V i . WALL PAPER: r ! clore .. ~, -»•»;«- I • fore the i:3? • - : L-pin», tven at r rit i*rr £f I tare tr artrd oxer ;-a o- o! or entire stock cf pa -* - the le.rjrept and be?t lis* in Bo tier, AT HALF PRICE TLaiax. «■ n{ tie paper was mark ed s- •* be - " re that balf pri<* wouli aTjr. Tfc«:»-c jcu f**t c■ wtvittKlfdicy r-.r" -Bitr i fce»p«s« Jo-t in.igiu« ! • - - ad' able Mt, White ; at •; 12»- I- 15 ted upward. 3' !,«r * - f-j!jM?ring. yon v tst f<'Ci th"D .' . i I". —. SuiaMTT an?' A. OSBOiiXE, i St , e< zt to Loan ii'ulf, Cu'ser, I'a. R r a;n<beL stith IltulH;h. Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE Ot !>. E. JACKSON.' W' »r- r, n ri», but Lav« CODJ« to -"mt We I-3T oar g<x)d? at lowest evt | * ift• atid t • we r* II for caxh i.tii We are dto wll goodi* a* 'es I '--" p«»>-rt ; !e margin*. We e<»'« j ?•<- » en clean, netr nmjd>. r» truth, fr< tn at) (mrtii of our . «ear, especially oa tt.e foliowiug f c 4«. 1W« t#iX •df. White Goods, Pr i»u. (iiojrhen;*, HbirUoga, Mu«- Eu. Laee Cbrtaina ar>d Certain I*iih», Caraeti and Corbet Waiat*, |jai"ea", Cttidr«*a * aod Uenta' Uoder- II »ie;y, (jlov. A atid Mita, Kid Gloee«, Rfltboai, Silk and Velvet, I'Wfc abd Cobred Si'ka,Cloth Capet", I" «. I Wr-:-. .1. '-«*} • aad Jersey Jarlet*. Table I.ti.ena, Xapkina. ! Yc»«Sa. &.'■, Jt ■. but a« new good« I at trminf all time, we would r * . k»!j i.a-» the —R«od« now saaCatf, INK pwiblf hare theoi at 1 . - t ! w*r KKU ca the ne«H-»n ad- W« a .• pi <;d to eay that ' li. - r'i«« *ii e.iiiiitl our gmxifl i •• . . t» • : » ith tipjiroral a 1 »■ s.(!ati»>ri. aUhontrh eut.ject 4 to tic . rutinr and <-otxipari«on • :'.t tt- gauds offend by other*, j H'i wJiih uii parr im§ and will j to ad ii our |Kwer to make our I uai traseae ••>&!< pleaeant aud profit able. It K JACKSON, Butler, I'a. \»lt (!«ur to lieibewaoV. DOLLARS ar\: a-> g<t.ti dollars earn* I, and the wise will take Aunt. •* of our eliding out eafeoT f EASONABLE GOODS. We want to carry over <i t? aml if l<»w prifeH *. ii tin ill, Wf bha'n't. L:,'it Colored llatft, ' • l i lerwear. Straw i -.i. . 1.i.-lit Colored Neck x "»r are ail to go. L'K k alive now and don't fet left. CoLiiERT cV DALE, 7*J Main «treet, Untler, I'ii. J. K. Kastor, I*n>r tirjU hinti! Roofer. Omanenial arid Plain Slating os all kind, done on ►hort n«lico. Office with . 11. Morrirt No. 7, X. Main St., Heaidence N«frtli Kim Htri'i't, I»iitlt-r, I'a. Full Again. We UH an our wall paper de , artm- i'.. lull and overtlowinjr with our iinriK'tiN-and choice <»i j.Hj«-r hanginirM. rtitJ!-! • ■ !|i a- out. wi* haven't isjoin I i hall «>ur good*, until you reii'-v. »i- m Mimeol them, e it.iv ii,.- clioiii'Mt wlec- M <»t j.ittti iih iu every i;rade t» Bi' vvn Is]aiik* at 10 ctH »from I'll ctfl to SI per dmililc imlt. Kxinine tutr Stwk. J. H. Douglass, *.• •1. ! !ii!i :t. Utiiler I'a, v*>rkctu CITIZEN. rROFFXSH >NAI. CARDS. 1 BLAf'.K, Dr. A. A. Kelly, < as«» I • ? I »r i ■ county. i'a. E. v ' . ; V. :> J. I- MANN. M. I). k Sj* ' laities: (jj, i,.' if. ► d.'.'l !* j ir- c, ...ir. Nostf uii'l f t>. Throat. DKS. LEAK L& MANN, I'utler, Fa. G ... £i\i MERMAN. rufMain AND f-cnaiioji, «»**!•*•• »• .v . i'.. >. a stn--., OVJX Ji-i.it * «V» H»n»j B-tlcr. h, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician an'l Surgeon. .J I -I C<-iK.n S:. J; tier. I'a. W. K. TITZEL. I'HVSI' lA>- ' .SL'IIGEON. a W.Orij' r M :iian4 «U M>.. Butter. Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Demist. Lutler, Penn'a. Arir r*' 1 i:j t. ■ la»< -t In iprn.ni ■'.< «•< . !H»! ki. -i ertally. Offlne— ■jv. r . ■' »iiK LiK. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - bUTLER, PA. All w>-rk i* rt:«n. '-it !•> t:[ r:• ion eaecnt <-« i in iii»' ii- -'"it i.i-.r ■ ■■t. uptn.i;;!'" <: .■] i ;.iid r«iu!•*<<* E*- tr.' lion ot I tHli Vu-liz I Air adminMereA. ril*<r« os J.O i r sfri-M, .Ifi«r K**t ol Lunr; ÜbK.«, I j, Ktsiu. Office hi*:. .'ally, < t WedtKsuUjn and ..!*< • < ii.us.-ii« iiy <i .».l rtMin pr 'i: |* attention. S. U. Th> <»II!> Ih-iiIM in ilutlcr u*lugtthc h» t m*kr» «f J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E and Surveyor. ('• iitrai tor. O.rpentcr and Builder. Map*, pin;.-, *peejtj< ations and esti mate-, all kimi- ol architectural and en irineer ng rk. No <I ary i<»r dr iwing il I contract the work. Consult your best in terest*; piati In Tore yon l>ui!d. Informa tion cl.i i-rftii.'j. j. iv< • A share of tittruns|!« i* wilip'ti il. K O. lUtx Jt-J7. Office S. W. tit Court Utiuii, liutler, I'a. C. F. L. McQUISTION, EM.INKKI". IM) KIItVEVOU, Orricx m- ia Hmh-.mi, BCTI.*«, I'*. J * _ I » • J. W HUTCHISON, A J TOKNKV AT LAW. • rfl '« tm p !'•<" r of tt<; Ifu.MfUon block, ood, liuf*i r, I'a., Nd. I. A. r. MN/rr. J. r. WIIjUjH. SCOTT & WILSON, ATT<UtNKVf AT LAW. roll. >.li' i.=. a hi.<-< lulty. Ofati'at Xo. *, houtb DUuiotid. U4UI«-r. I'a. . JAMES W. MOOKE, AnrinM<r-AT-Li W AKO \I/TA* V I'VNUC. Of,!'.* in Kooin No |. vrrinii fV/or of UuMrlton | lii' K jc, ostmoee on Dlnt&ouft A. E. RUSSELL, ATP'HNT.V AT LAW. 1 n, • on - . . '.'i ii .«.r ol N«w Aiiii- CH..H ntock Main ht. ■••-..r I>laniiai4. IRA McJUNKIN. Atti'rn. y at Uw, Oft' « ut No. 17, Kant Jeßtt- ! wk »t . Bbilrr. I'a, W. C. EINDLEY, A'l "i: > l.i ::lU' al 1V ..If .■ fcl lit. Of o<c r> i>r ol I /. *Odlcc <m uurtli alUr ul filMnoit'l, IfJtlfT, r-fc li. H. GOUCIIEK. A':/»ri»». i : ... om< •• Door ol AfHi<Lr-«'»(« Court l-a. J. K. URITTAIN. AU > .