"v r >L A v VII. WALL PAPER! Believing that it is b?st to close out each season's styles before th<? ensoiofr reason begin*, even at n great sacriEto, I have marked over two-thirds of my entire stock of pa pT hangings, the largest and) best si elected line in Butler, AT HALF PRICE The balance of .the paper was mark ed so low before that half price would be giving them away. These ycu will pet below cost notwithstanding their fr>rnßfr cheapness. Just imagine Browns at 80 a double bolt, Whites at 10 and 12c, Gilts 15 and upward. Buy now fur your fall papering, you will r.ot get such bargains then My Wuil Paper, Stationery and Art Store is easy to find. W. A. OSBORNE, E. Jt-flVrun St., next to Lowrv House, Butler, Pa. Wir Bprteben such Dcutscb. Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF ]). E. JACKSON. We are new comers, but have come to stay We buy our goods at lowest cash prices and as we sell for cash only. We are enubled to sell goods at the smallest possible margins. We could quote prices on clean, new goods, rto trash, from all parts of our store, especially cu the following goods. Dress Goods, White Gooda, Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus lins, Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles, Corsets aDd Corset Waists. Ladies', Children's and Gents' Under wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet, Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes, Bead Wraps, Jerseys and Jersey Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins. Towels, &c., Ac , but as new goods are arriving all the time, we would not likely have the goods now quoted, but possibly have them at fttill lower prices as tho season ad vances We are proud to any that in this city and county our goods aud prices bave met with approval Bud commendation, although subject ert to close scrutiny and comparison with the goods offered by others. We solicit your patronage, and will Co all in our power to make our busi ness transactions pleasant and profit able. I). E. JACKSON, Butler, Pa. Next door to lieiuemHn's. C. & D. WE Have the largest stock ol hats aiyl for men, boys and children in the county, WE Are especially strong in un derwear for Fall and Win ter. Besides many stand ard makes in all grades; we are exclusive sellers in this county of the celebrated Stoneman handmade under wear. WE Deal directly with the man ufactures and our goods are fresh, strictly reliable and prices the lowest as we save the consumer the middle profit. WE Mark all goods in plain fig ures and have one price for all. COLBERT & DALE, 242 S. Main street, Butler, Pa. Full Again. We mean our wall paper de partment,'lull and oversowing with our immense and choice f tock of paper hangings. You nust help us our, we haven't loom lor ball our goods, until ) ou relieve us of some ol them. We have the choicest selec tion of patterns in every grade from Brown Blanks at 1U cts to Gilts at from 20 cts to $1 per double bolt. Examine our Stock. J. H. Douglass, Js'ear* Postoffice, lJuiier, I'a. S ALES M EXT LOCAL OS TRAVELING. To v.ll our Nursery stock, salary. expenses and fct ady eujpltiVMK'ut guaranteed. CIIASK I'.KOTIIKKS C'OXPAST, Krocheater, N. V. 70U CAN FIND cm Gm in 1 HTi»n« r .n it the Ailverti*in? j!ur*'aii of u . EEidINGTOIT" BEOS. ■mho will contract for advertiaitig »t West tJm. rWrr Tnv T 1 /^y r T"^Al THE BIjT. J-/I-/K CO IZEN. PROFESSIONAL (JARDS. L. BLACK, riIYSIC'IAS ASI> si lit IKON, No. 35J, N. Main St.—Butler. Ha * — ~ Dr. A. A. Kelty, Office ut Rose roint. Lawrence county, Pa. E. N. LKAKK M. I>. E. MANX. M. U. Special lies: Specialties: <iyn;vcolo:rv ami Sur- Eye, Kar. Nose and gery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE& MANN, Butler, Pa. G. . ZIMMERMAN. I riiVKICIAN AND BUSOKOS, office at No. s. Main street, over Frank & Co's Ditifc Store. Butler. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. iCo. 22 Fast Jfffe/ on St., lit tier. Pa. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AN ® SURGEON. S. W. Corner Main and North Sts., liutler, I'a. -J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Aititleial Teetli Inserted rn tlx- latest im proved plan. ('.>1.1 FHHne a specialty. Ofllce— over Schaut a Cloiintin Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession execut ed 111 tlie neatest maimer. . , . Specialties Oold l'll'lligs, and I'atuless hx tra. i.on of teeth. Yit.ili/ed Air administered. Oil.re on .|efTeri>on Street, one door L»»t ofLovrrj Home, t'p Stair*. Office open daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications l>y mail receive I prompt attention, N. B.— Tlie only Dentist in Butler uslngjthe best makes of teeth. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Maps, plans, specihcations and esti mates; all kinds of architectural and en gineering work. No charge for drawing if I contract the work. Consult yonr best in terests; plan before you build, informa tion cheerfully given. A share of public 1 patronage is solicited. i\ O. Box 1007. Office S. W. of Court j House, IJntler, Pa. _ J C. F. L. McQUISTION, RXMNEEII AND SURVEYOR, Ofpick nkak Diamond, Hitler, Pa. J. W. HUTCHISON, attorney at I.AW. Office on second floor of the Huselton block, Diamond, Butler, I'a., KoomN'o. 1. A. T. BCOTT. J. P. WILSON. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Collections a specialty. Office at No. 8, South Diamond, Hutler. Pa. JAMES N. MOORE, AITORNKV- VT-LAW AND XCTAKY PUBLIC. Office In Boom No. l, second tloor of Huselton Block, entmnce oil Diamond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second tloor of New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. Office at No. 17, East Jeffer son St., Butler, I'a, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Heal Estate Agent. Of flee rear of L. Z. Mitchell's office ou north side of Diamond, liutler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second lloor ol Anderson building, near Court liouse, Butler. Pa. J. K. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at !*aw—Oflice on South Bide or Diamond Butler. Pa. L. S. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Krai Estate Ait 17 LAST JEFFEIISON ST. BUTLER, - PA. s. E. ABBAMS&CO Fire and Lite INSUR A X C E Insurance Co.of North .America, incor porated 1794, capital $3,000,000 and other strong companies represented. New York Lite Insurance Co., assets £410,000,000. Office New nuse!ton building near Court House. UIUIIK misniis. ERIE,PA. All stock guaranteed to be in good con dition when delivered. We replace all trees that fail to grow. REFERENCES IS BUTLER: J. F. I-owry, \V. T. Mecbling, Jame Shanor, Jr.. J. t). Forsythe, Ueo. Shaffuer (S. Walker, Esq.. Ferd Keiber, Esq. and D L. Cleeland. G. F. KING, AGT. EITEXMILLI.R HOUSE, RUTLER, PA. BUTLEK COUNTY Mutual Fire insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. .J. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT, H lIKINEMAN, SECRETARY DIJiECroiIS. (I.C. Uoeaslntr, Henderson Oliver, J. L Purvis, James Stephenson, A. Trout man, 11. ('. Helneinan, Alfred Wick, N. Weitzcl. Dr. W. Irvln. !<r. Ktckenhach, J. W. llurkliart, I). T. Norris. LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ac". eTTTLHi-R, PA.' THIS ■ ' J-T " K A, • *cy of Menrn \ » - AVER A our •••'hiirtiud sgeut* • . . . 1 . V . • f.\ , ; tTS V< ■ ' !- 'i ■ - * - . ' . ; *> -j 1 7 - - - r'!.r? *7 : ■ ' '.. - 0 \ •'■' * ' T ""jl ;•-> t'j S-MAiHST WHEN IN NERD OF CALL ON HENRY BIEHL 122 NORTII MAIN STREET, ±3 U T - HP-HIJM UST' A W here you can haye your choice ont of the largest assortment of cooking ami heating stoves in Builcr cot.nty; also dealer in Hardware. Lansing Wagon*, AY heeler <t Wilson and Standard Sewing Machines. Hat i - and Stand Lamps. Manufacturer of Tinware; Tin Hoofing and Spouting a Specially. WHERE A CHILD CAN lit.'Y AH CHEAP AS A MAN WEST END GROCERY. F. W. LIMBERG, PROP, Fresh stock of teas, coffees, canned goods, country produce and everything usually kept in a first class grocery, tobacco and cigars; also dry goods, notions, etc. We make a specialty of tiour and teed. A Full Line of Fall Dry Goods Just Received. Goods Delivered Free to any part of Town- Extraordinary Bargains at TK OUT MAN'S Great 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 this month, A word to the wise is suffi cient. TROU TMA N ' S Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House. No. 200 North Main Street Butler, Pa V J Pittsburgh, Pa. ——* This old and reliable Institution has pri |.;ixcJ thousands* of ymuig men and women for the active duties ol 111-*, Ta those 111 want ol a useful, prac Ileal education, circulars will be sent 011 application. p. in KF A. SONS. EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR OR CUFF THAT CAN BE RELIED ON B^ P ! ISTot "to gfe-gpll-fc! the mark to Discolor! ' BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE mark. j NEEDS NO LAUNDERINC. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. "Thrift is 6. v-—• 600 d revenue! cleanliness SAPOLIO' It*is&solid ca.Ke scouring so&p ( Try ibinyournexl'house-cleaning &nd be happy. Looking- out ovor the many homes of this country, we see thousands of women wearing away their lives in household drudgery that might be materially lessened by the use of a few cakes of SAPOLIO. If an hour is saved each time a cake is used, if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face because the toil is lightened, she must be a foolish woman who i would hesitate to mako the experiment, and he a churlish husband who would grudge the few cents which it costs. BUTLRE i?A.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10,18'.0- A PIRATICAL I'KEW. i<V SYLVAXrS COBB, Jtt. For the following I am indebted to my old fil ml Hall—good old Captain Hen, of blessed memory. I read the account in hi* well-kept Log; and I also heard the narrative in all its uiinutite, from his own lips. - Late in tho autumn of '4l I sailed from Boston in the ship I had com mail ded for four years and more —the "Clark Whit ney." She was a heavy ship for her day and generation, and heavily sparred and rigged; and I believed in having a good crew. I had four-and-twenty hands be sides myself and officers; but they were not such hauds as I would have selected ! had I been at liberty to select. The trnth was, while the ship was being 1 loaded and the crew shipped, I was ou my back, sick with the measles. It was the second time I'd had them, for I am very sure that I took them in 20ur.se with the family in my childhood. However, my : wife explained it. She said only very j handsome people hau