V' >i \xvi TtemSßm * * . !!* ... " f*' ■ \ 50 SyMMN sr. t; .• ;■ gUn-.EP^ THE VERY PEOPLE WHO | HAVE THE LEAST MONEYj TO SPEND ARE THE ONES j OUR RELIABLE CLOTHING j KEANS MOST TO L ■. I With house r«-iit a drag «>u you? J.ii\v pri lor holiest, long-wearing Clothing will he .1 IK- M \< ur |n.«-ket-U»ok and your hack, »i«i an Iron-clad (lotli Suit at sl-■ Strongest All-W o Suit we know of. Xoltody else sells it. Get .1, N. PATTERSON'S Cloth Suit at £H'». For dress and everxdav wear eomhim-d it's wonderful value. No matter how line a suit you want lor dress or business we have that at i low price. There is no open <|iiestion alnnit Roys' ('lothing. We are not only piiirrers. hut to-dn s lenders in styles r.nd qualities highest excellence and lowest prices, heiiiemlp r the plaee. J. X. PATTERSON'S. One IVirc Clothing House, 29 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. HENRY BIEHL I I NOUTII MAIN STREET, BIT :LBR - IPJE-N ISP A DKALKIt IN Hardware and 11ouse Furnishing Goods. (2~ioo Stiti'li.'s !% r lit ) 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 ol Tinware, Tin Roofing and Spouting A. Specialty. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN. THE Great Fair Now Ready POr VISITORS. WOnderful Display OF FALL AND WINTER Dross (ioods, Trimmings, Shawls, Wraps, and all kinds of Fancy and I'lirnisliino; Goods. C Sk* "XT 35. Oil Cloths, Mattings, Rugs, etc. BLANKETS, FLAN NELS, YARNS, &c. An Immense* Stock at the Lowest Prices Kver Advertised. BITTER & RALSTON'S. BARGANS in WATCHES, Clocks, Jewelry And silverware. I - 1 1:< st :»t<K'k of Sterling Silverware in the county and at prices not to he equalled for cash. \\ .-Weill's and Clocks repaired and warranted,^at J. R. U ItL J±l B'S N «». 1(> Sv.rtit.li Moin JSt., of ELECTIHC BELL), JIUTLBR, PA. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Are your wages small. Are you tin* head ol a family? With marketing hills large? JACOBS OH pj tuueiaastlt. No BALL out!! Conjiltte W s P rains ' Strains, O jar Bruises, Wounds. 9 Aa Solit in Dniggi and Dralerl. * IheChss. A VojcUr Co.. B»lta.. M 4. far Qire op & M PTLYAN >itHOIJTKETLM DFR\itJ. |aD(\IIBGI3TS Ano33CAlif\sßD^Wl(Eßj THEGHASA-Yomuir FO-BAIIA-MO PROFESSIONAL CAR DS. P. W. LOWRY, ATTORNKY AT LAW. Kooin No. .1. Anderson Building. Butler. Pa. A. E. KUSSELL, ArrOKNKY AT LAW. ofllce on second floor of New Anderson Block Main St.. near Diamond. IRA MeJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. ofllct* at No. 17, East Jeffer son St . mult i. I'a, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at I.aw and ileal Kstate Anent. Of lice rear o( L. '/■■ Mitchell's ofllce 011 north side, of Diamond, liutler. Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Ofllce on second floor ol Anderson building, near Court llouse, liutler, I'a. J. h . BKITTAIN. Att'y at I.aw—Olllce at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, I'a. NEWTON BLACK. All yat Law oniee on Sout h side of Diamond Butler. I "a. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Attnmey-at-Law. Olllce on South side of Dia mond, liutler. Ta. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENGINEER AMI SIRVEYOIt, orrici ON DIAMOND, BUTLER, PA. C. w. ZIMMERMAN. PHYSICIAN AND SUROKON. Ofllce at No. 4. r >, S. Main street, over Frank & Co's In us Store. Butler. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. So. 10 vVest Cunningham St., BUTLER. ZPEZN-HST'A JOHN E. BYERS, PHYSICIAN ANI> SURGEON ottlcc No. 05 South Main Street, BUTLER, - PA W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. S. W. Corner Main and North Bis. B UTLER PEJM IN"' A. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties:—('.old Killings, and rainless Ex traction of Teeth. Vitalized Air administered. Ofllce on JeflVrhon Street, one door Cut of Lonrj llou*e, t'p Stairs. Ofllce open daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications hy mall receive prompt attention, X. It.—The only Dentist In Ilutlerfusing the best makes of teeth. L. S. MeJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Asft 17 F.AST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. E. E ABRAMS & CO Fire and Life INSUR A N C E Insurauc v Co. of North America, incor porated 179 4 , capital $3,000,000 and other strong companies represented. New York Life Insurance Co., assets £90,000,000. Office New lluselton building near Court House. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. <J. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. VVM. CAMPBELL TREASURER. H. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. I. Turvis, Samuel Anderson, William Campbell J. W. liurkliart. A. Troutman, Henderson Oliver, (I. C. Hocusing, .lames Stephenson, Dr. W. Irvin, Ilenry Wliltmlre. « J. F. Taylor. 11. 0. Helueman, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae'r STTTLER, IP A.. WHEN YOtJ VISIT PITTSBURGH CALL ON JOHN R. & A. MURDOCH, 8 Smtfhfleld street, for Tit is. Seeds, I.lllfp, rape vines. Hardy Posts. Canaiy Isirds.Cold Qlsh. etc. Descriptive Fall Catalouifo mailed free. \\T ANTED—Agents to solicit orders for our choice and hardy JJursery Stock. Sternly Work For K lie rife Ilr Temperate Men. Salary nnd expenses or commission if prefer red. Write at once. State Address. R. G. Chase & Co. U3O P Sa r< i?i Sq ' Ad'oftiso iu t.he CITIZEN THE fOLONEI/S TALE. It win l ite —after midnight—and a- we j put up from the whist table ami gathered | around flie lire. Col. Thornton Miid: "If | vou men are not too tired, and don t mind I sitting up for another half hoar. I think I | car tell yon a p««'.l t.uy." We protest.il I hut we were never less tired, and could it up till morning it nee essary. So the Colonel began: My father, u ■ yon know, wa- a parson, hut