«? '#{:»< •• a! J-i. Cor. M tlu b». # auO ' i>UynOfio # UuUttf, I'd. NEWTON BLACK. All'v ii' !-iV> 4 >ni«.fs oil KoUtU -il li- of I>l 'iffM'li<J Hutw, J'H. L. h. McJIi'iNKLV, («s«ranee auil lical Entail! Ae't 17 I.AHT J Kf- I' EP_Si>Jf -iT. IIIJII.ER, - I».V. E E ABKAMS &CO Fire and Life I X S IJ II A X (J B IttMuruur t Co. of North America, ineor jy»rHtr«i IT'.rl, capital • »!*<J other corn pin if* Srw York fjl«i lii»-uraii''•< o.ln OHirc ! N«-W Jiukvilbii ma Court HOUNC. USI SHRt SBBSiBKi. KKI bU PA. Ail HtiM-k IflllliOlltci J to lit: .U out), j ilitiun wlii'ii ilt'.livcreit. H'ir ri plm i! all trei • that fail to grow. KKrKKKNCK.S IN WTLKIJ: J. I' Loi'rv, W. T. Mi:<: hlinir, .liuno Sbniior, Jr., .1. E. Knr ytho, lieu. Hball'nnr Walker, I. <]., I i ril Ili'ilmr, li-n). and l» L. Clcelatid. G. F. KING, AGT. Kl II > M11.1.1.K Hot K, Ht l Ll.tt, I'A. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire insurance Co. Office Cor. Rain & Cunningham Sts. •J C. KOKHKINd, PUXMIUBNT. 11 HEJNEMAN, HKUKKTAKT. DIRKCTOUS: ' Kik' iiir, !f«'tifi*r"oti Oliver, J. I. Purvr., J iii.'-H hU-|>|ipfisoi , A Ttot.f (11.111, II *li«'iii<'ifi«ui, Alfr.-'l V\»rk. N. J, I»r. W Irviti f>r i;i« i . .1. W I'fiirUiad, l».'l* SUTtM LOY/.L jiJ'JUNKiN, (ion/Ak'l in UTL k; , l^yv. THIS MPgi N. W• A V |IR A SO**. o«r nt« "lirtßM AiANB. * 'SrtlSZr Hsfj !t3O 5 MAIN.ST. _. —, * ' **'""- THE FOUR DIG COMBINATIONS AT Tlie CWh Shoe Store. They Are All Stunners! €/ ■ 1 j*— How is This For No. 1 A ladiea fine I)OII<2 ila button MIOO, pat. leather tip, \LI to | 7 for sl. • How is This For No. 2 IRON t; j. r ood .«olid A Calf, hal. or Congress, tip or plain t« >e. ♦> to 11 for SI. How is This For No. 3 A ladie- fine opera toe slipper, leather lined, hand turned for o'l cts a p:»ir, tlies-? slippers are being sold at a great bar gain for they are cheap at sl. How is This For No. 4 Our little hummer, a ehilds dongola or grain button shoe sizes oto <S for 4S only a few cases left, and if you want any you will have to get a move on or they will be alt gone DON'T BE A CHUMPj Hut take advantage of our closing out sale of summer shoes and slippers which we are closing out at about half price. Boots and Shoos 3 lade to Order. LEATHER AftD FINDINGS. BLAGKMQRE & GUI EH, 8. MAIX STREET, - BUTLER, PA. Extraordinary Bargains at TROUTMAN'S (jlreat Removal Sale. We expect to move into our new building about October Ist, and in order to reduce stock we are offering Extraordinary Bargains all «/ over the house tins month, A word to, the wise is sntH -0 eient. TROUT M A N ' S Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House. No 200 North Main Street, Butler, Pa EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR OR CUFF !THAT CAN EE RELIED ON ixrot -to sput! THE MARK j JNtot tO DlSCOlOri ■ J BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE FLLULOID MARK. NEED 3 NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. I&HAT IS SAPOLHJ? Vv It- is a solid handsome cakeof scouring soap vihich hasnoequaJ for all cleaning purposes excephn ' the laundry- lo use it - is to value it- WJ.at will SAPOLIO do? -Why it will clean paint, mako oilcloths bi i-_'l t, and irivo the floo i, tables am nhelvea a new appearance. It wiU iak< ill fjreaio off tiio d:&hcs and off ho pots and pana. You can acour Iki.iv. and forks with it, and ma u the tin thingsHhine brightly. Tho wa:,i i ,in, l!i») bath tub, even the gn usy kitchen sink wiU be aa cloan as a IU-.V/ JKII » you nse SAPOLIO. Oiu oaku w.ll prove all we say. Be a clever lioiuwkeeper aud try it. CF IMITATION 3. TH2ES 13 BUT OKI SATOLIO. ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.. NEW YORK. B1 i'LER. PA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1800 COALS OF FIRE. SOPHIE BWETT IS HARPER'S WEEKLY. "Thinks I, when Gran'marm Applebly died, now Lorenzo and Lncreshy 'll make a match, tor gran'marm was the one that kejit up the feud. She'd betrin to talk aiiont that piece of woodland, and how Lueresht's father tried to cheat 'em out of it, the minute Lucre.-hv came a-nigh; and the very last time that she ever got up and prayed in meetin', she prayed that j them that had tried to get their own rela tives' propntty away from 'cm might be brought to a better mind." The latest news was being commented on over the fence which divided Mis' Isaiah Hummer's domain from that of Miss j Seliny Wingate, the milliner. That por tion of Mi<-.> Win gate's establishment which fronted on the street was devoted to bu.-a --' uess, but her back yard was sacred to j social intercourse aud the exchange of j strictly private opinions. "I should 'most think that Lucre.-by : would have got right np and prayed back at her," said Miss Wingate. "She's got ! spunk enough." '•The minister's wife said that Lucreshy ! was too good a Chris.ian for that, bet some i thought 'twas because she wanted Loreu ! zo," said Mi>' Isaiah. '•Like enough. There's a good many thai wouldn't want hitn. tiuiugh. he's suoii a terrible old bach. Hi- won't let his hens out no time hut .Saturday afternoon, and he won't eat a mile of victuals that ain't cooked jest so." "fiood land! I guess he'll get broke of that with that ScaniMll girl for a wife." ex claimed Mis' Isaiah. '"Curls and hot "bis cuits. that's all there i-s to them Bcannells. I shouldn't be a uiite surprised if she didn't know how to make nothin' but suleratus bread." "I wonder how he come to have her? You'd nio>t think Lucreshy would hare suited him better." said Miss Wingate, reflectively. '•Oh; she got round him; men is men." said Mis' Isaiah, sententionsly. "She's nineteen and j)retty-lookin',aDd I.uereshy's thirty-five and plain. That tells the whole story to them that knows men folks." "He's a real villain, ain't he?" said Mi-s Wingate, with an appearance of satisfac tion. "Well, I don't know now as we'd really ought to nay that," said Mis' Isaiah, with the superior air of one who in capable of taking a broad view of things. "I don't expect he ever give his word to Lucreshy. 