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K - 1 30 S V MAIN ST. -r
THE VERY PEOPLE WHOj
HAVE THE LEAST MONEY { Are your wages small.
TO SPEND ARE THE ONES j Are you tl,e h " a ' l !i
I family?
OUR RELIABLE CLOTHING } With
MEANS MOST TO j lar?e v
Willi house rent a tlr.u on you?
Low prices for honest, long-wearing Clothing will be a
ISHIII lo \i fir jMK'ket-lKiok anil _>our back.
<iel :iit iroii-clatl ( loth Suit at sl2. Strongest All-W o
Suit we know of. Nobody else sells if.
Get J. N. PATTERSON'S Cloth Suit at FW dress
a*id everyday wear combined it's w.niderful value.
• No"matter how line a -uit yon want I<>l- tiressor business
we have that at a low price.
There is no oj.en question nboiit i'oys' Clothing. N\ r e are
not only |»ioi:efis, but to-day's leaders in stylos ami qualities
highest e\i't llenee and lowest pries.
IICI'K'UIIH i tic place.
J. N. PATTERSON'S.
One I'rii'c Clotliing House,
29 S. MAIN ST., BIITIEB, PA.
THE
Great Fair
Now Ready For
VISITORS.
.Wonderful Display
OF
FALL AND WINTER
Dress (ioods, Trimmings, Shawls, Wraps,]
and all kinds of Fancy and
Furnishing (ioods.
Oil Cloths, Mattings, lings, Art*.
BLANKETS, FLAN
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An Immense* Stock at the Lowest Prices
hjver Advertised.
BITTER & ({ALSTON'S.
(HENRY BIEHL
I I NORTH MAIN STREET,
BUTLER - F-RJM UST'A
DEALER IN
Hardware and House Furnishing (foods.
Agricultural Implements,
Kramer Wagons,
Buggies Carts, Wheel Barrows, Brammer Washing Machines,
New Sunshine and Howard Ranges, Stoves, Table
and pocket Cutlery, Hanging Lamps. Man
ufacturer of Tinware, Tin
Rooting and Spouting A Specialty.
WHERE A CHILI) CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN.
BARGANS in WATCHES,
Clocks,
Jewelry
And silverware.
Kinoxt stock of Sterling Silverware in the county
and at prices not to lie equalled for cash.
Watche.s ami Clocks repaired and warranted, at
.L K. GrRLfcCB'S
I\ <». 1(> SOT it LI JVI I »I»I MT., (Sign of ELECTRIC BELL),
IJUTLER, PA.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
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TRADE MARKS
REMEDY PAfNI
Forßruises and Burns.
Fresh, Strong, Convincing Facts.
Brnl Hf.millii. £ut Providenr.> R I .Jan*'lß
While in the employ of the B*r«tow Btove Co
applied your Bt Jacob! Oil to many bad burns of
Ib* moulders o.nd always with best results
GEO W HORTOK.
ladder ■ VII. Galveston, Texa*. June 23. 18ff
Fell from ladder, brulsod and sprained my foot
and wrtat. suffered Are day« wa> * r .^ r *£Ji7„ at
Jacobs Oil JOSHUA WYTETH
Ro««-rap Hurt. Hall, Ind . Aag 10. 1818
Knee -cap waa hurt and I ■offered 3 months; 3
bottles of Bt. Jacobs Oil
Dislocation. Jollet, 111 . Hay 24. ISM
Dislocated ehoulder 3 years aso conffned »
week* to house the pain was cured by Bt JacoM
Oil and have had n<~> return of it J D DROWit
Hort.r-.kirk Ourk, 0 , June 28, 1888.
Suffered 4 weeks from the hick of a U
»•« —• t«o ***— 8t J"" 1 " °"r c BERXfI
AT DmCGISTS AND DEALERS.
THE CHARLES *. VOGELER CO Baltimore Ud
PKOFESSIONA L CARDS.
P. W. LOWRY,
ATTORN KV AT I.AW.
lliKiin No. 3, Antf«rsoii litiiltllii?. liutler. l\u
A. K. KUSSELL,
ATrOliNtn AT LAW.
Office on second floor of New Anderson Mock
Main St.. near Diamond.
IRA McJUNKIN.
Attorney at I.aw. office at No. 17, East JeflVr-
SOII St.. Uutler, fa.
W. C. FINDLEY,
Attorney at taw and Real list ate Agent. Of
flee rear of L. X. Mitchell's office 011 nor'li stile
of Diamond, liuiler, I'a.
H. 11. GOUCHER.
Attorney-at-law. Ofllce on w-coml floor ol
Aiulorson t>iill<ltn£, msir Court 11«>US4\ liutler.
Pa.
J. t. BKITTAIN.
All'y at Law - Ofllce at S. I". I'or. Main St, and
Diamond, liutler, I'a.
NEWTON BLACK.
Aft'y at ljtw*—office on South aide of Diamond
liutler, I'a.
JOHN M. RUSSELL,
Altorney-at-Law. Ollioe on SoutJi Hide of Dia
mond, liutler. I'a.
C. F. L. McQUISTION,
KM.INKKK AMI SI'RVEYOIt,
Oi KICK ON DIAMOND, BUTLKR, I*4.
(i ZIMMERMAN.
rUYSIOIAN AND BIKUKON,
oni« eat No. 45, S. Main street, over Frank &.
Co's l)i u# Store. Butler, l'u.
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
IN'O. ID xV'eat ( uuninghani St.,
BUTLER, ZPZEJNTINr'A.
