[OL. XXV Sm Drugstore 1 JUST OPENED, I JEW GOODS, NEW PRICES, 10. JO, E. JEFFERSON ST., * There you will find a full line of Fine Drugs, Chemicals. Per fumes and Toilet Articles. Agents for II Alma, Montrose Dealer* KenOi and Scissors Cigars. Best 5 and 10 cent Cigars in town. Prescriptions carefully compounded by an experienced harmacist. j our patronage respectfully solicited. PR D. E. WILES, Prop r. TJEW CLOTHING 111 KICIMT lIIIMIIS [STIBLISIIFII. I. ROSENBERG has opened his New Store with a full line of Jlothing, Gents' Furnishings, EATS and CAPS TBUffKS and VALIBE* ..II particular attention to my full and-complete line of Foreign and Domestic FIJECE GOODH, lor making up suits to order, I employ the best of work men and all garments made by me are war ranted. and guaranteed to fit. Our terms are strictly cash and INE PRICE TO EVERYBODY. Give me a call before purchasing, I I. J. Mc(JandlebS v New Building, on Main Street, -op pouite the Post Office, Butler, Pa. 1. ROSENBERG. =IBBB= FIRST GUN. Jreat 60 Day Clearing Out Sale Of OUR DRY GOODS, CARPETS, BURNISHING QOODS, TRIMMINGS, WRAPS, for the next sixty that is, until March Ist, the time we take our inventory, during all that time we will offer our stock at way-down prices. If you need dress goods, if you need domestic goods, if you need carpets, if you need furnishing goods, if you need wraps, call in and we will give you surprising bargains. WE lave a very large line of Plush Sacques and Dolmans, Ladies' Newmarkets and Jackets, Misßcn' and Children's V* raps, all in new goods, and no reasonable offer will be refused at RITTEB I HIHSTON'S. ILil-Ul-IL.. I , 1... i 1..X- 111-J.. J. i. J J .. A. Troutman & Son. Leading Dry Goods Bouse. BXJ rx,ji?iEL • IP:E.N ista.. liiiiiiiii A Trontman it Son. Tha leading Dry Goods tad Car pat Hoaaa, Butler, Pi Naw Fall Dress Goods at prices which will make them move very hat. We bare tbe largest stock ever ibowa in Butler county, comprising all tbe new (roods in Checks, Stripes I and Plain Weaves in Foreigo and Domestic Black and Colored Silks, t Special Values IN TRIMMINGS, we have never bad such a nice as sortment and so many of them. BARGAINS la Flannels, Blanket*, Ticking*, Ginghams, Wbite Quilts, Sbawls Table Linena, Lace Cnrtalns, in fact everytbing wbicb can be found in a FM-Claa Dry 6101b Store. A. TROUTMAN & SON'S, Butler, Pa- THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Cloaks and WraPs. for Children and Ladies. We carry tbe ffreatent variety of styles, our stock never wan as large, prices never BO low, goods never so nice. If you want to nee tbe nice (foods, pleane call and examine our stock. I Ladies', Gent*', and Children's Underwear, every grade, all sizes, lient {roods. Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery, Velvets, I'luxhcs, Yarns, etc. —oca— i Carpets and Oil Cloths, never bad so many—never were car pets so cheap. Our stock is complete. Don't buy a Carpet until you have seen our stock. Body Brussels, Velvets, Tap estry, 3-Ply Extra Super, Hemp, Cot ton and Rag Rugs. Window Shades, largest assort ment, lowest prices. CURTAIN POLES You. will find 00 examination .our stock ol goods to be the Lowest Priced in Butler county. Xlie .Peoole's Great EXPOSITION! 4, GREJiTSHOWSINONE, 4, We announce to the people tar and wide we will exhibit our coliossal aggregation of start llDg wonders, to secure which all parts of the eartli—Europe.;AMa, and portion.-, ot the U* s. have been searched, and such an aggregation as hr.s ever been seen since the day Noah enter ed the Art. The mighty Elephant.the great Kiil uoceros. the Hippopottomas.the ("lilmpanzle.the Ou-rang-outang or run-out-and-stlck-out-your tongue out. the greatest living wonders of the age will excite no wonder v.-nen couipari-d with the multitude of monster attractions on exhibi tion at our great moral Ciruas and Menagerie. The roars and howls of the would-be competi tor who Apes the methods, but cries down the attractions of our own and ouly Greatest Show on earth will t>e drowa'.-d in the Joyful acclam ations of a delighted populace. Remember this great show possesses no objectionable features and is the delight of the cultured and refined. We show under one canopy four great shows, the largest Stock—Greatest variety—Best Goods an-J styles—Lowest Prices. We have se cured a magnificent Brass Band which will be a prominent feature of our great show. :i rings with a seperate and coutlnuous performance being enabled in each ring. NEW ANDNOVEL attractions. :: Jolly Clowns. The greatest liv ing, walking, breathing, talking curiosities of the aice. fhunuy I'lielloun—sure to sell you and all the people laugh when th'-y see the bar gains they oiler. Other and greater attractions greet the delighted eye on every side—the Pro prietor and .Managers iwen for your Inspection a colios sal collection ol bright and new Kail Styles in Mens* Hoys' and Child reus' Clothing, Hats, Caps Underwear. Shirts, Collar.. < i:fTK. Ties. Hosiery, Handker chiefs. Mufllei*. Gloves. Mittens, Umbrel