VOL. XXV. GREAT BARGAINS 0 Piftsea Pair of Bradley's Blankets, at $4. Fire Fine Plush Dolmans, at $15.00, were S3O 00 Three Plash OJAIS, at S2O 00. former prices, 'J4.UOU Two Plush Coats. at sl7 50, former prices. $-i.>.00 • 20 Good Newmarkets, at $5. 16 Children*' Wraps from One Dollar to Four Dollars, REMNANTS IN SILK, WOOLEN and COTTON (TOODS OF ALL KINDS. A Full Line of Spring Buttons and Trimmings New Spring Goods Ai riving. CALL IN AND SEE THE GKEAT BARGAINS BITTER a 1 JUST ARRIVED a large line of Spring and Summer Goods, eoaaisting of Fine Woolens and Suitings which I am ready to make up in Garments at as reasonable prices as you will find anywhere and SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Alio a full line of MENS', BOYS'and CHILDRENS' ready made Clothing at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. AH the late6t novelties fcr Spring and Summer in Gents' Furnishings, Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises; latest patterns in Shirts and Neckwear. KY MERCHANT TAILORING Department is Booming. Call and make your selection for your Spring Soit from those handsome patterns I have just got in. Prices reasonable and fit guaranteed. Thanking my patrons for past favors, I solicit a continuance of the same. 1. ROSENBERG. 61 Sooth Main street, opposite the Postcffice, Butler, Pa. "NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS" WHY V BECAUSE LOOK at our SUCCESS in BUTLER * THEN LOOK BACK 30 YEARS AGO WHEN WE COMMENCED. Now Look at the Way We Do Our Business, THEM REASON HOW CAN it be OTHER WISE ? WHEN" WE CARRY THE STOCK WE DO =TUE L#BCEST= And Most Complete in Fuller roiiL'iiifr in and price from the Clieapewt to the Unest, all Reliable, Well Made Goudf, beeides we Guarantee all we tell Call and be Convinced. H. SCHNEIDEMAN, jr©. 4, St. OLD BELIABLE CLOTHIER CHOICE FRUIT. | Ra>lii( lor lb" on In the iu-ar future and l •niiai yaw order* for "prlnc it VefetaMr and Flower Seeds Hardy K>wv ltln Wash ington twp.. near 11111 in lU's si m 1 in Ills all •leared uiiil In tfood stale of cultivation. well watered. :.nd has a Iwo-Ktoiy frame lion: c. ami log rmm. Jarife orchard. auil cood oil' hulldlngH Al-S'i. it acre piece 111 Washington tup., U'-arthe Aflwbeiiy rilo|ie coal mine. Willi rail. I road rnnnn if through It. two-Mtor.v frotne bouse, ' partly clean*! ami balance good timber. ! AIjKO. a farm or «*i iirrt-s In Parker twp., he- I I,ween AnniHVllle and Kldorado, one-Half eleired ' wild other liaJf well timbered with chestnut timber, good land, but no bulldlniTH. All I In- above nleceH are underLtl •! with coal, i and will tie Mild eltUur lor dull i>r on time. I Kor further parilc'ilani enquire 01 (i. W. i:. F.vcut ir i»! Ywn. Thompson. late «>f M 'I- . db-se\ iwp.. Butler county. dec'U, for discharge j lrom -..« i I iru-t »». < . No. T5. March Term l**x. Ami now. April 4. l*s-. the Court irrints a rile I on lis.- heir*. de\:see*. legatee-. .'iitl auditor- of j -••tidd cedent in show cause \vh\ the petitioner I oho.iid !i t di~<-liarged as preyed lor. returii atle'O May 7. fs»*. Br.Mer Countv, SS : Certified from the Record April t. |s*s; i£;:t r.K.v ;,I. ICLVAI?;. Clerk. Estate of Frederick Siebert, I. »TR OK lU'TI.EK UOKOt'UH, DEf'D. Whereas letters of Administration on the es- T'tte of Frederick Mebert. late of the I". i omrh of liiuler. Busier Co.. l'a.. deed, haveb°en granted to IH<- mdenlgiied. ttwulw JII Wuom kaow themselves indebted to said estate wll please make Immediate payment, and those l.aMii,' claims ajrtlnst the same will present tl.cin properlv authenticated for paymeui. WII.UAM Administrator. Kutier. l'a. Me.luiikin ic (ialbr.