VOL. XXIV.
A KBAMATIC SENSATION,
Til r 1-)11 ij, Ti-il ling Drama. How
Save Money.
By D. A. HECK,
Author of the 'The Bride Won; or. What a New
Suit of Clothes Did." will be enacted e\er>
day and evening during the coming
season at D, A. IIEC'K'S
GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
So. 11, Scrtli Mala St., Duff) - * Blork,
BOTIiSH, - PA.
I'ntll further notice. This powerful work Is a
wonderful and variegated combination of
ira>{i-'ai comedy, and comical trageaj
and nftver falls to brlug down the house.
The actors are all suns. The costuaiiig
will be a strong feature. The roUow tug brieflj
outlined Is the
' PEOGKAiIME :
SOHC- The happy inao no more reflects.
Who buys ills clothing at 1). A. Ileck s
A/-i I,—SCENP. 1-Ttme 9 a.m: Enter young man
with friend. Young man extfJlMW his
friend that the direct cause of Ills engage
ment to the wealthy farmers daughter
wa.-) his purchase of an elegant suit at
1). A. HW-'KS Great Clothing Emporium.
Friend tumbles to the idea and » mad«
hanpv with a new suit. Ilat. Shirts, Collars
Ties. Underwear, Gloves. Uose.. Trunlr
Valise, Umbrella, etc. scene closes with
song, joined in by the audience.
Bono—The day will be Intensely coid.
When D. A. Ileck is undersold, 4c.
ACT ll.—ScsxK 2—Time 11 a.m. Enter tlircng of
people, oid men. young men. htdles,^n
ilren, managing matrons with maiTUrabk.
iimi'/hters. who wltti one accord l&irij
shriek with delight at the wondei l l wjf?-
gains shown. Hie beautlful young lady.
Cinderella tiniU some
Coiaeia. a pair of Kid iiio\es. ail elegant
pair oi Hose that set her off so cx<iuLslDeij
Unit aclude lrom I nlonvtlle and a jount
man from Greece City both propot*.as the
Greece city man has on one ol D. A ; « ec *
irreslf,table suits. Cinderella decides to
uuiionize home li.austrles ant. accepts
Mm. The t nlouville dude tal*B of duels,
suicides, tut., but decides not to luave this
world while he can get clothing so cheap
at i>. A. HECK'S Great Emporium.
Song l>y.company, joined by audience:
"l Is our experience, one and all.
A nil e .erv one who tries It knows.
That D." A. HECK has got the call.
And takes the to.vn In selling clothes.
ACT 111.- HCXSE 3. -Time ten years later:
HECK'S LARGEST EMPORIUM.
Ten years are supposed to have elapsed.
I>. A~. HECK'S Store quadrupled In sue.
liutler 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,
Susoemlers, Handkerchiefs,
t_m Ore lias. Trunks
Valises, Satchels,
Bill and PtJeketbooks,
clotli. Hair and Tooth Brushes
and Innumerable otiier articles which
space lorbUla to mention. Scores of pros-
Tierous men and plump matrons gather
around the proprietor, all agreeing that
liit-lr rise lu Uie world began from the mo
ment ihey began to buy their goods from
D A. HECK.
Cinderella and her husband about to de
part for Mt. Chestnut (this Is no chestnut)
The I'IJIOJIV Jle dude, a dude no longer but
a rlcn business man In the city of Butler.
Population 10.UM), noted ehl-lly for being
the roost cnterpilslng city In the county,
ami lor fair dealing and for the fact D. A.
HKcK's Eropoiium, Huffy's Block, is the
lieauquarlerrt lor g<XKI goods, fair dealing
and low prices.
All will now Join In singing:—
How D. A. Ileck Is selling clothes,
Way down at bed rock—
Just watch the crowd that dally goes
To 1). A. Heck's In Hurry Block.
Curtain falls to slow but sure music.
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THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
MULLINS, THE AGNOSTIC.
AS TOLD BY DEACON STILLWATER.
I His name was Wi!li*m Mullins, and
He ba<l a sneering way
Of turning his proboscis up
At everything you'd say.
"Wall, now, how do you know?" said he:
"Humph, now, how do you know?
The way it closed an argument
It wasn't by no means slow.
You might be talking social like
With fellows at the store,
On war and politics; and siefc,
And you might have the tloor
And be a gittin' things down fine
Provin' that things was so.
When Mullins would stick hislong nose iu
With "Humph, new how do you know?"
I seen that critter set in church
And take a sermon in.
And turn bis nose up in a sneer
At death and grace and sin,
With no regard for time and place
Or realms of endless woe,
He'd rise and burst the whole thing np
With "Humph, now how do you know?"
He cut his grass whenever it rained,
He shocked his wheat up'green,
He cut his corn behind the frost,
His was alius lean.
He bnilt his stacks with big ends up,
His corn cribs big end down;
"Crooked as Mullins' roadside fence"
Was a proverb iu our town.
The older he got the wuts he grew.
And crookeder day by day;
The squint of his eye would wind a clock.
His toes turned out each way,
His boots and shots were both ol theai lefts,
The rheumatiz twisted so;
But ii'you said he didn't look well
He'd growl, "Now, how do you know.'"
And that darned grit led to his death —
lie was on the railroad track
Cro«sin' a bridge; I heard the train
And yelled "Mullins come back!
The train is around the curve iu sigifi
Says he, "Humph, how do you know?"
I helped to gather him up in a pail
The engine scattered him so.
I think it's best to have more laith
In every day concerns.
And not he alius snoopia' round
To get behind the returns.
A plain statement will do for me,
A hint instead of a blow;
A coroner's jury may fetch out facts,
But it ; s rather late to know.
A. T. Warden In Boston Globe.
Jim Ponlder's Mistake.
A pleasant, balmy day in May.
