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Co. ,4i ';^ , < [ , a l '" 1 , .\[ 1 s "- lr »he CITIZIN PUMPER JIM. There were tnobs of angry men iu the j Tuna Valloy. They had collected at va ! rintis points, with the intention of liiareh j ing to the head office of the Combined Pipe l.ines Company in a body that repre sented the nil producers of the entire llar ford region, ami ilenianditig that their oil tanks be reli. veil. Failing to obtain thi.- toncession, the producers meant to lake | possession of the lines, and run tlieui for I their self-protection or destroy thetn. It was a beautiful May day. soft ami warm, and Jim Croffut felt indolent, as h« | sst outside of the pump station listening ! to the monotonous strokes of the big en i gine sending the petroleum with a mtisical click into the main line. lie had smoked his pipe so lazily that it had gone out, but j he still held the stem between his teeth. | A cheerful laugh roused him from hi* j reverie, and he swung lorward, dropping | the chair on its four feet '•Well, 1 declare, Jim,you aiethe sleep ! iest man on the Tuna. You never can keep your pipe going.'' "How d'ye do. Mrs. Steam-? Will yon sit?" "Xo, thank you; I'm on my way to the store." "Will you'blige me by bringing me a plug of smoking tobaccy? I'm about out of that consolation." "Certainly, Jim; but I do think you about the most easily consoled man I ever saw. tiood-morning." "tiood mornin'." He watched her tripping lightly over the ground for a few moments, and then, re suming his seat, muttered, "Perhaps not so easily consoled as you think, Widow Steams, when none but yon can do it; and j it 1 can't tell 3-ou, for it would seem like fergitting Hill Steams, and me and him was partis too long for that." Knowing that he would soon have a new supply of tobacco, he knocked the ashes out of his pipe and filled the bowl, packing it well with the crumbs which he picked from his coat pocket with thumb and fore finger. The coal was still lying over his knees, but he seemingly forgot to fumble in it for a match, while he rested his el hows or. it. Again his preoccupation was broken by a voice, likewise familiar to him. This time the shed was between him and the speaker, who exclaimed: "Whoa, boys! don't kick, or we'll all be in kingdom come in two shakes of a cat's tail." Jim jumped to his feet aud ran around I lie shed. Before him lay a torpedo man, thrown from hi box by the breaking of an it le, ami holding to the lines that guided his team. The horses instinctively stood till, and Jim hastened to unhitch them let the}- should become restless and kick the wagon, which, the torpedo man grimly informed liini, was loaded. When the horses were tied to a tree at a short dis tance from the wreck, Jim went to the tor pedo man and helped him to his feet. "I got a bail twist Pumper Jim; but I'm thankful that was all." "Well, you are under obligashuns to be glad, for you come mighty near being a passenger on the sky-high route. How did you get tied up that way, anyhow?" "Making a short-cut. I was going gen tie enough, but the wheel got twisted somehow on the big pipe, and the axle snapped. I dropped on the pipe, and hurt something." "You torpedo men are all durn fools, anyhow, Jake l'nrdin, and it's a wonder there ain't more of you knocked into the tree-tops." By that lime Juke was comfortable as he conld be made on the rude lounge Jim had constructed with a plank and two chairs. "I'll look for somebody to send Kogers word," said Jim; and he went out to the main road, where he met a detatchinent of producers on their way to Hartford. "Say," he called, "there's a man hurt down to the pump station —Jake liurdin. Will one of yon men be kind enough to tell Ifogers?" Very much like a string of oathj con demning all sorts of monopolies was the sentence hurled back at him by the man nearest him. "Monoplies ain't got nothing to do with a man being human, have thoy?" Yon tell Rogers to send a doctor out here, and then you can call yourself a man." Jim guessed the errand of the men, for lie had heard the liiutterings of the storm that was to break that day, but he made no allusion to the discontent which had at last developed into violence. "We're coming back to see you, mebbe, anil we'll fetch a doctor with us." "You will lind me at home when you come, but if there's a man in that crowd he'll go straight to Rogers's office when he gets to Harford, and let'em know there that one of their men's laid up here with a bad hurt." "That being the case, we'll all call 011 Kogers right off, for we're all men, and de mand a man's rights." ••Much obliged," Jim called, and then hastened to Jake. "Take it easy as you can, Burdiu, Hog ers will send for you soon." He was right, for in a short time one of lingers'* teams dashed up to the pump sta tion. and the driver leaped to the ground. Jake was lifted into the buggy, ainl the driver took up the lines to go, when Jim asked what wa going on in Harford. •Xothing lint the producers; they're gn i iug 01. lihr, and there's likely to # lie some I tliiug suia hc.l lore