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PHOFKSSION A L CARDS.
A. A. KELT Y, M. D.
Physician an.l Surgeon.
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SAMUEL M. BiPPUS.
Physician and Surgeon.
Ao. -- huti JttitiM i. St., lit.tier. Pa.
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W. R. TITZEL.
PHYSICIAN A * D SURGKON.
W.Corner Mum and North Sla.. Butler. Pa. .
J. W. MILLER,
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Contractor, Carpenter and Builder.
Maps, plans, specifications and esti- j
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Hous-, Butler, Pa.
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J.J. DONALDSON, Denlist.
Butler, Penn'a.
Arm'u-i.it Teetli inserted < n lUe latest im
laote.l plan. <>old Filling a specialty, Office—
over Seliuui'st lot lung Store.
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession execut
ed m the neatest manner.
Specialties:—Hold Fillings, and Painless Kx
traclion of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered.
Oilice on -li'lfcrsun Street, onr door taut uf Lonrj
llou.r, I p Mmirn.
(mice open dally, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mail receive
prompt attention,
S. 11. - The only Deatkt in Hutler uslng(llie
best makes of teeth.
J. W- HUTCHISON,
Al rOKNtY AT LAW.
i it if on second Boor of the llufceltcn block,
llaineud. I'.utter, Pa., Kooui No. 1.
A T. .SCOIT. J. r. WILSON.
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Diamond. Butler, I'a.
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tifllce in Koom No. l. second floor of Uuselton
lUock. entrance on Diamond.
A. E. RUSSELL,
ATI'OKNEY AT LAW.
Office on second floor of New Anderson Block
Main St..—near Diamond.
IRA McJUNKIN.
Attorney at Law, Office at No. IT, East Jeller
son St., Butler, Pa.
W. C. UNDLEY,
Attorney at Law and It. al Lstate Agent. Of
Hce rear ot L. Mitchell's oftlce on north side
ol Diamond, IJufler, Pa.
H. H. GOUCHER.
Attorucy-at-law. Office on second floor of
Anderson building, near Court House, Butler,
Pa.
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Alt'yat Law-Office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and
Diamond, Butler, Pa.
NEWTON BLACK.
All y at Law—office on South side of Diamond
Littler, Pa.
JOHN M. RUSSELL,
Attorney-al-Law. (HUce on .South side of Dia
mond, Hutler, l'a.
L. S. McJUNKIN,
Insurance and Real Estate Ag'l
17 EAST JEFFERSON sjx.
BUTLER, - PA.
E E. ABRAM3 &CO
Fire and Lile
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porsfed 17lH, capital $3,000,000 and other
strung companies represented. New York
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New Uuselton building near Court House.
BUTIjKJt' county
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
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.1. W. Burkliart. I). T. .Norfls,
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All -to.-k guaranteed to 1..- in g,„,j r ,„,
I'.ilion when delivered.
\V <■ replace .ill trees thai fail to prow.
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J. F. I/owrv, W. T. Meebling, Jaine
Sbanor, Jr., J. K. FORAY the, lien. Sliall'ner
<•'. Walker, K«J., I'erd L.'eibe r, Ksq. and I)
U «'lceland. •
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uations permanent, salary mill expensed from
the start, QUICK selllnK specialties. No exper
ience necessary. <>ullit free. Write for terms
. stating age.
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AAVBRTIAE IC «.B<> CITIZEN
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
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♦ J. GHUiSB'S,
o. 10 South Main St., - utlei%
In Watches,
Clocks,
Jewelry,
And Spectacles.
! Repairing Promptly Attended To.
SIGN OF ELECTUIO BELL.
/-N JEFFERSON ST.;.
A&A SBORN E,
Vj(jl/ butler, pa.
"<» spring! of hope and love and youth and atladtn-ss —
White-* inged einldeui! biightest, lie?t and fairest!
Willi conieH new wants, new work anil new duties, nil ct-Dter'.Dg
in the place where the family abides, be it caliin or castle—' llonie, Sweet
Home".—"Otie fcn.all rpot where my tired mind limy rest and call it home. - '
So we suggest, begin Come and get some ol our nit.e A\ all
I'aper and Window shades, and tit up lhat "spot" bright and new. Hang
the walls witb u few of our IJeautilul Pictures, and add the necessary fine
art furniture, which we aie offering very cheap Then place on table
and in your shelves a seleclinu of choice bonks which we now sell at bargain
prices, and assuredly in thai, "rpot" you will find a home indeed.
Wliy should your walls be Sure and iliugy when u little taste and trilling
expense will transform the room into a place of cheer and beauty.
And y»id ol Wall l'a|>t:r from our cheapest al ti eenls a roll, to l.un.l
uia.li-, gul.l lintel, an.l rainbow sli.ide.l »|.eeials at ; l a roll, every yard is an object lesson
to beauty, tarte and culture. With a large stock of the latest and best iu every line and
department, and saleMuen >.f y.,0.l and experience, we Invite our friends and the
Ihe public lo call and examine our goo-la, feeling conti.lent that ftc can satisfy all reasona
ble demands.
HENRY BIEHL
I I NORTH MAIN STfiE£T,
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DEALER IN
Hardware and House Furnisliini»- (jloods.
Agriculiuiid I mpleinents,
Kramer Wagons,
Uuggies, Ciirts, Wlitt-l liurrotvf, Hruinuier \\ r asliiny Mttcliines,
New Sunshine and Howartl IJanoes, Stove.s, Table
and pocket Cutlery, ll<iu»in<f Lainprf. Man
ui'ueturer of Tinware, Tin
Rooting and Spouting A Specialty.
