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THE VERY PEOPLE WHO)
HAVE THE LEAST MONEY j Are your wages small.
TO SPEND ARE THE ONES ; Are * ou ,he I,efld "' : \
i family?
OUR RELIABLE CLOTHING j ' . ~. ....
With marketing talis
MEANS HOST TO j , arge?
With house rent a<l on you?
Low prices for honest, long-wearing Clothing will be a
!»o<>:i to yeur |K»i;ket-book and your'back.
Get an Iron-clad Cloth Suit at £l2. Strongest All-Wo
Suit we know of. Nobody else sells it.
Get .J. N. PATTERSON'S Cloth Suit at slt>. For dress
and everyday wear combined it's wonderful value.
No matter how fine ;i suit you want for dress or business
we have that at a low price.
Theie is 110 open question about Boys* Clothing. We are
not only pioneers, but to-day's leaders in styles and qualities
—highest excellence and lowest price?.
. Remember the place.
J. N. PATTERSON'S,
One Price Clothino; House,
29 S. MAIN ST., BUTLEB, PA.
HENRY BIEHL
BUTLER - ZFE-NIST'A
DEALER IN
Hardware and House Furnishing Goods.
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
Roofing and Spouting A Specialty.
WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN.
There is no Doubt
As to where you should buy your new dress, if economy is the
object you have in view, and you will agree with us, after you
have examined our line and prices in Silks, Satins, Cashmeres,
Serges, Henrettas, Broadcloths, Flannels, English Suitings in
plain and novelty plaids.
TJND ERWE^R
For Ladies, Gents, Misses and Children which we know
can not be equaled anywhere for value and price.
Blankets, Flannels, Yarns, Plushes, Velvets, Ribbon, Hos
iery and Notions of all kinds.
CARPETS,
OIL, CLOTHS,
AND LAOS CURTAINS
In all the new fall patterns and designs.
We are showing the grandest line of Ladies, Misses and
Children s
C=L.=zO —A —KzzS
Ever brought to Butler, to convince you that the place to do
your trading is with us.all we ask is that you call and examine
prices and be convinced.
TR OUTMAN'S.
Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa-
BARGANS in WATCHES,
Clocks,
✓ Jewelry
And silverware.
Finest stock of Sterling Silverware in the county
and at prices not to be equalled for cash.
Watches r and Clocks repaired andfwarranted^at
J. H. GRIFCB'S
16 Soutll ]VTf»in St., (Sign of Ei.ectric Reu,),
BUTLER, PA.
A. J. FRANK * CO. {yfiUTrn
WMiNI Kl ll s l'-< l.A v s. Permanent
in II Mil I LIS ple:Ls.uit, pfuUtable t>osltioiis
DR'tiS, r '!• Ui.' rl'-lit men . (itxxl salaries ami expenses
, MEDICINES, !>:iH we .-UK. Liberal Inducements to betfln-
AXD CHKMICALS "erx. S<> previous expei-lenee necessary. out -
FANCY AXI« TOILKT AIJTICI'.S, m tie-. rite for terms, glvlne age.
SPONGES. HUI SIIKS, FfcßFl MEItY. &? ' "AH! KS II < IIA.SU Nuiservman. l;<.rhcsier,
. •. jv Pirf.-rtj.Uoas carefully co.n N. Y. Meutkm tUls pater.
SS. Main Street, Butler.. Pa. Adttniße ic rh , Citizen.
j -■ " < >7*"*
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
10DUCATIONAL.
—— I
TheoUlesf m l tf t lastltiilton for obtaining I
a liusiness Education. Wo have successfully I
I.repiretl Hi. us=.nds 01 youug men n>r the acflxe |
ilniiesot 111.- For circulars ;uldre«s.
I'. 11l IT Jk SUSS, rittxliiireli. fa.
lafeh 'J-liiCM.
SIXTH STREET, I'ITTSIII I»i. I'A.
Is llie creat college of Business Offices, w lien
all the branches tit a complete business educa
tion are taufflit by Actual Business Practice.
The only member from I'enn'o. of the "Inter-
State Business Practice Association of Aiueri
ea." The student learns liook keeping ani
business by engaging in business transactions.
Practical office Work and Banking are spoclal
ties. Individual Instruction from 9A. AI. to 4
P. M. and from 7toloP. M. The besi advan
i iii shorthand and Typewriting—the high
est speed in the shortest time. Send for Cata
logue.
Call and see the student* at work when you
visit Ih.- KviioMtion. Visitors alnays welrome.
JAXKS CI..VUK WII'I'IANS, A. M.. Pre*.
TWO CHOICE SCHOOLS.
BROOKE HALL,
For Girls and Young Ladies.
Shortlidge Media
Academy,
For Soys and Young Men,
SWITHINC. SHORTLIDGE. AM
(HARVARD GRADUATE.)
MEDIA, PA., (Near Philadelphia.)
"BARGAINS
IN
Wall Paper.
For the next sixty DAYS we
will ofler bargains in all our
gilt and embossed wall papers,
in order to reduce stock and
make room for Holiday Goods,
J. H. Douglass,
Near Postoflice, Butler Pa.
,T. E. Kastor,
Practical Slate Roofer.
Ornamental and Plain Slating
Of all kinds done on short notice.
Office with W. H. Morris, NO.
7, N. Main St„ Residence
North Elm street,
Butler, Pa.
Wm. F. Miller.
