XXVII "TSiig pf& il 90 GAIN ST ')■< HENRY BIEHL 14 NORTH MAIN STRKKT, BUTLER - F.ffJSI JSI'A DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing Goods. Agricultural Implements, Kramer Wagons, Buggies, Carts, "Wheel Barrows, Braiuiner Washing Machines, New Sunshine and Howard Ranges, Stoves, Table and pocket Cutlery, Hanging Lamps. Man ufacturer of Tinware, Tin Boofing and Spouting A Specialty. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN. 1850 Established 1850 E.GRIEB, THE JEWELER, No. 19, North Main St., BUTLER, PA.. DEALER IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jgwslry, Silverware, Spectacles, &c., &c. Society Emblems of all Descriptions. Repairing in all branches skillfully done and warranted. 1860 ESTABLISHED 1850 il—l - . . .. ,1 JL - THIS WEEK, | And for the next 30 days we shall con tinue to clear our shelves of Winter Goods to make room for NEW SPRING GOODS. Come early as the prices we have reduc ed them to will move them rapid ly as they are marked very low. You will find some big bargains at TROUTMAN'S. Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa* GREAT ~ " REDUCTION AT J. R. GREIB'S, No. 10 South Main St., - 13utler» 3?a. In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, And Spectacles. Repairing Promptly Attended To. SIGN OF ELECTRIC BELL. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. W. MILLER, A rchilccl. (Hiiotf 011 W. < 'oi'iitT ol Biaiuuuii. PI aos ;ujl 111; Store, Rutler. IM. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. Wo. 10 West Cunningham St., ! BUTLEJR, ZE^JSTIN'.A I W. H. TITZEL. ! PHYSICIAN AN " SURGEON. S. W.Corner Main mid Noilli Sis. , ±3 U Tlliß3r6 IP-EJN JST' A. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to tlie profession. execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties :-»iold Fillings, and Painless Lx traction of Teeth. Vitalized Air administered. OITIrr OB J< ITi rsnn Street, one door Faut ot I.owrj House, i'p stair*. Office open daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention, jf. 8.-The only Dentist In ltutlcr using I lie best makes of teeth. J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY at la W. Ofllee on second floor of the Huseiton block, Diamond, Hutler, Pa., Boom No. I. A. T. SCOTT. WILSON. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTORNEYS-AT LAW. Collections n specialty, omce at No. 8, South Diamond, Butler. Fa. JAMES N. MOORE, Attoknkt-AT-LAW ANI> N'OTARV I'l BLIC. office in Room No. 1. second floor of Huseiton Block, entrance on Diamond. P. W. LOWRY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Room No. 3. Anderson Building:. Butler, Pa. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY at LAW. Office on second floor of New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. lli A McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law, Oftl«*e at. No. 17, Kast Jelli-r- SOII St.. Hutler. l'a, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent, of flee rear of L. Z. Mlt< hell's office 011 north side ol Diamond, Butler, Fa. H. IL GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor of Anderson building, near Court House, Butler, Fa. J. F. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—Office at S. K. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, l'a. NEWTON BLACK. Ally at Law -Office on South side of Diamond Butler, Pa. JOHN M. RUSSELL, Atlorney-at-l.aw. Office on South side of Dia mond, Buller, Fa. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENUIKKEK ANI) SI KVEYOR, OFPICK NKAit DIAMOND. RLTI.BR, FA. ( LS. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Kcal Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. E. E. ABRAMS & CO Fire and Life 1 N S IJ It AN C E I neurancv Co. of North America, incor porated 179*, capital $3,000,000 and other (•tronif compiiaies represented. New York Life Insurance Co., assets $'.10,000,000. Office New Huseiton building near Court House. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. Oh C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL TREASURER. 11. C. lIEINEMAN, SKCRETARY. DIRECTORS: J. L Purvis, Samuel Anderson, William Campbell .1. W. Burklnirt. A. Troutman, Henderson Oliver, (J.C. Roessing, .lamest Stepheusoii, Dr. W. lrvin, Henry Wbltinlre. J. E. Taylor H. C. Heine man, LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't. BTTT.LBR, HP-A.. FOR SALE! 1 will sell my house and lot on W. Pearl St. The lot lias a Irontagc of tiO feet oil W* I'earl, and the house contains four rooms, with a good cellar. For particulars inquire of ine at 115 W. Pearl St., Duller, Pa. MRS E. J. IFFT. J. E. Kastor, Practical Slate l{oufer Ornamental and Plain Slating kindsfdone on short notice. Office with W. If. Morris, JNo. 7, N. Main St,, Residence North Kim street, I»utler, Pn. THE BROOK. Through lovolv wood and sleeping dal<- Street murui'ring, a - when vernal gab Float through the greening tree , Flow ) soft and mild, a lovely ight. Fanned by the airy breeze Between their hank in dreamy bIK; Tins waves their glorious tlowrets k: That gently, gently, wave. ' lu breaking winds tlie flower, sleep. The floating waves watch o'er fheni keep. And smiling sweetly, lave. j At evening's dawn, in crimson I'ohl. ; The purple web of clouds ami gold Across the heavens flows. The moon, a silvery flowing gem. ! Floods bright the skies, or lights the hem. I if waves that gleam like snows. j The stars like daughters of the hour. I Gleam bright upon their azure bower 1 The moon before the stud. The uft waves glow, the grand light float.; : On blazing waves, while softened note Fleet o'er the silvery flood. j Ah' In some tranquil cheerful nook • if Life's fine blazing changeful brook My skill I calmly turn, | And* listen to the balmy igh . | That but iu moonlit lives arise, j Caressing while they burn .We'l:l'lt Iv Sl EHLfc , UNDER THE UON'S PAW. I. It was the lust ol autumn and the fir.