WIIEKE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN.
J. R.GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB.
GUI El J & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE.
NO. to SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER. PA.
«So!u Agents tor Hutler, Mercer and Clttr
itnt counties lor lit |n I»ioa. Co'.s Magnificent
I'ianos, Slioninger, and New by & Evans
I ianos, Packard, Crown, Carpenter and
New Enghuid Crgans. I'enler.s in Violins,
All Kinds ol Musical Instruments.
SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY
Pianos and Organs Mild on installmeuts. Old Instruinents
taken in exchange. Come unil fee us, as we
Citu save you money.
Tuning and Repairing of all kinds of Musical Instruments
Promptly intended to.
a. 0f a,good house-wife,who uses
SAPOOO.iMs well s&idrThe mouse
is muzzled in her house.' Try it- Keep
your house cle&mAH grocers Keep it-
Cleanliness and neatness about a house are necessary to
insute comfort. Man hkes comfort, and if lie can't find it at
home, he will seek elsewhere for it. Good housewives know
that SAPOLIO makes a house clean and keeps it bright.
Happiness always dwells in a comfortable home. Do you
want cleanliness, comfort and happiness? Try SAPOLIO
and ycu will be surprised at your success
( BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Tlic Joiiriiiil Of A First-Cabin
PaisMUU'r.
, iIAkKIKT BEAULKY IX HAK HIB'S WEEKLY I
The cabin w a full of flowers, an.l one
t.il.li- h.'bl nothing !>ut rosei—rosea in lias
t-11 it:.l linn-*, an.l i..ses tie.i with white
>:iliu iiltlK.tis. 1 astrned to ea.:h l)Uio b
bi.x aud biv-kn waji the name of Mi--
i; alie Miller .\ wandering band of tier
mail n.uai. iaUB v .is playing in the stee.r
agi-, and Iroin both upper and lower deck
hats an.l handkerchiefs waved in answering
good by to Ihe hats and handkerchiefs
waving from one comer «.l the dock As
the beautiful ocean steamer glided past the
light houses and islands, the first cabin
passengers disappeared, and on the steel
age deck the old women look out their
knitting; the old uicii their pipes aud packs
of cards; the young gentleman in the white
straw hat, who for various reasons was
travelling iu thi- humble way, unfolded
the morning paper; the half-dozen babies
dropped asleep in their mothers' arm.-, and
1 ri. de, Ihe live year-old Flemish girl, with
a faded pink and blue handkerchief knotted
under her chin, smiled a good morning to
Anloine, the deck steward, who leaned
idly against the railing above. The tirst
cabin passengers had disappeared in walk
ing costumes and straw hats and bonnets:
they reappeared in ulsters and long cloaks,
iu bo ft fell hats aud kniltc-d hoods: and
each passenger held a novel, with a pas
senger list tucked in as a book-mark. The
different people arranged their steamer
chairs iuto pleasant neighborhoods, aud
Antoine walked in and out with biscuits
and lemonade, a napkin carelessly thrown
over his arm. and an obliging smile on his
round Flemish face. Antoine needed no
passenger list. lieing a deck steward of
long experience, a glance at the passengers
was sufficient to tell him each one's story,
lie knew to-day which was the commercial
traveller,and which was the German count;
which was the clergyman going abroad tor
his health, and which was the Harvard
student, ne knew that the six pretty
young women, witb their chairs in a row.
were arti.-t.s going to Munich: that the tall
it;dy in a fur lined cloak was a woman doc
tor; and that the lady with a French
grammar open in her lap would soon be
feeling very sea-sick. He knew also that
the young girl who sat near her, aud whose
eyes still held the shadow of good by tears,
was Miss Rosalie Miller; but any one might
have known this by reading the name
printed ou the back of her steamer chair.
The Harvard student had known it at least
half an hour, as well as the name of the six
young women whose chairs stood in a row.
Concerning young Mr. Julian Newton,
however, nothing was yet known. He had
no steamer chair, and his name ouly ap
peared on the passenger list as "and child''
iu the right-hand column, two lines re
move.l from lhat ol the German count.
Mr. Julian Newtou was the youngest of
the first cabin passenger, lie was travel
ling with his paint box. his kite, a portion
of his library, ainf his doll Martha. It was
his first first voyage, aud he was on his
to Paris. Rosalie was four times as
old as Julian, who was five, and they met
at noon on the fourth day out in the
chocolate aud rose colored cabiu, with its
six p..rt hole windows and its rows of white
lilies painted oi. a background of pale
green and gold. The first three days were
dajs o£ warm breezes and glorious sunsets.
The steerage ball had been opened every
afternoon by a heavy-bearded niai: who
looked like an agreeable pirate, aud who
always danced with a young woman in a
sprigged inusliu dress. On the upper deck
the passengers had become sufficiently
acquainted to smile slightly at each other,
and the Count, who was musical, played
daily on his zither, aud spoke German with
the Harvard student. On the fourth day
there came a change; the waves tossed
themselves tip into heaps of foam, the
heavy-bearded man declared that was
dancing enough for one day and postponed
the afternoon ball, the steerage belle be
came as limp iu her feelings as the frills on
her sprigged muslin dress, and those of the
first cabin passengers who were able to be
out of their berths covered themselves
warmly, talked little, and nibbled hard
bread steadilv.
Rosalie Miller was iu oue corner of the
deck cabin, aud iu the opposite corner lay
the lady with the French grammar. Now
aud llieu she opened her eyes aud the book
at the nauio time, and took a hasty look %t
the page beaded ' Material for Conversa
tion.'' She had promised herself to learn
six sentences a day, aud she iutended to
team them whether the sea ran high or
low. Rosalie also held a book; it was one
of her parting presents, and she hud two
more exactly like it in her state-room.
