VOL. XXV. SIME NONE FREFER CHUP. SNRDDT BOOTS i!> SHOES, While the Great Majority of the People of Butler Co. Want Solid, Good, Reliable Boots and Shoes Worth the money they pay. The latter go to HUSELTON'S For their Boots and Shoes. They do it because he has the largest stock to select from; because they can and do rely on what he tells them about the goods. No two or three prices—same to all. No tricky ad vertising done, such as goods at 48 cts, G9 cts, etc. No auction, or OLD SAMPLE LOTS, put in as would make believe at 50 cents on the dollar, but fresh new styles made to order by the best manufacturers in the country to-day. You always want to keep ah eye open on the fellow that says he is giving his goods away at 50 cts on the dollar. Either he or the goods is considerably off colour. Our selection is large in Ladies' Shoes of all kinds at SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and up to $4.50 We don't say they are worth twice the money we ask for them; or to come quick, never get such a chance again; and, at your own price, and all such nonsense; but do say that nowhere can you find their equals, especially our $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 Kid Button Boots. They are genuine Kid and Dongola warrant ed, and very handsome styles in all widths and shapes, and we intend to try to supply all customers that want these goods, if we can get them fast enough from the factory. Have had some trouble lately on account of our rapidly increasing trade on these shoes to get them fast enough to meet the de mand. We intend to extend this opportunity to you of getting these goods at any time, as we intend to keep a full stock at all times. (They are not shop worn sample shoes.) Hence, if it don't suit you to come this week, come next, as we intend to get them in quantities to meet the demand. Some say, "Strike while the iron is hot." You can strike any day or hour at Huselton's and find the iron hot.. See our Ladies', Misses' and Children's Slippers. Lace Oxfords, Opera, very fine at .50 cts and up. Wigwam, Lawn Tenais in Ladies', Gents', Misses and Children's. Our sales are very large in Men's Fine Shoes, in Button Bals and especially in Congress. We have all styles, widths and prices from SI.OO and up. You should stop in and see our new lines in Boys' and /ouths' Shoes, the finest we have ever shown. They are sellers. Why, they sell themselves. Don't for get to look at our immense stocK of Misses' and Childrens' Spring Heel Shoes, the finest and best fit ting goods for the least money of any goods in this 'country. We warrant every pair. Men's, Boys' and Youths' Brogans, Plow Shoes, Box-toe Kip Shoes for oil country, at low prices, Please bear in mind that in buying at Huselton's you are protected in prices, styles and wear. Come and see us. B. C. HUSELTON, Ho 4N. MAIM ST. BUTLER, PA. liiiiiiin liiiiiim MUXONS. 8 VELVETS B V£T2^ S ,V^ IINGB - DHJEBB GOODS, NW BLACK DBKSS GOODS, . N COLORED DKESS GOODS, .£££? BKTS ' DRESS (JOODS FOR THE MILLION K ISBT 1 WASH DRESS FABRICB, INFANTS WEAK. UNDERWEXK. JACKETS. PARASOLS, HOSIKRY WRAPS, SHAW LS. KID GLOVES. A. Troutman & Son. Leading Dry Goods and Carpet Bouse. BTrrxjßiß> • ZP:E_N HSPA.. CURTAINS. CARPETS. WINDOW SHADES. MATTINGS, CURTAIN POLES AK T SQUARES, AXD KIXTURBB JAPANESE RUGS, TABLE COVERS, FLOOR LIN ENS, SOFA HI US. LINOLEUMS. U OHN AIIEJTS. A PKINB ' OILCLOTHS. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO ORDERS BY MAIL AUGUST 1 AT RITTER & RALSTON'S. NEW FALL PRINTS, NEW FALL TRIMMINGS, NEW FALL GINGHAMS, NEW FALL BUTTONS, NEW FALL DRESS GOODS, NEW FALL COLLARS, NEW FALL GLOVES, NEW FALL CUFFS, NEW FALL HOSIERY, NEW FALL RIBBONS, NEW FALL CAKPETS. New Goods arriving right along and being marked at tha VERY LOWEST PRICES. Our Clearing Out Sale in July was so great a success that we will continue it during August. EXCURSION. If you want to excurt, combine business with pleasure and come to Butler and take advantage of the GREAT BAR GAINS at RITTER & RALSTON'S. THE BUTLER CITIZEN 1 PROFESSIONAL CAKDS. H. H. GOUCHER Attorney-at-law. Office on second iioor of lirady building. Diamond, isutler, Pa. J, F. Brittain, Att'y at Law—Office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLA K Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. ~TBA MCJUNKIN. Attorney at Law, Office at No. 17, East Jeffer son St., Butler, Pa, C.F. L. Mc aUISTIO.V, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, OFFICE ON DIAMOND, BUTLEK, I'A. Dr. W. M. Hoover, Office over Boyd's Drug Store, DIAMOND BLOCK, - - - BCTLEK, PA. G/HL ZIMMERMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office at No. 45, S. Main street, over Frank & Co's DtUil Store. Butler, Pa, W. E. TITZEL7 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. N. E. Corner Main and Wayne Sts. B'CJTLER PEJM^T'A Dr. S. A. JOHNSTON, DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the prolession execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties :—Gold Fillings, and Painless Ex traction ol Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. Office on Jefferson Street, one door East ofLowry House, I'p Stuirx. Office open daily, except Wednesdays' and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prom pt attention, N. U.—Tlie only Dentist In Butler u.sing the best makes of teeth. JOHN E. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AXD SURGEON Office No. G5 South Main Street, BUTLER, - PA. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS, Physician and Surgeon. No. 10 West Cunningham St., BUTLEB, J. S. LDSK, M.D., Has removed from Harmony to Butler and has his office at No. 9, Main St.. three doors below Lowry House. apr-30-tI. DZEZtsTTISTIR, * . 