■VOL XXV
GREAT BARGAINS
0
Fifteen Pair of Bradley's Blankets, at $4.
Fi»f Five Plash D»li»»i>", «t *15.00. w.re *3O 00
Tkr*« Plaeh Coat*, at S2O UO. former pric«s f $4.000
Two Ploah CoaU. at sl7 50, former pricee. $35.00
20 Good Newmarkets, at $5.
16 Children:' Wraps from One Dollar to Four Dollars.
REMNANTS IN SILK,
WOOLEN and COTTON GOODS
OF ALL KINDS.
k Foil of Spring Buttons and Trimmings
New Spring Goods Ai riving;
CALL IN AND SEE THE HEAT BARGAINS
mnEB» mrc.
JUST ARRIVED
• large Hoe of
Bpring and Summer Goods,
NMfetiae of Fine Woolraa and Suitings which I am ready to mak« up in
Garments at M reasonable prices as you will find anywhere and
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Ako a foil Hoe of MENS'. BOYS'and CHILDREN'S' ready made
Clothing at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
All tbe latest novelties for Sprinsr and Summer in
Gents' -Furnishings, Goods,
Cape, Trunks, Valines; latent patterns in
Shirts and Neckwear.
If MERCHANT TAILOMIitt
Depertm-e? is Boomioff. Coll and moke your'selection for your Spring
Sou from tboee hoodaoae patterns I have just got io. Prices
reaoooabif and fit guaranteed
Tkukiof mj patrons for past favors, I solicit o continuance
of tbe same.
I. ROSENBERG.
(4 South Moil street, opposite the Postodce, Batler, Pa.
A. Troutman Son.
Leading Dry Oaodf Houw.
BIT IPSJSIISH A..
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A Troutman 4 SOD.
Tho loading Dry Goods and Car
pat Hooae. Batler, Pa
Now Fall Dross Goods ot prices
which will mske thorn mors very
Wo bars tho largost stock over
stows Io Botlor eoooty. comprislog
•U tho BOW goods io Checks, Stripes
sod Plato Weovss ia Foreign sod
Ikooootk
Black and Colored Silks,
Special Yaloes
IN TRIMMINGS,
wo have never hod soeh o nice as
aurfuot aad oo maoy of them.
BARGAINS
Io Flanoels. Blanket*, Tickings,
GtogbaflM, White Qoilts, Sbawls
Table Lioeno, Loce Cartel ns,
to fact everything which can be
foaod io o
n ft j «i ' co ® D< * 00 examination our
Fid-Class Dry Goods Store. AV^rToX the Loweßt
A. TROUTMAN & SON'S,
Butler,, Fa
«I -x. . . u. J - m——; S IMLU
New Drug Store
JUST OPENED,
NEW GOODS, NEW PRICES,
AT
120, EMB ST..
Where you will 6nd a full line of Fine Drugs, Chemicals, Per
fumes and Toilet Articles. Agents for
Hi Alma,
Montrose Dealer.
Keno, and
Scissors Cigars.
Best 5 and 10 ceut Cigars in town.
Prescriptions carefully compounded by sn experienced
Pbarm.ci«t
i our patrouage respectfully solicited.
DR D. E. WILES, Prop'r.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Cloaks and WraPs,
for Children and Ladies.
We carry tbe greatest variety of
styles, oor stock never was as large,
prices never BO low, goods never so
nice.
If yoo wont to see tbe nice goods,
pleono coll sod examine oor stock.
Ladies', Gents', and Children's
Underwear, every grade, all sixes,
best goods.
Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery, Velvets,
Plashes, Yarns, etc.
—oca—
Carpets and Oil Cloths,
never bad so many—never were car
pets so cbeap.
Oar stock is complete. Don't buy
a Carpet until you have seen oor
stock. Body Brussels, Velvets, Top
enry, 3-Ply Extra Super, Hemp, Cot
ton and Kag Rugs.
Window Shades, largest assort
ment, lowest prices.
CURTAIN POLES
3.XIE or.r> C LOSET.
It was an old house, j
. a very ancient man- '
, #ion. w » ,h its several
I, 'ife- facing the j
street, showing its j
Dutch origin. Per- |
nlit,< * d to 8° through
§ it on a tour of iuapec-
V tion, a closet emitted a pecu
j li:ir odor and attracted *tten
f tion. It *a§ that pungent
•I soent which remimU one of
the pine wood# auil aromutic
ahruba of Uie nK'Uut.uns, and which, otoe
smelted, brings to mind the greatest rem
edy of the age. It was evidently the
family closet, where remedies for minor
aciiw ind paioa bad found place for handy
use, anl in modern years the greatest
of all the«e, known tiy its peculiar odor,
had worked it» wonders for the happiness
of mankind, as the following examples
attest: General G. C. Kuiflen, War De
partment, Washington, D. C., February 20,
I«W7. states: "For many years my wife
suffered excruciating pains, frequent and
violent. In 18c?4 she tried St. Jacobs Oil.
It cured her,and prevented auy reeurronce.
Bhe haa not had any return u! p«U>. I
trust it may reach the uttermost pnits of
the earth to prove as mncli n blessing in
other houses, us mine." Mr. Levi llottel,
Corydon, Indiana, under date of June,
writes: In April, 18*4, he had bincollar-bone
broken, and it was Tery painful. He used
two bottle* of St. Jfteobs Oil. It got en
tirely well, and the remedy worked like a
charm. No return of pain, and used only
the one remedy. Mr. Arthur G. Lcwij,
edit'ir Southern Society. Xorlolk, Va., June
:J7, 1887, writes: "Nothing I can say
with regard to St. Jacobs Oil will do it
justice; have used it for a number of yen»
for all ache* und pains, with effects almost
marvelous, nnd for such, ia my opinion, it
is unsurpassed." Mr. Chateau B.zon, 209
Spruce stieet, Philadelphia, Fa., under data
oi February 4, 1887, says: "Have used St.