-t | day of winter coming together. All day j long the plowmen on their farms had niov jej to and fro on their wide, level fields j through the falling snow. whii h mulled as | it fell, wetting them to the skin —all day. ] notwithstanding the frequent . quails of j snow, the dripping, desolate clouds, and j the muck of the furrows, black and lenac iotlA as tar. I'mler their dripping harness the hoi e.) I swung to and fro silently, with that uiar | velons, uncomplaining patience whiih marks the horse. All day the wild geese, honking wildly as they sprawled eide-wiso down the wind, seemed to be fleeing from I at: enemy behind, with neck out-thrust i and winj' extended, sailed down the wind, j soon lost to sight. Vet the plowman behind his plow,though the snow lay on his ragged great-coat, and the cold, clinging mud rose on his heavy boots, lettering biin like bim gyves, w til - led iu the very beard of the gale. Vs they passed, the snow, ceasing to melt, lay along the plowed land lodged in the depth of the stubble, till on each slow round the la. t furrow stood out black und shining as jet between the plowed laud and the gra\ stubble. Arhen night began to fall, and the geese, llying low, began to alight invisibly in the near cornfield, Stephen Council was at work "finishing a land." lie rode, on his sulk}' plow when going with the wind, luif walked wheu facing it. Sitting bent and cold but cheery under his slouch hat, he talking encouragingly to his four in-hand '•Come round there, boys!—round agin' We got t' finish this land. Come in thrrr, liau. Stiddy, Kate! steady! Vone <»' y'r tantrums, Kitty! It's purlyinugh, but got abe did. Tehl ' tchl' Step along, Pete • Don't let Kate get y'r single-tree on the wheel. Once more!" They seemed to know what In; meant, and that thl.i was the la-,1 round. lor they worked with greater vigor than before. "once more, boys, an' -ox I oats and a nice warm stall, and sleep l"r all." By the time the last Inrrow was fin the land it was too dark to ee the house, and the suow changed to rain. The tired and hungry man could see the lighf from the kitchen shining through the leat'le- hedge, and lifting a shout, he yelled, "Supper fr half a dozen!" It was nearly eight o'clock by the time j lie had iiuished his chores mid started lor supper, lie was picking his way eareftilh through the mud, when the tall form of a man loomed up before him with a pieinon itory cough. "Waddy ye want'" was the rather start led question of the farmer. . '•Well, ye see," began the stranger, in a deprecating tone, "we'd like t' get in fr the night. We'vo tried every house I'r the two miles, but they hadn't room fr us. My wife's just about sick, V the children are cold and hungry—" ' Oh, y'want-a stay all night, ehf" "Yen, sir; it nd be a great accom—" "Well, I don't make it a practice ter turn anybiiddy away hungry, not on sech nights as this. Drive right in. We ain't, got much, but sech as it is—" But the stranger had disappeared. And soon his steaming, weary team, with droop ing heads and swinging single trees moved past the well on the block beside the path. Council stood at the side of the ".-ehoouer" and helped the children out- two little lialf-sleoping children—and then a snmll woman with a babe in her arm.'. "There you go!" he shouted jovially to the children. ".Voir we're all right. Rnn right along to the house there, an' tell Mam Council y* wants sumpthin' t' eat. Bight this way Misses —keep right otf to the right,, there. I'll go an'git a lantern. Come," he said to the dazed and Li lent group at his side. "Mother," he shouted, iu he ncared the fragrant and warmly lighted kitchen, "here are some wuyfarers an' folks who uced sumpthin't' cat au a place to snooze " he added, pushing them all in. Mrs. Council, a large, jolly, rather coarse looking woman, took the children in her arms. "Come right in, you little rabbits. Most asleep, hey? Now, here's a drink o' milk Pr each o' ye. I'll have some tea iu a minute. Take oil'y'r thing and set up t' the fire." While she dot the children to drinking milk, Council got ont his lantern and went to the barn to help the stranger about his team, where his loud, hearty voice could be heard as he came and went bet ween the hay mow ami the stall The woman came to light a; a small, timid and discouraged looking woman, hut still pretty in a thin and orrowful way. "Land al.es! an'you'ye traveled all the way from Clear Lake t'day in this mud! Waal, Waal! No wonder you're all tired out. Don't wait for the men. Misse " She hes itated, waiting for the name. "Haskins." "Misses Haskins, set right up to the ta ble an' take a good awig o' that tea, while I make j'' gome toast. It's green tea, an' it's good. I tell Council as I git older I don't seem to enjoy Young Bysou n'r Gun powder. I want the reel green tea, jest as it conies ofl'n the vines. Seems C have more heart in it. some way. Don't s'posc it has. Council says It's all in m' eye." Going on in this easy way, she soon had the children tilled with bread and milk and the woman thoroughly at home, eating some toust and sweet melon pickles, and sipping the tea. "See the little rats,' she laughed at the children. "They're full as they can tirk now, ail" they want to go to bed. Now, don't git up. Misses llaskin.