JOHN E. BYERS,
PHYSICIAN AM> SURGEON
Office No. r~< South Main Street,
BITTLEti; - PA
W. R. TITZEL.
PHYSICIAN ANr> SURGEON.
s. W.Corner Main and North Sts.
B CJ TLEIR, IPEiN
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession execut
ed in the neatest manner.
Specialties : Cold Killings, and Painless Ex
traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered.
(Iffltr on .litTrrson Street, one iloor K»st of l.onrj
House, lip Stairs.
Office open daily, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mall receive
prompt attention.
N. 11. The only Dentist In liuller|lising the
best makes of teeth.
L 8. McJUNKIN,
Insurance and Real Estate
17 EAST JEFFERSON ST.
| BUTLER, - PA.
£ E ABRAMS "& CO
Fire and Life
IN S IT II A N C E
Insurance Co. of North America, incor
-1 pnrated 17!*', capital $3,000,000 and other
; strong companies represented. New York
Life I nstiranee Co., assets .*!)0,000,000. Office
I New Ifiiselti n building near Coort House.
BUTLER COUMTV
Wutuai Fire insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts.
•3. C. ROESSINO, PRESIDENT.
\VM. CAMPBELL THEASUKKK.
11. C. IIEINEMAN, SKCHBTART
DIRKCrOKS:
J. L Purvis, Samuel Anderson,
William Campbell .1. W. llurkhart,
A. Troutman, Henderson Oliver,
6. 0. Koesslnu', .lames Stephenson,
l>r. W. Irviu. llenrv Wliltmlre.
J. F. Taylor. II.C. llelneman,
LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't
.•3TTT?T_,7iI"F?.,
WHEN YOU
VISIT PITTSBURGH
CALL ON
JOHN R. & A. MURDOCH,
8 Smith Held street, for lit i Si i ds. Miles.
rape Vines. Hardy Hosts. i ;,riur> LlrUs.Gokl
GLsli. etc.
Descriptive Fall CatalouifO mailed free.
VL7 A Nil: 1) Agents to solicit orders for our
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Advertise ip *he CITIZEN
THE UNION PICNIC.
At four o'clock iu the morning any but
tlie tiennan ilesccaileil etllcmenf lieknv
the Pennsylvania cit> would have Iwcn
a-leep.liut when Sam Sebra.oler, hi : ilaujfb
ter. and Henry Verhawk drove up the ro.ul
the 1 msine id' the day liail Itegltn all
along. They met two neighbors with their
market wagons on their way to the city,
and one with a load of bone phosphate a!
ready returning from the near factory.
Wotnerf were opening their front door? or
drawing water in uniet commencement of
their long day's work.
It was Angnst. A little later and an ex
ce-tsive heat would dawn. Even now, be
fore the snn had risen, it wa damp rather
than cool along the dew wet road.
Schraailer had his hat oil. and wiped the
perspiration from his broad face. Schraa
iler's was a peddler's waprm, with an nm
brclla over the seat, which was not meant
to accommodate three. Schraader's large
■ bulk was deposited in the laps of bis
danghter and Henry Verbawk, with dis
comfort to all. Hut Henry was one of the
family. He had been a neighbor all his
life, ami he was to marry Mary Sehraader
whenever their tranquil, unhurrying minds
should agree upon it; he was past thirty
and she twenty-sis; and it hail been lor
several weeks arranged that they should on
the day of the I'nion Sunday school picnic
at Hunt's Grove, twelve miles away, give
Henry a lift, for Henry was going.
Schraailer had to-day a new stock of the
tinware and merchandise he sold, and he
and Mary, who helped her father on his
busier trips, had made an early start. But
llfiiry hail been ready and waiting. He
was as pleased to go to the picnic as he
would have been twenty years back. He
sat with a primness that chafaoterized him,
a slim form jn a suit of white linen and a
broad-brimmed white hat with a green
lining. His face,clean-shaven and guileless,
shone with his happiness in his coming
treat. He would attain it by walking seven
miles, and twelve miles back that night;
but in his bright anticipation the cost was
small.
Nobody spoke as they drove on. They
had lived their lives together till their
information was all but identical, and
their ideas. This, added to their rustic
slowness of tongue, made it likely that
when Henry came to see Mary Sunday
evenings they would maintain unbroken
silence from beginning to end of the inter
view, nor feel anything but serene content.;
and they jogged ou unembarrassed, in the
calmness of that thorough mutual knowl
edge which is the surest promise of married
happiness, the tin-ware keeping up a
drowsy rattling. When they' reached the
(urn which separated thein, Henry got
down.
"It's going to be botter'n 'twas yister
day; you better take it slow," Schraader
said; and Mary turned her serious face,
broad like her father's, and plain, and look
ed after him as he tramped 011 alone.
He took off his hat in the shade of the
woods 011 both sides, thick and dark and
vibrant with wild sound sounds, snd walk
ed briskly. He was almost aglow with his
boyish eagerness. He had so early a start
that he thought ho should get there in time
to miss none of it.
The rustling grove was thickly bordered
with the vehicles which had brought the
picnickers hither, of the latter there were
in the neighborhood of a thousand. Nom
inally it was the yearly union picnic of the
onT"."Tirmigl I I
with them the settlements almost entire.