Jacobs Oil in mv family for ten years; two
years ago broke'my leg; pains very severe.
It cured the pains and gave strength to my
leg. It you desire to publish this, I will
be* plex«ed." If the old house should
tumble down, like the scent of flowers
clinging to a broken vase, the closet would
give forth the token of the good this thing
frim done for mankind.
I"™, BACK *5Ol
The itellablo w /\ //-
Bop Plaster.
Quickest remedy known for hucksche and
all tuiMin, »harp or lone ManrtinK pains or
!«•««• nferery kind. Vlrtuwcrtfrmh hops, hemlock
and pine bsUam combined. It li wonderfully
Soothing, Paln.Kllllny and Strengthening.
Ko failure t>o«lMe. 25c, 6 for Si. Bold every
wliere or malted f..r price by the proprietor*.
HOP PI.APTFR CO., Boston. Mass.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
O. M. ZIMMERMAN,
PHYSICIAN ANl> SfBOEOK,
Office at No. 46, S. Ms In street, over Frank &
Co's Diug Store. Butler, l'a.
J F. BKITTAIN.
Att'y at I.aw—Officii at S. E. Cor. Main St, and
Olainonil, Butler, l'a.
NEWTON CLACK
Att'y at I.aw—Office on South aide of Diamond,
liuller, l'a.
IHA McJUNMX,
Attorney at Law. Office at No. 17, East Jeffer
son Hi., liuiler. Pa.
Dr. 8. A. JOHNSTON,
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession execut
ed in the neatest manner.
Specialties (Jold lliltnes. and Painless Ex
traction of Teetb, Vitalized Air administered.
OBee Jsfferoa Street, one dnor East of Lowrj
Home, L'p Ktalr*.
Office open dally, except Wednesdays and
Thuwlaj*. Communications by mail receive
prompt attention.
Jj. B.- The only Dentist in Batler using the
best makes of teeth.
JOHN E. BYERS,
PHYSICIAN ANU SURGEON
Office No <r> Smith Main Street,
BUTLER, - PA.
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS,
Physician and Surgeon,
No. 10 West Cunningham St.,
BUTLER, PB JTTST; A.
DENTISTR X .
OU WALDHON. Ordinate of the Phlla
. IV. delphla !)enta! College, Is jiropared
to do anything l;i the line of Ills profession In a
"tatl-rfaetory manner.
Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block
up stairs.
j. s. LusK, iw.nr,
Has removed from lliinnony to Butler end has
his office at, No. s>, Main St., three doors below
Lowry House. apr-30-tf.
MR K J. LAMB.
Organist and Choir Master,
St. Peter's Oermnn church, Butior.
0 Uli AN. PIANOfOKTE, VIOI.IS, SINCIKO AND HAU
MIHT.
Pianofortes and Organs Tuned and K'jtjulat
e<l. T;rins on application, 5u West Jefferson
street.
L 8. McJIJXIKIN,
Insurance and Real Estate Ag't.
17 EAST JEFFKRSON ST.
BUTIJER, - I»A.
EITIIIIUII IOTEL.
No. 88 and 90, S. Main St.,
BUTLKR, - - FA.
Near New Court House formerly Donaldson
lioute - i{ood aecolniiiotlaflons for traveler*,
linod ilalilliiK COlllieeted.
[4-»-'UO-lyl 11 I'.ITENM fI.LEK. I'rop'r.
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pounded.
45 S. Main Street, Butler, Pa.
BUY YOUR HOMES
I'nlUsl Security Life Insurance and Trust Co..
of l'a.
Money to Buy llomeH.
Moi tlily dues tot more than a fnlr rent. Pay
ments liccre&se yearly. In event of death
fj u r U> i i'ttiplell< h « l | j}Ui« nl*. talance of en
cumbrn nee canceled.
M »ney to Ix^an.
Uesl estate houifhf. and sold on commission.
WanU-U houses to rent and tents collected.
L. G LINN,
No. 38 South Main St.,
Hutler, Pa.
Over Linn's Drug Store.
FOR SALE
A larue frame hoarding houne. good location
and doing taio«i ImsmeiH, Terruseiuy. For
fiirthej i.artle'daiN Itniulre of
L. 8. Jl. 11M.15, 17 E. JaflVrauM Ht..
' a>.tf Hatler, Pa.
tAli VbM I lOLna thit f,,pm,ot obltm on.mul *
on idvwtiii.*K Ml. . whan In Ct"C.go, will find it on Mr it
1 lO&Q&THOIflAS.
THE QUIZ CLUB.
1 Th' re »eems to be no limit to the numl>ei I
! of queer qu»*>tions »n>l ritidle< that some peo- I
pie lino time 10 propound. Afnouc the Ist- .;
est of such is the list of historical conun
j drums which follows. Can any of our reaii- i
ers furnish a complete list of answers'
1. My first i< a Rcntluian very unique,
I'tiparaUeled, A No. 1. so to ppeaK.
2. Two men engaged in a fiendish plot,
Theeoml was hanged, the bad was not.
3. Shrewd and miserly, witty and wise,
He drew down fame by from the
skies.