he took orders late in the liar, and the . events which I am going to tell you he.him ; self, told me as having come directly under ! his eye w hen he was a barrister. { "It was at the Monmouth Assizes iu 18 — j that a case was 'tried which became the talk of the neighbsrhood and country for years after. My father was sitting in the I court of the assistant Judge, when a note was brought from a friend iu the adjoining | court, asking him to come and hear a ease of more than usual interest, the facts of which were these: •'Some time before, a farmer's house near J Monmouth had been broken into and rob bed by men disguised and masked, the far mer murdered and his servants shockingly ill treated. Among other things which were stolen were two old fashioned silver brooches, curiously inlaid with malachite —heirlooms of the family; and, although unremitting search was made, and the des cription of the lout articles made widely known, no trace of the murderers could lie found. "A month or two after the murder, how ever. a police officer, iu going thro' a house in ltristol,not iced ft dissipated-looking sail »r lyinir on a pallet anil resting his head on a small bundle. He was asked what it contained, and was told it was 'only his kit.' The officer, not satislied, opened the bundle, and almost the first thing to fall out were two brooches made of silver and malachite. Struck liy their curious beauty, and wondering how such a wretched look ing fellow could have become possessed of them, he suddenly remembered the adver tisement and description of the stolen arti . cles. "How did you come by these?" he in quired. "The sailor replied: Hy chauce. —When 1 came ashore some time ago, with plenty of money iu my pocket, I met an old sea man who was down on hfs luck, and he of fered to sell me these things, which had belonged to his mother. I was pretty flush and gaye him ft good price for them, al though they were useless to me. And that's all there is about it.' "The police officer, still dissatilied, took him into custody. He was sent to Mon mouth Jail, the brooches were identified, and he was committed for trial at assizes on the charge of theft and murder. "And" continued the Colonel, impressively, ''as my lather entered the court this man was being placed iu the dock. "Tall beyond the then average height of man, and gaunt, with an unkempt beard and evil, yellow eye. and though evident ly suffering from imprisonment, he yet presented a powerful and imposing front. The trial had begun and he had just been asked the usual question: 'Are you guilty or not guilty?' and he answered iu a hollow voicei 'Not guilty, my Lord,' when the en trance of one of the court officials with a gentleman stopped the proceedings for a while. Anil here I must explain the inter ruption. "A few days before a quiet, gentlemanly man, a Captain Forsyth, of His Majesty's navy, hail arrived at the chief hotel of the town on a fishing excursion; hut the weath er had been so adverse that he Was obliged to look elsewhere for amusement. Turn ing to the landlord for information, he was told of this trial as exciting considerable interest, and so it came to pass that, as the prisoner took his place at the bar, Cap tain Forsyth sent his card to the Judge,who gladly allowed him, as was then the cus tom, a scat on the bench. "The case proceeded; witnesses wore called to identify the brooches, the ser vants swore to the figure of the prisoner as resembling that of the murderer; no wit nesses were called for his defense—no one defended him; everything pointed to his guilt, and the jury retired to their room. In a few minutes they returned, and amid the breathless expectation of the crowded court, the foreman announced their opin ion that the man was 'guilty.' "Directly the word was uttered, the prisoner, who had been leaning as if for support against the side of the dock, raised himself to his full height,stretched out botli his arms above his head, and looking up, exclaimed in a broken voice, 'not guilty, not guilty.' "The Judge then asked him, as was us ual, if he had anything to say before sen tence should be pronounced, and the pris oner cried hoarsely: 'Not guilty, my lord, not guilty; before heaven and man I am innocent of this crime. I never set eyes on the murdered man; I did no murder. Oh! captain, captain'—in his vehemence he addressed the Judge as if he were his offi cer—'l am as innocent of this crime as the babe unborn.' He paused, then suddenly, in a voice choking with feeling, he ex claimed: 'Yes, yes, only one man can save me now; but ho can do it, swear what you may. The Lord be thauked, that man is here.' "A buzz of astonishment ran around the court; the feeling of awe that had held the audience changed to one of amazement. " 'Point him out to me," said the Judge. '• "The man who can save me,' replied | the prisoner, 'sits there beside you,' point ing to the astonished Captain Forsyth. "The Judge turned to Captain Forsyth and said: 'This man appears to know yon. Is it the case?" "Certainly not,' he replied, much sur prised. 