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Looking 1 out over the many homes of thia country, we tee thousand* of women wearing' away their lives in household drudgery that might he materially lessened by the vise of a few cakes of BAPOLIO. If an hour is saved each time a cake is used, if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face because the toil is lightened, she must be a foolish woman who would hesitate to make the experiment, and he a churlish husband who would grudge the few cents which it costs. Strange Ride of )lorrowbie Jakes, BT RrDTABD KIPLIXO. There is, as the conjurers say, no decep tion about this tale. Jukes by accident stumbled upon a Tillage that is well known to exist, though he is the only Englishman who has bees there. A somewhat similar institution used to flourish on the out skirts of Calcutta, and there is a story that if you go into the heart of Bikanir, which is in the heart of the Great Indian Desert, you shall come across not a village, but a town, where the dead who did not die but may not live have established their head quarters. And, since it is perfectly true that in the same desert is a wonderful city where all the rich money lenders retreat (fortunes so vast that the owners cannot trust even the strong hand of the government to pro tect them, but take reftige in the waterless sands), and drive sumptuous C-spring ba rouches, and buy beautiful girls and deco rate their palaces with gold and ivory and Minton tiles and mother-o'-pearl, I do not see why Juke's tale should not be true. He is a civil engineer, with a head for plans and distances and things of that kind, and he certainly would not take the trouble to invent imaginary traps. He could earn more by doing his legitimate work, ne never varies the tale in the tell ing, and prows very hot and indignant when he thinks of the disrespectful treat ment he received. He wrote this quite straighforwardly at first, but he has since touched it up in places and introduced Moral Reflections, thus:— MB. JUKES BKG I VS. In tbo beginning it all arose from a slight attack ol fever. My work necessi tated my being in camp for some months between Pakpattan and Mubarakpur—a desolate, sandy stretch of country, as ev ery one who has had the misfortune to go there may know. My coolies were neither more nor less exasperating than other gangs, and my work demanded sufficient attention to keep me from moping had I been inclined to so unmanly a weakness. On the 23d December, 1884, I felt a lit tle feverish. There was a lull moon at the time, and, in consequence, every dog near my tent was baying it. The brutes as sembled in twos and threes and drove me frantic. A few days previously I had shot one loud-mouthed singer and suspended bis carcass iu trrrorem about fifty yards from my tent door. But his friends fell upon, fonght for and ultimately devoured the body, and, as it seemed to me, sang their hymns of thanksgiving afterward with renewed energy. £The light headedness which accompan ies fever acts differently upon different men. My irritation gave way after a short time to a fixed determination to slaughter one huge black and white beast who had been foremost in song and first in flight throughout the evening. Thanks to a shaking and a giddy head I had already missed him twice with both barrels of my shotgun, w hen it struck me that the best plan would bo to ride him down in the open and finish him off with a hog spear. This, of course, was merely tho semi-de lirious notion of a fever patient, but I re member that it struck me at tho time as being eminently practical and feasible. TNB START. I therefore ordered my groom to saddle Pornic and bring him round quietly to the rear of my tent. When the pony was ready, I stood at his head prepared; to mount and dash out as soon as the dog should again lift up his voice. Pornic, by the way, had not been out of his pickets for a couple of days; the night was crisp and chilly, and I was armed with a special long and sharp pair of persuaders with which I had been rousing a sluggish cob that afternoon. You will easily believe, then, that when be was let go he went quickly. . In one moment, for the brute bolted as straight as a die, tho tent was left lar be hind, and we were flying over the smooth sandy soil at'racing speed. In an other we had passed the wretched dog, and I had almnost forgotten why it was that I had taken horse and bog spear. The delirium of fever and the excitement of rapid motion through the air must havo takeu away the remnant of my senses. I have a faint recollection of standing up right in my stirrups and of brandishing my hog spear at the great white moon that looked down so calmly on my mad gal lop, and shouting challenges to the camel thorn bnshes as they whizzed past. Once, or twice, I belive, I swayed forward on Pornic's neck, and literally hung on by my spurs, as tbo marks next morning showed. The wretched beast went forward like a thing possessed over what seemed to be a limitless expanse of moonlit sand. Next, I remember, the gronnd