-ath. Attorneys. Sheriff's Sale. 1!. \ir!iie of a writ of l'i. l a. issued out of the Court of Common I'leas of Butler Co.. Pa., and to me directed, there will l e exposal to public salt. a; the Court House in the borough ot r.ut k-r l a., on Monday. Hie 22<1 day ot April. A.l>. ;sss. at 1 o'clock P.M., the following' described properly, to-wlt: K. U. No. ?:>, March T.. ls-«. Tliompson & Son. attorneys, All the right, title, interest and claim of Nicholas Kramer, ot. In and to ~A acres of land, mote "r >ss.in Copßuquwicwinr twp.. •Hitler I o . l'a.. bounded as follow-, to-wit : On the north b> Bebicca Mag-nii. east Lj l.eonard AVlck. squill bv FolkniiUi .v <>iah:tm. west by A. s;ev.ait. niestiV cleand, a 1< ii bouse, log bam. • ut-buildings iii.d orchard ■ hereon, tel/eil and t.iken :n i xecutiou ;:Sth<- property of Nicholas Kramer at -uit of A. L. Oyer for tne use of Hemv K. White. OLIVER C. BEDIC. sheriff. Slier:lTs office, JUttler, l'a.. April J, I**B. Executor's Sale of Real Estate. In re petition c;f Zenxs McMlch-i Orphans' Court ael, l-.xfccu: )i' ol ol Butler Co., 'llmb!!n, dt -'d, tosell real es--( l'a., No. 71. late lorthupaymcntofdeblii.l Dec. T., ltf". 4.C. ) Wher is /ea:-.s McMieliael, fc r.. aforesaid did I'ieseiit i.ts i.etifion to suld orphans' Court Feb. 20, if-:?. i>r i.\ the court to authorli.e hun to -ell -tlx; hereinafter described real estate of !d de- edent for c. e payment or debts. A;C., win re upon the suid Court did refer the applica tion of said Execut'ir to A. T. Black, E>'| • as an auditor to lir.e and make report thereon, v. ho pursuant to said reference did report recom mencing thai the prayer or the petitioners should be granted, which sa;d report the Court did on the :l: t of March. ISSH conflim abso lutely and decree thereon as follows: DKCUEK OK COt'KT. Vnd nov.', March 2Ht U3B the Report qflhe Auditorappolnied by the Court io Investigaf*' lhe lacts set lorth In the petition of Zeuas Mc Michael. Ex'i or Margaret 'J uiiblln, dee'd, for leave to sell the real ' >laie of said decedent tor the payment of debts and for the maintenance oi Isaiah U. itlftblln i.nd made ri port i hereon, having been tiled and coniirmed recommending that the prayer or the petitioner be '.'ranted, upon due consideration, ihe sale of the ,v» acres more or lessol land, Is authorized as prayed for. Terms ot sale, to lie one-third In hand and the balance in two equal payments lu one and two vears in'in -aid date respectively wll h Inter est irim s Id date to be secured by bond and ne r'gage on ihe premises. sa!d-petltloner to lile a bond in double the amount ol said sale condi tioned according to law, and with a surety io lie approvedby l!t<* Court. Itefore confirmation of sale returnable to next. Term. By the C'ovrt Notice Is hereby given that pursuant to said decree of Court the undersigned executor will oIT-t at public sale or vendue, on the premise* In c'.uv Twp , Butler Co. Pa., on TI'KSDAY THii sTH I>AV Oi MAY, Isss. at 1 o'cl V(lmr ß SAMI'KI, BKA.M | Harmony, Butler count), I'a. I.ev McQrisTius. Att'y. Estate of William Gallagher, (LATE OK HI ANKI.I.N' TWP., DEC'D). letters of administration 'in 'lie estate of Wm flallaghei - , dee'd. late of Franklin twp., Butler count v. I'a , having been granted to the under- S'glied. all persons Knowing thelnstlves Indebt ed to said estate will plea <■ mal:e Immediate paMucn! and any having claims against Said (•state will present them uuly authenticated for sett lenient. WI M.I A M I." A t-bTOS, Adin r. Prospect. Butler Co., I'a. Notice in Divorce. In tlie matter of the application of Benony Patridge lor divorce from the bonds of mat rimony with Frances Delight Patridge. In the Court of Common Pleas of liutler county, A. D. No. O'J, Dec. term, ls#7. And now to-wit. Watch 7, IKSB, on motion of J. D. McJunkin, K*q. Walte* L. Graham was appointed by the Coust a Commissioner to take testimony in the above ease and re jiort to Court. I'Klt Cllt lA.M. In pursuance of the above appointment I will take the testimony of witnesses at the office of J, It. McJunkin, Esq. in Butler, Pa. on the Ist day of May, 18X8, between the hi nrs of 10 a.m. and " o'clock p.m of said Jay. WAI.TKR 1.. OItAHAM, March 10, I*BB. Commissioner. NOTICE. To /'mucin Del!'jl,t I'utvidye: You ait hereby required to apoear on the Ist Monday of June, 1888, at trie Court of Ccmmnn Pleas, then and there to be holfleu in snd for the county of liutler to make an twer to the petition of paid complainant in the above case, if any you have, according to law. O. C. Rki>lC, Sheriff. March 10, 188 S. Estate of Henry Goehring,dee'd. I.ATK OK BI!F» AtX» TWP. Letters of administration, C. T. A. having tieen