'I never saw hini before in my life." " 'Oh, Captain,' broke out the prisoner, 'you needn't start, T know you, Captain Forsyth. You are never going to swear away an innocent man's life like that*' "It is curious, my man,' the Captain re plied, 'that you know my name; but I re ■ peat that I never saw yon before in my life.' " 'What! Not know John Williams of the Neptune?' The coxswain of the Cap tain's cutter?' "Yes, 1 know John Williams; but you're not he; John Williams was the smartest man that ever served under me, and never likely to stand where you are now.' " 'Captain,' replied the prisoner, '1 tell you lam John Williams. A long illness, a hard bout of drinking, and this cursed im prisonment have made me what I am. And I will prove it if j-ou will only listen.' "The sensation caused by this dialogue was immense. The Judge and members of the bar and the spectators were equally as tonished at the curious turn the affair had taken, and, though believing the man to bfe guilty of a desperate deceit to save his life, were eagerly awaiting what should come. " 'Captain,' continued the prisoner, I am accused of murdering a man here on June 25, more than nine months ago- Now, tell me, sir, was not John Williams our cox swain—invalided home from the West African station on the last day of the month. " -What the mau says,' remarked Cap- BUTLER. L'A- FRIDAY. SEITEMBER 21, MB!m j tain Forsyth to the .fuil(te. 'is perfectly | true lli> Majesty's ship, the Invincible. ; sailed with our invaliil men for England on j June 30.' • The pri oner w fit on: 'Yea, and lar | rived iu Kuplaud at the eud of July, weak | »nd ill. and irettinff my little money went | and drank it all away. And that i> how it I was that I was found at Bristol, where 1 i had none for another -hip; and ever inc.- then I have been iu thi accursed jail •• The fellow is plan ilde enough,' again remarked Captain Forsyth lie is certain ly about the height of Williams. Well, nij nian, I suppose you can prove what you sayt' " 'Ay, av. Captain. Do you remember, on the 10th of June, pivinp orders for a nipht raid on the native town oft which we lay looking out for slavers?' " 'Yes. I do, to he sure.' " 'And we were tive boats in all and the tirsl to the beach was the Captain's cutter. And the first man to jump out was you. Captain.' " 'Well, this is the moat extraordinary thing I ever heard!' And turning to the Judge the Captain said: 'Every word of this poor fellow's story is true, My Lord, lie may have picked it up somewhere, but 1 can't help beginning to think there's something behind. My -hip is still in foreign service, and I have only returned to take charge of another one.' " 'Well, go on. my man.' "One more word, captain, and maybe you will believe me. As we wore fighting iu the town, a great nigger came behind you with his ax aud would have cut you in half before you saw hint had uot a man rushed between you and stopped him with his cutlass; and yet not quite stopped him. for that infernal nigper's as slipped down the cutlass and gashed the man's head open. Who was that man, Captain?' •' 'John Williams,' was the reply, the cox*- aiu of my cutter.' "Ay, ay. Captain, and here is the cut which the ax made,' and bending down, he lifted with one hand the long, untidy hair, and with the other pointed to a huge and fearful scar running for several inches along the side of the side of the head. "Captain Forsyth leaped from his seat. " 'Good heavens, you are right? But how you have changed. My Lord, this poor fellow had not sailed from the African coast when the murder was committed; it is impossible that ho could be guilty of it. Williams, you saved my life; I thank God that I have been able to save yours!" "At those words everybody in the court stood up aud cheered the prisoner with the wildest enthusiasm; the Judge said that in discharging him he must at the sauie time compliment him on his gaUantry; and the foreman of the jury then aud there started a subscription for him which came up to something near £3O. Captain Forsyth or dered a chaise to take him post haste to London for the purpose of removing Williams from a place with such horrible associations,aud of getting him au appoint ment from the admiralty. The people in sisted on dragging the chaise out of town with their own hands, the horses were then put to and amid deafening cheers they drove off—and were never hoard of again. "Why was that?" someone asked as the Colonel paused. "Because it was a hoax!" "What!" we all exclaimed. "A hoax?" We had listened breathlessly to the tale, which the Colonel certainly told admirabl}-, the perspiration standiug on his forehead as with horrible reality he personated the desperate sailor. "Yes," he said, "a hoax. It was all a preconcerted arrangement; the Captain was merely a clever accomplice, who played such parts for those of his associates in crime who came near receiving their re ward. This was probably his biggest per formance; but although it answered well enongh then, in these days of telegraphic communication and multiplied navy lists it would simply be impossible.—Ktii/lish Magazine. Silk Without Worms. New York Sun. M. de Carbonnet, a French savant, has discovered how to make silk without worms. He began his experiments some time ago, with the guiding idea that the peculiar appearance of silk was the result of the spiuing of a liquid. After many months of repeated and unsuccessful trials he produced several yards of silk in this wise : He poured a collodion solution into a copper receiver which emptied into a system of small glass tubes. These tubes terminated in capillaries, which carried off the solution in fine thread-like streams. In a second system of glass tubes, filled with water, the fine streams became fine threads, which, before leaving the water, were caught mechanically aud wound around tiny rollers. After being heated and cooled iu au acid of special gravity and temperature the threads were made less combustible than cotton being satur ated iu a simple chemical preparation. The quality of the silk goods manufactured from these threads is line. The thread# are cylindrical aud are from one to forty micromillimeters in diameter. They sus tain a weight of 25-35 kilograms per square millimeter. Ordinary silk bears a weight of 30-45 kilograms per square millimeter; cooked silk, 15-20. l)c Carbonuet's silk is much more brilliant