roeo suddenly in front of us, and as we topped the ascent I saw the waters of the Sutlej shining like a silver bar below. Then Pornic blundered heavily on his nose and we rolled together down some unseen slope. I must have lost consciousness, I recovered I was lying on my stomach in a heap of soft white sand, and tho dawn was boginning to break dimly over tho edge of the slope down which I had fallen. As the light grew stronger I saw that I was at tho bottom of a horseshoe shaped crater of sand, opening directly on one side on to the shoals of the Sutlej. My fever had altogether left roe,, aiul. with the exception of a slight dizziness in the head, I felt no bad effects from the fall over night. IN THE CRATER. Pornic, who was standing a few ; ards away, was naturally a good deal exhaust ed, but bad not hurt himself in the least. His saddle, a favorite polo one, was much knocked about, and had boeu twisted un der his belly. It took me some time to put bim to rights, and in the meantime 1 had ample opportunities of observing the spot into which I bad foolishly drop ped. At tho risk of being considered tedious I must describe it at length, inasmuch as an accurate mental picture of its peculiarities will be of material assistance in enabling the reador to understand what follows. Imagine, then, as I have said before, a horseshoe shaped crater of sand with steep ly graded sand walls about thirty-five feet high. (The slope, I fancy, must have been about sixty-five degrees.) This crater en closed a level piece of ground about fifty yards long by thirty at its broadest part, with a rude well in the centre. Ronnd the bottom of tho crater, about three feet from the level of the ground proper, ran a series of eighty-three semi circular, ovoid, square and multilateral holes, all about three feet at the mouth. Each hole on inspection showed that it was carefully shored internally with drift wood and bamboos, and over the mouth a wooden drip board projected, like the peak of a jockey's cap, for two feet. No sign of life was visible in these tun nels, but a most sickening stench pervad ed the entire amphitheatre—a stench foul er than any which my wanderings in In dian villages have introduced me to. Having remounted Pornic, who was an ions as I to get back to camp, I rode round the base of the horseshoe to find some place whence an exit would be practicable BUTLER PA., FRIDAY. JULY 18,1890- The inhabitants, whoever they might be. had not thought fit to put in an appear ance, so I was left to my own devices. My first attempt to "rush" Pornic up the steep sandbanks showed me that I had fallen into a trap exactly on the same mo del as that which the ant lion sets for its prey. At each step the shifting-sand pour ed down from above in tons, and rattled on the drip boards of the Wres like entail shot. A conple of ineffectual charges sent both rolling down to the bottom half chok ed with the torrents of sand, and I was constrained to turn my attention to the river bank. CAUGHT IS A TBAP. Here everything seemed easy enough. The sand hills ran down to the river edge, it is true, but there were plenty of shal lows across which I could gallop Pornic and find my way back to terra Jtrma by turning sharply to the right or the left. As I led Pornic over the sands I was start led to by the faint pop of a rifle across the river, and at the same moment a bul let dropped with a sharp "whit" close to Pornia's head. There was no mistaking the nature of the missile—a regulation Martini Henry "picket." About fire hundred yards away a country boat was anchored in mid stream, and a jet of smoke drifting away from its bow in the still morning air show ed me whence the delicate attention had come. Was ever a respectable gentleman in such an imposnef The treacherous sand slope allowed no escape from a spot which I yisited most involuntarily, and a prom enade on the river frontage was the signal for a bombardment from some insane na tive in a boat. I'm afraid I lost my tem per very much indeed. Another bullet reminded me that I had better save my breath to cool my porridge: and I retreated hastily up the sands and back to the horseshoe, whore I saw that the noise of the rifle had drawn sixty-five human beings lroui the badger holes which I had up till that point supposed to bo un tenanted. I found myself in the midst of a crowd of spectators— about forty men, twenty women, and one child who could not have been more than five years old. They were all scantily clothed in that salmon colored cloth which one associates with Hindu mendicants, and at first sight gave mo the impression of a band of loath some fakirs. The filth and repulsiveness of the assembly were beyond all descrip tion, and I shuddered to think what their life in the badger holes must be. A RUDE RECEPTION. Even in these days, when local self-gov ernment has destroyed the greater part of a native's respect for a Sahib, I hare been accustomed to a certain amount of civility from my inferiors, and on approaching the crowd naturally expected that there would be some