V 1, XXVII ■' It '' i 30 T?mai M ST.. • -.;•- HENRY BIEHL I! NORTII'MAIN STIiEIiT, - PE N IN' A DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing (roods. Agricultural Implements, Kramer Wagons, liiiggies, Carts, Wheel Barrows, Braromer Washing Machines, New Sunshine and Howard Banges, 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. J. R. GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB. GRIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE. NO. 16 SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER. PA. «jp-~- Solo Agents for Butler, Mercer and Clar ion counties for Behr Bros. Magnificent Pi anos. New by & Evans' Pianos, Sniith- SS American and Carpenter Organs, Importers of the Celebrated Steinmeyer Pianos, u|id 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. Come and see us, as we can save you money. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds of Musical Instruments Promptly attended to. Established 1850 E. GRIEB, THE JEWELER, No. 19, North Main St., BUTLER, PA., DEALER IN Diamonds,, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles, &c., &c. Society Emblems of all Descriptions. Repairing in all branches skillfully done and warranted. 1850 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 m SPRING GOODS. Come early as the prices we have reduc ed them to will move them rapid ly as they arejj marked very low. You w ill find some big bargains at TROUTMAN'S. Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa- THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. W. MILLER, Architect. i otilce ou S. w. « ornerof Mads ami .sprritlciilloiis lor el»**ap unJ expeo -1 sue faade «»u short nutl v. A. A. KELTY, M. D. Oltlce doora south of tbc VOR L**y House. Main St., Butler. I'a., on second lloor of het terer's buiMln ,'. K« sUlonceoD W. JelTerson St. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. MIYSICIAS ASH BX'BOKON. office at No. 45, S. Main street, over Frank « fo's DIUJC Store. lHltler. I'a. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. No. 10 vVeat Canniughum St., BUTLER, liPZENMNT'^ w. R. TITZEL. i PHYSICIAN ANI) SURGEON. s. \V. Comer Main and North Sk. IBUTLER PE-M IN - 'A. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession exeeut ed in the neatest manner. ..... Specialties :—«iold Fillings, and Painless Kx t ruction of Teetli. \ italUed Air administered. OlHrc on JfffrrtOß Street, one door East ofLonr/ House, l'p Stair*. Office o|ien daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention, X. It.—The only Deutlst in Butler u-slug tlie bc'st makes of teeth. J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office tn second iloor of i lie IJuselton block, Dlniucnd, Butler, I'a., Boom No. 1. A. T.'bC'OTr. J- I l * WILSON. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTORN'KYB-AT -LAW. i ollectlous a specialty. Office at No. 8. South Diamond. Butler. I'a. JAMES N. MOORE, AITOUNEV AT-LAW AND NOTAKV I'cui 10. Ollico In Room No. 1. second floor of Hiiselton block, entrance ou Diamond. P. W. LOWRY, ATTORNKY Al LAW. Room No. 3. Anderson Building. Butler, Pa. j A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second floor of New Anderson Block : Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Atlorney at Law, office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St., Ilutler, I'a, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and lteal Estate .\Rent. Of tlee rear ol L. /. Mitchell's office ou noith side of Diamond, Buller, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor ot Anderson building, near Court House, Itutlcr, Pa. J. b. BRITTAIN. Ally at Law -Office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Atl'y al Uw—Office on South hide of Diamond Ilutler. I'a. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Attorney-at-l.aw. Office on South side of Dia mond, ilutler, Pa. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENGINEER ANI» SURVEYOR, OKFICK NKAK DIAMOND, BCTLBU, I'A. L 8. McJUiVKIiV, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. HUTIiER, - PA. E E.ABRAMS & CO Fire and Life INSUIt A N C E Insurance Co.of North America, incor porated 170*, capital $3,000,000 und other strong companies represented. New York Life Insurance Co., assets $;»0,000,000. Office New Iluselton building near Court House. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. •i. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. VVM. CAMPBELL TUEASURKK. H. C. IIKINEMAN, SKCBKTAKY. DIRECTORS: J. I. Purvis, rtamuel Anderson, William Campbell J. W. liurkliart. A. Troutman. Henderson Oliver, fi. C. Roessluij, James Stephenson, Dr. VV. Irvin, Henry WhltnUre. J. P. Taylor. U. C. Helneinan, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't. BUTLER, IPA. BARGAINS IN Wall Paper. For the next sixty days we will offer bargains in all our gilt and embossed wall papers, in order to reduce stock ami make room for Holiday (roods. J. H. Douglass, Near Postollice, Butler Pa Advbftige ir 'bo CITIZEN THE PEOPLE WANT THEM! lIUSELTONj HAS GOT THEM! The Good Qualities of Our Boots and Shoes Bring Ex pressions ol Delight from the Thousands of Homes W here Their Merits Are Known !!! Tbc father is delighted over tLe j lesseued bills for lioots and Shoes. | The children were active and wore out their fhoes so rapidly until Huselton's Shoes Were Tried I The mother is t;lad to add her word of praise, for the children find all the | family are to much better pleased since they nso llnselton's boots und j shoes that now Nothing Else will Fill the Bill We are having a great run on our Women's Genuine I>ongola Flexible Button Boots at 81.25, $1.50 and $2. j ! These are beauties and canuot be ; matched for style aud wear in other houses at 50 cents a pair advance on ; our price. gjgr°See our Women's SI.OO Uut tou Boots. Nothing in the town to equal then). The Ladies' Hand-Turued Button Boots—we have the stock to select from, and the ladies know it. '1 hoy all go to lluselton's for fine, good fitting shoes. Stock larger this spring than ever. Trade demands it So we have it at ull prices and in all shapes, widths, etc., from A A to hh, tipped or plain. Our line of Ladies' and Children's Oxfords and Slippers are simply grand. The combinations in fancy colors in trimmings are immense, and at vtry low prices. Stock exceeding ; ly large. Look them over. Ladies', Misses' and Children's J Spring-Heel Shoes in great variety j in black and fancy colors. They are beauties! \ Men's Brogans and Plow Shoes at 75c. to $1 and $1 25. All solid, fine i Shoes at sl—not shoddy, seamless | tip bals. Klegaut—sl.2s, $1.50 and $2 get you the finest in the laud for the price. You can bay Men's ! Genuine Calf Shoes at $1.25 and a dandy at $2. Come and see! Our Infants' and Children's Shoes ! are lower in price than ever. Now lines added. See OIK new l>ongolas at 50c., patent tip and v.ery fine; 5-8, S-l 1 solid at 75c ; these are very line. ' Infants' 10 25 cents and up. Chil- < drcn's School Shoes, heavy, 50,'. t'> SI.OO Women's Heavy Shoes at 75c. to sl, all solid. Boys' aud Youths' Shoes, high cut, spring-heel, or heel, $1 to $2 in button or bals. WE PLEASE ALL THE BOYS! We Don't Soli Any Old, Kusty Job Lots, Auction Goods, or Sample Lots, but All Straight, Regular Goods at Same Price to All! New, Fresh Spring Stoek now coming. Come and fee us. It will pay you. B. C. HUSELTON. No. 1, N. Main St., Butler, Pa Business Change. THE FIRM FORMERLY CALL ED J. ,t B. KEMPER HAS NOW CHANGED TO Fa. KEMPER, A GOOD. COMPETENT AND EX PERIENCED HARNESS MAK ER. THE BUSINESS WILL BE CARRIED ON AT THE SAME PLACE AND IN THE SAME MANNER AS USUAL THE BEST OAK-TANNED LEATHER WILL BE USED, AND 1 WILL ALWAYS HAVE ON HANDS A FULL ASSORTMENT OF FINE AND HEAVY HARNESS, COLLARS, BLANKETS, ROBES, WHIPS AND EVERYTHING GENER ALLY TO BE HAD IN A NO. 1 HARNESS STORE. ALL OR DERS WILL BE KINDLY AC CEPTED AND MADE ON SHORT NOTICE. ALL RE PAIRING DONE PROMPTLY AND PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. ALL CUSTOMERS TO THE OLD FIRM, AND ALL IN GENERAL ARE RESPECTFULLY INVIT- E1 >TOC AL L AN D EX A MIN E. Fr. KEMPER. Christmas Goods for Everybody. I A splendid line of fancy and use ful articles of every description. Match safeß—in brass, nickel, cel luloid, oxidized silver and rubber. Toilet cases,manicure sets, shaving sets, gloves and handkorchiof boxes in leather and plush. Odor cases in leather, plush and celluloid. Smoker's Bets, vases, per fume stands, and un endless variety j jof fine goods, which must be ateu to Ibo appreciated. All finer, nicer and cheaper than ever before. The pub- I lie is invited to call at REDIUK'S I Drugstore, next to Lowry HOUFC. ; Examine our goods and get our ; prices. FOIt SALE! J will sell my house and lot on W. Pearl Ht. The lot has a frontage of ,- looking i lair someliodyr"' The man who had been addre • ed- a goodly-looking \ouug fellow. wearing a ' tostly overcoat, and bearing in lo hand ft traveling bug—turned in thn word, were | -pokm ami saw behind him a heavily ! built, elderly man of the farmer sort, who : i arrieil i» hi-; hand a long whip, and wore a brood-brimmed felt hat well pulled over I his eyebrows. "Am I looking f«»r someliodyt" he ie | pcited. "Yes, sir. I'm looking for Mr. Mark Mcllisb. lio was to meet me here j and take me down to his place. I've been j walking that station platform for a lull I hour, and as the sun is pom;; down and 1 ! have no idea where I am and I—" Here he paused, evidently thinking it j be t not to utter the remainder of his sen tenec. i 'Melli.li had good reasons l'or wanting !t, >ee me," he added "I'm beginning to ! think that he neyer got my telegram Have yon a hotel or tavern hereabout?" ••Nothing but