-; set where yon are. u' lot me look after 'cm. 1 know all about young ones, though I'm all alone now. Jane went and married last fall. But, as I tell Council, it's lucky We keep our health. Set right there. Mi ae. Hie J kills, 1 Wtui t have you blir a lingei It waa au unmeasured pleasure to sit I Jtiere ill the w arm, homely kitchen, Ihe jovial chatter of the housewife din ing out and holding ai bay the growl ol the impo font, cheated wind. BUTLFR PA FRIDAY. A PHI I, 1, !3'o The little woman's eye« filial with tear ! which IVII down upon tin- sleeping lmln in her arm . The world s not tj«» hope Ie - . desolate and mlil alter Ail. "Now, 1 hope Council won't lop out I there and talk politic."- nil night. lit' * the ■ grealct mail to talk pohtii ami read the Tt ibmf . How .>l,l fa it/" She broke otf and peered *■ down ul tin-j ! face of babe. | "Two month- and lifH days," said I lie | j mother, with a mother's exactuos . "Ye don't say? The dear little pudgy \ wtnlzy," she weut on, stirring it up in the j ! neighborhood of the ribs with her fat fore i ! finger. I "I'ootv tough on you, to go gallivautin' across lots this way. "Ye , that's ... a man can't lift a inoun- | • i tain,'' iaid Council, entering the door, j | "Sarah, thi is \lr. liaskins, from Kansas ! llr' been e't up and drov out by rras. hop I ; pern." [ "iiiad to ,cc ycli I'a, empty that wa.li | ; ha in and give him a chance to wash Itii-I.in wat a tall man, with a thin. ! gloomy faci- lli-t hair was a reddish ! brown, like hi; coat, and eemod equally j faded by the wind and ■ nil. And his al I low I'rtec, though hard and it, «a palhct ie somehow. ioil would have tell that he I h id suffered much by the liue of his mouth, showing under hi i thin, yellow mustache. ! "Hain't Ike got home, Sally?" J "Hain't seen 'iin." • Waal, -et right up, Mr. Ha. Kin . wade ' right into what we've got; tain't mneh.bnt we manage to live on it —. he. gits fat on . it," lanirlied Council, pointing In thumb i at his wife. After supper, while the women put the children to bed, Ha kin and Council went on talking, eated near the huge cooking ■tovo r the a team rising from their wet clothing. In the western fashion, Coun cil told much of his life as ho drew from his guest. He asked but few question : but by and by the story of Ha kin .' terri hie trugglos and defeat came out. The story was a terrible one, but lie told it quietly, seated with his elbows -in his kuees, gazing most of the time at the hearth. "I didn't like the looks of the country > anyhow." Hawkins said, parity rising and looking at his wife. "I was Used t' north- I ern Ingyanie, where wo have lots o' tim ber n' lota o' rain, an' 1 didn't like the looks o' that dry prairie. What galled me the worst was going ci tar awa.i aerost so much line laud layin' all through here va cant." i "Aud Ihe hoppers eat ye four years hand runnin', did theyf "Kat! They wiped us out They chaw ed even thing that was green. They jest set around waitiu' for us to die to eat us, too. My Hod 1 I used to dream of 'em sit tin'rnnnd on the bedpnt working their jaws They eat the fork handles. They got worse and wm\.e, till they jc.t rolled 1 on one another piled up like snow in win ter. Well, tain't no Use; if I was to talk I all winter ! couldn't help thinkin' of r.l] < Mist land back here that mdniddy was usiu' i L'-*~ T ought ft had, 'stead o' bein' out there in that cussed country." I "Waal, why didn't ye stop here and set tle?" asked Ike, who had come in and was eating his supper. * j "Fer the simple reason that you fellers < want ten'r tifteen dollars un acre lev the i bare land, and I hadn't no money fer that sort (>' thing. i "Yas, I do my own work," Mrs. Council was heard to say in the pause that follow ed. •'l'm gef.tin" pnrty heavy ter be on my laigs all day, but we can't afford t' hire, so I keep rackfn' round sunihow, like a foundered horse. S'lauie—l till Council he can't how lame I am, fer I'm jest as lame in one laig as t'other." And the good sonl laughed at tho joke ori herself, as she took a handful of floor and dusted the bis enit board to keep the dough from sticking. ••Well, I hain't never heen'very strong," aid Mir liaskins "Our folks were Can adians, and small-boned, and then since my last child 1 hain't got up again fairly. I don't like to complain - -Tim baa about all he can hear now- hut they was days ■ when I jest wanted to lay right down and die." "Waal now, I'll toll ye," Council trout his side of the stove, silencing every i li<«ly with his good-natured roar, "I'd go down and see liutler, anyway, if I was yon. 1 guess he'd let you have bis place purty cheap; the farm's all run down. He's biu ansiou . to let to some buddy next year. It 'ud be a good chance for you. Anyhow, you go to bed and sleep like a babe. I've got some plow in' to do, anyhow, ail' we'll see if soinethin' can't be done about your ease. Ike, yon go out and see if the horse is all right, and I'll show the folks to bed." When the tired husband and wile were lying under the generous quilts of the spare bed, liaskins listened a mom»iif to Un wind in the eaves, and then said with a .slow and solemn tone: •There are some men in this world who are good enough to be angels, and only have to die to be angels." 