the measles twice, j And I was very glad she thought so. Jack Braekett, my first mate, had taken the new men—sixteen of them—and a tough, hard sot they were. Never a better man, nor a,better sai'or trod a ship's deck than was Jack Brackeit; bjt he was an easy going body, very apt to be imposed upon and altogether too ready to believe what others told him without botheriug himscli to think and consider. He hated a wrangle; and vet. for all that, let him bo fully aroused—let somebody tramp'e on him, and reach the magazine of his temper —and I think he could bo the most savage, the most terrible man. iu his wrath, that I ever saw. But never mind that. Tho men had signed the ship's books, and were a part of the erew; and when I saw that they really wished to sail with me, I tried to bo re conciled. The} had come from two of the very worst boarding-houses iu Boston, and Brackett had taken them on the recom mendation of a certain shipping agent ou Commercial street, who, for his own and family's sake shall be nameless here. We made the run form Boston to Can ton, China, direct, stopping only at con venient ports—C'ape-Towu, Batavia, and so on —for supplies. So far as I was con cerned, I had but little trouble; but Brackett had a great deal. He was easy and good naturfcd, and the rascals put up on him. They didn't know what they were doing. By-aud-by—it was after wo had left Cape-Town—they aroused the tiger in him, and he turned on them with a vengeance. His first es.-ay in the new character was during the mid-watch ou the second night after passing Good Hope. He knocked down lour of the men oif-hand and two of them he knocked down a second time. Still, his berth wasn't an easy one. He was obliged to go armed continually, and it fretted him, and made him morose and unjust. But it isn't my purpose to tell of poor Jack's trials, further thau this: By the time we bad let go our anchors in the Canton river, the majority of the crew were in a state of rank insubordination. They never refused to obey me; but they would obey nobody else. The result wjs, the sixteen men who had shipped while I was sick, deserted—every man of them — and Brackett begged me not to try to find them. From Hong Kong I was to proceed to the Philippines—the port of Manila, 'nut I couldn't sail without a crew. At length, however, with the assistance of a ;>iendly agent on shore—an English gentleman whom 1 had known mauy years—l succeed ed in engaged fourteen Colics. They were the best I could get, and. I was really glad to take them. I made the run to Manila in two weeks, and there iny Coolies ran away—even* mother's son of them: and I afterwards learned that they bad shipped for the sole purpose of reaching the Island of Luzon. Thus my ship was left with myself, three mates, a supercargo, and eight men, who had beerwwith me several yeais and upon whom I could depend; bat I could not go to sea with that crew. In the event of baffling, changeful weather, the work would wear them down quickly. I made my want known to our consul, and he promised to do what he could to aid me One day a Malay, giving his name as Palama. came on board, aud iuformed me that he hail sailed iu three different Kng lish ships, and that he had twelve com panions, who were good sailors, and that they would like to go to America. I liked Palana's looks. lie was a tall, muscular fellow, somewhere about 30 years of age, and spoke English so as to be readily understood. Like all his kind he had a look in his eye and about the heavy lids that plainly said: "Don't tread 011 me." "But.l didn't think him dangerous. 1 told him to bring his comrades aboard and let ine have a look at them. Towards noon on the following day they came—thirteen of them —all Malays though with something of the Tagaloc tone about them. That is, there seemed enough of the Tagal blood iu them to take oil' the harshest of the pure Malay character. The Tagals are the Luzon Indians. Of the thirteen three, besides Palana, could speak English. They were called, respectively. Tolo, Seelah and Wala-Wala. They all wanted to go to "Americano." They had heard grand things of tbat country, and wanted to see it. i looked the men over, and led them about the jleck to see how much they knew of her ship and rigging. I found the.n far more proficient than I had anticipated. "Good sailor!—very good! all!" declared I'alana, emphatically. I called Brackett and Dau Sampson, the latter my second mate, and the result was we engaged them: and on the very next day they joined the ship, bag and baggage. Very soon we were glad we had secured them. At of lading they took hold with a will, not only working faith fully, but intelligently. And further, when we came to setting up the standing rig ging. they proved themselves used to the work. In short, we—my mates and my self—felt that we had been particularly blessed in securing the Malay seameu. We left Manila on a clear morning in for a run to Batavia, on the Island of Java — distance, as we sail, of about eighteen hun dred miles. The Malays worked splendid ly; they were really good sailors. A few of them were awkward at first on the lore ropes of the yards, but they could hand and reef a sail with the best. Three days passed, and 1 could not have asked for better men; but