VOL XXVII "WlttlAMltAND. II 30 'S MAIN .ST. ~%Z The Truth About sell a thousand cus tomers what they yx /~Ai j-i * „ ought to wear than C/LIF ten thousand and get their ill-will. The testimony of thousands of customers is back ol oui word. We depend on their finding out that our high standard, best ready-made is the cheapest, because it gives the best,long est service. The fact is we run oiir business on two simple principles —to sell the beat—and sell it low You find it out. • fcVhy shouldn't we? r we get absolutely dependable qualities: with best trimmings. And, we don't know any way to make money so fast as by snaking a small profit off' ten thousand rather than a big profit oft one thousand. Doing that has made our store twice as big as any other: our trade more than twice as big. Honest All-Wool Suits (Men's) $y to sl."i. Hood to Finest Overcoat* and TTlsters, s•"> to sls. Dress Suits (best stock to seen), sl3 to S2O. Trousers by thousands, s2.f>o to SB. J. N. PATTERSON'S, One Price Clothing House, 29 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. HENRY BIEHL 14 NORTH MAIN STREET, EU'TLS'R ZFTE-N IN"'A DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing Goods. Stitches Per Minute.) Agri cultural Inipleni ents, Kramer Wagons, Buggies, Carts, Wheel Barrows, Braminer Washing Machines, New Sunshine and Howard Ranges, Stoves, Table and pocket Cutler}', Hanging Lamps. Man ufacturer ol Tinware, Tin 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, il 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. UND ERWKA.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 LACE CURTAINS In all the new fall patterns and designs. We arc showing the grandest line of Ladies. Misses and Childrens o=L=o—A=K=B 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. TROUTMAN'S. Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa- J. R. GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB. GRIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE. NO. 16 SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. BSole Agents for Butler, Mercer and Clar ion counties for Bohr Bros. Magnificent Pi anos, New by & Evans' Pianos, Smith- American and Carpenter Organs, Importers of the Celebrated Steinmeyer Pianos, and Dealers in Violins, Bruno Guitars, and All. Kinds of Musical Instruments. SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY Pianos and Organs sold on installments. Old Instruments taken in exchange. Comu and see us, as we can save you money. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds .of Musical Instruments Promptly attended to. | <*o f f i-r * :'*&* THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIO NA L CA It DS. _ >,J. y J. W HUTCHISON, A'noltXKY AT LAW. R.nice on second llojr of the HiiseJlon block, [ Diamond. Hurler, t'.i. Uoom No. I. j A. T. SCOTT. j. T. WILSOW. scorr & wiLsow, A'ITOItNKYS-AT-I.AW. 1 i'ollectlolls h spe i lity. OHMM No. . SoUtli ; Diamond, llutler. i'a. JAMES N. MOORE, ATTOBNKV-AT-LAW ASH XOTAUY I'CBI.H . ! office In Koom No. l. second floor of lluselton | Block, entrance on Diamond. P. W. LOWRY, ATTORNKY AT LAW. l'.ooin No. 3. Anderson nulldlm, F . Butler. Pa. I A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. | Office on second floor of New Anderson Mock ' Main St..—near Diamond. ■ IRA McJUNKIN. I Attorney at Law. Oflle© at No. 17, East Jeffer son St.. Butler. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Heal Kstate Agent. <>l tier rear of L. Z. Mitchell's oftlee on north side of Diamond, llutler. f.t. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor ol Anderson building, near Court House. Butler, I'n. J. fr . BRITT A IN. Att'y at TAW—Office at s. K. cor. Main St., .ma Diamond, Butler, fa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond Butler, Pa. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Attorney-at-Law. Office on South side or Dia mond, Butler. Pa. j C. F. L. McQUISTION, EN'tiIXEER AXD SURVEYOR, | OFHCK NKAIt BliMn Rcri.E It, P<. I t. Vi. ZIMMERMAN. RILYSICIAN AND SCKUEON, Office at No. 45, S. Mala street, over Frank Co's Diug Store. Butler. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. So. 10 vVest Cunningham St., BLTirLiiniß,, PE W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AM ' SURGEON. S. W. Corner Main and North Sis. BUTLER PEJM IST' A. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession execut ed 111 the neatest manner. SpeciaWes :—Gold Killings, and Painless Ex traction ol Teeth, Vitalized Air administered, onicf on Jefferson Street, one door E«»t of Lonrj House, Up Stairs. Ofllee open daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention, X. B.—The only Dentist In Duller using the best makes of teeth. L. iS. McJUNKLV, Insurance and Heal Estate iljj't 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - JPA. E- E. ABRAMS&CO Fire and Lite INBITR A X C E In.