VOL XXVII. © \ V \LL PAPER! Kelievi nx that it ia b°st to cloao out each Moon's etjles h« fora the eo?aing season begin*, even at • great sacrifice, I bare marked over two-thirds of mj entire stock of pa per hanging*, the largest and best •eelected Hoe in Botler, AT HALF PRICE The balance of the paper was mark ad so low before that half price would be firing them away. These joa will get below cost notwithstanding their former cheapness. Jost imagine Browns at 8c a double bolt, Whites at 10 atd 12c, Gilts 15 and upward. Buy now for yoar fall papering, you will not get such bargain? then. M y Wall Paper, Stationery and Art Store is eaej to find. W. A. OSBORNE, E. Jefferson St., next to Lowry House, Butler, Pa. Wir spreihen such DtoUch. Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF D. E. JACKSON. We are new corner*, bat bare come to stay. We bay oar goods at lowewt cash prices and as we sell Tor ca?h on\j. We are enabled to sell goods At the smallest possible margius. We eoald qaote prices on clean, new goode, no troth., from all parts of oar •tore, especially on tbe following goods. Drefs Goods, White Goods, Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus lins, Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles, Corsets aod Corset Waists, Ladies', Children's aod Gents' Under vr<*r, Hosiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid Glove*, Ribbons, Bilk and Velvet, Black and Colored Bilks, Cloth Capes, Bead Wraps, Jerseys aod Jersey Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins. Towels, Ac., kc , bat as new goods are arriviog all tbe time, we would not likely 'have tbe goods now quoted, but possibly have them at •till lower prices as tbe season ad vance*. We are proud to say that *in this city and connty oar goods and prices have met with approval sod commendation, although subject ad to close scrutiny and comparison with* the goods offered by others. We solicit your patronage, and will do all in our power to make our tusi oexs transactions pleasant and profit able. D. E. JACKSON, Butler, Pa. Next door to Ueineman's. Eacket Store. All our summer goods must be closed out to make room for *ll stock, and if you want real, genuine bargains come and cee us, for wo are offering them on all summer goods, clothing, ttra.v hats, under wear, furnishing goods. Every thing must go. RACKET STORE, H. Mam St., Hntler, 3^a. DOLLARS Saved are a-s gi>»;d as dollars earned, and the wise will take advantage of our closing out sale of SEASONABLE GOODS. We dont want to carry over one piece, and if low prices will sell them, we sha'n't. Light Colored Stiff Hats, Summer Underwear, .Stra«v Plats and Light Colored Neck wear are all to go. Look alive now and don't get left. COLBERT & DALE, 70 S. Main street, Butler, Pa. J. E. Kastor, Practical Statu Hoofer. Ornamental and Plain Slating Ot all kimlti done on xhort notice. Office with W. 11. Morris > No. 7, N. Main St„ Residence North Elm street. Butler, Pa THIS PAPfcK" ; ,'} Af-'-y <* Mr r» •J • tn • our »'■ 'UI/I IIMJ I^OUTA THE BUTL&R CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL, CARDS. L. BLACK, rHTsici»K ixr Ft mores. No. XA. N. Main A..-Butler. Pa Dr. A. A. Kelly, j Office al lii*e : utni, lairinn county. Fa. R. .V. I.EAKK. Ji. D. J. K. MANN. M^l>. Specialties Stiectaittes: ayiircokxry anil .-tor- Kye. Kar. Now aad Throat. ORS. LEAKE & MAUN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN, ruvsicu* AM scaoao*. Office at No. is. a Main street, orer jPraak a Co'a Ding Store. Butler. Pa. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. A'«. 22 East Jtffersoa St., Butler, Pa. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 8. W. Corner Main and North BU., Batler. P*. J. J. DONALDSON, DenUsL Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth Inserted (n the latest im proved plan, '.old Killing a specialty. Offioe— over Hrbaul's Cloihlnic Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to tbe profession execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties :—Gold Killings, and Painless Kx tr.x'.icn ot Teeth, Vitalized Air administered, ucirr ietttntm Street, Ola deor Bast ef Lewiy How. I> Stain. Office open daily, except Wednesday* and Thursday*. f.'onimun I cations by mall receive prompt attention. ». a-The only Dentist to Datier mlasttbe beat makes of teeth. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Map*, plan#, specifications and esti mates; all kinds of architectural and en gineering work. No charge for drawing if 1 contract the work. Consult your best In terests; plan before you build. In forma tion cheerfully given. A share of pablie patronage is solicited. P. 0. Box 1007. Office 8. W. of Court House, Butler, Pa C. F. L. McQUISTION, K&tiIXEEK AMD SI'BVKVOB, tunc* MIL DIAMOND. Bonn. PA. J. W HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. office t'ti ci.d Door of tbe Huaeitoa block. Diamond, ktiller, I'a, itoom Mo. i. A. t. SCOTT. j. r. witaasL SCOTT & WILSON, ATTOIIX KYB-AT-LA W. Collection* a specialty. Office at No. a. Santa Diamond, Duller, pa. JAMES N. MOORE, ATTOBMSr-AT-lAW AMD NOTABT PTBUC. Ofllce In Uoom No. 1. second Hoar of Uasetton Block, entrance on Diamond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATfOUNKY AT LAW. Office on second floor ot New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McdUNKIN. Attorney at law. Office at No. IT, Kaat JeSer son bt . Duller. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Ailoii,A. urn sioi! nits. KBIE, PA. All iiUK-k frtiarHtitcml to la 6 in good con dition when dulivored. Wo rnplace *ll tree* that fail to grow. HKFEREXCKB IX BITTLKR: J. K. Lowry, W. T. Mediliug, Jams tShanor, Jr., J. K. Fonyrthe, G«o. ttbaffner U. Walk«r, Kaq., Ferd Koilmr, K*q. and I> li. Clcelaml. G. F. KING, AGT. KirumtiUi Hochk, Ui TLKt, PA. isssfftasesaiamß w * i . \ f When in need of FSU=R=N=I?T=U=REE Don't forget the old stand. CHAMBER SUITS, PARLOR SUITS, BOOK CASKS, CHAIRS, BEDS, BEDDING, ETC All first claw goods at rock bottom pricea. One price and square dealing with all. JE. S. D R E W, Successor to Miller Bro's k Co. 128 E. Jefferson fet., - - Butler* Pa. HENRY BIEHL 14 NORTH MAIN STREET, BtTTLEU FBLNIST'A DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing Goods. STANDARD rotary shuttle SEWING /Mjr machines, IIUAjA (2600 Stitches Per Minute.) Agricultural Implements, Kramer Wagons, Buggies, Carts, Wheel Barrows, Brammer Washing Machines, New Sunshine and Howard Ranges, Stoves, Table and pocket Cutlery, Hanging Lam pa. Man ufacturer of Tinware, Tin Roofing end Spouting A Specialty. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY A 8 CHEAP AS A MAN. J. R. GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB. GRIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE ; 10. 16 SOUTH MAIN 8T , BUTLEB, PA. «Sole Agents for Butler, Mercer and Clar ion countiea for Behr Bros, k Co'a Magnificent Piano*, fehouinger, and Newby k Evans FianoH, Packard, Crown, Carpenter and New England Organs. Dealers in Violins, Strings, Bruno Guitars, and All Kinds of Musical Instruments. SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY Pianos and Organs sold on installments. Old Instruments taken in exchange. i ome and see ua, aa we can save you money. Tuning and Repairing of *ll kinds of Musical Instruments Promptly Attended to. "fir WATERPROOF " ——l THAT CAN BB RBLIBO ON " to u ' 23S* 23. THa aiAaa j JCot to PUooIo»l ifettfuilD J MARK. MSKOt BO LAIMMIIM. CAB BB W OCKAB IB A MIIH. THE ONLY LINEN-LINBD WATEPPROOF COLLAR IN THB MAR KIT. . IMLLLU ' i s—— 1 MOR^AFISHOES the more wotitiW9Pfne>biWffißft Busy.wivea who use S APOLtQ never aeem tofirow old.Try*ca&t» badly washed Ushss, tnm an nslssn Irßskin, as Onm MAss wkkh aeeaod lifht aa air. Bat Sy tiuw tfctafS a SMfa 90km JntfSS Sf BIS wifc'a devotion to kar Amity, aad ihaqw Bar wBB flisinl aoglost whan ha find* bar rinim im theae ywttoalasai BMy a Imm ewa a larga part of its thrifty aoataaoa aa* Ms MMlpaS hafytawss la IABOLZO. Fa* wtwiitft " 1I "" *"* "*** BUTUK FA... FRIDAY, AUGUST 15.1890 MICK TAXWS REVENGE. Tout** "Aad why's Oar'aaoa jraH not be my wife. Xataiief 1 OB* ha*M* I *aal. MfekT ••Why*" "Sekaae." "Mivait" "Ka, Biak. airer!" "Give aw jrer r'aaoas fur Uiu' each a fuel, KathUe," aaM »he young blacksmith. "Beka*a ia aa r'aeua at all!" "Don't be batharia' ate, Mick,'' aaid Kathleen, ia a fleaHl>g twee, with tears hanting aa the tamg laahea that triage* tMTgray nyea. "There's eaaM attar bay ia my way!" ba exclaimed, aiaaeat Sercaly. Kathleea mad** tesei slightly, aad a little faahewf *• Bv ehaak. "Is it a»t thai Mke that ails yeT "Aad it ia"|sil Tfrankly. "It's the Kaifo waitta' saaa—a white faced feat that afcasns rather t* laiia roaad aaithar M Wttr a brash ia his bttda, thaa to da hiara, Mpi werk with the two staatAitoJM faro War "It's aavar o WlAiatT „ "Ia it tfca iaa frnfv't *aa, wha wears the red flamsn' yia aad MakS half hie lathers wMakyP V- - -iriver' him!*' "It saraly e«a aiver ha Teddy Laoaey. that's eoatiat to m*d aha* art shear I 'ami The little spalfeea, with earls aad piak cheeks ok* a «M. aad a cough like a sick collie deft" "Ifa iaat Mm, Mi*!" Mick thre* baak bia haad aad laachad. Bat it was abittaa, ssaifcl laagh. "Look at thim twa heads tf miae, aa stfoag aa iroa aad aa Maehaa eaal; haada that hod shed two haadred hasaaa afsr* they aaa tweaty-fiva yeasa aid! Aad my Sthst with two hoodar aad fifty panada of aaoaaf in the bank fcr ma! Leok aow at me with a bandar aad aaxty paaada o' Seeh oa my boaea, and tvo arma that can thrash any three lads in Colaeoeyt Am I like himt" "Tese not, iadade!" "Am I aa poor as him wkoae tether has ban aaongb laid by to bary bia family!" "T«ae not." "Thin will ye marry me in place o' himt" "Niveri" "And why uivesf" "Bakaaa I lorea Ma aad ba'a so pretty, Mick," said KalhUe, with amusing frank neaa, and blushing deafly. "Thin 111 bate him till I pnt out the small Mt o' beanty aad the little life that's in him!" cried lUek, fieroely. "Yeee not mane eaongh to bate a lad leea than yareel', Mickl Ta ware niver a coward, afore! Don't ba one new! It ye want ta fight, search far one that's yer equal