granted to the undersigned on the estate of Ilenrv (Joehrlng. dee d, late of Buffalo Twp., Butler Co.. Pa., all persons knowing themselves Indebted to said estate will please uiak'' Imme diate payment, and any having claims against -mid cxt&le will present them duly a'ltlientleat ed for puyment. JOHN T. MARTIN. Adm'r. Sarversvllle, p. ()., Butler Co., Pa. McJi nkis \ Oaumkatii, Att'y. Estate of Wm. Crookshanks, I. ATK OK WIXHEI.II TWl\, DKC'I). Kellers testamentary on the estate of Win. Crookshanks, dee'd, late of Winfield twp., Butler comity, Pa., having been granted to the undersigned, all persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and anv having claims against said estate will present them duly authenticated for settlement. JOSEPH W. TODD, I'x'r, Leasureville, Butler Co. Pa. Mi Jt NKIX A liAMlliK.Vril, Attorneys. Planing Mill —AND— lLillrlll>el• Y ai°cl 1. L. PUKVI3. L. O. BUKVIH, S.G. Purvis & Co. MANL'FACT!'HftIIti AND DEALRBB IN Rough and Planed Lumber T )Y EV F.UY DESCRIPTION. SHINGLES & LATH PLANING MILL ANI) YARD KcifrUeruiiiii CitdHilfeChureii I 9'llr ItT! nll has revolutionized ihe I HUr H | 11| lluurlil during the last half Il*C f II Mkl ll' eiiiury. Not least among 111 I Lit • I U lithe wonders of Inventive 1 progp-ss Is a method and system of work that ■ call be performed all over tie- country without separating the workers from their homes, paj ■ lllieral; any one can do tin-work; either sex, young or old; no special ability i mire, capl ■ ial not neeiied; you arc started ft v >\ something f of great value and Importance to you. that tvl|j - start you In business, which w ill bring you lo more money right awav than auythlug ejsit in ■ the world. < '.rand out Br freo. Addre»M Titue tt Co.. Augusta. Maine. ■ lipifl K. VJ. AVER U jON, our a>"'borlawl' stfi nta. LOOK! BEAD! 1 have enlarged mv stott'-iooui. in fact. made It almost twin- a* large as it was before. ami have also increased m.v stock. 1 have. t»y iar. the largest awl best selected stock or Fine Druss and Chemicals In Butler count v. and ;im now lu position to siippl;. the wants or tliepeopleot this county— even better than in the past. Vou w ill rto well to call on me when in the nee . of anything In the line of Fine Drugs and Medicines, yi v stock is very complete and I'RK Ks VEKV Lo we give particular attention to Tilling Prescriptions. Our Dispensing Department is complete. « e dispense only Pun- Drugs of the Finest • Quality, and our patrons mav bring 'is their prescrip tions. reeling certain that they will be carefully anil accurately filled. Thanking the public for the very generous patronage they nave accorded me In the past, I hope to be able t<• serve ttietn more acceptably in the future, at the old stand. No. 5, North Main St, BUTLER, PA. J. C. BEEICK, Wm. F. Miller. Manufacturer of Stair Rails, Balusters and Newel-posts. Al! Kinds of wood turning done to otder, also Mecoiatel and Carved wood-work, such as Casing, t orner blocks, I'anels and all kinds of fancy wood-work lor Inside decoration of houses. CAM. AM) SEE SAMPLES. Something new and attractive. Also FURNITURE at iowtst'casli prices. Store at No. 40, N. Main street "Factory at No. r.ft, X, Washington street. Bl TI.EU, PENNA. Or. Schenck's Mandrake Pills PURELY VECETABLE AND STRICTLY RELIABLE. They act DIRECTLY and PROMPT LY on the Liver and Stomach, restoring the constipated organs to healthy activity, and are a positive and perfectly safe cure for Constipation, Liver Com plaint, Sick Headache, Bilious ness, and all other diseases ari sing from a disordered condi tion of the Liver and Stomach. They are the only reliable vege table Liver Pill sold. Thay are Perfectly HARMLESS. They are PURELY VEGETABLE. TRY THEM. Tor SHIO by all Drugfriati- Price 25 ct«. per box; S IHIX« fur fl.'J ct«.; or wnt l Slalri. omoe open dally, exeept Wednesdays and Thursdays, Comnmnleatlons by mail rfoelve prompt til tent lon. X. li. -The only IK-iitM in Kutler uslnjj the lies! make* of teeth. J6HN E. BYKRS, PHYSICIAN AN " SURGEON Odlee No. M South Main Street, BUTLER, - I'A. SAMUEL M. BIPPDS, Physician and Surgeon, No. 10 Went Cunningham St., BUTLER, IFIEJINrTSr.A. IDIEItSJTISTR * . 