Manufacturer of
Stair Rails,
Balusters
and Nswsl-posts.
All kinds of wood-turning done to order, also •
Decorated and Carved wood-work, such its
Casing. Corner blocks. Panels and all kinds of
fancy wood-work for Inside decoration of.
houses.
CALL AND SEE SAMPLES.
Something new and attractive. Also
FURMITURE
at iowest'eash prices.
Store at Xo. 4<i, N. Main street.
Factory at No. GO, N, Washington street.
BUTLER. PENNA.
BUY YOUR HOMES
United Security Life Insurance and Trust Co.,
of Pu,
Money to liuy Homes.
Monthly dues not more than a fair rent. Pay
ments decrease yearly. In event of death
prior to completion of payments, balance of en
cumbrance canceled.
Money to Loan.
Real estate bought and sold on commission.
Wanted houses to rent and rents collected.
L. G. LINN,
No 38 South Main St.,
Butler, Pa.
Over IJnn's Drug Store.
SCHUTTE & O'BRIEN
Sanitary Plumbers
And tia3 Fitters, of more than so years experi
ence, have opened their store In the Geo. Relber
block, on Jefferson St. opposite the Lowry
House, with a full line of Plumber's Supplies,
G AS FIXTt'KKS.ANI) GLOBES,
HANGING AND TABI.E LAMPS,
NATURAL GAS BURNERS, &C
Jobbing promptly~attended to, and your pat
onage respectlully solicited.
umoi WOOLEN Kill,
BUTLEB, PA.
11. FULLERTON, Prop'r,
Itlnukcts, Flannel* and Yarn
Manufactured ofPnrc Bnt
lei Comity Wool.
We guarantee our goods to be strictly all wool
and noarsenlc or any oilier poisonous material
used in dyeing. We sell Wholesale or retail.
Samples and prices turnlshcd free to dealers on
application by mall.
W ANTfcD —Agents to solicit ordets for our
'* choice and hardy Nursery Stock.
Staily Work For Energcttr Temperate Men.
Salary and expenses or commission if drcfer
d. Write at once. State Age, Address.
R. G. Chase &Co. I,: KK
New Livery Stable.
New Stock,
New Rigs.
—OPEN DAY AND NIGHT—
Ilorbes fed and boarded.
PETER KRAMER, Prop'r
39, W. Jefferson St., Hutler, Pa.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
I
P. W. LOWKY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
' Itoom No. 3. Anderson Itultdlng. Butler, Pa.
J - -
A. E. RUSSELL,
atioknm AT LAW.
! office on second Hot-Til N.-.v Anderson Block |
Main St.. ii. 1 : r IMai'i'tnd.
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11\ A McJUNKIN.
Attorney at Law. (iffice at No. IT, l-Uisi Jeiler
son St... Ilntler, Pa.
W. C. FINDLEY^
Attorney at Law and Heal Estate Apent. Of
flee rear of L. /. Vltchell's office on north side
of Diamond, Duller, Pa.
H. IL. GOUCIIER.
Aitomey-at-law. ooice on second Qoor ot
I Anderson building, near t onrt House, llutler,
I Pa.
j. 1-. I3RITTA IN.
| Att'y lit IJlW— Office at S. L'. IVir. Main St, and
I Diamond, Butler, Pa.
NEWTON BLACK.
Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond
Butler, Pa.
JOHN M. RUSSELL,
Attorney-at-IJIW. Office on South side of Dia
mond, Butler, Pa.
C. F. L. McQUIST.ION,
EXUIXEER AND SIIKVEYOK,
OFriCE ON DIAMOND, BUTI.BR, PA.
G. M. ZIMMERMAN.
ruYSICIAN AND SCROEON,
Office at No. 45. S. Main street, over Frank &
Co'h Dtug Store. Butler, Pa.
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
Physician and Surgeon.
No. 10 West Cunningham St.,
BUTLERi PBNN'A
W. R. TITZEL.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
S. W. Corner Main and Norlh Sts.
BUTLER PEJM ZST'.A.
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession execut
ed in the neatest manner.
Specialties Gold Killings, and Painless Ex
traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered.
Onire on Jefferson Ktrwt, one iloor l'.a»t of I.owrj
House, I'p Slain.
Office open daily, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mail receive
prompt attention,
N. 11.—The only Dentist in llutler using the
best makes of teeth.
L.-& McJUNKIN,
Insurance and Real Estate Ag't
17 EaST JEFFERSON ST.
BUTLER, -
E E. ABRAMS& CO
Fire and Life
INSURANCE
Insurance Co.of North America, incor
porated 179*, capital $3,000,000 and other
strong companies represented. New York
Life Insurance Co., assets $90,000,000. Office
New Iluselton building near Court House.
BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts.
J. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT.
WM. CAMPBELL TKKASUKKR
11. C. IIEINEMAN, SECRETARY
DIRECTORS:
•f. L Purvis, Samuel Anderson,
William Campbell J. W. iiurkhart,
A. Troutman, Henderson Oliver,
G. C. Roesslut:, James Stephenson,
Dr. W. Irvln, Ilenrv Whltmlre.
J. F. Taylor. H. C. Heinemnn,
LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. A«'t
BUTLER, IP A.
Planing Mill
—AND—
Lumber Y arc!