night." "Likely," Jim commented, and then nodded good by to Jake. An extra man, who hail come with the I bugiry, mounted oue of the horses Jake | had driven, and leading the other, was soon nut id sight. The broken wagon, with its load of explosive, 'ay on its side. Jim contemplated it a few minutes, and then remarked: "If there's to be any miashin' goin' on, that stutt in there might be useful. I'll just confiscate it, as they used to say in the army." lie lilted the lit) off the box, and looked at the cans. They were all small, each containing a quart of nitro glycerine. "Good!" he muttered. "They'll make good bombs. I could throw one of them about one hundred feel, I reckon, on a pinch.'' He took them carefully out of the box, and carried them into the shed, as he call ed the little house that covered the pump ing engines. When done with that, he looked around for a pipe, and filially found it half full of tobacco. Lighting it, he sat down to resume the meditation that had been twice interrupted that day. finding that his thoughts were inclined to wander, he rose and gave the firco a shaking up. When he threw the poker down, he said to himself, as if to another person. "If they get to howliu' round here, I guess I'll have to let the fires go out, but there's no use iu horrowin' trouble." The sun was ou the slant to to the we»t when he heard again the Widow Steam's voice, but this time it was full of alarm. "They're coram', Jim—the producers! They're ju.-t at uij heels, but they stopped down there iu the hollow to smash the pipe. I saw them breaking with crow bars.'' She was very much excited,and exhaust ed aud breathless from running. BUTLKR, PA., FRIDAY. BKITEMBKR 20, IHH9- "Sit down, Mr- Steams, and rest up a hit while I stop the pump There ain't 110 use iu Mjuiri * the grease on to the ground." lie looked at her Unshed cheeks, aud knew that had it not been for the uuusual liodilv exertion she had undergone they i would have-been pale,for hp saw her fright | iu her eyes and felt it in tier tone. | "But you must run, Jim. They'reeontin' to smash the pump. an.l if they find you 1 here they might hurt yon." • Did you briug the tobaccy, Mrs. Steams?" "Certainly 1 did; but yon must hurry out of here." "No, I must stay here; but you must run soon as you give me the tobacey." "Oh. Jim. run! for they will kill you." She got up, and put her hands on his shoulders pleadingly. "No. they wou't. I'll just keep them away till they cool off. and then I'll come home to supper, for they will go away." • If you don't go. I won't; for if they see a woman here they won't do any damage for fear of hurtin' her." "You mustn' stay for that reason. They would say Jim Croffut had got a woman to protect him. You give me the tobaccy, and run." "But, Jim—" "I'll take care of myself; and you must go now, but don't forget the tobaccy." "Here it is. Oood-by, for I'd rather go than have them thiuk you a coward; but it isn't easy, Jim." He had snatched the tobacco with a quick "Thank you," anil'was climbing up to the roof of the station on a ladder. 111 one hand he carried a canof glycerine. Wheu he reached the platform that he had built there as a sort of observatory, she was out on the road. He waved his hand to her, and ran down the ladder. In a few min utes he had four cans on the platform, and then sat down to light his pipe. •My! that woman hangin' on to my arms flustered me most. I'd rather face the whole mob of producers than have her so beseechin', for 1 don't git so shook up." He had not long to wait until he saw the producers coming. When he saw how many there were of thein, he ran down the ladder and locked the doors of the station; theu he went back to the platform. At the head <d'the crowd of angry men he recognized the man whom he had request ed to inform Rogers of the torpedo man's accident. • Hello, Ben Harbaugh, what's up'" "You, aud we want you to come down and opei. the doors. We want to examine the pump. 'Tisn't workin'." "Oh, the pump's all right! I got lazy and shut her down. Too hot 10-day for even a pump to work." "Well, yon can suit your pleasure about lettin' us in; we'll get in ourselves. Come ou, boys." Harbangh held up a light crow-bar as a of signal to the others to follow him, aud turned iu from the road. "Jest wait a second, Harbaugh, and take a look at this." He rose to his feet and held up a can. "That's a bomb. It's glycer'n, and if you fellers git too close to them doors, I'll drop it on your heads." Harbaugh came to a halt, and the others crowded around him, peeriug at Jiin, whose tall strong figure was in position for immediate action. They were angry and verj- determined, those men, aud would have laughed at a gun levelled at them, but the mention of glyc jriue made tlieui pause. It has no aim, but scatters death in radii from the point of its ex plosion. Harbangh plucked up courage, and called : "You cant fool us with au empty can, Jim, and we give you just one more chance to git dowu aud out of the way, for we are goin' to smash that pump." For reply Jim swung the can around his head, and let it go