VOL XXVII. "plp[MSßyro>»^ P& 'k 30 S^matn.ST HENRY BIf:HL 14 NORTH MAIN STKEET, BTJTLSR - 3? ."KIM M'A DKALEK IN Hardware and House Furnishing Goods. Agricultural Implements, Kramer Wagons, o 1 Buggies, Carts, Wheel Barrows, Brammer Washing Machines, New Sunshine and Howard Ranges, Stoves, Table and pocket Cutlery, Hanging Lamps. Man ufacturer of Tinware, Tin Bcofing and Spouting A Specialty. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN. J. R. GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB. GRIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE. NO-16 SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER. PA. a Sole Agents for Butler, Mercer and Clar ion counties for Behr Bros. Magnificent Pi anos, Newby & Evans' Pianos, Smith- American and Carpenter Organs, Importers of the Celebrated Steinmeyer Pianos, and Dealers iu Violins, Bruno Guitars, and All Kinds of Musical Instruments. SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY Pianos and Organs sold on installments. Old Instruments taken iu exchange. Come and'see us, as we can save you money. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds of Musical Instruments Promptly attended to. 1850 Established 1850 E. GRIEB, THE JEWELER, No. 19,' North Main St.,' BUTLER, PA., D E AL E R IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles, &c., &c. Society Emblems of all Descriptions. Repairing in all branches skillfully done and warranted. 1860 ESTABLISHED 1850 THIS WEEK, And for the next 30 days we shall con tinue to clear our shelves ot Winter Goods to make room for HEW SPRING GOODS. Come early as the prices we have reduc ed them to will move them rapid ly as they are marked ver\ low. You will find some big bargains at TROUT MANS. • Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa- THE BUTLER CITIZEN. ' PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. W. MILLER, Architect. onice on W. Corner ot Diamond, j Plans :m SCKOKOK. ! Office at No. 15. S. Main street, over Frank A j (Vs thug Store. llutler, I'a, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon, N«. 10 \Vest Cunningham St., BUTLER, W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN ANU SURGEON. S. w. Corner Main and Nnrtli Sts. BUTLER IPIEJN UST'-A i ; DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. I DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. Al! work pertaining to the profession exeeut I cd in the neatest manner. I Specialties Gold Killing*, and Painless hx , traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. OBlce on Jefferson Street, one door Cut of Low 17 House, I'p Stairs. 1 Office open daily, except Wednesdays and I Thursdays. Communications by mail receive j prompt attention. \*. B.—The only Dentist ill Butler using the ! best makes of teeth. J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second floor of the llnselton Mock. Diamond, llutler, Pa., Room No. l. | a. t. aoofr. J. r. witsoH. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTOKNKYS-AT LAW. Collections a specially. Office at No. K. South Diamond, Butler, l'a. JAMES N. MOORE, Attobnky-at-Law and Notauy Pubmc. iiffice 111 Room No. 1, second tloor of llnselton Block', entrance 011 Diamond. P. W. LOWRY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ltooiu No. 3, Anderson Building, llutler, Pa. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second tloor of New Anderson Block Main St..,—near Diamond. IRA MeJUNKIN. Attorney at I .aw, Office at No. IT, Bast Jeffer son St., Uotler. Pa, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Heal Kstate Agent. Of nee rear ot L. Z. Mitchell's office 011 north Hide of Diamond, llutler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. ' Office on second floor of A nderson building, near Court House, Duller, Pa. J. K. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law- Office at S. K. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler. Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond i-utler. Pa. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Attorney-at-Law. Office on South side of Dia mond, Butler, Pa. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, 01 kick nbak Diamond, Uutlku, Pa. L 8. MCJUIVKLV, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 LAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. E. E ABRAMS & CO Fire and Liie INSITR A N C K Insurance Co.of North America, incor porated 179"', capital $3,((00,000 and other strong companies represented. New York Life Insurance Co., assets Office New Huseltou building near t'ourt House. , BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. a O. ROESSING, Puihidint. WM. CAMPBELL Tubasuhkb. 