Henry sat 011 a fallen tree in the thick
of the scene. He had almost been the first
arrival. Now it was eleven, and the picnic
was well under way. Thus far he had en
joyed every moment. He had traveled
round the grove watching the constant
arrivals; now and then lie unharnessed and
hitchedjhc horses of women who hud come
without men, and had taken one to the
watering trough. Be had looked on at the
erection of the various venders' stands, and
had watched the assembling of the minis
ters of the congregations on the platform,
before which ran a few rods of board
benches. Now there had been full activity
for an hour. A merry-go-round was in
operation, the refreshment stands were
gaining patronage, and up and down, in
and out, round and round, wandered the
thousand picnickers. To Henry it was a
marvellous scene. He sat with his hands
011 his knees and his lips apart,unconscious
of all but his simple, half-bewihlerod en
tertainment.
Two girls had been for some time stroll
ing back and forth before hi 111 with arms
intertwined. Henry had seen them arrive,
with a dozen other girls and j T ouths, in the
bottom of an evergreen trimmed lumber
wagon. A couple of the latter ranged after
them at a distance, exchanging occasional
insinuating sallies, but for the present held
at hay with pert, conscious independence,
the forerunner of the full and giggling sur
render intended.
They had looked at Henry as they pass
ed and repassed him, breaking, with the
titterings which marked their youth, into
whispered ridicule.
"What's lie gawping at?"
"Goodness knows."
"Looks as though he was stuck there,
j don't lie?"
"I guess he is. Dave said he'd been set
ting there since four o'clock this morn
ing."
They tittered in unison. Dave was one
of the pursuing youths.
"I'd like to know if ho call stir. I guess
I'll see," .-aid the other. She migded her
j companion, tossed her head daringly, and
as they came opposite him dropped her
handkerchief.
He looked at her, pleasantly smiling.
He had thought they might be speaking of
him, and wondered what they were saying.
Now they were standing loiteringly, their
eyes upon him, and as his own traveled
from them to the handkerch.ef and back
again, he got up and picked it up. But
neither took it.
"It's Lil's," said its owner.
"You know better; you dropped it your
self," I.il retorted, with a stifled shriek.
"Did I?" she demanded. Sho threw up
her chiu, with bright eyes upon him.
"I didn't see," ho, answered, still smil
ing.
IJe stood straight, with his feet close to
gether, as was his wont, and looked at
her. She was a tall girl of fifteen, red
cheeked and plump. She wore a white
dress, with trimmings of embroidery, and
a blue sash and hair ribbon, from which
her hair fell in those round curls which
tell of rags overnight. A black rubber
chain and bracelets did duty for jewel
ry-
"Oh, well, I'll take it," she said, and
stood swaying herself and twisting it
around her finger. From the two boys
passiug them came loud coughs and a
whistle.
"Well, I should think you better be in
troduced," said I.il, snickering. "Let me
introduce you to Miss Scott."
Miss Scott bobbed her head. "I don't
liiioyy who he is, though," she said. At
last she was impressed aud sobered by bis
unsuspicious sincerity, and she took a
backward slop.
He stepped after her involuntarily. His
BUTLER, I'A., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, !HS!»
mile had spread till his artless face was
alight with it. He had been there alone so
long I hat now. though he had known no
link before, he was made happy by this
acquaintance. The girl'- blooming young
face, UMI, stirred and dazzled him He
could not bear that she should go.
•'Verbawk." he -aid; "my name is Ver
hawk."
He saw that several couple - —stiff, awk
ward. gawky—were walking about arm in
arm. Tlie idea that came to him startled
him anil sent the blood to his face. He
took of his lint and put its stiff brim to hi<
lip ;in a tremor. Ho did not know what
to bay, and so he said nothing, but he held
out a timid arm to Miss Scott, bis heart
pounding. She stared al him, stared at
her friend, stopped herself in a giggle, and
with a darted look which included the two
young hobbledehoys looking on, walked
away with him. There was nothing but
iucredolous admiration in the face of her
companion, gazing after her. "She'll do
just about anything she wants to, Ueorgie
Scott will." she said to their followers,who
joined her, evincing their appreciation by
uncouth capers and and horse laughs. "I
bet she'll have some fun."
Henry's heart, as they stepped away,
beat so hard that he could hear it. and
could ee his coat lapels tremble. He was
happy, but lie was dazed;* so much so that
he started oil" unseeingly with irregular
steps.
For a space there was silence. "Where
are we going to, anyhowf I don't know,"
the girl said, finding relief in a laugh.
They were nearing the the scats before
the platform, which, the exercise.- having
licgnn. were filled. f •
"Do you want to set down here?" said
Henry; and they sat down.
The girl looked at him, twisting lier rub
ber chain. At bottom she was as innocent
as he, only far bolder; her venture was the
result of a hoiilcnish impulse and a wish to
be smart and audacious in the eyes of her
companions. She had had small notion of
how to proceed; but she saw now, iu her
rndimental way, which required that
effects should be palpable,that she had but
ouc course. His trustful simplicity and
his utter modesty abashed her, and she
was impelled to behave to him as well as
was in her raw powers.
'•That's the Disciple minister from
Trumbull," she said: one of the row of min
isters was speaking at the frtot of the plat
form. "I do think he's the funniest look
ing thing I ever saw. He ain't mar
ried."
A banner or two hung over the platform,
wbich liolil a melodeon. One after another
the ministers —farmer-like looking men, in
wrinkled clothes or with chin whiskers—
made short addresses, alter eaeh of whieh
the superintendent of the corresponding
Sunday School read the year's report, fol
lowed ill turn by the singing of a selected
hymn by the school in question. The au
dience constantly shifted, coining and go
ing; the talk and laughter of uninterested
strollers sounded; and during the perform
ances of the band, which played at inter
vals to attract patrons to the carousal,
no sound from the platform was audi
ble.