J. L. PURVIS. 1.. O. I'URVIB
S.G.Purvis&Co.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
«
Rough and Planed Lumber
OF KV CKY UEaCKIFTION,
SHINGLES & LATH
PLANING MILL AND YARD
leaTtieriuaii Catholic t'linrcli
Hi. C- WICK,
HKALEU IX
Rough and Worked Lumber
OF ALL KIXIIS
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings,
Shingles and Lath
Always in Stock.
LIME, HAIR AND PLASTER.
OlOcc opposite P. & W. Depot,
BUTLER, - I'A.
Jordan's Restaurant
All our readers visiting Uutler
will do well to po to Sam Jordan's
restaurant for tbeir«ineal3. We serve
lunches, soft drinks, tobaceo and
cigars. No. 4, S. Main St., under
Schneidcman'e clothing store.
BUTLER, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1880
A Juvenile Poel.
The following clever little production is
from the pen of Snflie FairekiW, of Tates.
Pa., who is only 1- years old. It i-« called
TUK I.ATKS «F St'SSET,
When Autumn has eonW witTi'Tif# splendor
And the woods are a mass of light,
When the gulden rods gleams iu the hedges |
And the birds have taken their flight.
O, to sit iu the quiet evenings.
When the sun is sinking to rest,
I And watch God's beautiful promi -e
Shine out from the clouds of the esl.
There are streets of golden lire.
Hemmed iu by walls of blue;
Shadowy hills of purple, .
And rivers of amber, 100.
There are swaying crimson curtains,
Looped back with bands of gold.
And beautiful silver meadows
Where the twinkling stars unfold.
And just beneath, I fancy
I see the pearly gates,
And, leauiug over to beckon,
All the dear loved ones await.
And they open the golden portals.
And softly whisper, "Come."
And they wave their shining pinions
In the rays of the setting snn.
And my soul seems lifted upward
To that bealitiUil hoiio j.l rest.
For God hath revealed its beauties
Iu the shining clouds of the West.
And 1 hope when I enter heaven.
Where the loving angels wait,
They will carry me home at sunset
Through those beautiful petrly gates.
HON, MB. SAKVER'.s DE
FENSE.
Down in the backwoods of Alabama
some time ago, as I was traveling along a
country road, I noticed that something of
unusual importance must have occurred.
There seemed to be an undercurrent of ex
citement in the air; people whom I met —
or, rather, those whom I overtook, for ev
ery journey was turned in a certain direc
tion—all appeared to be anxious. At last
I asked an old fellow to tell me the cause
of the unusual stir.
"Wall, it's jest this," said he, taking off
his old straw hat and fanning his heated
face. "Old Mat Sarver has been arrested
fur stcalin' uv a sheep."
"lint why should the fact that a sheep
has been stolen create snch an interest?" I
asked.
He "mended his licks" to keep pace
with my horse, and, after giving me a lin
gering look of pity, said:
"Don't know old Mat, do yon' 1 '
"Xo; is he a prominent man?"
"Prominent! He was county road over
seer fur three year. Prominent ain't no
name fur the place he held in the minds
uv the folks about here, but he went an'
stole a sheep an' I'll bet a dollar that they
put him in the penitentiary slap bang. It
has stirred np the neighborhood from top
to bottom, an' all these here people are
goin' to the trial. How fur air you goin'
in this direction?"
"To the nearest railway station."
' Then you have to pass through Sweet
Home, the place whar the eon't is held."
I decided to stop at Sweet Home and
see the result of the trial, as so great an
interest had been aronsed, and upon arriv
ing "in town," I tiecd my horse to a
"swinging limb" and went into the old log
courthouse. The room was crowded; oc
casionally a child would "sqnawl," and
then a mule colt, out under the trees,
.would bray in response. The jury had
just been empannoled; the prisoner sat on
a high bench near the twelve men who
were to decide his fate. The Hon. Mat
Sarver, as he was called, wore, in spite of
all efforts to be serious, a decidedly comi
cal cast of countenance. He had a sort of
a sly hump to his shoulders—sly, for he
appeared to bend over trying to slip up on
something. His nose was long and thin
and of scythe-blade shape, and lie had
small pea-green eyes that had been set too
close together; his complexion was sallow
and his "thin settlement" of whiskers re
sembled last year's wheat straw.
THE JCDUK lIKIIINII TUB HICKORY.
The Judge, an old fat fellow, who sat
behind a railing made of an "unbarked''
hickory sapling, was far from being digni
fied in appearance. He was fat. bald, red;
chewed tobacco and spit on the "revised
statutes," but he evidently had an idea of
justice, for, turning to the prisoner, he
said:
"Hon. Mr. Sarver, I believe we can get
through with this thing a little better
without lawyers thau we can with them;
that is, if you will help me to get at the
truth."
"I'll help you," the prisoner answered,
taking out a masticated quid of tobacco,
and with a loud "spat" plastering it against
the wall.
"liood,' ; said the Judge. "Tou just help
me and the jnry get at things and we'll
make it putty easy on the taxpayers. Hon.
Mr. Sarver, you air charged here, sub,with
stealin' of a sheep. I am told you are
well known in this community, and that
you used to be overseer of the e.muty road
running from the old Dan Biscomb place,
through the Tupelo Cypress Swamp to
MeMurry's still house, a distance of eight
miles."
"Yas, suh, an' I reckon I kept the road
in as good fix as anybody ever did. Folks
alius had to go rouud the swamp,anyhow."