for siae aad beaaty, small chance for india' anal" "I'll da that, my jewel!" cried Miok, greatly mollified by thia ahrewd compli meat Ha dsav a heavy aigk, and aa ha walked away ha aaid, paofaftilly, "God bliaa ye, KathUe, whatever happens to yer poor, wake-chisted, Uw-veiesd thing a" a lover." Caddy aad Kathlaaa hod long had eeeret plana tar e art grating to America that ter •aatrini heeven ef the Iriab. Aad aow Kathleen, haiaf saisad with faor of the powerful yenng blaekfnlth, >aatsnad the wedding aad the dap ait aaa. Sa f eiatlj aad faiakly was# their ptaas carried oat fare their neighbors knew they warn mar ried. Many are the gay dreams ot wealth and pleaanre that danae ia the brains of yoaag emigrants, wbieh are redely broken *r never MfiUadl Taddy aad Kathl*** were earn par ativaly riek. for they landed with goad atrvng cletftes aad ahaaa, twa blaa woodea boxes, aad "twisty pounds a* mnaey." Perhaps the Innocent hoy expected to find applicaats waiting ta engage him to tend flacks and to shear them at Castle Saidsil Parbaps Kathleen In her igaa ranee, thought of stepping at oaca into a bright little hnase at bar ewa, with a look ing glaaa and a recking chair ready to re float aad receive hart Bat there waa no call far ahsph*rds,' aad Teddy was not strong enongb for rough work oa a term or a railroad, nav yet for enduing the eloae air of n factory. t They tried first one place ahfl the another; one kind ef work and'than another, till their "fortune" of one hundred dollars was waegan*.- Than home, under charge of seerSey; and"a fond grandfather aent Kathlie ton pounds, with which they went West.' Vexti Teddy fell 111, and they wrote again, and tbe other grandfather aent a hoarded five poaada, and with that they come Kaat again! In tbe meantime Mick grew moody nod gloomy, and his parents feared for his reason. They nrged him to go to con fession—a ceremony he had seldom gone through, ns bis sins had never troubled him much. Bat be went to tbe prioet to pleaee his mother. Tbe well meaning old father naked all sorts of questions to lean what tbe trouble that was pressing an his heart. "Have ye iver murdered anybody and bid bim in tbe bogt" he asked. '"Dead, 1 hain't, thin!" replied Mick. "Have ye Iver stole money, or ita valaeT "'Deed I hain't done that, ather!" "Have ye eoveted yoar aeigbbors' goods!" " 'Deed, I've na node a' doia' that, for I've gat more myeilf nor moat «' them hast" "Hate ye Med agin yer enemies!" "'Deed I hain't! iSre a better way o> settlin' them. I Jist ups wid my right flst and knocka 'em down widont tke trouble a* lyla' again 'ami" The priest rebuked this spirit, aad asked if there wee a grudge la his heart against any fellow-creature. 1 ' "Plinty o' 'em, yar rlverenee." "Go this hour and ax their pardon," was the good advice ot the old man. "Faith, the one agin whoa I am a vilest is far away—beyont my power, yer river eaee." Aad aa ha aaid this, the thought darted iato hie mind that if he could jest gat over the eea aad give Teddy a flae thraahiag he would feel better. "11l take yer advice, hooly fayther, aad bunt him ea the other aide a* tbe e'a" Aad at eaae the goesip about Mick's tow eplrits waa tamed lata a new channel. It waa now asid that be waa eaoaeieaoe atreak about the ewvsee ha had prayed lowa upon Teddy Umaey, aad waa going la America to aek bia pavdaa sa a peaaoce. When ashed by aa eld frteod If be had really forgive* Teddy, ha replied: "Tee, have I, till I gate within arm's reaah «' him; aad thea he'll tad oat what Miek Taady'a reviage is—wiU he!" So Mick left hie forge, hia anvil and bis leather aprea, aad sat sail, to the great (rial of the maay who bad alwaye found a friead ia the hot-beaded, warm-hearted fallow. Theatre* lighU burned dimly ia a dingy part of Ike city of Lowell, when a etalwart fellow, with a atrong Iriah brogue en hia tongee, atepped into a grocery and naked, "Would yea b« teUfeT me, air, where Uvea a rich giatlamaa in] theae parts by the nam. of Loonej-T" "I don't know of any genUeman in the city o4 that name," wai the reply. "Wd ye never bear the name in these partaf" "ifo; except a party up D**h lane, in oae of the factory tenements.'* Than Kick, thinking these poor people might direct him to their rich namesake, followed the grocer's direction, and soon found himself mounting a rickety stairway, •fery board of which creaked beneath his ponderous tread. He tapped at the door to which be had baen directed, and in a moment it was opened and he saw dimly by the light of a poor lamp a woman with one child in her anna. Everything in the room waa very poor bat very clean. "la this Miathress Looneyt" asked. "Tea, yar honor," replied the woman, eofUy. "I'm aav came from Coloony, Ireland, methreea, and am a'archin' for old friends by yoar name. They're people in fine cir eometaneee, and I thought ve might direct ma to 'am." The woman caught her breath, for the voice waa familiar, aad she roee np and laid bar child down and stood in the door while her vifitor atuod in the entry. "Oeb, dear Oolooney?" she gasped. "I'm from that