"His Sunday School ain't very big,
neither," the girl went on; "I've been over
to it. I live in the next town to Trumbirll
—Hinckley. The Hinckley ltaptist Suu
day School's ours. We're going to sing
•T-ie ■ Breaking.' If we can't
do belle "iiio of'em have, I'll be sor-
Sho laughed, and lleury laughed too.
He was in a state of thrilled pleasure such
as he hail never known. Miss Scott's
white rutlhui touched his knee; he could
see the somewhat coarse bloom of her face
without looking, and smell the perfumery
on her handkerchief.
'•Vou hadn't said whore yon come from?"
she went on, pulling up her black lace
mits.
••I live down to Schluzman," Henry an
swered.
He nodded.
"Are you Dutch?'' she queried,and when
he nodded again, looked at liiin curiously.
"I don't know as I ever saw any Dutch
before. Why, ain't that a good ways from
here?"
"Twelve miles," he said.
"Mercy! Did you walk all the way?"
"No. I'm going to walk back, though,"
he added, honestly.
"Goodness! Well, mobbe we'll give you
a lift as fur as Hinckley. There goes that
Sunday school. Pshaw! there ain't more'n
thirty. We got twice as many."
The Disciple Sunday-school filed on to
the platform, waited for the band to stop,
and sung around the melodeon.
Pshaw!" Miss .Scott iterated. "I guess
we can do better - That tune's old as the
hills."
He laughed with her again, this time
with fascinated eyes upon her. Never in
his narrow experience had he known so
glib a talker, or one who laughed so much.
He could not keep up with her—she socm
ed far too lively for that—but lie could
wonder at and be content with her.
"There's Miss Akers," said the girl.
"See her. the one with the brown straw
hat! She's our next neighbor to home.
There's lots of Hinckley folks all around
here. There's Mr. Hush."
She looked around with a sheepish jlefi
ancc. Most of them had seen her. and
stared at Henry, in whose possession she
felt half pride and half shame.
"Well, let's go," she said, uneasily.
"This ain't much fun; you think so? /'</
just as lief as lief do something else." She
looked toward the gayer portion of the
grove haukeringly, and they walked away
together, again arm in arm, for no other
possibility occurred to Henry now: the af
firmation of the Disciple school still sound
ing:
"We'll siug as we walk 011 the golden
strand.
By-and by, by-and by."
The great heat of the day struck through
the grove's branching roof. Men mopped
their heads and took off their coats, and
elderly women, flushed or pale of face, sat
down everywhere and fanned themselves
with their bonnets, only half realizing
their suffering, since they were bent 011
pleasure.
Henry and Miss Scott went toward the
region of the refreshment stands.
"Well, I'm hungry a'ready!" she said,
eying them. "I'm 'most always hungry;
ma says I eat nil the time. Some o' that
ice-cream wouldn't taste bad, would itf
I'm 'most roasted; ain't you?"
Henry took out his pocket hook careful
ly. He had brought a dollar and a half
precautiously, but he had not expected to
spend anything, uuless lie bought some
thing to take to Mary. Now he was proud
ly glad that he brought it.
"There ain't, but one kind," said Miss
Scott, taking off her mits to eat it—"va
nilla. I've et strawberry and chocolate,
but vanilla's all they got here. I've been
past, and seen 'em dishing it out."
They ate it, standing at the high board
shelf on which it was served. It was made
of skim milk and eggs and strong sugar,
but they ftte all their dishes held.
" My! sec them folks drinking lemonade
rifrht on top of it," said Miss Scott, wiping
her mouth; and Henry, looking at her a
minute in slow consideration, bought two
glasses of lemonade. She spilled some on
' her dress, and made much of it. bricking
; and laughing and shaking it.
"Vou joggled my elbow," he declared,
! with a saucy ease thai benumbed and en
I tranced him.
Near at hand there were caudy and pea
nuts, oranges, and pop-corn ball- in color
ed papers, and when they turned back they
I each carried a full paper bag. and Henry
| had spent eighty cents.
"I don't know how we're going to eat it
all uj>." said the girl, with a satisfied gig
gle; "I guess we'll have to girf it away."
They sat down under a tree, aimlessly,
holding their bags. "There's Mr. Fuller,"
' she prated on. "He come over all alone
; in his sulky, and he might just aj well
I brought a load. He's mean anyhow—
| mean and stingy. Oracious! look a' thai!"
j Two girls precisely alike iu every feature
! of their fat faces and figures, their white
j dresses and blue-ribboned hats, walked
solemnly past. "Oh yes, 1 know who they
| be. They're the Friuk girls from over to
I Royalton. They're twins. I've heard of
'em. My goodness! you couldn't tell 'eiu
| apart to save your neck. Uraci >us! I'm
i glad / ain't one of'eui. I'd do *o>uethiug;
j I'd cut my hair off, or something, and I'd
I dress np just as different as I could; would
n't you?"
"Yes," said Henry, his blue mild eyes
| fastened immovably npou b< i.
i The band stationed at the merry go
round was playing loudly and dashingly.
•••Marching through Georgia'—pshaw!"
1 said Miss Scott. "TheyM belter get some
thing we hain't heard. There's lots riding
I in it, ain't there?"
"Do you waut to ride iu it?" Henry:
I and Miss Scott nodded, with a simple "in
in." Henry himself was barren of enter
tainmeut, and her mind roved and craved.
It was a rude affair, its clumsy motive
power a horse tramping around in the mid
dle, the seats rough and shaky.
It was ten cents a ride. They climbed,
up when it had stopped and retilled, and
went swinging round. It hail a loud
creak, which sounded above the bluster of
the band, and their seat jiggled. The
grove's • thickest population was here.