"Ah, hah; well, Hou. Mr. Sarver, as
you might have gethered from my re
marks jest now air charged here, suh, with
stealiu' of a sheep: and suh, to cut matters
short, as these people would like to get
back to their crops, I wish you would
please fell me, suh, whuthcr or not you
air guilt}-."
"I ain't guilty."
"All right, Hon. Mr. Sarver, as you air
disposed to prolong the proceedin's by
tellin' a lie at the outset, I'll join hands in
that little game and examine a few of
tbese witnesses."
A number of witnesses were examined,
proving conclusively that the Hon. Mr.
Sarver had stolen a sheep belonging to
Widow Fulguin. The judge conducted
the cross-examination, and then requested
the prisoner to take the stand.
".Vow, Hou. Mr. Sarver, you say that
you did not steal the sheep belongiu' to a
I widow lady that never done harm, suh."
"That's what 1 say."
"All right, but we'd like for you to clear
up some of the statements made by these
witnesses. Mr. Jasper Ilenigan. who was
stockin' wheat not far, saw you shoot the
sheep."
"Yes, Jedge, I shot the sheep, hut
Ictnme tell you why. I was walkin' long
the road with my gun —like tor toat it
j 'case a rabbit or sutthin' might hop up—
I an' all at once T seed a little boy. 1 stop-
I peil. I did, an' looked, an' then I say,
1 |'Hon. Mr. Sarver, air you goin' to stand
J thar, suh, an' see a great big sheep butt
■ i the life outen a little bit uy a hoy?' Then I
i says, 'no a thousand times no, as they say
. in the legislature an' with that 1 drawed a
| bead an' down went the sheep. That's
■ I the reason 1 done il, Jedge.
' (ION. Mil. SABVEIt' -1 EXPLANATION.
"Yes, and that's all very well, but yon
skinned the sheep."
"I done that, suh; y. . Hut it was this
way. After 1 had dun killed the she.-p I eed
that it belonged to widow Fulgnm. 'An'.'
savs I. talk in' right sqnar' to niy-<-'f, 'Hon.
Mr. Sarver. that old woman ain't got none
too much meat, so the best thing you can
do is to -kin this sheep an' take it right
over to her house.' so I -kiuned the sheep
and—"
"But hold on," interposed the Judge.
"It is true that you skinned the lieep
with promptness—"
"Fearin' that it would pile." the pris
oiler broke in.
"Yes, fearing that it would spoil, but
instead of taking it to the widow, you took
it to your own home."
"1 know that, Jedge. Jest as soon as 1
got through skfamiu' the sheep, thar come
up a pmttj- heavy shower uv rain, an' as 1
didn't want to git wet an' fetch back the
rhenmatiz on me I gathered np the sheep
an' run home with him."
"Ah hah! but two nights later the offi
cers found the sheep under yonr bed. Why
hadn't yon taken it to the widow's or why
hadn't you hung it in the smoke-house."
'•I would have tuck it over to her house,
but the rhcumatiz hit me 'bout the time I
got home, an' I would have hung it up but
some niggers that don't live lur away have
got iu the habit uv slippin' into our s.nokc-
Inmsc nil' stealin' ever'thing they can git
their hands on."
"That's prifty good, lion. Mr. Sarver,
but so soon as the officers pulled the sheep
out from under your bed. yon made, a
break for the woods. Where was your
rheumatism then?"
"All at once, about supper time, my
rheiiuiatu left me, an' I lowed to myself
that as soon as I got up from the table I'd
take the .sheep home, but just about the
time I was done eaten', the inen come."
'• Tint why did yon run away?"
'• Wall. Jedge. jest as they pulled out
the sheep, luy old dog Jeff treed down in
the swamp. Ounk! ounk! onnk! he yelp
ed, an' I knowed he had a possum, an' 1
kuowed that ef I didn't git thar he'd leave
putty soon, fur lie don't like to stay long
lessen somebody comes. But I've a pup.
though, that's goin' to make the
snatchinest possum dog in this country,
an' "
"Hold on," demanded the Judge. "Have
yon made arrangements for the next year?"
"No, suh."
"Well, 1 want you. I'm going to be a
candidate for rc-eleetion and 1 don't be
lieve that anybody but a good liar can tide
mo over. Now, if I pay for that sheep
and turn you loose, will you leg for met"
"I'll do the best I ken, Jedge, fur I sor
ter like you anyhow; but 1 wish I'd a
kuowed you wanted a liar befor' brother
Hill went to Texas, lie could have lielpptl
you right smart."
"Gentlemen of the jury," said llie Judge,
"shake hands with the Hon. Mr. Sarver."
Ol'lK P. 111-All.
Vacant Farms in Vermont.
A rather sad story is told by Mr. Valen
tine, a Vermont official, about the desertion
of that beautiful State by its former inhab
itants. Standing with other officials on a
hill in Bennington County, and looking
over the valley of the West River, a trib
utary of the Connecticut, they counted fif
teen contiguous farms, of perhaps a linn
dreil acres each, all fenced, and with
dwelling houses and barns iu at least
tolerable condition, without a single inhab
itant. lieyond, toward the Connecticut,
but hidden by the maple groves in the
valley, were, as they knew, fifteen more,
also deserted, yet all well situated and
still showing signs of their former fertility.
