V >L XXVII. © WALL PAPER! Believing that it is best to close cot each season'a style* liefore the (DBQing pea sen begins, even at a great secrifice, I have narked over two-thirds ot my entire stock of pa per hangings, the largest andj best •eclected line in Butler, AT HALF PRICE The balance of the paper was mark ed so low before that half price would be giving tbcm awav. These you will get bo!ow coet Eotwithstanding their foimer cheapness. Just imagine Browns at 8« a di nble bolt, Whites at 10 aud 12c, Gilts 15 and upward. Buv now for your fall papering, you will rot jjet such bargains then. My Wall Paper, Stationery and Art Store i* *a<-j to find. W. A. OSBORNE, E. Jt-fferscn St., next to Lowry House, Butler, Pa. Wir sprechen auch Deutscb. Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF D. E. JACKSON. We are new comers, but Lave come to stay. We buy cur goods at lowest cash prices and as we sell for cash only. We are enabled to sell goods at the smallest possible margins. We could quote prices on clean, new goodx, no Irani, from all parts of onr store, especially on the following gocds. Dress Goods, White Goods, Priut9, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus lins, Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles, Corsets and Corset Waists, Ladies", Children's and Gents' Under wear, lloßiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet, Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes, Bead Wrop?, Jerseys ar.d Jersey Jackets, Table Liuens, Napkins, Towels, &e., Ac , but as new goods are arriving all the time, we would not likely have the goods now quoted, but possibly have them at still lower prices as the season ad vances. We are proud to say that in this city and county our goods and prices have met with approval and commendation, although subject ed to close scrutiny and comparison with the goods offered by others. We solicit your patronage, and will do all in onr power to make our busi ness transactions pleasant and profit able. D. E. JACKSON, Butler, Pa. Next door to Ueineman's. C. & D. WK Have the largest stock ol hats and outfittings 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 ccunty of the celebrated Stoneman handmade under wear. WE Deal directly with the man ufactures and our goods are freeh, strictly reliable and prices the lowest as we the consumer the middle profit. W K Mark all goods in plain fig uiCK 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 overflowing with our iuimeiise and choice stock of paper hangings. You must help us out. we haven't room for hat I our goods, until you relieve us of some of them. We have the choicest selec tion of patterns in every grade from Brown Blanks at 10 cts to Gilts at from 20 cts to $1 per double bolt. Examine our Stock. J. H. Douglass, PoHolTce/ Sutler,] Pn. SALESM ETNJ WANTED LOCAL OR TRAVELING. To sell oar Nursery stock, salary, expenses and steady employment cmrantced. CIIAhK lIKOTID.Its C'OMPAM, Urochesler, N. V. YOU CAN FIND P on Cli in Pms*Cß»ii at Ad»erti.| D * I ~re.m' ssssmm'SßsSi THE BtJTLLR CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL, CARDS. L. BLACK, PHYSICIAN AND FX B .EON. No. 354, N. Maiu Ft.,—Butler, l'a Dr. A. A. Kelty, Offlce at Kose Puint, Lawrence county. Ta. E. N. LEAKE. M. ». J. E. MANX. M. V. Specialties; Gyca-colosy anil Sur- Ej e. Ear. Niise ao.l pry. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. rnysiciAN AND SIROFOS. omce at No. 4.V S. Main wruet, o% cr Kr vnk s CVS 1)IUK Store. Butlrr. I'.'. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. £c. 22 East Jeflerfui. R>.;!ir, Pa. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN ANU SURGEON. S. W.C«ner M:.in aid Nortii Sw., Butler, Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. AHlficial Teetli 'n the latest im proved plan, colli FliUnij a sr«clalty. Office— over Schaurs Cloihing su.re. DK. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaiuinc to the profession, execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties <Jo!d Klllmss, and Painless hx traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. Olßce J*ffer»on Strc«t, onr door bit of Lowrj Hou««, I'p Stair*. Office open dally, except Wednesdays and Thursday*. Communications by mail receive prompt attention,- S. B.— Tl:e only DentLst In Butler best makes of teeth. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Map*, pilaus, specifications and esti mates; ail kinds of architectural and en pineering work. Xo charge for drawing if I contract the work. Consult your best in terests; plan before y»u build. InTorina tion cheerfully given. A share of public patronage is solicited. P. 0. Box 1007. < »tlioe S. W. of Court House, Butler, Pa. C. F. L. McQUISTION, EKUIKEER AMI SL'KVKYOB, OFFICE KKAK DIAMOND, I»*"TLEK, P*. J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTOHNEV AT LAW. Cfflce tu second floor of 1 l.e Iluseiton block. Diamond, Boiler, Pa., Koom No. 1. A. T. SCOTT. J. F. WILSON. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. Collections a specialty. Office at No. 8, South Diamond, llutler. Pa.- JAMES N. MOORE, AITOBNEY-AT-LAW ASI« NOTARY I'CBLIC. Office In Koom No. l. second floor of Husclton Block, entrance on Diamond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office oil second floor of New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. Office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St.. Butler, Fa, W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Low and Ileal Kstate of flee rear of L. Mitchell's office on north side o( Dlainoiid, llutler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor oi Anderson building, near Court House, Butler, Pa. J. K BRITTAIN. Atty at Law-Ofilce at S. E. Cor. Main St., and Diamond, Butler, l*a. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South side of DlamonC. Butler, Pa. L S. McJUNKIN, Insurance ami Real Estate As'l 17 EAST JEFFKKSON ST. BUTLER, - E. E. ABKAMS & CO Fire and Life INSUR A N C E Insttrs'ipi, Co. of North America, incor porated 17U-*, capitnj ra.OOO.ftcO am) other strong companies represented. New York Life lofuranee Co., »»ct» > :•<),« 00,0<i0. Office New lluseltou building near Court House. UMII MIS'. ERIE, h*x\. All stock guaranteed to be in good con dition when delivered. We replace all trees that fail to grow. REFERENCES IN BUTLER: J. F. Lowry, W. T. Mecliling, Jutno Shanor, Jr., J. E. Forsythe, Geo. Shail'ner (•J. Walker, Esq., Fcrd Keitier, Ecq. and I) IJ. Cleeland. G. F. KING, AGT. EITKXMILIfcR UofSE, BUTLKX, I'A. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual' Fire insurance Go. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham !>•■!>. C. KOE&SING, PBSSIDENT. H. C. HKINEMAN, Skcckfakt. DIHKCrORS: Ci.t'. IliH'S.slii!.', Henderson Oliver, J. I. Purvis, James M«'|tlieuson, A Trout man, H. <'. Heiiienmu, Altrod wick, N. Wfltxel. Dr. W. Irviu. Dr. Ktckeubach, J. \V. liurkliiirt. D. T. Norn*. LOYAL M'JUNKIN. Qea. Ag'l BUTLER, Advurtise is 'he CITIZEN, _____ __ / yVj r\: ** ' -- /,\w / -f p/% —' . ■ - v " \V * i i it' C > "' * • R —• - . WHEN IN NEED OF CALL ON HENRY BIEHL 122 NORTH WAIN STREET, BTJTLEB - 3P.TTJM IST'A Where yon can linye y< ur choice out of tbe largest assortment of cooking and he*t:i>g stoves ir ru'iT i i.nntv: Blmi dealer in Hardware, Lansing Wagons, Wheeler &■ W : lroii i.i.il StuMV.id . t 'i v. y.- •. I!i.: • ir.j; m:d Stand Lamps. Manufacturer of Tinware; Tin Roofing and Spouting a Specialty. WHERE A CHILD CAN Bl VAS CHEAP AS A M WEST END GROCERY. F. W. LIMBERG.iPROP. Fresh stock of teas coflee.-, canned .tools, country produce and everything usually kept in ;> fir-t c'a?s grocery; tobacco and cigars; al«o dry good.-*, notions, etc. We make a specialty of Hour and lecd. A Full Line of Fall Dry Goods Just EeceivedS Gioods Delivered Free to any part of Town- When in need of =R=E Don't forget the old stand. CHAMBER SUITS, PARLOR SUITS, BOOK CASES, CHAIRS, BEDS, BEDDING, ETC All first cla-p goo;ls at rock bottom prices. One price and square dealg with all. K. S. 13 R JE W, Successor to Miller Bro's & Co. JE. Jeffersori - Sutler* JPa. THE " (C (CT)(f^fT©BAKING Satisfaction €uaranteed° EACH CAN OF THE COOKS BAKING POWDER IS GUARANTEED FULL STRENGTH, FULL WEIGHT, AND IS SOLD ON ITS MERITS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE CONSISTENT WITH QUALITY. QOQKB QUARTERS,RETAIL AT 5 CTS. COOKS HALVES, RETASL AT 10 CTS. COOKS Pousse, Retail AT 20 CTB. Sold by all Ou:.i • y* und Can, WAT IPROOF COLLAR or CUFF~ n' " ] THAT CAN BE RELIED ON yp \ ysi 'cyfe to *3lAf 5 | tk; : a ar to Diaoolor! ' BEARS THIS MARK. " Mark. NEEDS NO LAUNDERIMC. CAfJ BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED VMTERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. Thrilt is a. flood revenue resuiS f a nai j/^ cleanliness -OMr vLI v * If is a soli cl cake scouring soa^p Try ibinyoLtrnexh house-cleaning behfiippys Looking out ovor tic many hour 3 of this country, we see thousands of women wearing- away tL ir lives in household drudgery that might be materially lessenad by the use of a fi .v cukes of SAPOLIO. If an hour ia saved each time a cako is used, if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face becauso the toil is lightened, s'.ie must bo a foolish woman who would hesitate to make the experiment, and he a churlish husband who would grudge the few cents which it