4. A ripe, red app'e him the clue,
His dog a candle overthrew,
5. In Erjtiaud and France three cardinals !
jreat,
Who ruled the people, the kin? end the
state.
6. He threw an inkstand at Satan and bade
him bs quiet,
A Diet of Worms was his principal diet.
7. The greatest writer known to fame,
But no one knows how to spell his name. \
8. A knave on the wrolsack good with the j
pen,
The greatest, the wisest, the meanest of
n>en.
9. An old man hanged one Bible day.
But his soul eoe.s marching on for aye.
10. Crossing a rivulet madu him great,
He smoothod down his mantle and met
his fate.
11. A yery remarkable pioneer,
Mixed up somehow with an egg. I hear.
12. Amid many a nation and peril he Btayed,
Saved once by a compass and once by a
maid.
13. A qneen who wa» wiae, witty, learned
and bold.
Once cruel, once loving, • terrible scold.
14. Amid battle and blood Her white path
way led,
From a sheepy ard, through fame, to a
fiery bed.
15. lie lived and died and left no trace.
Is famed—though no one saw his face.
IC. Wise, good and brave he nobly resigned,
Ilis hostess once of him complained.
1". He won a certain mighty game,
His opponent bore his Christian name.
18. He freed the land that holds back the
sea.
By a little opaniel saved was he.
19. Sprung from a cabin, our choaen guide.
Shot by a man in a barn that died.
20. The king of the world at thirty-two.
Died since he could not himself subdue.
21. A blind old man that of mighty song,
Who did his three daughters a pitiful
wrong.
22. He hid in the cellar a powerful thing.
That would ruin his rulers and ruiu his
king.
' 23. The most glorious modern murderer he,
Died on an isle in a lonely sea.
24. A twinkle, a teardrop, a broad hearty
grin,
That wrote of u cricket, a raven, an itin.
25. Gold, armor and retinue, all could not
nave,
His mighty discovery was changed to a
grave.
20. Ob! fickle then fortune to ruler that
cling,
He died for a failure to give up a ring.
27. He went to the heart of a continent
black,
Wait found by a friend, and would not
coma hack.
29. He was slain by one of royal line,
Whose king waa beaten over a shrine.
29. Ha made what would teparate fiber from
seed.
His mighty machine caused the aation
to bleed.
30. He canned up word*, he far* speech
wing*.
A glorious arch from his arches swings,
31. He wrote the w >rd* i» a fiery hour
That freed the nation from foreign
power.
32. From a curious blunder arose bis fame.
To the biggeat thing ever found he gave
a name.
83. He planted t'te aorn from which sprung
the tree
That bore the fruit that now you see.
34. He dug a ditch between two soaa,
Where largest ships could tail with
ease.
36. His pathway through the desert led.
From salt sea bed to mountain bed,
3(S. A coward, a prattler, an obstinate fool,
A pedant, a king, an obedient toil.
37. He read a great poem before a great
fight,
He climbed up a cliff* and died on the
height.
38. The greatest mocker that ever wa* born,
Feligion his railing,and virtue bis scorn.
39. He waa, from historical records appear,
The greatest of men who lived in hi*
years.
THE OLD ROOF TRE E.
Hello, Jim! Where have you beeo
lately?" uhouted a broker the other
evening to a portly, finely dreßsed
man in the corridor of the St. Jameß.
The gentleman stopped, shook bands
with his friend, and replied, "I've
been home to gee my old father and
mother, the first time for mixteen
years, and I tell you, old man I
wouldn't huve missed that visit for
i all my fortune "
•'Kinder good to visit yonr boyhood
home, eh?"
"You t>et. Sit down. I was just
thinking about the old folks, and feel
talkative. If you have a few mo
ments to spare,sit down, light a cigar
and listen to a story of a rich man
who had almost forgotten bin father
and mother."
Th« y sat down and the man told
hi» story
"How I came to visit my home
liappc.fjed in a curious way. Six
weeks I went down to Erie Is
i land fibbing I bad a lunch put up
I at Crook <fc Nash's and von can imug
ine my antouinhment when I opened |
the hamper to find a package of
crackers wrapped up iu a pieco of
newspaper. That newspaper was
the Utile patent inside country week
ly published at my home in Wiscon
sin, I read every word of it. adver
tiw-uieuts and ail. There was George
Kellog, who was a school mate of
mine, advertising ham and wait pork,
and another boy waa postmaster. By
(jeorge, it made me home sick, and I
determined then and there to go home
1 and go home I did.
"In the first place I must tell you
how I came to >*ew York. I had a
tiff with my fa»ber and left home I
finally turned up iu New Y»rk with
: slio my pocket. I got a job run
' ning a freight elevator iu the very
bouse in which 1 am now a partner.
My haste to got rich drove the
thoughts of inj' parents from me and
when I did think of them the hard
words m v father had spoken to me
rankled iu my bosom. Well, I went
home. I didn't see much change in
Chicago, but tbe ma£uificent new
depot in Miiwuukee I thought waa
an improvement on the old shed that
i , they used to have. It was only thir
i ty miles from Milwaukee to my home
J' and 1 tell you, Johu, that train Beeiu
ed to creep. I waa actually worse
tbao a school boy going home for
vacation. At last we ueared the
• town Familiar sights met my eves,
* and darn it all, tbey filled my eyes
witb tears There wan Hill Lvmun's
I • rtxi Lmrujoai Lb*) saaav, grout *ooU,
BUTLER PA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 9.18X8
j what were all the other We
! rode nearly a mile before comina; to
the depot, though houses were only
occasionally I hbw one that was fa
niailiar. The town bad grown to
ten times the size than when I kniw
it. The trsin stopped and I jumped
off. Not a face in sight that I knew
and I started down the platform to
go home. In the office door stood
the station agent. I walked up and
said; 'Howdy, Mr Colling?"