0 1/ WALDHON, Graduate of the Pliila • "■ ilelphia Cental College, Is prepared to do anything i;i the line of his profession in a satisfactory manner. office on Main street, Butler, opposite the Vogeley House. L. S. McJUNKIiV, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't. 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. Stewart & Patterson. A. M. STEWART and S. A. PATTERSON, Con tractors and Builders, are both men of years of experience in flee house building and framing'. All persons thinking of building will do well to see them and look over their designs. Residence on Fair view Ave., SprlngJalo. Postoffice, Butler, Pa. TRY IT YOURSELF. "It is of no use to argue the question, lam neither stubborn nor opinionated, I haye simply had a lesson that will last a life time." "Look here, Jack! you are like some old bachelor who has been jilted by one wo man, and goes about declaring all women are* false." "Not at all ! my brother Charles died of Bright's disease, brought on by using one of these so-called 'blood purifiers' the kind you see attractively advertised in every nook and corner. It contained iodide of potassum, a drug useful in extreme cases wheu cau tiously given under a doctor's supervision, but death-dealing to all who take it iu quan tity. If your brother had died under such circumstances, you would hate patent medi cines as I do." "I do dislike the name of that miscalled 'blood purifier,' for I have heard first class physicians say it is the cause of half tba eas es of Bright's disease iu the country, and it is strange the proprietors have not been prose cuted for selling it. But 1 was recommend ing Vinegar Bitters and that does not cou tain any mineral, narcotic or other hurtful drug." "Oh, nobody supposes that old woman's remedy will hurt anybody; the question is will it cure anything'! I'll as soon thiuk of taking some of my grandmother's herb tea." "You would be better off, Jack, if you had some of that tea to tone up your system now, instead of taking a glass of brandy to make you sleep one night, and perhaps a bottle of beer the next." "Is this a temperance lecture, Phil?" "No, it is a Vinegar Bitters lecture. I've takeu the medicine more or less tor fifteen years, and loot the world over, you will not find a healtber man than I am." "What is all this nonsense about old style and new style Vinegar Bitters; are they dif ferent?" "Yes, the old style looks like coffee with milk in it, the new style like coffee without milk. The tuan who made (lie old style for twenty years—a practical chemist —made a milder, plejinuoter, preparation, adding to it here, aud taking froip it there, until he pro duced, my wife says, the finest medicine ever made. It cured her of constipation, and it cures the children of hives and all the little ailments they ever have, if my wife thinks they havu worms, she doses them with old style. We always bava both kinds in the house, aud together they keep the doctor away." "And you insist that the proof of the pud ding—" "Is the eating—precisely. Jack, get a bottle of the old style Vinegar Bitters—men 1 think, prefer old style usually—try it, aud you will then be like an old bachelor who, after railing against women for years, falls in love with.a good woman at last. You will say there are good aud bad patent medicines, but Vinegar Bitters is the best of the lot." "All right, Phil, to please you, I'll try it and report results.'" |gg The only Temperance Hitters known. It stimu lates the Jierm, resrulmtes the Bowels and pro duces a perfert blood circulation, which is sure to restore perfect health. GEO. W. DAVIS, of lU9 Itaronne St.. New Or leans*. 1.a., w rites under date May »;th. ISBB, as follows i ••1 have been going to the llot Springs, Ark., for tlfteen years for an Itching humor lu wy blood. I have Just used three bottles of Vine gar Hitters, and It has done ine more good than the Springs. It is the best medicine made.'' JOSEPH J. EGAN, of No, 75 West St., New York, says: "Have not been without Vinegar Bitters for the past, twelve years, and consider it a whole medicine chest In our family." A beautiful Eook free. Address, K. H. McI>OSALI> DBUU CO., 532 Washington St., New York. "Blue Juniata." In tne Youth's Companion is a reprint of one of the prettiest of Penn sylvania songs, with some explana tory notes as follows: Forty years ago every one knew the song "Blue Juniata." It was a simple song, but it took the popular fancy, and children were named for "Alfarata," the Indian girl, and so were boats; but the name was grad ually changed to Alfaretta or Alfretta. The words ran: Wild roved an ludian girl, Bright Alfarata. Where sweep the waters Ot the blue Juniata. Swift as an antelope, Through the forest going, Loose were her jetty locks, In waving tresses flowing. Gay was the mountain song, Of bright Ail'arata, Where sweep the waters Of the biue Juniata. Strong and true my arrows are In my painted quiver, Swift goes my light canoe Adowii the rapid river. Bold is my warrior good, The love of Alfarata; Proud waves his snowy plume Along the Juniata. Soft and low he speaks to me, And then his war cry souuding, Kings bis voice in thunder loud, From height to height resounding. So sang the Indian girl, Bright Alfarata; Where sweep the waters Of the blue Juuiata. Fleeting years have borne away The voice of Alfarata; Still sweeps the river on, Blue Juniata. The Juniata is a wild and beauti ful river formed by the union of three smaller rivers that rise iD the Alle gheny Mountains and unite near Huntingdon, Fa. The main stream is 150 miles long,and it flows through the picturesque Juniata Valley until it loses itself in the broad Susque hanna River about a mile from Dun cannon. The Iriquois Indians used to live in this valley, and Juniata is. an Iriquois word. It