costs. -Bl' I.Ku. . A The Red-Headed Girl. Oh. give me the girl with the auburn hair ! The lass with the peachblow curls; The one that the white horse always is near. For she's the boss of all girls. The one whose topknot is flamingly red— The color we paint-the town — Of a rosy tinge, most luridly spread O'er a carroty, sunset crown. Oh. jfive me the girl whaec 1 ranium's hued With Harvard's selected shade; The tint of neckties worn by the dude. The pink of the blushing maid. The one with the wavy raspberry bang, That easts forth fiery rays ; Whose cherry bow-catchers witehingly hang Like a bunch of currants ablaze. Oh, give uic the girl with the ketchup crop, Crab apple, cranberry tinged; Whose dome's adorned with a tomato mop, All crinkled and coiled and fringed. With a sorrel Psyche knot on her pate, Like grape juice or old port wine— AVith the coral, the ruby, garnet plait. Like peppers or drug store twine. Oh. give me the girl with the gold fish crimps; With the ringlets like beefsteak rare; The one wiih the locks of fricaseed shrimps— The one with the lobster hair, The weinerwurst. frankfnrt sausage girl With soft shell crab-like braids. For tbe one with the danger signal curl Lays over all other maids. So give me tbe girl whose canopy's down Is the rouge, like a toy balloon; Whose cupola's capped with a scarlet crown Of carnation, brick, maroon. The one with the strawberry knob so fair. She'll make things torrid through life; Oh. give me the girl with the raw meat hair— The red-headed girl for a wife ! Luck in OH. When I'etrolia was in its prime, there was a certain producer whose name shall he "J," if you please, who always insisted that there was no such thing as luck. "It was all management—good manage ment—or judgment —good judgment." He always repeated those words to add force to his point He had been very suc cessful and had accumulated a considera ble store of this world's goods in the shape of greenbacks and oil leases, and was on the road to a competence. All or most of his fortune had been made from a single good oil farm near I'etrolia, which he had acquired by the accident of marriage with a relative of the owner of the farm, a maid en lady. That made Mr. J the first choice out of would-be lessees, and he secured the lease. After having drilled and developed the farm for third sand, and it had proven only moderately productive, another man demonstrated the fact that there was a fourth sand underlying the third, and much more productive. Mr. J at once pullc-d the tubing in one of his wells aud proceeded to drill it down to the fourth sand. It started off at 3,000 barrels a day. Several others followed suit, and of conrse j became wealthy, ar.d it was all from his wonderful "foresight and judgment—good judgment." Before Mr. J had drilled his wells down to the lonrth sand, he was willing to part with his wells and the farm at abont junk price, with a small allowance for the de pleted production, but could not find n purchaser. To illustrate how persistently he stuck lo bis idea of judgment, I will tell a little story: At one time when he was bringing in one of his wells, he stepped be hind the derrick to go to the tank to see her flow. Now tho drillers in order to fill the forge had dug a hole about two feet deep and four feet square. This hole had become filled up level full with sand pump ings, and the tool dresser in cleaning out his forge had thrown light dry ashes on top ol the mud, aud it looked like dry land. Air. J walked briskly toward tbe tank, as a producer usually does when she begins to flow. Well, one foot went into this hole, and to prevent a fall the other quickly follow ed it. The driller, on hearing somethiug like a swear word, looked around tho cor ner of the derrick, and seeing Mr. J's con dition, said with a smile that presaged a laugh at a more opportuno moment, "Mr. J, that is hard luck." Tho reply came promptly: "Xo hard luck at all; bad man agement—bad management." To illustrate luck in oil affairs a little further, I will cite a bit of inside and unwritten history of the Wildwood pool, to show that all fortunes in the oil business are not the result of "good management," but are sometimes the result of accident. About three years ago a man conceived the idea that a section of country in the vicinity of Wildwood con tained an oil field, and acting on this idea he went to work and leased a largo tract of land for oil purposes and, after many trials, succeeded iu getting np a company to drill a well. This company was gotten up by giving another party one-half in terest iu the leases to drill the first well. The well was drilled, and as is the usual result of the first