There was u printed page and a blank page
for every day of the voyage, aud there was
also a chart show iug the ship's pathway
across the Atlantic.
•'Bow are you feeling now, Aunt Sarah?"
said Rosalie to the lad}' iu the corner.
"Worse, if anything," said the lady.
" I think," coutiuued Rosalie, "we shall
probably meet with a great storm on the
seventh day. AVe may bo shipwrecked.
In this book the verse for the seventh day
speaks of storms aud danger."
The ludy said .he 'didn't care, and that
the sooner they were shipwrecked the bet
ter."
Through the doorway of the cabin one
could see the waves and the sky, and now
and then a laugh or a snatch of talk floated
iu through the port hole windows.
"When we get to Flushing." said the
Harvard student lo the six pretty young
women, whose chairs stood in a row, "we
shall take a pilot on hoard, and his eyes
will he black. Ifthey arc not black, 1 will
give you each a box of chocolate." m
"But we I'tioir that his eyes will be
blue," i aid the six pretty young women all
at once. "We are '•nr. of it. If his eyes
ate not blue, we will each give you a
sketch."
In the main caluu below, ihe Count was
playing ou zither, a faint sound of sing
ing came from the distant steerage, and
the ship plunged onward through the end
less stretch of white capped waves.
"If the seventh day is to be a storm,"
said Rosalie, "then ou the sixth day we
may expect a great caltn. Here is the
verse for the sixth day:
•There is a point iu the great centre of the
cyclone's force,
A silence al its secret source.
A little. I.lid n. i 1.1 dumber undisturbed
Without the ruffle of one fairy curl
In that atrange central calm
mighty whirl ''
It was at tins moment mat a bundle of
haw Is slipped On to the floor from the
third corner of the cabin, and young Mr.
Julian N'ewtou arosp from his noonday
uaii. gra\oly around, he .-aid
Tell me about the water spont.''
"That was the other lady," said Rosa
lie's aunt, feebly. "I am the lad) who
tells you about the di-di that ran away .vith
the spoon
"I want the water spoilt,'' said Julian.
Now both Rosalie and Rosalie's aunt
had not thought of a water spout for yc.irs
not since Rosali.; w.s ~idy,ii h ' physical
.eogrHphy; and nen al that time they
had not learned it as well a.s "the dish run
away with the spoon" a great many yoars
before.
BUTLKR PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, I81»0
girl, taking Julian's slate Itooi the cabin
lluur. 'Sec litre la New York. « here we
liv. St-, all the high huUie.-. atlJ the
cars going lij the third-etury wiudows
And li«re i.-, a very big ehnrch, and soi.ie
queer rt>ol>. and a erooked street: that s
Ant»'ei|i where \re »ru going Now Ihe
j.lai e between i> the tm aii.' See the wave.-.
And here's the shiji, and here is a round
fa. Ed little boj- in a graj" coat uith a J.oint
e.l hood, that is Julian, l-u'tthat a nice
jiieturet" And 110-alie. l«atting down
pencil, look the two plutnp little hands in
her own.
"Yes, 1 think so,'' said Julian; ' it's a
nice picture, ou'y it's all wrong I don't
lire in New York. I live in Salem, and
I'm going to Paris Tell me about a wat
er spout."
"Yoa tell me," said Rosalie
Julian went to the bundle of shawls, out
of which he first pulled Martha, and then
a book. The doll had broken her neck,
and one eye was g.we, but the expression
of the other one plainly showed that Mar
tha intended to make the best ol her mis
fortunes.
"The water spont is in here somewhere,
said Julian, tnrning the leaves of the book,
which had lout its cover, and was some
what broken in its binding. "You can
read about it if you don't know it."
He had climbed into Rosalie's corner,
and one pink cheek rested against the girl's
shoulder. "A water spout is something
like the mast of a ship," explained the
child, "only it's longer. It comes ont ot
the sea and goes into the sky, and it's all
water. and vou shoot at it."
"That's when a ship comes too near."
said Rosalie, who, having found the pic
ture. was taking a hasty look at the ac
companying text "A water spout is very
dangerous; it could sw illow a ship as eas
ily as a pussy cat could swallow a mouse.
That is the reason Ihe sailors shoot at it: a
cannon ball breaks it in the middle."
"I've got a caunon al home," said Juli
an; "only it is a little one. Are there any
pictures in your book.''
"There's, a place to make them. said
Rosalie: "a place for every day of the voy
age; but the book is really meant to keep
a journal in. Do yon know what it is?"
"My papa takes real flowers and puts
them in a book sometimes, and when he
takes them out they are flat."
"Yes," said Rosalie, "that is like a jour
nal, only you are not old enough to under
stand why." The girl placed a pen in the
child's hand, and guided the little fingers
over the lints and the curves of the letters
she had just formed on the title-page.
"Make the letters nice and black." she
said. "Now the book is yours, and even
day we will write in it. It is interesting
to keep a journal, because you like to read
it afterward. Perhaps some day yours
will become very valuable. Valuable
means that it would sell for lots of money
If you should grow up to be a great mau,
every one would want to see the sea jour
nal kept by Julian Newton when he was
fiye years old."
••Precious means lots of money too,"
said Julian. "I call Martha 'my precious.' '*
And he gave the one-eyed treasure a dan
gerous hug, considering the state of her
neck.