'Twa'n't 110 inore'n an nndurntandin'. I shouldn't wonder if it kind of give a zest to it when they was young that they was for bid to speak to one another, and mebbe Lorenzo had a fi elin 'that 'twa'n't manly to give in to gran'marm, and that made him stick to Lucreshy. Milkin' her cow, and hoein' her garden sass, and shovellin' her paths in winter is courtiu', or it ain't, jest as it happens. She nussed him with the typhoid fever last winter, jest after gran'marm died; but then they was second cousins, and there wa'n't nobody else; and they do soy he give bar two loads of dress in' for her garden, and hud his hired man plant all her potatoes, so I guehs that made 'em about square. Some would say that Lucre- liy hadn't no great to Complain of. It's hard for a girl that lets herself get to be an old maid dependin' ou some man that don't mean nothin'; but very often she hain't got nothin' but her own foolishness to blame. There's one thing certain, if Lorenzo hat been to blame, he is in a fair way to get his come-upancc. I thought mebbe I'd jest step up and see how Lu creshy was a bearin' it, seeiu' she wa'n't to church nor to prayer mcciin' yesterday. I thought 'twouldn't be no inore'n neighbor ly." Mi>' Isaiah spoke with a certain hesi tation, which seemed to invite her neigh bor's view of the matter. "You're one that could if anybody could," aid Mia* Wingate. "Hut I don't know a 1 should have the courage. Lu creshy ain't like somo that you can get a nearness to.'' "I ain't one to be .cairt away from a (,'hri-iiufi duty by a little oddity," said Mis' Isaiah, firmly ".lest step round to the fence when you get back," said Mi'-- Win gate, eagerly. "I hall be real interested to hear how she took it " Half 111 hour later Mis' Isaiah was knocking at the door of a little sprucc piini colored house, which looked as if it had been dropped by accident iu the middle of a draggling lane. There were patches of tnoss on the steeply sloping roof, and an ancient weJI-uwecp, which made the fresh spruce gum paint look staring and friv (lous. The house 1 tood on a hill half a mile from the village,and its only neighbor wa a large farm house, bleak, but thrifty looking. It wan a near neighbor, with only an orchard intervening; but upon the top of the orchard wall a high hoard fence bad been built, with uu evident view to rigid -eparatioti; ami iu the middle of a family burying ground in a stubbly pas ture a similar high board fence arose. The I'hillip-eK and I'armunters, near of kin, but at war for generations, had not been will ing to have their feud ended even by the great peace maker, death. The only sur vivoi of the two families who had remain ed upon the old place* were now Lorenzo Phillips and Lueretia I'arufenter, and it had been generally predicted that the fwud would end in ft wedding. Lorenzo and Lueretia had made friends over their spell ing books,and neither (irau'marm I'hillips's frown an awesome sight, for she was ninety, and her nore and chin met—nor the high board fence had availed to keep them apart. Hut in the matter of the wed ding, fate had Interposed—fate in the per -on of Lldora Scaunell, from the Town Hill Settlement, with pink cheeks ami yellow curls. No one answered Mis' Isaiah's knock Lueretia was in fact peeping through the blinds, but lie would not open the door. "1 ain't a goin'to let folk* in, let 'em say what they will. I can't bear it, no how," she said to herself. She was a small, trim woman, with an energetic step. Mis' Isaiah could 'tear her moving about: she could not keep still. "They'll say I'm all broke down, but I ain't. I wisht 1 was. I'm b'ilin' with hate. I expect it's my I'armeiiter blood. And I wouldn't believe it was me -me that wa» alwit) >0 forgivin'. I wisht f could keep on feelin' stunded, as 1 did at first. And yet when lie fetched over the deed of that piece of woodland and wanted to give it to me for a dollar, I fell in my boues that something was a eoinin'. I'd ought lo have known when lie said lie was afraid gran'marm would appear to him if he took down the fence. I shouldn't wonder a HI it 1 il gran'marm threatened to appear to liim if he nierried mo. Hut folks are n airt <Ollietiin«M jut because they're a mind to in-. He'd have mcrried Kldory Scanned if the old Horry hail riz sight up before liiui. I'd ought lo have li-lencd to mother •You're a noiiilshin, a viper, Lucreshy,' he. 11 ;■ d lo ay, 'that greenish color In hi tye . ain't lor nothin', and there wa nt never a I'hillup* with a Itoman none that wa'nt tricky and treacherous.' I couldn't bear to hear nothin' against the i'hillnpiMs then, not even jrran'niarn, 1 felt so biul nbont the quarrel that was keepin' Lorenzo iind me apart. I expect I was a fool; any how the tightin' blood has riz ripht up in me now. If there ain't Mis" Isaiah a knt c-kin' over there!" Locretia was peer ing through her rlose.l lilinils at the n.