at a tangeut. It struck the ground two hundred feet from the uieu and exploded, bulling stones and dirt in every direction. The producers fell back, for they had seen the other cuus, and knew well the folly of risking their lives in the attempt to dislodge a man who was determined to use such ammunition in defence of the prop erty he was guarding. A consultation was held, aud it was decided to parley with the pumper. Harhaugh was selected as spokesman, and he approached with two or three others to within easy talking distance of the station. "Say, Croffut, we want to talk to you," Harhaugh said. "Ho ahead; I can hear you from there," Jim replied. "Why don't you get down and out, and give us a chance to get square with the Lines* They've never done anything par ticular for you, and they have done us a mighty sight of harm." "HowV" "By lettiug our tanks overflow, and the oil from onr wells run to waste. We can always get our oil run if we sell it to them at a lower price than the regular market.'' "So I've heard," Jim commented: "hut how's suiashin' the pump goin' to help you?" "It will bring the Liues to terms, and wheu they get a new pump up. they will be afraid to let our oil run to waste." ••What'll become of your oil when the pump's layin' idle*" "We can afford the loss if we get satis faction afterward in having our oil taken care of." • Well, I 'ain't got uothin' to do with that; I'm here to pump, anil to take care id' the Lines' property." , "You're piinipin' water, that's what you're doio\" one of the producers blurted. "What come out on the ground when you broke the line dowu in the holler, grease or water*" The producers looked at each other in amazc-incut, as if to ask how he knew ot the broken line, and then Harhaugh re marked: "It was the Widow Stearns. Come, Jim," lie said, iu louder voice, "sur render, and we will make it right with you." "It's right with me now," Jim answer ed; "I'm here to protect this pump, and I'm goin' to do it." "Well, you can't say that we haven't given yon ample notice, anil if you get hurt, it 'II be your own fault." "Yes, I guess it will," Jim observed, with provoking calmness. The producers retired to the main body, and another cinmiltatiou was held, (impositions were made to surround the pump station, and boldly attack it, but the cooler heads promptly decided against such measures. "I've got an idea," said Harhaugh. "Let us lay quiet until supper-time, aud then the Widow Stearns will come with some thing for Jim to eat. When she goes up to the station, we'll just follow her Jim won't dare to tire a glycerine can then for fear of ki Ding her.*' "Good!" exclaimed a number of the pro ducers, aud all gave assent to the plan. A short time after sunset Mrs. Stearns came up the road, aud turned to go to the station. Ilarhough and two others inline diately joined her, and behind them fidlow ed other producers armed with crow-bars aud hammers. Of the presence of the main body of men, who had been concealed iu the woods, she was ignorant, und with re ; gard to the others, he took no thought until Jim called to her, "1 don't waut any supper to-night, Mrs ; Steams, aud you till the other pumper ill i stay on for the night turn " "All right. Mr Croffut; I'll tell him," Mrs. Sfeanis answered, and turned to go home. Then she discovered the number of men who had been behind her. Her way was blocked, aud she bail to step back to avoid being tramped upon. The mcu iu the rear were advancing and pushing tboce hi frout, who forced Mrs. Stearns nearer to the station, she wondering what it meant. Jim made it plaiu to her when, in cold, deliberate tones, he said, "Ben Harbaugh and you othet men, yon needn't thiuk that you can find protection behind a woman, for as sure as I live, if you come teu steps further, I'll throw a cau at you." "Why, Jim. you wouldn't kill a woman!" Ilarbaugb exclaimed "Not intentionally: but I'm here to take care of this pump, as I t..ld you, and don't you men come ten steps closer, that's all. Mrs. Stearns had faced about, and was looking at Jim. She realized her danger.if he rneaut what he said, and when her eyes rented on his resolute face her cheeks blanched, and a shiver passed over her. The men behind seemed to disbelieve Jim, for they were steadily advancing, while Jim was counting their steps: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven" —then he stooped aud lilted a can—"eight, uine—" "Stop, or he will kill us!" shrieked the widow, seeing Jim swing the can, and her words called a halt. Jim lowered the can, and awaited the next movement of the pro ducers. "Ue's crazy," said Harbaugh, "and lie will throw those cans at us, sure. Let us fall back and wait till af er dark." In a minute the widow was left standing alone, her knees shaking, and her breath coming in short convulsive gasps. Tears filled her eyes, and through the mist before her she gave Jim a reproachful look; then turned and walked slowly away. "He would have thrown that bomb whether it had killed nie or not," she mur mured, "and all for that old pump that could be replaced in