Statistics show that a similar condition
prevails nil over the State. In Windham
County alone are more than forty thousaud
acres of land, once cultivated, but now de
serted, and in the whole State the number
of abandoned farms, complete with houses,
fences, barns, and outbuildings, must be
several thousand. Yet Vermont is one of
the pleasautest. healthiest, most fertile,
and most civilized States in the Union. In
its river valleys is no malaria, while its
hills are covered to the summit with veg
etation. The agriculture which luis made
made portions of the South nearly barren
has never been favored in Vermont, where
a century or more of stock farming has
rather enriched than exhausted the soil;
yet the people who once tonnd happy
homes there have crowded into the towns,
or have left the State altogether. In thirty
years, from IS">u to 1 sso, the increase of
population iu Vermont was five per cent,
while the population of the whole country
inoro thau doubled, and that of the adjoin
ing Siate of Massachusetts increased by
nearly eighty per cent. Not pretending to
any ideas ou political economy, we will
not try to account for this strange condi
tion of things, but it is certainly curious
that a region so favored iu climate and po
sition should be retrograding so rapidly.—
Amerimn .-I rchilcct.
Why The Leaves Change Color.
"Probably not one person in a thousand
knows why the leaves change color in the
fall," remarked an eminent botanist the
other day. The common and old-fashion
cil idea is that all this red anil golden
glory we see now is caused by frost.
A trne and scientific explanation of the
coloring of leaves would necessitate a long
and intricate discussion. Stated bricfly
and iu proper language, these causes are
these:
The green matter in the tissue of a leaf
is composed of two colors, red and blue.
When the sap ceases to How in the au
tumn, and the natural growth of the tree
ceases, oxidation of the tissuo takes place.
Under certain conditions the green of the
leaf changes to red; under different condi
tions it takes f,o a yellow or brown tint.
This difference in color is duo the differ
ence in combination of the original con
stituents ol the green tissue, and to the
varying conditions of climate, exposure
and soil. A dry, cold climate produces
more brilliant f iliage than one that is
ilUinp and-warm. This is the reason that
American autumns are so much more gor
geons than those of Scotland and Kng
land.
There are several things about leaves
that even science cannot explain. For in
stance, why one of two trees growing side
by side, of the same age and having the
same exposure, should take on brilliant red
iu the fall,and the other should turn yellow,
or why one branch of a tree should be
highly colored and the rest of the tree
have only a yellow tint, are questions
that are as impossible to answer as why
one member of a family should be perfectly
healthy and another sickly. Maples and
oaks have brightest colors.
o ne lap (its mother's) for the well baby
iu daytime. About TOO laps of the bed
room floor at night for the happy father(f)
unless he has a bottle of Dr. Hull's I!aby
Syrup to ease the little snfl'erer.
•—A constipated habit of the body and
all its pernicious effects are quickly re
moved by Laxailor, the great regulator.
Price only U."> cents.
It is *,l'tj'U more difficult to obliterate
traces of ink than drops of pilled
blood.
Rill Nyc on Fashions.
SKtV "UK. Oft 'J.Y
Dozens of letter- liuveeome to hand late
ly askinif alioiit the f.i Atuns Naturally,
with the approach of Winter, everyone
turn* l.t lii.<l id all llie <|otv.tiou W
what wc shall wear, and while 1 am jastly
proud tn know that so many look to thi.*
column for Ihe la<t ami best verdict in the
matter of dre<s. it is after all a irreat re
sponsihility. One that at time* I am
tempted to evade, preferring the ob>' urity
and ronifort which protect irresponsibility,
rather than the cark :uid aire, the anxiety
and unrest, which conic to those who have
attained the proud eminence trout which
they are expected to announce from time
to time the ruliuirs of remorseless fashion.
It is needless to say that yachting suits,
tenuis tops and crabbing costumes are now
laid aside for the. season. Some young
people do up these llaunels in camphor for
the Winter, while others recklessly
turn them over to their parents to lie
worn underneath other clothing durinjr the
cold weather.
The old blue army overcoat will slill be
worn by small wood brokers and venders
of straw during Hie Winter mouths, al>o
for street wear among the working clashes.
The buffalo overcoat with no hair onto it
will also be de rigor in the extreme north.
For l'all tilling, the usual oil kin will be
worn plain. The tisheruian will also use
the customary bated breath. He will bait j
il with the -niie bait used on previous
occasion-.
With single ladies the tight coat sleeve
i 1 entirely played out. Some married j
ladies will .-till continue to wear them and
expect thei- husbands to extricate them
from the same at eventide,but bow a young
lady with plump arms, traveling alone
through life, ever succeeded in emancipa
ting lier elf inside a sleeping car berth is
and has been to many thinking minds a
dark and pleasing mystery.
The great progress in the female dress in
the matter of sense and beauty, noticeable
in the past half century, is a good sign of
better days in the future. Fifty years ago
bodices, for instance, were cut horizontally
instead of on the bias and PO. at evening
parlies, it was no uncommon thing to see
a growing girl tryiug by means of pass
words, grips and signals, to work her way
hack into her costume. Skirt and bodice,
we are told, were made of one piece, and
art could only assert itself by putting a
large number of flounces on the dress,
whereas nowadays skirts are draped, ao
corileouplaited, and made to look lirst rale
even if the material be plain.
A favorite waist has a short, square
jacket front, opening over a full waist-coat
and folded belt with half open, short, angel
sleeves over leg of mutton or bishop
sleeves with deep cuffs to the elbow. l'.e
care I ill to have the angel sleeves over the
bishop sleeves or you will be criticised.