-iirh ' boring now. She eonld just see over the fence from her chamber window. "Rut she won't find nobody in the house. She'ii down in the field with bim, a rakin' after; I see her yeller hair a-blowin'. There's pretty queer honse keepin" over there. I'll warrant, now Abigail I>ow has cleared out in a huff" count of not beia' told he was goin' to get merried. I don't expect she can cook a meal's victuals half decent, and how Lorenio'll get along with his dyspepsy —but there! 1 don't care if she p'isons bim. I wisht she would. Seeins as if I hadn't a mite of grace left. Rut mebbe she wouldn't have got ronnd him if he hadn't been mad with me about that woodland. I hadn't ought to have spoke right up and said I knew all the time that it belonged to us. She was hangin ' round him down to campmeetin' and to think he up and merried her before he come home! It looked like spite." ilis'lsaiah had not got in. She had gone her way after walking around the house and looking in at all the windows. She had had a long walk in the heat all in vain, but there wa . a certain mournful consolation in the fact that she could report that Lucretia was taking it hard. She wished Lucretia well, although she had not let her in, but so great was the social stagnation in Corinth that a ripple must be made the most of. A week went by, and Lucretia still re mained in her darkened house, and friends besieged the door in vain. Glimpses of her had been seen going about her ac customed vocations, bat even the minister, who called to inquire the reason of her absence from church and from prayer meeting. where she was a bright ami shining light, was forced to knock in vain. ! "I've clean lost my hope," said Lucretia to herself. "I expect I was deluded. Any how when yon hate folks sos't you wish 'em dead, yon can't feel to go and testify. When I was afraid I wanted gran'mariu to (lie, I use.l to wrastle and wra.-tle, but I can't now." One day Lorenzo came, looking sheepish in spite of a manly effort. He bad cogi tated upon what he should say all the way along, and in fact, for a long time before. He would reproach her gently for not com ing to see Eldora; she was bashfhl, and the village folks looked askance at her as a Town-Miller. He would refer to the fact that, in spite of family differences, Lucretia and he bxl been "almost like brother and sister;" and ho would say that the fences ought to come down, lie felt a little thrill of relief as he reflected that she couldn't think that meant anything par ticular now. For a long time, in fact ever since be had begun to think that a long courtship was tedious, and that Lucretia was becoming middle-aged, he had taken great pains to avoid saying anything "par ticular; and be congratulated himself upon the prudent mind which bad kept him from any direct proposal of marriage. He even felt an unexpected -ensation of gratitude toward gran'marm and her threats of ghostly vengeance. Rnt the most prudent mind will not prevent a man from looking and leeliug sheep, anil Lorenzo, as he walked away from Lucretia's closed door, was conscious of this infirmity. Lucretia was touched by the uijflit of hiin anil gazed after him through a sudden rain of tears. "Lorenzo!" she called, patheti cally, under her breath, almost in the man ner of a stage heroine; although perhaps a homely old maid crying after her recreant lover would be found more laughable than pathetic upon the human sympathy being so inevitably pictured to the false key of outward seeming "I can't sense it anyhow," she mumnred. "Why, Lorenzo and me bein' togetli' i is just as natural as hreathin'. 'Twas all her! Men folks are silid of feeble minded the best of them, anil she got round him. Laud nitkes! I reniem her once when I. was riditi' with Lorenzo —he was fetch in' me ' nine from the agri cultooral iair, and we had to come round by Town II ill for fear Gustavus would see us—'twas when Gustayus was to home— and 1 see that young one danglin' from a fence, and I says to Lorenzo that she was kind of pretty lookin'. 'She'd look better if her face was washed,' says Lorenzo. 'There ain't notbin' pretty to me about them Town Millers; they are a disgrace to civilization.' And now, jest to think! What a dretful artful cretur she must lie! And how kind of nieachin' he looked, and heart broke, too! 'Twas all her fault, aud seems as if something had ought to happen to her for it, but I don't expect there will—not in this world." Lucretia was conscious of a certain grim satisfaction in the thought that no Town- Miller was likely to be very well off in the nexV world—people who never darkened a church door, and were notorious for rob bing poultry houses and orchards. That night, in the lale twilight, Lucretia • ntnle out into her garden to water her plantu that were suffering from her neglect. Shi bad her apron over her head, anil she meant to turn her back if any one came along tho road. "I don't know as ever I shall feel to see folks again," she said to herself. "I thought I had too much pride to lie like 'Lizabllth Oakes that was disappointed, but I didn't know then." No one did come along the road, but there came a sudden pounding on a loose board in the high fence close beside her. It was wrenched off with a determined ef fort, and first a yellow head