than ordinary silk and absorbs and holds coloring matter more satisfactorily. As yet only a few pieces liavo been produced by the new process. Several of theui are shown in the Paris Exposition. Dc Carbonnet is confident, however, that further experiments will cn able him to manufacture silk cheaply aud iu large qualities. Iu fact, he thinks that a few years hence the silk worms may as well go and die, as machinery will then be doing their work much better than they can do it themselves. —One hundred years ago last Wednesday week the United Sta'.es Treasury Depart went entered npou its existence, the first Secretary of the Department, Alexander Hamilton, having assumed otlico on Sep tember 11th, 1789. The history of the De partment in its hundred years of existence has keen a checkered one. The worst part of that history was made while the Democratic party was in power—when Uncle Sam's credit was utterly ruined, and he was a beggar for money, at ruinous rates of interest, in the markets of the world. A better day dawned on the de partment and the country, however, when the Republican party came into power, and established a financial system which is now the wonder and admiration ol the world. But for the wise and skillful management of the Treasury during the war the overthrow of the rebellion would have been impossible; and in estimating the forces which accomplished that result historians should not overlook the men who managed the public purse during those dark days and furnished the "sinews of war." Theirs was a difficult task, and they deserve all honor for the able man ner in which they pcrfored it. —Under the school laws of Pennsylvania the authority of a teacher in directing the conduct of the pupil in his or her charge begins wlieii the child departs from its home for school and ends only when it returns again to that abode. A Dear in a Fix. July 9Jared W. Bidgood, of Covington. ' ('it., caught a twenty -pound snapping I turtle at Lake Henry. It was a fine -peci men, ami Bid good lugged it home and put , it in a will barrel, intending to fatten it there for three or tour week and tln-u take it to Seranton and offer it for sale. Tlie ! i urile thrived in the barrel of loppered : milk aud refu from the lalde. i-.nd it | eemed to be perfectly contented in its new ! home. Between 2 and \\ oYloek on the morning 1 of .Inly 2ft Ridgood was aroused from a ! sound sleep by a groat racket near bit milk-house, and he pulled on his trousers ' and boots and ran out to see what was up. The moon bad arisen at about midnight, and as the sky was clear the moon's mellow light enabled liidgood to take in the situation at a glance. What Bidgood saw both surprisetl and amused liiin. he , said, for he had never witnessed anything i at all like it in his life. A 30ft-pound bear with the turtle cling j ing to his nose was prancing around the j yard and snorting as though be was in ' great pain. The bear ran up to the fence and tried t > climb over the moment it saw Bidgood. but the turtle got between its forelegs, and tlie bear bellowed, turned its j back toward the fence, sat up ou its hind j quarters, and tried to break the turtle's hold by pAwiug vigorously at the turtle's j thick shell with both paws. But the turtle's sharp teeth were so liruily set in the bear's nose that getting them loose in that way was out of the question, and then the bear ran over to the other side yard and made an effort to mount the fence. The turtle's shell got between the boards anil pulled the bear's head down and the enraged brute gave a yell and rolled over on the grass, throwing the turtle this way and that as it tumbled and bellowed. The grip of the turtle got tighter aud tighter all the time, and the harder the bear worked to loosen its grip the more pain it hail to endure. By this time Bidgood had got his rifle aud was ready to give the bear a bullet of 42-calibre in the head, but the rage of the brute manifested in its failure to releasi its wonderful nose was such an unique sort of entertainment that Bidgood concluded to let the bear work his tactics for a few minutes more. The next thing the bear did was to turn its head as far toward its rear as it could and scratch at the turtle with its hind foot, but that didn't work any better, and then it stepped on the turtle and undertook to throw it over its bead, bellowing loudly aud butting against the fence when the turtle wouldn't let go. After that. Bidgood said, he rushed at the bear with his gun uplifted and yelled at the top of his voice, and the frightened beast made a furious dash at the fence aud succeeded in climb ing over, the turtle still clinging to its nose, liidgood said that be thought the fun had gone far enough aud he leaped the fence and tired a bullet into the bear's head at the butt of bis left ear. The bear keel ed over and died, and Bidgood cut a piece of the bear's snout off aud let the turtle keep it as long as it wanted to. It kept the piece of snont between its jaws for 12 hours, when it got hungry and ejected it. Bidgood fattened the turtle and then took it to Serantnn and sold it for $6. Catholic Opinion on Temper ance. The following is significant as showing the drift of Roman Catholic opinion on the subject of temperance. It is from the Catholic Universe, published in Cleveland. Ohio, and is the most radical opinion on the subject we have seen in print for a long while:— The saloon at night is the panderer of niuety-nine-hundredths of the crime and vice of a large city. Close the saloon at night! l.et the city of Mexico plan be followed in our large cities —six a.m. to six p.m.