las. Trunks. Valises, Satchels. Straps, Brushes. Combs. Jewelry, Corsets, Jer seys, Stockings with a full line of Motions, &c, Big bargains all through the "how. Son>; by the Clown : - ileu and youth and hoys and all, Short and So'id.leau aiid tall. Who need a MUt ot cloth*;* this fall, We do Invite you now to call For we are renin*-' cn the ball. And you are sure to make a haul, Whatever you purchase, great or small. Song 2 :-"What are the wild waves saying l ." Buy your nothing and Furnishing gofsi* of I>. A. HECK. Song "Her bright smile haunts me still." J'he smile of *aii*factlon that beamed from the face of the lady who dressed her little boy In one ol HeckS irreslstable suit*. If you want to save money and Increase your pile droppiu and C IIEcK/aud he'll niuke you all smile. He posaes.se* the power to spread happiness around. And his store Is tne place where bargains are found. Doors open at TA. M. Close at s p. M. Ad mittance, < ieuts Free. Ladles and Children half price. Remember the place. D. A~. HICCK'S, So. 11. North .Main St., ItiifT)'* Block, BOTL.BR, - PA. Planing Mill —AND-- Lumber Yard 3. L PL'KVIS. L. O. FUKVIh, S. 6. Purvis & Co. MASf I'ACTCItEIIB ANI) DKAI.EIW IN Bough and Planed Lumber oF BWKY DEBCKI ITJON. SHINGLES & LATH PLANING MILL AND YARI) N^rUArniMnCltttliolU'Cliiirdlt PROFESSIONA L CARDS. O M. ZIMMEUMAN, I'ItYKICIAN ANIt KUIUiKOK, Office at No. t;., H. Main street, over Frank 6i Co m ltmtr Store. Butler, I'a. J. F. BKITTAIN, Att'y at I.aw--Ofllce at. S. E. t'or. Main St, arid Diamond, Butler, I'a. NEWTON BLACK Att'y at Uw—Office on Month side of Diamond, Butler. Pa. IK A McJIJNKIN. Attorney at I.aw. Office at No. 17, Bust Jeffer son St., Butler, I'a. Dr. S. A. JOHNSTON, DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession exeeut ed tit the neatest manner. Specialties :~4iold Filling*, and Painless Kx tractlou of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. OUet ob Jrffertoa Htrsrt, on* door bit ofLosn Mouse, Lp HUlra. Office open dally, except Wednesdays and Thursdays Couimuu I callous by mall receive prompt attention, Jf. B.—The only Dentist In Duller using the beat make* of teeth. • JOHN E. BYERB, PHYSICIAN ANJJ SURGEON Office No. OR South Main Street, BUTLEB, - PA. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS, Physician and Burgeon, No. 10 West Cunningham St., BUTLER, ZPIEZNTIN-'.A. 0 1/ WALDHON. Oraduate of the I'hlla • delphla Cental t'ollege, i* prepared to do anything In the line ol his profession In a satlafactory manner. onice oh Main street, Butler, t'rilon Block up stairs. J. S. LOSE, M.D., lliut removed from Harmony to Butler and has hlr. office ut No. #, Main ht., three doom t>e!ow Lowry Mouse. upr-80-tf. MB. R. J. LAMB. Organlbit and Choir Maslcr, St. I'eter'a German Church, Butler. Ob oaw, I'tAhoioiuK. VroLiK, Stftoi:W they are tvoWA fiirusairf te r tfftm, "™.BABK*fb The Reliable V* Hop Plaster. Quickest remedy known for h.ickurhe an«l all sadden, siuiru or lnntMtianrlinff pain* or w«*ak noves of every kind. Virtue# ol'fresh hops, hemlock arid pine baLsain combined. It is wonderfully Soothing, Pain-Killing and Strengthening. No failure possible. 20c, 5 for $1 Sold every where or mailed for price by the proprietors. HOP PLASTKR CQ. 9 Boston, Mastu Organs! Organs! Organs! The Dyer & Hugh's leads, them all, 35.000 in actual use. The following are a few of the many using thi* organ in Butler county: Wm. Sarver, Sarversville; Ja.«. Dougherty, Donegal; D Lardin. Baldridge; I. Thorn. Thorn Creek: Jacob Khoup, Thorn Creek; Baptist Church, Butler; Presbyterian Church, Muddycreek; &t. John Church, Hallston Station. These all recommend the Dyer & Hugh's Organ highly. I have contracted to sell a hundred of these organs during ISBB, and will offer them at greatly reduced prices, organs from $47 to S3OO. Come to Butler and take one of them home on trial. A full line of violins,guitars, banjoes, horns and all musical instruments. Don't forget the name and place ALEX WILLIAMS. Next to Berg & Cypher's hard ware store, Butler, Pa. NEW Clothing Store. CLOTHING, HATS, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, UNDERWEAR, NECK WEAR. OVERCOATS, RUBBER COATS, GLOVES, SUSPENDERS, UMBRELLAS, SHIRTS, CAPS, SHOE> FOR MEN i\NI) BOYS, &C„ All at most reasonable prices. JOHN T. KELLY, GJ S., Main St., ( I)4 ,xt door to r. o.) BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. -1. C. ROEKSING, Pukhident. WIM. CAMPBELL, TKEAHUKKK 11. C. HKINKMAN, SKOHKTAHV. DIRECTORS: J. I, Purvis, Samuel Anderson, William Campbell W. Bnrkhart. A. Ttoiitmari, Henderson Oliver, (I. C. Koesslng, . I allien Stephenson, Dr. W. Irvln. N. Welt/el, . J. F. Taylor. H. 0. Heluemati, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't. BUTLER, PA. Wm. F. Miller. Manufacturer of Stair Rails, Balusters* and Nswel-posts. All kinds of wood-turning doiw to order, alto Decorated and carved wood-work, null its Casing, Corner block*, Panel* and all kind* of I*»cy wood-work lor Innldt) decorutlon of liouhcs. CAIX AND SKK SAMPLES. Something new and attractive. AI no FURNITURE at