11. Jiiu Butler was one of those men called in the west "land poor." Early iu the his tory *>f Hock river he had come into the town and started in the grocery business in a small way, occupying a mall building iu a mean part of the town. At this period of his life he earned all he got, and was up early and late, sorting beans, working over butter, and carting his goods to and from the station Hut a change came over hiui at the end of the second year, when lie sold a lot of land for fonr times what he paid for it. From (hat lime forward he believed in land peculation a ? the surest way of i getting rich. Kvery cent, ho could save or spare, from his trade he put into land at forced sale, or mortgages on land, which were "just as good a. the wheat," he was accustomed to say. Farm alter farm fell into his hands, until he was recognized as one of the leading ! land owners of the county. His mortgages ' were scattered all over Cedar county, and as they slowly buj, surely fell in, he sought usually to retain the former owner as tenant. lie was not ready to foreclose; indeed he had the name of being one of tho easiest men in the town. He let the debtor off again and again, extending the linic when ever possible. "1 don't want your land," he said. "All I want, is the interest on my money—that's all. Now, if y' want to stay on the farm, why, I'll give y' a good chance. 1 can't have the land layin' vacant." And in I many cases the owner remained as tenant ' In the meantime ho had sold liii store; > be couldn't: pend time in il. he was main I ly occupied now with lilting around town ou rainy days, smoking and go sin' with the "boys," or in riding to and from his farms. In fishing tiuie lie fished a good deal. Doe Crimes, Ben Ashley and Cul Coeatlivn w ere his cronies on these fishing excursions or hunting trips iu the time of chickens und partridges. In winter they went to northern Wiscon iu to shoot deer i In pit. of these si ~of easy life, Butler t persisted iu aying he "hadn't money j enough to pay taxes on his laud," and was I careful to canvey Ihe impression that lie j • was poor in spite ol iiis twenty farms. At ! one time he was said to he worth fifty ■ thousand dollars, but. land had been a little I slow of sale of late, .o that he was not : worth so much. A fine farm, known a ihr Higley plac. had fallen into hi- hand ! in the u=,;al way the previons year, and he | had not been able to find a tenant for it. l\ior Iligley after w..rkiug him elf nearly i to ilt-ath on it, in the attempt to lilt the mortgage had gone oft lo Dakota lenuv ihe farm and his curse Roller This was the I.n in which Council aih i.-d Hawkins to apply for, and the next day ! Council hitched up hi-- team and drove ; down town to see I'.utler. ■ Von jest lum me do the talkin'," he i said. "We'll lind him wearing out his j pants on some alt barrel s.miowears; and , if he thought you wanted a place, he'd j wail." concluded Butler. "All liiiht, thi- II.e man. Hawkins, this is Mr. liutler -no relation to Beu — the hardest working man in all Cedar county." ' on the way home Baskins said: "I 'ain't milch better off. I'll like that farm; it a good farm, bet it's all run down an' so 'in I I conld make a good farm of it if I had half a show. But I can't stock it n'r seed it." "Waal, now, don't you worry," roared Council, in his ear. "We'll pull y" thro' somehow till next harvest, ilr'3 agreed t' hire U. plowed, an' you can earn a hundred dollars piiricin' an' y' can git the -ceil o' me, and pay me bacfTriiei: y'can." liaskins was ijilent with emotion, but ai last lie said: • "I ain't got nofhin't' lire on." "Now don't you worry 'bout that. You jest, make your headquarters at oP Steve Council'. Mother'll take a pile o' comfort iu bavin' y'r wife an' children 'round. V see Jane's married off lately, an' Ikc'i away a good 'cal, so we'll ho darn glad 1' have ye stop with ns this winter. Next spring we'll see if ye can't git a start agin"; and he chirruped to the team, which sprang forward with the rumbling, clatter iug wagon. "Say, looky here, Council, you can't do this. I never saw-" shouted liaskins, iu his neighbor's ear. Council mured about uneasily iu lies seat, and stopped his stammering gratitude by saying: "Hold on, now; don't make such a fuss over a little thing;whcn I see a man down, an' things all on topof'm 1 jest like t' kick 'cm off an' help hi up. Thai's the kind ol religion 1 got, an' it's about the , ouly kind." They rode the rest of the way