aame, myself; but I never heard another one ia this place blessed enough to be bora there —dear, dear Coloony!" "The wife's name, afore she married, waa Kathleen Byrne, and she married a fable sort o* yonng man, and some say they got rich her*. If I heerd right he bad a factory o' his own in this place." Here the pale woman gave a groan, and threw her apron over her bead. "What aili ye, poor sowlT" cried Mick, i >b»nsting his haad into bis pocket for his | pane to laliave her suffering. The light, which was behind the woman, bad shown on Mick's face, and Kathleen knew him and thought he bad come to persecute her ia distress. "What ails ye, woman, that ye howl and wail this wayt" he asked. "Oeh, Mick, ye never knew this pale, overworked cr'atur' for Kathleen!" "Niver! What has befell you!" he ask ed, stepping into the room and taking her two thin hands kindly in his own, and add ing, "Where is Teddy!" "He's in his grave this last six months, I thank ye," was the meek reply. "And who sees after ye and the chiider!" for he now saw another child asleep in the room. "Not a one! I waahes and scrubs—but, 0, Miok, I'm that aick and heavy I'd be glad to go back and lie down in the dear old churchyard at Coloony and rest! "Thorn's rest this side o' the grave!" cried Mick. "Ye needn't go there for it, dear heart." And Mick ttooped down and took np a chubby sleeping boy of four years, remark ing, not very delicately, as he stroked back his golden cnrls, "There's no look of the Cayther in him, thank heaven!" Kathleen was too much overwhelmed to aotice this remark: and when she removed bar apron from her eyes little Teddy was laaghiag and playing with the iron chain that guarded the blacksmith's silver watch. In another hour tbe whole party, Kath leen carrying the yonnger boy and Miok lead in* small Teddy, were gazing into tbe Store-windows, resplendent with gay oolors aad jets of gas. They were on a shopping axanakm, and went home laden with grocariea, dry goods and new shoes all round, bee idee oranges and candy. Before Miok left hia old friend he told bar ahe shonld never want "while bis two fists was spared him if—if—she wonld only take him now in the end, and let him be a fayther to poor dear Ted's little boys." "Sham* on ye, Mick, to be sayin' tbe likes o' that, aad Teddy only six months in his grave!" sobbed Kathleen. "Bat ya'U not say 'niver' as ye once said in Caloonyt" asked Miok. "No, Mick, I'll not say that, but I'll ask a respectable time to mourn in; aud mane-' time 111 work bard to fade my darlin boyst" "If I can do twice the work o' any black amith in this country, ye nade not break yet heart o'er anybody's waabtub!" and with laviah pride Mick threw a handful of gold coin at her feat. "I wouldn't touch it," cried Kathleen, "while I can work. 1 took the shoes and eatables from sheer want!" "Oob, well, I'll s'arch out yer priest and give it to him for ye! It'll be booty if it camea through bis hands," said Mick, smiling. "How will it take ye to mourn it out, Katblie!" "Maybe a year, Mick," was the innoceut reply. "Couldn't ye get through sooner than that!" "I'll try," replied tho modest creature, "and aee what bis riverence says about it. But 111 only take yo on two conditions, Mick—that ye mend yer temper, and that ye put up a headstone to poor dear Teddy's grave." "I'll do that laat—half a doien of 'em if ye aay so—and do it with a hearty good will. Och, Kathlie, I've grown wonderful hooly since I touched foot to American shores. I came here as fierce aa a lion to be revinged on Ted. and here's me, to-day, eo hooly that I've forgiven him intirely, and am supportin' up a headstone to his grave!" Mick found profitable work in another city, and Kathleen was well looked after by the priest, who had a little fund to draw on lor her wants. When the ' mourn year waa out," Mick, who had conquered bia spirit in a good degree, moved his family, in a style that showed real pros perity. to his home, and put up a "fufty dollar headstone to Teddy's grave," on Which was this inscription; HACMD TO TMB MBMOBV or KDWABD LOOMT, Aucn 30 YIABS, BOB* IN COLOOHT, IRELAND, BBBCTBD BV HIS tOTIBa ANP QBATBFCL KBIBND, MICBABL TANDY. Aad thus ended Mick's revenge. Love for bia old friend acd ber little ones had aoftened his heart toward the whole world. —An electrician says that just what takes place in the human organism to produce death from an electric current seems to be an nnaolved problem. One of tbe tbeoriee sometimes advanced concern ing It ia that when a being -suffers death from electric shock, it is a pure case of internal rapture or explosion from the generation ef gas or vapor. In support of thie view, the way in which telegraph poles are sometimes torn to pieces is refcrred to. Tbe lighting follows the moist portion of the pole, wbioh is the core or heart; ia this case tbe moisture is vaporised, and an explosion occurs. Tbe high resistance produces heat, tbe beat in turn steam, and tbe steam explosion. —The tallett acbool girl in the world livea DMR Kiednaud, Auatria. She it 11 yearn old and all feet high. A Vienna ahowman tiled to add her to hia collection, bat bar pereota declared that they would not part with their maderl (little girl) for aay amount of money. The State Road Commission on t s Travels. The State Koad Cwnmimrion ariired in Titusrille last Wedneitday night and held a meeting there next day, which was at tended by several farmers of that and neighboring counties. The meeting convened at 11:30, and, with a recess of only half an hour for lunch, lasted until nearly 5 p.m. The farmers were not afraid to tell on them selves. Said Mr. Alcorn: "After all our farm work was done for the season we nsed t.