on the fourth came a chauge, and it. came curiously enough. One of my oldest and best men was a Scotchman named Sandy McDongald. lie was over three score, and as active and enduring as any man 1 had. I think he was the most t-killful helmsman I ever knew. In his long years of voyaging to all quarters of the globe, he had contrived to pick up a knowledge of almost every language he had ever heard; and be sure, if he came in contact with a foreigner whose language he understood, he would never let on that ho knew it. He xiad a fondness for being master of the situation. The Malays of our crew spoke a lingo of mixed Spanish and Malay, closely re sembling that of the Tagals of Luzon; and Sandy understood it, and could speak it; but nevir a bint of the fact had he let fall j before Palana or his companions. On the morning of the fourth day out Sandy McDougald bolted into my cabin | without so much as a tap on the door, liis eyes were wild, aud I really thought his j stiff gray hair was starting up all over his i head. lie swept the place at a glance, saw that we were alone, and then came up . to my side. j "Cap'n! D'you know what you've got I aboard this .-hip?" "What is it, Sandy. Don't keep me in .suspense. Here, take a drop of this ■ brandy." I saw that ho was much shaken; so I took from a locker over my table a bottle of brandy and a glas-;. He drank; and then I motioned him to a seat beside me, and then be told me: Palana. and six others of the Malays were in his watch. Puring the night last past—they bad bad the mid-watch—he bad seen I'alaua, about an hour after the watch had been set. go to the forecastle coui pauionway and rap gently—a peculiar rap —on the trunk; and shortly after four of Malays of the other watch came up, and they all sat down under the lee of the long boat. Sandy bad remembered a place, close abaft the forward chock, whore ho could easily c.awl cnder the keel of the boat, and, as he suspected mischief, he resolved to know wbat these fellows bad to talk about And he did hear. "Cap'u! They're a regular piratical crow. It is business. And they've ship ped aboard the old "Whitney" for the sole purpose of cutting your throat, and the throats of all your old crew, and taking tbe ship! And I heard the chief—that's Palana—say where they'd take her. lie means to run her into a little river, where he has a lair, near Triugano, on the Malay coast. To-morrow night's the time set. He has the first watch: and the blow is to be struck at midnight, when the watch is relieved." Of the entire truth of Sandy's story, ami of his opinion, I had not a particle of doubt. Many things which had thus far appeared strange were now made clear. Things which had puzzled me puzzled me no more. But that was not all; ou that morning, after tho men had gone up to breakfast, fianday had tun his hands over I'alana's clothes bag, and had plainly felt a brace of large pistols, and two long knives. And two other bags which he had ventured to handle be had found to be supplied in like manner. After a little further conversation I bade Sandy to keep a close watch.and we would confer again before tbe couiiug night bad closed in. When I wont on deck I found Palaua ou the quarterdeck, but he left it when he saw me. _.\ n hour later I saw him standing where he could look dowu into the cabin; and as ho turned to move away, I detected thai peculiar look and nod which a man gives who sees some thing that he is full sure will one day bo his own. Suffice it to say, during the day I saw enough to assure mo that Sandy was right, in every particular. The Malays seemed to be treading on air. They were hopeful and happy; aye, they were jubilant. Their black eyes sparkled, and their sitting cordy hands worked very peel ant'y. During the secoud dog-watch, shortly before sfmdown, Sandy beckoned to lue from the wheel. "Cap'n!" be wishpered. as I came up, "it's to be at midnight, tb's werry night! Palana is to kill yon, Tolo is to kill Mr. Brackett, and Seelah is to kill Sampson, and one of the others that don't speak English, he called Cam-Bam, is to kill Mr. Gould. Ah, it's al 1 laid out. The moment the starboard watch has gone below, the companionwaj- of the forecastle is to be secured, and the work commenced. Of course, the ifalays of the off-watch won't go down."' He bad hoard it all talked over, Palann and his companions having had no fears of his hearing, since they were sure he could not understand. I was now positive that the piracy—the murder —was contemplated: that it was as sure to-come as the midnight hour, and my plans were arranged. The course I had resolved to adopted was not original with me. Captain John Baker, of the barque "Florantine.'' had once resorted to to the same thing in case of mutiny. As soon as my plans were matured I took my officers into my confidence, but not until after the first watch had been set, nnd the time for work was drawing At eight o'clock I'alaua came up from the forecastle to go 011 duty. . lie was to stand the first watch. He had put on a loose-fitting Guernsey frock, and I plain ly saw the impression of two pistols be neath. And the other Malays had done the same. The starboard watch was 011—my own— and 1 stood it, with Mr. Sampson, as I had often done baforo. At nine o'clock I set