— and give the father and husband an oppor tunity to make the acquaintance of his family. The saloonist ought to himself work for that opportunity and make his calling more respectable and less odious. Draft a bill closing saloons from six p.m. to six a.m., with imprisonment aud penal ty that will dismay offenders; closing sa loons on Sunday; making the license no less than $1,000; punishing with imprison ment aud fine the adulteration of liquor or sale of adulterated liquor. Then, organize your cominitte; go to Columbus and push this legislation. Let bishops, priests and ministers throw their open influence into the scale of this moral movement. A Foolish Factional Fight. The tidings come from Boston that Con gressman-expectant John 1,. Sullivan has begun his campaign with something in the nature of a joint debate with a distillery. In the course of the discussion, which seems to have been quite animated and enthusiastic, Mr. Sullivan is said to have utterly cleaned out two saloons. This will never do. It may be good morals, but it is bad politics. Viewed with a philosophic eye, a fight with Sullivan on the one side and any number of saloons on the other, while it may be a beautifully even thing, is mere factional lighting within the ranks of the party to which both must look for their support. Whichsoever wius, the other suffers. What would the Boston saloons do without Sullivan f And with out its saloons the populous district of South Boston would be to Sullivan uo bet ter than a howling wilderness. It would be worse. It would be a wilderness too dry to howl. Live and let live, ye foolish! righting between you is like either sawing oil' the limb between himself and the tree.—Pitts burg Times. A Hint on the Fly Question. An exchange says: A fly always walks upward. But a fly on a window and up he goes to the top; he can't be made to walk downward. My friend made a window screen divided in half. The upper part lapped over the lower with an inch space between. Well, as soon as a fly wonld light ou the screen he would proceed to work up, and would thus walk out doors. On reachiug the top of the lower half he would go outside. Not bciug able to walk down he had no way to return to the room. By this means a room can be quickly cleared of flies, which always seek the light. A Trifling Matter. Wife—"Did you find out what ailed the clock last night after I told you it wouldn't runf" Husband—"Xo; I sat up till nearly mid night aud took it to pieces, and saw noth ing wrong with it." Wife—"Well. I've thought what was the matter with it. I forgot to wind it. —The ways of Providence are past find ing out. A Sunday schoo I picnic excursion train in Scotland is run into by a belated section aud many people ki lied and wound ed. A train loaded With Mormons, includ ing seven elders, bound for that city of ; abominations. Salt Lake City.goes through a bridge near Lynchburg, aud nobody was killed or seriously hurt. Making a Hog Happy. We were itting in front id" Taylor' , eery on a summer day, wheu a hi; black | hog came no ing along the putter and started a new train oi thought. In the crowd of louiii'ei wu a man from M Lom- I and. alter Watching the porker for awhile ; he remarked: • I wonder if that hog ever had a real | good time in nil his life.' "Uog alius have a good tiiue. I g»ie reuiarked the village cooper, who had knocked oil work aud come over to hear some politics. "I doubt it," said the other. "He mu-t leel his degraded position in life, aud so he can not lie happy. 1 wish 1 could do «ome thing to make him feel that life is worth the living. "Fust man I ever saw who pitied a hog!" grunted the blacksmith, who ought to have been tacking a shoe on a waiting mule. "Yes, 12" 1 o pity I.an. I have been down myself and know how it is. Taylor have you got any cherry whiskyt" "Mighty little, if any. More cherries than whisky, 1 guess." "If you've got two quarts of cherries which have been in liquor, bring 'em out. and I'll give you hall a dollar. I'm going to make that hog happy tor two hours. The grocer got the cherries, which had been lying in liquor for a couple of year.--, and the St. Louis man poured theui out into the gutter for the hog.—They were devoured with a toni>hing avidity, aud the porker stood a»d looked at us and h inger ed for more. It was doubted by some if the liquor would affect him, but after a few minutes he began to frisk and plav. and was evidently under the influence. "That does me good," said the donor of the cherries. "He is becoming lighthcart ed, and life will now take on new charms to him. Hang a man who won't give a hog a show!" Just then the animal uttered a hoarse "woof," and charged for the crowd.—We scattered, and lie entered the grocery. took two or three turns, and shot out and down the street. Ksquire Smith was coming up. and the hog charged and upset hiin. He then headed for a horse and buggy in front of Snidcr's, crashed against the horse's hind legs, and in auother moment there was a runaway. The widow Wat kins was sailing along with a can of kerosene in her liaud, and the hog rolled her oil' the walk as if she hail been struck by a locomotive, lie then charged a double team and start them off, ilrovo into (iaylor's dry goods store aud out, aud the old man Sabin turn ed in from Kim street just in time to be lifted three feet high and rolled into a pud dle. Fifty men were out and after the porker by this time, but lie started another runa way, upset a baby carriage, and knocked the register of deeds over his pins before we cornered him and got a rope around a hind leg. Then everybody was mad and wanted vengeance, but when they came to look for the St. Louis man he had skipped. He, however, left a message for the public, saying to a boy who had shinned up an nwningpost to be out of danger: "My son. if you haven't adopted a motto yet, let me throw out one for your diges tion. It is this: -(Jive everything a fair show.