The windows of the railway car were
open. There was a breeze stirring,
and though a cloud of dnst was
blown in,it was also blown out, with
the the exception of a tired portion
which stopped to rest on the clothes
of the passengers or burrowed for its
own safety in their ears and nostrils.
There were only two vacant seats in
the car, and at I'ankeap station two
persons csme to All them. One of
these was an old man—on a second
look he was probably not over fifty—
with iron-gray hair, partly covered
by a slouched hat and clod in a new
suit of that seemed to have been
made for somebody else. With him
was a youDg and pretty girl, whose
dress was of ordinary stuff, but well
fitting, und who was well gloved
and well shod.
The observer would have set down
the two for a well-to-do farmer and
his daughter who were travelling for
business or pleasure. The man look
ed around The two vacant seats
were on opposite sides of the car- In
one ol them sat a young, well-dress
ed and apparently self-satisfied gen
tleman, and the space by his si.le
was occupied by r handbag ol croco
dile leather and a spring overcoat
lu the other was another young man
not quite so extravagently dressed,
though neatly tied, and not so hand
some as the first, though he had an
open and intellgent countenance.
The farmer looked around and mo
tioning to his daughter,said:
"There's a place for yoq, Lucy".
Then turning to the young man with
the satchel, he atked: "Seat eugag
ed?"
The young man looked up, curled
bis lip Hnpericiliouslv, and said :
"Man to fill it will be here presently,
I dare say."
"Ah," faid the farmer, coolly re
moving the tl.e gripsack and over
coat and placing them on the ycuDg
man's lap ; "then I'll occupy it un
til he comes," and he tented himself,
accordingly, while the young man
glared at him.
The one on the other side looked
(imaged; and then, rising, said. "You
had hotter exclunge peats with
me, sir; and then the young lady and
yourself will be together."
"Thank you?" was the farmer'.* re
ply and the exchange was quietly ef
fected.
The two young men were evident
ly acquainted, for the courteous ono
paid to the other, in a low voice,
"Jim Poulder, you made a 'mistake
there."
"I never, make mistakes, Frank
Boiling." replied the other. "I dare
tay, you will nrake your fortune some
of these days by bain# polite to the
granger population: but my fortune
is already made."
The first speaker paid nothing
more; but, drawing a newspaper from
his pocket, opened it, und ran his eye
over its columns.
Poulder yawned a little, and at
last paid, "This is too dull for yours
faithfully, James Poulder. I'll gojin
to the smoking car and take a whiff.
Have a shifter?" he inquired, produc
ing n pocket flask.
"No, thank you," replied Boiling.
"That stuff is rather too iit»ry for
me."
"Here goeß alone, then. That's as
Que brandy as ever crossed the ocean
Day-day! Keep an eye on my traps,
will you, and don't Rive up my neat
to every country yokel who asks it?"
The elegant young gentleman
shook himself, and made his way for
ward to the car especially provided
for fumigation.
When he bad gone the old man
leaned the arm of his seat and ad
dressed Boiling.
"Excuse me, sir; but didu't your
friend who has left say that his name
was James Poulder?
"That's his name, sir;" replied the
young man, "but he is not exactly a
friend of mine, though he lives iu the
same place and I know him very
well."
"May I inquire where he is from?"
"Yes, sir; Oareysburg."
"Son of Peter B. Poulder, the great
pork packer there, isn't he?"
"Yes, sir."
"His father should deal with him;
it would be quite in his line."
' Oh, papa!" said a sweet reproach
ful voice, as those near who heard
the colloquy tittered.
| "It's a fact, Lucy," rejoined the
farmer.
The old gentleman, who evidently
was intelligent,entered into a general
< onversatiju with the younger and
i FOOD showed that he was quite will
! informed. Boiling was glad of a con
ference so entertaining, especially
when, as his eyes were bent in that
direction, he saw the yonng lady was
: interested, and, he hoped, a pleased
' listener. There was something very
' sweet in the expression of her coun
tenance, an inexpressible impress of
modesty and innocence in her fea
tures. They chatted away, and the
1 elder, so desirously thut the younger
i never perceived it, drew out of the
other his position, prospects and in-
I tentions.
j Boiling was frank by nature, and
j the questions of his interlocutor, who
wa3 as ingenious as the other was
I ingenous, were craftily put. The
| sharp granger socn learned that
| Frank Boiling had been engaged for
j some time in the study of law;
but that faia father,
having met with reverses and hav
ing two younger daughters to edu
cate, the young man determined to
make his burden less, and had set
out to support himself, abandoning
bis law studies and taking a situation
as salesman at a country store in
Griffion, a thriving towu about five
miles from the main line.
"I get but beggarly pay of course,"
said Frank, gaylv; "I'm only a raw
hand; but I have a promise that
whan I am qualified my wcge3 will
be increased."
"You arc rather a singular person,"
said the farmer buffi v. "Most young
men would talked of their salary."
"I rather prefer the old style of
English," sa'd Boiling, "I am to be a
hireling, and the compensation of a
hireling is called wages But wages
or salary—the terms are indifferent
to me."
"Mv p'ace is within a mile of Griff
ton," said the old man. -I've a no
tion that I knew your father once.
Wasn't he at Harvard in his time?.
"Yes, sir; and so was I. We are
alumni of the same school."
"I wonder if he remembers his old
chum there—,one George Carter—
George St. Leger Carter as they
bave it on the rolls "
"Yes, sir; I've haard bim speak of
of him often, Judge Carter, you
mean? He lives at GrifTton. Do you
know him?"
"Um! ye-s! After a fashion "
• Papa," whispered the young girl,
but Boiling's quick ear caught her
words, "I know the judge better than
you do,"
"Bo qniet, Puss, will you?" repli
ed her father in same tone.