'•lf you know as much as that." said
Rosalie, "I think you can understand why
a journal is like a pressed flower. Suppose
you and Martha and I were to spend a
long, beautiful week in the woods, and
ev»r\ day we should place a flower be
tween the pages of a book, aud beuenlb
each flower we should write where it grew,
and then, years Martha had
lost her head altogether, and you and 1
had packed a good many new ideas into
ours, we should open the book again
wouldn't the dried flowers make us hear
the birds siag iu the woods we knew so
long ago.'"
' Yes. 1 think so," suidJuliau gravely.
"There are some woods back of my grand
mother's house."
"Now, we are ou the ocean together,"
coutiuued Rosalie —"you aud Martha aud
I; wjhaveu't any flowers to press, but
every day we will write our thoughts in
tbis«book, and then, a good many years
from now, we can read what we have
written, aud each page will make us think
of the ocean and sailors, and the big red
star on the smoke stack, aud the little red
star on the cups aud saucers."
"And on the soap," said Julian. "I saw
it myself."
"Aud at the end of the voyage," said
Rosalie, "when we reach Antwerp, yon
can send your journal home to your dear
est friend. That is what every one does
who crosses the Atlantic."
"1 shall send mine to Ellen," said Juli
an. "She's my grandmamma's cook. She
came to see me because I was going awa\*,
and she felt dreadfutly;she cried aud cried;
and I shall say, 'Dear Ellen. I didn't fall
iuto the water."'
"Now 1 am going to begin," said Rosa
lie.
"Dear Ellen,l didn't fall into the water,"
said Julian. "Write that."
"I will write the first four days my way"
said Rosalie; "after that you can tell me
what to say."
Rosalie wrote: "Left New York at seven
this morning. Sixty cabiu passengers,
one child, lam the child. A great many
people iu the steerage.
"The steerage, Julian dear." explained
Rosalie's aunt from the corner, ' 'is where
you look down aud see theui dunce. They
are all poor people, aud don't pay as much
as wc do, and so they are in a different
place."
"I know all about the steerage," said
Julian. "That's where the man with the
straw hat lives. 1 love that mau. He
laughs with his eyes 1 'most fell into that
place once; I was leaning too hard against
the rail."
"I'll writu that down,' said Rosalie. "In
the steerage is a mau with a straw hat.
lie laughs with his eyes, f love him.
"t love the little girl too," said Julian.
"I threw her an orange and she threw uie
a kiss. First she showed her orange to the
steerage man. and he smiled at me a very
pleasant smile."
Antoiue came in with a tray which he
placed on the table by Rosalie's aunt, and
lie asked it'he should briug madamc stew
ed prunes or baked apples.
"Now, it's time to write something about
your health," said Rosalie. "People a!
ways write whether they feel well, and if
they think they .ire going to be sea-sick,
and il they have a cood appetite."
•'Children always have," said Rosalie s
aunt. T wish I could be a child for the
the next ten days." ;>hc dipped a little ot
the ouji which Anloine bad placed before
her, said thai everything tasted exactly
alike, took a hasty look into the Fren.h
grammar aud closed her eyes, not to opeu
them again until the Stewart reappeared
with the baked apples.
"I had pink ice cream Sunday night,"
said Julian, here on this little ta
bio."
Rosalie wrote " s d wiy —Feel
.veil dy nut think I shall be sea sick. Ap
petite good. Had some strawberry ice
cream. Passed a ship a long way off."
"I'll make a the other two days very
short," said the girl. "It's so stupid to
write about things that are over. For
Monday 1 will write same as yesterday
only n.r ice creaui; and for to day. Met
Hosalie. who gave me this bonk, which is
going to be very valuable. Now I have
showed you how to keep a journal and
the rest of the voyage you must keep it
yourself, and that will he a gnat deal bet
ter "
"•Yes 1 thiuk so. said Julian Aud
tl.is i-i the way he kei.t it:
"Fifth dug nut — I feel Very well, and I
sleep very well, an.l I eat very well. A
man called ine a swoet potato plant The
waves are covered w-ith white. It looks
like .1 great many white birds on the wat
er. 1 f»*el sleepy; Rosalie says it's the sea
air Everybody feels sleepy."
"Sixth fay out —The men in the steer
age stood up and sang very lou.l. and the
name of the song was. When the Swal
lows ITomeward Fly- The steerage
man didu't sing: ha reads and
writes all the ti'ue, an.l lie
isn't sea-sick. 1 feel very well.
Rosalie's aunt feels \ery bad I say good
night to her in French; she told me how.
"Seventh day out. —lt is cold. 1 saw a
ship. The man who called me a sweet
potato plant showed it to me. He's a
funny man. When it isn't his vacation he
goes to a school called Harvard College.
Once we w ere alone at the end of this ship,
and the sun made lots < f colors iu the
water, where the waves were light on top.
The Harvard man failed them rainbows,
and he said. 'I am going to drop a trold
ring into the sea.' It looked pretty going
down. He said the ring was a secret which
the sea would never tell, and he was very
sad. I like him. but not so much as the
steerage man. 1 asked him if the ring was
valuable. He said, 'lt was once.' Rosalie
says that sometimes happens to rings, she
is sorry for him. and so am I.
"Fi'jlth day oitf —There's grtng to be
n concert. It is for the passengers: only
the steerage people can't go. because they
are poor. It costs fifty cents to get iu. A
lady made a picture of me. on a big piece
of paper. My papa bought it. The money
is for a sick sailor. I wanted to give it to
the steerage man. but my papa thought it
would hurt his feelings, and that is a worse
hurt than to shut your fingers iu the crack
of a door.