"He stared at me and replied,
'You've got the best of me, sir.'
"I told him who I was aud what I
had been doing in New York, and be
didn't make any bones in talking to
mu. Said he:
"It's about time you come home
You in New York rich, and your
father scratching gravel to pet a bare
living." "I tell you John, it knock
me all in a heap. I thought my
father had enough to live upon com
fortably. Then a notion struck me.
Before going home I telegraphed to
Chicago to one of our correspondents
there to send me SI,OOO by first mail.
Then I went to Mr. Collins* back
office, pot my trunk in thefe and put
on an old hand-me-down suit that I
used for hunting and fishing. My
plug hat I replaced by, a soft hat,
took my valise in my hand and went
home. Somehow the place didn't
look right.
"The currant bushes bad been da."
up irom the front yard and tbe fenco
was gone. All tbe old locust trees
bad been cut down and young maples
were planted The house looked
smaller somehow, too. But I went
up to tbe front door and rao< the
bell. Mother came to the door and
said: "We don't want to buy any
thing today, sir."
"It didn't take me a minute to sur
vey her from head to foot, Neatly
dressed, John, but a patch and darn
here aud there, her hair streaked witb
grey, her face thin drawn and wrink
led. Yet over her glasses shone those
good, honest, benevolent ejea. I
stood stariug at her, and then she be
gan to stare at me. I saw the blood
rush to her face, and witb a great sob
she threw herself upon me aud nerv
ously clasped me about the neck, hys
terically crying: Its Jimmy, its Jim
my "
' Then I cried, too, John. I just
broke down aud cried like a baby.
She got me into the house, bugging
and kissing me, aud then she went to
the back door and shouted, "George "
"Father came in in a moment and
from the kitchen a.-ked, "What you
want, Carl ine?"
"Then he came in. He knew me
in a moment. He stuck out his hand
and grasped mine, and said, sternly,
"Well, young man, do you propose to
behave yourself now?"
He tried to put on a brave front
but be broke down. There we three
sut, like whipped school children, all
whimpering At last supper time
came and mother went out to prepare
it. I went into the kitchen with her
"Where do you live. Jimmy?" she
asked,
'•ln New York," I replied.
"What are you working at now,
Jimmy?"
"I am working in o dry goods
store."
"Then I suppose you don't live
very for I hear tell o' them city
clerks what don't get enough money
to keep body and soul together. So
I'll just tell you, Jimmy, we got
nothin' but roast spare ribs for Bup
per. We ain't pot any more now.
Jimmy. We're poorer nor Job's tur
key "
"I told her I would be delighted
with tbe spare ribs, and to tell tbe
truth, John, I haven't eaten a meal
in New York that tasted as well as
those crisp roasted spare ribs did. I
spent the eveuing playing checkers
with father, while mother sat by tell
ing me all about their misfortunes,
from old white Mooley pettiug drown
ed in the pond to father's signing a
note for a triend and having to mort
gage the place to pay it. Tbe mort
gage was due inside of a week and
not a cent to meet it with—just SBOO
She supposed tbey would be turned
out of house aud borne, but in my
mind I supposed tbey wouldn't. At
last V o'clock came, and lather said:
"Jim go out to tbe barn and see if
Kit's all right Briug in an armful
of old shingles that are just inside the
door and till up the water pail Then
we will all go off to bed and get up
earlv and go a-fishin'.
"I didn't say a word, but I went
out to the bam, bedded down tbe
horse, broke up an armful of shingles,
pumped a pail of water, filled the
wood box, and then we all went to
bed.
"Father called me at 4:30 in the
morning and while he was getting a
cup of coffee, I skipped over to the
depot cross lots and got my bass rod
Father took nothing but a trolling
line aud spoon hook He rowed the
boat with bis trolling line in his
mouth, while I stood Iu the stern witb
a silver Bbiner rigged on. Now,
John, I never saw a man catch fish
like he did. To make a long story
short he caught four bass and five
pickerel, and 1 never got a bite.
"At noon we went ashore aud
father went home, while I went to
the postoftice. I got a letter from
Chicago with a check for SI,OOO in
it. With some trouble I got it cash
ed, getting paid in $. r > and $lO bills
making quite a roll 1 then got a
roast joint of beef and a lot of delica
cies nud had tbem sent home After
thai I went visiting among my old
ncboolmates for two hour# and went
home. The joint was in the oven.
Mother had put on her only silk dress
and father had donned bis Sunday-go
to-meeting-clotbes, none too good,
ouher. This is where I played a joke
on the the old folks. Mother was in
the kitchen watching the roast. Fath
er was out in the baru, and I bad a
clear coast. I dumped the sugar out
of the blue bowl, put the thousand
dollars in it, and placed the cover on
sguin. At last supper was ready
Father asked a blessing over it, and
he actually trembled when he stuck
his knife into the roast.
"We haven't had a piece of meat
like this in five years, Jim, he said:
aud mother put in with, "And we
haven't had auy coffee in a year, only
when we went visiting."
Then she poured out tbe coffee and
lilted tbe cover of the sugar bowl.
a»kiug as she did so: "How mauy
spoons, Jimmy?"