11. C. IIKINEMAN, StchKTAu^. DIRECTORS: .1. L Purvis, Samuel Anderson, William Campbell J. W. Burkhart. A. Trout man, Henderson Oliver, (I.C. itoesslm?, James bieplieiison, ■ Dr. W. Irvln, Henry Wmtuilre. J. K. Taylor. H. C. Helnrman, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gon. A*'t. BITTL'BR, PA. BARGAINS IN Wall Paper. For the next aixty days we will offer bargains in all our gilt and embossed wall papers, t, in order lo reduce slock and make room for Holiday Goods. J. H. Douglass, 1 JNear PostoiKce, Butler, Pa - AdvttUb« i& '.he CiTiZKN. JACOBS FAULTS. It was early June, in one of il»>.se eharm j lug places 011 the Hudson river that lie he \ tween Xew York and A litany. The : ati< | fying greenness of the landscape left one j no chance to regret the past glory ot the J blossoms. It seemed as if. should one ! -peak at all, it ought to be iu blank verse : about the hills clapping their hands, about 1 preen pastures, about all the secret things ' that have ceased to mean so much them selves as to express ill the abstract belief in love ami love and life and beauty anil peace. Jacob lJaus was an inattraetive ol»- serrer of this charming phase of nature. Ho was preoccupied with his own troubled soul, and heru was but a wintry prospect. Tho world points ont to a man the neces sity of doing something; there was no cor responding need in his soul, lie had late ly come into un excellent property, aud had invested a good proportion ot it iu a ranch iu the West. The West was 110 place of his choice, but what else was he :to do? He was thirty two, and was with out even a commercial traiuing. lie had been bred to no profession, aud he was not rich enough to live with rich men as a pleasure -seeker, even hart sneh a life at tracted him. He had perfect health, was a good shot, a good reader, a good walker, ' a good companion. He wore a blonde j beard upon his sunburnt face, with its I handsome, clean cut profile and hazel eye : This bold statement of his case present- I ed itself over and over to his mind, <|iiite as if he were weighing an abstract question that bored him excessively. Then he grew irritated that his father should have given him .nidi an old-fashioned, half humorous natne, and exerted always an uuspoken and only half-recognized negative tyranny on his whole life; that hi< father should hare bad that irresponsibility iu the paternal relation that is scarcely to be found out side the Anglo-Saxon race- as if the Anglo Saxon was born armed at all points, aud with an intuitive knowledge of fight ing his as ay through the world. The more Jacob accused himself of impiety in &c eusing the dead, the more obstinately the conviction forced itself upon him that, his thought was, nevertheless, just, and tho iu, plied weakness 011 his own part was in nowise consoling. Now he was free at thirl j two a free dom thai meant bondage to his own limit ations; aud while he bitterly regretted that he had 110 profession, he bitterly recognized the fact that the desire for a larger life in no sense proved a talent. His desire was, as we have said, not one 101 action. It wus a vague desire lor a larger happiness, such as women have oftener than men. They should wake like children of a Christmas morning, and find it in their .stockings. All these reasons for gloom were ever present to Jacob; but he had lately waked to it more definite purpose and a more definite grief. Ilia decision to go on a ranch had made him recognize that he could not leave Millicent Fuller, whom he had known from lier childhood, aud who had been for some years past, his chief occupation. He offered himself to her. She refused him. She was the youngest and the only unmarried one of five sisters. She was twenty-two, handsome, traveled and accomplished. Jacob, as he walked through a shady road, cut a fine bouquet of sweotbriar roses, and trimmed their thorny, strag gling stems with an ill-humored energy. He had not pride enough to go away with out asking to see her once more, just to say good-bye, and she had accorded him an interview that evening at half-past^seven. He walked all around the Fuller's large house, past the broad piazzas, and found her alouc in a little side-porch that was overgrown with honeysuckle vines, and amid their pinkish-yellow blossoms Mil licent, iu a pink muslin, looked like rosy June personified. Her father and mother had just gone to drive, she explained precisely, as she took Jacob's silently proffered tlowers with a line blush for thanks. "I am afraid," she said, nervously, as she carefully picked a few thorns from the stem of her bouquet before she grasped it, "that I didn't succeed the other night iu— thatis—l mean that I am airaid that I didn't say what J meant " ''l should be glad," said Jacob, ''to hear that you didn't mean what you said." "Oh! oh! I didn't mean that!" "Well, it doesn't matter a great deal what you meant if you didn't mean that." "I do wish that yon would be reasonable, Jacob." "I wish you wouldn't call the Jacob when you have told nie that you didn't like the name." "Oh! did I say thatt Ido think that I like it, siuee you have no other. Indeed, Jacob, if it were not for some faults that you have, I think I should like you better than any one." The young man sat down oil a step lower than the one the girl occupied. "Perhapn," he said, gloomily, "you w ill djiieqss these faults of mine, I may