lowest cash price*. Store at No. to, N. Main street. Factory at No. fiO, N. Washington ttiwt. BUTLER, I'KNNA. THE ALLEN PATENT WASHER Why it is Superior to all Others. |„I ITS being ENCLOSED LI retaltm the high lot. IWT; they mil nit'L lion nil H| I orablo EMPLOYMENT thai will ioi 111 wII L I lake tlmni from their homo* and fatulllcH. The profit* arc large and *urc for every lnduHtrlou* portion, many have made and are now making several hundred dollar* a month. It, I* easy lor any one to make I . and iljfwurdtt per day, who l'i willing to work. Either *<•*, young or old; capital not needed; we atari you. Kvcryttaliig new. No special ahUlty re 11ulred; yon, reader, can do It iih well an any one. Write to um at once tor full particulars,which we mull rrjre. Address htinson \ Co., Portland. Me. u & McJUiVIKIJJ, Insurance and Krai Estate A^'t. 17 EAST JKFFEUKON ST. BUTLER, - PA. BUTLKR. PA., FRIDAY. FKBHI'AKY !?, 1888 | Think Twice Before You Speak. I Think twice before ye speak, my lads, ' An' dinna blow an* brag. There's muckle danger in the words j O' tongues that aye maun wag; j A wee bit fire will sometimes mak' | A blaze ye cannot smoor, An' men are kittle tools tae tak' ! When ye hae made them dour. Tfce best way to get through the worl' When ilka project fails, Is ne'er tae scold, an' snap, an' snarl, But keep a pair o' scales An' weigh ilk word ye mean tae say, Gin it shonld tak a week WhateyeK ither folks may dae 1 Think twice before ye speak. I At kirk or market try this plan, I Few words, an* no ower rough. 1 Who ever heard o' any man That didna say enough? ; But we ken scores, aroon', my frien's, ! That canna hice their craze, Who blunter words, like poiuU o' preens, j Syne rue it a' their days. Say, alter a' is said an' dune, | Hid we no' better try T.ie plan o' plan that injures nane— j "Let sleepia' doags first lie ?" I widna fash tUrougb dirt an' glaur, Some dootl'u' guid tae seek, Ye may be wronged—it micht be waur— Think twice before ye speak Client and Counsel Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman. From LoDgman's Magazine.] The jury re-entered the court after half an hour s consultation. It all comes back to me vividly as though I stood in the dock at this very mo ment. The dense fog that hung over the well of the cour.; the barris ters' wigs that bobbeu up through it and were drowned again in that seethiDg cauldron; the rajs of the fluttering caudles—for ttie murder trial bad lasted fur into the evening— that loomed through it and wore a sickly halo; the red robes and red face of my Lord Judge oppo-tite that stared through it and outshone tha candles; the black crowd around, seen mistily; the voice of the usher call ing "Silence!" the shuffling of the ju rymen's feet; the blank pallor of their faces as I leaned forward and tried to read the verdict on them; the very smell of the place—compounded of tog and jail-fever, the close air, and the dinners eaten earlier in the day by the crowd—all this strikes home upon me as sharply as it then did af ter the numb apathy of waiting. As the jury huddled tnto their places I stole a look at my counsel. He paused for a moment from his task ot trimming a quill, shot a quick glance at the foreman's face, and then went on as coolly as ever. "Gentlemen of the jury"—it was the Judge's voice—"are yon agreed upon your verdict?" "We are " "Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty." It must have- been full a minute— as 1 leaned back clutching the rail in front of me—before I saw anything but the bleared eyes of the candles or heard anything but a hoarse murmur from the crowd. But as soon as the court ceased to heave and I could stare about me, 1 looked toward my counsel again lie wns still shaping his pen. He made no motion to come forward aud shake hands over my acquittal, for which he bad worked uutiriugly all day. He did nut even offer to speak. He just looked up, nodded carelessly and turned to his junior beside him; but in that glance I had read sotnetbiog which turned my heart cold, then sick, within rno, and trom that mo ment my hatred of the man was as deep as hell. Iu the fog outside I got clear of the gaping crowd, but tbe chill of the night alter that heated court pierced my very bones. I had on the clothes 1 had been takeu in. It was June then, aud now it was late in October. I remember that on the day when they caught me I wore my coat open for coolness. 