"JS'inth day out. —This is Sunday. It is
getting monotonous. That is Rosalie's
aunt's word. She says it all the time. It
means the -ame as prunes and bread and
milk for supper, and never anything else.
The ship is in the middle of a great blue
sea, and we are going very fast. In the
cabin where we eat there is a flag hauging
over the piano. They put it there last
night for the conceit •!! is the American
flag Rosalie told me that once there was
an American in a foreign country, where
they spoke another v ay from his way, und
they were going to shoot him,because they
thought he was bad, ir.d he didn't know
how to tell them he wasn't, aud just as
they were about to shoot, another Ameri
can came flying on horseback, and threw
the American flag around the first man,
and said to the people, Shoot if you dare!"
and nobody dared. This is a true story.
Rosalie has a friend who is some relation
to the first man She says it is a beautiful
story, and I think so too. She said it was
because the Americans were so brave that
the other men didn't dare to hurt their
flag. I shall be brave because 1 am an
American. To-day we saw a good many
sails.
"Truth day out. —La-t night I hud some
pink ice-cream, but no one will have nny
more because it is all gone. The steward
says so. The oranges are 'most gone. Per
haps we shall reach land to-morrow, and
then this journal will be all written That
is, the words will be written. Rosalie says
that people sometimes write their thoughts
between the lilies, and you can't see the
writing. I asked her if she had written
anything with her thoughts between these
lines, and she said she wasti t quile sure "
It was the eleventh day out, and a gray
chilly morning. The passengers, first
cabin, second cabin, aud steerage, were
peering eagerly through the mist that they
might not lose the first glimpse of land.
Soon they saw a dim .-pot iu the distance,
then a few lonely islands, then a good piece
of land with houses upon it. The black
ness of the wiiter changed into a strange
green, queer ships were tossiug ou the
waves and this was the beginning of the
English Channel. The passengers hastily
finished their steamer letter* and repacked
their steamer trunks aud at this busy mo
ment Julian Newton quietly dropped his
unfinished sea journal on to the steerage
deckage. No one noticed him, aud the
book fell exactly where the child intended
it should, at the feet of the steerage man.
Ou either side of the water were long
stretches of land, over which hung low
lying clouds, gray clouds showing now and
then a touch of rose color through the rifts.
Presently the steamer reached Flushing,
the first Dutch town, and the pilot-boat
came across the water.
"The'pilot's eyes are black,'' said the
Harvard student, w ho was looking through
a glass. "I kuew they would be."'
The six pretty young women laughed
and shook their heads, aud said blue eyes
often looked black at a distauce. When
the pilot cauie on board he was found to
have eyes of two colors —one black and
one blue Oil this account the Harvard
student gave only three boxes of chocolate,
aud received iu turu only three sketches.
Rows of prim trees grew on the water's
edge: rows of red roofed picture-book
houses appeared among the trees; rows of
windmills stood up against the sky. The
steamer had eutered the river Scbelde, aud
at the end of the river a high church tower
looked down npon the quaint roofs of Ant
werp The Harvard student grew \ery
merry. He had torn his sea hat into six
pieces, one for each of the six pretty young
wouieu, who returned this delicate atten
tion by giving him six hairs from their six
pretty heads. They little kuew how sad
the Harvard student could be, and that
lour days before he had buried a gold ring
in Ihe middle of the Atlantic. The pilot
with the two colored eyes brought the
steamer safely iuto port,and the sixtj first
cabin passengers sat that night around a
flower decked table, and ate their farewell
dinners. Going through the hotel court
yard on lien- wuy to this dinner, Kosalie
Miller saw Julian seated before a bowl of
bread and milk m one of the side rooms.
"1 am eating my supper, ' said the child.
"The steerage man was here, and he
brought back the hook I gave it to billi.
I thought he might sell it when it got vain
able. He said it was very kiud. and he
had enjoyed reading it. those were his
words. I asked him if be c.iuld read be
tween lines, where there wasn't any
writing He said. 'Sometimes,' and his
eyes laughed."
The girl's color deepened She hud
opened the book, and Saw that a page had
been added to those from her owu hand.
"Eleventh dn-j ou!. —ln sight ol Ant
<retp.
"Three of us drifted over the sea,
Into unknown ways thut God shall plan
Two were Julian and Rosalie,
The third was ouly the steerage num.
"Two of lis wrote in a book to keep.
With childlike words aud a girlish baud
Something of days ou the waters deep,
As on we sped to a foreign land.
"One of us reading the pages said.
•A wish 1 have lor us happy three
Forever be we as -afely led
As we now come garly in from »ea!' "
The writing was very familiar. In fact, j
she had in her steamer trunk a seventeen j
paged litter from the same nand—a letter i
vhuLfhe bad ion, thi. ugh the middle ou !
the first day . at, pinned together on llie '
second, and read every day since. Some
. ue entered from the little court-yard and
took the seat ou the other side of Julian,
who had fallen half asleep over his bread
and milk
• Two were Julian aud Rosalie,
The third was only a steerage man "
said the new comer by way of beginning
conversation But what followed, although
interesting in itself, is in no way connect
ed with this journal of a first-cabin pas
senger.
Sally Conquered.
Many ol the setllets of Illinois were rude
iu speech aud rough in mauuer. Money
was scarce with them, and service was
paid for in produce. Governor 8., accord
iug to the New York Ltdgtr. used to illus
trate these incidents of frontier life by the
following anecdote: line day when he
was justice of the peace there came to bia
oilice a young man, accompanied by a
voung woman.
"Be you the squire?" asked the manly
youth.
"Yes, sir."
"Can you tie the knot_f->rus right away?"