There were many spectators, talking and
laughing and eating, and the girl bridled
with enjoyment of their regard. She fan
ned herself, and then opened her paper
bag and ate pop-corn and peanuts, and
when the machine stopped she did not get
np.
"That couple over there's been aronml
two or three times," she -aid merely, eat
ing contentedly on. They took three
turns. Then they lagged back to their
tree, arm iu arm. Other pairs were under
surrounding trees, sitting 011 shawls or
buffalo- or in buggies standing
empty-thilled.
"Mercy! I should think 'twas hot enough
to set on the ground," said Mi s Scott as
they sat down.
So far she had talked incessantly and
serenely, but she suffered now a lowering
of the heedless youthful spirits which bail
sustained her. She looked at Henry in
sudden curiosity; lie was sitting quiet, his
green lined hat 011 his knee, and looking at
her. She was flattered by his unremitting
admiration, but she was puzzled by its lack
of product.
"Vou ain't much of a talker, be yon?"
she said. "Well, I guess I gab enough for
two. going to eat something? I
don't want to eat it all.''
He opened his bag, and they ate in si
lence for a time. Here and there people
were spreading cK tlis <>o the
lugging heavy baskets from wagons.
"I s'pose they'll all be having dinner
pretty soon," said the girl, looking around.
"Our load's going to eat all together.
Well, I've et so much stuff now I don't be
lieve I could touch a thing." I!ut she
turned her eyes restlessly about, munching.
"What you going to do lor dinuer?" she
queried.
"I brought a little something," said
Henry. He had brought some bread and
meat and a boiled egg iu his pocket.
Miss Scott searched the hags for the
candy without further question. A lew
moments back,in her airy complacence, she
would have asked him to eat dinner with
their load, but the inclination that would
have prompted it was subdued. She chew
ed her candy in silent, wonder at hi 111, and
the displeasure which comes so easily to her
age and kind, eying htm covertly down his
clean-white length. Her mind, which had
wavered between her first derision and her
later respect, settled itself. She reflected
that he could not say boo to a goose. Yet
she could not account for backwardness; no
experience defended it. There was nobody
within immediate sight, and guided by her
crude traditions, with the matter of fact
conceptions of them which robbed them of
harm, she hail looked for hint to offer to
hold her hand.
"Well, I believe I'm thirsty again," she
said. "'Taiu't much wonder, I've et so
much."
"Do you want some water?" said Henry.
Some idea of her dissatisfaction penetrated
to his dizzied uiind, ami lie spoke anxious
iy.
"Oil, I don't know," said Miss Scott.
She got up, shaking the shucks and orange
skins from her stained lap. "They've got
watermelon up to one of the stands; I saw
it."
Il>* hail not much money left, but he
took it out willingly.
"I might as well go 'long," she said,
following, her eyes roaming widely.
"There's Miny t'one. Well, there's Dave
anil Gil. I thought, 'twas funny where
they'd gone to." She lingered, flushing
and giggling. "Weil, go on." she said,
over her shoulder; "I'll wait here."
| 11c hurried back, with two slices of
watermelon 011 a piece of brown paper.
Hut she was gone, lie was perspiring with
his haste and the extreme heat; the moist
ure rolled down his face; his collar was wet
and wilted, and the melon dripped down
his clothes. He stood, his legs close to
gether, and stared at the place where he
had loft her, and a young fellow who stood
watching broke into a guffaw. "Your
girl's lit out," he said.
The woman whose horse he had watered
came within range, driving a flock of chil
dren before her. "You had your dinner?"
she called out. "Don't you want to come
and set down with usf We got a plenty."
And accepting his refusal, she brought
back to him a cup of cold coffee, some cold
corn, and a piece of cake. He sat down
and ate it.
[ He had but five cents left, aud his
thoughts went back to Mary. A pop-corn
ball was the most lie could buy for five
cents, aud pausing in sobered reflection, he
made a careful selection of oue, smoothed
its red paper around it, aud put it safely
into his pocket.
II started home late that afternoon,
walking at the side of the road,down which
the homebound picnickers drove iu a long
procession aud a long, dense cloud of dust,
which choked and covered him. One after
another offered him a lift, but he tramped
on, and, steadily covering the miles, turn
ed through distant cross roads and left the
last of the picnic behind him.
It was seven o'clock—eight. The heat
of the day had gone with the sun, and the
evening was coolly cloudy, lie went
through wild roads, meeting nobody, and
across fields aud through lanes, to shorten j
his journey; his feet and his clothes were'
wet with the heavy dew. The chirping of
far-off frogs and near crickets wa< all Un
sound, and the darkness grew. The stub
bled oat fields, a belated haystack now and
then, and the worn rails of the fences
caught lbe last light, and the daisies and
the white heads of wild eariot came out
like tars along the road side.
Three miles from home he heard the
slow tread of a horse's feet and a faint
rattle, ami Schraader's peddling wagon
stopped as he came in -ight. Mary wa
alone on the seat.
"We got home kind o' early. Henry."
she said, "and I th.iuglit I'd drive along
back a little ways and meet yon."
He got up beside her. where he sat
staidly, and then, looking at her for a mo
ment. for the fir t time in their lives he put
his arm on her shoulders and kissed her:
and I hey drove ou silently iu the quiet
night— Emma A. Upper I» HARPER'S
Wtjcklj).
Choosing a Profession.