"I um told that he left tbe bench,
and though quite wealthy, has gone
back to the bar. I have a letter from
him which my father, recalling their
youthful friendship, insisted on giv
ing me; but I shall not present it."
"Why. not? He might be of use
to you."
"Scarcely, sir. You .see if lam to
be a salesmau in a country store, I
had better apcornadate myself to my
position.* The judge, if he re
membered old college frienships, would
n't bo likely to consider me a wel
come addition to bis family circle as
a visitor. He is rich, and then he ia
said to have a very handsome and ac
complished daughter, who would no
doubt look down on rae. I
have my bread and butter to earn,
and had better confine myself to it,
"Possibly you are right. But how
came your father to lose his money?
I thought ho inherited a line fortune?"
"Yes, sir; but he was drawn iuto
incurring responsibility for a rela
tive. He is not ruined, by any
means, but is merely hampered, and
thinks he will pull through in time
with a little economy and prudence;
and I have no doubt ho will But I
am only in his way, or I would have
remained "
"Have you ever thought of trying
farming?"
"No, sir : I have no capital, and
know nothing of it."
"Do YOU know any more of selling
groceries and dry goods?"
"Not a bit more; but you see I am
paid something there while I learn."
"Your friend, or your acquaint
ance, as yon call him, goes to Clrffion,
too—does her"
"Yes, sir; but he goes there in a
different capacity. I believes he re
presents his father in some transac
tions about Bume property with the
judge, and is to remain there some
days as a guest, until ttie affair is
closed. Possibly, as his father wants
him to marry, he may be on a tour of
observation, and take in the judge's
daughter. Though that is very im
pertinent of me, for be has said noth
ing on the subject."
"Do you think be is so irresistible
as to be able to pick and chooso at
his pleasure?" inquired tbe girl, look
ing quizzically over her father's
shoulder.
"He can be very fascinating when
he chooßcs, I am told," replied Boil
ing; "and as he is handsome, aaonly
son, and his father worth millions, he
is what elderly ladies call 'a good
catch.' »
"He puts up his fascination along
with his courtesy, I suppose, and
leaves both at homo when he travels,"
said the girl.
"Lucy! Lucj!" cried her father,
"some thoughts had better bo left
uuspoken "
The conversation turned into other
channels. But the old farmer still
purbued his queries iu the most art
ful way. There is a stroug thirst for
information in the rural mind, but in
this instance it seemed to be personal.
At last the elegant Jim Poulder
came back from the smoking car. with
a strong nicotine aroma shedding it
self from his person. His voice had
that thickness which told of the
draining of his pocket flask. He was
jolly and confidential.
"Sorry, old fellow," he said, "to
have left you so long. Been bored
to death for want of company, haven't
you?"
"Oh, no! I have enjoyed a very
pleasant conversation with our genial
neighbor over the way."
Genial! Well, of all the queer
chaps for picking up low acquaint
ance, you beat 'em and give 'em six
in the game."
"Ssb, they'll hear you."
"Let 'em. who cares? Going to
stop at the Junction?"
"No; there is a one-horse sort of
connecting train, I learn, and I shall
push on to Griffion at once."
"I shan't. I shall lay over a day.
I'm sort of worn out, and I'll come
over to-morrow as fresh as a daisy.
Hope you'll havo a good time among
tbe cheese and candies* I intend to
look in on you before I leave and Bee
'how doth the little busy bee improve
I each shiniag hour '''
I "Thank you: you're very kind."
The brake man craned his neck in
the door and uttered some sounds,
apparently "Grittin Juxsh'n, which
j the experienced ear understood to he
Griffton Junction, and the travelers
for that point left the cars. I'oulder
made his way, with his luggage, to
the litt'e hotel there, while the farmer
| and daughter, followed by Boiling,
made their way to the single car, with
1 a little superannuated engine at
tached, which stood waiting. There
were no other passengers, and the
! three had the car to themselves
"Come over here, Mr. BcHing,"
said the old man, after the cor had
been in motion a while, "I want to
taik to you a bit. Turn down that
seat. That will do. You said you
had a letter forjudge Carter, but
didn't intend to deliver it?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did it never occur to you, young
mau, that it was your duty to obey a
father's orders?"
"I trust, sir, I'm usually obedient.
It was not a positive order. I shall
write to bim and explain."
"I tell you that you should deliver
that letter to its proper owner. You
arr only a trustee in this case. lam
Judge Carter, and this is my daughter
Lucy. Hand over the paper to the
court."
"I beg pardon, sir; but I—"
"You want identification. Here,
conductor ! Tell this young man
who I am."
"Judge Carter," responded tbe
functionary, a little curious to know
what it was all about.
"Thank you, Phillips. That will
do. Now, sir."
Boiling, not a little astonished,
took the letter from his pocketbook.
"If you'll permit me," said the
Judge, as he opened the letter and
glanced over the pontents. "He
gives you a good character, and wants
me to look after you a little. Ah,
how time flies! Lucy, this young
fellow's father and I had such good
times in the old days. How long did
you read law, Boiling?"
"A lit'le over two years, sir."
"Like it?"
"Very much indeed, sir."
"Whom did you read with?"
"Spence & Sullivan."
"Good men. Sullivan put you
through the office business, I fancy.
That's his way. Now, I have been
putting you through an exhaustive
examination, which is my way, and
I think you will do. Let old Bragg
find another salesman. He's not
dying for you, and I can get bim a
substitute. I have two studenta iu
my office. What they are there for
is their own business, but they will
never muke a great success at the
bar unless they change their ways. I
want a cleik to manage my ofiice a.nd
to boss around while I am off on a
circuit. I'll give you a living salary,
not too much, and yoi} can read law
meanwhile. You ought to be able to
pass iu a year. If you turn out like
I hope you will, why, when you get
your sheepskin, we'll see what can be
done. What do you say to this?