4 months and a half had gone out of my life. Well, 1 bad money enough iu my pocket to get a greatcoat; but I must put something warm inside me first to get out the chill that cursed law yer had laid 03 my heart. I had purposely chosen the by lanes of the town; but I remembered a certain tavern—the Lamb and Flag which lay down a aide alley. Pres ently tha light from its windows loomed like a beacon ahead. I push ed open the door aud entered. The small bar was full of people newly come from tho court and dis cussing the trial in all its bearings In the babel 1 heard a dozen different opinions given in as many seconds, and learned enough, too, to make me content with the jury 1 had had. But the warmth of the place was pleasant, and I elbowed my way for ward to the counter. There was a woman standing by the door as I entered, who looked curiously at me for a moment, then turned to nudge a man at her side aud whisper. The whisper grew as I pressed for ward, and before I could reach the counter a baud was laid on mj shoul der from behind. I turued. "Well?" said I. It was a heavy-looking drover that had touched me. "Are you tho chap as was tried to day for tho murder of Merchant Todd? be asked. "Well?" said I again; but I could see the crowd falling hack as if 1 was a leper, at his question. "Well? 'Taiu't well,then,as I reckon, to be mukiug so free with respectable people." 1 here was a murmur of assent frem the gaping mouths turned toward me The landlord came forward from behind ihe bur. "1 wan acquitted," I urged defiant ly- . "Ac-quitted!" said bo with big scorn iu the syllables "Hear 'im now; 'acquitted!' Landlord, is this u respectable bouse?" The landlord gave his verdict: "H'out yer goes, aud blame yur im pudence!" I looked around, hut their faces were all dead against mo. "H'out yer goon!" repeated the luudlord. "And think yerself lucky it ain't worse," uddod tho drover. With uo further defense I slunk out iuto the uigtit ouce moro. A small crowd of children lle aveu knows wheu or bow gathered— followed me up the court aud out iu to the street. Their numbers swelled as I went on, and some began to boot aud pelt me; but wbeu I gained tbe I top of the hill aud a lonelier district, ' I turned and struck among them with jmv stick. It did my heart good to hear their screams. After that I was let alone, and I tramped forward, past the scattered houses, toward the open country and j the moors. Up here there was scarce ly any fog, but I could see it by tho rising moon, hanging like a shroud over the town below The next town was near twelve miles off, but I do not remember that I thought of getting bo far I could not have thought at all, in fact, or 1 should have taken the highroad upon which the jeweler had been stopped and murdered. There was a shrewd wind blowing, and I shivered all over; bnt the cold at my heart was worse, and my ha tred of the man who bad set it there grew with every step. I thought of the four months and more which parted the two lives of Gabriel Foot aud what I should make of the new one. I bad my chance again; a chance gained for me beyond hope by that counsel but for wbom I should be sleeping tonight in the condemned cell; a chance, and a good chance, but for that same cursed lawyer. Ugh! how cold it was, and how I hated him for it! There was a little whitewashed cottage on the edge of the moor and just after the hedge-rows ceased; the last house before the barren heath be. gan, standing a full three hundred yards from any other dwelling. Its front faced the road, and and at the back an outhouse and a wretched garden jutted out on the waste laad There was a light in each of its win dows to-night, and as I passed down the road I heard the dismal music ot of a flute. Perbaps it was this that jogged my thoughts aud woke them up to my present pass. At any rate, I had not gone more than twenty yards before 1 turned and made for the door. The people might give me a night's lodging in the outhouse; at any rate, they would not refuse a crust to stay the fast which I had not broken since the morning. I tapped gently on the door with my knuckles and listened. I waited five minutes, and no one answered. The flute still continued its melancholy tune; it was evidently in the bands of a learner, for the air— a dispiriting one at the best—kept breaking off suddenly and repeating itself. But the performer had pa tience, and the sound never ceased for more than two seconds at a time. Be sides this nothing was to be heard The blinds were drawn in all the win dows. The glow of the candles throngh them was cheerful enough but nothing was to be seen of the house inside. I knocked a second time and a third with the same result. Final ly, tired of this, I pushed open the low gate which led into the garden behind aud stole around to the back of the cottage. . Here, too, the window on the ground floor was lit up behind its blinds, but that of the room above was shuttered. There was a bole in the shutter, however, where a knot of the wood Lad fallen out, and a thin shaft of light stretched across the blackness and buried itself in a ragged yew-tree at the end of the garden. From the loudness of the sounds 1 judged this to be the room where the flute-playing was going on. The sound of my footsteps on the thin soil did not disturb the performer, so I gathered a haudtul of earth and pitched it against the pane. The flute stopped for a minute or eo, but just as I was expecting to see the win dow open, it went on again. This time the tune was "Pretty Polly Oli ver " I crept back again and began to hammer more loudly at the door. "Come," said I, "whoever this may be inside, I'll nee for mvself at an? rate," arid