home iu silence. And when the red light of the lamp phone ont into the darkness of ihe cold and windy night and he thought of this refuge for bis children and wife, he could have put his arm around the neck of his bin ly- companion and squeezed him like a lover; hut lie contented him elf with liv ing, "Steve Council, you'll git y'r pay fr this some day." "Don't want any pay My religion ain't run on any such small business principles." The wind was growing colder, and the ground was covered with a white frost, as they turned into the gate of the Council farm, and the children caine rushing out, shouting, "Papa's come!" They hardly looked like the same children who hail sat at the table the night before. Their torpid ity, under the influence of sunshine and Mother Council, had given way to a sort of spasmodic cheerfulness, as insects iu win ter revive when laid on the earth. liaskins worked like a fiend, and his wife, likrf the uncomplaining woman that she was. bore also uncomplaiuingly the most terrible burdens. They rose eailv aud toiled without intermission till the darkness fell on the plain, then tumbled into bed, every bono and muscle aching with fatigue, to rise with the sun next morning to the same round of the same ferocity of labor. The eldest, boy, 'now nine years old, drove a team all through Ihe spring, plow ing ami seeding, milked the cow.-, unit ilid chores innumerable, in most ways taking the place of a man: an infinitely pathetic, but common ligure—this boy—on the American farm, where there is no law against child labor. To ee him in his rough clothing, his huge hoot . and his ragged cap, as lie staggered with a pail of water from the well, or trudged in the cold aud cheerless dawn out into the cedd field behind his team, gave the city-bred visitor a sharp paug of sympathetic pain. Vet liaskins loved his boy, and would have saved him this if he conld, but ho could not. l!y June the lust y ear the result of such Herculean toil began to how on the farm. The yard was cleaned up and sown to grass, the garden plowed aud planted, and and the house mended. Council had given t.heui four of his cows. "Take 'em and run 'cm on shares. ( don't want'a milk s'niauy. Ike's away much now, Sat'd'ys un Suml'v -. 1 can't tand Ihe bother, anyhow '' Other men. seeing the confidence of Council iu tho new corner, had sold him tools on time; aud as he was really an able farmer, ho soou hod uround him many evidences of his care and thrift. At the advice of Council he had taken the tai ili for three year-, w*ith tlio privilege ol re renting or buying at the end of the term. "It's a good bargain, an' ye wiiut «•' nail ilsaid Council. If you have auv kind of a crop, you ian pay y'l debt an' keep i seed an' bread." The new hope which now -prang up in i ibe hearts of Ba.sl.ins and his wife grew j irreat almost aj a pain by the time the I wide field of v.heut hefan to wave aud ■ nistlc and swirl in tile winds of July. Day after day he would snatch a few moment after supper to luok at it. 11 aye ye .en the win at, today Net - . tl« he a Led olle U- lie lo e ft'olU j app. , "No, Tim i ain 1 lotd time '! "W ell, take timo no . Bef igo and | ■ ' look at il She threw an old Imt oil her head— Toui my' hat -and looking almost prettv in her thin, .tail way. went out with her loi-haiid j | to the hedge. "Ain't it grand. Nettie? Just look at j J it?" H wa.- graud. Level, ru. ct here aud [ there, heavy headed, wide a. a lake, aud , full ofiiiulUludiiiiHis whisper - aud gleams !of health, it" stretched away before the j , gazers like the fabled field of the cloth ol j gold. i>h. 1 think- I hope we'll have a good ! crop. Tim. and oh, how food the people | have been to us!" "Ve*; 1 don't kuow where we'd be to day il it hadn f been tor Council .uol to. j wife " "They're the bc.-f people in the world," j j 'aid the little woman, with a great 01. of ' gratitude "We'll be ill the held oil Monday, tor Mire, said Ha kins, gripping the rail on j Ihe fence a> if already at Ihe work of the I harvest Tho haiVe-t . a 111 13 boiinteou«, gloriou . I bill the winds caine and blew it into tan gb in.l the rain m atted it here ni l there i c|.' eto the gioun.l, iucrc i ing Ihe Woi t; I ; of gathering it threefold <>h. how they toiled in Iho.-e uloriou? j day -' Clothing dripped with .weat, arms aching, tilled with briars, lingers raw and ■ bleeding, backs broken with the weight of heavy bundles, lla kins and his man toiled ; lon. Tommy drove the harvc ter, while hi father and a bind man boa nil on the ; machine. In this way they cut ten Itcte.i I ' ! every day, and almost every night after ' i i supper, w hen the hands went to bed Ila kins returned to the field and shocked the j < hound grain in the light of the moon, j 1 : Many a night he worked till hi. auximi I' wife caiue out to call him in to rest and 1 | 1 11 licit I Utile same time she co,.kcd tor the i men took tare of thu children,xva ,hed and ironed, milked the cows at night, made tlie batter and soim.tiin.cd fed the horses 1 and watered tluni, wliilc her husband kept ' at ihe shocking. No slave iu the Roman ' gal Iris conhl have toiled so frightfully and 1 lived, for thi -man thought himsclfa free man. and tli it he was working