Twenty years ago Thoma Scott, of
Pennsylvania, oue ol the shrewdest of rail
way men, spent a few days in a country
village. An attractive, bright faced boy
in the house where he boarded attracted
his notice. He asked the school-master
what was the capm ity of the lw.y
"He is dull," was the reply. "Thick
headed and incapable, though willing
enough to learn. His father wishe- to
make a chemist of him, but he cannot
master the lirst principles of that sci
ence.
Mr. Scott, watching the lad. observed
that in the affairs of daily life his judgment
was clear and ju t, and his observation
keen. He showed, too, a singular faculty
for tuauagii.g his school fellows. The boy's
parents were induced to take liini front
school, and Mr. Scott gave hitu work in
the yard of a railway.
"Now," he ..aid. "you have no longer to
do with book . tut with things and men.
Make your own way. I believe you cau do
it."
It was the first Ume that the boy bail
been told that he was not wholly a dolt.
He proved to be energetic, intelligent, and
enthusiastic in his his work. There was a
certain firmness and cordially in bis man
ner which gave him control over his asso
ciates. Ho was soon sent out upon the
road in charge of a gang of men. A few
years later, when Mr. Scott came that way
again. the young man was superintendent
of a division. He afterward rose steadily
to the front rank in his profession.
A boy is too apt to be influenced in the
choice of hi* life work by some accident or
petty motive. His father and grandfather
were successful physicians or manufactiir
ers, or butchers, and ii seems natural and
right for him to follow in their loot-steps.
Or his iutimute friend at college is going
to study law and he must do the same.
' Sometimes a pioiin father and mother
cherish a fond hope that the boy will de-
I vote his life to preaching the gospel, and
1 rather than disappoint them, he does it,
! without real fitness or zeal for the work.
111 each case the lad's life is a failure for
'■ the want of a little deliberation and a care
f ful examination of his natural abilities.
Among the readers of the Companion
there are tens of thousands of boys who
r must soon make choice of their profession
' or trade, one of the most momentous earth
ly question* that will ever be set before
them.
Don't be iii a hurry, boys. Do not let
it.. y s
an occupation because it is more "genteel"
than others. It is the man who gives
character aud dignity to his occupation, as
to his clothes.
Do not think because yon wore rated
dull at school that there is 110 honorable
place for you in the world. There are tal
' cut-- and powers which do not deal with
books, (iod sends no one into the world
i without providing some occupation for
i him in which he may earn respect. You
have yours.
But take care that the work is that for
which the tool is fitted. The mere fact
! that the work seems pleasant and attrac
1 tive to you does not prove that it is fitted
i to your faculties. You may be ambitious,
but you cannot climb a ladder without feet
I and hands.
Learn the strength of your feet and
hands, find the right ladder.and then trust
only to God aud to yourself to make your
way up. — Youlli'x
Why She Hugged Him.
1 "It is easy for married couples to quar
rel and bring themselves to the point of a
divorce," said a well known New Yorker
yesterday.
"After I had been married three months
I came sadly homo one night to tell my
wife that business would keep liie away
from her for the next twenty-four hours.
1 She was girlish, aud by way ot reply she
gaye herself a little hug. with a little wrig
gle of her body throw in. and expressed
her feelings in au exclamation of uumis
takablejoy. Deeply pained. I said to her
that I never supposed she desired my ah
senee enough to gurgle with joy at the
mere proposal of it. Many a man would
have gone off angry or darkly suspicions.
Instead I Questioned her. 'Why, you
goose, said she, •when j'ou said you were
going away one thing popped into my head
to the exclusion of everything else. That
was, now he's going away, and I can oat
some raw onions with salt and vinegar.
That was all. I have been dying for raw
onions ever since our wedding."
The Drummer's Ruse.
A short time ago. a drummer from
abroad called at a Bangor livery stable
and wanted a double team for a ten day's
trip into the country, and the stableman
refused to let him have one on the ground
that he was a stranger. There was much
discussion over the matter and finally the
drummer said: "What is your team
worth?" "Four hundred and fifty dollars,"
was the reply. "If I pay you that sum for
it, will you buy it back again when I re
turn?" asked the customer, and upon re
ceiving au affirmative reply, lie promptly
put up the cash. Ton days later, he re
turned and driving into the stable, lie
alighted and entered the office, saying:
"Well, here is your team aud now I want
my money back." The sum was passed to
him and he turned and was leaving the
place when the liveryman called out.
"Look hero, aren't you going to settle for
that team'" "For what team?" asked the
drummer, in a surprised tone. "For the
one you just brought back." "Well, now,"
drawled the drummer, "yon aren't fool
enough to suppose that I would pay any
body for the use of my own property, are
youf" and he shook the dust of the place
from his feet.
All Out.
"Where's your pa, sonny?"
"He's out."
"Ma in?"
"No; she's out."
"Brother in?" 1
"No; he's out.''
"Thou you're the only one in?"
"Naw; I ain't in; three out, side; I'ui ,
in t left on hasea."
J 1
—The air of Hie desert—"The Camels
are Coming." t
A Study in Etiquette.
If there is any hook more apt to be en
tertaiuing than another, it is one iu which
the effort i- made to produce a >ilk
from the year of a certain useful lint vul
gar domestic animal by the process of
teaching etiquette. "Etiquette as She i-
Taught" is that code of social manners and
customs accepted as good form in the
circles which find a "ready letter writer"
an aid in the conduct of correspondence.
The etiqnette is usually given clear, with
tlo attempt to render it exciting or especial
ly palatable, and its entertaining quality i--
inherent in the nature of the rules laid
down.