myself to watch my opportunity. I knew that Braekett was ready in the cabin to come up on the insta.it he heard the word. Sandy, also, was on the qui r ire. Ah! Upon the stroke of tea o'clock I saw my chance! And here was the situa tion: The wind was west-nor'-west, which gave us the wind on the beam, with the starboard tacks aboard, and the breeze was fairly fresh. We were carrying full top sails and topgallant sails, the royals furled. The Malay chief, I'alana, had been con versing in the lee gangway with two of his mates. At precisely ten o'clock he left them, and came aft as far as the main topgallant backstay, just abaft which he stopped aud looked over the rail. lie leaned both his elbows on the rail, and appeared to be looking over into the wa ter—thinking—and not one of his com rades near him. "Now or never!" I said to myself, as 1 crept swiftly but noiselessly towards him. 1 had taken the precaution of putting a pair of cloth slippers 011 my feet. I came up behind him, grasped him around the thighs,, and. with a very quick, strong lift, hoisted him overboaril. It was all done in a moment. He sent forth a sharp, wild cry as he went, while 1, starting back to wards the wheel, cried at the top of my voice: "Man overboard! Man overboard! Men to the braces! Lay the main topsail abackl Quick! Lively, my men!" Then Sandy took up the cry, and announced that Pala ly, the Malay, was the lost man. By the time the ship had been hove to, and while the stern-boat was being low ered, the whole of thu Malay crew had gathered on the quarterdeck, aud were wildly shouting, jabbering aud gesticulat ing. Sandy said the\" were eager to save the chief and I very quickly saw that they were eager to go in the boat. While the boat was being brought to the gangway, Braekett shouted that 110 could hear the poor fellows cries for help. The Malays heard him, and were frantic in their eager ness to be off. I let theui go over into the boat—every one of them—and they went without a thought of anything, save their suffering chief. I was to lose my boat, but little I cared for that. Better lose a thonsund boats than one human life given into my care. Aye. and better lose the boat than lose the ship and all that was in her. The Malays went into the boat, and put off; and when they had got well astern I gave the order for tilling away, and very shortly thereafter the ship was on her course again. Whether the Maljys in our stern boat 1 ever found their chief or not. I never knew. For themselves the weaiher sa line. and they probably reacheu the shore in safety. If they suffered from hunger and thirst, I could not help u. We reached Baiavia without difficn'tv. doing double duty with grateful hea.is. And there wo were particularly blessed, we found fifteen men, the crew of a Nova Scotian bark, hailing from Halifax, that had been wrecked during a severe storm in tiw Straits of Sunda. They were eager to get home, aud glad to ship w'lh me; aud I need not say how glad I was to welcome tJem on board the "Clark Whitney/' They were poou men. every oue; and tria t we reached home safely may be known from the fact that I am hero to tell tho story. A Check is Not Cash Pay ment. The Supremo Court of Minnesota ha s lately rendered a decision of much interest to the business conimnnity iu declaring that bank checks a-e not cash, and do not possess legal value as money u 'lil cashed. In other words, the giving of a check on a bank is not a payment when pas-ed be tweeu debtor and creditor, but only be comes so wnen the money is received on it. The court holds that in accepting a check (com a debtor there is no legal pre sumpcion that tho cri'iiifor takes it in ab solute payment, but only conditional'y, or as written acknowledgement of the debt. W here goods are sold for case on de''ve r v, and tho purchaser le iders payment in a check or draft on his banter, such psr ment is only conditional; and the de'ivcy of the goods, if made is also conditional. If the check is dishonored ou presentation, the seller may retake the goods for the purchase money, even from the no-session of a third or innocent party, unless it cau be shown that the se'ler has been guiltv of such t-eg'igef»ca as would niui IV.*ui recovering in equity. This decision is among the first renoerc l by higher courts that is so far-reach'up. •inJ if supported by other high t r i .tuna' -, will settle a mooted question in couini"" eial circles. The same priuciple has Invi applied to unpaid noi.es by uue or iwo courts, which have held that the ee'lc does not. lose his lien, for purc'iaso mouev, on goods so'd, until he receives the actual cash, and may retake at any time prior thereto if ihe indebtedness he not met at maturiety. Relative Order of the States in the Censuses of 1790 and 1890. Present 1790. 1800. approxi'aie Population Virgiania X. York 6,921,400 Penn'a Penn'a 5 2.83,000 X. Carolina Illinois 3,801,°.80 Massachusetts Ohio 3.000.000 New York Missouri 2.788,000 Maryland Indiana 2,223,822 j S. Carolina Michigan 2,175,000 ! Connecticut Texas 2,142.000 X. Jersey Mass. 2.110.000 X. Hampshire lowa 1,920.