came through and then a gaily attired young woman alighted at Lucretia's very feet. "There ain't no sense in that fence," she remarked. "I wa'n't goin' 'way round by the road. Relations, too! It's orfle silly. I should think an old maid ami all old batch like you and him might have got along. Say, I'm in au orfle lot of trouble." The quick tears sprang to her eyes—a pair of childish, soft blue eyes—which made Lu cretia'* heart grow harder and harder. "Have you got a loaf of bread? A lot of bis folks have come." "GiiHtavniiT" Lucretia's voice seemed to come from so far away that she wondered vaguely how she found it, "VIM, and his wife, aud a lot of young ones. And Lorenzo he's ashamed of my bread, and he says il lays hard, I don't see how 1 ever entile lo have an obi bach. That brother's wife kind of turned up her nose anil never eat a mite. I wanted to get right out of sight some'ers. I ain't used to such jiarlicklcr folks. Say, Imir you got a loaf of bread T" "No, 1 hain't," sail! Lucretia, fixing her eye scornfully on th pink beads around the girl's neck. "And there ain't n • baker uor notbin'." "Folk* round hert glut-rally know how to keep house and male their own bread," said Lucretia, severely. "And they look at me jest as if I wa* the dirt under their feet, I never had a chance to learn notion' about house keep in' Our folks never bought notbin'about the bread. I'a and lie boy* was always full anyhow, aud ncu-t cared iiotbiu about w hal they eat. 1 can't go round lorgglu', anyhow, 'cause he'd be mad, but I thought ; as you was relation—l don't want I bim to be ashamed of me. and that woman | won't eat a mite in the moruin'. and be has to take a sight of dyspepsy medic ae—" "Like enough."remarked I.ncretia. grim ly. "And I'm agoin' to run home or else drownd myself in the poud. They don't want me to home, so I guess 'twill be the pond. I'd rutber enough sight than to have bim ashamed of me. I set by bim" — iho turned an appealing, shame faced gaze upon Lucretia—"l don't know bow I eotne to, and him such an old bach, but 1 do. And I ain't fit for him. I cau't do nothin' as he's used to havin' it; aud I can't stand it nohow to see him so mortified afore folks. I'd ruther drownd myself, aud I will." "I guess you'll think better oi it wheu it comes to the p'int," said Lucretia, dryly. '•Ton'll see! "flashed the girl. "And it'll be all yonr fault, for I know you've got some bread, or you could make some or show me how or sometbiug. You're jest a soar old maid, and yon wanted Lorenzo." This taunt was flung through the aperture in the fence, as the girl disappeared on the other side. Lucretia felt as if she had been beaten with many stripes; but she went and got a hammer and nails, and nailed the board on to the fence. She fancied that the re sounding blows were echoed by mocking laughter from the direction of the poud. "She's gone down that way, but she won't drownd herself no more than I shall,'' said Lucretia to herself. She sat on the porch with her apron over her head in a dull misery that almost forbade her to think. The cries of the loons came deso lately up from the pond. "I never heard 'ein sound so much like human creturs. There! if that wasn't a human voice! or maybe 'twas the wind. I'm terrible nervous to-night. That sound keeps a-riagin' in my ears. I can't set still nohow." Lucretia went over the stubble pasture where the burying-ground was set. unci, down through a tangle of low bnshes and wet grass to the borders of the Pond. The moon shown fitfully through heavy clouds, a rising wind wailed dolefully, aud flitting shadows tilled her with nervous tremors. She was near sighted aud wandered into miry places, and twice she stumbled and fell, but something that looked like a light dress on the very edge of tho water drew her on. "I'm like a crazy cretur," she said to herself. "She wouldn't drownd herself no more'u nothin' at all. ltut yet them Town llillers are such reckless folks! I don't ex pect she'd so much as think of tho ac count she's got to give. Uustavus's wife has got a terrible cock-turkey, sneerin" way with her. I'd onght to liko to see that Seanncll girl put down, after tho way she talked to me too, but somehow— Hut 'tain't no use (or mo to be pokin' round here as if I was- possessed. I declare that light-colored thing's a-movin". Eldory! Kldfry!" Lucretia's voice echoed through the stillness, but only a loou's mournful cry answered her. She reached tho light-col od object which she had taken for Kldora's moving ligure, and found that it was the moonlight on a waving birch-tree. "There, I'm*a goin' home. She wouldn't even darst to come down hero in tho night she'd be scairt to death." liut a sudden splash iu the water made her turn with a shiver. "I expect twa'n't nothing but a duck or a musk-rat, but I can't take no rest till I lind out where that foolish creture is." She went across the pasture and a hay field, aud so stealthily to Lorenzo's back loor. "There's a light iu tho back kitchen, and it's after {ten o'clock; somothin' must bo goin' on," she said to liprself. She stole on tiptoe to tho window, and through a chink in the shade she saw Kldori standing by the table, with a tear-stained face. An ancient cookery book was open beforo her. aud on the table wore heaped flour aud potatoes and baking-pans in confusion. "Oood land! if she don't think she's a-goin' to make bread out «f potato yeast that she hasn't set nor nothin'l She's a makiu' her yeast and her bread all to once! She'd better stick to salerutus." Lucretia stole softly away in the dark ness, and sought her own abode. She slept soundly lor the first time iu many nights. She was unconscious that the wind had risen to a gale, and fi loud crash under her window only half awakened her. She arose at tho first glipse of dawn to attend to some lirea 1 which She had mixed anil set to rise tho night before. "I calc'late that Oustavus's wife can't find no fault with my riz biscuit," she said to herself complacently as she took her bread out of the oven. She rolled the delicately browned loaves and tho biscuit in her best table cloth, aud set out for Lorenzo's. As she descended tho steps for the first time what tho wind had wrought iu the night. The high board fence lay a broken wreck upon the ground. "I expect Iter poundin' and mine begun it, and the wind finished finished it;but it's got a ineaniu' all the same for them that's a mind to see it," she said to herself. Lucretia stepped over the ruins of the fence and climbed the stone wall. It would perhaps have been easier to go around by the road, hut she found a certain satisfaction in this new route. The door «♦ Kldora's back kitchen wa.i ajar, and she slipped her bread on to the table beside a soggy mass which had just (tome from the oven, overthrowing Kldora's fondly cherished hope that it would be bread. Some one came to tho door and looked out, and a joyful exclamation reached Lucrotia's retreating ears. Lorenzo knocked at the back door whi'o she was washing her breakfast dishes. "That was real kind of you, Lucrcshy,'' he said. "Kldorv wanted me to come over, because she said she was so sarey to you yesterday that she didn't darst to." "I was real hateful to her," said Lucretia, candidly. "You're a good woman, Lucrcshy. Ll dory says you're the best woman she ever see." "I ain't," said Lucretia; "but I'm iu dulgin' a hope. Nobody knows what that is but them that's lost it. Sochi' that fence has blow down, I expect it may as Veil stay down, Lorenzo. And up there in tho bury in' ground—that fence ha I ought to i-oine down to<i. Mother aud gran'iuariu will be laying pretty olost to one t'other, but I expect they see dif'rent now." "Lucrcshy Farmenter was to prayer meet in' last night," said Mis' Isaiah l'lutn iner to her gossip over the back yard fence. "She give in her testimony as If she was a dretful sinner, and slio prayed so fervent that some cried. Yoa'd think 'twas her that had jilted Lorenzo, or hcuu a gelt in' somebody's beau away. And the fence is down, and they'do say there's the grcah st riuiniu'back aud to bet* con them houses, Hid she a learnin' Kldory how to bouso keep. Kind of our'us that the ijuarrej ihould run out so, jest a t soon a- there's nomctbing lo quarrel about, as you might say." "I was always one of theiil that thought Lucrcshy was kind of simple," said Miss W ingate. A Peep at the Secrets of Life. Ono of the most interesting objects for • examination under the microscope is f'ali* tirria fjtiralu (the grass which grow* in acquariuuis), when prepared to /how cy -1 closis or circulation of the protoplasm, i Professor Lock wood, iu the Uicrvscojic, says: i "I think that, to the amateur at least, a hint how to observe the circulation of this favorite plant to the best advantage must be acceptable. I have never seen it better displayed than when under the excellent manipulation of Mr. F. W. Devoe, of the Xaw York Microscopical Society. ''Having selected a bit of leaf, not too mature, he shaves off one side with a sharp knife, although a razor is better. It is then put on a slide, the shaven side up. A drop <>r two of clean water and a cover glass of medium thickness, with good illumination, follows. Mr. Devoe using a prism illumina tor. Begin the examination with a six tenth inch objective, and continue up to a sixth or a tenth. The result will be a vision of startling clearness. The vivid in dividuality of each bioplasmic molecule, and the mystic, almost a solemn, move ment oi this pellucid stream of infinities of life, form a sensational picture of which the beholder never tires." Toads in Rocks. Many well authenticated stories of the finding of live toads and frogs in solid rock lire on record, and that such things are pos sible was demonstrated here recently, wheu the workmen engaged in Varley <1 Ever ill's lime rock quarry, north of the city, broke open a large piece of rook which had been blasted out, and a frog hopped out of a pocket iu the centre, says the Salt Lake HcraUl. Of course, the occurreuce erea tod a tremendous sensation among the workmen, and operations at the quarry were for the time suspeuded, and the movements of the frog were watched with great in terest. The animal was somewhat smaller than the ordinary frog, and was perfectly white. Its eyes were unusually large and very brilliant, but the frog was apparently blind. Where the mouth should have been there was only a line, and on the feet was a dark, horny substance. Mr. Everill at once took charge of the curiosity and it in a tin can, but the frog died the next morning. He brought it dowu town, and it was examined with interest by a large number of people, and it was afterwards presented to the ninseum, where it will be preserved in alcohol. The Longest Word. A discussion has been going on in the columns of the New Tork Sun regarding the longest word in the English- language. The five words below have been uuearthed, and certainly takes the priso for length; The first one is found in the dictionaries, but the authority for the use of the others is not given: 1. Disproportionbleness. 