suggest some to add to the list. My name is one; but that is hardly my fault, and 1 believe that 1 could change it by an act of the Legislature or something of the kind." "But I should always know that your real name was Jacob," said Millicent, laughing; "I shouldn't mind your name, but there are some things that would grow worse and worse." j "My age, 1 suppose." "Yes, for one thing. Ten j eats i; too much difference.' "But you will grew older." "There will still be ten years between us." "The general opinion is that a woman grows older faster than a man. You would catch up to u»(j. ' "Ah! that is like most general opinions, wrong. I have made my own observations on that subject. To the close observer, middle- aged women are younger even in appearance than men of their own age. "Where did you learn so much about men'" "Have I not been in all our large cities aud in most of those in Europe? Can one not receive impressions of strangers as they pass, aud accumulated impressions form opinions/ Men's eyes grow dull, aud the lines ol the mouth hard, and their faces heavy and meagre; while women's faces are still fyll tf benevolence though their figures have lost their gi nco and their com plexions their delicacy. Still, those wo men are young." "Youth is then a condition of the mind, wise Sibyl?" "Certainly, it is the capacity ol receiv ing new impressions, meeting one's fellow beings with sympathy, and undertaking new enterprises." "Some people must then be born with more capacity for youth than others." "To be sure." * And T. who have by jei. and nature lees youth than you, aud yet have wasted ten years more of it, must sooner become like those horrid middle-aged people " •'I am not speaking -.if you." ■•You are not speaking of me/ How iu - consequent! I sat down here to listen to you talk about me. Let us begin ever BUTLER. PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 18!!0 again. You haye said that you do not like my name aud that I am too old." "Oh! Jacob'" "Yes, I am too old, and am to grow older. You have defined youth -what is agttV 1 "Oh! it i the i neniy of the hum m rat e, i U-t us iiewr grow old, Jacob." 111, 11". Millicent. let lis ne.v.'i gioW old, so only that we may sta> youug t<> gether," he said, (lushing and edging a lit tie nearer to lier, while he looked up iu her face with a half-humorous smile, lint she drew away farther from lum. "Well !" bo continued despondently, "and what is my next fault? Come! say it!" "You do not believe in friendships be tweet men and women. My own belief is that no woman can expect to be reasonably happy unless her husband can have a friendship for her." "You seem to have thought a good deal about marriage — even if you are o averse to it." Millicent, with heightened color, made a movement to rise. Jacob stretched up both hands and, taking hers, pulled her back gently to her seat. "You are so rude," she continued; "that is another fault. I should want my hus band to be polite to me. It would make me happier than almost any thing " "And I should want to have the liberty of quarreling with my wife whenever I chose, and making it up again; but I snp pose that you would tike a suave idiot like that Hastings. ' "There again," said Millicent, in ao in jured tone, "how ridiculous you are' You are so jealous, aud about nothing. W hat could be more innoceut, when a party of people are out on a blossom gathering, than that two of the should ruu. down hill to gether, and yet from the lime you made about it — its too absurd!" "But you took his baud and lau laugh ing." As children might ioU and lie had raced together, and you had beaten him easily. You had picked my blossoms lor me, aud I had walked with you 11,- wav my guest, and I surely owod him po liteness " "To give him liaud, I suppose, and caper and laugh with him." The recollection quite overcome Jacob with auger. He rose and walked a few paces across the lawn and then relumed "Well! lam named Jacob lam old. 1 am rude, uiid lam jealous. Oh! yes, and I forgot, I don't believe in Platonic friend ships. Five faults; 1 think that there are ' seven deadly sins. Not that I have the least idea what they are. I know that seven always seemed a small allowance to me. I surely have more than live. More than fire would go to the make-up of any respectable man. What' you can name no more? I could accuse myself of more thau that. Don't you know another?" "Yes," said Millicent, gravely, while she put -i,at»-l \ , aud I. who ha\e looked oii_al lifr ami rell. . ted, have seen that of all traps and pitfall this , this is the greatest. Talk ot the /xilM/< t iu : liiahlt of girls, that flits aim* t with the bridal flowers, that is delusion compared with the passion of men; aud yet in ehoos ! ing freedom rather than binding oue's self j to a delusion, you need not tell me that I j choose what is only negative. It is so dis j I'ouraging. You have such hopeless faults; ! and 1 shall never like any other man than you, Jacob, 1 know, and so r hall norer marry." "Ves, but lam not