> take the thoes off the horses, fill the animals with grass and then send them out to work on the roads so that they conld get a good rest." Mr. Higbee said: "On a certain day the farmers on a certain road in this county were out working their road taxes. It was very hot, and Sam Jones started off to fish. Meeting Miller Smith by the wayside, he remarked that they would not be able to finish the road that day. "That's bad," replied the miller, "for people will not be able to reach the mill. How many men are working ont their taxes to-day, Samf" "Well now I can't say right off," replied Sam. "hnt if rm .»« How ;swy fence comers there aro bet-een T*;tcle' hiV,j JAckijon's and the V .juv Snyder's I can tell you exactly the number of men at work." James B. Powell, a well knowu horse breeder of Sbadeland, who has made a study of roads for many years 1 oth in this country and Europe, addressed the; com mission for nearly an hour. In substance he said: There is 50 per cejt outlay in roads of my township over and above the expendi tures lor schools. We should have a very elastic law—no startling innovation. We should have a National Commissioner of Highways to have a bureau under the De partment of Agriculture. Then you want a State Commissioner of Highways. The State constitution will not allow that now, so about the most yon conld do wonld be to have a bureau on country roads created to be atUclied to the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs. That would furnish a home for all reoords and correspondence about the condition of roads. After that there shonld be County Commissioners for roads. I say nothing about townships. Poor roads are compelling farmers to give up agriculture and go to the large cities and towns. One-third of every year a farmer in Pennsylvania is bound np at his home with mud. If your commission recom mends any radical change the farmeis will be scared by the prospects of increased taxation. I>o not think of making too costly roads. Ohio has five pikes costing only from $3,000 to $12,000. It has been said your commission thinks of having stone roads made. With your 70,000 miles of roads in Pennsylvania I consider that an impracticable scheme. Kiie coun ty, with its fine gravel and sand—what need has she for stone! You should siudy the demands of localities. Somo mads that aro much traveled, like those in the the neighborhood of a town, should bo im proved at a cost of about $3,000 per mile. Other roads ought not to be at moro than $250 per mile. Every road in a county ought to be named or numbered so that a stranger may know where he is. As soon as piactical all road taxes should be paid in cash. Educate tho people up to this. Show them poor roads depress the value of their farms and that as long as men work ont their taxes it is impossible to have good roads. I favor State aid for road impiovement because towns are increasing in population and they would pay much of the tax. It is a fact that many of your fashionable carriages will go five miles ont of town to get a ride on a smooth country road—a dirt road. Make that a solid stone road and people will call it rough. Yet I must admit that a dirt road is a very bad one. There is so much of a dissimilarity of soils in this country. The best roads in this State may be found in Erie connty, where there are simply of the virgin soil—never poor in 50 years. Yet in the Pacific States tho soil is sticky and impassable. Water makes roads bad. and road machines do not go down deep enongb. Dnep ditches are needed on both sides of the road to carry off the water wherever the wealth of the land will justify it, and one-half of the road only is macadamized and tho other half left as a smooth dirt road. I would like to see roads stoned. But it is all nonsense to think of makiug the principal roads all through the State of stone. The land is too poor to p.iy for it. We, of this generation, will not live long enongb to see one fiftieth of the Pennsyl vania roadways stoned. The use ot broad tires on wagons should be encouraged. Hy loading 3,000 pounds of lumber on narrow ties, I know of one lumber teamster who uined SI,OOO worth of road, while he did not ealtee more than $25 profit on tho whole load. Colonel J. J. Carter, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, submitted a proposi tion to the State Koad Commission answer ing the interrogations seriatim and discuss ing the subject rather