<H>0 ' Georgia Geoigia 1,896,000 ; Rhode Island Kentucky 1,880,000 ; Delaware Virginia* 1,878,000 Tennessee 1,804,000 Wisconsin 1,082.000 Kansas 1,682,000 X. Carolina 1,073,000 Alabama 1,C43,000 Minnesota 1,415,000 X. Jersey 1.408,000 Mississippi 1.347,000 California 1,342,000 S. Carolina 1,194.000 Louisiana 1,122,000 Nebraska 1,105,000 Maryland 1,070,000 Arkansas 1,0-'3.000 W. Virginia 775.000 Connecticut 730.000 Maine 658,000 Colorado 410.000 X. Hampshire 381,000 S. Dakota 378.000 Washington 381,000 Florida 370.000 Vermont 332.000 K. Island 328,000 Oregon 304,000 X. Dakota 181.000 Delaware 107,000 Montana 128.00 C Wyoming 00,000 Idaho 59,000 Nevada 40,000 NOTE. —The order lor 1890 is from official ! approximations furnished by the Census ! Bureau and may possibly, in a lew cases, i lie slightly changed as to a single place by I ihe full official returns. i A Tree That Owns Property. I There is a tree at Athens, Ga.. which is a property holder. In the early part of the eentury the land on which it stands was owned by Col. W. 11. Jackson, who ! took great delight in watching its growth and enjoying its shade. In his old age the tree had reached magnificent proportions and the thought of its being destroyed by those who would come after biui was repugnant that he recorded a deed, of which the following is a part: 'T, W. H. Jackson, of the county of Clarke, of" the one part, and the oak tree (piving loca tion), of the county of Clarke, of the other part: Witnesseth, that the said W. 11. Jackson, for and in consideration of the great affection which he bears said tree, and his desire to see it protected, has con veyed and by these presents do convey unto the said oak tree entire possession of its and of all laud within eight feet of it on all sides." —Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief is warrant ed to relieve toothache, headache, neural gia, or any other pain in 2 to 8 minutes. Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swellings, bites burns, summer complaints, colic, (also in horses), diarrliua, dysentery and flux. If satisfaction not given money returned. —The love of females for adornment is the same all the world over. The South Sea Island woman, who dosen't wear any cloths to speak of and whoso full dress consists of a bright smile and a coating of tish oil, adorns herself with tattoo marks all over her face and puts ou airs because of them. Her sister in civilized life togs herself out in all sorts of finery and wouldn't be happy if she couldn't. —An advertisement appeared last week in one of our exchanges for a woman to "wash, iron and milk one or two cows '' We can understand the cows wanting milking, but why on earth they require washing and ironing is beyond our com prehension. "He that loves a rosy cheek Or a coral lip admires, Or from star like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his tires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. I!ut a smooth and steadfast mind. Gentle thoughts and calm desire*. Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle nerve-dying lires. Where these are not, 1 despise Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.'' A Census Problem. In the I'nited States one hundred years ago the proportion of persons living in cities to those living in the country was as one to twenty-five. The r»ceut census -hows that the present proportion is one to three. This decrease in the rural popnla tiou is general throughout the country, and has given rise to various theories touching the cause. It is an interesting question. Public attention is directed largely at present to social and economic problems, and their consideration is enlisting careful and earnest thought. It is not always possible to determine the reason from the result, but concensus of intelligent opinion on any question aids in reaching a logical conclusion. The growing disproportion between the urban and the rural population of the I'nited States may be attributed to a variety of causes. It has been accounted for by some of the most careful students of sociology upon the ground that the social instincts of men draw them together into communities and that the tendency to de sert fie farm and to seek homes in the town and cities is due to the distaste for solitude which is common to the human rate. This will not entirely explain the phenomenon , although it is doubtless true that it is one of the motives which'has helped to bring about the present condi tions. Economic influences have also played au important part in causing the change which is so rapidly equalizing the census in the country and in the cities. Labor-saving machinery makes it as easy now for one man to produce a thousand bushels of wheat as it was formerly to pro duce one hundred bnshels. The railroad has become the wagoner of the farmer, and the necessity of employing men to haul the products of the soil to market has been practically done awav with. The packing houses now do the most of the butchering for the farmers, the cream, eries make the butter which he consumers, the cannijg factory and evaporator work up his fruit, and thus in almost every di rection the demand for labor has been cur tailed aud the work of the farm narrowed down. The vast production of agricultural machinery has drawn the young m«n from the farm to the manufacturing centers. The multiplication of schools and colleges has attracted the well-to-do farmers to the towns and cities to edncate their fam;lies. The decreased profits of agriculture iiave induced meuy people to abandon farming for more lucrative pursuits. The railroads have brought the rural population withiu i.isy touch of the world, and the city, which was ouce so remote, is now easily accessible, with all of its charms and attractions These are among the reasons which are assigned for the exodus from ttie country to the city. Whatever may be the true cause of its decline, the spirit of con tentment which once prevailed among the famers no longer exists. Whether tho old conditions of happiness and prosperity which once agriculture an invitLig pursuit will ever return, is a problem which is yet to be solved, and it is a ques tion which may well awaken serious con cern.