recognition of my presence. As a matter of fact there was, but It was by no means what I had looked for. The ragged crew actually laughed at me. Such laughter I hope I may never hear again. They cackled, yelled, whis tled and howled as I walked in their midst, some of them literally throwing themsel ves down on the ground in convulsions of unholy mirth. In a moment I had let go Pornic's head and, irritated beyond ex pression at the morning's adventure, com menced cuffing those nearest to mo with all the force I could. The wretches dropped under my blows like ninepins and the laughter gave placo to wails for mercy, while those yet un touched clasped mo around the knees, im ploring me in all sorts of uncouth tongues to spare them. In the tumult, and just when I was feel ing much ashamed of myself for haying thus easily given way to my temper,a thin, high voice murmured in English from be hind my shoulder: "Sahib! Sahib! Do you not know me? Sahib, it is Gunga Dass, the telegraph master." I spun round quickly and faced the speaker. Gunga Dass (I have, of course, no hesi tation in mentioning the man's real name) I had known four years before as a Dec cannee Brahmin lent by the Punjab gov ernment to one of tbo Khalsia States. He was in charge of a branch telegraph office there, and when I had last met him was a jovial, Ml stomached, portly government servant with a marvellous capacity for making bad puns in English—a peculiarity which made me remember him long after I had forgotten his services to me in his official capacity. It is seldom that a Hin du makes English puns. TIUXDA DASS WAS CIIAXGEI). Now, however, tho man was changed be yond all recognitition. Caste mark, stom ach, slate colored continuations and unc tuous speech were all gone. I looked at a withered skeleton, turbanles* and almost naked, and deep set codfish eyes. But for a crescent shaped scar on the left cheek— the result of an accident for which I was responsible—l should never havo known him. But it was indubitably Gunga I)ass, and—for this I was thankful— an English speaking native who might at least tell me the meaning of all I had gone through that day. The crowd retreated to somo distance as I turned toward the miserable figure and ordered bim to show me some method of escaping from the crater. He held a fresh ly plucked crow in his hand, and in reply to my question climbed slowly on a plat form of sand which ran in front of the holes, and commenced lighting a firo there in siienee. Dried bents, sand poppies and driftwood burn quickly, and I derived much consola tion from the fact that he lit them with an ordinary sulphur match. When they were in a bright glow, and tho crow was neatly spitted in front therof, Gunga Dass began without a word of preamble:— "There are only two kinds of men, Sar. The alive and the dead. When you arc dead you are dead, but when you are alive you live." (Here tho crow demunded his attention for an instant as it twirled be fore the fire in danger of being burned to a cinder. "If you at home and do not die wh en you come to the ghat to bo burned, you come here." The nature of tho reeking village was made plain now, and all that I had known or read of tho grotesque and tho horrible paled before the fact just communicated by the ex-Brahmin. Sixteen years ago, when I first landed in Bombay, I had been told by a wandering Armenian of tho existence somewhere in India of a place to which such Hindus as had the misfortune to re cover from trance or catalepsy were con veyed and kept, and I recollect laughing heartily at what I was then pleased to con sider a traveller's tale. Sitting at the bottom of the sand trap the memory of Watson's Hotel, with its swinging punkahs, white robed attendants and the sallow-faced Armenian rose up in my mind as vividly as a photograph and I burst into a loud fit ol laughter. Tho con trast was too absurd! OL'SGA DASS' STORY. Gunga Dass, as he bent over the unclean bird, watched me curiously. Hindus sel dom laugh, and his surroundings were not such as to more Gunga Dass to any nndno hilarity. He removed the crow solemnly from the wooden spit and as solemnly de voured it. Then he continued his story, which I give in his own words:— '*ln epidemics of the cholera you are carried to be burnt almost before you are dead. When you come to the riverside the cold air, perhaps, niakesyoj alive, and and then if you are only a little alive, mud is put on your EOSC and mouth and you die conclusively. If you arc rather more alive, more mud is put; but if you arc too lively they let you go and tako you away. "1 was too lively, and made protesta tion with anger against the indignities that they endeavored to press upon me. In those days I was Brahmin and proud man. Xow lam dead man and eat" —here he eyed the well gnawed breast bone with the first sign of emotion that I had seen in him since wo met —"crows and other things. They took mo from my sheets when they saw that I was too lively and gave roe medicines for one week, and I survived successfully. Then they sent me by rail from my place