Then she struck something that
wasn't sugar. ~ She picked up the
bowl and peeped into it. 'Aha, Mas
ter Jimmy, playin' your old tricks on
your mammy, eb? Well, boys Will be
boys,'
'•Then «be gasped for breatb Sbe
s*w it was money. Sbe looked at
, tfM, iftqp ot (other, «pd then w»tb
| trembling fingers drew tbu great roll
I of bills out.
"Ha! ha! ba! I can see father now
as he stood there on tiptoe, with his
knife in one hand, fork iu tbe other
and eyes fairly bulging out of his
head But it was too much for moth
er. She raised ber eyes to heaven
and 6aid slowly 'Put your trust in the
Lord for he will provide.' "
"Then she fainted away. Well,
John, there's not much more to tell.
We threw water in her face and
brought ber too, and we demolished
that dinner, mother all the time say
ing: 'My boy Jimmy ! My boy Jim
my!' "
"I stayed home a month. I fixed
up the place, paid off all debts, had a
good time and came back again to
New York lam going to seud SSO
home every week I tell you, John,
its mighty nice to have a home"
John was looking steadily at tbe
bead of cane. Wben he spoke he
took Jim by the hand and said:
"Jim, old friend, what you have
told me has affected me greatly. I
haven't heard from my home way up
in Maine for ten years. lam going
home to-morrow."
Mated By Accident.
Marriages are often the result of
accident. It seems strange, but tbe
most prudent persons will sometimes
conceive an irresistable attachment at
the suggestion of a word or look.
The few may give the subject the con
sideration it deserves, but the many,
there is to fear, are guided by im
pulse. A skipper of a coasting ves
sel called at the village inn aud ask
ed the landlady, a youog widow: ' Do
you know where I can get a mate?
I've lost my mate."
"I am sorry for you, Mr.
she said. "I want a mate too, and
cannot get one. I'll do; if you will
be mine, I'll be yours." He closed
with the bargaiu, and tbe widow,
keeping her word, he is new suppled
with two mates,
A young man at a church bazaar
was buttonhohed by a lady; she
would not let him go until be bought
something. He looked at ber stall,
which contained fancy work of various
kiuds.
"Why," he said, 'T see nothing
here that would be of the least use to
me, a bachelor, except yourself. Tbe
rest would be dear at any price."
"It will be cheap enough, she said
coaxingly.
"If you could be dear enough, per
haps "
"Oh, come! You are just the per
son I want," taking him by tbe arm
She sold him one article after an
other, keeping up an agreeable con
versation the while, and before all
was done he had purchased every
thing in stall Then, at settling up.
there was something said about the
discount.
"I cannot return any money," Bhe
said biusbingly, "but if you thiuk me
dear enough, there's mamma Bbe
can give you my baud. The bargain
was accordingly concluded.
An eminent doctor, who bad saved
the life of a lady, a personal friend,
was asked bis charge He said be
generally allowed his patient friends
to remunerate bim as they thought
befitting
"But don't you often get disap
pointed on these term?" Bhe inquired.
"I may say, never."
"As you are easily pleased—here,"
and she playfully gave bim ber emp
ty band, while io the other was con
cealed a check for a handsome sum.
"How easily I could have taken you
In," she added, producing the check.
"But you have only succeeded io
drawing me out," he said, declining
to relinquish ber hand. "Don't in
sult me with a check; I am most gen
erously rewarded "
Perhaps she understood the doc
tor's difficulty and wished to help bim
out of it. At auy rate, tbe giviog of
her hand led him to offer bis heart.
This was how a gentleman got bis
wife when in a tobacconist's shop, be
asked a girl behind the counter, who
happened to have red hair, if she
would oblige him with a match
"With pleasure, if yoo will have a
red beaded one," she promptly repli
ed, with Buch a suggestive, demure
Bmile, that eventually the red headed
match was handed over.
A lady with a fine figure having
taken a fancy to % valuable ring
which she saw ticketed in a shop
window went inside to examine. "It
is exceedingly lovely. 1 wish it were
mine," she said, on satisfying herself.
"What smaller figure will tempt
you?"
"No other figure than the figure
before me," he said, giviug her an ad
miring look at the same time. "It is
exceedingly lovely. I wish I could
tempt you with tbe ring "
"1 think I'll take it," she said, lay
ing down the money amid blushes
Of course he accepted the money, but
getting her address, he made such
good use of tbe him that the next
ring which she got from him was
given by him in church.
as singular was the begin
ning of the courtship of the man who
went into a shop for a pair ot shoeß.
"I want them wide, please," be
said to the girl in attendance "ax I
have a good broad understanding."
She laughed at this refere-ice to
the breadth ot bis feet, end said :
"A very good thing too, in a man,
but not iu a woman."
"How do make out that what is
good in one sex is bad in the other?"
"Ah! it is quite simple. You seo
nature intended mun to be supported
by u firm soul, but woman by a yield
ing husband."
Whether he made a yielding hua
band or not, report at any rate says
that he made her his wife.
An Editor With an Appetite.
The careless use of the editorial
"we" frequently gets newspapers
into trouble, aud the use of the word
"we" to represent the people of the
whole country is sometimes as fatal
as "rough on rats"—at least this is
the opinion of the editor of the
Springfield Union who recently Baid:
"We ate 3,100,000 bags of peanuts
laßt year."
—Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is the
best remedy for all the suffering of
little children caused by diarrbisa or
summer complaint. Price 2b cents
If you suffer with sick headache,
take a dose or two of L'tx&dor, and
we know vou will find alruoit immu>
diate relief. Prlco oply 25 cents.
--There were 5,500 mnskrat skins
gathered up in Carroll township, Ot
tawa oountv, O . by a Sandnsky pur
chaser—being part of the catch ia
thai towoabip tbe saosoa.