"Say to it, sir! What can I say
tut yes, and thank you for yotjr
offer?"
"Yery well, that's settled. IJere
we are, and there is our carriage.
Jump in; I'll drive."
The next da;, James Poulder, Esq ,
made his appearance at the Carters in
a state of elegance only matched by
that of Captain Cuttle's famous
watch—never equalled and rarely ex
celled. He was ushered into the
drawing-room and received by a
young lady whose style suited even
his fastidious taste, and whose fea
tures had a dim familiarity. When
the judge came in the young man's
recognition of the farmer in the car
was complete. He stammered out an
apology, but the old mau relieved
him.
"it could hardly have been ex
pected that you should have known
us," said the Judge. "Let all that
pass. You are quite welcome. As
wo have two hours before dinner,
we'll go to the office and look over
tho papers together. Miss Carter
will excuse you meanwhile."
In tbe office Poulder found Boiling,
who was busy at work on a declara
tion.
"Why, Frank, I thought you were
going into the grocery business?"
' I've changed my mind," said
Frank, resuming his work.
Jnmcs Poulder stajed bis week out
and then took the cars for Careys
burg.
Frank Boiling did not make the
same trip until two years later. Then
he went to visit his father, who had
got over his pecuniary troubles, and
te see his sisters. He had been ad
mitted to the bar meanwhile, and
Judge Carter, whose favorable im
pressions time had confirmed/ hud
taken bim into partnership just be
fore ho left. He was ia high spiriU
on that trip. Miss Lucy Carter that
had been, Mrs. Francis Boiling then,
was his traveling companion.
Persons of Note.
Mr. Gladstone has agreed to drive
the first pile of a bridge across tho
Dee.
Frederick Douglass, the noted col
ored orator, arrived recently in this
country from Europe.
Tho Sultan of Turkey gets along
on the modest income of §10,000,000
a year. He is 33 years old.
Mrs. Perry, the wife of Commo
dore Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, is
living quietly at Stratford, Conn.
Although beyond four ecoro, she is
still active and her faculties are not
groatlv impaired.
Mrs. Henry Ward Bceclier has
made a contract by which she is to
write an exteuded series of articles
for newspapers and magazines, in
tended especially for women, and dis
cussing dress, society, education and
marriage.
Joseph Francis, the famous invent
or of life saving apparatus, who has
long been a resident of New Jersey,
baa gone to San Diego, California, to
live permanently. Mr. Francis is
now 80 years old. He is accom
panied by bis son, who is past fifty
years old.
Colorow, the Ute Chief, who has
been making the disturbance iu Colo
rado, is an enormous old savage
weighing 300 pounds. He has never
been satisfied with the government
and has been more or less rebellious
all his life. He used to 7isit Denver
often, aud on one occasion went to
Governor McCook's ofiice and became
rather insolent. Governor McCook
kicked Colorow out of his office and
down a flight of stairs into the street.
BUTLER. PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER i», liteT.
j THE SONG OF THE BEE.
Buzz, buzz, buzz,
' This is the soug of the bee. '
His legs are of yellow,
A jolly good fellow,
And yet a good worker is he.
Jn days that are sunny,
He's getting his honey;
I n days that are cloudy,
lie's hoarding his wai;
On pinks and on lillies,
And gay daffodillies,
And columbine blossoms
He levies a tax.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The sweet smelling clover
He humming hangs over;
The scent of the roses
Makes fragrant his wings;
He never gets lazy,
From thistle and daisy
And weeds of tne meadow
Some treasure he brings.
Buzz, buzz, buss !
From morning's first gray light
Till lading of daylight,
He's singing and toiling
The summer day through,
Oh ! we may get weary,
And thing work is dreary;
'Tis harder by far
To have nothing to do.
—Uiincy X, Pendleton in St. JficftoUib*
Wives by the Shipload.
It Is one of the almost forgotten
curiosities of early Canadian history
about tbe year 1668 France actually
undertook to supply its discharged
soldiers and other citzens who had
settled iu Canada with wives to or
der and on a scale befitting its own
magnificence. Ships were chartered
and a consignment made of several
of denioisselles were ship
ped from the mother land for the
choice and delectation of the sturdy
adventurers who having at length
n peace from the fierce Iro
quis, were now in a position to culti
vate their own assigned acres and sit
down by their own peaceful firesides.
Imagination falters in the attempt to
depict the curiosity and anxiety with
the arrival of the ves
sel bearing the precious freight would
be awaited by the expectant and ea
ger bachelors, if indeed they were
permitted to know beforehand of the
beneficient designs of the govern
ment or the peculiar form it was
about to assume. What a thrill
must have Hashed along the banks of
the St. Lawrence when the advertise
ment was actualy published that a
large number of candidates for the
matrimonial market had reached the
Canadian shores, and that "such as
had had means of supporting a wife
should have their choice." We can
fancy the excitement as the avant
couriers charged with tbe weighty
news went from village to village
anc from house to house th spread
the novel announcement. We can
see in the mind's eye the liv
ing streams of pilgrims taking their
rise iu the remote hut 3 of the forests
and pouring forth in ever-swelling
volume toward the place of rendez
vous, as the ancestors of tbe inhabi
tants hastened forward eager to try
their lortunea, or exulting by antici
pation in the enjoyment of the proffer
ed boom.
So far as appears the hundreds of
imported ladies must have stood forth
with uuveiled faces and with that
outward semblance of calm which on
ly women can put on with marvelous
success in the most trying circum
stances, open to the inspection of the
crowding and excited suitors. What
pen can do justice to the contending
emotions that must have rent their
bosoms as each waited miuute after
minute, or hour after hour, for her
turn to come, or perhaps as she found
herself forced to decide, in very brief
order, between the conflicting claims
of half a dozen eager competitors,
neither of whom she ever saw before,
and in regard to whose previous his
tory and present character she was
wholly in the dark, save so far as her
keen woman's instincts might give
her light?