0 1/ \VAM>ItON. Graduate of the I'hlla . «• delplila tenia! < Is prepared to do anything Hi the line o( lilh pro[e»slon In a sal Witetory manner. < mice nil Main street, Itutlcr, I iilon liloek up stairs. J. S. LUSK) M.D., removed from Harmony to Flutter and hart lilrt ofl.i'c nt No. V, .Main St., three doors below Lowry Hotwo. a;>r-30-tf. L 8. McJUN IKIN, Insurance anl< INK*, am. lIIKMICALh VANCY AM> T< idJ. r AUTK KS, SI'ONOEH, HKI SfIKM, I'KUI TMKIiY, Ac lnThytlclaii!.' I'rei.. riptloim i-aniully cc.ji pounded. 45 S. Main Street, butler, Pa. BUTLER, PA.. FRIDAY. APRTL 211. 188 S. MOTHER'S SLIPPER. It's mighty eur'iis to see, so it is, how these here poet* try To bring the sympathetic tear to some poor fellow's eye; A-rlivmiu'an'l a-singin of a mother's love and care. An' touch in' cu her failed gown or stout, old fashioned chair. But none of'em, I've noticed, aa' I've won dered o'er and o'er, Has sung about the slipper that my good old mother wore. I recollect as well as if 'twas only yester day. When it sfemtd a drefftil waste o' time to Mndy 'Mea«t o' play With other little youngsters who were hcok in' off from school An'going to the swimmin' hole, so shady, deep and cool. An' many a time I'd missed my chance thro' learniu' heights to soar, Ef 'twem't for the slipper that my good old mother wore. An' later when the female sex began to in terest An' other fellars called on gals, all dressed up in their best, She knowed that though I couldn't keep my self to save my life: That like as not I'd undertake supportin' of a wife: But I waited for maturer years, and her who I adore, All owin' to the slipper that my good old mother wore. She's a-settin' in her arm chair now, a-smil in' all benign, A-talkin' to the neighbors 'bout that 'grown up son 'o mine.' 'An she tells of all the times she felt obliged myself to whale. To keep me out of prison, or at leas t from jf»i'; An' she aliers makes mc own that I'd b^en there long before, If it was't for the sliipper that my gool old mother wore. Cincinnati E'lu t that the bodies of the dead had simply a weight attached to them, aud were then thrown into the harbor. This custom, no doubt, ex plained the presence of so many sharks. "We had completed our coalingone evening aud were to sail iu about two days. The sun dropped below the horizon, and as there is, practical ly, no twilight in that region, night Boon enveloped us her dark folds. It being sultry, there were a number of officer's on the quarter-deck, among them Commodore Ilodgers and my- Belf. Somewhere hear six bells(ll o'clock) we were startled by hearing several exclamations, followed by u cautious call in French, from the port side of the vessel, and apparently from the water. Orders were imme diately given to lower a lantern, and when this was done, we beheld the form of a tnan, emaciated, haggard and wild eyed, clinging to the side of the vessel. A rope was lowered; he was Boon drawn aboard and brought before the Commodore. He was at tired in a flimsy shirt and pantaloons One i;lanee was sufficient to inform us that he was a convict. Speaking in French ho made on appeal to our commander for protection. "But how did vcu get here, man? cried the Commodore. "Good Hea vens! you never could have swam out to the vessel?" "At this question our minds rever ted to the harbor gwarming with sharks, and I, for oue, conld not re press a shudder at the mere thought. "Death, no matter in what form, has no terrors for me,' answered the convict. 'Since coming here, have I not suffered death a thousand times over? Ami not already dead to my relatives, friends and the world? The slight hope held out to me by the coming of your vessel was sufficient The chances of beiug torn to pieces by sharks did not make me shrink.' "Our imaginations can scarcely grasp the import of such hopelessness. Further questions revealed to us that this poor devil had been a French soldier, and had committed the horri ble crime of striking a superior officer. For that, he had been numbered and sent to the Isles of Salute to die a lingering death Listening attentive ly until the convict had finished, our Commodore said: "My poor