for his v. ife ' und babes When he sank into his bed with i deep 1 grouti of relief, too tired to change bis grimy, dripping clothing, lie tell he was gel tin;- nearer and nearer to a home of hi, own, and pushing tho wolf of want i little further from his door. There is Uo de qlair so deep as the dr spair of a liomelefgi man or woman. To roam the roads of the coiiutry, or the streets ot ihe cily, lo feel there i no iod of ground on which the Icet can rest, to halt, weary aud hungry outside of lighted windows, and hear laughter and song with in—lhe3C are the hungers and rebellions ! that drive men to crime and women lo shame. It was the memory ol I his loneline . and the fear of its coming again, that spur red Timothy liaskins, aud Nettie, his wife to such ferocious labor during that first j year. IV. M, yes; 'm, yes; first-rale, said But ler, as his eyes look in the neat garden, the pigpen, and the well filled barn yard. "Yon're git'n quite a stock 'round yer. Done well, eh'" "Yes, I've laid out a good deal of won < ( y during the last three years. I've paid out three hundred dollars for fencing." "Hm —li'in' I see," aid Butler, while liaskins went on: • The kitchen there cost two hundred, the barn ain't cost much in money,but I've put a lot of lime on it I've dug a new well, and I—" -Yes, yes, I see! You've done well. Stock worth a thousand dollars," said liut ler, picking his teeth with a straw. "About that," said liaskins, modestly. • We begin to feel 's if we wuz git'n a home for ourselves; but we've worked hard. I lell ye, v.c begin lo feel il. Mr. Butler, and we're going lo begin to ease up purty soon. We've been a plunniu' a trip back lo 10-r folks after the fall plowin's done." "Fggs actly!" said lbrtlor, who wa:; evidently flunking of something else. "I suppose you've kine o' kalkalated on lay iug hero three years more?" "Well, yes. Fact is, 1 think I kill buy the farm this fall, if you'll give me a rea sonable show." •I in—in' hat do you i ill a rea an able show "Waal, say a quarter down and three years' time." Butler looked ai the liugo tacks ol wheat thai filled tho yard, over which the chickens were fluttering and crawling, catching grasshoppers, arid out of which the crickets were singing innumerably. Ue smiled iu a peculiar way us be said, "Oh, 1 won't be hard on yer; but what did ycr ex pect to pay for the place? ' "Why, about what you offered it for bc toro, $2500, or possibly the $3000," he add ed, quickly, as he saw the owner shake his head. "This farm is worth five thou.-and and live hundred dollar said Butler, in a careless but decided voice. •What!" almost shrieked the astounded liaskins. "What's that.' Five thousand,' Why, that's double what you offered il lor three years ago.' "Of course; and it's worth it. 11 was all run down then; now it's in good shape. oii've laid out fifteen hundred dollars iu improvements, according !o your own story." "But you had nothing to do about that. • It's my work and money." "Von hot il was; but its my land." "Hut what's to pay 1110 for all.'" "ain't yon had the use of Vin*" replied liutler, smiling calmly info his face. liaskins wan like a man struck on the head with a sand bag; he couldn't think, he tamniored as he tried to say: "Hut—l never get the use You'd rob rue. More'n that, you agreed—you promised that 1 could luiv or rent at the end of three years at—" "That's all right. Hut I didn't say I would let you carry off the improvements, nor that I would go on renting the farm at two-fifty. The land is double in value, it don't matter how; it don't enter into the question; an' now you can pay me live ■ hundred dollars a year rent, or take, it ou your own term at. li fry five hundred, or— git out." He waj turning away when Oaskins. the sweat pouring from his face, fronted him saying again. "lint you've done Dolhiug to uiuU il ,o. oi, hai nt added a cent. 1 put it all there myself, expectin' to buy. 1 worked an' sweat to improve it. I was working for uiyselt and babe "Well, why didn't you buy when 1 oiler ed io sell/ W hat j kicking about?" •1 in kicking about paying you twice lot my own thiug -my otvu fences my own kitcbed, my own garden Batlcr laughed "You're to green to eat. youug l'ellei Your improvement ' ( The law will sing another tune." Cut I tm-tcd your word '.Sever tru l anylxHly. my frieiul. lU uli* t didn't promt e not to do this thing U by, niJUa. don't look at nie like thul. Don't take me for a thief. It s the law. the re 'n! i tl.ii. Vndei.rvbody does | it. "1 don't ( are if they ■!.». It ilealing i< i ( tii tin,' 1 Von take thee I hod sand dollars of mi money. The work ot hands iinl iti\ wife's." lie broke down at this point, lie was npt a strong man mental [ ly. He could lace h irdship. ceaseless toil, | but he could not face the cold and sneering 1 lace of Potior. • lint l don't take it." said Uutl.