-urane v Co. of North America, incor porated 17& 4 , capital $3,000,000 and other strong compinies represented. New York Life Insurance Co., assets $90,000,000. Ofliee New lluselton building near Court House. BUTLER COUNTY fi/Ustua! iFire insurance Co. Office Cor, Main & Cunningham Sts, vi. C. ROESSING, PUEHIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL TUKASUKKR 11. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY DIRECTORS: J. L Purvis, Samuel Anderson, William Campbell J. \V. Uurkhart. A. Trout man, Henderson Oliver, G. C. Hoessim;, .lames Stephenson, I>r. W. Irvin, llenrv Wliitinire. J. F. Taylor. 11. C. tleineinan, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, GOD. AC'<. STrX'XjUDIR., BARGAINS IN Wall Paper. For the next sixty days we will ofi'cr bargains in all our gilt and embossed wall papers, in order to reduce stock and make room for Holiday (roods, J. H. Douglass, Near P ostcffice,. Butler Pa LIKE SMI NUBSERKS ERIE, A. All stock guaranteed to be in good con dition when delivered. We replace all trees that fail to grow. DEFERENCES IN' BUTLER: J. i\ Lowry, W. T. Mccliling, James Sh.mor, Jr.. J. K. l'orsytbe, (!co. ShatFner, Walker, Esq., Ferd lteiber, Esq. and 1). L. (.'lceland. G. F. KING, AGT. EITEJttfJLLEB Hoi st, 13cutU, FA. ' ,\ MAID OF THE MINES. I.ittle more than :i generation ago, tile single line of railroad ftcros, Western Pennsylvania li.'nl not yet coin uienced tho j arowth of it JJ recent octopu.s-Jikif anus. hikl, a conscquch'ee, tin- huge iron in i dustrios of Westmoreland Cmiafy were ■till in their in fancy. In the days there were l'cvv iu ure n-]y and rugged localities east of the Mi--i p in, or indeed, in the whole world, than that '• portion of the A 1 legh en ies lying almost mid j way between Pittsburg and the State Cap j ital. Even to-day tiie bnniau hivess of in ! dnstry which ihc mines and blastfurnaces j have focused on those bleak hill-sides, eau i not boast of much refinement; thirty years j ago one of the roughest of rough commun j ities was that which had been drawn together for the purpose of operating the i Dent Scar mine. | At that time the Dent Scar Iron and I Coal Company, limited, had not so much i as dreamed of its later phenomenal success: I it was a young and feeble enterprise em- J ploying not more than fifty or sixty men, I chiefly miners. Ry far the larger number j were unmarried, or at any rate had left j their wives and families amid more civiliz ! Ed and congenial surroundings than Dent Sear could yet afford, aud these made their headquarters at a frail but rather ex tensive structure known as the Miner's Hotel. The men who indulged in such ab surdly superfluous luxuries as wives and children, occupied little huts and shanties, and for the most part dragged out a cheek | ered existence in squalor and dirt. Of ! womankind there were positively no inter | esting specimens at Dent Scar —save one. This was Jen Saxton, a girl of 20, the only child and acting housekeeper of an old miner, whoso wife had deserted him and his child years before. Doubtless it would have been tetter for Jen if her pa ternal parent had also left her to the ten der mercies of the world, before i e took her into such a God-forsaken and utterly outlandish locality. For the old man (who was when sober, really one of the best miners in the district) spent every penny of his largo earnings at the bar of the Miner's Hotel, and, in a community where c \ ery full grown man went to bed drunk at least twice a week, was a marked individual —bearing as a peculiar distinc tion the sobriquet of "P.ugjnice Saxton." Physically, Jen Saxton at 20 was sim ply perfection and a magnificent specimen of grandly developed womanhood. Intel lectually she was more ignorant than a street gamin, lor she certainly could not have distinguished between a newspaper and a railroad time schedule. Morally— well, morality was an article not in great demand in the vicinity of the Dent Scar mine. And yet, as morals went in West moreland about that time, Jen had done nothing decidedly bad; on the contrary, licr queenly physique alone had forced "the boys" into yielding her a certain amount of respect which few of the married wo men around her could command. The fact that Jen was illiterate mattered very little at the mine, where none beside the Superintendent and the time-keeper were supposed to have any require ments for, or interest in, pens, ink, and paper—whether printed paper or other wise. So judged by men (and women, too,) who passed judgment on themselves according to the quantity and quality of sinew and muscle —men who knew no more of soul aud luiiul than they did of Greek verbs and trigenometry—Jen Saxton was well uign as perfect as goddesses are. or should be. Some people would undoubtedly have called the girl coarse, but then one might as well call a lion or a panther coarse. Men do not measure the actions of wild animals by the same standards which they apply to rational human beings, and Jen Saxton was of precisely the same nature as wild animals. Always when there was a light or a scullle(aiid they were frequent) Jcu could be found, an