The matches were all arranged
within the short apace of leas than 15
days from the publication of the ad
vertisements. The marriage cere
mony was in each case duly perform
ed, and the wedding gifts were in
order. The governor general him
self undertook the beneficent task, iu
the absence of a circle of personal
friends and acquaintances, to be put
under contribution. His gifts were
admirably practical and useful.
They consisted of "oxen, cows, fowls,
salted beef and some money." With
these goodly stores the wedded cou
ples set out ou their homeward jour
neys, and though regard for histori
cal truth, or at least verisimilitude,
forbids us to declare of them by
wholesale that they were all "happy
ever after," we may reasonably hope
that a goodly proportion of them at
least were reasonably so, especially
since we must believe that the per
sonal and social virtues of many an
honest habitant of the present day
may have come down in direct line of
heridity from a pair of ancestors thu3
strangely brought together and sum
marily wedded.
How Canada Obtained Its
Name.
The origin of the word Canada is
curious enough. The Spaniards vis
ited that country previous to the
French, and made partial searches for
gold and silver, and finding none,
they often said among themselves,
"A can nada" (there is nothing here)
The Indians who watched closely,
learned the sentence and its meaning.
After the departuro of tho Spaniards
the French arrived, and the Indians,
who wanted none of their company,
and supposing they were also Span
iards come on the same errand, were
anxious to inform them that their la
bor was lost in tarrying in that coun
try and frequently repeated to them
the Spanish sentence "A can nada."
The French, who knew as little of
Spanish as the Indians, supposed
this incessantly recurring sound was
the name of the country and gave it
the name of Canada, which it has
borne ever since.
—Two peach-basket factories in
Smyrna, Del., made 700,000
this season, half enough to supply tbe
entire demands of Deleware and
Maryland. The prices average five
and a half cents,
—Scientific men have led us to be
lieve that color blindness is a very
comiiion defect in this country, but
the recent examination of the train
men of tho Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad does not seem to sustain
, this idea. Out of 400 men examin
ed the firßt day, only three wore
j found who were color blind.
An Economical Advertiser.
From the Columbus Dispatch.]
The principal of an academy in
New Jersey advertises in the city
papers that he prepares "boys for
bus. or col. Backwark boys taught
pri. If you bave a boy who is a lit
tle slow in his gram, or diiitor. in his
ritb. or weak in his Lat. that you
want to rush for a bus. posish. or a
profesh., you should write a let. to
the princ. of this acad. for a circ. and
a cat. containing terms and curric.
The prof's head is lev.
How He Received the News.
A man covered with dust rushed
into a Chicago business house, and,
approaching the proprietor, said:
"My dear sir, do not be excited,
but prepare yourself to hear bad
news."
"What's the matter?"
"Your wife went out to see the
ball game."
"Yes."
"I am just from the ball grounds.
A frightful accident happened and—"
"And what?"
"My dear sir, your wife was kill
ed."
"Yes," said the business man, "but
how does the score stand?"
"My gracious alive, man, I tell you
that—"
"Yes, I know all about that, but I
have a hundred dollars up on the
Chicago and am very anxious to hear
—Ah, here's tbe evening paper.
Here, bub."— Arlcansaw Traveler.
Seven Reasons Against Swear
ing.
1. It is mean. A boy of high
moral standing would almost as soon
Kteal sheep as swear.
2. It is vulgar—altogether to low
for a decent boy.
3. It is cowardly—implying a fear
of not being believed or obeyed.
4 It is ungentlemanly—a gentle
man, according to Webster, is a gen
teel man, well-bred, refined. Such a
ono will no more swear than go into
the street and throw mud with a
chimney-sweep.
5. It is indecent—offensiye to deli
cacy, and extremely unfit for human
ears.
6. It is venomous—showing a
boy's heart to be a treat of vipers and
every time he swears one of them
sticks out his head.
7. It is wicked—violating the di
vine laws, and provoking the dis
pleasure of Him who will not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in
vain.
The Manufacture of Butter.
In order to secure satisfactory re
sults in the manufacture of butter, tbe
cream should become what is termed
refined; it should have acquired a de
gree of acidity. To churn fresh
cream as it is first collected, requires
longer time, yields less satisfactory
character. To pioduce a result sim
ilar to that effected by the natural re
forming or souring of the cream the
Danish have adopted an artificial
means which is quite satisfactory and
and perhaps productive of more uni
form results. There they sour the
an addition of sour butter
milk at the time of churning or a lit
tlw time before, but not long enough
before to allow the crcain to sour of
itself and become stale. Introduced
in this way acidity does good and no
harm, producing more butter and giv
ing it improved keeping qualities.
This idea can be applied, perhaps
with profit to the manufacture of but
ter at creameries left stand in vats to
become a frothy masa, resembling, as
a Western man expressed it, a tub of
soap-suds.
Plain Truth About Smoking.
Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, to a re
porter, made some remarks on smok
ing by boys, that deserve the atten
tion of all young people—and other
ones: "If children smoke cigard,
they destroy their ncrvoua system
before they are fully formed, and ren
der themselves liable to neuralgia
and various functional diseases of the
brain which aro certainly meant to
destroy their mental force. There is
also some good evidence to show that
tobacco in young persons actually in
terferes with the development of the
body in regard to size—that it stunts
their physical system. It certainly
impairs digestion, for they cannot use
tobacco without spitting inordinately.