fellow, the laws of hu manity cry out to me in your behalf, but I am forced to treat them as sec ondary considerations, no matter bow unjust it may be. International laws tire stronger io this caso, and 1 must tell you that i=* my imperative duty to return you ' "The Frenchman's reply staggered the Commodore some what. Ssid he: 'You are the representative of a glor ious republic, aud 1 came to you for protection; instead, I liud that I have come to hear my doom pronounced." "He then informed us that all those who attempted to escape, when caught, were immediately ahot, But knowing his duty, the Commodore save gave the necessary orders, and soon our boat was making its way towards a spot where, we thought, the convict would be able to pass the cordon of sontries, uudi9coyered. Our boat could not be seen, as the night was too dark. Fully three quarters of the distance had been passed, when we heard a cry from the laud, followed soon after by the long roll of a drum, uud torches flashing hither and thither as though in search of somothing. The Frenchman was landed, and our boat made us way towards the ship. Loud shouts sud denly arrested our attention, and we saw the torches gather around a cer tain poiut. and soon move off' together. Before halt an hour bad passed all was stillness and darkness again. "I happened to be on deck the fol lowing morning at r day break, and had scarcely walked across the deck once when I heard the souud of a volley being fired. Taking up the giass, I pointed it towards shore. Soon a boat pulled out, man ned by four oarsmen. A tall, cadav erous individual, dressed in a black gown, sat in the stern, and a dark ob ject lay in the bottom. Drawing nearer passed the bow of the Vander bilt. A little beyond it stopped; the cadaverous iudividal read a tew sen tences from a book; the dark object was lifted aud thrown overboard with a plunge. A rush of those hell ish mousters, a deep-red coloring of tho water, and all was o'er." Soap Versus Law. From Tid-Bits.] A Alissiouri constable rode out to a farm near St. .Joe armed with a eubpoic.ia for a woman who was wanted as a witness in a case in court. He found her in the back yard busily engaged in stirring a boiling, bubbling mass in a large brass kettle. He stated his business and she said: "1 can't go to-day." "But you must " . "What's the hurry?" "Why, court's iu session and the caso is now on trial. They want you by noon." "Well, I aint going. You think I'm going off and leave this hull kit tle o' soft soap to spile, just to please your old court? 2So, sirree!" "Why, my dear madam, you must. You really don't seem to urider fctant—" "I understand that I've got a big kittle o' splendid soap grease on to bile, aud it'll make thfn, sticky soap if it ain't finished to day. You go back and tell the jedge so." "You'll be fined for—" "I'ooh! I'd like to see the Missou ry, jury that'd fine a woman for not leavin' her soap bilin' when it was at a critical p'int, as one might say. Tell the jedge I'll come to-inorrow. if we don't butcher our peegs then; an' if we do, I'll come some day next week." "But I tell you that won't do. You must come now " "Lookee, young man, you think I'm a fool? I reckon you never made any soap, did you? If you had, you'd know that—" "What does ihe jedge care about your soapi"' "Well, what do I care 'bout tho jedge, if it comes to that? Law's law aud soap's soap. Let the jedge 'tend to his law, an' I'll 'tend to my Boap. The good book says there's a time for every thing, an' this is ir.y time for a bar'l o' soft soap," "Well, madam, if you want to be fined for contempt of court, all right. You will be fined sure as—" "Hah! I know all 'bout the law, an' there aint any thing in it, nor in tho Constitution of the United States, nor in the Declaration of I impen dence, nor in nothin' else, that savs a woman's got to leave a kittle o' half cooked soap, and go off to court when she aiu't a mind to I guess I know d little law myself." The Grocer and the Flies. A Chattanooga grocer being great ly troubled by (lies, put twtmty-one sheets of sticky fly paper about his store. IQ the evening he gathered them up, and noticed how