with that I lifted the latch and gave the door a heavy kick It flew open quite easily—it had not even been locked— aud I found my self in a low kitchen. The room was empty, but the relics or supper lay on the deal table, and the remains of what must have been a noble fire were mill smouldering on the hearth. A crazy, rusty blunderbuss bung over the tireplace. Thin, with a couple of rough chairs, a broken baconrack and a small aide table, completed the fur niture of the place. No; to r as I sat down to make a meal off the remnants of supper something lying on the lime-ash floor beneath this side table caught my eye I stoppod forward and picked it up. It was a barrister's wig. "This is a queer business," thought I; and I laid it on the table opposite me as I went on with my supper. It was a "gossan" wig, as we call it in our parts; a wig grown yellow and rusty with age and wear. It looked so sly and wicked as it lay there, and brought back the events of the day so sharply, that a queer dread took me of being discovered with it. I pulled out my pistol, loaded it, —they had given me back both the powder and pistol found on ine when I was taken, —and laid it beside my plate. This done, I went on with my supper —it was an excellent cold capon,— and all time the Ante upstars kept toot-tootling without stopping except to change the tune. It gave "Hearts of Oak," "Why, Soldiers, Why?" 'Like Hermit Poor" and "Come, Las ses and Lads," before I bad fairly cleared the diub. "Aud now," thought I, "I have had a goed supper; but there are still three things to be done. In the first place I want drink, in the second I want a bed, and io the third I want to thank this kind person, whoever he is. for his honpitality. I'm not going to begin life No. '2 with house breaking. I arose, slipped the pistol into my lailpocket and followed the sound up the ramshackle stairs. My footsteps made such a racket on those old tim bers as fairly to frighten me, but they n«»ver disturbed the flute-player. He hail harked buck again to "Like Her mit Poor" by this time, and the dole fulness of it was fit to make the dead cry out, but he went whining on un til 1 reached the head of the stairs and struck a rousing knock on the door. Tho playing stopped "Come in. " said a cheery voice; but it gavo no cheerfulness Instead of that, it sent all the comfort of my supper clean out of me us I opened the door aud saw him sitting there. There he was, tbe man who had saved my neck that day, and whom most I hat'id iu the world, sitting be fore a snug tire with his (lute on bis knee, u glass of port wine at his el bow, and looking so comfortable with that kowiurr; light in bis gray eye tirat I could bave killed biu) whore he sat. "Oh. it's you, is it?" be said, just the very least bit surprise, and no more. "Come in." I stood in the doorway hesitating. "Don't stay letting in that mon strous draft, man, but sit down. You'll find the bottle on the table and a glass on the shelf." I poured out a glassful and drank it off The stuff was rare, —I can re member its trick on the tongue to this day,—but somehow it did not drive the cold out of my heart. I took another glass and sat sipping it and staring from the fire to my com panion. He bad taken up the flute agaiu and was blowing a few deep notes out of it thoughtfully enough. He was a small, squarely-built man with a sharp, ruddy face like a frozen pippin, heavy gray eyebrows and a mouth like a trip when it was not pursed up for that everlasting flute As he sat there with his wig off, the crown of his bald head was fringed with an obstinate looking patch of hair, the color of a badger's My amazement at finding him here at this hour and alone was lost in the hatred of the man as 1 saw the depths of complacent knowledge in his face, I felt that I must kill hiiu sooner or later, and the sooner the better. Presently he laid down his flute again and spoke: "I scarcely expected you". I grunted something in answer. "But I might have known some thing was up if I'd only paid atten tion to mv flute. It and I are not in harmony to-night. It doesn't like the secrets J have been blow into it,it has heard a lot of queer things in its time, but it's an innocent-minded flute for all that, and I am afraid that what I've told it to-night is a point beyond what it's prepared to go." "1 take it it. knows a d—d deal too much," growled I. He looked at me sharply for an in stant, arose, whistled a bar or two of "Like Hermit Poor," reached down a couple of clay pipes from the shelf, filled one for himself and gravely banded the other with the tobacco to me. "Beyond what it is prepared to go," he echoed quietly, sinking back in his chair and puffing at the pipe. "It's a nice point that we have been discuss ing together, my flute and 1, and I won't say but that I've got the worst ol it. By the way, what do you mean to do now tfaat you have a fresh start" Now I bad not tasted tobacco for over four montbß. and its effect upon my wits was surprising It seemed to oil my though:« until they worked without u bitch, and I saw my plan of action m-irked ouc quite plainly be fore me. "I)o you want to know the first step of all ?" 