venture, was a dry hole, with merely, as he says, the ear marks of an oil well, and, as usual, again his com pany deserted him, and he was forced to try other fields aud pastures now, while the leases were held on to, to take tho chances of someono else drilling in that vicinity. Another party came iu and took up a block of leases adjoining the first, drilled a well and struck oil, and wildcat ter No. 1 was saved. Theyear before that, when wildcatter Xo. l's leases came due to do some work or pay his rentals (it was in March, 18SD,), his company said to him, "Give the leases back; we don't want them; they are no good." In compliance with this order lie went to the laud owners and offered to give the leases back and quit claim to the land, but they refused to take back the leases unless be paid the last year's rental, which amounted to quite a sum of money. Money with my wildcat ter was scarce ut this time, as he had been playing in hard luck for many years, as wildcatters usually do, but by giving his company a good talking to and reiterating his belief in the value of tbe leases, he suc ceeded in getting the money to pay tho rentals for another vear. The rentals paid kept the leases alive to the 28th day of March last, and on the 24th day of March last the (irillith well, adjoin ing, came in large, and then there was souie tall hustling to put the money in bank, as per contract, to pay the rentals. Now it was tho landholders turn to kick, and they refused to take the money, but it was in the bank and the leases were saved to my wildcatter and his associates. To-day this same property has a produc tion on it of nearly 4,000 barrels a day, and is known as the Gibson <fc Giles by some and by others as the Koth Oil Company, be ing one and the same, Gibson and Giles be ing the men who drilled the first well for a half interest in the leases. Their half in terest is intact, but the other interests are somewhat split up since. Gibson .t Giles, seeing the ear marks of an oil field in the well, stayed with their entire interest. Now the indulgent reader of this may in fer that I am a firm believer in luck. That would be a mistake, for I believe that a man who has made it a life study can get nearer to an oil pool the first time than tho man w ho knows nothing about, it. There are plenty of instances of new men jumping in and making a strike tho first time, but there are innumerable cases where they have not even got in tho oil belt. We never hear anything about those, and it is the iucky strikes that are conspic uous. Tho trouble with the wildcatter is that his cempany does not stay with him long enough. They will -t»y with him for one well, and if he doesn't strike the first they throw him overboard, regardless ot the fact that his well has all the ear 111 irks of an oil well and there is no reasonable doubt but that he is in the near vicinity of an oil pool.— D. S. C. in Oil City Derrick. Two Ways of Doing It. "Come, Sophy, pick up your playthings now," said mamma. The command was given decisively, bat Sophy, a pretty three year-old. with firmness written on every delicate feature, demurred. The mother's face showed the same characteristic, and a battle was soon i. progress, physical strength, of conrse. gaining the victory. Not only was Sophy's evening meal of graham mush and milk, which immediate ly followed, eaten between sobs, but even after sleep had settled over her face the cheeks were tear stained aud red, and a tiny frown marred the white forehead. Unfortunately this program, with slight variations, was carried out daily. But one afternoon it was necessary for Sophy's mamma to leave home for a few hours, and a friend volunteered to stay with the child until the mother's return. "I will try to be at home at 5," the latter said as she was buttoning up her gloves, "but if I fail, that isSopby'.- supper hour. Jane will have supper ready. As soon as she has eaten, as she is usual ly very tired, I put her to bed. I do not think she will give you any trouble. Oh, I nearly forgot—do not try to have her pick up her playthings. I always make her do it before she has her snpper, but she dislikes the work so much that we have a battle scene every day. So, if I don't get home in time just let tho things lie and I'll put them away after she is asleep." The afternoon passed pleasantly to Sophy and her friend, for the latter possessed that sixth sense, tact, which so soon finds tbe way to a child'sbeatt. When it was with in a few minutes of 5 o'clock the mother had not returned. Sophy showed no signs of weariness, but the friend said: "Come, now, it's time for Sophy's supper."