Asparagus may lie mulched about .si\
inches deep with debris from the barn and
thus it will be ready with its coat off, in
early Spring, to grow at a rapid rate.
Girls should not marry before they are
from twenty-lour to twenty-six years old
unless requested to do so by some in whom
they have confidence.
No Fight, No Prayer.
A group of naval officers were indulging
the ojher day in re.miniscenses of the war,
when one of them told the following yarn:
"Early on the morning of December 24,
I*o4.'' he said, "Admiral Porter signalled
to the fleet before Fort Fisher, 'Oct under
way and follow me.' The ship to which I
belonged was assigned, in the programme,
to a position between two ironclads close
under the fort. TVe anticipated hot and
terrible work. The flagship led the way
and was approaching within range, when
Lieutenant Commander B , of my ship,
ordered all hands called to muster. The
brawny tars gathered all on the quarter
deck, with the officers in their usual places,
and our commander began to read from
the 'Prayer Before IJattle." "It was a
solemn moment. None knew who or how
many among us might suddenly be ushered
into the presence of the (Sod of battles.
Our commander read as though he felt it;
the whole ship's company were awed and
hushed, and the throbbing of the engines
and wash of waters along the side seemed
preternatural!}- loud. When about half
through a signal was reported from the
11 agstaff.
" 'Come to anchor iu your position.'
" 'When it was read to our commander
a sudden revulsion of feeling came over
him. Throwing down the prayer book
upon the hatch, he exclaimed:
'•Well, I'll be hanged if I'm going to
pray if we ain't going to fight! Pipe
down!"
The Force of Habit.
Speaking of force of habit reminds me of
a story that might bear repeating, says a
writer. In most colleges it is the custom
for one member of the faculty, usually the
president, to have the supervision of all
absent and dilatory students, and to him
every such one must go to explain the
cause of his absence or tardiness. In one
of these was a very kind and indulgent
guardian of the college discipline. Kverv
student knew well his stereotyped way of
saying, "Well, I'll excuse you this time,
but don't let it happen again." Although
not in accordance with the a mar
ried man had been admitted to pursue the
studies of the regular course. One day he
was absent; on the next, appearing with
his class ill the doctor's room, he exlilaiu
ed with great embarrassment that the ar
rival of an heir hud been the cause of his
detention. Without looking up from his
table, and apparently without a thought
as to the nature of the excuse, so long a
t here was one, the doctor graciously re
marked: "Well, I'll excuse you this time
but don't let it happen again."
"Old Hickory" Was Tough.
Chicago Tribune.]
Traveler in a sparsely settled region in
Tennesseefeoming down red eyed to break
fast) —You say, madam, General Jackson
once slept in the bed I occupied last,
night?
Aged lady of country tavern —he did, I'er
a fack.
Traveler—was it—er—the same bed in
all respects as it is now?
Aged landlady—.les' the same.
Traveler—And he actually slept in it'
•Sire he slept?
Aged landlady—Sartiu. That's what I
wuz sayiu'. He slep iu it.
Traveler (wonderingly)—What a hide he
must have had!
—Those who arc honest and eanu -i in
their honestvhave no 1 to proclaim the
fact.
[ —lt is said that no one has died while
under the influeuee of chloroform in France
for a long time. Several years ago a
patient in a Paris hospital was uudergoin;,'
I an operation, when the chloroform seemed
to be having too great an influence over
his heart. An old nurso from the country
I who w.i pre-, ut raised his feet and lower
-1 . d his head. Iu a few seconds the pui a
: lion became normal, anil this simple n ns
' eilv of precaution lias been adopted in bun
, ilreds of . ,i ince, ;,nd ul\':r. with -u. -
| lniprisonmenl, Bui Not Death.
1 The -cittern ing of n young t.» death
I in Mnrth Carolina for an alleged assault on
1 i girl of 17 seem Boat severe and unjust.
1 The fact - uid circumstances of this extra
! ordinary ca.M' show Iwyond doubt that the
girl in question had on previous occasions
freqnentrd the priest'.* room and permitted
familiarities which. to say the least, would
have been repugnant to a rirtnons jrirl not
willing to accept his advance* I'pon the
day when the alleged rrime was eommitted
the complainant stayed one hour in the
priest's room without screaming for help.
| arranged her toilet. brushed her hair,
coolly left the house and went shopping
| Some time elapsed before anything was
said of the crime, and then it leaked ont
gradually.
The punishment of any crime, save innr-
I der. by death is not in accord with ad
vanced and humane treatment of criminals,
lit is to be regretted that sncb crime* a* <
burglary and rape are still punishable in
North Carolina by death. In the present
instance the charge was not proved, and
the jury exhibited want of intelligence in
not giving the benefit of the grave doubt
which mnst have existed to the prisoner.
That the man was a thoroughly bad and
worthh- ? fellow, who disgraced his iinpor
tint calling, we have no doubt. Thai he
should be hanged by the neck until dead
; for any crime except murder in a civilized
country like the Tnited States is very
wrong. That lie should lie hanged for n
crime, the other parly to which acted a
the print's victim i> .-aid to have acted, i
nothing short of judicial murder.
AVc have no particular sympathy for the
priest, and the Chureh to which he belongs
probably has much less. At tho same
time a man has been sentenced to death
for a crime which he probably never in
tended to commit, and which, as a matter
of fact, he did not commit. It is a harsh
and brutal sentence, and if carried out will
hurt the State of North Carolina. Every
effort should be made to secure a change of
the sentence of death to one of imprison
ment for a term of years. The man de
serves severe punishment, but not death.