like that; I know i that I shall marry," he said, watching the j girl's face closely. "It seems to me now : as if 1 should not, but 1 am only a man, j masculine, as you pay. As long as 1 am very busy I may keep up, but sometimes ' they say it is not quite wholesome in those j ranches, and one is exposed to wind and i weather. I might be ill; and then when I am homesick and lonely some good West ern girl will take care of me, perhaps like me, even me. For her I might not have ' o many faults. She would not be so clev er as you, or have got things down so fine; and she wouldn't know, poor thing, what a t isne of faults is covered by my unfor tunate name, that sounds so homely and simple and good. So being sick and lone ly and wretched, and grateful to her, I know that I should be weak enough to marry her. I know that I hould." "Yes," said Millicent throwing down beside her the bouquet of weetbrit r, w ith a passionate gesture, "that's just what a man's love means. 1 shall be so glad that T didn't marry you, when I hear of throw ing yourself away on some wild Western 1 girl that any man of refinement would ; shudder to think of as bis wife 1 didn't i believe it of you* and she ran down the , steps of the porch into tin; gardeu. | Jacob was up in an instant and | followed her, but she ran from him swiftly, leaping over the tlower j beds and speeding across the grass, slim and active as a nymph, her pink dress | telling white in the soft light id' the suui | iner night. He had almost caught up w ith I her when lie stumbled and fell over the : protruding loot of an old tree. She lice ing breathless, came suddenly upon her father and mother, who, having returning from their drive, had alighted Ironi the carriage at the gate, nud \v alked across the lawn. They stood now hand in hand, looking up in the sky at the new crescent moon —a charming picture of the sweet companionship of loving souls, who, un conscious of the passing ol the \ ears, find their owu youth in all the promises of na ture Millicent stood and looked at them, with sudden tears welling up into her eyes. They turned and saw her, just as Jacob came up, somewhat ennfn >ed at the new situation. Mrs. Fuller spoke first, "Why, Milli cent, is Mr. Raus here* I thought he had gone." "Why, yes, Jacob, we thought you had gone," said Mr. Fuller, with an unexpected sympathy in his heart for his old friend's son, awakened by Mrs. Fuller's treating him as a stranger iu calling him Mr. Raus. The good gentleman had felt no sympathy whatever for him on account of Millicent's refusal. It liad appeared to him a great impertinence that he should propose to take his daughter 30 far away. Jacob stood silent. Milliceut took her father's hand, aud, throwiug one arm around his neck, kissed him. This action, which conveyed nothing but his daugh ter's affection for himself to the old gen tleman's mind, explained the whole situa tion to Mrs. Fuller, who was not unpre pared when her daughter, turning to her, clasped her in her ami ; uud said: •'Yes, dear mamma, Jacob is here; and when he goes Igo with him. I hare pro mised to be his wife, and you, who know what is is, will be the last of all to deny me that companionship which makes you forget ereti from your children. ' Jacob was more surprised than any one. He never Knew how it had came about; he only knew that he must hare been rery much improved by marriage, or his wife grown very lenitent; for no man ever suf fered less from fault finding than lie, and the West was to him a wilderness that blossomed like the rose. — Siribnci's May urine Disaster on Disaster. A couple of old salts met after a long ab sence auJ the following animated conver tion ensued: A--Well, old man, how are you getting on? B — First rate; I have taken a wife. A—A very sensible idea. B—Not a bit of it; sb'e's 4 iou'Uei Tar tar' A — Then I'm sorry for you, mate B— There's no need; she brought me a large vessel as her marriage portion. A— Then you made a good bargain after all! U— Nothing to boast of, 1 can tell you; tho ship turned out a worthless old tinder box. A — Then I'm sorry 1 spoke. B— Bab! you can speak as much as you like! The old tub was well insured and went down on her first voyage. A—So you got the pull there any how? B — Not so much, mate, 1 only got live thousand thalers out of the job as my sh!\re. That was too bail' H—Too bad? Nothing of the sort! Wife was on board and went down with the rest. Hypnotism and Crime. Pall Mall (ia/.ette. Science not only account i for a good deal, but has a good deal to account for. The other day M, Charcot publicly hypnot ized a gendarme aud then told him to as sassinate M. Grevy, whom he would lluil in the corner of the garden. The poor constable went out and stabbed a tree with a paper knife and then came back tremb ling aud confessed the murder. One hyp notist, a French libertine, actually in tho hands of the police, is said to have selected his victims, choosing those of an emotional temperament, and then to hare magnetiz ed them and ordered them to commit mi cide. One poor girl did so. The Easiest Way. Housekeeper—lfora, y< onteni i plating uii ido to brace up mul respect 1 himself, and hurries othei s into ati lintime ily grate. There me vtttious ot puffs Soinr* resemble Un- zephyr that make the i lily bow its head like a modest •'•mo | are like the breezes, perfumed with apple ; blossoms, that sways the hollyhock, others i like the wind thai sweeps across the fields of grain and cau-es gentle billows to ari.