"Yes, sir."
"How much do you charge?''
"One dollar is the legal fee. sir. "
"Will you take your fee in beeswax?"
"Yes. if you can't pay cash."
' Well, go ahead and tie the knot, and
I'll fetch in the wax."
"No." said the squire, thinking there
was a good chance for a little fun; "bring
in the beeswax first, and th<m I II marry
yon."
Reluctantly the youth went out to where
was hitched the horse upon which. Darby
aud Joan fashion, the pair had ridden, aud
brought the wax in a sack. Oti being
weighed its value was found to be only
about half a dollar.
'•Wall." said the anxious groom, tie *he
knot aad I'll fetch more wax next week."
"No. sir: 1 d»n't trust; that's against
the rules of this office."
Slowly the disappointed youth turned to
go out saying:
"Conie, Sal; let's go?"
"I say. Mister," answered Sal, with a
woman's wit, "can't you marry us as far as
the wax will go?"
"Yes, lean und will," replied the squire,
laughing: aud he did
Uses for Old Paper.
Must housekeepers know how iuvaluable
newspapers are for packing away the win
ter clothing, the printiug ink acting as a
defiance to the stoutest moth, some house
wives think, as successfully as camphor or
tar paper. For this reason newspapers are
invaluable under the carpet, laid over the
regular carpet paper. The most valuable
quality of newspapers in the kitchen, how
ever, is their ability to keep out the air.
It is well known the ice. completely wi
veloped- iu newspapers so that all air is
is shut out, will keep a longer time than
under other conditions; aud that a pitcher
of ice water laid in a newspaper, with the
ends of the paper twisted together to ex
elude the air. will remain all night without
any perceptible melting of the ice. These
fnets should be utilized oftener than they
are iu the care of the sick at night. In
freezing ice cream, when the ice is scarce,
pack the freezer only three-quarters full of
ice and salt, and finish with newspapers,
and the difference in the time of freezing
and quality of the cream is not perceptible
from the result where the freezer is packed
full of ice. After removing the dasher.it
is better to coik up the cream and cover it
tightly with a packing of newspapers than
to use more ice. The newspapers retain
the cold already in the ice better than a
packing of cracked ice and salt, which
must have crevises to admit the air.
bailed to Work Somehow.
Mr. Billus has a theory that his wife is
too indulgent to tramps aud beggars. With
a dimly defined purpose of teaching ber a
lesson be disguised himself the other day
as an abandoned vagabond, boldly rang
the bell and inquired for Mrs. Billus.
"Have you any eld clothes to give a
poor man. mum?" he asked in a loud, ag
gressive. but carefully disguised voice,
when the lady presented herself.
Mrs. Billus looked at the soiled, grimy,
disreputable looking object before her
with some interest. Whether or not she
suspected the genuineness of the mendi
cant is not certainly known, but she an
swered:
"Xone that would fit you, my good
man. My husband is a much smaller man
than you are."
She shut the door in his face, and Mr.
Billus made bis way back to bis office down
town.
"Darn it all!" he ejaculated, as he sneak
ed through a back alloy, "I must have
looked a thundering sight bigger than I
feel just now!"
Migrating Birds.
A dispatch from Cedar Rapids, lowa,
says. "A migrating bird wave which was
passing over here on the night of May 17
encountered a severe rain aud thunder
storm. Attracted by the electric lights,
the birds gathered about them and at
tempted to fly into the stores. As a con
sequence, more than l.obO birds fell dead
in the streets from coming in coutact with
the wires and the glass fronts. Few of
these birds inhabit this region, and some
rare specimens were captured alive and
caged. Among them was a red-poll
warbler, one of the rarest birds iu the
United States. This bird nests iu Mauitoba
and Alaska iu summer, and iu the winter
goes as far south as the Caribbean Sea.
More than fifty different species of birds of
birds w ere found.
Hard to Answer.
Of course Butler's census enumerators
won't get any answers, similar to the fol
lowing, from "Gil Bias," Lc Sage's famous
novel.
"Your age, madam?"
"I am over twenty, sir."
"Your precise agef"
"Between twenty and thirty.''
"Come, fell us in what year you will be
thirty."
"To morrow, sir."
Bridge Moved by an Earth
quake.
A peculiar accident recently occurred on
the Southern Pacific road. An earthquake
moved the irou truss railroad bridge over
the Pajaro River, ou the coast division,
about one fo< t and prevented the passage
of trains. The bridge, however, remained
on its stone piers and was safe after the
rails were moved in line.
llere is a conundrum "Why is it when a
splinter of wood is held over the chimney
of a lighted lamp that the blaze first ap
pears four or five inches above the wood?"
Who can give the answer, and what is itf
He Was a Great Hat Killer,
lie bud the appearance of one nho tad
seen much ol tLe world and bud cot f>>und
it u soft st,op Ho looked di it' Le bad beeu
in <> llle-iocg struggle with an
adverse destiny and w»s *>ul weary. His
were composite and lie bad evi
dently long been it stranger to water in all
its uses. He shuffled into the saloon at
tached to a well known variety theatre the
other day, and. leaning against the bar.
gazed with a deep yearmug in bis eyes
upon the fining rows of bottles and cut
glass on the other side. The bartender
was about to signal the bouncer to do his
duty, when the stranger asked for the pro
prietor. lie was standing near by. and in
quired, witb a severe scrutiny of the bohl
intruder, w bat be wanted.
Have you any rats in the bouset" ark e l
the stronger.
•Kats! well 1 should say so! big as cats"
said the proprietor.
"Do you want to get rid of them(
"You bet!" was the reply.