It must lie. however, that some young
people have found the mental food too
solid, for now comes a writer who ha.-; pro
duced a -tory for girl which clear); sugar
coats an invaluable series of les ons in
social propriety. The story is not an es
pecially original one except in it ethical
features. The heroine is a country orphan
girl of sleuder means but gre,.t beauty,
who is taken iu hand by a rich city cousiu
and given a course of what maybe called
social •sprouts." She has been a few
week-- at Saratoga, a glimpse of the White
Mountain . a ea -ide visit and then goes
into the city swim in the house of her rela
tives where, the reader i - repeatedly told,
thirty servants are kept.
The girl is awftll nice. She is so spon
taneous and so splendidly independent.
Sometimes her spontaneity is a tritle em
barrassing, and there are times when one
cannot help fearing that her independence
will be mistaken by thoughtless people as
ill breeding or even rudeness, but -lie is an
awfully nice girl. Her cousin is a great
leader, and by aid of her line house and
thirty servants seems to have New York
society so well iu hand that she can swing
it about her head. The advantage of liv -
ing iu such a house, with so many servants
about, is beyond computing. Our sweet
and amiable little rural bud received an in
vitation to dinner from a lady who, iu her
opinion, has slighted her. Heing told to
acknowledge it. she writes:
"My dear Mrs. Hlank:
"Alter the way you treated me last
night I will never speak to you again to
you again until you apologize," or words
to that effect.
She is told, kindly hut firmly, that social
usage demands that notes of ceremony lie
expressed in the third person and after one
more futile attempt succeeds in evolving a
response so framed and couched iu less
vigorous English.
At length the cousin falls ill and her
protege proves an indefatigable nurse and
a ready scholar. Invitations pour in which
the illness of her hostess compels her to at
tend to. She learns what classes of in
vitations demand formal answers and in
recognition of what the sending of a card is
sufficient. Thus, before the cousin recov
ers, the girl becomes quite the mistress of
social form, a fact which the author dem
onstrates by producing a note of regret
written by the young woman quite without
aid or advice and which runs somewhat
after this fashion:
j "Mrs. presents her compliments to
Mrs. and begs leave to acknowledge
her kind invitation for Thursday, which
Mrs. greatly regrets that she cannot
accept on account of a severe attack of
typhoid fever "
Another week of such admirable training
and Mrs. , by her amanuensis, would
horn n'V ' bulletin of pulse and temper
ature. %
Then the hostess recovers, has a card of
acknowledgement and thanks engraved and
sent to all who called upon her during her
illness. Then she packs her trunk, dis
misses the thirty servants and goes to
Europe, while the young girl returns to her
country home and takes to religion and the
writing of bad verse.
It is a nice story, and should be iu every
family—of savages.
Sailor Vernacular.
"Mr. Olscn," said the captain, iu a gen
tlemauly tone of voice to the first mate,
"why iu thunder don't you get that line
out. you long, lean, knock kneed,tar taint
e l wreck of returning reason? Don't you
see we're swinging off?"
"Aye, aye, sir," Mr. Olscn replied, re
spectl'ull\ touching his cap to th; skipper.
Then Mr. Olscn leaned far over the rail,
and raising his voice, he called the second
mate's attention to a matter of great iin
portance.
"Mr. Peterson," he yelled, "what's eat
ing you, you tow-headed, block-eyed Inh
her! Do you want to choke the stream?
liet a move on you, and he quick about it."
"Aye, aye. sir," was Mr. Peterson's re
spouse to this delicate attention received
from his superior. He then gave the third
mate some instructions.
"Swanson," he gently but firmly remark
ed, "I'll crack your blooming skull if you
don't hump yourself, you gaunt-eyed, bow
legged, stock fish seeder! Bear a hand
there. Lively, now, and get that line out!"
"Aye, aye. sir," said Swanson in a hum
hie voice.
Then Swanson gave the deck-hand who
gets +IU per month, a clout on the head
which knocked him down. Then he jump
ed on him with both feet and shouted:
••Why in don't you pay nut that stern
line, you low-lived, white-livered, mule
eared, hog-backed, slab-sided, bench-leg
ged, feebleminded molligrubcr! What are
we paying you fort" And he finished on
the poor man with a kick in the ribs.
The deck-hand ran the line out mid
made the boat last. Then he went down in
the hold, where he anointed his person and
clubbed himself with a handspike.
He Was Wrong.
"Can I upeak to you a moment?" he
said soil ly as he called the chief clerk in
the postoffice to the window the other
day.
"Certainly."'
••Thanks. 1 didn't know but you were
busy. Two months ago I came here and
asked for u letter. Remember it?"
"I do not."
"Probably not, as you arc always busy.
1 didn't get any. I gave it as my opinion
that some of you had stolen it. Kemem
berT"
"No."
"Probably not, but 1 spoke very em
phatically. That was my opinion, and I
went away feeling very much hurt. He
member?"
"No."
"I'robably not, as 1 am of no great con
sequence. I now desire toa-k your pardon.
Will you forgive met"
"Of course.'
' Thanks. I believed you would. You
ROC, I expected a letter from my aunt.
None came. She couldn't write one. She
was dead. See? Therefore, how could I
get one? 1 take it hack. 1 apologize. J
was wrong. Shake."
"That's all right."
'•Thanks. I'll never do it again. Tina
is an honest postotiice. I was wrong,
liood-by."—Detroit h'rve I'm .l. .
—in ipite of their proverbial slowness,
telegraph me ■ engers gu about with a good
ileal of dispatch.
—No one can blame whipped cream for
turning syiir.
A Georgia Possum Orchard.