eager and intensely interested spectator. The fiercer the quarrel the more she enjoyed the excitement. It mat tered little to her whether game cocks, dogs, boys, men or women fought; and, if human beings, she was equally indifferent a: to the mode of warfare—though she perhaps pre ferred old-fashioned "bar.; knuckles'' to k nivc:. or picks, as tending to prolong the battle. She would lieyer interfere in a "scrap" herself, and was invariably disap pointed if unyone else undertook to part the combatants. Womanlike, her sympa thies always went, with the victor. Perhaps the individual most cordially disliked liy the miners at Dent Sear was a huge and powerful Englishman called the Hullock, the nickname being shorter, more appropriate, aud more euphonious than that which appeared on the company's pay-roll—Elislm Evan.. Tho Hullock was an enormous two leg ged brufe —a monster six feet three inches in height, who carried about with him nearly two hundred pounds avoirdupois of mastodon bone and cast-iron muscle, llis low forehead, knit eyebrows, and heavy jaws, proclaimed him at once a man i»f brutal passions and a bully. And this was the only man at the mine whom Jen Sax ton admired to any degree; the only man who could have made the handsome girl his wife for the asking! Why* Simply because, in a community which was materialistic to such a degree that sentiment and intellect counted for actual ly nothing, the liullock stood head and shoulders above his fellows. Jen Saxton only comprehended that ho was the grand est specimen of a man that had ever cross ed her path; she could see and appreciate liis massive frame and gigantic strength, and, for that he had once, like Hercules, felled an ox with his list and had thrashed almost every miner iu the county, lie be came Jen's ideal man—her idol. Jen's admi ration for the liullock was fully reciprocated by that worthy, though as yet he had never given the girl any as surance of the fact. It were a libel on the tender passion to assert that Evans loved Jen Saxton. Vet he almost worshiped the girl with a species of slow, dogged allec tion that was none the less iuteusc and determined because it was not outspoken. He rather enjoyed the secret feeling of security which he cherished within him self. He felt so sure of his prey aud knew so well that he could net his bird at any time. . Men outside the narrow world immedi ately contiguous to the Dent £car mine were unknown quantities in the Bullock's calculations, and were possibilities which never entered into Jen Saxton's day dreams—it that young woman ever indulg ed in such airy and intangible luxuries. The Dent Scar miners earned large wages and, as pay-day came round only once ,i month, many of the men drew consider able sums of money every time the com pany's paymaster visited the mine. On a certain pay day the Bullock left Dent Scar. No one attached much importance to that fact, however. He had probably gone to Tyrone, or Johnstown, or perhaps fo Pitts burg, as he had olten done in the past. He would return when his stock of money became exhausted. He had been absent two days when a young engineer visited the mine. .Arch ibald Allan was a mining expert and had I BI'TLF.R. PA.. FRIDAY . JAN I ARY . !*»0 ! lieen sent to Dent Scar by the mining company for the purpo.-e of rejioning on the best method of making a pri.po-ed ex -1 tension. Allan was a well-bred young ! fellow; he v. a> alxi lairlv educated and had traveled much. la appearance .ie wa oßly of a* erage U< quit* alcndi r. 1 while his years perhajw* uttmbered '_s. Any one of the millers could have thrashed him in forty-five >ceouds. more or less. Con M-queutly. although h«- »;i, clever at hi" ! profession as well as pleasant in manner and entertaining in conversation, Archie Allen cut only a very small figure with the Dent Scar people. Strangely enough,how evei, Allan not only lost his heart to Jen Saxton, but (which was really far more re markable) that devotee at. the shrine of 1 brute force fell in love with the interesting ! young engineer. At all events, in a few weeks, they were j married by an iupccnnious justice of the peace, ir.d shortly afterwards Mr. anu Mr.-. Allan started to leave the Western | Aileghcnies. That same day, the liullock, tired of his 1 prolonged jtjmboree, was on his way. afoot, i from Tyrone to Dent Scar. Most men after a month's '-tear" are | physical and mental wrecks; but such was not the case with the liullock. The only effect his spree had wrought upon hiui was temporary financial embarrassment and of course, a consequent fit of extraor dinary ill nature, lie was strong as ever and just as confident in his own bullj ing powers. lie saw the couple driving towards him in the rig which Allan had hired aud, while thev were yet several hundred yards dis tant, became aware that the woman was Jen Saxton. He also perceived that the man was. to hiui a stranger. Kvideutly i the liullock -moiled a mouse, or, po ibly, I merely objected lo Jen riding with a man ' wlio wa - not known to himself. AI any j rate he stopped the horse and, utterly | ignoring Allan, accosted the girl in broad j North of England dialed. "Where goiu'. lass?" .1 oil, who was fully conscious of tho bully's unspoken admiration and perhaps affection for herself, and who rightly estimated the frightful possibilities of such a nature as his when he should learn the truth. >.aid nothing. She shuddered, and the shudder was perceptible both to tin liullock and to Allan. The latter became impatient; indeed he was hardly the man to brook interference from such as fellow as Evans without resentment. "Stand aside, my man," lie said. "My | wife and I have no time to lose." ••Thy wife? Jei: Saxton thy wife' Be'st that so, .lent" The girl nodded her head in silence, while Allan added: "It seems to me that this is none of your concern."' The Hulloek's face was white with sup pressed murderous passion. He felt that he had been euchred out of what he bad hitherto deemed as surely his own as though every legal form and religious rite bad bound Jen Saxton to him. "Ah, lad," he said with a queer, low, savage laugh, "Tha tliiliks because Jen said 'yes' aud because t' squire did tli" old trick, that it's all right and none o' my concern. Se<* tha, my lad, thou's gotten to ask me. Do tha understand? Me! An 1 the only way to get my consent is to lick luc. See tha? Whip me —knock me out— \ kill uic! Tumble out. now. and see if thou's to keep the lass.' Allan saw that the giant meant mischief, so he attempted to start the horse. Hut Evans had unbuckled the reins from the bit, and the animal stood qnito still. As for Jen, like an old war-horse that smells powder, her eyes Hashed, her nostrils dilated, and clinched her fingers tightly at the prospect of a tight—a light in which her old favorite, the Hullock, would un doubtedly utterly annihilate his opponent. The fact that such opponent was the man whom she had just married counted for nothing now that her old wild nature as serted itself, strong as ever. She was eager to behold the fray and said never a word of encouragement to Allan nor utter ed the faintest rememoustrance to Evans. Archie Allan was no coward, though lie knew full well that his chance.: were small, indeed, in a contest with the liullock. So when the latter, taking one end of the reins, brutally struck the heavy strap across the young man's face, Allan, spring iug from the buggy planted his fist iu Kvaii:.' face. Then the battle began—and ended. Two blows from the liullock. one on the mouth and one on the temple, laid the young engineer on the wayside, appar cutly lifeless. A-a matter of fact he was only stunned, though Jen and the liullock thought him dead. Evans, to whom the exertion of knock ing Allan insensible had been the merest trifle, now turned his attention to Jen. Different phases of passion were surging through both the man and the woman. The Hullock, though outwardly calm, was filled with an exulting and demonical souse of triumph and absolute possession. Jen was fearfully excited—trembling with pas sionate admiration for the brute who had thrashed (killed she thought) her husband. It was a curious couple—a couple that would at that moment have furnished an interesting pyschologiclil study. The girl had descended from the gig when Allan sprang out of the vehicle to grapple with Evans. The Hullock now took a couple of steps toward her and stood with his cold, brutal eyes glaring into hers, which sparkled with unusual brilliancy. •'Dost Ilia want hint now?" asked flic man. For a moment Jen glanced at the still and prostrate form of Allau and, as she did so, a slight shudder passed through her majestic form. Only for a moment, and then unabh- longer to control her feelings, she threw her shapely arms around the neck of her husband's murderer (as she supposed) while she covered his rough un shaven face with a torrent of wild hot kisses. "No, no, no! Lisha, I am yours—you could always have had me for the asking. Take me away from him and do anything you've a mind to with me." Even the rough brute was momentarily moved aud. as his gray eyes lighted a little with supreme satisfaction at the girl's con fession, he passed one arm around her waist, and together they walked away. No one ever saw tin; Hullock and Jan Saxton any more. The place where this strange encounter took place was about tw.» miles from the Dent Scar mine. A year afterward Archie Allan was again iu Westmoreland County, working at a contemplated mine extension. He proposed utilizing an old shaft which was quite close to tho spot where he had been left lor dead —a shalt which had been sunk for some years previous and abandon ed. It was nearly two hundred feet deep and. when Allan descended to commence his investigations, he found the skeletons of two persons; one was covered by the clothing in which Evans was la-1 seen, and the other was wrapped in the dress worn by Jen Saxton on her wedding day - -The Virginia Legislature i wrestling with a bill to permit women fo practise law. Just as if she didn't lay down the law* every day —and practice it A Mathematician. Sam .Summer . the negro prodigy, wa iu town recently, and, as usual, entertain- ' ed a large crowd, who were testing him with all kinds of mathematical problems. Summer.