three weeks. She began to sob, not caring that many men were looking at her,desirous only that Jim should not see her. Suddenly the growiug darkness against the western hill side reflected to her eyes a yellowish tint. She looked back. The big gas jet at the station was ablaze. Jim had taken advan tage of the momentary discomfiture of the producers to light it, and the wide circle of its light made the ground witbiu one hun dred yards of him almost as plain as it was iu the daylight. Aml in spite 01' her grief she was glad he had the protection that the gas jet gave liini As the darkness settled, the silence in the valley was broken only by the crickets, and from toward Harford came the faint sound of the whistle of a locomotive. Jim moved restlessly 011 the small platform, wishing the officers of the Lines would send a rescuing party. Again the whistle sonuded, nearer this time, anil Jim hoped that the approaching train bore to him re lief from his trying position. While he looked down the valley and listened for the rumble of the cars, a flash illumined the darkness of the wood, and he fell prone upou the platform. He was shot through the side. There was a shout from the mob as they charged on the pump statiou. Jim heard the cry ofonslaught, and stag gered to his feet. By great effort he was able to uppear strong in *pit.e of the stream of warm blood on his leg. "Stop, you devils, or I'll kill every one of you!" and he threw a can of glycerine right in the path of the producers. It burst, and the explosion covered them with dnst and pebbles. "Stop!" he yelled again, as lie swung another can into the air. The producers huddled together, aud then fell back to wait until Jim was ex hausted by the flow of hi from his wound. The swoon came sooner than they expected. As he sank on the platform, the short, sharp whistle that to the railroader means "Bown brakes!" sounded in his ears. Immediately the producers charged on the station; but Harbaugh called a halt before thej T reached it, for he saw the sheriff and his armed deputies (many of whom were clerks and employes of the Lines) advanc ing from the train just come to a stand still. Seeing the namber ol the sheritrs posse, the producers fled, and scattered under cover of the woods. There was a surgeon with the sheriff's force, who dressed Jim's wound, and iheu, on a stretcher, the pumper was carried to his room at Mrs. Steam's house. His re covery was slow, and the widow was 1111 failing in her attention to him. She was kind aud gentle, but there was a change iu her manner that distressed Jim. Be could not account for it, and spent many an hour in silent meditation upon it One day a light broke in upou him, and he trained a questiou for the widow. "Did you think 1 would 'a throwed that cau at you that day when the producers was pushiu' yer to'rds the station?" When he launched the query at her the widow was confused, and answered dis connectedly that she bad thought he would have thrown it. "You was mistaken, for 1 would have let 'em smash the old pump rather thau ruu the risk of takin' an innerccnt life, much less yours, or even hurtin'you, for I've had j a liatikeriii' after you this mauy a day." I The widow's cheeks flushed a deeper red, and her eyes sparkled with the light of joy; but she could not resist the temptation to say, "You looked a good deal more iu earnest when you threatened to throw that cau ut uie thau you do now, and if I was mistaken then, mebbe I oughtn't to be quick in believing now." "I had to look mighty much 111 earnest then, for look:: had to do the business, but now I'm trnstiu' mostly to words." "Well, if you can trust them, 1 guess I can too." After that declaration there was nothing in the widow's manner that ili tressed Jim. — l,. KINKE.WI in Hurjjfi'n IVcikly. Electric Force in a Derrick. The I'niyn-mire .4 ;/< relates an amusing exhibition of the magnetic force of elec tricity as given in Lynn, Ma <., when seven workmen tried to remove a derrick against which an electric, light wire was sagging. They grasped one of the guys and were unable to remove their bauds. 'l'be I'oreiuitii Iterated his workmen iu the good old country fashion. He had never had experience with electricity before, and was at a loss to comprehend what had so suddenly bewitched his men. Every one uf them was hanging to the guy rope with the energy of desperation, yet powerless : to move it. The foreman grasped a gay, and then the real stale of the case came home lii him. lie, too, was trauslixed. The electric current fouud him an excel lent conductor, and ran down through bint into mother earth The affair, which had been very amusing, was last getting serious, when the connection «an as sud denly broken. The guy, whi.h had made all the trouble, dropped away Irom the electric wires and the men were released. No serious consequences ensued. A reliable stomach is man's best friend —The white hat bcgius to fade out o' sight. Amiable Barbarians. Theoilore CUiUi, 1 n llmj'trg Uiiffaziue for .V/ttemhtr. m From the Tsar down to the humtdest inujik, the Rusrians are more or less bar hariaus, from the point of view of the re fined We.