"Well, you give me a drink and a din
ner." said the stranger, ' and I will agree
to kill every rat in your house in half an
hour."
Tbe proprietor's curiosity was aroused.
He couldn't see bow it conld be done, bat
here was a fair proposition, and the ex
pense was not great, any way. So he said:
"I guess I'll go you once, any way. but
1 doii t believe you can do it."
The stranger took a large, soaking drink
—a drink that, as it percolated through
tbe system and found its way to remote ex
tremities that had grown dry and parched
from forced abstemiousness, gave him a
new hold on life, and he looked confident
and happy as they repaired to a neighbor
ing restaurant for the dinner.
He ate a hearty meal. It wasn't a
square meal—it was an all-round meal. It
■was a meal that any man or several men
might has been proud of and looked back
to as one great achievements of their lives.
"When he got through they walked back to
the saloon, tbe stranger meditatively pick
ing his teeth and the proprietor thinking
all the time how in the world was he go
ing to kill all those rats in halt an hour.
When they got buck to the saloon the
stranger said:
' Have you a spade handy#"
A boy was sent for one and soon return
ed with it. By this time a crowd had col
lected to see the sport. Everybody was
waiting in great suspense to see the
slaughter begin. The rat catobcr took the
spade, examined it carefully, tested its
weight, while the crowd held its breath.
Next be selected a big comfortable chair,
seated himself, crossed bis legs, leaned
back with a benignant expression on his
seared countenance and said.
"Now bring ou your blank rats.''
There was a momentary pause, and then
a sound of intemperate revelry, following
bv tbe quick opening of tbe door and the
sudden emission of a heterogenous mass,
which landed tar out ou the mud-eushiou
td pavement Slowly aud painfully it un
tangled itself and limped into tbe passing
throng.
A Peculiar People.
This is the period of the Dunkard or Ger
man Baptist anniversary, or something
which the}- celebrate with a Love Feast..
Feet Washing aud other quaint services.
At the Tulquehocken Meeting House,
three milles from Richland. Fa., ou the 4th,
3,000 people assembled. The Holy Com
munion was celebrated, when thirty gal
lons of soup sail large quantities of beer
and bread were consumed. The feast Was
according to the quaint custom of giving
the holy kiss washing of feet. There
were ten bishops present. There were
ob servances in different parts of tbe dis
trict of country where the Dunkards do
most abound. The Dunkards are moral
and thrifty, aud it cannot be said that they
arc not a prosperous people or are distin
guished for their intelligence. They do
more good than harm, wheih is saying a
great deal.
—Tlie belle al a recent dog feast on an
Indian reservation ill Dakota wore a jacket
trimmed with teeth from 150 elks, which
she had herself slaiu.
—Thousands of acres of valuable timber
lands in "Wisconsin have swept bare by the
forest fires that have been raging for the
past weeks.
—A Statcn Island deacon drove the
preacher out of the pulpit with a revolver
and is under arrest. This is a new way of
gettinjr rid of the minister, but it is not
orthodox.
Oxalic acid dissolved iu water and
mixed, if desired, with a little tartaric acid
will remove ink stains form white paper.
—lt takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the Atlantio
cable to the other.
—Large quantities of railroad ties are
being shipped to the American market
from Grand Falls, X. B. The price paid
for them delivered at the seaboard is sl3
per 100, a much higher figure than they
formerly commanded. The supply to be
obtained in that section is large and not
likely to be soon exhausted.
A young man talks with pleasure.
An old man talks with ease.
The "orator ' talks like some men walk—
Six days, go-as-you-please.
The preacher talks of sins and things.
Of hell's eternal fury;
The lawyer burls his jawbone at
A mad but helpless jury.
—A Pußois man who is bitterly opposed
to the custom of putting "ie" at the end of
feminine names, was recently presented
with a little girl daughter. "I'll fixtbem,"
he said, "so they will not put that offensive
suffix to my girl's name." And he had her
christened "Nnst," remarking that if her
mother wanted to call her "Nastie" she
might go ahead.
—An Indiana cow which gave two
quarts of milk per day was struck by light
ning while in the pasture the other day
and had a horn knocked otl Sinco that
date her yield has been eight quarts, with
not the slightest trace of brimstone. If
you have an old cow «tand her unt.
"When 1 wus a b b-boy," old stutter
ing, lying John Stulty used to say, "I read
the st-st story of li-U-Oeurge Washington
and l-l-little h-btttchct and I 1-1 liked it so
well that 1 th thought I d p play it on my
I f father So I w went out aud ch-chop
ped d down an apple t t tire th that he'd
taken lots of p pains with. And when he
c c came home and asked about it I said:
•I c c cannot t tell a 1 1 lie, father: I d d
did it w with my ax,' and he gave me such
u b h b —l ot a 1 lammin' that I h h-haven't
t told the t truth since."
"Be shrewd and seltish us you can:
You'll not be poor
lie nothing unto any man.
And close your door
To tho.-o wLo call on your for aid.
Turn them awaj
They arc no good —their play is played—
They've had their day.
Get all you can. and all ton get
Securely keep:
And when at last you die, you bet.
So one will weep."
—All things have their uses. If a man
had no enemies he would not know how to
appreciate his friends.
FARM AND GARDEN.
It is a mistake to suppose that peat.
leans and corn should be covered heavily
Keep the land intended for lunula well
suned with tin) cultivator to as tofc'll t'ue
weeds before the seed goes in.
Do not neglcci to u*v« youx tool* in pro
per repair aud condition until you want to
go to work in field or garden.
It ia a great luxury to live ou a good
road. It pays every one living along a
road to do bis share toward making it a
good one.