-, is a negro a 4 _\ear> old, wiiiiout the slighte-t education. He cannot re.nl or w rite-, ami does not know one figure from another, lie is it common farm huiul, and to look at him and watch hi* .letioiis he seems to IKS about halfwitted, loil hi. quick and invariably correct answer to any example iu arithmetic, no matter how dif ficult. is simply wonderful. With the • ; hundreds of tests that he wa., submitted to, not a single time ha» he failed to give ! the correct answer in every instance. Some examples given him w ere as fol laws: How much gold can be bought for I in greenbacks if gold is worth il.iio? ! Multiply 597,312 by lJi. If a grain of wheat produces seven grain ■. and these be • sown the second year, each yielding the ' : same increase, how many bushels w ill be > | produced at this rate in twelve years if ; I 1,000 grains make a pint? If the velocity I ! of sound is 1.142 feet per second, the pnl j Ration of the heart seventy per minute, j | after seeing a flash of lightning there are , ! twenty pulsations counted before you hear : the. thunder, what distance is the cloud from the earth, and what is the time after j seeing the fla.-h of lightning until you hear ; j the t.milder? A commission merchant j received seventy bags of wheat, each con | taming three bushels three pecks and j three quarts. How many bushels did he | receive? Aud so on. With Robinson'., Ray aud othci higher I arithmetics before them, tho.ie who have ; tested him as yet have been unable lo lied any example that with a few moment's i thought on his part he is not able to cor | recti v an. wer. —Louisrillt ' omun it itil. ''Grounds" For Divorce. I'eoplehavelaughed at the play in which ; the silly wife, who was applying for a di : vorce, stated to her attorney, that her uiou- | j -ter of a husband had called her a "goose.'' | She could not even show that ho had qual- ! itied the term in any way; the only thing she could charge him with was that he had called her "just a plain, simple goose." Of course, that was a burlesque, but it seems ' seems that divorces arc actually asked upon fully as flimsy charges as that of call ing a woman a goose. Some ludicrous j reasons for asking separation are given iu Commissioner Wright's report on marriage and divorce. In one of these defendant made plaintiff climb a ladder to drive nails j iu the woodshed: not liking the way she j drove the nails he lassoed her oil coming j down from the ladder, tied her fast to the gate post, then stuck sticks and straws in , her nose and ears, gouged his knuckles iu j her eyes and said he "wanted fo ; ce if she was Dutch.'' On untying her he threw or shoved her into a liest of bees, all of which sorely grieved the plaintiff in body and inind. Such an experience ol the sweets of wedded life constrained her lo ask to lie i free. This was in . nother application: "De- | feudarit struck plaintiff a violent blow with j herJiiistle." She evidently thought he was j not struck ou her shape and she deter- i mined to try an improvement upon him. "My husband," complained another j suffering wife, "would never cut his toe j liar's and I was scratched very severely every night, especially as he was very restless." Such a combination of causes ought to have secured her a prompt "bill" for her lacerated feelings and shins. Such a heartless rooster as that defendant, should follow "Mcdinty lo the bottom of the say," as he is only lit to live with mer maids. llowuver. if all the married people with either real or fancied grievances, should I apply for divorce, there Would hardly be a j single married couple left. How lo Toll the Ages of Stran gers. "(live me a list of the names of the men j in any city or town in this country and j without having seen or heard of them, 1 j w ill tell you half their ages," said a prom j inent citizen yesterday. "How can you do that'" asked an in credulous bystander. "Simply by the initials of their names. In the first place you must remember that about half of the male population of this country have been named after Presidents of the I nitcil States or candidates for President, and all you have to do is to kno v whi-ii the e Presidential candidates were at the zenith of their popularity. Of course exceptions must he made id* i'ieorge Washington and Andrew Jack on, for peo ple have not quit naming their boy after these illustrious men to this day." "For instance, here is the name ol W. 11. John-oii —William llenry Harrison was elected President iu ISIJti, consequently Mr. Johnson is about fifty-three years old. Here is W. Scott Smith —Winfield Scott ran for President iu 1 H.TJ. Smith is there fore about thirty seven years old. The next name on the list is A. 