gradually remove the disease by cut ting efl' its source. This was tho abolition of the slave trade. So gen eral was the conviction, the public determination, to abolish the African slave trade, that the provision which I have referred to as being placed in the Constitution declared that it should not be abolished prior to the year 1808. A constitutional provis ion was necessary to prevent the people, through Congress, from put ting a atop to tho traffic immediately at the close of the war. Now if sla very had been a good thing, would the Fathers of the Republic have ta ken a step calculated to diminish its its beneficient influences among them selves, and snatch the boon wholly from their posterity ? These com munities by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'; This was their ma jestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe - This was their hifty, and wise, and noble under standing of the justice of tho Creator to his creatures. Yes, gentlemen, to all his creatures, to the great family |of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the divine im age and likeness was sent into the world to be troddeu on and degraded, aud imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of men then living, but they reached forward and seized on the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children, and their chil dren's children, and the countless myriads who should iuhabit tho earth io other ages. Wise statesmen as they were they knew th» tenden cy to breed tyrants, and so they es tablished these groat self-evident truths, that when in tbe distant fu ture some man, some faction,some in terest should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but An glo Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, aud the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Inde pendence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy aud all the humane aud Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circum scribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built. "Now,my countrymen, If you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declara tion of Independence; if you have lis tened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mu tilate the fair symmetry of its propor tions; if you have been inclined to be- lieved that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart for liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Rev olution. Think nothing of me—take no thought for the political fate of any man, whatsoever—but come back to the truths that are in the Declara tion of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is noth ing. But do not destroy that immor tal emblem of Humanity—the Decla ration of American Independence." Why Do Bees and Wasps Sting? Their weapons often serve to pro tect them from their enemies, but with bees, especially tho honey and hive bees, at the approach of winter, the drones or males are of no longer use, and are killed off by the stings of workers, to save the stores ot honey they would otherwise consume. With many of the wasps their stings are food preservers. The large wasps which make'their holes in tbe ground, and some bees, like the Car penter bees, which cut circular holes in boards, or other trood, deposit an egg in one of tljeso holes, place food lor the the grub that will hatch from this egg to feed upon, and when this grub has made its growth it goes into the chrysalis state, and in time comes out a perfect bee, or wasp, as it may be. But, you ask, "What has this to do with the sting?" A great deal. If the caterpillar or other insect in tended as for the young bee or wasp were dead, when stored away, it would decay and be useless. The effect of the poison of the sting is to keep it iu a semi-torpid existence, alive, but still dormant, and thus preserve the food in a proper con dition to be eaten by the grub of the beo or waap. In this respect wo can see that sting plays a very useful part, but when the sting is employed upon ourselves, we fail to see what good end is accomplished. Kven when a bee-keeper is doing his best for the comfort and wellare of his bees, they will often turn upon and sting him. most needlessly and pain fully.—American Agriculturist for July. —Mrs. I). IJ. Dix, the founder of Pixmont Hospital, and many other benevolent institutions of kindred character, and whose philanthropy, and kindness of heart, was known far and wide, died last week at the State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton, N. J., where she bad been an inmate the past five years. She was 82 vears old. A Romance of Real Life. ! Speaker Husted, bays the : York Tribune, can pi ve tiie poiuts | for a good plot to the coaling Ameri can novelist. There is a fauiillv of • great wealth in the city of Albany, ( said he the other day, whioh hag a i singular origin. During the Revolu | tionary War there was a Quaker fam f ily living in Westchester county who , was in sympathy with the British. J He became so obnorious to his patri otic American neighbors that when the British army evacuated Now York he deemed it prudent with other Tories to depart with them. Ho went to Nova Scotia. Pretty soon bis wife, who had been left in charge of the farm, heard that he had died. They had one child, a hoy, who wcs a baby at that time. The widow was an energetic wo man, and she ran the farm successful ly. Eighteen years passed af;er her husband had fled, when one cold win ter night at supper time, as the wid ow and her boy were about to take their seats at t'ho strpper table cover ed with food, she heard a knock at the door. She opened the door, and locking out she saw a grey-besrded man. "I am a stranger in this country," said the man, and there is no hotel near Would yo& permit me to sleep in your house to-night?