—New York Sim. Chinese Rush Goods. The city of N ingpo is the center of the large internal and foreign trade in rush goods, such as hats,matting,etc. The mag nitude of the trade may be estimated from the fact that last year 14imillion hats, one aud a quarter million mats, and about 8. 00ft rolls of matting were exported. The commissioner of customs in his last report from Ningpo describes the method of culti vatiou. The roots of the plants are pulled up from last year's field, divided into small portions, and replanted in a flooded field, at intervals of about a foot. This is done in September anil October. The fields must be plentifully manured, and abund ant water supply is necessary, and weeds must be cleared away. The rushes are har vested in June and July; it is essential that this should be done in fine weather, MI that they may dry within three days of cutting. If they dry too slowly they are apt to change color, while if they lemain too long in the sun they get scorched and bent. Uain, when they are only partially dry, spoils them altogether. An average worker can make four hats of good quality, 12 in., :t braid, a day; working carelessly and weav ing loosely, the quantity can lie doubled. But iu the rush trade, as in the straw braid trade of Northern China, fraudulent practices have crept in and have greatly injured it. The work is hastily and loose ly done, and the home market is flooded with inferior and in some cases unsaleable goods. At present every hat in every bale has to be examined, and every yard iu every roll of matting, greatly to the in jury of the trade. Touched on The RaTv. "Just met with an incident up the street that touched mo to tlie heart," said a man as he leaned up against a newly painted window-frame on Lamed street without care for damages. "What was it?" "I was standing near a saloon door when a man passed in. 1 saw hiin look sharply at me, but he did not speak. A moment after, however, he returned and said there was something about me to remind him of his dead brother. He asked my name, re: idence, what I was doing, etc., and seem ed to have much interest in me." "Didn't he ask yon to drink?" "He did. After talking a few minutes lie asked me if I wasn't dry. 1 said I was. We entered the saloon and stepped up to the bar, and he said: " Mix me a mint julip. and give thi man a glass of good water —the very best j you have in the place!" "Hum my hide, but I was touched! I | haven't had anything go to my heart as that did for the last twenty years." He Was Married. When City Attorney Jim Butler was first admitted to practice the first case he got was in a Justice's Court and" unexpect edly the young attorney found his father, the Hon. Edward Butler, summoned as a witness by the other side. The case pro ceeded and the humorously solemn black smith and statesman was called to the stand. His palpitating son took him for examination. "What's your name?" "Edward Butler." "Live in St. Louis?" "Yes." (with a sidelong look.) "Are you married?" "Well, if I wasn't, you'd be in a hell of a fix." That lost the boy's case, but it made him careful ever after about what lawyers call "laying the foundation" for an exam ination. —Don't think so meanly of yourself as to act meanly. "I gave my love a rose. A sweet rose and new bom. But ere it reached his hands 1 gave my love myself. Oh, were it iu my power To take away the thorns And give him just the flower." The Scrippx League in F.r.gl nj. Anion? the Ainer a! 1 work ?i • . i p>'ilili<>u i itt l > thi< Country In a , ndi I cat* «tf AißMfciM n« * -paper-. i .iIW IW ! Seripp- I/fitm, u*« fitwrr than sixteen «f i Ihe deputation repr <lll varum- brato-h* ufthr irnu awl ludal trade . and one coal |mi nine. in tin* I'nited Stat*-- Tin dit ion 1 ai-rnmptnit'd by a t »tf of in- . -j».» |»*i eorn [Mimli'tit . anion*' whom one i ■ ■ tin .<ou of Nathai.iel Ha» Ihttru* tin tluM nan author, an arti.-!, a (iholo/f apln <. a ! courier ami interpret**, ami an nlviiit r '■ agent. There are also amout.'the deputation I four American lade I*|IIL'S>IILIUR W*HII en's work til varion* kind Tin l tit< 1 Iters of thi- •!•-)> ti tt J* >t> are vi-iting th. va riou* industrial rmtft* of Knjtlaml ami are inspecting tin* mure import mt work Ml branches of engincerin-r establishment ami iron anil lira.-* art* being in <(Ms t«d, ami the men take 1 w to make themselves acquainted with tin- >» Id con dition of tin- in tin- town* they vi -it. It appear*. from a casual ob -ervationdrop ped at the dinner at Hit- Tavistock Hotel, that tin- Amcrifiin* think that their nut put per man i* greater than in thi* country. ' centrally speaking. Tin* female portion t»f the expedition w.i ninth In* V.• I t! • vi-tit to the cliainuiukiug districts of Stat lord-hire. The) ii.iti mi cuncfptimi nl tin kind of work performed by the women in thai part of Rnghmd. The olB« IT* of tin* various trade nnions have been devoting some time t<> the member* of the depntl tion. — l.omlou &>n/iut 1 rim/. The Joy of Quarreling. Somebody once praised a husband nod 1 wife on the grnand that they never hail a quarrel. Wbesenpon a wise by -lander ex claimed, 'What a 111111 life they mint lead" In that com men t is enntaineil a profound truth, and one which it i- to he lenred i too often ignored by those well meainnir but ill-advised being* whim' only ntiject seeni-i to lie to shed peace and qnietne*s arouuil in every place they \ i-it. I'eaec ! ami quietne- ar hy 110 means the highest ' pood; they do not constitute the 'deal of most enlightened philosophers. A painful illustration ot this fait is to he found in the futile attempt of two monks to institute