2. Honorificabilitudinity. 3. Disestablisonentarianism. 4. Unpropreantepenultimaticability. 5. Velocipedestrainistrainarianologist. Remedy for Roaches. Take threo pounds of oatmeal, or meal oi Indian com, and mix it with a pound of white lead; moisten with treacle so as to form a good paste, and put a portion dowu ut night in the infested building. Kop«at for a few nights alternately, and in the moruing remove the pasto and the corpses to a convenient place. —Only a mean, small, revengeful man | will conspicuously go away for a month's vacation just as Lis friends are coining home all tirod out. —ln Arabia it in a common form of naluratiou to put check to cheek. A book agent and a sewing machine man could cause a pretty lively collision by adopting tho custom. Lift her up tenderly, Treat her with care. The banana peel tripped her, And then she can't swear. —An eastern editor is inolined to doubt that ouu can see the progress of a cyclone, because, as lie says, air is invisible. It is evident that tho editor never encountered a sight draft. Now let the women do our work, And let. ns cook tho hash, For now they wear our latin dried shirts, j And wo—we wear their sash. —A New York actress was brought down i 11 ladder the other morning from the fourth floor of a burning tlat, bearing ber pet dog on her arms. Considering that there was . no time to return, it is fortunate that she J did not have a child. j —"No barber should use sponges," said ' u medical-looking man to a man with a blotched face besido hini. "It is almost impossible to cleanse them.' —A Philadelphia just from Asbury Park tells of the latest an ti-Prohibition dodge. An individual entered a drug store and presented an order for a pint of whisky, signed with his own name and the letters M. 1). "You're no doctor," said the drug clerk. "No. I didn't say I was." "Well, what does M. I), meant" asked the clerk. To whom replied tho individual briskly: "It means mighty dry!" —Home of the big trees of California are not less than <SOOO years old, or about IflflO years older than the pyramid*. Reason and Instinct.—llow to catch fish is a study. Uow to lie about It comes natural. —Strangers always take advantage and sometime* cruelly treat livery stablo horses and hotel pianos. —Before you do anything wicked, re member that the papers will probably want to menlion it. —The history of Hood's .Sarsaparilla is one of constantly increasing success. Try this medicine. —One of the peculiar induitrie* of a cer tain section of California is the collection and shipment of homed toads. They are sold to the Chinese, who use them for med icinal purposes. They are considered es pecially valuable in the treatment of rheu matism. The formula Is ait follows: Two parts whisky and one part horned toad; mix and let it stand one year. It may then lie taken internally or applied ex lerually to the rheumatic parts. The American inprove* on the Chinese formula I by administering the whisky Internally and trusting the jimjam* to furnish the assortment of horned toad*, j —Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief i» warrant ed to relieve toothache, headache, neoral- I «i». or any othor pain in 2 to K minutes. Also bruises, wound*, wire cut*, swelling*, bites bums, summer complaints, colic, (also iu horses), diarrhora. dysentery and flux. If satisfaction not given money j returned. "How happy is he born and tauzht That serveth not another's will; Whoi'D armour is bis honest thought And simple truth hi*uttno*t skill! Whose passion* not his master are, Whote noul Is still prepared for death, Mot lied unto the world wttli care • Of public fame, or private breath" NO 47- AGRICULTURAL. A good freckle lotion for face, hands and forehead is the following: Lemon juice, •me ounce; powdered borax, one-fourth drachm; sugar, a half drachm. Mix well and keep tightly corked. I!o >n-e. when purchasing an animal, tlmt it i> free from any disease, and that it does not come from a section where dis ease lia- prevailed. It is an easy matter to bring disease iuto a flock or herd. W hen you have to drive your horse a long distance, begin quietly and Ist him work gradually iuto his pace, and when neariug home, or the end of your drive, slack np and let your horse take it easy for two or three miles or more, that he may come in cool and avoid some soma of the dangers of catching cold. REMOVING A CINDER FROM TUB IT*. The proper way to get a cinder out of the eye is to draw the upper lid down orer the lower, utilizing the lashes of the lower as a broom, that it may sweep the surface of the former ciul thus get rid of the in truder. Or, gently drawing the lid away from the globe, pass a clean camel'i hair brash—or fold of a soft silk handkerchief— two or three times between them. Thin procedure will, iu nearly all cases, suffice; when it does not.the services of a physician are necessary. It is a remarkable fact that a very n*inute body will give rise to intense pain, and even after it has been extracted, the sensation remains for an hour or more. After the intruder is out, gently bathe the lids every fifteen minutes in iced-water till the feeling subsides.