-' She said: "I will," and let him in the house. He took supper with them. I When bed-time came he etiidi '-I |do not wish to cause unnecessary trouble. You need not prepare the guest chamber for me—l will sleep with the boy." She consented. As the boj was undressing the stranger said: "Do yon know thai I am your father?" Tlie boy was ajrtonished. "I have been told that he la doad." •'lt is not true," the stranger saM. "I am thy father " He then told his son that he had returned from Nova Scotia to the United States under an assumed name, had becrun business Hfo anew on Long Island and had married again and had several children. He asked his son to get away from the farm shortly on some excuse and visit him for a brief period. The next morning the strauger de parted, After he had gone the mother said to her son: "What did thy father Bay to thee?" The boy atammerod the reply "Why, did you recognize him mother?" "She replied: "I knew h!m tbe moment he opened the door. But af ter deserting mo all these years I was not going to reveal to him that I knew him. Whatd'l he dee ire thee to do?" The boy answered: "He wanted me to visit him at least once a year." The abandoned wifo thought for a moment and said: "Thee can visit thv father." The son did eo for n few years, ant) then the intercourse of the two fami nes ceased. The son's mother died; and the son continued to till t..e furm. Oue day many years after these occurrences, a man driving a hand some bugcry drove up before the eon's house. He went out and found a fine looking young man juit hitching the horse. "Have you any idea who I am?" said the young man to the farmer. "Yes/' replied the farmer, looking at him Intently; "you are my broth er." The young man then told bis brother that their father had just died on Long Island, leaving a large for tune. "Well, I waut none of It," said the farmer; "my mother is the only one that I desire to inherit money from." And he signed away all claim to a share in the Long Island property One of the members of that Long Island family took a large portion of his father's fortune to Albany, and it now forms part of the possession of one of the wealthiest families In the city. Publishing the Bans. I have heard from a brother clergy man an incident, the truth of which internal evidence may be said to guarantee, inasmuch as it seems be yond the power of invention. The good old minister of whom it was told always used to have the book containing the baus on the reading desk just at his right hand, One Sunday morning he began as usual, "I publish the bans of marriage—," and, putting down his hand in all confidence for the book, found to his dismay that it was not there. In his nervousness while searching for the missing register.he kept on repeating the formula, "I publish the bans of marriage between—l publish the banfc of marriage between," till at last the clerk from beneath, in 6heer pity, came to the rescue with a suggestion whispered loudly enough to be heard all over the church, "'Between the cushion and the desk, sir." The book had simply slipped under the cushion. The result of the accident was a publication of bans which I should imagine to be unique. He was a Gentleman. Some amusing stories are told ot the wit and wisdom of London school children. A class of boys in a Board ing school were being examined oral ly in Scripture. The history of Mos es had for some time been a special study, and one ot the examiners ask ed, "What would you say of the general character of Moses?" "He was meek," said one bov, "Brave," said another. "Learned," added a third. "Please, sir," piped forth a pale faced, neatly dressed lad, "he was a gentleman." "A pentleman?" asked the examin er. "How do ycu make that out?" The boy promptly replied, in the same thin, nervous voice, "Please, sir, when the daughters of Jethro went to the well to draw water, the shepherds came and drove them away, and Mopes helped the daugh ters of Jethro, and said to the shep herds, 'Ladies first, please, gentle men.' " Dog Days. Dog days commenced on the 10th of July, and will continue until Aug. 22. The ancient dog days were 40 in number, and extended from Aug. 4to Sept. 14, Thoy were so called ,by the Egyptaiu astronomers for the reason that Sirius, the Dog Star, rose ' with the sun duting that period and ' uniting its influence with that of Old Sol, caused extreme heat and sick nesa. If Ho Lived. . ! A suioU hrt* puffieU a big ( His eyes bulged out and bis cheek* ssotc la* | lie pulped rank fames from h's lips A far. j, j While Hirsute? fhook In hi* youthful diuy wcregraeu, lait lie snide a lie far np oo the farmyard " And cocked his bat o'e» his glassy ' j Taeu wank n yrkik at a cow near t*. . The wwth swatn but {be stood 4lll!, The tie ■» rose ur> and the kid oaoaded ckurtw He groaned alond, fjr be fielt M iSI, Aud kumv i : iat ei-,v:ir Uvi '"liono lifcn. BROWN,?