Professor Ladd concludes that it u {in
ferable to cut timothy for feeding at the
penod of fall bloom rather than after the
seeds have formed.
A pound of bran makes within 17 per
cent, of as much milk as a pound at Cats
meal, which usually costs much more* but
corumeal makes richer milk
Tbe soil alfecU the quality of the plan t
gruwn thereon to a certain extent. A crop
of wheat from rich soil contains more glu
ten than one from poor soil
A Hhode Island farmer raise* veal calves
to weigh 190 pounds when 4 weeks old by
allowing them warmed skim-milk and oat
n.eal gruel. Such calve* should pay well
One way to save transportation is to
raise everything needed that can be jrrrwt
on tbe farm. There are many kinds o
fruits and vegetables that arc seldon
grown by farmers.
Manure often contains seeds that s;
When spreading manure work it ir ■
soil well, and allow time for the te*.
germinate. Then go over the field wiu.
barrow from time to time until ready to
seed in the crop desired.
''Two quarts of o&U at 32 cents pi r
bushel. 2 cents." 6ays the
"two quarts a day for 150 days, $3. Tb
with skimmed milk, makes a calf wnr.
sls to s*2o in 150 days: omit it and y<
have au $3 calf. The moral is easi!j
drawn."
The moth of the codling worm deposi
its eggs at the blossom end of the app
soon after the apple is formed. SprinV
witb paris green, not strong. Perhaps i«
may be necessary to sprinkle in two wee',
from the first sprinkling again.
Melons should be well hoed and cultiv;
ed until they begin to run. Tbe vo .
young plants may be hoed with
but after that time all cultivation shot....
be done without disturbing the bills. M .-
on growers hoe in front of tbe vines, not
among them, as they soon cover tbe
ground.
The milk from cows fed on wholescme
grain and good pasturage is of better qu>'l
ity for food than that ftom stall fed rui
mals that are permitted to eat rtftise fiom
granaries and factories without regard o
breed. Choice breeds to produce a ch< ice
article must be provided witb food of tbe
best quality for that purpose.
Tbe bush lima bean that has been intro
duced qaite extensively is of tbe Scwee
family and is rather small in size. It re
quires a longer season than we have in
this latitude to permit it to fully ma'i-.c
its crop, thouge it will afford a supply for
use. A large bush lima is now being in
troduced, but the seed is scarce as yet.
>*ext season it will be given atrial in many
sections.
"With strawberries, raspberries, black
berries and grapes a supply of fruit for I o
family could be had until late in tbe sea
son. if currants and melons be included
the supply may be more varied. App'es,
pears, peaches and cherry treee should :«'so
be planted, but tbe small fruitt will c>me
into bearing the next year thus renderii g
it easy for all to secure a supply witho it
loss of time.
A* IscroRTAKT Qcssnoi*.— The organ
ization of the Farmers' Leagqe introduces
a new factor into tbe politics of tbis State.
It is also an important factor and as such
must be taken into consideration in all fu
ture plans and calculations.
It is not the purpose of tbis organization
to found a new political party, or to antag
onize any other interest, but just tbe op
posite. What the League wants is tbe
harmony of all interests and justioe to all.
The farmers will insist, however, that
their interests shall be given that consid
eration which their importance demands
and that the same justice which is meted
toother* shall be meted to them In
short they have awakened to tbe value
and they now propose to secure some of
its benfits.
The object which the league will seek to
accomplish in this State trill be the equal
ization of taxation, extending not only to
an equalization in the purposes for which
the farmers' land is taxed, as compared
with other classes of property, bnt also to
the proper assessment and valuation of
other classes of property now partially or
wholly exempt from taxation. Just how to
accomplish this object is not so easily stat
ed. The idea of rating all property at its
true value and then taxing it equally ior
all purposes would be sufficiently an im
provement on the present laws, but it i*
doubtful if this wonld be mfficiently far
reaching in its effect. It is probable
tbat a law exempting every species of
farm property from taxation for State pur
poses and at the same time making every
species of property available for local tar
tion would come nearer to the mark Tt
has also been suggested that relief be af
forded farm property by making all court
expenses payable by the State, just «s th«
judges' salaries are now paid, or tbat the
State appropriation for school purposes be
increased from year to year until the whole
expense of the public school system is
paid iu this manner In the western states
where tlrev have loug school terms and
pay big wages, nearly the whole of tbe
mouey is raised from taxes on ru'.lr -a I#
und other corporations.
These suggestion* are only tentdtu-e aui
are pot forth principally with a vk* to
calling the attention of the Re
publicans of the county to an
important question on which some action
should be taken by the convention on
Monday—Washington. Pa., Obterrcr.
—A method of producing tire 1/ com
pressed air, as practiced by the satires of
Thibit, is described by • gentleman who
| visited that country. The apparatus con
| sists of a wooden cylinder, 2} incces iong
by f inch diameter Thi» is closed at one
end. the base being abont the si--* of a
quill pen; an air tight piston tits into this
with a large flat knob at the top The
other end of the piston is alightly hollowed
out. and a very small piece of tinder Is
placed in tho cup tbu» formed. The
cylinder is held in one hand, the piston
inserted, and poshed abont halfway down.
A sharp blow is then given the knob; the
hand must, at the same time, close cm tho
knob and instantly withdraw the piston,
when the tindeT will be fonnd alight.—fire
and Water.
—The New Tork Herald is authority for
tho statement that both the French ttßd
German armies have enlisted dogs to MITo
as sentinels and scouts. This may Call
ed letting slip the dogs of war.
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