1 asked. "To be sure; the first step, at any rate, determines the dirtctiou." "Well, tbon." said I very steadily and staring into his fare, "the first step of all ts that I ant going to kill you " ,'H'm,"said he aftor a bit; and I declare that not so much as an eye lash of the man shook. "I thought as much. I guessed that when you camo into the room. And what next." "Time enough to think of 'what next' " I answered; for, though 1 was set upon blowing bis brains out, I longed for him to bla/a out into a pas sion and warm up my blood for the job. "Pardon me," be said as coolly as might lie; ' that would be the very worst time to cbink of it* For just consider: In tho first place you will already be committed to your way of life, and, secondly.if 1 know anything about you, you would be far too flur ried for any thought worth the uame." There was a twinkle of lrosty hu mor in his eye as he said this, and in the silence which followed I could hear hiai chuckling to himself and tasting the words over again as though they were good wine. I sat fingering my pistol and waiting for him to speak again. When be did so it wuh with another dry chuckle and a long puff of tobacco smoke -'As you say, I know a deal too much. Shall I tell you how much ?" "Yes, you may if you'll be quick about it." "Very well, then, I will. I)o yoa mind panning the bottle ? Thank you. I probably know not only too much but a dtml more than you guess First let ns lake the case for the Crown. The jeweler is traveling by coach at night over the moors. He has one postillion only, Roger Tallls by name, and by character shady. The jeweler has money —he was a niggardly fool to take only one postillion'—and car ries a diamond of great,or rather ot enormous and notable value. lie was a bigger fool to take this. In the dark morning two horses came gallop inir back frightened and streaming with sweat. A search party goes ont finds the coach upset by the Four Holed Crass, the jeweler beside it with a couple of pistol bullets in him and tho money, the diamond and Roger TuHis—nowhere. Ho much for the murdered man. Two or three days after, you, Gabriel Foot, »>7 character also shady and known to be a friend to Robert Tallis, are whis pered to bave a suspicious amount of money about you, also bloodstains on your coat. It further leaks out that you were traveling on the moors afoot onthn night in question, arid that your pistols are soiled with powder. Casu for the Crown closes. Have I Btat«ri it correctly ?" I nodded He took a sip or two at his wine, laid down his pipe as if the tobucco spoiled the taste of it,took an other sip urd continued : "Case fur the defense That Rog er Tallis has decamped, that no dia mond has been fouud on you, or any where, and, lastly, that the bullets in the jeweler's body do not fit your pis tols, but r Roger Tallis;after that as you say, 'nothing but a pickaxe aud sbov el." And with this, as I am a living sisner, the rony-faced old boy took up hit* flute aud blew a stave or two of "Oome,Lasses and Lads." "Did jou dl|f him up?" I muttered bc»n*ly; and feltbeutrb de»tbly cold I could feel a drop of sweat trickiiug down my forehead and into mv eye '•What, before the trial ?" My good sir, you have a fair, very fair, aptitude for crime; but, believe me, you have much to learn both of legal etiquette aud of a lawyer's consci ence." And for the first time since I came in 1 saw something like indig nation oq that ruddy face. "Now," be coutiuued, "I either know too much or uot enough. Ob viously I know enough for you to wish, aud perhaps wisely, to kill me The question is, whethar i know enough to make it worth your while to spare me. I think I da; but that is for you to decide. If I put you to night, and in half an hour's time, in possession of property worth ten thousand pounds will that content yon?" "Come, come," I said, "you need not try to fool me, nor thitik I am go ing to let you out of my sight." "You misunderstand; I desire neither; I only wish a bargain. lam ready to pledge you my word to make no attempt to escape before you are in possession of that property, and to offer no resistance to your shootiag me in case you fail to obtain it, pro vided, on the other hand, you pledge your word to spare my life should you succeed within half an hour. And my dear sir, considering the relative value of my word aud yours, I think it must be confessed you have the better of the bargain " I thought for a moment. "Very well, then," said I, "so be it, but if you fail —" "I know what happens,"replied he. With that he blew a uote or two on his flute, took it to pieces and care fully bestowed it in the tails of bis coat. I put away my pistol iu mine. "Do you mind shouldering that spade and pickaxe and following me?" he asked I took them up in silence. He drained bis glass and put on his hat. "Now I thiuk we are ready. Stop a moment." He reached across for the glass which I had emptied, iook it