was sometimes written Choniata. The song was composed by Mrs. Marion Dix Sulli van, the wife of John W. Sullivan, of Boston. Mrs. Sullivan was born in 1802 in Boscawen, N. H , near the beautiful Merrimac River. She was tbe daughter of Colonel Timothy Dix and tbe sister of General John A. Dix, of New York. She died in 1860. Salt Lake and The West. AS SEEN BY A BUTLER CO., BOY. SAN JOSE, CAL. AUG. 20d, 'BB. EDS. CITIZEN: ln "doing tbe town" of Salt Lake we find many things that are interesting and to speak of all of them would be too long for this sketch of our westward trip, so we content ourself with a reference to a few of the most interesting points in and around the city of the Saints. After a good night's rest, free from the noise and rolling of tbe train, and a breakfast on the fruits of the valley, we are ready for the sights most vis ited by tourists. We first make a trip to a spur of the Wasatch mount ains within atfout one a half miles of the city as once there you can get a fine yiew of the city, and the valley for fifty miles around including the Salt Lake, some five miles west of city With the aid of a good field glass, we can see before us a fine val ley for grazing, and with the system of irrigation they now have, it is very fertile and productive, raising grain of various kinds and fruits in abund ance—a desert made to bud and blos som like a fine farm in the East. Here it was that the Mormon leaders in the summer of 1847, when they emerged from the canon in the moun tains looked down OH the plain before them, and upon further exploration determined to plant their "Zion," where they would for all time, as they supposed, be free to practice their peculiar religion, without the interference of the outside world. It must certainly have tried their faith to locate in this barren plain where all was bleak and bare, ns is shown by localities not jet farmed or irrigat ed, but the same energy that started the whole party out on their long long journey over the "great Ameri can desert," among hostile Indians, served their purpose, and enabled these Morman people through irriga tion to clothe the former desert land with fine crops of wheat and bar ley, fruits and vegetables, in great variety. They saw the only way to farm in this locality was by using the mountain streams, so marshalled their forces, went to the first hills and began what is now the largest sys tem of irrigation in the world, as they have now over 8000 miles of ditches, large and small, in the territory through which the water is distribu ted over the farms in the valleys This may seem a little large when you consider that the length of the ditches would reach more than twice across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but as the ditches are all owned by the church, a record is kept and they kuow just what they have and use it as a lever to keep the people faithful to the church. If they ain't faithful they are liable to have their water shut off and of course their crops fail, their land is worth less, and they have to go to other quarters. For that reason you find no "Gentiles" farming where the church owns the ditchs and controls tbe waters and the reason is obvious. We visit the tabernacle, the housa where all the "faithful'Mn and around the city worship on Sunday. It is 250 feet long by 150 feet wide, is 10 feet high with a seating capacity of about 12000, including the gallery. Here is one of the lagest, if not the largest, and finest organ in the world, that under manipulation of a fine performer, sends forth notes, from that of the softest flute to that of the roll of distant thunder—a very wide range of capacity indeed. The "Tem ple," a large building just eaßt of the tabernaclo is iu construction,the corner stone was laid April Gth, 1853 Work has been going on constantly ever since, and it is estimated it will re quire ten years more to finish it. The building is of fine granite, very substantially built and if not destroy ed by earthquake is liable to stand thousands of years. It is over 100 by 200 feet, the walls are 100 feet high. Here will be the headquarters or the offices of the church authori ties, where all the records are to be stored away to be sent down the ages to the "faithful," for their information thousands of years hence, when all other churches, es they say, will be and theirs will be tbe only BUTLFR, PA.. FRIDAY. 8 KPT KM BKR 7,18*8 one in existence to enlighten the world; a rather extravagant expecta tion we would surest Over three and a half million dollar have been j spent on the Temple thus far, so by ; the time it is finished, ten years hence, it will be a very costly build ing. Tbe nomenclature of the place is suggestive of the land from whence I sprung the Christian religion Here is the river Jordan, Mount Nebo in the distance looking dowu on the plain below; the Tabernacle, the Temple, and many of the rites and ceremonies are modelled after those of the Jewish religion, all suggestive of the aucieut '"tabernacle in the wild erness". Hut we must hasten on. We take the train for Garfield Beach, a resort on Salt Lake about 13 miles from the city,fitted up bv the Union Pacific Railroad Co , and one of the finest bathing places in the country. We, i:e, about fifty of us, men and women incuding girls, don bathing suits and take a plunge into the briny water and find, when we strike out for a swim as in fresh water, that we are soon "kicking in the air," with our head wanting to get under water. Many of tbe less expert swimmers found themselves, "ends reversed," and it necessary to adopt other tactics in this dense water. Soon however all find they will not sink and with great ease can balance themseves and float around as they please, in this "Dead Sea" of America, where the water contains sixteen per cent salt, where as the ocean water contains but about three per ceut. After the bath, and a grand show er bath of fresh water in the dressing room to wash the salt off, we feel much refreshed, have a good dinner at the restaurant, and return to the city, where at 4p. in. we take the train for Ogden, and at 7 p. m. are on our way to the Golden Gate. During the night we cross the mountains and the morning finds us on the head waters of the Humboldt river; we follow its valley all day, and that af ternoon at Winnemucca, Nevada, we receive the pleasing (?) intelligence that a freight traiu, off the track thirty miles west, will delay us seven hours, so as the thermometer is at 104, no shade trees within fifty miles of us, the sun beaming down on the dry barren plain, we do the best we can to keep cool and restrain our in dignation at such an unfortunate affair that stopping us at this particu lar place. The ladies of the party became very restless betimes, and as one of the mrn under less restraint than the rest of us gave vent to his feelings by saying "darn the luck" he was met by about a dozen ladies re sponding "those are our sentiments, but we didn't want to say so." How ever, at about the time stated, and at dusk the bell rung out the welcome sound "all aboard." and soon we are on our way toward Humboldt Lake, where we are in the basin of the val ley and begin the ascent that leads to the "Sierra Nevadas." If our delay was a disadvantage to us by broiling us in the hot sun, it was more than compensated for by the fact that it gave us a ride over tbe far famed "Sierra" in daylight—all regular trains on time cross them at night— which was greatly enjoyed by the whole party. At daylight we find ourselves at Truckee and wend our way through gorges, along the moun tain side, through thirty miles of snow sheds that shoot the snow, slidftig down the mountain, over the trac®,, and finally we gain the summit 'At of over 7000 feet. We begin the descent and soon are bowl ing down grade at a lively rate some parts of the tracks being on a grade of oyer 25 feet to the mile. When we reach the famous "Cape Horn" the trained is slowed up so all can get a view of the wonderful scenery of this locality, where, should the train jump the track it woul 1 be landed 1800 feet in the valley below, so steep is the mountain side. Ou we go through Alta, Dutch Flats, Gold Run—all once famous mining camps,but whose glory has departed,—and by noon we are at Sacramesto for dinner, with the thermometer at 101 in the shade. After dinner the train moves on down the west side of tbe river. At Beuicia tbe train, fifteen coaches and engine— is run on a ferry boat and taken across the river, a mile and a half, where we are soon on our way down the east side of the San Francisco Bay, and in due time run on the pier two and a half miles out in the bay, where we are landed, and by ferry taken across miles further to tbe wharf at foot ot Market Street, San Francisco, aud are somewhat amused to see the change in climate —that thing California people boast about. At, Sac a uento but a few hours before we saw the people swel teriug in the heat, here on Market street we see the ladies clad in seal skin sacques and heavy wraps, and men witb their overcoats on. In this busy city we tarry for the night. We meet among others Alfred P. Black, a boy from the north end of your coun ty, engaged here in the practice of the law. In the morning we visit some of the important places of the city —to write about which would make a letter of itself. At 3:30 p. m we take train for San Jose, 50 miles south, and at 5 p. m. arrive safely. Here we meet amongst other frieods, James Black and wife, formerly from North Butler County and known to many of your readers in that section. We are pleased to see them looking so well as they are. As far as we can see Mr. Black is as well as when he was last in your county, fourteen years ago, although he will be 80 years old August 31st. Mrs. Black has failed somewhat, but still retains her sprightly disposition, so well known to all her neighbors. We also meet J. C. Black, a former Butler County boy enjoying a very lucrative law practice in this place and who declined the appointment of Judge on the death of the recent incumbent, Judge Belden, for the reason the sal ary is only about half what his prac tice amounts to annually. We also meet David A. Black, a Butler coun ty boy, known to the older residents of Marion and Cherry townships,who left the home of his childhood in 1855 and who has been in California ever since, Amongst others we meet the family ot Dr. Webster, formerly of Harrisville; also, B P. Patterson, a son of Norman Patterson, of Centre ville. Of California, its climate, fruits, etc.. many things could be said but we must close this already too long letter. WANDSHJSH. —At Manistee, Mich., girls feed the planers in the hoop mills and do other light work. They also do the sacking at the dairy salt works, and make from $1 to sl.2s*per day. A Southern Brigadier. j T. M. J. in Harrisburg Telegraph. One of the biggest loafers 1 ever saw was an ex-member of Congress. He is a high official in the House of Representatives now, so it reallv dousu't matter wh it I s»y about him. I was at Atlantic City several years ago, and my attention was attracted at the hotel to a tall, tine looking man who I learned was an ex mcmb -r of Congress from a Southern State who rejoiced in the title of "General," for : he had "fit in the wab, suh," as a brigadier in the rebel army. lie was a haughty, imperious son of-a-gun, and he stalked about as if he owned the earth and had pre-empted several claims on the planets. His wife, a