-t, but certainly must amiable barbarians, -o far as foreigners are con cerned. Their Im-pitality knows no limits: no trouble is too great «heu it is a ques tion of obliging a foreign visitor; but i charming as they are, you are 1 onstantly being reminded of lhe wildness of their ' real underlying nature by the strange | contrasts of delicacy aud brutality, of I civilization aud barbarism, which their | daily life offers. To hear the Russians ' talk about the unwritten coutemporarj i history of their social and national life is like listening to the stories of the Arabian Nights The true narrative of bkobelcfTs Career aud death, and the narrative of the j circumstances of the assassination of the I late Tsar, are far more thrilliug and ex j traordinary than print has ever told. As an example of the strange contrast? of real Russia we will cite two anecdotes that were related t.. us by a distinguished official, whose intention was certainly not to throw dust in otir eyes, or even to as tonish us beyond measure The conver sation happened to turn upon General I.oris Melikofl'. the tain..us chief of the dreaded "third section." The Emperor, we were told by onr informant, had given Loris Melikofl unbounded power to act against the Nihilists, and had virtually created him vice-Emperor, as Melikofl i himself used to say. Now, Melikofl" had discovered that one of the leading Nihilist chiefs was in the habit of frequently visit ing Count Tolstoi, the novelist, and oue day he went out to Tolstoi's country house. Hefore the visitor had announced himself. Tolstoi recognized him, and said : "You are Loris Melikoff. chief of the third section. Do you come to see me officially, or as a private man ? If you come officially, here are my keys; search ; open everything. You are free." "I come not officially," replied Melikoff. "Very good," answered Tolstoi; and c-alliug two innjiks, he said to thein, "Throw this man out of the house !" The niujiks obeyed Tolstoi to the letter, aud Loris Melikofl had to accept this treatment, for in his way Tolstoi is a mightier man than "our father the Tsar." In the eyes of the Russian people he is an exceptional being, beiug more than a saint, and almost a saviour The mention ol Loris Melikofl' brought up another anecdote. Some twelve years ago the Emperor sent for Melikoff and announced to him that the plague was raging in two villages of the empire, aud ordered him to du whatever was needful with a view to toppiug its ravages, at the same time giving him unlimited powers. Thereupon Loris Melikofl' went first of alt to the Minister of Finance, in formed him that he should perhaps require a great deal of money iu order to carry out the Emperor's commands, aud demanded a credit id' fifty millions of rubles. The Minister of Finance uiade a long face, but was unable to refuse. Loris Melikofl then posted to the villages iu que tion.aud having observed the situation, he tele graphed for twenty tire engines to he sent from the neighboring towns, had the pumps charged with petroleum, and or dered the firemen to approach the villages by night, inundate the cottages with pe troleum, set them on fire, and save 110 body. The order was executed : the cot tages and their few hundred inhabitants— men, women, children, and cattle—were burned to ashes, and those two villages disappeared from the niup of Russia and from the registers of the empire. The measure was radical, but it stamped out the plague effectually. Loris Melikofl thereupou reported to the Emperor that his commands had been executed, and then called 011 the Minister of Finance to tell him that out of the credit of fitly mil lions of 1 übles granted to him he bad spent only two hundred rubles to buy petroleum, and that consequently his Excellency the Minister could dispose of the balance. In both of these stories which we have reason to believe to lie literally exact, we tind that curious mixture of the grandiose, of ostentation, aud of barbaric reckless uess which are characteristic of the ltus sian temperament. The Baby and the Bug. A Boston journal says; Among the passengers on the St. Louis express yes terday, was a woman very much over dressed, accompanied by a bright looking nurse girl and a self willed, tyrannical boy of about three 3 - ears. The hoy aroused the indignation of the pasr-cugers by his continual shrieks aud kicks screams, aud his viciousuess toward his patient uurse. lie lore her bouuet, scratched her hands and tiually spat iu her face, without a word of remonstrance from the mother. Whenever the nurse manifested any tiruiuess, the mother chided her sharply. Finally the mother composed herself for a nap, and about the time the boy had slap ped the uurse for the tilth time, a wasp came sailing iu and tlew ou the window of the nurse's seat. The boy at once tried to catch it. The nurse caught his hand anil said, eoaxingly: "llarry mustn't touch. Hug will hite Harry. Harry creamed uvagely, and began to kick and pound the liur.e. The mother, without opening