up giu gerly between thumb aud forefinger and tossed it with a crash on the hearthstoue. Ho then did the same to my pipe after first snapping the stem into halves. This done be blew out one candle and with great gravi ty led the way down the staircase. I shouldered the tools and followed, while ray heart hated him with a fiercer spite than ever. We passed down the crazy stairs and through the kitchen. The can dles were still burning there. As my companion glanced at the supper table he said, "H'm, not a bad be ginning of a new leaf. My friend, 1 will {allow you exactly twelve uioaths in which to got hanged." I made no answer, and we stopped out into the night. The moon was now up, and tbe high road stretched like a white ribbon into the gloom. Tbe cold wind bore up a few heavy clouds from the northwest, but for the most part we could see easily enough. We trudged side by side along the road in silence, except that I could hear my companion every now and then whistling softly to him- Belf. As we drew near to the Four Holed Cross and the scene of tho murder I confess to au uneasy feeliug and a desire to get past tho place with all speed. But the lawyer stop ped by tbe very spot where the coach was overturned and hold up a finger as if to call attention. It was a favorite trick of his with tho jury. "This was where tho jewelry Iny. Some fifteen yards off was another pool of blood. Now the jeweler must have dropped instantly, for he was shot through the heart Yet no one doubted but that the other pool of blood was his Fools!" With this he turned off the road at right angles and began to strike rap idly across tbe moor. At first I thought he was trying to escape me, but he allowed me to catch him up rapidly enough, and then I knew the poiut for which he was makiug. I followed doggedly. Clouds began to guther over tbe iiioou's face, und every now and then I stumbled heavily on the uneven ground; but he moved along nimbly enough, and evon cried "Shoo!" in a sprightly voice wben a startled plover flew up before his feet. Presently, after wo had gone about 500 yards on the heath, tbe ground broke away in a little hollow, where a rough track led down to the limekilns and the thinly wooded stream -that washed the valley below. We followed this track for ten minutes or so, aud pres ently tbe masoury of tho disused kilns peered out—white in the moon light—from between the trees. There were three of these kilns standing close together beside tho path; but my companion, without hesitation, pulled up almost beneath the very arch of tho first, peered about, examined the ground narrow ly, aud thou motioned to mo. "Dig here " "If we both know well enough what is undernenth what is tho use of digging?" "I very much doubt if we do," said he. "You had boiler dig " I can feel the chill creeping down my back as I write it; but at tbe time, although 1 well knew the gris ly sight which I was to discover, 1 dug away stewlily enough. The man who had discovered my secret set himself down on a dark bank of ferns at about ten paces distant and began to whistle softly, though 1 could see his fingers fumbling with his coal tails as though they Itched to be at his flute again. The moon's rays shone fitfully upon the white face of the kiln ami lit up my work. The little stream rushed ooisily below. And so, with this hateful man us solitary watcher, 1 bared to the light of heaven thn re mains of the comrade whom, almost five mouths before, I bad murdered uud buried there How I had then cursed my luck because forced to hide bis corpse away before I could return and search for Ihc diamond 1 bad failed to find upon bin body! But as I tossed tho earth and lime aside and discovered my handiwork the moon's rays were suddenly caught and re flect- d from within the pit, and I fell forward with a short gasp of delight. For there, kindled by her broad glory into countless shafts uud points of color—violet, green, yellow aud fieryest red—lay the missing diamond among the bones of the man who had committed murder to possess it, and had been murdered for its sake. As I clutched tbe glorious gerri a black shadow fell between the moon and me. I looked up. My companion was standing over mo with tbe twinkle still ia his eye and the flute in his band. '•You were a fool not to guess that be had swallowed it. I hope you ar<3 satisfied with the bargain. As we are uot, I trust, to meet again in this world, I will here bid yon adieu, though possibly that is scarce ly tb»* word to use. But there is one thing I wish to toll you. T owe you a debt to-night for having prevented me from committing a crime. You saw that I had the spade and pickaxe rtady in the cottage Well. T confess I lusted for that gem, aud I was ar guing out the case with my tiule when you came in." "If," said I, "yon wish to share-^" "Another word," he interrupted, very gravely." and I shall be forced to think you insult me. As it is, I am grateful to yon for supporting my flute's advice at an opportune mo ment. I will now leave you. Two hours ago I was in a fair