* , HU B«»D \JV.S light and his feet like k*dfc t His cheek.; jr r ew whiie as linen spread. Vv bile bo weakly gasped, its be gazed ftfac* "If I live, this here's last oigafc" li nailing the BlorkaAq Tbe following story is bold of how \\ i'soo, who raa the blockade seventeen times during tbe war, say. Ed a valuable cargo from a Eedqeel blockading vessel: He was in command ct a large bluckade runner which had safely al tered one of tbe southern ports. Ha attempted to escape during a fog la the evening; the fotf suddenly lifted and fouud he had nothing to wly upon but a swift pair of for A ' £ fdc *?' was in of him. ifce bedtt-al fired across nis bows, ,bul tbe Captain took no ncfttce be jon<l pumng a Mitle extwi weight on .** His decks were pii-d lilfih with cotton, which formed an excellent protection against small a.ni fire. The Federal now opened tbo J-iill in good earnest, and shell af ter c-h' il churned the water into foam around, bat not one struck her, Jiyrt ti? fche Wii getting out of range, how ever, a shell peuetreted the side sod lodged sn the boiler, and the vessel waa helpless. She had considerable way on her, so, thongh she was sink* in.cr. she was headed for the shore. Fetbral ceased firing, and watched tbe disabled vessel until at Ir.st she was beached, half full pf water. Capt. Wilson and his crew fled to i he shore, and saw tbe Federal send oS" a boat to inspect their cap ture. Satisfied that the vessel was completely disabled the Federal steamed off to her station in the as eui-coi Lope that she had settled CapL Wilson this time. The misfortune, however, did not daunt He made bis way to a neighboring plan tation, obtained the assistance of a number of the hands, and as soon aa soou as the oaptor woe out of eight and the tide had receded, unloaded the buik of tho cotton. With the as sistauce of a blacksmith he repaired tho hull by riveting iron plates inside and outside the shot bcie and filling the interspace with tar and oottoft. The water in tbe boilet had pat out the fuse of the Bhell? so, exlsacting bis iron visitor, he riveted new plates over tbe hole and made, with the- as sistance of his engineer, a strong it not very presentable repair. Tho cotton waa reshipped, and 1a the early gray of the morning as the Federal captain appeared in tbe offing to take possession of his prize he be held her s" earning a Way to Enfrlaod as if nothing hud happened, while a contemptuous s&late from Oapt WiL son's signal gave him a forcible Idea of the resources of a "canny Scotf* ii a corner.— Chmiber } $ Journal, Early Bliss OIA Sal vatic© Mar riage. At the marriage of the Marechale Catherine, Gen. Booth's daughter, U> Col. Clibborn wt the Salvation Army barracks ia London there was a curi ous ercne. The young woman, toll and excitable, as well as a comelf creature, a 9 soon as the marriage was ovor sang a song, of which one Hue was not very enoournging to the new-married husband. The line wast "We'll-fight and never tire," and to Sllusjrata lier jneaning ia worldly faeh'on she squared off at her huebaoa !n (rue puguiistic shape, dodging her head and shifting her ground, and with much spirit she battered him about considerably. The immense ccowd Kcrtxuned and shouted. It was too much for tie excitable nature of Gen Booth. He dragged out hla venerable spouse, and they sparred right merriiy at each other. When that tired them both couples began a frenzied breakdown, hanging on each other's waists London Observer. Col. Fred Grant. Col. Fred Grant, the eldest sou of tie late general is said to be develop ing into a man very much like bia father, and in proof of this it is told that he U never seen without a cigar in his mouth. —Rubber soled canva9 shoes are called "sneaks." —Tho force of example—When your shoes ar§ "tight" your toes get "corned." —The postmasters* »p of Malaria, Ya., goes begging. No one wants a place just to be B oaken out of it —Always ready to "make a kldi w in the world —the mule. —Death loves a shining mark. That is why it kills and clears away the hair on an old man's head - —Bald beaded men have a bad rep utation from their habit of takiug a nightcap on going to bed. —A boy never thinks as hard as when a bulldog is after him and he is after a soft place in a barbed wire fence. —Portrait of a lady. No. Gl3, in the act of layiug down a novel. Title, "Wenua Rising from the 'She.'" —The next time au Englishman seperciKousiy deolaree that this coun try has no ruins, Just call his atten tion to our peach crop* —Srrawberrles aro good for rheu matism, and we have rheum for them. —A Cincinnati man says he once played chess with Abraham Lincoln. A.s Mr. Lincoln never spoke of it, he probably felt properly ashamed of the • circumstance. —Glass dollars aro being circulated in New York, the glass being mixed witn the white metal to improve the ring and prevent the counterfeit being "seen through." —The Illinois Club, of Chicago, has tho largest table ever made from a single plunk. It fa 15 feet long aad (i wide, and was cut from a California redwood tree. —"Young man," Baid am apostle, "do you that Whan you retire at night you may be called before morning dawns? "I hope so; I'm a young doctor and T need encourage ment of some kind." NO. 8!
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