The saliva expelled from their bodies
is one of tbe most important of the
digestive fluids, and the proper diges
tion of the food in the stomach is
materially interfered with when their
is not enough left to mix with their
food before it is swallowed. Again,
it certainly impairs the hearing and
eyesight. I have 6een several in
stances of young children having
their eyesight injured seriously, if not
irreparably, by the use of tobacco.
The excessive use of tobacco is in
jurious to everybody, adults as well
as infants, male as well as female."
Sparrows for Food.
Sparrows are being properly ap
preciated. Hundreds of them are now
caught bp enterprising people for sale
to certain restaurants where reed
birds are in demand. A German
woman on Third avenue has three
traps set every day, and she catches
probable seventy-five a week. They
are cooked and served to her boarders
the same as reed birds, and are de
clared quite as great a delicacy. This
German woman bastes them, leaving
the little wooden skewer in the bird
when served. They are cooked with
a bit of bacon. She tempts them with
oats, and after the catch, they arc fed
awhile with boiled oaten meal. She
sprinkles oaten meal in tbe back yard
also, and thereby fattens the free
birds. The females are tho choice
meat. The males can be told by the
circle of feathers at the neck. Tho
females are as plain as Quakeresses.
So soon as it becomes generally
known that tbe sparrow is a table
bird their number will rapidly gtow
less. People don't like to experi
ment, but wheu it is discovered that
tho sparrow has been declared good
by those upon whom they have been
tried, no boarding house meal will be
deemed in good form unless a dish of
fat sparrows adorns it. Sparrow pie
is a delicacy fit to set before a king.—
New York Times.
—Si< hundred thousand dollars is
the amounts experts say the Toledo
and Peoria taihvay will be financial
ly liable for. That would have paid j
for hourly track-walkers over the eu
tre line for many a day, and saved
all the lives besides.
Household Hints.
Do not box a child's ears, perma
n n dia r uess has resulted from it.
A piece of zinc put on the live
coals iu the stove will clean out the
stovepipe.
Cleanliness and order are among
the first and best methods of happi
ness in every household.
Don't put salt into soup until you
are done skimming it, as salt will
stop the rising of the scum.
In using cloves for pickles and pre
serves, the blossom end should be re
moved, as this darkens the liquid
with which it is cooked.
A little bag of mustard laid on the
top of the pickle jar will prevent tbe
vinegar from becoming mouldy, if
the pickle 3 have been put up in vin
egar that has not been boiled.
When washing glass, slip it into
the water so that tbe inside and out
side touch the water at once. The
reason glasses break is because the
side which is first put in expands
more quickly than the other.
Drinks for the Sick.
ORANGE WIIEY —The juice of one
orange to one pint of sweet milk.
Heat slowly until it curds.tben strain,
and cool.
EGO LEMONADE —White of one egg,
one tablespoon ot pulverized sugar,
juice of one lemon, one goblet of
water. Beat together.
SAGO MILK Three tablespoons
sago soaked in a cup of cold water
one hour; add three cups of boiling
milk; sweeten and flavor to taste.
Simmer slowly a half hour. Eat
warm.
BAKED MILK —Put a half gallon of
milk in ajar, and tie it down with
writing paper. Let it stand in a
moderate oven eight or ten hours.
It will be like cream, and is yery
nutritious.
•PuNcn WITHOUT LIQUOR Take
the juice of six oranges and six lem
ons, adding sugar to suit the taste.
Put to this a quantity of pounded ice
and some sliced pine apple, pouring
over it two quarts of water. This is
an agreeable summer beverage for
anybody, sick or well
Useful Hints.
New milk, boiling hot, will take
out most lruit stains. Dip the arti
cles five or six times iu hot milk.
Ammonia and whiting will clean
nickel plating nicely. Make into a
paste and apply; then rub until bright
with another cloth.
Butter should not be added to
soups and sauces until they are taken
from the fire, as boiling makes it taste
strong and oily.
Much of the ordinary bother of
washing lamp chimneys on the inside
can be saved by usiug a stick with a
sponge tied to the end.
After having your hands in soapy
water, wet them iu vinegar and spir
its of camphor; it kills the alkali and
keeps your hands soft.
Saturate the edges of carpets with
a strong solution of alum water to de
stroy moths: if an unpainted floor,
wash the floor with it before putting
down the carpet. Do the same to
shelves where black ants appear.
Oil stains on carpets, if action is
taken at onco upon tbe oil being spill
ed, may be removed by scattering
corn meal upon them. Also the ap
plication of a hot iron through a
heavy sheet of blotting paper will
have a like effect.
Grass stains are troublesome to re
move, but soft soap and soda is usual
ly effectual. After having wet the
stained parts, rub in the soap and as
much baking soda as will adhere; let
this stand half an hour and wash in
the usual manner. Whiting is also
used with soft soap for the same pur
pose.
To keep hinges in order, big or
little, and prevent the disagreeable
creaking, don't oil them. The oil is
apt to soil the hands, the garments
and the carpet, and the remedy is
sometimes "worse than the disease."
Hub tho hinge that creaks or the
latch that will not slide with a soft
lead pencil. The application works
like magic.
He Had to wait.
On a Michigan Central train tho
other day as tho "butcher" came into
the car with a basket of oranges, an
old mau, whose wife sat beside him,
waa very anxious to buy half a dozen,
but she waved the boy on with:
"He cau't have 'em. He never
eats one without the juice runs down
on his shirt bosom "
"Shoo! but I want two or three,
Ilanuer," ho protested.
"You behave yonrself! You want
to get cramps and raise a great row,
don't you?"
The boy soon returned with boxed
figs, and the old man beckoned to
him, and began to lick his chops.
"Pass right on!" said the woman
to the boy. "He ain't eat a fig for
thirty years, and 1 guess he can go
thirty more."