elaborately from a legal and engineering standpoint, as well as from tho public utHity poin of view. Colonel Carter favors the establishment of a Bureau of Ktate Itoads, to bo connect ed with the executive department of the State government and presided over by a Ktate Engineer or Surveyor General, to be appointed by the Governor, after tho plan of a bill presented to the Legislature of 188T>. He also favors a road supervisor for each county, to be elected by tbe people at tbe same time and for the same period as members of tho Assembly are elected— no one to be elegible unless an educated and professional engineer. Also a board of road overseers for each township, borough or city, not ley than three nor more than five, to be elected by popular vote on the plan of minority representa tion, in each district; the supervisors to ap point a road master, who shall be an engi neer by practice, for each district. He also favors an appropriation made by the supervisors of tbe district and recom mends the State to make an eqnal appro priation. As to State aid for improving or manu facturing public roads he unqualifiedly favors the proposition. So long as the State tax ia collected as now, largely from corporations, bo would havo the surplus not required for State pnrpoaes redistribut ed to the people for roads and schools. ! Colonel Carter enlarged at aome length upon the practical conatruction and main tenance of public roada. giving diagram*, coat, and valuable *tatiatlc» iu connection therewith. He oppoaei the employment of convict labor on the pnblic roadk, a* a relic of barbariiim and apeotacle of demoral ising tendency. The reat of hir paper relate* particularly to the reaource* found in thin aoction of the Htate for road maintenance. llu con eluded aa follow*: "Good road* make cheap traniiportation and nave money to all. Why, then, not have good roadxt" Colonel Carter baa been a practical rail road builder and manager, arid bin re mark* carried double weight on tbut ac count. Mr. Itichcy of Forcit county, Maid it wan generally admitted that the road Jaws ' should be amended. How to amend them so as to get the best system of road-mak ing for the least money is the que*lion now being considered by the State Commission, he took it. lie explaii ed that Forest county is still larely composed of anseated land, great forests, which pay bat little tax. The county is hilly and the roajs hard to maintain. The townships in the coun ty are heavily in debt. lie then said: A majority of the tax payers in Forest county are opposed to abolishing the work ing out of road tax because they cannot af?<>rd to pay the tax in money. We are generally in favor of State appropriation for road building. It should be distribut ed according to the road mileage in each coanty or township. Roads should then be controlled by the townships, with per haps a general overseer for the whole county. I think there is enough good stone in Forest coanty for road making. I am not in favor of convict labor on the roads. Edward Clapp, of Venango county, also spoke. He said: "I want to see the roads improved. You can't educate some people, and life's to short to wait for them. People who op ttits Bcbciflo uro apoHles uf | it,ai age. We nu>st do as Horace Oreeley said: 'The way to resume specie payment is to resume.' We must build a few miles of good roads without paying any attention to cioakers. In bailding new roads we must pay attention to grades of toads. Locking wheels of a wagon going down hill cuts up a road frightfully. The law, your commission frames, should allow no road to be over three degrees elevation, distance should be sacrificed to grade. State appropriations for roads should be disbursed accoiding to the mileage of roads. Around the village of Tionesta the roads are destroyed largely by teamsters hauling lumlier over them from other townships miles and miles away and yet they did not pay for fixing them. The people 01 Tionesta had to do that. Heie is where State aid would bring about equity. Koad tax should be paid iu money instead of labor. Too Cheap. The mystery of the government's ability to carry a letter from Maine to California for the price of a two cent stamp is not a perfectly easy one to explain; but most people are by tbis time so thoroughly ac customed to cheap postage that they ac cept the low rate quite as a matter of conrse. This, however, was not the case with an inhabitant of the Kicknpoo Valley who, for the first time in his life, not long ago had occasion to use the United States mails. Ue approached the postmaster with the air of one who intends to make as good a bargain as possible. "Look a'here, mister!" he said; gimme a—a letter saimp, will yef How much 'll it costf" "Two cents." "Tew cents! Cheap enough." The man laid down two coppers in the postmaster's little window,took the stamp, looked at it curiously for a moment, and then put it away carefully in an old leath er pocket-book. Evidently he regarded it as a sort of preliminary license. Then he thrust his hand into his overalls pocket