her eyes nr lifting her head, cried harph "Why do you tease that child <o, Mary* Let him have what lie at mice " "Bill ma'am it's a'— "Let him have it, I say." Thus encouraged, llarrj' clutched at tin wasp and caught it. The scream that fnl lowed brought tears of joy to the passen gers' eyes. The mother awoke again. "Mary!" -he cried, let liiui have it.' Mary turned in her seat and said confus e.lly. "lie's got it, iiia'aiu!" Slaked Lime. How ililferently they do things iu dilfer cut countries. A few days ago liossip no ticed that a lot of lime slacked by the rain while iu the ear • had been hauled upon a farm iu Adams county, because it was no longer tit for use in building. In Lumpt; this slacking would not have been consid erod au injury to it. Home year • agowhen the Italian artist, Miragola, vas frescoing the new postoific, liossip a iked him why it was that the Americans could not rough cast a house so that it would rcsn-t the in fluences ot the atmosphere. His reply was that they did nut understand how to lime, whereas in Kurope lime was slacked for one, two, three, and as many as six years before it was used, aud that it was kept in bins over which the watei ran con stautly, und, that, like good whisky, it in creased iu value as it increased in years. He also said that he knew nf rough ca.-t houses iu Berlin, with a climate ideutical with our own, that had stood in perfect condition all the changes of temperature for a century. What say you, master builders* —Harrisburg Telegraph. A Spider- Hunting Wasps. Not loiifr since, while I wa ■ enjoying a siesta mi tin* porch, my itt«sli<m wan sud denly nitr.ti ted bjr -eeiug a very large spider running up the body ol a tree about ten feet away. The spider seemed to he Tery much excited, and. alter he had run up the body of the tree aliout "i* feet, he ran out on a side limb, and. alter he bad pone ahout eight feet out 011 this limb, he dropped urt to thf ground X» sooner had In- had truck the grouuil than he com luenced a headlong flight through the gr«-- of the lawn Alter lie ha>l run ahoat i fire feet on the ground. I -aw a very large wa>p. aliont two inches long, following the track of the spider on the tree. The w B -p was running and dapping hi* wing, m a nervous matiuer. I>nt was not flying at all In a few minutes the wasp arrived at the spot tthera the spider had dropped off. off. which, by the way. was about ten feet from the ground ilere the wa«p became very much excited, and ran rapidly hack and forth about a minute Then he took Hitrht. flew to the root of the tree, w here I saw him at first, and rau up the track again Soon he arrived at the jumping-off place, and again became very excited, ruu ning round and round, and dapping his »ILL;S nervously Suddenly the wasp >toji pi il. and appeared to be tkinkiit _</. Cer tainly his actions bore out this conclusion, for he closed his wings and dropped off the limb, just where the spider had dropped. Arriving at the ground, he recommenced the search, and away he went, just exactly as a hound would have followed a deer. After running about ten feet on the ground, he overtook his prey. The spider either saw or heard his ene my coming, for without waiting to be over taken, he threw himself upon his hack, with his feet in the air. and in this posture awaited the attack. The wasp lost no time in beginning, but, to my surprise, seemed to he somewhat afraid of the spider. The wasp took to his wings, and would fly round and round the spider, and now and then make a sudden thrust at him. The spider would, at these times, jump forward and seemed to be trying to catch the wasp. The wasp was too agile, however, to lie caught Suddenly the wasp made au at tack, stuug the spider, aud in less than half a second the spider was perfectly dead Electricity could not have killed him thick er. The wasp, alter satisfying himself that his prey was (lead, sat 011 the grass nearby and proceeded to rest himself, for his vio lent efforts had exhausted him. After rest ing about two minute - he approached the filler, and, after examining him critically with his antciiuie, straddled him, and pro ceeded to bear him away. Jnnt lu re I put in it say so, aud captured wii.sp and spider, and immolated both to uiy scientific curiosity. This occurrence would seem to show that the wn~p can track by smell, aud can likewise reason. else why did he drop from the limb' I re gret to say that I neglected lo keep the spider and observe whether he had been really killed, or only pnt into the letbariric condition into which our dirt dauber* put their spiders. I uut not rersed in entomology sufficient ly to give the technical names of either wasp or spider. The spider wa very large, his abdomen being about half an inch long.—L. S. Friersou, in I'ofular Science Sticn. Mary Jane Had Him. "You kin read writiu'. 