-e j and fall like ocean waves: and still others j like the tempest that rives the knotty oak i and lashes the angry waves against the battling roeks. Modest people like the mild variety. Du.-iueas men the medium ; grade,ami actors and politicians the furious kinds, filled with picturesque adjectives and superlatives. Before the advent of newspapers the knights and 'Squires of those queer old times must have led a very unsatisfactory life. Think of a man wear ing out Ins old frame and waiting around during all the weary years of ,his profitless existence without ever seeing his "name in the paper." It must have been excruciating. Most people sav they do not, but nevertheless misi people do, like to see their names in print. A friend of ours from Locust Lane came in the other day aud said: "1 thought you would bare my name in the paper last week." "Oil what grounds!" we inquired. •Because," he replied, "I was thrown out of a buggy and fractured my clavicle.' "All, ha," we answered, "that was tin fortunate for yon, but the accident whs scarcely serious enough to merit new • paper mention. " "What?" exclaimed our friend in a: toni diluent, "does a man have to break hi; d d neck before he can get his name in to the paper?"— I'nnxsntawney -Spirit. Member of Congress Spanked. A curious story i-. told at the expeuse ot a member of Coiiprc-.', who while no mall calibre intellectually, has not been blessed with an abundance of avoirdupois. He has a wife who is much taller thau be is aud who is also well known lo her . hil dren as a strict disciplinarian. One eve ning, no Ihe story goes, she heard a noise in the nur-erv after bedtime She prompt ly seized her slipper and started for the scene (,f Ihe uproar. Ju.it as she reached the door the children extinguished the light. Stretching ont her hand she cap tured one of the boys, and to judge from the outcries lie made the spanking was thorougly etfective. Hut the mother was somewh'it surprised at the conduct of the second suLferer. Instead of sobbing, he yelled protestation- iu a strong voice, and al last swore roundly. The mother, a;- touished, jumped up, and letting him fall from her knee to the floor, exclaimed ten derly: "Is that you, hubby?" Overwhelmed with contusion he admit ted that it was her "hubby" she has been spauking. Alter they had retired amid the muillcd laughter of the children, who were trying to re3traiu it by stultiug pillows ia ■ to their mouths, explanations followed. He, too, had heard the noise and with the same object in view as his wile had gone to the nursery, where he had been caught by his spouse. Hereafter he rows that he will allow his wife to discipline the children unaided.— Xew York Tribune. When Razors Get Tired. "Maybe you don't think a razor gets tired,' the barber said. "Well, it does, just the same as a man or horse. When crcr a razor gets to working badly it's tired aud needs rest. Xow, that's some thing there i ..n't one barber in a hundred ever heard tell of. When their razors get out of order they hone them, but it doesn't do any good. You can hone a tired razor from now until doomsday aud that's all the good it will do. What they need is rest, just the same as a barber needs a two weeks' vacation iu the summer time. Did you ever see the edge of a razor through tho microscope? It is composed of little particles of steel, similar to the teeth of a fine saw. I suppose there are a million of these little teeth ou the edge of a razor, so you see when a man says he has been shaved with a saw he speaks the truth. These little teeth get misplaced from con stant use, and nothing will bring them around to their proper positions but rest. Yer)* frequently my razors get tired, and I lay them aside for two or three months. Then when f pick them up thej work to perfection. The action of Ihe atmosphere ou the steel brings the little particles back to their proper places. Nine times out of ten wheu a razor pul.s It is tired, and the man who handles it doesn't know what the matter is." —Chicago Globe. A.S Dry as Ever. A Scotch minister thus discoursed on the carelessness of his flock "Brethren, when you leave the church, just look down at the Duke's swans. They are very bouuy swans, an' they'll be soon ing about an' aye dooking (loon their heads and laving theirsels wi' Ihe clear water till they're a drookit. Then you will see them sooming to the shore, an' they'll gi'e their wings a bit flap and they're dry again. Now, my friends, you come here every Sabbath.an' 1 lare you a ower wi' the gos pel till ye're fairly drooit