mild-mannered, gentle lady, I learned was by birth a Philadelphian. She was always a secondary consideration to him, and I don't think I ever saw him notice her. Poor woman, she bore his neglect meekly, and seemed to take his ill-will as a matter of CDurse. One morning about 9 o'clock when I was taking a late nap, 1 was awakened by cries of "Help! Mur der! Ob, for heaven's sake, don't kill me!" in the shrill voice of a wo man. The cries of distress came from a room on the same floor as mine. Before I could dress and get out into the hall-way the cries had ceased, and there was a sculflling of hurried feet as if somebody was getting out of harm's way. I inquired quietly dur ing the day as to tbe cause of the cries, and learned that the Southern Brigadier, sah, had been indulging in the playful pastime of beating his wife, and that when her father had broken in the door he found the chiv alric loafer had her bent over a trunk with his claw about her throat while he was beating her eyes black with his right fist. The old man was go ing to kill him, but friends interfered aud the "Gen'ral, sah," was hustled off before he could be properly shot. A year afterwards I met the lady at the same hotel, where her father was chief clerk. She told trie her story. Her husband had been a member of Congress and before they were mar ried had roomed at her boarding house in Washington. When he fail ed of re-election be did not leave Washington but remained at her house and prevailed on her to marry him, which she very foolishly did. Then he billeted his family of three daughters (he was a widower) on his wife and lived a life of ease. They appropriated the best rooms, aud were so disagreeable that the oth»r boarders left, and her revenue dwin dled down to nil. His demands for money were alway met cheerfully by his wife, and he loafed and smoked twenty-five cent cigars, and drank brandy and had a general good time. When summer came the whole ca boodle camped down in the Atlantic City hotel, at which her father was manager, aud it didn't cost them a cent. One day the old man hinted that they had worn out their wel come, and the loafer took this as an insult and beat his wife terribly. It was on this occasion that I heard her cries for help. The hu?band and wife separated on that day forever. The wife went back to Washington, be gan life over again and is prosperous. The husband loafed around Washing ton until the Southern Brigadiers got control of the House and they elected him to a high aud responsible posi tion. Well, so. it goes. The bad citizen doesn't get his just deserts in this world—but there is a hereafter, brethren, there is a hereafter, and don't you let that important fact slip your nimble memories Novel Constitutional Point. Oae of the oddest poiats ever rais ed under the Fourteenth amend ment to the federal constitution has been decided by a Pennsylvania court. A statute of the State originally en acted in the last century, and in effect re enacted as lately as 1867, provides that licenses to peddle shall be grant ed only to such persons as may be "by reason of some physical disabili ty unable to gaiu a livelihood by la bor." This bars able bodied mea from peddling in short, makes good health and physical soundness a dis qualification for followiug a specified calling. The Court of Quarter Sessions in Beaver county declares that tbe Leg islature has no right to pass such an act*, that the law makes a discrimina tion in the matter of employment and business, which is a violation of the equal lights guaranteed to all per sons by the Fourteenth amendment. "If, says Judge Wickham, the Leg islature can determine that the pos session of average health and sound ness of body shall be a bar to exercis ing the calling of traveling merchant, it can also make somt* physical defect the badge of every calling, and may enact, for instance, that only confirm ed dyspeptics shall keep dry goods stores; that a grocer must have chron ic rheumatism, a blacksmith but one leg, a milliner no teeth, a physician no hair; that a lawyer must have the asthma and a barber must be dumb." "To concede to the legislature," the Court concludes, "the power to arbi trarily exclude from any honest call ing all men who are in a normal bod ily condition would be to break down one of the safeguards thrown around the citizen by tbe Fourteenth amend ment to the constitution of the Unit ed States and by the constitution of our own State," Trespassing Prohibited. At this season of the year farmers are greatly annoyed by the depreda tions of trespassers, some of whom carry off fruit, let down fences so that cattle can get iuto fields and destroy the growing grain, or commit other unlawful acts either through thought lessness or maliciousness. The own ers of lands have a legal remedy against all who trsspass upon their property. In March, 18G0, a bill was passed by the State Legislature, mak ing it a misdemeanor for any person to carry off fruit, or to destroy fruit on another mau's premises. The act was first passed for Huntingdon couu ty, but the same year was extended to four or five other counties. The next year the law vvas made . general over the State. It provides that the person offending shall upon convic tion be fined not less than $5 nor more than soo, one half to go to tbe informer and the other half to the owner of the land; and in default of payment the offender shall undergo imprisonment of oae day for every dollar of fine imposed. —Forty tramps in jail at Dover, Del., relused work paying $1 per day. A Hypnotized Man Turning Robber. I May one who is free from vicious j tendencies be made to commit a crime while hypnotized, which he or she, ! with full command of faculties, would | regard with abhorrence ? Experi