the boarding hon.se at the mine--," said the farmer "and when you've gnt there jou are at Mellish's. lint if you're Mr. .V< I son Noble, then—" "I am," interposed the Ruling niun Then," proceeded the farmer, "I've come to letch you, and you haven't any need of a hotel." •'Good," cried young Noble, 'this great, grand, stony country of yours, with its bald hills and nothing growing, gives a man trom Connecticut a leeling of having got into the giants' country an Jaek-of-tbc- Iteanstalk did. Your depot master trotted home awhile ago, saying that there were no more trains until to morrow, and it is goiug to be a deucedly gloomy night. The idea of spending it here was unpleasant— in fact 1 was getting nervous over it when you spoke to me." " And yon couldn't be among hone.iter people." ->aid the farmer: " 'li u'l like your big cities, where there is robbers, and bunko men, and pick pickets, as I've heard tell, and traps set for you everywhere. \ ou'll find every tnnu a brother here." "Very likely," replied Noble, with a laugh; "however, I'm glad you eauic lor me, Mr. ''Smith, you can call me," said the old man, "and we might as well be oil'; my wagou is ill the holler there. The horse is acting queer, and I wouldn't give liini the pull up-hill. Any baggage, Mr. Noble?" "Only this," answered Noble, with a I swing of the traveling bag. "I'm only go ing to stay over liigllt," and lie followed Mr. Smith over the rocky road and dowu a steep slope until they reached the spot, where a cover-wagon, drawn by a bony old white horse, stood waiting. "Yon bit iii:>ide out of the draught," said Smith, "scein' you've g>>t chilled at the depot. The wind is kinder keen." "Thank you," Noble answered, and shortly finding the old 111:01 indisposed to talking, he fell asleep under the dingy canopy, and slept until the -uddeii stop ping of the wagon aud loud .bouts from the driver aroused him. "What's the matter?" he cried, thrusting his head through a rift in the awning, aud from the shadow beyond for night had fallen while he slept—Smith's rough voice replied: . "Darn it all. the bore has done it at last, lie's dead as a door nail, and you can't get to the mines to night, stranger, nohow you can tix it." "Let ine look at the animal,' aid Noble. "Perhaps lie's not dead." "1 know more about horses than yon do," said Smith, "if you'll excuse my say ing it. I'll have to ask you to slop at my place to-night. I'll borrow a team to morrow and take you up to Mellish's." "Von are very good," said Noble. "Per sonally, I'm not in haste, bill Mr. Mellish had good reasons for wishing to sec me to night; he should have sent a better horse for me." "tih, that's my horse," laid the farmer, laughing. "He gave me the job to fetch you. Guess be had reasons for not sending folks from his pliuv. Well, losses are to be expected,l suppose. This way, stranger; I'll take hold of yon. I know the way in the dark." And shortly Noble l'ouud himself emerging from the darkness of the starless night into a little area of yellow light that fell from a lantern swinging before the porch ol a shabby looking house. As Smith, with the freedom of the owner of the place, flung open the door, Noble caught sight of the figure of a girl of seven teen, who sat crouched upon the hearth be fore a blazing lire. The girl was a handsome creature; and as she sprung lightly and alertly to her feet Noble saw that she owed nothing to the as sistance ol dress. Her hair was cut short like a boy's; her dress was a faded calico, made without regard to the fashion;aud her shoes were the roughest specimens of the of the cobbler's art. She stood in the blaze of the firelight and looked at them with great dark eyes that reminded Noble of Iho-e of a iitflg at bay. "Brought home company, Middy,'' : ; aiil the man, with au air of jollity. "Set sup per as soon as ye can, for we're starved. Mighty plain doiu's you'll find here, stranger; but you'll have to tand it." Then ho marched out of the room. Noble sat down upon a splint bottomed chair near the lire, and looked at the girl. She stood staring at him. Evidently the advent of a stranger had alarmed her. A curious feeling ol awkwardness came over the young man. Middy, a her futher bad called her, was too old to be spoken to caressingly, as though she were a child, and too uninformed to greet him as woman would. He compromised the matter by smiling; in return she frowned. "I am afraid I intrude," said the young niun, gently.. "Well," said the girl, "if truth is to be told, 1 don't want you here. Why don't you go on up to Mellish's? Your legs seem long enough to walk it. You'd get a de cent supper there. I could tell you how to fc'°" The idea that the girl was half witted occurred to Noble. "Oil, I'll go early to morrow, Middv," lie said jestingly. "For my part, answered Middy, "i wouldn't si ay at all where 1 