and bronght out a large yellow envel ope. "Now," said he, thrusting the envelope before the postmaster's face, "I want ye tell mo how much ii the least it'll oont to Kerry that ere letter to Codgerville, about twenty uiilo down the piket" "Two cent*," said the postmaster, bal ancing the letter on bis finger. "Tew cent*! Well, I'll be licked ef I aint got into a reg*lar tew-ce it shanty! Tew cent*! Te don't mean ltt" "That's all," said the postmaster. "Well, I will be licked. When my Sairy Ann thought she must write to that ere yonng man down 't Codgerville, I reckoned first off, I'd mount old Bill and kerry the letter over to save th' expense. I hadn't no idee you would do it for tew cents. Tew cents! Well, there they be." Ho had picked out two more coppers, «nd offered them to the postmaster, who of course had to enter into an explana tion of tho use of the stamp be bad just sold. "All I got for to dow," the man askod in further astonishment, "is fer to stick this ere stamp on the corner o' that ore letter, an' you take keer o' the restt" "That's all." "Well, I will be licked! 'Tain't rightly none o' my business if ye want to work fur nothing but it's my'pinion ye're doing it tew cheap, young man—yo're doiug it tow cheap." An Axe to Grind. Whou Benjsmin Franklin was a litlle boy at school bo was accosted at bis father's gate by a very po.ite stranger, who complimented bim on bis appearance and manners, and presently asked: "Has your father a grindstone!" "Yes," said Ben. "Well, I declare," said the stranger, "this is one of the nicest little boys I ever met. Son. do you reckon your father would let mo grind my ax an his grind stone?" "Certainly," said Ben, greatly pleased with the oomplimout. "Well, now," i.ald the stranger, "this is a very polite little boy. Son, do you reckon you could tnrn a little for mot" "I suppose so," aaid Ben. "I turned and turned," said Benjamin Franklin, who told the story on himself, till my bands were blistered and my back was sore. The stranger continued to praise me for my politeness ti'l his ax was sharp, when be turdod upon me grimly, and said: "Go along to school, you little rascal, or I will report you for playing truant." "From that day to this," whenever I have met a man more polite and com plimentary than the occasion demanded, 1 have said to myself, may lx> he has an ax to grind." The Col Tee We Drink. Two-thirds of It comes from Braill which produces considerably more than one-half of the world's supply. There are other coffee countries, Brasiliau coffee stands in value much below even the native Ceylon and East India coffees be cause of the fact of lieiug carelessly grown, gathered, and cured. The import* of coffee in the United States in 1821 were 19,180,180 pounds; in 1824, 30,301,172 pounds; in 1827, 47,727,202 pounds; from 1831 to 1837, 070,000,000 pounds. The receipt* of cotfee at all port* in the United State* in 1887 were nearly M 0,000,000 pounds; considerably more in one year than one-half of the Import* of tho 10 years between 1821 and 1837. —lt IIM Ixjon reported every year for the IttHt quarter of a century that the Delaware peach crop wa* a failure, and it han alway* materialiied at the proper time. Thi* voar thero were no alarmUt report*, anil ihere IN hardly a peach iu Delaware. Thi* 14 the flrat real crop failure in the atate, hut the reputation for mendacity no well earn i d in not allotted. NO 40 She Won the Bet. Pretty Fanny Bea'e, a lively Ciflctftflitt bod, is visiting her cousin XellU In Pi qua . Young Mr. rilley, of St. Louis, and his sister Vina are also visiting at the same house. Itanium's circus was in Piqna and young Mr. Filley took the girls to see tha show. In discussing the show afterward the young man expressed his particular wonderment at the feats of a female con tortionist. lie was especially amaxed at the highly accomplished manner in whioh she twisted her foot around the back of her neck and made a cushion rest for her head out of her heel. The warmth with whioh Mr. Filley expressed his admiration of this act ot the contortionist seemed to nettle Miss Bealo a trifle, and she turned np her nose and said: .'•Pshaw! That isn't anything to brag about. I can do it myself Cousin Nellie and Miss Filley screamed, and assured Miss Fanny that she was aw ful, and young Mr. Filley laughed at her and pooh poohed. But the spoiled beauty's Cincinnati sporting blood was np, and she turned to Mr. Filley and said in decided tones: "I'll juat bet you the price of ft box of Lid 1 u*a*' _ Young Mr. Filley promptly took the bet. Then the delicate question as to how Miss Beale s ability to perform the acrobatic feat could be proved to the satisfaction of the young gentleman arose, and it was finally settled that Cousin Nellie shonld be present while the act was on as referee for I Miss Beale, and that young Mr. Filley's sister should also be there in the interest of her brother. The three girls retired to Mis* Bsale's room, aud young Mr. Filley waited on the piazza for an official report of the result of the feat. Spasmodic