—Kansas City Star. She,Wili not be Familiar. What strikes the pilgrim from other lands, writes a Philadelphia Press corres pondent, is the predominance of women in Boston. Women everywhere—in the res taurants, behind the lunch connters.in the shops, in tho officers, women seem to be doing all the work. I don't find any fault with this arrangement. They are more civil than the men. I only wish they conld become street car conductors. Prol abl.v they may some day. Down here at N*antasket Beach you will find the samo 1 superabundance of the fair sex. They pre j sido at tho popcorn booths with all tho I dignity of long lineage and great mental development Foreigners from New York , or Chicago, ignorant of the country, sorne i times make an effort to be pleasant with these young ladies. The result is always i disastrous to the foreigners "I'll wait npon you, but I'll not be fa miliar with you!" That's tho shibboleth of the Boston serv- I iug lady. 1 was much amused at the attempt of one of these "foreigners" jnst mentioned to bestow a small fee upon one of these young women. She drew herself up with aU the hauteur of family pride—for no doubt her name was Winthrop, or Adams, or Hancock, or Winslow—and then she re marked: "Excuse me, sir,we are liberally reward ed for our services by the corporate lessees of the beach, and, consequently, the offer of any gratuity is entirely a supererogato ry act." '•Johnny, accept the gentleman's nick el." "We keep him for that purpose, in order not to offend those who may be strangers in Boston.". —For headaches, biliousness, constipa tion. dizziness, sleeplessness, the blues, tcrofula, the blood aud all skin eruptions Dr. Fenner's Wood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Touic never fails. Warranted to Mitist'y or money refunded. —A superstitious man in Bethlehem* i Pa., buried a cat in his neighbor's garden ! under the mistaken idea that it would j bring bad luck to the neighbor. The | bad luck was on the other side of the i hou<e. The neighbor had the superstitious j man arrested and there is trouble on his 1 plate. This reminds us of a woman of a ! superstitious turn of mind, who to bring I bad luck to her neighbors was accustomed to throw an old copper cent with a hole in it into their yards. The small boy of the : neighborhood caught on to her funny work an.l it was fun for him to have a morning hunt through the yards to get the cent. Whether anybody ever had any bad luck because ol the woman's queer action no body ever seems to have learned. It was good luck for the small boy all the same. —An Allegheny physician has been prosecuted for neglecting to report a case of typhoid fever to the board of health. —Honesty never has to crowd anybody in order to get room to make a living. —No epidemic in recent years has depopulated as many cities as did the recent census enumerations. —The dude does not look so much like an ass. clad in his blazer, as ho resembles a zebra. This is rather tough on the zebra, too. —There is no longer any excuse for .• Mowing the parlor clock to run down. A new clock has an attachment by which a little dial marked '-wind" bobs up as the clock is run&ing down. —Jay Gould says there is no stringency in the money market. If Jay were a country newspaper man he would not make >uch wild and reckless assertions. —Alonzo; What has come over Reginaldf Ho used to be such a shy, bashful chap, especially with women. Now he puts on more airs than he can carry. Alphonso.— Wby, don't you know? He was the only I.lan at Undertow Beach during the whole month of July. "I'm sorry my daughter's a girl; lier sex only adds to my wojs; For though she's as fair as a pearl, She cau't wear lier daddy's old clo'es,'' NO 48. Signing th© McKinley BilL The Tariff bill was lmd opon the tabU before the President last Thursday at about 3 p. M. At that time there were present in the room, in addition to the member!" of the Cabinet, Senator ALdrtoh, who bad charge of the bill in the npper branch of Congress, Representative Mo- Kinley, Chairman of the House Comtnitte on ays and Means. who name it baara; Representatives Perkins, MoMillin, Maaon. tieisenhainer and Cuinmings, and represent stives of the press associatioas. As Presi dent Ilarrison squared himself to affix his signature Secretary Blaine and Aldrich, who had been conversing OH a sofa, arose and stood . gainst the table. Mr. McKinley was directly opposite the President and the rest of the gentlemen grouped about the table. "Does your