I A QUAINT COMMUNITY.
Where Nobody Ever Marries
and Where Everybody is
Wealthy.
Cor. Philadelpiiia Pres.
In this most singular and absolute
ly unique village, built in 1825 by
that strange sect of communistic, celi
bate mystico-pietists known as the
Hamonists or Economites, who, with
their great army of hired laborers,
still comprise its only inhabitants, I
witnessed recently a procession and a
ceremony which for novelty aud
quaintness it would be impossible to i
parallel in all the length and breadth
of our great country Tnese observ
ances were iu honor of the 83d anni
versary of the founding of tbe Har
mony Society
It was on February 15, 1305, that
tbe late Georure R*pp and bis 600 dis
ciples, who had fled with him to this
country to escape the religious perse
cution in their German Faderland,
and to enjoy the privilege of worship
ping God in their own way, establish
ed in Butler county, near Pittuburg,
Pa., their socialistic, tboecratic com
munity upon the principle of holding
all property iu common, and gave it
the uame of the Harmony Society.
From that time to the present, among
all the vicissitudes through which
the society has passed—such us the
separation of husbands and wives,
and the abolition of marriage by the
adoption of the rigid practice of celib
acy in 1807; the removal tbe com
munity to Indiana in 1815, aud the
second removal to its present location
at Economy,Pa in 1825-the 15of Feb
ruary has every year been sacredly
kept. The Harmonists' town of
Economy is one ot the most beautiful
aud picturesque in the world.
CEX.IBACY.
The scone presented to view on
Feb. 15th, in tbe qUaiut old banctu
ary where Father Rapp preached and
prayed for so many years aud where
the whole community first assembled
at 9 o'clock to offer thanks to God for
having preberved their society in
peace and prosperity for nearly a cen
tury was a sad one Tbe adoption
of celibacy in 1807. two years after
tbeir organization, checked, of course,,
the natural growth of tbeir commun
ity, but for a few years their number
was maintained and even increased
by the reception of new members who
at frequent intervals came from Ger
many to join them. Many ot" these
accessions were descendants are rela
tives of the original founders. In the
fall of 1817 130 such were received
into membership at one time. But
these additions gradually diminished,
and finally ceased all together. For
many decades no now members were
received, though the society has at all
times been willing and anxious, as it
still is, to accept as members any de
sirable person who will subscribe to
tbeir doctrines aud conform to their
mode of life. For years past they
have had iouentured to them by pa
rents many young German people of
both sexes whom they would have
been very glad to receive into full
communion, but young Germany has
became young America, aud is not
disposed to submit to the want of
personal property, personal liberty
and o wife or husband, even though
compensated by all the advantages
secured by membership in an enor
mously wealthy communistic associa
tion. Six uew members were receiv
ed last year. They were all men
ranging in age from 35 to 60 But
even witb their addition the commu
nity now number only some twelve
or thirteen men and about fifteen wo
men, several of whom are bedridden
from sickness and old age, and it was
a melaucholy sight to see gathered in
the church only those few remaiuing
aged members out of the l,0l»0 who
ohm acknowledged the firm but gen
tle sway of dead and gone Father
Rapp. To cultivate the Harmonists'
35W0 acres of farming land, to develop
their rich oil aud natural gas territory
and to carry on the various handi
crafts necessary to make good the
wear and tear of sheets, clothing, wag
ons , harness, etc., in their community
a small army of working people is re
quired, and 400 of them are employed
by tbe Harmonists and live with
them in Economy.
Formerly the opposition of the so
ciety to marriage was so strong that
they would not have any married per
sons in their employ, but experience
has taught them that married men
with tbeir wives and children are the
steadiest aud most industrious class
of working people. Accordingly tbey
now hire families in preference to auy
other kind of "help." To each one of
these families a house aud garden,
have been assigned. Every habitable
house is occupied and the pavements
are overrun with children Besides
a Deal hou*e to live in, rent free, all
these hired people are "'found" by tho
society is everything but their clothes
while the meat, milk, bread, vegeta
bles and everything else supplied to
them are of the best quality. Tbe
society's wagons go through the
streets and supply these things to
each family according to their needs
without) money aud without prico.
Save in the matter of celibacy all per
sons in the employ of tbe Harmonists
are required to observe all tbe rules
of the society quite as rigidly as if
they were members of it.
THE CHIEF OF THE COMMUNITY
The government of this little king
dom is still, as it always has been,
strictly patriarchal. Jacob Henrici,
an active, able man despite bis 84
winters, has filled Father Rapp's
place, as head of tbe community, for
many years. He is its prophet,priest
aud king- In all matters bis word is
law. It is enough for any one in
Economy to know that "Fathor Hen
rici says it" to satisfy him or ber on
any subject whatever. He iB the
absolute dictator of tbe place and its
people, but ho is as fatherly in his
l kindness as in his severity. To out
i siders the rules and regulations to
which every inhabitant is compelled
to rigidly conform may seem some
what primitive and exacting. Every
one is required to attend church twice
every Suuday and hear two sermons
from Father Henrici. Anyone found
out of bed after 9 o'clock on any night
is immediately banished from tbe
town, and all are required to rise at
that poetic and lyric hour, "5 o'clock
in the morning " In addition to 3of
; the equarcst possible square meals
dailv, a free luncheon Is served to the
whole oommuuity at 9 o'clock every
morning and at 8 every afternoon,and
at each of those hourß a pint of wino
is meted out to every m»o. woman
and child.