to Okara Station, with a man to take care of me, and at Okara Station we met two other men and they conducted we three on camels, in the night, from Okara Station to this place, and they propelled mc from the top to the bottom, and the other two succeeded, and I have been here ever since—two and a half years. Once I was Brahmin and proud man, and now I eat crows." '•There is no way of getting out?" "None of what kind at all. When I first came I made experiments frequently, and all the others also, but we have al ways succumbed to the sand which is pre cipitated upon our heads." "But surely," I broke in at this point, "the river front is open, and it is worth while dodging the bullets, whilo at night " MAKES IIIM LAUGH, I had already matured a rough plan of escape which a natural instinct of selfish ness forbade me sharing with Gnnga Dass. He, however, divined my unspoken thought almost as soon as it was formed, and to my intense astonishment gave vent to long, low chuckle of derision—the laughter, be it understtod, of a superior or nt least of an equal. "You will not"—he had dropped the sir completely after his opening sentence — "make any escape that way. But you can try. I have tried. Once only." The sensation of nameless terror and ab ject fear which I had in vain attempted to strive against overmastered me completely. My long fast—it was now close upon ten o'clock, and I had eaten nothing sinco tiffin on the previous day—combined with the violent and unnatural agitation of the ride had exhausted mc, and I verily be lieve that for a few minutes I acted as one mad. I hurled myself against the pitiless sand slope. I ran round the baso of the crater, blaspheming and praying by turns. I crawled out among the sedges of the river front, only to be driven back each time in an agony of nervous dread by the rifle bullets which cut up the sand ronnd me—for I dared not face the death of a mad dog among that hideous crowd—and finally fell, spent and raviag, at tho curb of tho well. No one had taken the slightest notice of an exhibition which makes me blush hotly even when I think of it now. Two or three men trod on my panting body as they drew water, but they wero evidently used to this sort of thing, and had no time to waste upon me. Tho situ ation was humiliating. Gunga Dass, in deed, when he had banked tho embers of his fire with sand, was at somo pains to throw half a cupful of fetid water over my head, an attention for which I could have fallen on my knees and thanked him, but ho was laughing all tho whilo in the same mirthless, wheezy key that greeted mc on my first attempt to force tho shoals. And so, in a semi-comatose condition, I lay till noon. A WRETCHED MEAL. I Then, being only a man after all, I felt hungry, and intimated as much to Gunga Dass, whom I had begun to regard as my natural protector. Following the impulse of tho outer world when dealing with na tives I put my band into my pocket and drew out four annas. Tho absurdity of tho gift struck me at onco and I was about to replace the money. Gunga Dass, however, was of a different opinion. "Givo mo tho money," said he; "all yon have, or I will get help and wo will kill you!" All this as if it wero tho most natural thing in tho world. A Briton's first impulse, I believe, is to guard the contents of his pockets; but a moments reflection convinced me of the futility of differing with the one man who had it in his power to mako me comforta ble, and with whose help it was possible that I might eventually escape from tho crater. I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs, 9-8-s—nino rupees, eight annas and fivo pie—for I always keep small chango as bakshish when I am in camp. Gunga Dass clutched the coins and hid them at once in his ragged loin cloth, his expression chnging into something diabol ihal as he looked round to assuro himself that no ono had observed ns. "Now I will givo yoti something to cat," said be. What pleasure tho posossion of my mon ey could have afforded him I am unable to say; bnt inasmuch as it did give evident delight I was not sorry that I parted with it so readily, for I had no doubt that he would haw had mo killed if I had refused. One does not protest against the vagaries of a den of wild beasts; and my compan ions were lower than any beasts. Wbilo I devoured what Gunga Dass had provided, a coarso ehapatti and a enpful of tho foul well water, tho people showed not tho faintest sign of curiosity—that curiosi ty which is so rampart, as a rule, in an In dian village. I could even fancy that thoy despised me. At all events they treated mo with the most chilling indifference, and (iunga I>ass was nearly as bad. I plied him with questions about tho tcrrrible village, and received extremely unsatisfactory an swers. So far as I could gather, it had. been in existenco from timo immemorial— whence I conclnded that it was at least a century old—and during that time no on© had ever been known to escape from it. (I had to control myself hero with both bands, lest the blind terror should lay hold of me a second