Tbe boy passed on and returned
with peanuts. The old man was
ready for hint, hut the wife protested:
"He can't eat 'em. It's been ten
years since he had a tooth in his
head, and he'd have to swallow 'em
whole. No, Reuben, you let peanutß
alone."
Twenty minutes more the boy was
back with candy packages, in which
there were prizes, and the old mau
exclaimed :
"I'll have one o' theiq or—bu3t!"
"Then you'll bust," she replied, as
she motioned the boy to pass on.
"It's agin the Lord and the law to
take chances, and you wouldu't get
nothing nohow."
"But I'm going to buy suthin',
Hanner "
"Well, you wait. You can't have
ice cream nor lemonade, and if he
conies with popcorn or buttermilk
don't you dare to raise a fuss. Just
you wait. We'll be in Detroit at six
o'clock, and then if there happens to
be a grocery near by, you can buy six
herrings for five cents. Herrings is
something to stand by you, Reuben,
and the heads and tails will keep
moths away and are good for warts.
We've got to old for gewgaws, Reu
ben. What we want is the worth of
our money.
—lt is estimated that the amount
of money expended ou new buildings
this year throughout the Union will
be more than $700,000,000. But for
the labor troubles in the spring much
more could have been invested in
building operations.
•
Mamma, is
the sky a curtain
hiding Heaven from our si-<ht?
are the moon A sun but wi . •• ws
u;ade to e the angels ligi.'■'! are
tie star? bright flashing diamonds
shining from (joti's hand afar. aud the
clouds but veils of vapor droppr-d from
heaven iloatir.g then? If the sun's a win
dow, mamma, dont the angels through it
ftt-p, ere it ki«es earth at evfn watching
o'er us while we s'eep? Is the rain
bow just a rib- ben, girdling hea
veu aud earth about, or a rait
ing made of rose sso the angels
won't fall out? Is the sighing in
the treetops so ng9 of praise
some angel sin gs and the
S iowy Hakes of
winter feathers
falling from
their v. in-'.' Are
the dewdmpg
brightly shining
in the early mor
ning iiour«,kiss
spots left by el
ves and fairies,
where they slept
among the flo r
ers? Is the light
ning, rockets
living when the
i'riuee of Glory
cornea,
and
the thun
der bat the
rattle of the
baby angels'
drums.
•> •> •>
—C. K. Lucku?, i;i fioc'icfier Limocrat and
Chronicle.
The Doom of the Carpet.
From the New Mail and Express.]
"The carpat must go."
"It seems to have already gene
from your house," suggested the re
porter.
"Yes," replied the physician, as he
glanced over the polished floors of his
handsomely-furnished office. "I
have not had a carpet on my floor for
five years. My floors are polished
and I use rugs instead of carpets."
"That is only in your office?
"No, sir, throughout my entire
bouse. My floors are of double thick
ness and are consequently
warmer than most carpet
ed floors, and during the winter
we never suffer with cold feet. The
floors are warmed by my furnace."
"What is tho object of this?"
"I conbider carpets unhealthy in
the first place, ugly in the second
place, and uncleanly in the third
place."
"How so? Aren't the rugs as un
healthy as carpets?"
"They might be if we left them in
the sick room. But that I never do.
The carpet holds the poisons of all
diseases, such as scarlet fever, diph
thejia and the like, long after the rest
of the room is disinfected I always
remove the rug, even from a sick
room, where I can find a rug to re
move. The carpet retains dust and
dirt, and the most careful housewife
cannot kei it clean. It is impossi
ble. Now the rug may be taken up
and thoroughly swept on both sides
whenever the housekeeper wants to
do so. Then there is nothing iu
the way of house furnishing so hand
some as a painted and highly polish
ed floor, decorated with Persian or
Turkish rugs. No carpet ever made
is so pleasing to the eye. Yes, the
carpet must go, and 1 only wonder
that the crusade against it has beea
delayed as long as it has."
Texts for the Thoughtful.
When sorrow is asleep wake it not.
Where law ends tyranny begins.
Do what you cught, come what
will,
The human brain needs rest and
change.
Domestic training cannot begin too
early.
Man is caught by bis tongue, an ox
by his horns.
Charity begins at home, but should
not end there.
Those who can command them
selves command others.
Poverty is the want of much, but
avarice of everything.
None preaches better than the ant,
aud she says nothing.
To a gentlemen every woman is a
lady in tho right of her Hex.
The greatest misfortune of all is not
to be able to bear misfortune.
Learn to hold your tongue. Five
words cost Zacharias forty weeks' si
lence.
There is nothing so valuable, and
yet so cheap, as civility; you can al
most buy land with it.
A man may transgress as truly by
holding his tongue as by speaking un
advisably with his lips.
Great possessions may bring great
misfortunes, Some men are punished
by prosperity.
It is the easiest thing in tho world
to discover all the defects in a man
when we do not like him.
Dying by Thousands.
It is said that tho reports of the loss
of cattle in the upper Panhandle, of
Texas, by tho capital syndicate, havo
not been in the least exaggerated.
The company has thousands more
cattle than it has water to supply, and
they are dying by the thousands.
One employee of the syndicate said
that the losses for the previous 22
days would average 500 head per
day, and at ono large well a herd of
cattle, crazed by thirst, crowded on
tho covering of the well, which gave
way, actually filling the well full of
struggling cattle. Seventy-three
bead were afterward dragged out of
the hole.
The almost entire absence of winds
tor some weeks past has kept the
wiud mills from pumping water, thus
cutting off almost the entire supply.
The syndicate has shipped a large
number of horse-power mills and as
soon as they can be put in there will
bo plenty or water. Heavy rains are
reported in Lubbock, Hale and Borden
counties, filling all tho surface water
holes, but no word has been received
from as far north as the syndicate
ranch.
—A certain kind of women at Sar
atoga change the colored ribbons
about their pug dog's ntck twice a
day.