Order is maintained by one day
Iwd oo» {tight wotcfeupii. Ths hrttoi
I while going hi" round* contiuues the
I old time practice of calling the hours,
and to each of his announcements
adds the following or similar words:
"Another hour is past nod a step
made nearer our end Our time runs
awav and the joys of heaven are our
reward." Though the Harmonists
have come to tolerate married people
they are bitterly opposed to baring
any courting done upon their land
They require all the fathers and
mothers iu their employ to keep
strict watch and ward over their sons
and daughters that the sexes may
coostaotly be kept as far apart as
possible. A young man and young
woman seen out walking together, or
jointly engaged in any other harmless
pastime, would be immediately re
quired to leave Economy. To rea
der it impossible for young men and
women to walk upon the streets to
gether in the eveniug without obser
vation, a lantern was placed in every
family, and an inviolable rule was
made by Father Henrici that every
young girl who had occasion to go
upon the street after nightfall should
light it and carry it with her. T&e
introduction of natural gas his now
rendered this unnecessary,for it burns
in great jets from lamp posts at every
corner, and makes the streets as light
at midnigntas at noonday.
EDUCATING THE YOUNG I'OLK.3
Various methods have been devis
ed to keep the young folks ou. of mis
chief. A commodious school house
has been built after the most approv
ed models Excellent gratuitous in
struction in German aud English
branches is given bv competent teach
ers engaged by Father Henrici at
good salaries. All young people not
otherwise employed are required to
attead regularly. There is an excel
lent military baud, composed of
twonty-one of the young men. There
is a singing school ot eighty young
pupils taught by Father Henrici in
person every evening. Every possi
ble variety of labor-saviug machinery
is used here Steam is made to do
everything that it can do One of
the most interesting features of the
place is an immeusts laundry, tilled
with patent wushing machines run
by a powerful steam where
all the women aud girls assemble on
certain days of the week aud do the
washing for the entire couruuQity
The church service of the Harmon
ists differs iii no material respect from
that of other Protestants sects. Two
prayers and a sermon by Elder Hen
rici and the singing of two or three
hymns by tho congregation comprise
their simple riturl The singing is
the principal feature, occupying more
time tbau it usually doea iu the gen
erality of religious services On feast
days the military band, already men
tioned, occupies a small gallery at the
west eud of the church aud discourses
s»veet music at frequeut intervals.
In bis sermon Wedcesday morning
Elder Henrici spoke of how tor
nearly a century past be and bis co
religionists have been daily expecting,
as they still continue to do, the second
visible personal coming of Christ, and
he reiterated their firm belietlhat His
glorious second advent will take place
before the death of their last surviv
ing member shall have forever dis
solved their society.
It does not seem probable that this
singular community will care to hold
many more annual celebrations. The
great age of nearly all of its few sur
viving members and the uulikelihood
of any important additions to their
number must almost inevitably cause
the dissolution of the society in a very
few years. It is Elder Henrici's vast
will power and immense executive
force, more than anything else, that
still holds it together. From very
small beginnings in 1805, the posses-
sioQB of tbe Harmony Society bave |
come to include, besides tbe town of j
Economy and its surrounding lands,
fourteen large farms, many oil and
natural gas wells. vast tracts of lum
ber lands, many saw mills and coal
mines, a controlling interest in tbree
railroads, aud great sums of money
invested in Government bonds and
other gilt-edged securities,
G.W.C,
He Never Drank..
On a sleeper on a Texas train re
cently, a traveler noticed an old
whitebearded gentleman trying to
get on a linen duster. Tbe youug
and spry traveler rushed to his as
sistance, and in helping him with tbe
garment he noticed a good sized bot
tle ol whisky protruding from one of
tbe inside pockets of his coat. Being
of a waggish nature be appropriated
the bottle, got tbe coat on tbe stran
ger, aud then pulliug out tbe flask,
said:
"Will vou take a drink, sir?
The old man did not recognize tbe
buttle, and drawing himself up, re
marked rather severely:
"No. sir; 1 never drink."
"It won't hurt you," insisted the
wag "Its tbe best"
"Young man," said the old gentle
man, in a tone intended for tbe whole
car,"if you insist on drinking whisky
you will bean old man at forty. It
is tbe curse of tbe land. Wben I was
a buy my mother died, aud the last
tiling that sainted mother said was to
call me to her dying bedside and say:
'John, swear to me that you will
never touch a drop of liquor ' "
Here the old mau clapped his hand
to his side pocket and found it empty
aud recognizing the bottle in the
bands of tbe other he contiuued:
"Except, my boy, an occasional
■port while traveling," and reaching
for the flask he pressed it to bis lips
amid a howl of laughter which shook
tbe car.
A Shrewd Farm Hand.
The New York Tribune, tells of a
laborer who agreed to dig a farmer's
potatoes for one potato a hiil. The
contract did not confiue the laborer
to a selection from each bill, so bo
took the largest wherever found
These averaged about halt a pound
in weight, and as there were 4000
bills to the acre, his share was just
one ton, or 33 1 3 bushel At sixty
cents a bushel tbey amounted to S2O.
lie dug at the rate of one fourth of
an acre per day, making his daily
wages s.'i. It took one-fourth ot tha
crop to pay him.
—A young man named Hartlctt,
who is widely known for his polite*
ness and wit, never calls his father
! the "old man" or "governor," but al
j ways speaks of bim as liartlett pore.
I —The colored sexton of a Louis
ville church has been discharged for
' running a poker room in the church
tower while the congregation was at
{ wonOty iff tbe cUurffli hvfaw.