wasn't want ed." "The prettiest idiot thai I ever saw." thought Noble He turned toward the lire and began to | stir the coals with a long poker. Mean time lie kept his traveling bag between his feet. Heavy steps were heard going about overhead. The girl begun to rt the table. Soon she said: "You'll have to move. I'm going to cook." Then lie left the ft reside and walked to the window, carrying his hag with him. " V"U haven't a bit of pride," she said, 'or you'd get out of a place where your very victuals are begrudged you. There's I he door, ami straight along the footpath is the road. Go to the left and keep 011 to Mellish's May he they want yon there." Just then the feet of the elderly man were heard upon the rough steps that led from the garret, ami he appeared luilin • ••I've fixed you 11(1 a bnnk, stranger." Aid ho. j»» 'au put up with ii i fur »ni' night ! •Toil MS TIIJ ki■!•). -aid Ni'lili'. "I 111 afraid 1 am giving you trouble." "Not a hit «>f It." replied Smith. 1 i jmi into thi.l fix through the horse dying— I'm bouud to :-t e yon out of it." Noble Junchwl. The ohl man -at down near the table, to j which he summoned his guest when the | luenl was ready; and shortly a young man ; came in, nodded and took his seat. '•My soli, stranger." -aid Smith, as he | ilid so. ltnt all Noble's efforts to make talk wore fruitless, and soon aft<-r supper | lie decided to go to bed. "All right. Karly to bed i -itl to b«> ! good for folks," remarked the elder man. lie lighted a candle, and preceded his ; guest up stairs. A hammock swung be tween two beams; a couple of blankets and a pillow were arranged in it. The broken window let in the damp night air. Bunches of herbs ami ropes of onions dangled from the hooks in the beams. "Sleep well." said tlu- old man ami de scended the stairs again. Noble placed his portmanteau under the pillow of the hammock and sat down ou un old box. He was vexed by not having remin d tin- mines that night, for his mi ion was to bring a sum of money, which Mellish had borrowed at en\v inter. ' to tide-over a season of trouble. It was in small bills, and the men were to have been paid from it at sunset. Its delay might cause something like a riot. It was not hi- fault, but it was annoying, all the same. "Tho best thing 1 can do is to sleep and forget it." bo said, ami had pulled off his cravat and collar, when a whisper fell upon his ear: "Conie here," said a voice—'"come to the window!" and he saw. appearing mys teriously at the broken pane, the girl's brown lace ami great, deer like eyes. "Conic softly," she said ••come quick!" He went to her. She had climbed upon a shed beneath the window, and tooil with her chin on a level with the sill. "Well. Middy," he said, fancying this only another outcome of a lock of pood sen >e, "there you arc, eh.'" "Yes, I'm here," said the girl iu a whis per. "Hilt the ."a h and put your head out." He obeyed. • | want you to come down and go with inc. "I'll show you where the Mcllishes live. Come 1 want you to." "I'll go iu tho morning, Middy," aid N'oble. "Morning, aid the girl, "will lie too late. I'm not foolish; I'm talking sense. Your name is Noble, isn't It?" "Yes," said the young man. "You've got a 10l of money in that bag." said the girl. "What makes you Iliiuk so?" a ked No ble, carelessly. "I've heard them talking about you." said tho girl—"uncle mid Sam." "Oh, they're mistaken, Middy" aid No ble, carelessly. "Mr. Noble," said the girl,. "I'm risking iny life to tell yon this, t'nele and Sam are all I've got, and many a dishonest tiling I've heard, that makes me ick to think ot, I've held my tongue about. Hut this is the lirst murder they've planned to to do." "Murder!" gasped Noble. "Tlicy know all about you," said Middy. "Last wo ;k they robbed the mail; they've done that before; bill this time they got a letter from you. and know just what you've got there—" and slu; named tho sum correctly. "Then undo got yonr tel egram, offering to take it to Uic Melli.shcs. So he knew that you were coming—Mr. Mellish didn't. There was no accident; the horse isn't dead: that was nil a trick; Sam took him home. It was just to get yon here. .After awhile uncle will come up to give you some hot drink—it's full of lamliimnn—don't take it— pretend to. "When yon are .sound asleep Sain and un cle mean to kill you, and bury you, and keep the money. There! I swear it." "Great heaven! is it possible!" gasped Noble. "Oh, iny Hod, it is!" -sighed Middy. l're tend to drink tho stuff; then, when he is gone, climb out of the window; I'll wait for you below. Will you?" "Yes," said Noble. lie stared at her, halt lieliiving her, half fancying her mad, and, with a motion of her hand, she disappeared from the win dow. A moment more and Smith came up -fairs, with a teaming glass in hi hand A night-cap, stranger," lie said. "Tliauk you," said Noble. "Jut what I was wishing for. Can you give me some thing to make my pillow higher? I can't sleep with uiy head low." Suiitb grunted and went to the farther corner, where some old garments hung. As he turned his buck Noble emptied the glass ont of the window. "The right kind of stuff," lie said. •Thank yon." Then Smith went (lowii the stair.