- The child climbed into tho friend's lap and turned her ecowlingeyes on the toy-strewn floor. "I'm to make an experiment," was the lady's silent resolve. So she began to chant softly and musically, thus: "I wonder where Sophy's wooly lamb i.-T Oh, I see it lying on the floor; hear it cry baa-ba-a-ba a-a. I want to go to bed in ray basket in the corner." This appeal to Sophy's very lively imagi nation brought her to the floor with a laugh. With many coaxing words and caressing pats the lamb was at once de posited in its proper place. Then the lady began again: "I wonder where Sophy's blocks are? Oh, I know ! They all went off this morning to play, aud now it's al most night, and they're so tired, and they can't find their way to the basket in the corner." This song was also effectual, and Sophy was,' soon showing the blocks "tbe way home." So the pluy went on merrily until every toy was in its place. Then supper was eaten amid smiles instead of sobs, and when mamma returned, a few moments after, it was a very gay little daughter who met, her in tho hall. "Oh," she thought, anxiously, "I'm al most sorry to find her awake; now I shall have another battle over those playthings, and I am so tirod I don't feel equal to it." Great was her surprise when she entered the sitting room. "How did you manage!" she exclaimed turning to her friend. The explanation, however, was deferred uutil Sophy had gone happily to bed with a smile on her lips. Fortunately, the moth er's common sense was quite as large as her firmness, and thereafter the daily "picking up" time became a delightful sea son of plifV to Sophy and an undreaded duty to her mamma. Climbing Snakes. My farmer friend, niram Carpenter, who lives three miles out of towu. invited me to call at his place and see where he found a snake four feet and three inches in length and one and a half inches in diameter. The swallows nest under tho eaves of his barn, which project some twenty inches from the building. The rnftcrs do not run out more than one-half or two-thirds of this distance, tho space between them being quite thickly studded with the mud nests of the swallows. One pleasant day in June his son noticed quite a commotion among tho birds, aud called bim to the spot. They were amazed to see a largo snake clinging to the end of a rafter, with its head in one of tho nest, evidently devour ing the young birds. The reptile was able to cling to the end of the rafter by hug ging it tightly, and was only dislodged after some effort. It had swallowed two young birds, aud another was part way down its throat. Tho young man had not "believed in killing snakes," but on this occasion ho dispatched the reptile forth with. The bam is sheeted np with rough pine boards, upon which there are two coats of paint, and from the ground to the point whence the snake was dislodged the distance is nineteen feet and four inches. How it managed to get to the spot seems altogett er a mystery. There was no holo through the side of tho barn nor under the roof boards, not did it seem possible for it to have worked its way from the top of the roof. Then, it was quite as dillicult for it to have found a way to tbe roof. Mr. Car penter is a most reliable observer ot all natural phenomena— an investigator, real ly—but he was unable to form any opinion as to how the reptile reached its prey. He described it as resembling the common gar ter snake, except in the matter of its great size, hence I could form no idea as to the species to which -pccies it belonged.— ('has. Aldrich, Webster City, Jotca. —American Naturalist. —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), diarrhtea, dysentery and Dux. If satisfaction not given money returned. —Many a man, says an exchange, will willingly pay a tax on a worthless car, but when the school tax collecter comes around he swears by the bearded prophet that these taxes will ruin him. —The new census report of religious bodies in tho United States shows that there are 134 socts. —Fashions always run to the extreme. Tho low-necked drtss is being supplanted by the Elizabeth collar, which is so lofty that the top of a high hat is barely visible above it. —Eyery man has a right to his own opinions about matters and things, so long as they are honest, but he has no right to force them upon others. —"lf you've money to spend, there are chances on call. If you've money to lend, there's no trouble at all. »Tf you've money t • make, the chances are lew. If you've money to borrow, the Lord pity yon." Bashful Bridegrooms. Minister., declare that in nine cases oat of ten brides are innch more self-possessed than are bridegrooms when the tnamage ceremony u being perlorined A shy, tnodest looking little