ments both here arid abroad have | abundantly illustrated the wonderful power possessed by the operator over I his subject; the latter wholly subor ' dinating his will: acting, speaking, i aud, to all appearance, even thinking ; and seeing as directed A recent iu ! yestigator, M, W. A Croffut, would | seem to have gone a step further on | the road to practical accomplishment by inducing his subject to actually rob a house; a prc-arrangement, of course, tbe agent, however, having uo kaowledge of this. This agent, whom Mr Croffut described, in a re cent piper, as of k .own probity, set out, while iu a hypnotic state, to rob a neighboring house, which, together with the means of entrance, was fully described to him; being told that a heap of gold was to bo found in a certain apartment The operator's assistant accompanying him declares that, after gathering up tbe imaginary treasures and putting it in the big provided him, the subject proceeded to purloin other articles, so thorough ly aroused was his cupidity, and get ting safely out evinced an incliuatiou to fly with the treasure instead ot re turning and dividing with the opera tor, as was agreed. Another subject, under similar iuflueuce, took a pistol, supposed tc be but not really loaded, and, aiming it at his heart, as direct ed, pulled the trigger. If from these and similar investiga tions it should become apparent that all manner of real crimes may be committed by inuocent persons while in this hypnotic or mesmeric condi tion, and if the vicious, having power as that evidently possessed by Mr. Croffut and others, should actually employ the unsuspecting aud unsus pected as their agents, how would society protect itself ? How could the innocent agents be distinguished from those not under such influence, but setting un the claim wheu caught only to avoid punishment? A really honest clerk, with tbe keys of bis em ployer's office and safe in his posses sion, might be made, should he fall under such influence, to commit a burglary; the heir to an estate might be induced to kill himself; a trust worthy servant to commit murder or arson. These are interesting psychological questions; questions, it may be said, which are by no meaus beneath the dignity of science to inquire into. Earth Worms Causing Trich inae. It is a not uncommon occurence that a parasite inhabits different ani mals at different stages of its growth. This is the case with the small thread worm, Syngamus traeheaiis, which infests the windpipe of the pheasant, peacock, turkey, duck and other fowls, and often occasions considera ble damage. Mr. Walker, of Frank linville, N. Y., has recently made investigations on this subject. He finds that the intermediate host of tbe embryo syngamus is the commou earth worm, which in places visited by birds has been found to bo beset with these parasites. They are swal lowed by the birds along with the worms, and perforating the tciopha gus, find their way into the respira tory organs. During, or immediate ly after, this migration the syngamus attains sexual maturity and attaches itself to the trachea. This happens in six or seven days after it has been swallowed. In seven days its eggs are produced, which are coughed up by the bird and reach the ground, where the embryo emerges in about three weeks. It is swallowed by a worm and lemains in its intestinal ca nal until devoured by a bird. The best method to check this disease is to moisten the soil with brine, which kills both the worms and the embryo syngami which they contain. Birds which have died of this disease should be destroyed by fire.—New York Star. Approaching Fall. Fall is coming on fast. The plain tive drone of the katydid fills the twilight with sad suggestions of the dying season. The birds will soon be mustering in armies for the south ern clime. The harvest is gathered, and the fall will soon be here. The robin will soon wink you a goodbye, and the red-wiuged black bird will flap you an adieu. The cricket will chirp his song ou the hearth and the cat will purr beside the first sugges tion of the early fall fire. The plumes of the golden rod are lighting the roadside with splendid color. The bass fisher gets out his rods and lines and awaits the frosty mornings. The The most glorious season is here, full of the suggestions of completeness. Watch the seasons, they have the eloquence of silent work and the in spiration of immortaliy. All things change but nothing dies. A Sand Storm at Sea. The British steamship Glenshiel, from the East Indies, recently urrived at New York, reports a sand storm which occurred on the evening of July 10, while the vessel was mak ing for Suez. When half way up the Red Sea a most terrific sand storm, which lasted nearly ten hours, sud denly swept down. It was impossi ble to see anything a ship's length away. The wind blew a gale, and it was found to be a dangerous experi ment to stay on deck for any length of time. The sand was hot, and when it came into contact with the body, would sting like the point of a knife. Sure Death to Buffalo Moths. A lady correspondent sends U3 the following: Take strips of red or blue flannel (as these colors are particu larly attractive to them), dip in li quid arsenic and lay around the edge of carpets, or wherever the pests are troublesome. They will soon eat a desired amount and collapse, to the entire satisfaction of the housewife, without the least injury to her car pets. —Philadelphia hotel men calculate they give away $5,000 worth of sta tionery a year to letter writing friends who don't pay the hotels a cent. —Richard Johnson, jailed at Larn berton, North Carolina, for polygamy, confesses that "to the best of his knowledge" he has fifteen wives now living. Prospects for Sugar on the