bursts of mirth from Miss Beale's room reached his ears for * time, and then there was a painful silence for a few seconds. This was finally broken by screams of laughter, an exclamation of wonder and loud clapping of hands in the room. "Blinked if I dont believe the little tar tar has won it!" said young Mr. Piliey to himself. Another period of painful silence follow ed the outburst of wonder and applause. This was followed by a scream or two not prompted by mirtbfulness or wonderment. Suddenly Cousin Nellie burst from the • room and ran out shouting in alarmed tones for her mother. Young Mr. Filley arose. "lias she done it, Xellie!" ho asked. "Oh, Mr. Filley!" Miss Nellie sobbed, "she has done it, but she can't undo it! Please run for a doctor!" Fortunately a physician of forty years' practice in the town lived only two iguares away. Young Mr. Filley called him in a hurry. lie was a good while in Miss Beale's room, but when he left it he was smiling. When Miss Beale came out an hour or so later she was a trifle lame, but she announced triumphantly to young Mr. Filley that she had won the bet. The official report of the referees unanimously sustained the claim, and it was promptly paid. "I used to do it easy when I was at school," said Miss JJeale reflectively. '"All the girls did. My heel never once stuck before. I guess I must be growing old," said the Cincinnati bud with a sigh.—Co lumbus (O.) letter. A Remarkable Natural Curios ity. Near the little village of Palmyra, Jeffer son county, Wisconsin, is a remarkable natural curiosity in a spring. It is ic the midst of a most unattractive marsh, not however, difficult of access, because of th* improvements of man. It wells up sud denly at your very feet, » VMt pool of liv ing water, varying from 10 to 25 feet in depth, clear a* crystal, confined within a natural wall of rock, from whioh long sprays of mossy trailing vines, of a variety not found elsewhere, float in its pearly waters. Through this depth of 25 feet of water'is visible the bottom as clearly as if b it a few inches intervened. Below the water is a depth of six feet of bubbling, boiling quicksand,evidently gov erned by tidr.l laws of its own, with an ebb and flow and power quite capable of for ever engulfing tbo unwary in its depths, while at the bottom of thU quicksand is an unseen rock of unknown thickness and crystal color, from which detached por tions, worn off by the constant action of the quicksands, have been recovered. The shifting colors of these quicksands is the most wondrou* marvel of all, caused by the reflected rays of the sunlight through this depth of clear water. They vary from the delicate shifting color of the opal to the palest blue or green, seeming at times to iefleet every tint of the rainbow In one rapid changing shimmor of color, varying their tinge with the mn's altitude. Drop a pin into this spring, so clear is the water, you can seo its descent until it is lost in the boiling sands beneath, where its light weight gives a sufficient impetus to set them boiling and soothing Id * n °w form and direction; drop a marble, button or penny into the spring, aud the effect on entering the quicksand is beyond descrip tion. It requires but little stretch of im agination to concoive the whole a vast witches' cauldron, with the genii of the place ready to emorge at any moment from the cave within the rocky side of the spring, reody to plungo the unwary to remotest depths below, or to believe the tradition that the Indians worshiped the spring as the home of the Great Spirit him self. Applying the Rule the Other Way. A Chinaman, says the Ckritto* -Ad vocate, applied for the position of cook in a family in one of our Western cities. The lady of the bouse and most of the family were members of a fashionable church, and they wore determined to look well after the character of the servants. So, when Johe Chinaman, appeared at the door he was asked: "Do yon drink whiskyt" "No" said he.—"l Clistian man." "Do you play cards?" "Xo, I Clistiau man." lie was employed and gave great satisfaction. He did his work well, was honest, upright, correct and respectful. After some weeks the laJy g* vo a progressive euchre" party and bad wines at the table. John China man was called upon to serve the party, and did so with grace and acceptability. Hat next morning he waited on the lady and said be wished to quit work. "Why, what is the matterT" she inquired. John answered: "I Clistian man; I tole you so bofore, no hoathon! No workee for Melioaa heathen!" —Nineteen years ago a Gratiot county, Mich., tartner refused to let hit daughter go to a candy pull. She went though and remained away. Last week she drove np to her father's door, lifted out her 11 child ren, coolly took off bor * raps and astonish* cd her father by declaring that she had concluded to return and stay horn®, and hereafter be an obedient daughter —A Tennecnoe man last week attempted to xhoot hi' wife aud tlio ballet killed bi« r<>on dog, which wit, the champion of lotu , (.unties. Uo l» thoroughly penitent.