-, and on the instant Noble with his portmanteau sluug over hi. shoulder was ont upon tho shed. As he dropped to the ground a girl's hand caught his wrist, and he was hurried away toward a road which lay like a gray ribbon amid the darkness of rock and stunted bush. Not a word was spoken, not a moment was lost. At last the roaring of a rapid stream was heard, and they crossed a bridge. After that the stunted pines grew thick er, the road ascended, a lew houses ap peared; a large one of sumo pretentious, in the windows of which lights were glow ing, was visible upon an elevation. "That's MellishV said the girl, "fio and ring tho bell, and get in as quick as you can." She uttered this between quick gasps, for the pace had been too rapid for a wo man, and she was spent. "And you—you must come with me — you can't go back to those wretches!" No ble said. "Wretches!" repeated the girl. "Why they're not wretches title's; an honest man. Sam's another. I've been stuffing voi\ with lies, stranger, to get rid of you. { didn't want you bothering round. I've made a fool of you—l just like to fool city fellows. Nobody was going to hurt. yon. Good night, you goosy gander!" She was off, laughing as she rau, and Noble walked up to the house in a tale of ii'tcr bewilderment. Was the girl speaking the truth now, or had she spoken it beneath the window,' The surprise of the Melli.shes at his ..i rival, and the fact that they had not »'c ceived either letter or telegram made him night he held his peace. Time enough he thought, to tell his tale in the morning. That night he dreamed of Middy. Her doer-like gaze was upon him, her hands uplifted in supplication; and he awakened to think of her. The tinkle of fho break fast-bell took him down stairs with his tuiud still full of her. and through the day which ho spent at the mines she still haunted him. It was 3 o'clock when a horseman ri-'e up to the door with horror in his fact* • Terrible v <>rk ov. r yonder!" be nai l pointing toward thf valley '-That pirl at the SmithV. Middy. hi : nie.. ->• a mnr deied 1.1 tiii eh I Ttiey found her 011 the kitchen floor, a horrible -killed with un ax, tin ;. and old Smith and im are nowheie to l»e found ' ' They have murdered her' eried Noble. For now he knew hru warning had been an honest one, and thfit -lie had paid for savinp his life with her own: and now he told his tale. Jiidfe I.yueb ruled in that land in tho day, and I don t think it proper to hold a session of Con gross on that day." "I'shaw," responded Buller, "doesn't | the Bible ay that it is lawful to pull your j a • or your o>: nnf of a pit on the Sabbath dm? You have 73 as es on your side of thij lion ■(■ that I want to out of a ditch t.. morrow, and I think 1 am engaged in a holy work." "Ooji'ldoit. Bnllf-r," replied Kandall; "I have some respect for yon that I don't want to lose. I expect onie day to meet you iu a better world." ••You'll be there as you are here," rr j torted Duller, quick as thought, "u mem- \ her of the Lower Hone." 2 \ O'clock. The i : agitating the ! propriety of changing our present custom ! of dividing the the day into two halves, of j twelve hours each. It says the custom | has not a single feature to recommend it I and only serves to mystify, particularly j when a typographical error makes a train . leave at p.m. instead of a.m. Thousands of dollars have been lost, time wasted and engagement. failed because of this, where as, if the sensible plan of beginning at one aud counting up to 21, were adopted, it is so simple that a child need not go wrong. Of course if would take a little while to get used to the change and i' would noauil rather odd at llrst to hear the preacher an nouuee services at t!) o'clock, or see a time table note the departure of trains at 17:10 or li3:iio, but the people would soon "catch on" and any amount of worry,trou ble and misunderstanding be saved. Some countries aud several lines of railroads have already made the change and welook to see the practice become universal be fore long. The world moves and any thing that will help it move with less fric tion will bo gladlv accepted by the peo- Wriling Short Sentences. Two students, Smith and Jones, were great friends iu college. They had made an agreement that after eai li had been at home for a week during the vacation term, Jones should write in Latin a letter to Smith, the reply was to be in Latin also. The writer who wrote a good sensible let tcr, with the least number of words, was to have the