wi' it. Hut you just gaug awa' hainr and sit doou by your fireside, gie your wings a Int of a flap an' ye're a, dry as ever again." Three or four years ago a great sensa tion was occasioned iu the geographical world by the assertion made by Prof Big ucll, of the Canadian geological survey, that he had discovered a great lake ou the divide between (Quebec and Labrador that was larger thau Superior. He said it was ;uw miles long and described it iu detail. Maps w ere actually published, showing the new lake, and changing iu quite au im portaut part icular the appearance ot the map of North America. And for a short period Mistassiuu camo to be regarded as the mammoth lake of the earth's surface. Prof. Loudon spent the late summer months canoeing ou the great fresh water sea. Aud it has dwiudled. The lake is 100 miles long but only ten to fifteen miles wide. It lias a very serpentine look, aud cuts no figure on tho map. Su perior is the sovereign lake of the globe, aud has a pretty sure thing of continuing to hold first place. —'l he tower of the Castle of iit. Angelo, built by Pope Nicholas Y.. is being de stroyed in order that the Tiber embank ments may be continued in front cl the castle —Au oatmeal trust is the latest orgaui zation not to be trusted which has been formed, this time in Chicago. "The Au tocrat of the Breakfast Table" ought to come out with a protest against it —Gltunmery "By gad, old man, I wish that I was dead." Jokletby: • Weil, ' there's a lire electric wire Uur.u there be lt ween your feet Just step ou it and it I will fix ' But by this time Glummcrr ' was halt a mile away. A Correct Diagnosis. Mr. Robert > is pre ident ol the Peun - ! \ania Railroad. The I'eiiiisylvauia Rail - | road Company i < "iif «>f tie largest, t it' not the large, t. «>f railroad i orporatious tn th<' I iwU-tl st.Ue«. The president j i>l licit an ofgauiz&tioU U1U..1 be ii « ui«n i>t gn-at Eu-iuei»s experience, of u j shrew dnc«., aud ut the highest ability He 0 was asked the other day to eipreaa his view? iu relation to the buaioe • outlook. ■< 1 and promptly replied. i*| ''lf Urn question hail becu asked of me - a year ago I would have said the outlook ■. was poor; but iu less than thjee months t- ! activity began, and I ordered new cars • ' although there were five- thousand idle cars 1 : on our tracklt is seldom that you can < j correctly judge the future; but there is no - j reason why the manufacturers of the f | country, nnd especially those in iron and l'; steel should not have a very fair season. The outlook for railroad traffic it en- I touraging, alio. 1 have a notion, too, r , that we, a ; a nation, are about to become exporters of manufactured products to a i i larger extent than ever before. Our in t ilu 'tries will -eek access outside of the • • domestic market, which they have hereto i 1 fore depended upon. Hut our large and profitable domestic consumption gives us i an advantage over older producing countries, where most manufactured i ' articles have to seek a market outside of the home market. It is rare to find mora truth and ooium<>u i ense ill so little -pace. Mr. lloberts has evidently uotii-ml the fact that we export i ed la -t year nearly sl-10,000,000 worth of 4 manufactured commodities —iu other words, nearly one tilth of our total exports were manufactures. Mr. Roberts has uLo observed the fact that In 16SD the exports of iron and steel and manufactures of j stood sevcuth on the list of exports—that i-, next to tobacco. It is undoubtedly true that we u.-. a nation are about to become exporters of manufactured products to a ! larger extent tbau ever before. It is dis cerned iu the fact that Canada is purchas i HU' a larger percentage of many mauufac : tared article? of us than she is of Eugland, : and the deliberations of the Ran American | Congress will undoubtedly result in new facilities of communication between the Houth American republics and the United Slates. If freight rates from New York to South America could only be reduced to the .suuie level as the rates from Liverpool our manufacturers would at once find au iucrea ed market for their manufactured poods in these sister republics. At the same time we mint ever bear iu mind that tfi. rc i no market in the world that ap proximates the value to the American pro ducer of the home market. The people of thii country, relatively speaking, consume more than the people <>f any other country. The} have the power to buy, and that in wlmt makes a valuable market. Kncourage tin- export of manufactured goods to other countries, but at the same time hold last to the home market. This is our great stronghold as a nation.