much much heavier they wore, being covered with flies. He weighed the twenty one sheets aud fouud they weighed seveu pounds. Then he put twenty one fresh sheets ou tho scales and they weighed four pounds aud four ounces. Thus tho (lies weighed two pounds twelve ounces. He found that tLore were twenty flies to each square inch of the fly paper; each sheet had 836 square inches and fi,- 720 flies, anil the tw.snty-one sheets had 141,120 flies. Thus one may as certain tho weight of a fly; for, if 141,120 llies weigh two pounds twelve ounces, it's easy to calculate what one weighs. • A True Tale. One October day, about one hun dred and twenty-five years ago, two small boys were returniug from a log school house, in Bath county, Vir ginia. A hundred and twenty five yeart-! which meaus that what is now Bath county was a wilderness with here aDd there a eloaring, here and there a hut, here and thtr« a stock ide fort, for defense atrainht the Indians These two little boys were Daniel and Samuel Brown; their father bad a small fort on Jackson's river to which the neighbors. mei>, women and children, were won't to gather when reports came that dusky forms had been sighted in the woods, and tbe stoutest hearts quailed before the enemy that could not be faced, since he kept ever behind their backs, alert, euunina; and relentless. "Hi! Dan," whispered ihe younger boy the blood suddenly leaving tbe sua burnt cheek, "what's that anent the big maple yonder?*' Dan lifted his head with quick sus picion and saw a shadow pass into the denser woods on their right. "Mebbe it's a buck, Sam" be said, with a manly desire not to scare the smaller boy. "A buck !" answered Sim, scorning to be treated as if he were a coward; "it's the kind o' buck that wears a blade, I tell ye. Let's put out." "You hie on, Sam, and get behind the walls, quick as ever you can; mammy and dad are working in the three cornered field, and I'm bound to go round that way and give them warnin'." It was with difficulty that Dan could persuade S-im to go to the fort, leaving bim to the perilous task of warning tbe workers in the corn-field. The forest born lads of those trying times were trained to face danger, and were often as cool and ns plucky as the young Indian braves them pcives. Dan succeeded in persuading JSam to go to tbe fort, by reminding him that tboso within the stockade must be put on their guard. The brothers separated, but before Sam reached the fort, he saw the flames going up from its woodeu walls, tell ing the cruel Btgry of doath and de struction. Nor did Dau over reach the three cornered field. Gleaming eyes, con cealed by bush and tree, hau watched tbe boys us tbev separated, and while a dozen savages bad preceded Sam to the fort, others made a short circuit, and intercepting Dau. gagged and bouud bim, He was a well-grown boy of eleven years, stout of heart and limb, and the men of tbo woods admired the pluck and self-control with which he mood his capture and imprisonment. They kept him '.at first, in order to torture him for their amusement, aud compelled him to gather the wood which they signed to .him was in tended for his own death fire. They showed him the plaited buckskin with which he was to be bound, and driven round and round a tree, until the rope having coiled its whole length upon the tree, he would bo forced into the fire at its trunk, Evi deutly they expected him to break down. Bat Dan was clever as well as brave and bis wits were at work to save bis life. He boro himself with the proud indillereuee so much ad mired by the Indians, aud every lit tle while he would lift, his head sud denly, as if listening for and expect ing something. Xow nothing escapes an Indian's notice, and Han's captors did not doubt that he had some reason to ex pect a rescuing party; so they hasten ed to rejoin their comrades near the fort, and the poor boy was sickened, soul and body, by the sight of drip ping scalps iu the possession of those who had gotten behind the stockade. Tho Indians bad, in fact, managed to take two scalps from each victim, aud Dan, sure now that his parents were dead, gave up all thought of escape, and moved on