1 presume?" he queried, alter we had talked for a while on the weather, crops, aud matters. "I hope so," I replied. "Wall, then, mehbe, you'd like to read this. No perti'ckler interest to yon. but it cost me iftilMi —that leetle scrap of paper " "It seemed to be a receipt iu full of all damages and account from Mary J l.ap ham of Blaukville. county of Niagara, aud State of Mew Vork." • "That's what she is, stranger. liot it this forenoon, after three month's hard work, and I'll be lam slathered if I'm ever caught iu that boat agin." "Business transaction?"' "No—love. Paid her #»>«ki in cold cash to settle a breach of promise suit. I feel as if a ten ton sand hill hail been taken off my shoulders " "Then as I understand it," I remarked, "you and Mary were in love—engaged— and you broke your promise. "I'erzactly. Couldn't hit it stranrhter The trouble was I couldn't remember that I bad ever asked her to marry ine. I kin der loveil to pass away the time. Jist felt spooney, and so I spooned Stnii k a irirl alter while whom I wanted to many, and Mary .lane bobs up with a breach of prom ise, damage $20,000 Told her to whistle. Didn't believe she could prove anything (.'ouldu't remember of writing her more than three letters. She whistled Mary dul She also employed a lawyer to wins tie. He came down and showed me ;>2 ot my letters, every one spouting as a whale spouts water. "That was queer. "I should smile! Hadu't the slighest re collection of theiu epii-tles, but they were mine just the suuie, aud. lnor'n that. I'd signed the bulk of'em. Yours forever aud ever, with lO.ihhj kisses.' "Then you bad no defence. "Not a shudder I was ready to swear I'd never hinted marriage, hut the lawyer had marked twenty -ix different paragraph reading: M» augel one Heaven designed you to be my wife. Set the day as soon as possible.' Mary J. had me agiu Then she had made affidavit of my hugging and Mjiier/ing and railing her pet names, and it »•».( no a e for me lo stand out. Wort gaged my l.md aud dipped down and cried and got a settlement. "And it is a great moral lesson to you "You chuckle? Ii a pan ■■ in my mad ea reer re a lovi t It's a setback to my l<». • ways of doing business. No gal on the face of this earth will ever git that sort of a bulge on me agin. "Bat you have another love affair »n hand. ".list no, but what I done' Taken a copy of every letter writteu, and done all our talking in front id' the old mail More't that. I've obliged the gal to give me a cer tificatc every Saturday night that I haven't popped the question up to date kissed her once, but had two witue. es hid 111 the sheil to see that it was a calm, brotherly kiss, and the only time I ever sqnof* her hand I put the date right down. Oh, no. they don't Mary Jane me agin—Uut for Joseph and all his relation*! Why They Lead. Mr. I'ieree'n medicines outsell all other*, because of their possessing such superior curative properties as to warrant their manufacturers in supplying them to the peiqde l as the) are doing through nil tlruk gista) on such conditions a» no other medi cines are wold under, vi/ that they -hall either benefit or i ure *tbe palieut, or all money paid for them will lie refunded The "Golden Medical Discovery" i- specific fur catarrh in the head and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, it taken in time •Hid jriven a fair trial. M"iie\ will lie re funded it it does not benefit or cure Mall doesn't feel like writing sonnet* on "a woman s crowning glury when he sees it in the top bureau drawer. The Man-eating Tigress. A 4 orr*" , p«»ii«lt*nt writing from liuiui to the f.Mylitli UnhiiHir ly The notonou' Jmi 11 tar man eating time** h»« at last been killed by a young foreet i.lb.*r Tb» tigre-- ha- he« n the scourge of the neigh horhood of I'hakrata for the last teu yean, and her victims hare lieen innumerable On one netHUtjim 'he -cired one ont of a number of forester- who were sleeping to get her in a hut, carried him off and de lilterately made him over to her cubs to play with, while she protected their in nocent gambols from being disturbed. Hi* companions were eventually forced U> take refuge in a tree from her savage attack* Here they witue»sed the following ghastly tragedy. The tigTess went back and stood over the prostrate form of her victim and purred in a cat-like aud self-complacent way to her Cubs, who were romping about and rolling over the apparently lifeless body She then lay down a few yards off. and with blinking eyes watched the gambols of her young progeny. lu a few moments the mau sat up and tried to beat the young brutes off They were too young to hold him down, so he made a desperate attempt to shake himself free, and started off at a ruu, but before he had gone twenty rard* the tigress bounded out aud brought him back to her cubs Once more the doomed wretch had to defend him-elf over again from their playful attacks. He made Dewed attempts to regaiu his freedom, bnt was seized by the old tigreas aud hroagfat back each time hefoie he had goae many yards. His groan- and cries for help were heartrending; but the men on the tree were paralyzed with fear, and quite unable to more. At last the tigress herself joined in the gamltols of her cubs, anl the wretched man was thrown about and tossed over her head exactly as many of ns hare seen our domestic cat