— [.(lilies' Home Jour nal. EFFECTS OF INBREEDING. Take a flock of common hens, of all colors, shapes and sizes, ho as to conduct an experiment. Place with them a pure bred Plymouth Hock cock, and the chicks will become uniform und so near like Plymouth Hocks that it will be difficult to distinguish them from pure-bred. To con tinue the experiment, the next season use a cock of the last season's production, with pullets of the same bloon. That is, keep one of the half-bred Plymouth Kock* and mate him with u few of the half-bred pullets. The result will be that chicks hatched from the eggs laid by the half, bred pullets will revert to their grandatns, and instead of being uniform, like the cross from the pure Plymouth Rocks, will come ol all colors, shapes and sixes (when larger). By inbreeding the uniformity is destroyed, because tho parents are not pure-bred. Hence, always use a pure male in the flock, no matter of what breed it may be not only uniform, but superior to those of the previous season. The same rule applies to the breeding of cattle,sheep, atul to all domestic auinials.— American Agriculturist. WHEN TO CCT TIMBER. The best time to cut timber is when tho tree is filled with thu gum and oil that have formed after the sap has ceased flow ing and when the natural force* of the tree are at rest. This term may be said to be between the Ist of September and the Ist of February, accordiug to climate and lo eality. December and January are favor ite months iu many sections. Trees when felled iu the winter bavo loss sap to be evaporated by seasoning, whether used for lumber or fire wood.and are sooner brought into tho right condition for use. For dur , ability timber should have sufficient age, I and its strength as well as its lasting qual | ties depenil not only on its maturity, but also on the part of thu treo from which it is taken. Tho least durable and the weak est part of a treo is the sap wood next the baftt. Young trees have au exoess of sap wood, and timber from such will not be durable, especially in exposed positions, as the wood of mature troy*. The strength of wood is much increased by the process of seasoning. Whilo this is going on warping should bo guarded against; other wise its value for most purposes will be greatly impaired. IMPORTANT POINTS IN HORHIBBOIIXO. The Kentucky Stock Farm is authority .'or the following: The farrier too often .nakes a horse his patient for life by ruth lessly cutting way the elastic cushion . ailed the frog, which is nature's natural mpport for tho great flexor tendon. This cushion is nature's provision to support the centre of the horse's hoof, to take off the train from tho sensitive larainio with which the hoof is connected with the foot, io prevent the extreme depression and con sequent strain on the flexor tendon, and to break the concussion caused by the horse's great weight coining so rapidly to the ground. When once sovorely cut away the frog never entirely recovers its original efficiency, und it will bo a very long time before it will be moderately useful. At the same time tho enamel, like the enamel covering our finger nails, which covers the whole of the outside of the colt's hoof, and effectually retains its moisture and suppleness, is rasped away to make his foot lit the shoo and to givo it a round and uniform shape. Thus two of natnre's most important provisions to secure an elastic tread aro ruthlessly destroyed and the horse compelled henceforth to stump and jar away with his sensitive foot and loaded sinews resting entirely on the dried ano unyielding orust of his hoof, made still more uuyielding by being nailed to an iron ring. TAMWORTH SWINE. English breeders have for somo years past been giving increased attention to the Tamworth breed, In the belief that this va riety of pig is unequaled for the production of lean meat. While the Tamworth hogs produce good saleable bacon, other pure breeds, taking them collectively, produoe too much fat for tho majority of consum ers. —For headaches, biliousness, constipa tion, dissiness, sleeplessness, the blues, scrofula, the blood and all skin eruptions Dr. Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic never fails. warranted to satisfy or money refunded. -An exchange says that on the average, in frame dwellings, building hardware, porches, and piazzas should last 20 years; outside paint 5 and insido 7 years; shingles anil outside blinds 10 years; cornice and base 40 years, weather boards, doors, win dows, stairs, newels, and insido blinds 30 years; sheeting and dimension lumber 90 years; sills and lirst floor joists 25 years. —There is considerable discussion as to just who old Bluebeard was and when and whore ho lived. But It Is generally con ceded that ho was quite a lady killer. —"Gone to Meet tho World's Fair and the l'each Crop" was the sign banging on a street door lately. The man who bad I occupied tho place had failed. —The time is close at hand when tbe dog will take off its tnoxsle, and politician will put bis on. —Noboby seems able to account for the scarcity of'spple*. but the small boy will eudeavor to And the cores. —The reiiMin why they kill *pring i ohlrkea* i* because they are of no earthly | use except In an ornamental way alter I they quit laying.
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