hand tremblef inquired Secretary Blaine. "Xot a bit," was {he response of the President; "I shall be able to pnt on a good signature." Looking up to Maj. McKinley, the Pres ident asked: "I)o you want the pea whea 1 havo finished?'' The response of the author of the bill could not be distinguished. In a firm hand the President then wrote: "Approv ed October 1, 1890, Benjamin Harrison," saying as he did so, "I will use plenty of iuk." When he had finished, Mr. Halford was about to dry the signature with a blotting pad, as had been done with all the rest, but Secretary Blaine stopped him with the remark, "Let it dry out," and the private secretary laid the bill aside without blot ting it. Having seen the Executive ap proval given to the bill, Maj. MoKinley moved toward the door, followed by several others. Representative Matson said to the President: "I have Maj. MeKinley's permission to ask you for the pen you have just nsed for one of my little folks." The pen, an ordinary steel faloon in a plain cedar holder, was then handed to tha Chicago Representative. He Sat Down. Lver.v bench on the east side of Rattery 1 ark was full of sitters—old and yoong, men and women, boys and girls. A man who seemed to be pretty well tired out walked up and down lor ten minutes, and then, seeing that nobody moved, he walk ed up to a bench on which five men were fritting and said: "Any of you men see a $5 gold piece around hereT Maj have been the benoh lower down." All jumped up aud began to search, and J three; started for the other bench. The man then sat down, with a High of satis faction, and five minutes later, when all had seen through the trick, foar of the ousted sat down with him, while the fifth stood aud figured for a while, and then said: "Say, I'll tie one hand and both legs be hind me and light you for a cent." The Biggest Check. The controversy as to the largeat check ever drawn has broken out again in the English newspapers. The Bullionist nays that it was a check for £3.250,000, drawn to pay an arbitration award, and other checks fori." 2. 000,000, £1,750,000, £1,350,- 000 and £700,000 are mentioned as in it, all being English checks, except one drawn in Xew York by a Vanderbilt. A larger check, however, than any of these, exoept the first, was drawn in 1881 by President Roberts of the Pennsylvania Railroad in payment of SBO a share for nearly 200,000 shares of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad stock, when Mr. Thayer of Boston sold the controlling interest "short" to the Baltimore and Ohio and Bob Garrett "leaked." —Don't borrow a neighbor's paper more than once. If it pleases yon subscribe for it. —Chinamen may be rather alow In adopting the customs of a Christian civil ization, but they get there Just the same. Two of them have just been arrested in St. Paul for robbing a bank. Rather promis ing, that. —A minister once officiated at the funeral of a man's wife, and conducted the services in a very solemn and impressive manner. After the funeral the man approached the minister, pressed his hand fervently and said: "I thank you very much for your services at my wife's funeral. I hope to be able to reciprocate some day." The man has not yet had a chance to recip rocate. —Hypocrisy may puss muster on earth, liut there will be no masquerading in heaven. —After praying for goodness don't for get to be good —lf hell is paved with good intentions, Satan must wear spiked shoes. —There is no rest for the weary and no 'jody else needs it. Money is as frequently the result of evil, it is the root of it. —"We all have strength enough to endnre the misfortunes of others. —lt takes more religion to keep a man straight in a horse trade than it does to make him shout at a campineeting. —Strange that wo haven't yet seen the oyster referred to in our exchanges as a ••luscious bivalve," although a full month nas passed since the season opened. The girl who is often lost in admira tiou easily fiuds herself in love. —•• Well, Mr. Sullivan, are you going to run for Congress?" "Xaw. I'm troo with figbtin'; it's low. —Miss Freshly—Why do yon poets burn the midnight oil, Mr. DeAktillt Mr. DeAktill.—Because not many of us oan af ford gas. —The Nihilists have been trying to sond the Czar Heavenward by the wrecked train route. —The man who provokes an anaolt by insulting remarks, is really the assaulting party. There are words which sting and phrases that cut like a dagger thrust. A person has no more right to woosd yonr feelings than to wound yonr flesh. An offensive epithet is as uabearale as a blow. The origin of a good many strikes are certainly mysterious, but one that seems to defy all attempt at unraveling Is who was the man that struck Billy Pa Iter BOH T —Trains for heaven never have any bag gage cars. —The man who prays loudest ard lotg e>t usually has something on hi* oon " science. —Scrofula sores, swellings in the neck, aud all impurities, are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. From the crable to th® CT&I— - best but a little wav— V few short steps in the sunlight, Then closes forever the day. Let us then rise up and hump ns, Vnd do all »e possibly can To make the briet journey ploasant For ourselves and our fellow »aa.
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