it quarrel. I!nth agreed that a qnnm-1 won Id afford a t heerftll rest from the dull mount ony of their ordinarily pca< eful life, and was therefore eminently to In- desired A subject of dispute wax proposed and found agreeable to both, and then the two monk*, having settled all the necessary preliminaries, attempted to h. tin' Ira Alas! they discovered all too late that, ow ing to prolonged drain of their conten t'ous faculties, they had positively lost the art of quarreling; the power was gone; it had vanished as completely and for same reason as theVyesight of fish which are accustomed to swim only in under ground streams. IHillness had heen allon ed to assert her leaden sway in the momi tery, and the power of shaking it oil" had gone forever. Checks lo the Hessian Fly. It is everywhere concluded that the Hessian fly is not -.1 gn-at a pest to wheat growers as it was years ago. It- habits are belter understood, and with greater knowledge the means of checking it- *rav ages are within reach of farmers. Besides, tin; parasite which in liuropo ha- always kept this pest in cheek is now pretty thor oughly distributed. Nowhere now can a wheat crop be seriously injured more than one or two years by lle-.-ian II .. without multiplying the enemies of this jicst so that they can keep it in check. The im proved harvesting machinery, which now insures the wheat crop against all but the most trifling percentage of waste, isal so a great help toward keeping the Hessian fly in cheek. The fly is ready to lay her egg- on young w heat plants immediately after harvest. Hut the winter wheat is not sown until September, or .-everal week after. In the mean time, the fly can only lay her eggs on plants grown from wheat scattered at harvesting. If there were ah solutely no waste the eggs must come to nothing, for link of suitable place for hatching. In the old days, when MICCCS ive crtips of winter wheat followed each other on the same land, the plants from scattered seeding and from that regularly sown often grew up together.—American ' iiltico t<>>. Interstate Divorce Laws. The other day a man in Syracu-e who, having been divorced from bis wife, was disqualified from remarying in New York State, went on board a yacht 011 the St. Lawrence liiver in company with a lady whom he desired to marry,a clergyman and some personal friends. When the boat load got into Canadian waters the man.the woman and clergyman SIOIMI up for a mar riage ceremony that was quickly perform ed. Then a ail among the island- was taken, the company steamed back to a New York port, and the bride and groom started for the Adirondack* for a "tour." Iti this incident the promoters of inter state divorce legislation may find disconr agemeut It makes it clear that interstate regulations are not comprehensive enongb, and that, to lie effective, marriage and di vorce laws should lie international. The ("tire That Kills. MarUia Olsen's death in Brooklyn from typhoid fever might have been prevented but for the fanatical refusal of her relatives of faith-cure faith. They refused to nse drugs or medicines, and Coroner Rootiev did a righteous act when he held Carl <»1- seu for trial on the charge of manslaugli ter. All intelligent faith iu divine or -ujier natural aid recognizes the use of ordinary and material mean*. The Hible distincth inculcates such use, and science and na litre also indicate it by making the lower j law tin- primary, the higher law tin- appel- j late, resort in the application of cau-es to produce effects. 11 is high time t hat peu ' pic who interfere with the rights of others ] to life and the pursuit of happine s l>y en forcing their own crank; notion felt tin- ' hand of the law. and were restrained, like other nmral lun.itir-. Some Amusing Newspaper Mis takes. John Jones was hnrt in the middle vein ! last week.— Ex. He was shot in the übnrb- Chicago I Daily Xetcs. He kissed her passionately upon her re appearance.—Jefferson NOHC mr. She whipped him on bis return. //•■ ' I rift. Mr. Jones walked in upon the invitation Electric J.itjht. She seated her e|f upon h; ciiteiing. — | Albia Democrat. We thought she sat down oil her being ' asked.— Sxtirrtut) i>. She fainted upon bis departure. /~ . I'xioH. I —Some l,oiti>ville • lergymen re. om i mended, some y ears ago,that slates should I be hung in the vestibnle. to enable the young Indies to register their names on entering for evening services. Tin would' avoid the disturbances created by the t young men who come to see whether tlicix i charmers are present, ' NO. 46 Agricultural. Ki |. the «*;.*!, . t t.» K*m M «r *.«« rtther dry pi v r H the rrup let th. ut dry well. >»we lK* ..t ( rrr f r . m f-.-m dirt ami 1- -IT. a- they h .*1 n.4 b* : piled, bat 1 altered. t*> tilml tlf mt. Brett it"f trrot.it on th* larm taken •ontetbtatg frt»m Ibe tan>l. MMt if Hntl »« t* If retiMtted IB f.-rUlil> it MMt t U. M «;th aui'jure or f-rtili/.-r in order that it mat W rain that which is !•• t throuirt* , rej- • No plum tr»e >• free front th# attarkt pf ; the cn rent to. t*m ph»< i-u be <rr»wu wm j eei fnlly if Wfll rultiraletl ami the tree* kept «i(«rim«. In the -prjii- a few weeks work will pTeatly nvtwl tnjner 'mm th# ureabo. Turkey* MU fce able to them ••■lre- with all the food U*. tie ire at th <ea-ou, but it i* Ite -t to give them a krtrr ration xt iiisbt. not only t>> kr-ep then m a •militi*>n reatly for m*rk*-t at »nr lime.but «|so t«» induce them t« eome np reiftilarly at KNNDTTWN Food riven to a yoiir* aural i- produc tive of greater rain, as gniwth atld-t t» the weight and increa ** of «ize. The niaittred animal do*- - not -o readily njtpiw priate the elemi-nt- of growth, a- it* want* are |i-*ii. The ytwinrrr an animal the great -1 er it* increase in proportion to fml rna ' numed. Hanking the earl a aro-ntd p*-.n h trees is ■ no pro'ection agaiU"t the Ittirer. a* mas V -upptwed. The tmly way to prevent the ravage* of the intruder is to . trcli around (he trunk* of th** trees ami kill the borer. This is an excellent titue for «teh work, and the tree- should lw l*»>kcd over weekly until I*l lober. A Ti nne*«ee farmer -old the proeeetl* of twenty - -beep for of n* arly ♦!» |«er i»hi'fp. lit thi* -nm only |S& w.