time and drive me raving round tho crater.) Gunga Dass took a malicious pleasuro in 'emphasizing this point and in watching ino wince. Nothing that I could do would indnce hint to tell me who tho mysterious "They"' were. "It is so ordered," ho would reply, "said I do not yet know anyone who has diso beyed tho orders." "Only wait till my servants find that I am missing," I retorted, "and I promise you that this placo shall bo cleared off the face of the earth, and I'll give you a les son in civility, too, my friend." "Your servants would be torn in pieces before they came near this place; and, be sides, you are dead, my dear friend. It is not your fault, of course, but none tho less you are dead and buried." At irregular intervals supplies of food, I was told, were dropped down from the land side into the amphitheater and the inhabitants fonght for theja like wild beasts. When a man felt his death com- I ing on he retreated to his lair and died there. The body was sometimes dragged out of the hole and thrown on the sand or allowed to rot where it lay. The phrase "thrown on the sand" caught my attention. and I asked Gnnga Dass whether this sort of thing was not likely to breed a pestilence. "That," said he, with another of his wheezy chuckles, "yon may see for yotrr self subsequently. Von will have much time to make observations." To be con tin tied. A Big Swindle. Beaver Falls Tribune. The greatest swindle ever perpetrated in this county has just been brought to light, the victim being Joseph Shannon, a wealthy farmer, residing at HomcwooJ, five miles west of this place. About a year ago a man of genteel appearauce, walked leisurely up to Farmer Shannon's door and introduced himself as Harris E. Harper, of Pittsburg. He wanted to buy a farm, he said, and was willing to pay Mr. Shannon well for any trouble he might go to in helping him select one. ne had the utmost confidence in Mr. Shannon, as the latter had been recommended by Judge Wick ham and Lawyer Daugherty, of Bearer. The Baker farm, a short distance north of Ilomewood, was selected, and lhe terms agreed upon. Harper left and on two occasions thereafter came back. He also wrote a letter dated at Pittsburg, in which he regretted his inability to get down bat promised to call soon. Ho represented himself as the son of a banker, and wanted the farm for a summer residence for an in valid brother. He also took care to display large sums of money each time. Last Monday Harper paid his third and last visit to the Shannon homestead. Harper stated that he had come to make final arrangement to buy the farm, and in company with Shannon started to the Baker homestead in a buggy hired from Graham's livery stable in this city. About a mile down the road, a small man, who talked like a Southerner, came out from under a tree and engaged them in con versation and showed them how he had won SIO,OOO. A short time elapsed before Harper became interested, and at last stated that he could select a marked card. He did, and won SII,OOO which the small man handed over. Farmer Shannon was told that it would not be gambling if he guessed. Ho never gambled he said, -but thought he could pick out a. certain card. This he did, and won $9,000, which the stranger handed over in SI,OOO bills. Turn ing to the two nion, the little man told them the money was theirs, but they must prove to hira that they could bare pro duced that amount had they lost Harper agreed to go to Beaver Falls and get the amount, Farmer Shannon consented also, and the two drove to this city. Shannon went to the Exchange Bank and got $4,000 on a note payable in three days. From thcro he went to the Economy Bank and drew $5,000 in the same way. He was soon found by Harper, and the two started back to Homewood. About half way back, in a secluded spot in the road, the men were hailed by the small man, and the two men put the pile in a big tin box, Harper claiming that he did not get the full amount, but would go to Beaver for it. The little man agreed to go with him, and the two consented to allow Shannon to keep the box. The two then took the buggy and started back, Shannon walking towards home with his treasure. Three days passed and tho men came not. Yesterday he opened the box. There was nothing in it but brown paper and a note which read: "You gambled and lost. You are able to stand it. If you tell it, everybody will think you tho biggest fool in the country." Thoy had changed boxes. The two men then drove across to Wur tcmbnrg and sent word to the livery stable keeper to come and get his horse and buggy. This is the last heard of them. Harper is about 35 years of age and is about 5 feet 10 inohes, with auburn beard, llis accomplice is about tho same age. ■Joseph Shannon, the victim, is 63 years old and worth $50,000. He is considered one of the shrewdest men in that locality. He offers $5,000 of the amount for the arrest and conviction of the men. Shannon is ono of the best known men in the county. This morning he was in town flying around like a hen on a hot griddle, in voking tho aid