entire expon eof his \ icaliou paid by the other. Jones wrote from his city residence: "Ell Ut'RK," meaning iu Kuglish "I am going to the country. "If Smith writes a shorter letter thau that and to the point," chuckled Jones, "he's a corker." The next day Smith's came. It read as billows: "I," which means in English "go." The Curse of Strong Drink. The distillers make the whiskey and the brewers make the beer. Our Creator made the water o pure and bright anil clear. Whiskey is like arsenic and beer like fer merited swill. But the pure sweet crystal water iloweth ou aud always will. Why should lncu spend ilicir money that is so hard to eui n, For the wicked, writhing serpent that will bite and sting and burn. We are immortal creatures with body, soul and mind. Why should men drink the vile stntl' lli.af makes theni so unkind? That big listed saloon keeper that stand • behind the bar, lie takes a driuk. and strikes a match, and lights a big cigar. In comes the wretched worker with his solitary shilling. And gives it to the bartender while he the glass is filling, lie begrudges the landlord his iiinncj with stove-pipe lutt and cane. While he drinks down the liquor lode itroy bis soul and brain, lie then demands another then staggers and sits down. He pours him out another of the poison reddish brown. He is gettiug very drunk as he drink.; it sup by sup. As he drinks the red brown liquor he drinks curses lroui the cup, With cursing and with swearing lie stag gers to his feet. Then falls to the floor and is kicked to the street. The patrol wagon is summoned, he'.- dead drunk they say. Now lie's off to tho jail that is not far away. To spend a night ill prison what a horrid, wretched thing. If you drink the poison whisky, that's the curses it will bring. But there is a time that's coming when the punishment is worse. For there is no earthly mind we know can comprehend that curse. Thero is a passage ill the Bible which the drunkard never liecds. No drunkard shall see t'.od is. I think, the way it reads. If this industrious nation would try to do j Ood's will. Thai drop would cease it dropping that I droppeth from tho still. Composed by WILI.IKT. MCCANDLKSS, Age, H yeal'S. —Tbc rin'it thing in the right place is without doubt l»r. Bull's liaby Syrup, the j best remedy lor babies while teething j Only !ifi cents a botlle. If your liver is torpid, if your appetite i* ) poor, if you want your stomach thorough ly cleansed, it you cannot uleep, if you want a good digestion, use Laxador, the great regulator. Price 2."i cents - Mrs. Charlotte Smith is urging con gresb to tn* cigarette-' il a pack. A Wayward Girl's Career. Tin- saliii.i ■ orrc pond<-ut of the Oft rick ; »i»«>.. a brief biography of Auitic Fish, as i follow Annie K Fish üb«, la]e and Win. Mu- .er, about Oiie mile out of Oil i'ity, near the Hale well.-, in a eeuiingly uuconscious i omlition. Sir. Hale took her to his home in Oil City, where she toll a number of conflicting storie She -aid that she was an orphan, giving her name as Hollie Lee. that she had left her brother's at Red bank. Armstrong county, three days before, and that she was put oft the Valley train at Franklin, and had wandered through the country for three days, without anything to cat. She pretended -he did not know how she came to bo where she was In a day or two -he was identified by a lady lor whom she had worked, she denied her identity, lint finally had to give up and I confessed she wa- planning. Her father was notified. She claimed to be unable to he moved whin he came for her. Soon afterward fhe went home and promised to do better. She remained at home most of the time until April, I.HStI, when he again rail away from home, going to Oil City where .he tmil a few day .'. Going out into the country near her home, sho found em ployment with a family, giving licr name as Ida Blair. In two days her right name was found out when she unceremoniously left, she next turned up it I'niontown near Franklin, giving tu-r name .. Donna Harris to the family where sho was work ing. When her true name was found out he left in company with another girl and went !<■ Parker- Landing. Armstrong county,and worked there about four weeks. One evening she and another girl went buggy riding with J. 11. Knntz and Will Llliott, buggy agents, and returned be tween in and II o'clock the same evening. The next morning she h it and was .