-r.coolly. "All you've got to do is to go ou je.st as you've been a doin'. or give me a thousand dollars dowu, nud a mortgage .it feu per i ent. on the rest." ll.i line agin; if )' do, I'll kill ye." Puller backed away from the man in wild haste, and climbing iu his buggy with trembling limb:-, drove off down the road, leaiiug lla l.im nited on the sunny pile of In ave i, bis head sunk into his hands. Hindoo Magic—the China Duck Trick. In 187 M 1 wa, stopping fu the city of AI ialiabad. near the center of India, on the Indian Peninsular rraTiWiiy. living perfor mance - in the Pail way Theater, say S traveler. Kvery day a party of native jug glers were iu the habit of visitiug our ho tel and exhibiting Iheir skill on the plaza in front of the building. One day I was particularly attracted by an old Hindoo, hi son, and danghter, who squatted down on the ground and waited for the crowd of sight M iis to gather round. They did not have long to wait. When enough specta tors had come to make the performance profitable, the old fellow drew from the bag that all Indian jugglers ti?e to convey their "properties" in, a small earthenware jar filled with tnuddy water. He first sprinkled a few drops of water ou the ground and then placed the jar upon three small stones, which he also took from the bag. He then produced a small china duck and gave il lo ice for inspection. 1 lonud nothing noticeable about it lie asked me to put it in water. I did so, and it imme diately -ank lo the bottom. He next drew from the bag a mall tom-tom, a little mu sical in truiucnt that emits a drumming sound when the Iniudle is turned, filial be gan waving it around the jar. Instant ly tin- duck arose lo the surface, lie told me to touch il. I tried to do so, when the bird again di appeared, to reappear again and again ut the juggler's w ill. I must confess that 1 ua< mystiGed. There was apparently nn cause for the strange actions of the little bird. It. was only after the third or fourth visit of the conjuror that I discovered the secret of the trick. It was a particularly bright, sunny day, and 1 had eho ;eli u place among the spec tators -lightly nearer than the oihers were allowed. I was behind the scenes, as it were. While attentively watching the trick, I noticed iu the sunshine the sparkle of a long hair that extended from the tom tom to the jar. The moment I saw this I divined the juggler's secret, and I after ward found that my theory was correct. The jar already contained n chjna duck precisely iiuihir to the one 1 1 ad examin ed, saw that it was Imoyaut. Attached to the brea t of this duck was the hair. This hair came thiougn a tin}- hole iu the bottom of the jar. The water was sprink led on the ground, the lntii' was fastened i.o that the duck could not rise to the sur face. As Lhe JUgglcl picked li[i luo lulu tulU it was an easy matter for him to fasten the end of the hnir to it by nieaus of a bit of wm. After this was arranged you can :ce how easily he was able to make this counterfeit, duck bob up and down at the word of command.— l'ottery Cu -etti Iceberg Dust. One of the most interesting contribu tion of Prof. N'ordenskjold to popular sci ence i his examination —when about 80- N. Int.. before reaching Parry's Island, to the northwe t of Spitsbergen—of the snow i which covered the icebergs, and whieli had come from !itill higher latitudes. lie found it strewn with a multitude of minute black particle ;, pread over the surface or ituated at the bottom of little pits,a groat number of which were to be . eeu on fhu outer layer of . now; many of such particles were also lodged iu the lower strata. The dust, which became gray on drying, the profe -or found to contain a large propor tion of metallic particles attracted by the magnet, and capable of decomposing sill phate of copper. An observation made a little later npon other icebergs proved the pic ence of itiiilar dud iu a layer of gran ular cystalliue .nou ituated beneath a I ratnin of light fre h . now, and another of hardened snow I pou analysis, Pi of. Xordeiiokjold found this uiattei to be com posed in varying proportions of metallic iron, phosphorus n.li ill ind of Piatohiace.i The woman's rights advocates are try ing to pull womeu down to a level with men. A pretty woman, a.) a rule, Alay have ..ouio solid worth. . i {lT i u pretty man s a nuisanci*. And no good oa earth. AGRICULTURAL. J lie pip lovi , a little etrly grass a A well <%?. the other animal*. and should have . j hare I ill sown pinach should begin to stall 11 the IM-.I ha been manured rake it over ( well. i'ut out all of the ulil WIK>J liuui currants Hint gooseberries and put a good shovel full or manure around the roots of each bush. Cut back tin- rose hashes. The roses are Ix.riu' ou the new wood. Gire plenty of manure. and make tl.e coil around the bushes rich. If the ground is not friueu yon may put in your onion sets a* early as yon wi&li. Onions thrive best in the spring. before the warm, dry weather comes. Sow the tirst crop of peas early if you waul tl.iiu before the medium varieties eouie in The dwarf; are the earliest. The tuiidaid runners, which require sticking, ale the highest lla\<-red. Stiff (lay fils are benefitted by the application of lime uud potash every ye«r, Such laud h.uld be turned over late iu the fall or early in the spring, so as to allow (he frost to pulverise it. drain ing is also beneficial Or. i'oilier, of the New Vork £xpetiinent Station, i. authority fur the statement that u saving of one ceut a day upon the dairy cows of New York is over 16,000,000 a jear. This shows the importance of economy iu feeding. The waste ou forms i the heaviest in agricnlture. Millet is an importaut crop, and should be grown nmre extensively. A.? *oon as the warm days conio on is the time for Heeding. The ground ruay be plowed early in the season aud well manured, us the millet thrives best on rich soil. If grows very rapidly and yields a large crop of liny in a short time. The rapid growth of au auirnal when it is young will be an advantage .to* it later on in life. The greatest proportionate gain with animals is during the first year, it the young stock is kept in thrifty, growing condition the first two years the greater proportion of work required to secure a profit will have been performed. A SrsFLOWEft TIEDGE.