of tho polico. It is said since that the parties came hero to buy a farm, and offered Shannon SIO,OOO for it. Ho (Shannon) went to Beaver Falls, d row tho money and paid it over to tho fellows, who disappeared and have not yet been heard from. The Red Scale. Tho red scalo is as dangerous and in fections to fruit interests as small pox is among human beings. If any one wants to know what an awful thing it is, let him come down in this vicinity and visit Orango. It is a pitiful sight to soe what ruin has been caused by careless indiffer ence of tho people when this pest first came into this valley. When I first saw Orange, in tho fall of 1884, I thought it the garden spot of America. I never shall forget tho luxuriance of the acres of orange orchards and tho prosperous-look ing places. There were then shipments of many carloads of oranges from Orange station every spring, and there.were dozens of men who got from $2,000 to $4,000 a year for theitoraugo crops. The red scale came there in the spring of 1885. Feople talked some about it, and few said the pest would be serious unless stamped out at onco. Their fears wero ridiculed, and every one went on in au easy, indifferent way, while the little red scale bug multi plied, spread and devoured, till at last tho people saw acre after acre of orango trees dead and dying. Go to Orange to-day. Where thcro wero hundreds of fine orchards five years ago, tho land is now covered with the decaying stumps of orange and lemon trees, whilo in tm majority of cases barley and a few vege tables are now grown where the orango orchards used to flourish. Tho men who enjoyed an incomo of $2,000 and $4,000 annually from their orange crops are now as poor as church mice and are bewailing thoir fate. Come here some day and see for yourself what the awful red scalo has dono for us.— T. M. ltoUy, in Pomona I'roffrcss. Choked Caltle. My method is to draw the animal's head while in a stanchion, up with a stoat rope and fasten to tho top; thon, having previously melted one-half pint of lard placed in a bottle whilo warm, I pour it down the cow's throat; she will struggle, and all the more violent the bettor, as the molted grease will make tho throat slip pery, and theu you can easily work the obstruction up with Sometimes they will cough it up. I have had good success with this method, and have never lost a patient yet.— Cor. Dairy World. —Tho man who is 123 years of age, and the lady who has boen a fond mother 37 times, according to tho census, are both colored. Fire Crackers. The stock of fit* crackers ia this country at the present time is said to be from 25 to 30 per cent less than is usual at this season. This shortage is tine in part to labor strikes in China, where all the small crackers and most of the large or cannon crackers are made, and also to the im position by the Chinese government of the lelin. or tax, both of whteb bar* acted as a check upon manufacturers. Strikes arc of frequent occurrence in China, and labor ers are'thoroughly organized, having what are here called onions and guilds. Strikes are sometimes attended with loss of prop erty as well as of life. The annual receipts of firo crackers in this country are from eight hundred thous and to one million boxes, and orders for these goods have been sent forward one year in advance. The Chinese manufac turing year begins June l.and this is about the date when American manufacturers send forward their orders for next year's supply. The usual voyage from New York to Hong Kong is 120r days, so that there are only left, after a passage to China and return, 125 days of the year. The ship Pandering Jew arrived in Xew York on April 29 with 135,000 boxes of fire crackers on board, and she was the last ship that could arrive before the Fourth of July, the Great Admiral, now on the way, not being due until August 1. It is, therefore, positively known that there will be a short supply of fire crack ers, and this has had the effect of advanc ing the price from 80 cents a box, which was paid last year, to $1.25 per bo v. Crackers aro made principally in Canton and in the country surrounding that city. A cannon cracker factory in the suburbs of Canton is described by an eye witness as follows: The buildiug is of sun dried brick, with a tiled roof twelve feet from the ground, and thin space is divided into an upper and lower apartment, each with the ceiling about six feet higb. The interior of the building when visited was strewn with pieces of paper, while vessels containing powder were standing round, the contents of which seemed to be in imminent danger of being exploded, and men, women and children were actively engaged in the man ufacture of the goods. The paper needed for the cracker is cut to the required length and then weighed to see that the proper quantity for each cracker is exactly the same. The instru ment used In weighing is of the rudest de scription, being a stick about two and a half feet long, suspended from the ceiling by a string, which is attached to the centre of the stick, and a stone is