-ecu by different parties going towards Six Points, Littler comity. In a day or two afterwards he was fonnd apparently unconscious near Ihc old Maple Furnace. She was taken to tho house of Klias Paubeu-peek, near by, anil gave her name as Ada Seatoii, that he was horn in Pittsburg and that her mother died there, her father removing to Cleveland where he died. Sho then went before a justice of the peace and swore out warrant against Kuntz and Klliott lor a—suit with attempt to commit rape. She claimed she had never been ba« k to Parker iucc going out liiling with them.and thi story she repeat id in open court. The friends of Kuntz end Klliott knew who she was and xvhere from, and had her father, brother and several neighbors to identify her, but she denied all knowledge of them and stuck to her story. The two young men were found not guilty but to pay the costs, amounting Willi other expenses anil loss to over SI,OUII. While in Hntler her father had Annie arre led and a commitment made out to i.end her to the reform school, but he left for home an attorney got out a writ of habeus corpus and had her released. She then went to Martinsburg. Butler county, staying there until about the first of .lan nary, when for some misbehavior she left' and went home to her father's. In Feb ruary she went to work in the family of Win. Krenger, who keeps a store half a mile we-t of Salina. She staid there nine days, then skipped, lirst taking a full out lit of men's clothing from the store. At Franklin she got on a freight train anil went to Pitt-burg, dn -.d in men's clothes. There she stayed oil' as a green country hoy and was employed by a lady about her house. She gave herself away by her apt ness in the kitchen and was given an outfit of clothes, and next morning was found lying unconscious iu the hallway and was removed to the hospital. She appears to have the power to bring on these periods of apparent uni on . iousne whenever she please i and keep them up for day at a time. She. claims t«> have been mistreated and abused at home, but no such report is current in the neighborhood where her father live; lie is a hard working, poor man. and was lelt with several -mall chil dren at the death of his wife. Fasting. A Frenchman. M ('baric.- lliehet, has been investigating eases of long lasting , voluntary and involuntary. Cold blooded animals can live without food twice as long as warm blood cd ones. Hogs can endure starvation thir ty days before they die, human beings us ually sixteen to twenty day The fatal limit is reached when the animal or man becomes o emaciated that 10 per cent, of weight is lost. Those who endure long fasts with impu nity are usually person dominated by some absorbing idea which takes away the thought from the stomach. The most met ed tasters are hysterical subjects and Hindoo fakirs. It. is remarkable that ill these cases the emaciation is comparative ly slight. Some other other influence seems to step in for the time and stop the usual operations of the body. M. Hichet see no reason to doubt that Tanner. Merlatti, and Succi fasted the full fifty days, as they claim, hut says their fasts were undertaken under most favorable circumstances. They had only to put forth their band and eat ai any moment. It would have been different had they been shipwrecked on a desert island, or perish ing in iee fields, like a party found in ISOJ>. These were without food seventeen days. When found their skin was ticking to the bones, and was covered with a ooty seuri. Their tongues were black, their breaths fetid. This iekening odor iiiitl blackuc .of the skin and tongue are char j aetcri lie of the last tages of tarvation A Cure of Catarrh ill the head, a Well as ill bronchial, throat and lung diseases, if taken iu time, is elici ted by using Hi. Pierce's Hidden Med ieal Discovery, or money paid for it will be promptly returned. A more pleasaut physic Vim never will find Than Pierce's small "Pellets,'' The Purgative kind I [ ~ I AGRICULTUI ji . mW BAT IS A MODEL KIKE' \ model wife is the Woman in «h«ni the heart of hei hu baud doth -afely troat. She U ihe Wouiau who looks after iiu hon ehold, and makes her hospitality * delight to him, and not a burden. Who has learned that a soft answer will turn away wrath. Who keeps her sweetest smile 3 and most loving words for her hnsbmd. Who is his confident in soriow or in joy, and who does not feel the necessity of explaining her private ull'*ir» to ttw neig borhood. Who n -peels the rights of husband and children.and in return has due regard paid j to her. AVho knows that the strongest argument is her womanline- •• and so she cultivates it. AV ho i ■ sympathetic ill joy, or in grief, ami who finds work for her hands to do. Who makes friends and keeps them. A\ ho i- not made bitter by trouble, but who strengthens and - weetens under it. Who triei to conceal tlie faults of her • husband rather than blazon them forth to an uninterested public. The woman whose life book has lova written on every page. Who makes a home tor a man—a home in a house and in a heart. A home that he is sure of. a home that is full of love presided over by one whose price is above rubies. She is the model wife. Ladirs' Home Journal. THE PoriTKV TAKD As spring coiues on anxietv increases. That is. poultry