Kvery fair-minded man who has read the
testimony knows this to be true. —New
York Pre-*.
A Bear Trees a Clerk.
A party of sportsmen from Belvidere, N.
J.. had an existing adventure in the woods
of i'ike county recently. The party con
sisted of Councilman MeMnrtie. County
Clerk Theodore I'. Ilopler aud Matt, Pais
ley and Stephen Douglass, two old hunt
ers. They left on Monday foi Porter's
Lake, intending to spend tho time in fish
ing. on Thursday, when all the parly ex
cept Comity Clerk Ilopler were on the
lake,a large deer came to the water's edge.
Ilopler had nothing but a shotgun, but fir
ed. wounding the deer, lie gave chase,
aud after tramping a mile louml the deer
badly wounded. He fired both barrels,
and the deer fell; but just as he was abont
to capture his prize, lie heard a growl, and
looking around, saw a large black bear,
lie was unarmed, aud, according to his
story, scared, and so at once broke for the
eamp. The whole party at om-e started in
pursuit of the larger game, armed with
shotguns loaded with buckshot. They
found the deer partly eaten, and after a
short time came up to the bear in a clump
of swampy laud. This they .surrounded
aud walking toward Ihe center, expecting
to pour a concentrated tire into old bruin.
Ilopler was the first man to sight the
game, and at once fired, lirnin was struck
and immediately made for County Clerk,
who. calling for help, took refuge iu a
tree. The whole party then approached,
when another big bear came on the scene.
This so startled tho sportsmen Ihat they
at once beat a hasty retreat, but
not until they poured a Volley into the
bear having the clerk up (lie tree. This
animal they killed, and, after recovering
from fright, came and took Ihe carcass
away. The party returned with
the bear and 101 pickerel, weighing
325 pounds, ."is pheasants and 24 brace of
woodcock.
Ah Important Experience.
The intelligent reader need not be told
that practically capital punishment is fall
ing into disuse, because it is repugnaut to
modern Christian sentiment and the better
civilization of the world and it is to be
noted that as it decreases there is no cor
responding increase in capital crime.
There is truth in the remark of John
Bright, that if you do in the slightest de
gree deter from crime by the shocking
nature of the punishment, you so much,
nay, much more, weaken that other and
greater security which arises from the rev
erence with which human life is regarded."
Capital punishment was abolished iu
Holland in IS7O. Between lSfil and lS»j9
there were 10 murders; between IH7I and
1879 the number was only 17, despite an
increase of population. In Finland there
has been no execution since 1524, and yet
murders arc extremely rare; iu Belgium
none since 18G.'». and yet the crime of mur
der has decreased. The majority of the
Swiss Canton, dispense with the death pen
alty, though no efficient substitute has
been provided. Between 18U9 and 1878
out of 484 persons sentenced to death in
Prussia only one was executed. Portugal
and Boumania have abolished capital pun
ishment without evil results. There lias
been no execution in Tuscany for .">0 years.
In Austria, Sweden and Norway it has
been discontinued to a great extent, the
number of executions proportionately to
the death .sentences being small.
A Queer Family Mix-Up.
Henry Miller, a shoemaker who died re
cently in Cincinnati, had a remarkable
matrimonial career. His first wife died iu
giving birth to a girl baby. He after
wards married his wife's sister, who also
died in the course of a year just after hav
ing born to her a girl baby. Miller was an
industrious fellow and his father-in-law, a
close-fistt-d dairyman, brought about a
marriage between Miller and a third
daughter. In three years a girl baby was
born and the third wife and sister died.
The father in-law had died a year before,
and the mother, who was a treble mother
: ill law to Miller, and he mourned the loss
of their dead together. A mutual liking
struck up, the re-ult being that mother-in
law and son in law Miller became Inn
| baud aud wife.
Their marriage was a happy one for al
-1 mo t three years. Then Mrs. Miller No. 4
gave birth to a girl baby, dying within less
than 10 days. After the little one was
born Miller lived but two month-. lli>
four daughters, born under such peculiar
circumstances, are still living. The first
three are not only step-sisters, but are
| eonsins. The fourth, the daughter of the
mother in law, is not only a cousiu aud
step-sister, but likewise an aunt, while the
■ grand mother was step mother to her own
i grand children.
I In courtship's days 1 used to think
Her wee test of all misses,
' And thai her darling little mouth
I .Tpre dy framed for kisses.
Hut after marriage 1 soon found
When couvcr at ion holding,
11. r mouth \ia> toruied for .-'UU'.-lhiuj? cl-i:
' To wit, for vigorous scolding.
Agricultural.
Dr. Kedsie, the vell-kuomn chemist,
thinks a mistake ha» l>.-en nude by farmers
in not using screening* for food. In pro
portion to cost be considers KC4.11 food
cheaper Utaft wheat, and recommend* that
screening's and firan lie fed to all closure of
stock.
Put the garden seeds away in tin Ixtxes
carefully labeled, or the' mice and ant*
may destroy them. All seeds should lie
thoroughly dry. well looked over, the im
perfect seeds of beets, melons, .qnash (and
other coarse seeds) removed, and the
boxes kept in a dry place.
The h irse is blanketed to prevent cold*,
v.hile the cow Is turned out" to face the
storms. The cow cannot oudnre cold any
better than other animals, and though it
may not be necessary to blanket her. yet
•he -hould have a shed, or some other pro
tection in the barnyard.