A few mile- *M of Griffin in the home
(of William Throckmorton. Mr. Throck
morton i* the proprietor i>f the uiost unique
and remunerative farm iu tieorjria It i*
the "Lime Creek Possum Farm."
On the rery crest of a well wooded hill
is a comfortable cottage surrounded by
beautiful -hade trees. At the f<M>t of the
hill is a pretty branch running through
the very centre of a ten acre persimmon
grove inclosed within a high Iward fence.
The persimmon trees are luterspers
ed with » quantity of old hollow trees and
hollow logs planted in the ground.
It was in the early afternoon when we
arrived, and tn UM* nnitinted the farm ap
peared to he immense fruit . "»luuil bear
ing an oblong whitish s«.rt of frnit hi"s*
ing from the dead limbs of the tree by a
loug. hla< k .stem. Hut appearances were
deceptive. It was not frnit, but between
seven and eight hundred possums taking
their afternoon siesta.
The possum, when de-driug to take a
nap. .-imply climbs the most convenient
tree, walks out on a limb, wraps his tail
one and half times around, and swings hi*
body out into pace. His and feet are
drawn close to his IMHI}- and his head
drawn »p between his shoulders until it
forms an almost perfect ball, and appear*
to be a great pear covered with white fur.
The sun was slowly getting below the
distant pine mouutaius and we were still
gazing at the queer object* in ainnsed won
der when a half dozen little possum* em
erged from the pocket of their mother, ran
up her tail and commenced playing on the
limb above. In a few minnte* this marsu
pial stretched her head and then her fore
feet out. She swung herself once or
twice, grabbed her tail with her forepaw*
and climbed np it to the limb, which she
caught with her claws, untwisted her tail
and pulled it np. Hardly bad she balanc
ed herself when the hall dozen yonng ones
climbed into her pocket and were hid from
view. She then climlied down the tree.
While this was going on. more than 700
others had awakened and were coming
down from the trees. Reaching the ground,
each one made for the creek, drank, and
then ran up the hill to a pen in which they
were to be fed.
They were of all sizes. Some would
barely weigh a half pound. while other*
would tip the wales at thirty. The po»
fmin. when hungry, utters a sound which
is a cross between a mew and a moan.
Over 700 possum* were together so thick
that the ground mold not be seen between
thein. and the small ones had been forced
upon the backs of the larger. All were
uttering this peculiar sound.— Atlanta
("OHstitHtiilH.
The Sparrow and the Buzzard.
A Sparrow was seeking Food in a large
Field when a Buzzard settled down with a
great show of Indignation and Exclaimed:
"By what Kight are yon Trespassing
here?"
"Why. I supposed this Field to be com
mon Property," was the reply. "Excuse
my mistake and I will go orer on yonder
dill "
- Rut I object to the Dust yon may raise
over there."
• Then I will look for Bug* in the gra».
"But I won't allow the graft* to be
Trampled under foot."
• Then I will seek I'ur Warms in the
Thicket."
"i>ul the noise will Disturb uie. "f"ET
fact, in order to Protect myself I must eat
you."
MORAL.
It is very easy to pick a fight with a man
yon know you can lick.
Human Nature.
Detroit Free Press.
"Human nature is mighty queer, isn't
it?" he observed to the other man on the
rear platform of the street car.
"Yes, I suppose so," replied the other.
"People are too sensitive—altogether too
sensitive."
"I don't know about that."
"Well, I do. For instance, now, yon
have a reil nose. You are not to blame
for it. perhaps, but you are so sensitive
that if I should offer you a remedy for it
you—"
"Ton <dd loafer, I've a good mind to
knock your head off." hissed the red nosed
man as he squared off.
"Told you so!" replied the other as he
dropped off. "Unman nature is the queer
est durned thing on earth, and some folk*
are so sensitive that they'd swallow their
false teeth rather than let any one know
they had 'em."
He Peddled the Proscribed Li
quid.
Texas Sifting*.]
"So this is is a prohibition town?" said a
drummer to the landlord of a small local
option town in Texas.
"Yes, we don't allow any liquor to be
sold if we can possibly prevent; but. sir.
there are men iu this town so utterly de
void of honor and principle that for twenty
cents they will peddle ont this liquid daui
nation. What do you think of such an un
principled sconndrelf"
"It strikes me its a mere matter of busi
ness. Where can I find that unprincipled
scoundrel?"
"I am the man. Follow me!"
When the drummer returned his uina
tachc was moist, and lie was out a quar
ter.
Wanted to See Bella Jump.
Bobby (who had been sitting patiently
half an hour) —Sir. Boomer, I wish you
would pop the question to Bella.
Itella—ltobert, yon naughty boy, what
possessed you to make such a preposterous
remark?
Hobby (sulkily)— Well, anyway, ma said
if he did you'd jump at the chance, and I
want to sec you jump.
Do Something for Somebody.
Are you almost disgusted
With life, little man?
I will tell you a wonderful trick
That will bring you coutentment
If anything can,
|i<> something for somebody, quick;
Do something for somelxidy, quick.
Though it rains like the rain
Of the flood, little man.
And the clouds are forbidding and
thick.
Von can make the sun shine
In your soul, little man,
I»o something for somebody, quick,
l>o something for somebody, quick.
Sweet Angelina, will you sew
The buttons on my shirt,
And darn the holes which larger grow
And make my bunions hurt?
And will you tie my new cravat
And p:irt my stubborn hair,
And pick up all the garuieuts that
I've scattered everywhere?
You won't? I thought twould make you
quake.
And yet all this is due me;
If, as urn said, you'll undertake
To be a sister to me.
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