anxiety. The matings must bo watched that no admixture of the (locks occurs. The breeding peus must have special at tentiou to to insure the best results. The eggs to be used or sent away to pur chasers must be carefully assorted. That none but the finest shaped, correct I color and uniform shell he selected. That the nests he gotten in condition a? best adapted for hatching in comfort ar.d wariiTttr. - disturbance from other hens,rats ami other intruder-. That the coops be ready when the chicks make their appearance, and they be warm, comfortable and roomy. In short, that all l>e ready iu every de tail to make the poultry business a success from a spring standpoint. There seems to he much controversy I among poultrymen a i to whether oyster shells, or lime, is u necessity to laying hens. | Some say they must ha\e it. others say ! they need it not. The real fact Ib, they need it and ought to have it. It is not a definite fact whether grit iu the foriu of oyster shells, gravel, bone, or broken crockery is digested in the fowl's gizzard or not. but the, fact remains all the same that a fowl's nature demand.) these things, and because no proof has yet been brought forth that they are not digested is evidence that nature requires them. It is true, where a proper amonut ot wheat and oats is fed these supply the cal careous and phosphate elements essential to egg formation, but where these foods are not fed sufficiently the salts must be supplied from some source. Corn will uol answer sufficiently. Some wonlil-be theorizers also claim that fowl ■ inn t have meat; but then they can't agree whether it is best fed raw or cooked. Some declare that raw meat makes (lie birds cro and irritable and is apt to ere ate the desire for feather pulling, and should therefore be fed cooked. The other ide claims cooking destroys the alhumi noiils and other nutritive elements and il must be led raw. Now what are we to do when both sides claim they are rightf I suppose cooking just half, or soak in water at half boiling point (100 degrees) and give meat and water together would come very near the mark. Xext. Right here it comes A recent poulterer of a scientific turn of mind says: "Pepsin is the great stimulant to digestion. We find it in all patent egg foods. Popsin is found iu the corrugated membranous lin ing of the stomach ot cattle. Hcneo in or der to feed the most stimulating meat food use the paunches of cattle, which can be purchased at any slaughter house." This profound thinker just cuts short the meat question ami says stomach is the thing. Hut he didn't mention whether il is to he cooked or raw. This again will create controversy. IIEMKUBKR THESE I'oIXTS. Hi- probable that most of the breeding pens are made up. If there are, see that these points are ob erved. if not. observe them in mating Houilanj must all have live toes on each fool, and beard and horned comb. White Leghorns must not have red leather - nor pink iu ear lobes, nor white legs. Partridge Cochins shall not have white in leg and toe feathering, nor white in flight feathers. Langshans must be absolutely free from white feathers, and the eyes must not be I red, but brown of hazel. lilack Cochins must show yellow ou bot tom of feet. If this is not present they are to be discarded as breeders. Leg and toe feathering well developed out to end of middle toe. Light Hralima males .should have ailark streak throngh the middle to the end cd the upper mandible. Lower inaudible solid yellow. Leg and toe feathering to end of middle toe and showing little or no black. Legs yellow, or yellow with vcr milieu streak down the center of tlio side. Wyandots must have red car lobes. A • tain of yellow is allowable, but uot stand aril, white disqualifies. Legs yellow with out blue spots, aud beak horn color taper ing to yellow toward the point. Plymoth Rocks must have pure yellow beaks and yellow legs, or yellow with pink line down centre of side in male. No bine or brown spots on legs. \ clear complexion, free from pimple -, may lie had by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. A young lady asked an editor this ex traordinary question: "Ho you think it right for a girl to sit on a young man's lap, even if she is engaged?" Whereupon tho editor told this extraordinary lie: "Wo have bad no experience in the matter re (erred lo." Why didn't the editor say,if it w a our girl und onr lap, yes; if it was an other girl and our lap, yes; but if it was our j'irl and another fellow's lap, never! never! That's the best advice wo can give. Whilo there is no hociety law governing such cases, practice has made a law which gov erns all such instances as the above. \ u c. teemed coiitemporay says that -pring bonnets will be almost flat. They will, will they* Well, they won't be any Halter than tb* pocketbook that, has lo pay tor thetu. NO 19 e