placed as a weight on end and the articles to be weigh ed on the other. The paper is rolled into cylindrical form by means of a flat piece of wood held in the bands, and then one end is creased with a pair of pinchers and a string tied into the crease as a temporary means of preventing the powder from run ning out when the cylinders arc placed in a perpendicular position to be loaded. The last named process is as follows: The cylinders are bunched together like cigars turned on end, and then pinched with an awl, and into the apeiature thus made the powder is poured from a tin. can. Then the stem of the cracker is inserted, which consists of a piece of thin, tough paper, with just sufficient powder twisted up into it to make it burn qnickly. A piece of paper is temporarily pasted over the end containing the stem for the pur pose of preventing the powder from run ning out, as the crackers are now placed on thai end. The string placed temporarily around the pinched end is now removed and clay tamping is hammering into the aperature and then the paper is removed from the stem end and the clay tamping is applied there, which prevents any powder from silting out. The cracker is now ready for the thin piece of red paper which goes around the outside and completes it. The stems are then very neatly braided together, which forms the crackers into packs, and these are each wrapped in thin paper and orna mented with a red label with pictures of dragons upon it. Ked is the festive color of China, and as fire crackers are used principally on festal occasions, that color is rigidly adhered to in the manufacture of these goodj. The packs aro placed in boxes and in the proportion of forty packs to the box. There is a regular division of labor in the cracker factory, each person having his or ber special work to do, and in this they become quite expert. Tbo above is a description of caiyion cracker manufacture, but the same will apply to the small crackers. The latter, however, are generally made in the rural districts, and aro brought down tho river to Canton in junks. There is a large home consumption of fire crackers, and tho Chinese think that their explosion will ward off evil spirits. They aro fired off on numerous occasions, but particularly on the Chinese new year, which is a variable date regulated by the changes in the moon. Foreigners residing in Canton have what they call the Canton salute, which consists in the firing off at one timo of six boxes of small crackers and two or three boxes of cannon crackers, and this is given on the departure of some of their number for home. Of the million boxes of crackers sent each year to this country, a number are re shipped to South America, where they are used on social occasions as wells as at pub lic fetes. They are used in the south at Christmas time, and also in Canada on May 24, which is Queen Victoria's birthday. Cannon crackers are also made in this country, but the small ones cannot be pro duced here at anything like the price they can be furnished by tho Chinese. Their product is carried half way round the world, pays duty, and is then sold for 80 cents a box. In the McKinley tariff bill now before Congress, the duty on fire crackers is placed at H cents a pound, which will make the tax 63 cents as against 28 cents a box, which is the rate paid now. If this provision of the new tariff kill is adopted, it will probably have tho effect of stimulating the manufacture of cannon crackers in this country. Fire crackers are of very ancient origin. Dr. Williams in his exhaustive work on China, entitled "The Middle Kingdom," says: "No evidence exists of tho use of gunpowder as on agent of warfare until the middle of the twelfth century, nor did a knowledge of its propulsive effects come to the Chinese until the reign of Yunglop in the fifteenth century—a thousand years after its first employment in fire crackers." —A Missouri liquor dealer opened an "original package" saloon in Ottawa, Kansas, near where the Kansas Chautau qua Assembly was holding it* sessions which so incensed the Kansas people that they subscribed $3,000 to pay tho expenses of a league that shall capture tho liquor sellers, tar and feather them, and ship them back to Missouri labeled. "This is an original package from Missouri." This is a rather stalwart way of getting rid of the gnerilla liquor seller. One Missouri man with a coat of tar and feather would serve as an awful warning to the others. —The CCUKO* lion brought oat the inter esting fact that there are women in this country who will not talk. NO 36 He Found the Schoolmaster. We were sitting on the veranda of a hotel at Niagara Falls, when I noticed the man on my right looking sharply at the one on ray left, and presently he got up in an excited way and walked about. After a bit be halted before the other man and a But instantly, for He let his The bee uninjured flew aw Mr, In search of sweets among the h*y- A osefaltanchfc With kean foresight be always fraught, Nor think because a thing Is frail There i* a° "linger in ito taiL