Pa cilic. Th r ' whole of the Pacific States and Territories can, no doubt, pro duce six to seven million tons, enough to supply fx) percent more than tie present consumption of ail civilized countries. That consumption, though, is increasing very rapidly, and it doubles in the United Statts in about twcuty years. Thus in that time it would absorb all possible production production of the Stale. The value of 3,110,000 tous of sugar wouli, ut 5 per pound, be close on three hundred and fifty million dollars per annum To obtain it one has to go abroad. Besides the return to farmer, the industry gives steady employ meat at the rate of about oue man to every 30,000 pounds ot sug*r The total produce of all the sngar j hinds in California would, therefore. ; give work to not less than 230 000 men, representing a popuiatiou of I, r>oo,ooo, including traders, manufac turers, wives, children, etc. It wou d besides, give support to a great nnd varied industry. It would need 21, 000,000 barrels to contain the sugar, and thus give support to a vast coop erage industry and lumber interest. The engines would consume 1!) bar rels of oil to each ton, or 53 000.000 barrels to the total possible product ion of the Slate. This would, no doubt, exhaust all the crude oil that California can produce. The use of two per cent slake lime would call for over 400,000 barrels of lime a year. The machinery needed, too, in these mills would cost S4B 000.000, aud would require renewing say every fifteen years, thus creating a foundry busi ness of over $3,000,000 a year. An immense quantity of coal would be consuuiad, so that it would give ;up port to a great mining interest. Aud we have not yet nigh exhausted the the list of ail the new industries that this great one would support. We have delineated its possibilities It would, of course, take a long series of years to arrive at the results here presented. That it is possible under any circumstances may be known from the fact that the last sugar made cost 4.84 cents per pound, and that it is stated on good authority it can be laid down in San Francisco for 3i cents per pound, so j that California can easily hold her own in beet sugar producti on.—San Francisco Journal. Clouds of Moths. The city of Reading, Pa., had a re markable visitation of moths on the evening of August 1 Myriads of them infested the air, resembling at a distance a snow storm They were first noticed dying around the elec tric lights about 8 o'clock, and gradu ally increased t<. such uunsbers as to obscure the brilliancy of the lights. Passengers on the street cars, as they passed under the lamps, were cover ed with the insects, and handker chiefs, hats, and fans were plied vig orously to keep them olf Fires were built under the lights and heaps of the moths were burned. Pen aSt saloon men were c impelled to close their front doors to keep out. the pests which were attracted to the bir rooms by the bright lights. Tbe doors a• 1 windows of dwelling houses had also to bo closed to keep th"m out. Local savauts pronounc ed them cotton moths, and they evi dently came from the South. They are said to precede a hot wave, and a decided rise in the temperature is predicted. At Easton, Pa. butterflies by the thousands flew around the sixty-four electric lights, lit on the carbons aud then dropped dead in the globes. When the men who reuew the carbon visited the lights, they found on an average two quarts of dead butterflies on each globe, a total of four bushels, besides the lot that had fallen on the ground during the night. Through the Rift. A young man had made himslf a home ou a new farm, situated away from neighbors. At the bend in the wood road he had cut a little opening, visible from the house, that wife and baby might see him, on his way, be fore he quite reached them. This clearing was called by them "the open place." The little one often rau to the door, during papa's absence, to see "if papa was tumin' by de opja place." One day the husband and father was stricken down with fever. Toe little one was carried to auntie's house, out ol danger's way, and did not return until after the dear, brave papa was carried to the "R33t th.it remaineth for the people of God." When the child returned to the sor rowing mother, he was told that papa had gone to heaven, but would come for his little boy some day. He often looked and longed for his father. The fatal fever attacked the boy. Just as the setting sun tinged all the sky, the darling, who had lain for days uncon scious, suddenly opened bis eyes and said: ' Mamma, papa is tumin' by the open place." He reached his anus up towards the bright apparition, which unquickened eyes could not see. and sank back lifeless.— Detroit Free Press. Noah's Ark Wood. Within a radious of sixty miles of Xasnville, Tenn.. there is said to be foand a tree that is said to be the shittim wood of ark fame. Celebrat ed botauists from all over the country have examined the trees and agree that they grow nowhere else on the globe. They have decided that it is the shittim wood of which Noah's ark was constructed, mention of which is made several times in the Bible. The tree is medium sized, with very dark, smooth bark, and the wood is of a bright gold color. In early spring the tress are laden with long, white blossoms, closely resem bling great ostrich plumes. There seems to be no doubt about the iden tity of these trees, and it is remarka ble that they are found only ia this small area and so few at that, Population of Russia. Government statistics recently pub lished place the population of the Russian empire at 108,787, 235, of which 81,7*25,185 are iu Russia pro per, 10,136,725 are in the other pro vinces of Russia in Europe, and 16,- 925,325 in Asiatic