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.