THE FARMER'S WIFE.
i l*p witli th? birds io the early morning,
The d. wdrofi glow* like a precious ge in,
Br-autif'ui tin's in the skies are dawning,
She lias njvera moment to look at the in.
The men ire waiiine their breakfast early,
She must not linger, she mast not wait,
For word* that are sharp and looks that arc
snrly
Are what men give when meals are late.
<">h! a glorion* color the clouds are tarning,
If she conld but just look over the trees,
Bnt here is the dishes and there is the
churning;
Those things must alwavs yield to these.
For the world is filled with the wine of
beauty,
It she conld but pause and drink it in;
But pleasure, she says, mast wait tor doty,
Xegletted work la committed sin.
The rtar gr ws hot, her hand growa weary,
Oh ! for an hoar to cool her head
Out with the birds in the wind so cheery,
But she must get dinner and bake the
bread;
The busy men in the hay-field working,
Should they see her aitting with folded
hauda,
They would call her lazy and say she was
shirking,
She never oould make them understand.
They do not know that the heart within
her
Is filled with hunger for things sublime;
They only know they want their dinner,
Plenty of it and just on time,
Then at ter the sweeping and chnrning and
baking,
And dinner and dishea are all pat by
She sits and sews,though her head is achlrg
Till time for supper and chores draw nigh,
Her boys at school mast look like otl era.
She says.as she patches their frocks ai d
hose,
For the world is quiok to eenaure mothers
For the least neglect of children's clothes.
Her husband comes from the field of labor,
He gives no praise to his weary wife:
She has done no more than her busy
neighbor,
'Tis the lot of all in country life.
But after the strife and weary tnasle,
When life is done and she lies at rest,
The nation's brain and heart and mnscle,
Her sons and daughters, shall call her
blest,
And I think the sweetest joys of Heaven,
The rarest bliss of eternal life,
The fairest crown of all will be given
Unto the way-worn farmer's wife.
Farm and Garden Notes.
If you would get the most oat of
your feed, grind the grain and cat the
(odder.
Plant acorns in the fall and where
trees will be wanted to stand perma
nently
A yearling that will weigh 700
pounds is worth more than two
weighing 400 pounds each.
A crossed fowl will always sit, and
if nou-sitters be desired for next sea
sou they mast be bred from pare
breeds only.
"A worm about two feet long, sap
posed at first to be a linen thread,"
was found in a head of cabbage at
Mowequa, Illinois.
A Michigan gardener has bought
1000 acres of bog land near Chatta
nooga, Tenn , wbich he drains for the
purpose of raising cplery.
American chessemakers hare a
good markets right under their noses
it they will suit the quality of their
product to the market's requirements.
Save the feathers from all the fowls.
Scald them thoroughly and dry them
as quickly as possible, keeping them
well aired until disposed of.
Mr. Hoard is convinced that there
are ten good judges of horses among
the farmers where there is one who
is a good judge of a dairy cow or
bull.
The importance of the dairying in
terest may be somewhat appreciated
when it is remembered thats2oo,3so,
000 is invested in this braach of in*
dustry.
Leaf mold, rotten cow manure and
good garden ■ loam in equal parts,
wfth a small addition of sand, all
well mixed together, make suitable
soil for nearly all house plants.
Ooe egg a week will pay for the
support ot a hen. As the first egg
must be deducted for expenses, conse
quently the hen that lays three eggs
a week produces twice as much profit
as the ben that lays two eggs.
A Michigan boy rented two acres
of laud of a farmer last summer and
planted onions. He raised 800 bush
els, paid for the land in half the pro
duct, and S3OO worth for his share.
As regards the summer the summer
as profitable.
When the farmer begins to esti
mate the value of sheep from the
standpoint of meat, fertility and gen
eral advantage to the ?arm, he will
not allow the market price of wool to
determine whether or not he will
raise them.
As an evidence of the profitable
ness of small fruit-culture, the Platte
Witne.au states that George H. Rob
bins, of that place, sold $86.25 worth
of blackberries from one-sixth of an
acre Ho sold the yield 0f575 quarts
at 15 cents a quart.
Roots should not be fed with straw or
poor hay, as they are too much alike
in composition Feed the roots with
clover or good bay, aDd give the more
concentrated food with tho straw.
It requires more skill to be successful
iu feeding poor kinds of food.
Empty all troughs and drinking
vessels every uight in order to pre
vent accumulations of ice in them.
It is much easier to do this than to
chop out the ice in the morning in or
der to water stock. Ics water is not
conducive to the thrift of the animals
in winter, and the troughs should
therefore be kept as free from ice as
possible.
Many swine-breeders regard a solid
earth floor the best for a pig pen. It
is also customary with some breeders
to remove from six to eight inches of
these earth floors every spring, draw
iug the manure-soaked earth on to
fields and renewing the floors with
fresh earth.
A Kentucky farmer says that last
year be invested $5,000 in cattle and
' S3OO in sheep, and that the not pro
fits from the sheep were greater than
trom the cattle. He got $4.50 apiece
for the lambs and raised mora lambs
than be had ewes. The wool from
1 the sheep averaged him $1.50 per
bead, and the sheep afterwards
brought him an average of $4 20
on grass feed alone.
—A shabby coat is 00 disgrace,
but it is a great impediment to 'the
successful negotiation of a small loan.
Bobby —Ma, wasn't there any
body loft in the Garden of Eden after
Adam and Eve were turned oat?
I Mother —No, Bobby.
Bobby (after tb.OQgbt>—-Well who
1 fed Ux coiiftetof
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