II the food is diminished and animal.- be
come poor, the amount of food required to
get them iu good condition will be gTcatcr
than the amount of food saved iu an at
tempt to economize. Keep the stock al
ways in the best condition, and the eot of
maintenance will lie le - >ned.
A mixture of eusilage and finely lut
clover hav~is claimed to be to hi
or ensilage alone, as the two kinds of food
serve to partially balance the ration, the
ensilage being carbonaceous and the clover
nitrogenous. It is always cheaper and
better to feed a mixed ration to all classes
of stock.
In Ohio the walking gait of horses is en
con raged. At the State Fair a walking
match was arranged, the time for four
ninths of a mile varying from 4.10 to ;>.4T».
Each horse drew half a lon of coal. It is
worthy of being made a part of the pro
grain at all fairs, as the walking gait de
serves more attention than it has received.
There i.s no reason for rctaiuiug an un
profitable cow, yet in all dairy stables may
be found cows that do not pay for their
food. The profit derived from the licst
cows is made to cover the loss from others.
It is easier anJ cheaper to keep only a few
good cows than to retain a large number
of animals of different degrees of quality.
A temperature of from G4 to flt> is neces
sary in ehuruiug. and as the weather l»c
--couies cold the churn and cream must be
warmed. The temperature can bo easily
regulated by the aid of cold and warm
water to reduce or raise {is is required. The
cliuru itself may be very cold, and some
dairymen pour warm water iuto it, and
then renew it before putting the cream in.
Warm quarters are in order now. and all
winter preparations should be mado as
soon as possible. The less wind and cohl
that comes into the stable the less food is
required. Every dollar expended iu slid
ter lessens the expense of feeding. The
animal heat must be provided by feeding
the stock liberally, but the greater the ex
posure the greater Ihe loss of animal heat.
Shelter is indispensable to economical
management.
Instead of exposing the corn fodder in
the fields it should be stored iiudcr cover
as soon as dry enough, and it would be an
advantage to have it in the barn before it
gets wet. which, however, is not always
possible, but the less exposure to tho rain
the better. Iu the South the slalks are
stripped of the blades, which are cured iu
bundles, and put in the barn immediately,
which renders the todder very acceptable
to stock of all kiuds, it largely supplying
the place of hay.
Henry Stewart reminds readers of the
New York Times that a mistake is often
made in the use of hot water iu cleaning
dairy utensils. Hot water makes milk
curd insoluble and hard and tough, so that
when ntensils are scalded before they are
thoroughly cleaned from the remains of
sour milk the curd is solidified in tho pores
of the wood and becomes a permanent
agent of mischief. Any alkali dissolves
curd of milk, and after first well rinsiug
the utensils, and especially the churn,with
cold water, a solution of common soda or
saloratus (carbonate of potash) may be
very usefully employed to complete the re
moval of all traces of sour milk.
Improvements in Cookery. —Tho cus
tom of cooking quickly is in part a matter
of choice, and in part due to the nccesssity
to which a great many working people are
subject to cook their meals quickly or else
to go without hot breakfasts and dinners.
Another great obstruction to improve
ment iu the art of cooking is the almost
universally misconception that tho finer
cuts of meat are more nutritious than the
coarser portions, coupled with the almost
universal prejudice among working people
against stewed food. This prejudice is
doubtless due to the tasteless quality of
boiled meat; boiling toughens each of the
fine fibers, and deprives the meat almost
wholly of its distinctive flavor.
All these blunders and misconceptions
rnu-l evidently be removed before any truo
art in cooking can become common prac
tice.
The more necessary, however, does it be
come to invent apparatus in which meat
can only be simmered and cannot boil, as
in the Aladdin cooker, and also to invent a
stove or oveu in which neither meat or
bread can not be overcooked, dried up, or
render indigestible by too much heat, as ir.
the Aladdin oveu.
Next, people must be persuaded that a
better and more nutritious breakfast can
Tie made ready to eat, as soon as the family
are oat of bed, by putting meat stews, oat
meal, brown bread, and uiauy kinds of
puddings into the cooker, aud simmering
all night by the use of a single .safe
lamp, than in any other way.— Edward At
kinson, I.E. I)., iu l'o/nilar Sritucc Month
h-
How to Tell Good Oals.
liood oats are clean, hard, dry, sweet,
heavy, plump, full of flour and rattle like
shot. They have a clean and almost me
tallic luster. Each oat iu a well-grown
sample is m arly of the same size. There
arc but few small or imperfect grains.
The hard presure of the nail on an oat
should leave little or no mark. The keruel
when pressed between tile teeth should
clip rather than tear. The skin should lie
thin. The size of the keruel will be less
iu proportion than the skin i~ thick. The
color of the oat is not very material, but
white oats are generally thinner iu the
skin than black. Again, black oats will
grow 011 inferior soils. Short, plump oats
are preferable to large, long grain... Beard
ed oats unit have an excess of husk.
Oats are not not necessarily bad because
tlicy arc thick skinned or bearded; but
they must contain a less amount of flour
per bushel than thin-skinned oats' without
beards.
—The fairest flowers fade the soonest.
Knowl. d;'e leave- no room for chance?:.
Pride is never -o offensive *1 w hen Tit
chains.
When men fire lonely tlicy stoop to
any companion hip.
—The darkest cloud often contains tho
uio • fruitful shower*.
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