Russia. St. Pe tersburg is the most populous city, with a total of 861,303. The popu lation of Moscow is 753,469, of War saw 454,293, and of Odessa 240,000. ■ He Is Strong in England. j Pitt-bnrg Chron. Telegraph.] County Recorder W. 11. Graham arrive:! in the city this morning from un ex en led toiir of Europe looking hale and heury aud in tbe best of health aod spirits lie was accompa nied by Thomas Ward, of Pittsburg. The Recorder had about twenty canes with him which he secured in differ ent parts of Europe, and which be will i resent to friends. In speaking of Europe as he found it, Mr. Grah am said: "I think if Mr. Cleveland was ruauiug for President in England he would surely be elected. Had 1 not been u Republican before I left here I would surely bo one now. A person does not ueed to investi gate to find out how the sentiment in England is ruining. Why, actu ally. you could n.jt go into a hotel, a resta r »n\ or even a store, bat yoa wouid find evervbnJy for Cleveland. I bid a taik with a uuiuber of Eng lishmen. and th**y told uio they were hoping tor his re election, so that be could carry out his free trade doc trines They said that they hoped then to have England restored to her original pUce, as the largest mson factuti'ig country in the world. I ask ed them if t'lev really thought free trade in the United States would benefit, them, at which they were greatly amused and said that after free trade was adopted in the United States it would only be a few months until every workshop and mill in England would be running full biaat. "1 hope, however, that the day will never come when the United States will be like England. I spent some time ia ascertaining the wages paid workingnv u in Europe, and it seta ally astounded me i got on s street cur in Louuou oue day, and in a con versa tie n with the conductor, I asked him what wages were paid him. He told me twenty-four cents a day, that be worked from six o'clock ia the morning uutil ten, eleven and twelve o'clock at uU'bt. This is only oae example There are thousands just like.it that "I could enumerate. I found tbut all through England, and, iu lact, the most of Europe, the wa ges paid men were 50 to «»0 per ceat lower than those paid Americas workmen." A Cure for Laziness. A late reverend gentleman, who resided in Yorkshire, aid was is well known for his eccentricity ss his tal ents, one day seat his son, a laay lad about twelve years, to catch the horse. Tbe lad went sanntering along wirh a grain of corn ia oae baud and a bridle in tbe other, drag ging the rtius along the groaod. "Thorn**," said the father, calling after bim iu a very solemn tone of voice, "corns here, Thomas, I wsat to say a word to you before yon go." The lad returned, and tbe person proceeded: "You know, Tb<>m»s. that I gave you n great deal of counsel. Yoa know that I have taught yoa, before closing your eyes, to say,'Xow I lay me down to sleep,' etc, beside* a good many other things in tbe way of explanation and advice. Bat this is the lust opp »rtuuity 1 may ever have of speaking to you, I couldn't let it pass without giving you my parting charge. R- a good boy and always say that pretty prayer before going to sleep." As he said this ia a very sad and solemn manner tbe poor boy began to be frightened, an" burst into tears with this exclamation: "You will never see me Again, pa?" "Xo, for I will probably die be'ore you get back witb the horae." This quickened Thomas's ideas,and gathering up the reins, he no and caught the horse in less time that he had ever doue before. The Fastest Railroad Train in the World. Competition between two of the great English lines of railroad has re cently taken the form of catting down the running time. The London end North-Western and the Great North ern, striving against each other for the traffic between London and Edin burg, have reduced the rnaning time betweea these points to eight hoars. Bv the first named road the distance is 401 miles, by the other it is 391. For the entire distance the schedule ia slightly exceeded by the short B.AO. between Baltimore and Washington, 40 milt sin 45 minute*. Bat the length of the trip removes it from the comparison On the Xorth-Wertern road one rue without, a halt of 1.33 miles in three hours is a part of the trip This exceeds the ran from Fort Wayne to Chicago by 12 miles. To realize what this speed means, it may be compared with the trip from Xe ff York to Chicago by the Penn sylvania Railroad. The same speed would reduce the time between these points lo a little over eighteen and one half hours. It has been suggest ed that an afternoon train shoald leave New York and should roach Chicago in time for business the next day. The above proves the practica bility of such a project. Journalistic Profits. This is the way a country editor keeps his subscription book—he never has but one. Tom Brown, settled. Jack Smith, eggs. Jim Jones, fish. Pat Boke, butter. John Flinch, whisky, 11. Gray, whisky. Jeff Pink, meat. Bob Rud, on house rent. Tom Paine, CASH!!!! SLOO CABINS can hard ly be considered hand some or elegant, bat they were fit habitation* for the rugged pioneer* of America. Oar aneee tors were ragged speci mens of noble manhood, complete ia health, strength and endurance. Their wholesome remedies are reproduced in this later age, in Werner's Log Cabin Sarsiparilla and Warner'* "Tippecinoe." Three of a Kind. Since Belva Lock wood ifot into The Prr-siiltntiil tussle The paralyzing I* -t is learned: She dotan't wear a bustle. This not to hurt her name; The simple trath is, neither Of the other candidates Wears a bustle either. —They sa? the light of the moon is equal to 134,000,000,000,000,009 candles. NO. 44
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