creature robed in white u ill stand perfectly erect, locking the minister calmly and squarely in the eye, without for an instant losing her self poise, while the big, blunt six footer of a bridegroom by her side is pale, nervous and trembling, llis fingers are likely to twitch nervously, and he may even hitch at his trousers legs or twist a corner ol his coat skirt. I was once "best man" to a stalwart, middle aged bridegroom noted for his c iurago and feats of daruig. and when the time came for us to go down stairs to meet the bride and her attendants he nearly had a tit, and he looked like a walking corpse all through the ceremony. I had to keep saying: '-Brace up, old boy," and '•Come, come, you've got to go down," to get him started at all. and at the door he was idiotic enough to clutch at me and .»ay: "Say, Fred, how would it do to have Mary and the preacher slip in here aud have it all over with before we go down at allT I can't go through with it before all that crowd." "Idiot!" I said, briefly aud pointedly enough to leave no doubt as to my mean ing. "Mary won't oome iu here and you will go down this instant!'' He got through it at last without doing or saying anything ridiculous, in which respect he was luckier than another stal wart bridegroom of my acquaintance, who was so dazed and overcome that he held out one of his own fingers for the ring when the minister said: "With this ring I thee wed." Another bridegroom I know lost his head to such a degree that when it came time for him to say "I, Horace, take tbee, Annie, to be my lawful wedded wife," he said in an unnaturully loud tone, "I, Mary, take thee, Horace, to be my lawful wedded wife," and when the time came for him to introduce his bride to soine of his friends who had not yet seen her, he did it by say ing awkwardly, "Ah, er—Miss Carter, this is my wife, Miss Barton," calling her by her maiden name. Few men say "my wife'' easily and nat urally the first time they use the words iu public. A funny case was that of tho badly rattled bridegroom who starod blankly at the minister until asked if he took "this woman to be his lawful wedded wife," when he started suddenly and in the blandest manner said: "Ah, beg pardon—were you speaking to met" A village preacher says that ho once married a rural couple at the home of the bride'i parents in tho presence of a large company of invited guests. The bride groom was a big, bony, red-faced young fellow who looked as though ho could have felled an ox with his first; but he shivered and turned pale at tho beginning of the ceremony, and at its close he fell down in a dead faint, to the manifest annoyance of his bride, who had been as "cool as a cucumber" throughout the whole cere inon;. LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY. His Sympathetic Nature and His Early Misfortunes. Those who saw much of Abraham Lin coln during the later years of his life, were greatly impressed with the expression of profound melancholy his face always wore in repose. Mr. Lincoln was of a peculiarly sym pathetic and kindly nature. These stroug characteristics influenced, very happily, as it proved, his entire political career. They would not seem, at first glance, to bo efficient aids to political success; but in the peculiar emergency which Lincoln, in the providence of God, was called to meet, no vessel of common clay could possibly have become the "chosen of the Lord." Those acquainted with him from boy hood knew that early griefs tinged his whole life with sadness. His partner in the grocery business at Salem was "Uncle" Billy Green, of Tallula, 111., who used at night, when customers were few, to hold the grammar while Liucoln recited his lesson. It was to his sympathetic ear Lincoln told the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge; and he, iu return, offered what comfort he could when poor Ai n died, and Lincoln's great heart nearly broke. "After Ann died," says "Uncle" Billy, "on stormy nights, when the wind blew the rain against the roof, Abe would set thar in tho grocery, his elbows on his kneos, his face in bis hands, and the tears runnin' through his fingers. I hated to see him feel bad, and I'd say, 'Abe, don't cry'; an' he'd look up an' say, 'I can't help it, Bill, the rain's a fallin' on her.' " There are many who can sympathize with this overpowering grief, as they think of a lost loved one, when "the rain's a fallin'on her." What adds poignancy to the grief sometimes is the thought that the lost one might have been saved. Fortunate, indeed, is William Johnson, of Corona, L. 1., a builder, who writes June2B, 1890: "Last February, on return ing from church one night, my daughter complained