—New York Press. Why It Is. The statement that out ot every hnud red men engaging iu business, but three i are successful, is u statistical chestnut which may be correct in the main, and if so, the pertinent inquiry, What is the mat i ter with the other ninety-seven? is iu or . | tier. This query, so far as it relates to | manufactures using steam power, has a partial answer. A leading firm has re ■ eently been pursuing a systematic series of investigations to determine what per centage of power actually developed was utilized in production and how much was wasted. Careful tests iu some of the most prominent manufacturing concerns in the country cave some curious results. In ( nearly every Cj.se it was found that at least fifty per cent of the power was wast ed. One large establishment wasted sixty five per cent and another seventy-three per cent, while in another, where the engine was developing sixty indicated horse power, eleven-twelfths of this accouut was wasted in friction and other useless work, nnd only live-horse power was available for purposes of manu facture. In most manufacturing enter . prises the cost of fuel is a very serious item, aud The Stationery Engineer thiuks it would appear to be well worth the time of the owners to start a little investiga tion as to what becomes of the power they pay for. Economical production and judicious utilization of steam are the begin ning and end of steam using, aud tho con ceru which pays no attention to these point i need scarcely hope to bo one of the lucky three. Made Him a Maniac, ••Where are you goiug, my pretty?" he inquired. "Should the weather indications contin ue of an auspicious character, luy intended destination is yonder iuclosure. where my unawervable determination is to extract such au amount of lacteal fluid from the distended udder of the gently ait.eulaliug ktiie us may be deemed ueceasuiy und ad visable," calmly replied the rustic girl,who had worked for two weeks iu a Boston family. Aud she passed upon her way, leasing a gibbering idiot groveling upon the ground where lately had stood a daudy drum mer." -Do yon ever look over your diction ary. Study the book and you will find it nio.t fascinating. It is said that all the library a man really needs is the Riblc, Shakespeare, lllaekstonc and a dictionary. Of the English language n lamon: writer says, ••You can find words that sob like litanies, sing like larks, sigh like zephyrs, roar like seas; words that sparkle like stars of a frosty sky, words that are sharp and precise like Alpine needle points, or heavy and rugged like nuggets of gold, words that are glitteriug and gay like imperial gem.., words that cut like a scimetar, sting like a serpen's faug or soothe like u mother's kiss." 'Tis snd to see a woman growing old be fore her time All broken-down and hopeless when life should hold its prime; She leels herself a burden when a blessing she should be Aud longs for death to bring her release from misery. It these poor, discouraged woineu who buffer from diseases peculiar to women could only know that health could be re gained by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, how eagerly they would hasten to avail themselves of it. They ought to know it. and try it. Every woman who is still healthy ought to be told about the wonderful virtue in this medicine, and understand that it ii a safe guard against the terrible diseases common to her sex. It is guaranteed to give satis faction or money paid for it will be re funded. Cleanse the liver, stomach, bowels and i whoU system by using Dr. Pierce's Pellets —ln the sea of life the saloon is the most dangerous of harbors Most of the - wrecks are of those unfortunate mariners who have gt»no too near the bar AGRICULTURAL. Tat. BBAOP MAKE AXD TOT COLT.— it has been well and truly said that the train* ■ iug and education of a young animal should begin before it is bom. This is not 1 only possible but easy. The disposition ' j and character of the progeny is most apt ' i to lie like tb.it of the mother, aud a nerv ous, vicious, rustless mare will be apt ta • , produce a similar faults This should ba tukeu into acci *|Ut now, when the unborn . colt is physically formed, aud is about to » derive its mental character from the dam, as we may say with truth; for if any of the lower animals exhibit traces of mind and reasoning power, the horse excels is ' this reßpect. Iu its nervous system, a horse approaches more cloaoly to a human 1 beiug than any other animal, and of all domestic servants, it is influenced in a greater degree by its master's treatment than any other. The management of the brood marc then, becomes an important part of the owner's business. Feeding i* but a small part of this; the most import i unt is culture ot a kind and docile dispos ition. The mare should not be overwork ed or| wearied; the whip should be put a^ide—if it is ever used, which is a grand mistake in the treatment of a horse, but is made needful at times because of the use of it upou brood mares—every gentle attention should be given aud iu every re spect the liiaio should be controlled by kindness, and difficulties carefully avoided. • If this conduct were tho rule, our horses > would be like* those of the Arabs, our ; friends aud not our slaves, and would be always willing and eagar to obey our com mands and even to anticipate them. A liorse can be taught to understand