way of be coming a criminal. I owe it to you and to my Ante that lam still merely , a lawyer. Farewell!" With that he turned on his heels and wa9 gone with a swinging stride up the path and across the moor. His figure stood out upon the sky line for a moment and then vanished. But I could hear for some time the tootle-tootle of his flute in the dis tance, and it struck me that its note was unusually sprightly and clear. Common Sense Advice. Here is a lesson with a moral of universal application. "A Maine farmer asked in a Bantror store about negotiating a loan of S3OO. This led to inquiries and advice of which the Lewiston Journal makeß effective use. "It seems that the man had worked hard ail bis days and had bought and paid for a $1,200 farm, bad taken a wife, fnrnished a house, and now, envious of some of his neighbors, wanted to build a S3OO barn. To do thia be proposed to borrow the cash, giving a mortgage on his farm. Said the 'druggist after the story was told: 'Your farm is clear now?' Yes, sir.' 'You love your wife?' Yes, sir.' Well, said the merchant, 'this is what you should do.' 'Go home, earn that S3OO first, and then build yonr barn. If you borrow now, you will think each night as you lie on your bed that yon are in debt. You will fret and worry; your wife will do the same; sickness and accident may come, or a poor crop be your portion; there will be a S3OO skeleton in yonr house, and ten to one, you will fret and grow peev ish and have a row with yonr wife. Don't go into the mortgage business! Don't go into debt! Live withiu your income, be Jndnatrions, and when you build yonr barn own it, you'll be as proud of it as an English man is of his castle.' For a moment the young farmer hesitated. On each side were interested spectators, and all was silence. Gradually the head lowered, and a tear rolled down the cheek. The man took prido in his occupation, and wanted that barn. At last he said: 'Thank you, sir. To tell the truth, my wife was crying when I left home because I was go ing to mortgage the place. I'll take your advice and go home as I came down and she'll be glad to see me.' 'There said the Bangor man, 'that fellow came to a good, wise conclus ion. I have seen lota of misery on account of this mortgage business. He who gives one often gives pence, comfort and contentlnen t with it.'" A Theory as to the Origin of Petroleum. Professor Mendelejef has recently advanced the theory that petroleum is of purely mineral origin and that the formation of it is going on every day. He has, moreover, succeeded in producing artificial petroleum by a reaction that be describes, and be states that it is impossible to detect any difference betweeu the natural product and the manufactured article. His theory is as follows: Infiltratious of water, reaching a certain depth, come into contact with incandescent masses of carburets of metals, chit-fly of iron, and are at once decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen. The . oxygen unites with the iron, while tho hydrogen seizes on the carbon and rises to an upper level, where the vapors are condensed part into min eral oil, and the rest remains in a state of natural gas. The petroleum strata are generally met with in tho vicinity of mountains, and< it may be gruuted that geological upheaves huvo dislocated the ground is such a way as to permit of the admission of water to great depths, If the center of the of the earth contains great masses of metallic carburets, we may, iu case this theory is verified, count upon an almost inexhaustible source of fuel for the day when our coal deposits shall fail us .—Annaley Industriel• lea. A New Way. Tho following presciption will rcc- , ouimoud itself to the drinker,moder ate or other: Hero is a plan: Start a hotel or saloon in your own house; be the only customer and you will have no license to pay, Go to your wife and give her $2 to buy a gallon of whisky and remember there are sixty drinks in a gallon Yon make it your busi ness every time you are thirsty to buy a drink from your wife, and by the time you have drank up the first gallon, your wife will have the $2 paid back, $2 to put in tho bank and $2 to start business again. And should. you happen to live ten years and , continue to buy booze from your wife, and die at the expiration of that' time, with tho anakes in your socks, ■ she will have money enough to bury you decently, bny a good hou?e and lot, educate yonr children, marry some respectable man, and never be bothered thinking about you. Try it aud see how the thing will pan out, • —Bid ine discourse, I will enchant . thine ear with remarkable tales of as tounding cures of all aorta of suffering by Salvation Oil, the greatest euro on earth for pain. Price 25 cents a bot tle. It is asserted that Booth and Sal vina keep their voices clear by the use of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. —A number of new railroad enter prises have been annoqnoed since the opening of the year. Nearly all of them are in the South and West. —lndiana has 220 coal m