—A willow hedge across the garden or ou the north side of it, is a great protection, but while waiting for this to grow plant three or four rows of sunflowers across the piece. < When the llower stems begin to grow drive some lath iu the row about sis feet apart,bracing the outside ones well, then stretch two or tbiee lengths of binder-twine on each sidi» of the row, winding them once around each lath, and wind some cotton twine arouud the middle pair of strands between each duster of flower stalks to keep them from falling or being blown down. The seed heads must lie gathered as fast as they ripen and open enough to show the seed, and spread ont iu a dry cool place to dry out thoroughly, when the seed can be rubbed or threshed out with a light stick, and cleaned in a fanning mill or winnowed (ml by the wind. In the fall plow up a few furrows on the south aide of the stalks which are left standing through the winter: harrow and work dowu fine and plant onion sets at once. The hedge of uuu -Jlasuys will catch aud hold the snow, and so protect the~onTßa4. during the winter that when the snow is off the spring they will start at once into and furnish the first early green onions.— American Agriculturalist. l.ard softened with kerosene until it will just flow in summer heat, makes as good oil for mowers, etc., as that sold by deal era at 100 per cent, profit—much better than some of if. When a limb is cut from a tree it should be as close to the body as possible. The cut should be a smooth one, without bruising the bark, and the cut surface should be covered with some kind of cheap paint, mixed with oil. You can overfeed as well as underfeed a colt; do neither; feedjust right Give good, nourishing food from the start, but do not force them They are neither hogs nor steer.), and the early maturity business may be overdoue il you try to force them. Too much land means tales on that from which only partial crops can be obtained. It is the small plots, well manured, that yield the profitable crops. It is more ex pensive to attempt to secure large yiel-ls from a tract requiring a portion of the time to be lost iu traveling over it, than to eon centratu all the labor on a small area. The impression that seems to be current to a great extent, that better butter can be made in factories, or as they are properly called public creameries, than iu private dairies, is an erroneous one. It is true that better butter is mode in factories than there is iu many private dairies, but there is no reason why just as good butter c&u not be made at home on the farm as at apy factory or public creamery EXCELLENCE OF SAIT. If the feet are tired or painful after long standing, great relief can be had by bath ing them in salt and water. A handful of salt to a gallon of water is the right pro portion. Have the water as hot as can be comfortably borne. Immerse the feet and throw the water over the leg 3 as far as the knees with the hands. When the water becomes too cool rub briskly with a flesh towel This method, if used night and morning, will cure neuralgia of the feet Carpets may be greatly brighleted b\ fir ,L sweeping thoroughly aud then going over them with a dean cloth and clean salt uud water. Use a cupful of coarse salt to a largo basin of water. Salt as a tooth powder is better than ill most anything that can be bought,it keeps the teeth brilliantly white and the gum* hard and rosy. If after having a tooth pulled the mouth is tilled with salt aud water it will allay the danger of huviug a hemorrhage. To clean willow furniture im salt and water. Apply it with a nail brush, 6erub well aud dry thoroughly. \Y hen broiling steak, throw a little aalt on the coal, aud the bla2e from dripping fat will not annoy. Prass work can be kept beautifully bright* by occasionally rubbing with salt aud vip* egar. Wash the mica of the -toye doom with salt and vinegar. Salt in whitewash will make it stick bet ter. - if we would have powerful miuds, We must think; if powerful muscles, wo must labor, if sound lungs we must take Dr. Pull's Cough Syrup Pi ice 25 cts. For cut.; bruises, sprains, burns, scalds, frostbites and chilblain s nothing equals Salvation Oil. ft annihilates pain. Prise 25 cents a bottle. -Some gentlemen's turnialaug stores show - shirts' for ladle's wear -It is a poor clothing dealer tint doesn't lind excuses for a hulf a duita spring opening " he wore a T gown With ft aeck," Jin. Gadabout, after the after noon U3. And looked lite a jay,." added jL-;. MoWaiWtb. NO 22