— A St. Louis company with S4OO
- capital has been formed to make
paving blocks out of blast furnace
alag.
—The people of this country spend
$82,000,000 a yeur fur silks. Less
than half of this is woven in this
country. The rest comes from
abroad.
—Prof. E. S. Morse, of Selem,
Mass., has a collection of oyer 4,000
pieces of Japanese pottery.
C o\v Conventions.
In th'i northern port of Scotland
and in th*> Faroe Islands, extraordi
n ry meetings of crows are occasion-
known to occur. They collect in
ri at numbers, as if they bad been all
summoned for tbe occasion ; a few of
the flock sit with drooping beads, and
otl e;s teem as grave as judges, while
others cgaiu are exceedingly active
and noisy; in the course of about an
hour they disperse, and it is not un
common, after they have flown awav,
to find one or two left dead on the
spot. These meetings will some
times continue for a day or two be
fore the object, whatever it may be,
is completed. Crows continue to ar
rive from all quarters during the ses
sion. As soon as they have all ar
rived a very general noise ensues,
and bhortly atter the whole fail upon
one or two individvals and put them
to death; when this execution has
been performed they quietly disperse.
An English Candidate's Wit.
An amusing incident took place
recently in England at a meeting to
support the candidature of Lord Car
marthen for tbe representation of
Brixn. Lord Carmarthen's very
youthful appearance had prompted a
good many personal allusions during
the campaign, and at the meetinjr he
was interrupted in the middle of a
speech by a costc-rmonger, who shout
ed, "Does your motber know y're
out'/'' "Yes," retorted the boyish
candidate, "my mother does know
I'm cut," and then screamiDg at the'
top of b:3 voice, "and on Tuesday
she will know I'm in." Whether thin
was 'a carefully prepared impromptu"
or not, it took the hearts of the crowd
by storm.
—Joseph Watson, of Huntingdon,
Pa., has a hickory rocking chair that
has been in use for 118 years.
—A Cincinnati woman was so
affected by the heat that she refused
to eat for a week and died of starva
tion.
—Wilson Waddingham, who lives
in Connecticut, is the largest land
owner in the world. lie owns 2,-
000,000 acres.
—A barber who can speak in six
different languages has been arrested
at Madisonville charged with setting
fire to many buildings in the town.
—lt is said that a lady who leads
the fashion at Saratoga this year, de
lights not only by the brilliancy of
her diamouds, but by her primitive
grammar.
—There are at this time 385 silk
factories in the United States, with
30.000 employees and upwards of
$2"). 000,000 of capital, using annual
ly §20,000,000 worth of raw material
of foreign production.
—A dispatch from Savannah, Ga.,
says a rise in the river threatens the
almost complete destruction of 10,000
acres of rice in the Savannah bottoms.
The loss wiil probable reach $150,-
00' J.
—July was a hot month in more
senses thau one. Fire burnt up sl4-
000,000 worth of property from the
Ist to theSlst —'a distressing increase
of about $4,000,000 over tho loss in
the corresponding period last year.
—Annie Mercer, of Missaukee Co.,
Michigan, promises to become a
giantess. She is only in her twelith
year, and yet sho is a trifle over six
feet in statura.
—A Chicago lad a few days Bgo
found a packago containing $2,800.
The honest boy returned it to the
owner, who rewarded the honest lit
tle fellow by giving him ten cents.
—A lady in Lexington, Ga., has a
ball ol yarn that was spun and woven
duriug the Revolutionary War, over
100 years ego, aud yet the thread is
seemingly sound aud whole.
—Jacob Seligmau, of Michigan, is
a millionaire and a director in nine
banks and fourteen railroads. He is
less than 5 feet high and went to
Michigan 25 years ago without a cent
in his pocket.
—A young man in Jackson, Mis 3.,
is eating peaches off a tree that grew
from a sprout with which his mother
'•corrected" him years ago. He stuck
the twig in the ground and it grew
right along.
—A young married man from Bir
mingham. Ala., is crazed at a hotel
in Spaitansburg, S. C. He is said to
bo a raving maniac, and the doctors
attribute the cause solely to his ex
cessive indulgence in the cigarette.
—Jasper Caler, near Fabyan s,
has one of the rarest animals ever
seen in the White Mountains. It is
a white porcupine, a big one, too,
weighing 25 pounds, and already so
tame that it eats from its owner's
bauds.
—Clark Smith, of Fort Supply,
and Miss Oussey Nason, of Fort Sill,
20 miles apart, were married by tel
egraph on Monday. The report says
that "everything went lovely, and a
full ceremony was given by means
of lightning."
—Mackay, the millionare, is said
to have lost six of bis millions in a
recent wheat speculation in San Fran
cisco. It is always a satisfaction
when speculators in tbe necasariea of
life come out at tbe little end of the
horn.
—The conductors of the Philadel
phia Heading Railroad Company
have received checks lor tho several
amounts of bonus money withheld
from them years ago. Some of the
checks are for four figures, and the
recipients experience a pleasing glow
of wealth. Some conductors on the
North Penn. will receive $1,200 aud
over.
—Some of the efforts that have been
made iu various parts of tho country to
obtain a continous water supply from
driven wellshavebsen successful. The •
supply in measurably dependent up
on the geological formation of the lo
cality where the experiments are
made, but there have been very few
failurea in any part of the country.
ileavy machinery is now run by
urte>iun well power in many parts ot
Fruuee, and the experience of the
French shows that the deeper the well,
the greater the pressure and the
higher the temperature. At Cren
elle a well suuk to the d«pth of 1,802
feet, and flowing daily 500,000 gal
lone, has a pressure of sixty pound*
to the square inch, and the water
from this WL-il is so hot Chat it is us
ed for beating the hospitals in the vi
cinity.
NO. 42