1. North Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1 SCO. Mr. North is therefore about twenty-eight years of age. Now take the next—M. F. Sinathers, Milliard Filinoro was a candidate for President iu 18fiti. M. F. Smathers is therefore, in all probability about thirty-three years old. And so on. l!y studying the Christian names of men you can figure out the ages of many of them very closely." Ho Reads Upside Down. A Puuxsutawuey youth possesses the 1 peculiar faculty of reading newspapers up side down quite as readily as otherwise. Indeed, he prefers to read that way, and ' almost invariably inverts the piper and reads upward instead of downwards. The ' peculiarity was after this fashion bequeath 1 ed him: When a small boy he loved not 1 the atmosphere of the school room, ami 1 fain would stay at home. Hut he had a desire unto knowledge, and from the news- j 1 papers with which the walls of his bed I room were papered he learned to spell and 1 read. Many of these papers were pasted on upside down, and by reading from the bottom upward he became familiar with : inverted print. Now he reads as readily as j any ouo, aud it may be said that all his education was gleaned from the newspapers 1 on the walls. The Best Chocolate. A Senator's wife who is said to serve the best chocolate iu Washington gave the fol lowing recipe to Miss Edith Ingalls: Three quarters of a cuke of chocolate, one quart, of cold water, one quart of sweet, rich 1 milk; sugar to taste. Orate or scrape the 1 chocolate and mix with the water thor- ' oughly and smoothly; then sweeten and allow to boil until it is quite a thick paste- 1 Roil the utilk separately and stir it into the j 1 chocolate mixture and cook a few minutes : 1 longer. j —After air there Is a vast amount of j comfort to bo taken out of growing old ; , when one has passed the point of desiring to do foolish things. —Cartium has (pent $200,000 for udvor j tiding in Loudon, lieuce hi success Hero's a hint to the merchant who doe-n't advertise. 0 Know Something. Dr. Holme, s.• a Will educated mail ' is one who knows "i very tiling about ■uac | thing, and MUIII thing about everything.' ! The wise iloet, r * he tries to ma: ter everything el. c. i the man "f power and consequent! iu this world, while th. one wl o dabbles a little in everything get* left far behind in the ran'. Mi. S'urdctte put- the idea very neatly iu the following paragraph: • Mr Vanderbilt pays his cook ilO.OOfl a year, my boy, which is a great deal more than yon and 1 earn, or at least it i-. a irreat deal more than we get. because he is a cook. That is all Presumably be cause he can cook better than any other man in America, Tl.at i< all. If Hons. 1 Sam eaugravi could cook tolerably well : and shoot a little, and speak three lan guages tolerably well, and keep books fairly, and siug -ome. and could preach a fair >ort of a sermon, ami knew something I about hor-es, and could telegraph a little. and do light porter's work, and could read i proof toleiably, could do plain house and sign painting, and eonlil help on a thresh ; ing machine, and knew enough law to practice in the Justices' courts of ICicka poo township, and had once run for the j legislature, and knew how to weigh liai, he would'nt get #IO.(MY) a year for it. lie | gets that just because he knows how to cook, and it would'ut make a cent's differ ence in his salary if he thought tin- world was flat, and it went around il orbit on wheels. —There is nothing like knowing your business clear through, my boy, whether you know anything else or not What Produces Death. Some one say* that few men die of age. Almost all persons die of disappointment, personal, mental.or bodily toil or accident. The passion- kill liicii sometimes even suddenly. The common expression, I "choked with passion," haa little exagger ! at ion in it, for even thought not suddenly fatal, strong pa-sinns shorten life. Strong ! bodied men often die young—weak men live longer than the strong, for the strong use their strength, and ih.- weak have none 1 to use. The latter take care ofAliei.,selves, Hie former do not. As it is with the body, so it. is with mind aud temper. The strong are apt to break, or.like the candle, run: the weak burn out. The Inferior ani mals. which live temperate lives, have generally their prescribed term of years, i The horse lives 25 years, the ox l."i or 'JO, j the lion about L'o, the hog 10 or ll!, the rabbit Sy the guinea pig »'• or 7. The num bers all bear proportion to the. time the animal takes to grow its fn'l -i/c. Hut : man. of all animals, is one that, seldom i comes up lo the average. He ought lo i live a hundred years, according the physiological law, for five times twenty ! are one hundred: but instead of lhaf, he scarcely reaches an average of four times the growing period. llie reason is 1 obvious—man is not only the most irregu lar and most intemperate, but the most laborious and hard working of all animals. He is always the most irritable of all j animals, and there is reason to believe, ■ though wo cannot tell what an animal secretly feels, that, more than any other j animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it j warm, and consumes himself with Hie fire : of his own reflections. Bill Nye's Whittled Desk. Certain school boys in llutler who have whittled their desks anil been compelled by the School Hoard to pay damages for the work of their jacket-knives may find comfort and a pointer or two in Hill Nye's experience. In his lecture at Pittsburg lately he gave fliis reminiscence of his ! schoolboy days; I One rule of the village school was that if I any article of the schoolhotise furniture • was mutilated a fine of s."