*s from 1 wind, the mutton and lamb bringing *l7."*. ' Tlii* shows »l,at sheep will pay without I producing a single pound of wool, and that the farmer* should turn their aUention to the innttoi, hreinl rattier than to merinos The mistake made by une larmer* i« that ot raiding -heep for wt»o| principally, in stead of for mutton, lamb an l wool. A correspondent who has ««ed stable manure freely t>a ytmag peaeh, pear and apple tree* (which made four feet rrowth this teas*in) complain- of no fruit, and de sire- to know the kind of uuni'ral fertiliser to n-e. The fact that the trees hare made smh excellent growth imli*-ates th.-ir thrift. They neetl only a-.'i-to bring thetn into be.iring. A pound of hoar dast. with half a jteck of w 1 HIII ashes, applied next spring o\ er the ground around each tree. T"*W b*iUtliciellt. Cease the U-** of table manure untTt ttl«* U«*i. lit ifin to liear well. Aim l*t supply the market with some thins; that i - n*>t usually provided in cieney. It is not economical to grow the crops that ib-maml the least labor. It is the labor that gives valne to all crops, and the best profits are made on tho«e crops that require constant atteutitm and frequent cultivation. An acre of aspar agus or celery will pay a larger profit than ten acres of corn; but !••-* labor may be re quired on the run. I* matters uot what the expense of making a crop may be if the crop sells at a price correspondingly'- It happens sometime- that an easily cnltiva ti-d erop docs not give any profit at all. t'TTWS ANO SuKKf. —'The hardest work t*n the :.*rin .- Ibat'of dairy ing. for sUeh work never ends, there being no kotidat s or Sun day* to alforil rest, as the cows most lie milked regularly. To conduct a dairy means to ri-e very early iu the morning, fe-'il the cow-, milk, cool the milk, haul it to the railroad tin all kind* of wfather!. and if converted into butter there is the setting of the milk for cream, churning, working the butter and cleaning the cans and other uten-ils. Then the stable- are to be cleaned. I tedding arranged, the cows sent to pasture, all iu the forenoon. I.ate in the aftarnoon is more milking, eooliug, feeding ami fastening the cows for the night, a late hour appearing !>efore the work is finished. The amount ol labor uece-- iry in eon din ting the dairy qusines.s demaud- an out lay of eapital which i* very larre. for it means shelter for the milkers, and other accommodation*. Huiklings ami fences, horse* and wagons for hauling, and other adjunct*, drain the purne.and yet the farm er may ant make any profit at all if the season is unfavorable, the grass scanty and the bay crop short. Vet dairying pays de spite all these drawbm k>. iw a large por tion of the profit is iu th# manure, which enriches the land and adds to the v alue of the farm. As the sheep is an active forager, and can subsist oti ne,.rly all kinds of ft-td. the outlay of capital required to uiakc sheep pay is comparatively -mall compared with that for dairy ing: but with more I !b»*r de voted to sheep they can be kept to better advantage and made a special branch of industry. It i claimed that ' *-*-p cannot be profitably kept iu large f! k - tiale - they have an extern!- J area of ground but this has been shown by the method prac ticed iu Knglaud Ui U- a tlelnsion. Trne. sheep iu Knglaml are not kepi in targe flock-, but large numbers of sheep, divided into suitable flocks, are hurdled upon lim ited spaces, the hurdles removed a- occa sions demand.-, and on {arm- that are rent ••d at sums much higher than some farni catt be purcha-sed iu this coiuilry th* 4 -!ieep pay well. Tin- mutton breed- alone are kept, as wind i- given no attention in Kn glaud. being da- -ed a by product, the same as bides. Americans object to the hurdling system a- bt-ing to® lalmrioo- and r<>i|Hiring extra help V • •<1 •»« of" the lalior ret|uired in the nianageiueut «f dairy -tock with that v.bich i.i nece--ary for sheep under the hurdling system will *h»w a great advantage in favor ot **«-p. while the profit- will l>e much larger in pro|»tr tion to capital invested and expenses in eurred. W it.li the us* -, ot improved breed* and the hurdling -tem -beep in Kugbuitl attain the live weight 01 >*» j.-*uu*' - tn twelve mouth-. With the demand for chttice mutton which always evicts in our markets there is nothing to prevent the American farmer from rivaling hi- broth*, r iu tin gland. The Forbidden Fruit. "•What was it." a*kcd the Sunday <*h<»*l teacher, "that fir-t caased th*> downfall of mant" -The forbidden froit." replietl the elasn in concert. • -That's risbL " And what kind ol truit was ii There w.i a Jcnt pau-*-. and Uicu the offspring of a new pap. r funny man -poke up: "1 don't know what it wan then, kmt it * a chestnnt now." —An esteemed contemporary announces another -tory of "woman's b>ve and man * pertidity." The«e thinir* be chestnut*, in the language of the ungrnerate. bat after all not more so than the ancient t*ne wkere in it i- rt-lati-tl liy tlie gentb-iuan tn th* • ca-e, "The w oman tempted me and I did eat." And sti it will n bv.btedly continue until the great day when Habriil "lull play hi* trumpet 010 to an appaHct! irn.- verse.
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