passively with the band, who. having obtained informa tion that Captain Paul was on their trail with twice their numbers, now hied off to the northwest, taking with them ttie scalps of their victims, their weapons aud tho boy captive. Fifty years after this raid there came to Hath County a splendid looking old chief in Indian dress, ac companied by a grown son and daughter and a few warriors. Tho stranger inquired from house to house for Mrs. Brown, and came finally.to tho residenco of Colonel Samuel Brown, who owned a fiue estate and had a large family around him With him his old widowed mother lived, bent and feeble, broken in spirit, but with a clear mind and memory. Col. Brown, with the prompt hospital ity of that day, invited the travelers t.o become Lis guests, and his invita tion was accepted. When the time came for the evening meal, which was served in the wide, clean kitch en, the master of the house went to an inner room and brought out ou his arm his aged mother. The instant she crossed the thres hold the Indian chief uud his children weni. forward and knelt be fore hor; they were si lent, after the Indian fashion, but the chief showed strong emotion in every lino of his rugged features. The old woman trembled violently as she gazed upon the kneeling fig ures of father and son; something in the younger face continued the wild hope that swept through her soul, and with a cry as of one who sees the dead come back to life, she fell upon the old warrior kneeling before her—"O Dan, my boy, my boy !" It was indeed the boy she hud lost half a century before. Fifty years had change him from a ruddy strip ling into a bronzed and white headed old man; had piven a new generation to take the place of the old, had brought the old mother herself to tho brink of eternity, yet it could not make her forget her first born. Under his change of name and nature and garb and guise she recognized tho child of her love, and for weeks her youth and strength aeemed renewed. The kinsfolk gathered from near and far to hear tho old man's story, ile had 1 >oeu carried oir to the shores of Luke Huron, and adopted into the tribe of his captors. They told him that eyery member of his family had been slain, and the bloody scalp* nt their belts seemed to prove the truth of their words. Pan turned from them with deep aversion at first, hut was bought by a Frenchman, who bad married a squaw, ami the lad soon became in nil respects r. Hon ol the trils*. His fine physique, his quick mind, his ability to read and write, und his valuable service# iu thr-ir treaties | with the whites, gave him a decided 1 j rominence in the tribe. He married a woman of their nation and his son und daughter had inherited many of the (IneHt qualities of both races. "Way did you not come back to UP i during ail these years?" cried the old • mother with passionate reproach. i I'rowu (for he had kept his old name) I told her that he had never doubted the tale told him fifty years before of the destruction of his whole family. Why should he care to visit the I scene of such desolation? II "And what started yoa at la§t?" queried Col. Brown, bluntly. There had been a treaty on foot i j between the Indiaus and whites, Brown said, and one of the whites had lived in Virginia as a boy bad '' on the same bench at school with | the Brown brothers, and this man ! told the chief that his mother was 1 still living, bnt warned him that if he would see her alive he must make ; uo tarrying. A few weeks later, and the stal wart sons, strong even in &d7anced years, laid the old mother to rest in the family burying groand, under the great oaks which had witnessed so many tragedies since the white man's ; axe first sounded in their midst. And now it appears that by tha law of primogeniture (then in force in , Virginia) the old chief is the legal owner of all the broad acres which : Col. Brown and his children have looked upon as theirs. He may go back to his forest home without knowing his rights. Nay: but Col. Brown is the soul of honor. He may go back richer than his whole tribe; nay; but old chief is the soul of generosity. When he does return to his long brush-covered