> would he im ! posed oil the offender. Ono day. while j thinking of tho tariff, he said, he whittled the desk, lie was given his choice be tween paying a lin« or taking a whipping. J He said he didn't have the cash with him. hut when lie went home that night he told his father about it, and put the case to him very strongly, and asked him for tin- loan of the necessary money. His father, he said, was not inclined to ; become a broker, and said that he could stand a good deal of corporal punishment taken iu the proposed way. The lather wa finally persuaded, nfier exacting a promise that it would be Hie la t offense, to furnish the On the way to school the next morning Nye said lie thought over the matter care I ally and prayerfully and concluded that *r» wa too large a sum of money to fritter away on a cliool district thai had never done anything special for him,and so when lie got there lie took the whipping—and re taiued the !f">. It was, lie said, the tirst. J money he ever honestly earned ami with j it lie went to the circus with a portion j and bought arnica with tho remainder, i The Wolf, llie Lynx, and Hie Wild-Gal. One day, ihc three animals named above .' met in the forest, and the day being picas ant and all feeling good-natured, the sub jeet of a more fraternal feeling among them was soon introduced. "There is no earthly reason why we should not even hunt in company and di vide Ihc spoils." said the Wolf as lie comb ed his whiskers with a burr. "Nouc at all," said tho Lynx. "1 go iu for a Trust, or. at least, for Co-Opera tion." "Gentlemen," said tho Wild Cat, "1 am with yon heart and hand iu whatever you do." Alter considerable discussion it was de eided to go on a hunt iu company. They soon cauie to the trail of a Man, and while the Wolf was for making pursuit the oth ers objected. The next trail was that of a hare, and while the Cat and Lynx were eager to pursue, the Wolf wiiuld not move, alius it went, until, us the three were fin ally ready for a fight, the Wolf sat down aud said: "See here, (ients —we have simply made a mistake. While we belong to tho same species iu a general way, our palate.- were built on a different principle, and Nature never intended us to hunt together; each will go his way and please himself." UOBAI. The housewife won't admit tlieie is any. If one child likes Bean Soup all must cat i it or take a licking. —M others and nurses should always re- j member that disappointment never attends j ' the use of Dr. Hull's Baby Syrup. Price j only -•» cents a bottle. The close sympathy existing between i Ihc stomach and the brain is noticeably : exhibited in the headache resulting from j indigestion. Laxador always cures head ache, when caused by indigestion. Don't growl af this world until you are j sure of a better one. Everything that is nice in this world j grows on the other side of a barbed wire | fence. The devil it credited with a great ileal j | id mischief that the stomach is guilty ol ( Some Curious Wills. i The St. l.oui /,'#*; nb'ir, -ome time ago. :at a chapter nil v lis. llo*in_' tbc testa lor- t<> lav<» |k> .<1 niiiMlt siugularlj I COllSlitll'ed. »' . ;::;i ,'i, ,le Will I*l ot Mi iliurJ, iliiw, whi • ilii il ulntct fifteen years Sauburu was a (.i .it pa!rioi, aud specially gloried iu the part Ma-sat htisetls took iu lb. revolution ary struggle fu hi* will In- li ft l.i Imml.v to I»r. Oliver Wendell Holme* and Prof. Agassir. not. however. without imposing suiue of the most tinhear I of provision* and conditions. His skeleton he di-sired prepared in the umst artistic manner kin.wu to the profession, ai.d placed with the many others in the anatomical department of Harvard College. While preliminary preparations were beinir made in carrying out this extraordinary request, he desired the surgeons to he very < areful with the skin wi that it could be tanned in pieces if : sufficient Hire to make a pair of drumhead. ' L'pon one of these drumhead* the "Dec laration of independence" was to lie writ tin. and upon the otter Pop«*'s I'nirental Prayer." l ilted in its proper wooden ' frame thi> gift. were lo have the skeleton mounted and put iu the presidential chair at each meeting of the hospital directors. I'r. Wagner, an .