throw rats and mice about before beginning to feed on them The man's eliorts at escape grew feebler For the last time they saw him try to get away ou bis hands and knees toward a large fir tTee, with the t übs clinging to his hubs This final attempt was as futile a« the rest. The tigress brought hnn back once again, and then held him down uude* her fore paws, aud deliberately begau her living meal before their eyes. It was this formidable beast that the young Cooper's Hill olheer and a student attacked on foot. They were working np her trail, fifteen yards apart, when sudden ly Mr O uiaston heard his younger com panion groan, aud. turning round, saw him borne to the ground by the tigreas. Mr. Omnastou fortunately succeeded in shoot iog her through the -pine, and a second ball -topped her iu midspnng Meantime his companion rolled over the bill, and was eventually discovered insensible a few feet away from his terrible assailant. Ha i* terribly mauled, but hopes of hi* recovery are entertained. The F.I led of Tight Clothing. Now that rational ideas as to drea* have acquired a definite place in public esteem, it may be imagiued that the practice of tight lacing and customs of a like nature, known at all. are n>t what they used tn be A case of sudden death lately report ed firoin Birmingham proves that it is too early to indulge in such illusory ideas. The deceased, a servant girl of excitable temperament, died suddenly in an epilep toid fit. and the evidence given before the coroner respecting her death attributed the fatal issne to asphyxia, doe in a great measure to the fact that both need and waist were unnaturally constricted by her clothing, the former by a tight collar, the latter by a belt worn under the stays. We have here certainly those very conditions which would lead ns to expect the worst possible consequences from a convulsive seizure There l» no organ of the body whose free movement is at such tunes more iiuportaut than the heart. Tet here we find, ou the oue hand, its movement hampered by a tight girdle *o placed that it could with difficulty he undone at a critical moment, on the other, a coatnv ame admirably adapted to allow the pas sage of blood to the brain, while impeding its return. This is uo isolated case as re gard* its essential charactei "Vnyh. hap pily. somewhat singular in it* termiu."—*«. Miuor degrees of asphyxiation. w« fear, are still submitted to by good a many self tor turing children of vanity. The tight cor set and the hich heel still work mischief on the bodies of demoted wearers Taste and reason, indea. combine to deprecate their injurious and ml«ar bondage, and by no means unsuccessfully Still, the evil niaiutaius itself Cases like that above mentioned ought, if they do not. open the eyes of some self worshipper* wf the other sex, who heedlessly stnve by such means to excel in a sickly grace. We would strongly impress on all of this clase the fact that beauty is impossible without health, aud would ad rise them, in the name of taste as well as comfort, to avotd those methods of i outortiou. one ami all. by which elegance is only caricatured, and health may l>e painfully and permanently injured. l.anrtl Bill Arp's Sound Advic*. Rill Arp in Atlanta Coaetitatioa. It is au old saying that if a young man saves his fir t 91.1M10 he will get rich—thai is so in uine cases out of ten —yes. if he will save bis first <I«H> he will succeed, and any young nian can save that in a year M he will let whisky and tobacco and the *• ciety girl alone Society will keep a poor ynmtg man poor It keep* married folks poor I am thinking now of a married man Itowed down with debt while his fa«a ily is trying to keep on the r»rr«l edge of society. Such people are the town talh and don't know it. There are nice yoaa* tnen iu every town who hare been rlerkia« for years and haven't laid up a dollar Capital is very particular nn* a 4ar- Kamily influence isa t worth a cent aow A yonng man stands on hi* merits, hie | habits, his associations. Yonng man. there is a blue I took in every toWn and ywar name is on it. Ilut there is ao exrnse for a man failing to get employment in this blessed couutry. If he does not it Is hi* own fault If be mil tie fin young aad work bard and brhaTe himself he will accumulate a plenty for his old age Old age wants some money. It want* rest and should have it. 'Otiuiii •um dignitate is l.atiu for dignified leisure, but 1 heant Judge I'nderwood «ay it meant - rest comes alter digging " Ihg hr«t and rest afterwards The bustle dies hard There i*u'l much ptdlbe* afloat —There is no nere ,||r for a man being idle in this town —Sly Cupid did his Work well this uier, aud the lesults are appareut l»r I'ietce'. I'ellets— genUy laxative or actively cathartic according to do*e. i*> Cents Miow fell iu Dakota last week, "Unn't h< aidi. ted with yoarself Or Judge by thimble measure Dou t hate your humor* like your aches; Ooji i nouuee ou other folks' mistake*. Don't lie that gruesome ass wb<« rr.ake* \ svlemti thing a pleasure. NO. 45
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