cabin, he is not richer than when he left it months before, except in the lovo and grati tude, aod admiration of old kinsfolks and acquaintances*, for he has formal ly made over his rights in the prop- . • erty to his brother. There was a tall, Saxon-looking lad ' of Col. Samuel Brown's who would i fain have kept the beautiful Indian maiden by a tenderer bond than the i cousinly one; but the girl was in love with a brave, and was to be made his wife on her return; and how could a pale face hope to keep her from going back to her painted lover and his wigwam in the forest? Buy at Home. When will people learn to do their trading in a legitimate manner and avoid all "fakes?" The answer is, just as soon as they learn that no man will sell a gold dollar for fifty cents. A point in instance comes from Trumbull county, Ohio, where a number of farmers were victimized by a party of canvassers who sold groceries. The methods adopted were as follows: A party of sleek canvassers went through the conntry selling groceries to the farmers, by sample, and agreeing to deliver on a certain day. The prices were away down below market price and tho farmers fell easy victims. When the goods came to be delivered they were found ot the most inferior quality and short in weight. The leader of the gang has been arrested, charged with obtaining money under false preten ses. Very little sympathy can be shown to the men who were so greedy to take the bait thrown oat to them, for with all the experiences which farmers have had in the past few years with swindlers, they do not seem to profit, but are ready to be taken in again. Left-Handedness. I)r. Feltz, in IS Art Medical, re lates the following as a possible ex planation of the occurence of left-hau d(;ilneßs. In a family composed of five persons, the father and mother were right-handed, as was also the eldest son, who bad been cared for in his infancy by a nurse. The second child had been nursed by his mother and was left-handed. The third child, also nursed bv bis mother, was at the ago of one year evidently left handed, never grasping any object with right-hand. Dr. Feltz noticed that the mother carried the child on her left arm, and, upon being ques tioned, said it had always been her custom to carry her cbilren on this arm. The doctor advised her her to hold tbo child on her right arm. She did so; the child soon began to use his right hand iu seizing objects, and iB now, at tho age of lea years, normal as regards the preference of the right over the left hand. Tho doctor explained that when tho nnrso carries the child on her left arm, the left arm of the infant is the one that is free, and which consequently he learns to use, to the neglect of the right. Protect the Baby's Eyes. Lot the transitions—in early age, at least—from darkness to light, from objects near at hand to those at a dis tance, or vice versa, be gradual, and screen the tender orbs whenever it ia possible, from the direct rays of any brightly illumined body. Useful but Unfashionable. "The washtub is an excellent gym nasium," suggests a practical genius. "Were it only a craze, every girl in the land would be taking lessonß on the washboard." Laugh and Enjoy Good Diges tion. "Laughter," sayß Hufeland, "is one of the greatest aids to digestion. En deavor to have cheerful, merry com panions at your meals. What nour ishment one receives amid mirth and jollity will certainly produce good and light blood." —Two Pennsylvania miners play ed toss and catch with a dynamite torpedo. It was a rare display of nerve, but the compliment didn't do 'em any good. They wouldn't l>e found. —A Oeoriria man put up 5,0(10 acres of land at auction, and it was kuoeked down to the highest bidder at s."><). He didn't care much about land, but he did want monev mighty bad. —Certain creameries in New Eng land haye discovered that buttermilk and soda make a substitute for cream, and that consumers will use it about three months before beginning to kick. —An Illinois woman attempted su icide because her husband sold a calf for sii less than she though the ani mal worth. She was probably de pending on that $2 for her Sunday bonnet. NO. 24