\mericau. is up to or even ahead-of the English preeeilent iu the di membcriuciit idea. Daring his life bis relatives had given hint but little thought. When it cauie lor hiui lo die—he had a little money, about sl.ooo—his brothers became very kind. Alter bis death, when tho will was read, the following remark . able clause Was dist Insed: •To mv brother, Napoleon Bonaparte. 1 bequeath my left arm and baud: to merciless; the members of the i jury were in tears, and the agent writhed r in bis seat under the that -be was the hoiuliesi woman they li ever saw, and the man iu tbe seal w'uU hei y probably noticed tbe sly glances and lioanl y some of the whispered oxclainatiou- lie - became restless anil uneasy, and by and by got up and walked liack to where a couple a of drummers sat, and said: a "Boys, she's my wife." i "Yes!'' responded oue. , "I allow that sho's homely 'null to scare a hungry bear out of a bog peu but it s all my fault." "Indeed!" "And I'll tell you tbe story, because there is a great moral iu it We was cu lt gaged to be married. I took her into S_, r aeu.se to a Fourth of July. There she met , Hill Prime, au old liean of hers, and to r make jealous, as some gals will, jon know. - she agreed lo ride home with him. It hit ■- me hard, as you may believe, aud so 1 d went out to the stablo and drove tacks in t to Hill's harness. When I hey camo to e start out the horse ran away. Hill jumpo l out and didn't eret a scratch, but Main stayed in till tbe buggy strnck a bridge and was smashed up. She lost twelve teeth, had her nose broken, her month torn out at the corner, an eye cocked up. her toes turned iu. her tougne bit half in two, and the color of her hair changed to the brindlc you now see before you.'' "We see tho lesson." "Not yit, you don't! That came iu when I tried to give her tbe shake aud crawl out of tbe marriage. Hor old dad pnt on the screws, and 1 bad to conic to time or lose my farm, and so 1 walked chalk. The g.cat moral lesson is, never get mad Rt your best gal. If you do get mod don't, make a fule of yourself. That's all, boys, and 1 hope tbe warning will sink deep into yer hearts." The Tuneful Maid. There is a family living on Ditflicld street who have a singing domestic—a hired girl who washes the dishes to the tunc of "Sil ver Hairs Among the Gold," aud scrubs tbe pantry with air of "Johnnie Get Your Gun." Her mistress has suggested to her several times that she would accomplish more if she sung less, and the neighbors sent in a petition a yard long asking to have her removed but it didn't do a bit of good. Sing she would,and sing she should and did, until she met with her fate. Yesterday afternoon she was siting with her back to the window denning the fanii ly silver aud singing, with lier voice aw ay up to concert pitch. "There's a Land that is l'airer Than Day," when suddenly a rich baritone voice at the window took up tbe refrain. "In the sweet by and-by" and con tinued to carry the air with her. She wasn't going to sing in a strange {choir in that fashion and she turned to see who the accompanist was. There stowl a nice looking strango young man. "Excuse me, miss, 1 ' bo auid, "but you do sing so beautifully 1 could not help stopping to listen. You are a professional musician 1 presume, miss?" "Oh, no," simpered the girl. "1 unK sing to amuse myself." "Is it possible? Might I trouble you for a drink of water, miss." "Xo trouble at all," said the girl, and she went into the pantry for a glass aud then to tbe ice-tank in the next room for the water. When she returned the singer was gone. So was the basket of family silver. The police bare it in baud, but it is doubtful if they see it again until the "Sweet by and by." One of Hersehel's Problems. In her "Hciuinisccueos of tbe Herschels" lu tho Century J lagarine, the late Prof. Maiia Mitchell says: "Oue of Sir John llerschel's numerical problens was this: If, at tbe time of Cheops, three thousand years ago, one pair of hnuian beings had lived, and war, pestilence, nud famine had not existed, and only natural death came to man, and this pair had doubled every thirty years, anil their children bad don bled, and so on, how large would the pop ulation of the world lie at this time—could they stand upou tbe earth as a plane,' "Wo xvrre sitting at tbe breakfast tab o when lie asked tbe ijuestion. Mo thought they could not. 'Cut if they stood closely aud others stood on their shoulders, man, woman and child, how many layers would there be?' I said, 'Perhaps three.' How many feet of men?' he asked. 'Possibly thirty,' I 'aid. 'Ob. more!' 'Well, we'll ! .ay a hundred.' 'Oh, more!' Miss Ilcr schcl said, 'Enough to reach to the moon.' •To the nil.' Mor«, more!' cried Sir John, exulting iu our astonishment; 'bid higher." To Neptune,'said oue. 'Sow you burn, be replied. • Title « hundred times the ilnlonet ofXepltt tie, audit <& rtry w<<" That is my way,' said he, *of whitewashing war. pestilence, aud famine.' " A I'icsuo, Cal., Woman threw a cellu loid cull'in tho stove. Her husband Trill have to pay *l5O to repair damage douc to the kitchen aud to get u ucw Stove. YOO