our language. If the one word, ''whoa," can be understood, other words etm -~A>nertcan Agriculturist. Henry Eshliaugh, of Missouri, a farmer, and Past Lecturer of the National Grange, i 3 dead, but his good works live after him. There is power iu organization, and inas much as other classes are thoroughly or ganised to advance their own interests Ly co-operating together,is it not the height of folly for farmers'to suppose for a moment that they can sustain themselves single hauded in an unorganized condition* Tbty are simply at the mercy of organized pow er, aud must yield obedience to the de mands of those who are orgauized, and pay the exacted tribute, just or unjust, as it may be, without recourse. Seventy-five thousand soldiers properly organized, drill ed and disciplined, will put to flight 1,000, 000 who may undertake to fight single handed aud uuorgauized. It is equally as fruitless for farmers to undertake to cope • single hauded and unorganized, with or ganized bodies in the race of life; they can not hold their own, nor sustain their rights, nor hold their equality among men uutil they, too, become as thoroughly or gauized as others with whom they deal and compete iu the a Hairs of life. This is a progressive age. .We live iu an age of progress, au age of speed aud rapid ad vaucement by steam and electricity, in au age of struggle for wealth, power and oon trol. History teaches, and experience has repeatedly demonstrated, that the class best organized makes the greatest advane ment and becomes the victor in the con tCot. Shall the American farmers remain un organized aud become eocquered by all others? Why are they not organized for their own protection? Can we not see the benefits that would naturally accrue to us through tho instrumentality of thorough organization among ourselves for mutual advantage?—Kittauuing Prets. AVIIO A! WHOA!— The Ivittanmng Press gets ofl' the following:—He is a farmer, and he don't live fifty miles from tho pretty little town ou the Cowansiianuock known as Rural Village. Lately he purchased a tractiou engine to run his thresher. It is safe to say that he had a much belter idea of driving a team than he had of guiding the "horse 3carcr," as they are sometimes properly called. One day ho started with his new vohicle to go a distance of several miles. Along the level road he got along famously. He made tracks, as it were. Finally, he came to a hill. Now a traction engine has to be coaxed to climb a steep hill. It has to be fed with plenty of coal aud urged along. It must be kept moving. Well, the engine hadn't enough of steam on to go up the hill, aud the owner thought, lie would turn on some more. He turned a handle to increase the speed, but, unfor tunately, it was the wrong way. The en gine had been doing fairly well going up the hill, but it is now discovered that it was much easier to go down, aud down it sturted, like u backing horse. The larmer did not know how to stop the "critter." It backed and backed, and increased its speed at au alarming rate. The farmer, in desperatiou, jumped off and ran along aide of the machine. "Whoa! whoa!" he shout ed —aud, strange to say, the engine stop ped at once. There are thoso who say that the stoppage was caused by it 3 back ing iuto a gutter, but the majority seemed to think think'that it was the "whoa" that stopped it. If so, it is a truly remarkable instance and little short of the marvelous. PlcKLkb AKTICHOEES— Rub oil tho out er skin, lay in salt water for a day, drain, and pour over them cold vinegar, adding prated horseradish. XASTCUIT II PICKLES— Gather the berries when full grown, put iu a pot, pour boil ing salt water over them, lot stand three or four davJ, strain and rover with spiced vinegar PICKLED CACLIFLOWER— Take good white heads in small pieces and boil in salt and water. Drain; when cold, pot in spic ed vinegar PLACU AIAN'UOEII— Remove the aone from line peaches; till with mustard seed, pouuded mace, tumeric, celery seed aud ginger Sew up aud drop in a jar ol vine gar. MA NOOKS—Put the mangoes in strong brine for six day; wash and remove the seeds. Stuff with one pound of mustard seed, quarter a pound ol ginger, half a pound of black pepper, half a teacupful ot celery seed and three ounces of mace, mix with u little oil. Pour cold vinegar over und add half a pound of salt. Press the mangoes under the vinegar and keep well covered. I'ErPEU PICKLES —Take large, green pepper l , rut out all tho seeds, soak in strong brine tor two days, stuff with chop ped cabbage and green tomatoes seasoned with spices. Sew up, place in a jar and cover with strong vinegar —Distress after eatiug and other dyspep tic symptoms are cured by Hood's Sarsap arilla —The man who makes his aanctity pat ent is apt to let it run out. —An inquisitive inquirer wants to know it a skeleton key will open a dead-lock. lt is tru& that one iwallow cannot make a spring, but one rattlesnake Call. -At thin season of the year man is in one ro3pcet like on oyster. Ha slip* down easily. NO IS