of having a pain in her ankle. The pain gradually extended until her entire limb was swollen aud very paiuful to tbe touch. We called a physician, who, after careful examination, pronounced it disease of the kidneys of long standing. All we could do, did not seem to benefit her until we tried Warner's Safe Cure; from the first she commenced to improve. When she commenced taking it she could not turn over in bed, and could just move her hand a little, but to-day she is as well as she ever wus. I believe I owo the recovery of my daughter to its use." —Kev. David Kaufman, of Lancaster, n a., is creating a sensation down that way by preaching while apparently asleep. On the other hand, plenty of church-goers sleep while their minister is apparently preaching, and yet don't create any sensa nation unless they happen to snore loud enough to waken the other sleepers. —lt is not the boy who behaves him" self the best, but tho boy who can straight en up his countenance and assume the most innocent look after committing some deviltry, that gets the reputation of being the best boy in school. Tho good boy with sereuo meekness on his face and devilment in his heart is the cause ol bis less artful schoolfellow gotting mauy an undeserved thumping. —One of tho first duties ol a reporter in writing up au accouut of a murder trial or an execution is to dilate upon the "won derful nerve" of the prisoner. —Most ol the cough syrups sold in the stores are failures, but a remedy in which onions from an important ingredient is made by taking one cup of molasses, one -■up of vinegar and ono half cup of cut up onions, l'ut on the stove and simmer about half an hour, or until the onions are Thou remove and strain. Take a teaspoouful of this frequently, whin troubled with a cough, and unless it very deep seated it will not last Tery long. The Case of Gibson. The carpenters bad just finished re-shinfrj ling hiM kitchen, and he was raking the old shingles up into 1 pile. "Hello, CiikMn!" said « neighbor, "you'll have kindling enough to last *ll winter, won't youf" "Yen," he replied, with an inward glow of satisfaction, '-and it make* mighty good kindling, too." "Good morning, Gilmod!" called ont the family doctor, who drove along a few min utes later. '"Been making some improve ment*?*' "Tea." "It looks like a good job. Aud it will give kindling enough to last all winter." "Tea, I'm getting a good deal of com fort out of that." "Gibson," said the deputy sheriff, who passed along shortly afterward, "if you take good care of those old shingles they'll last you for kindling all winter." "Yes," replied Gibson rather shortly. "I suppose they will." The driver of the ice wagon was the next. "Hello, Gibson!" he said, "You'll have kindling enough to last all winter.". Mr. Gibson made no reply. He went on raking his shingles somewhat viciously. "Morning, Gibson!" exclaimed tlu Sun day school superintendent a minute or two afterward, as he stopped and leaned over the fence. "You'll have kindling enough I see to last yon all—" "Darn the kindling!" The superintendent passed on with a shudder. "The next man that says that to me." muttered Mr. Gibson, "will have a fight oa his hands." "How does thee do, friend Gibsont" in quired the next passer.a genial old Quaker, "I see thee will have enough kindling to last—" "Go to thunder!" roared Gibson. Of course ho couldn't got a fight out of a Quaker, so he kicked a stray cat oat of the yard by way of relieving his feelings, and continued raking the old shingle* without looking up. The pastor of Mr. Gibson's chuch was taking bin afternoon walk. He saw his parishioner at work, stopped a moment and looked at him, and then remarked: '■You will hare kindling enough, Broth er Gibson—" That was all be said. Brother Gibson, without pausing to see who it was, yelled out: "Blank Ibe blankety-blank old shingles to blanknation! Blank your blank med dlesome mouth! If you don't light out of this blank quick I'll set the dog on you!" Fire minutes later Mr. Gibson, with trembling haste and his pockets full of re volvers ready for instant use. was burning his shingles in the alley. Ilis case will coine up before a meeting of the oburch officials next Sunday afternoon.—Pittsburg llispa tch. Japhel's Opportunity. There were fifteen or twenty people— passengers on a Hudson rirer steamer —sit ting together on the promenade deck when a young man who bad evidently reached his majority, suddenly fell off his stool with a great crash, baring lost his equilibrium while taking a nap. "Consarn his pictur'!" growled a gray haired farmer who was smoking a rery bad cigar. ''That's my son Japhet, and he is alius puttin' his foot in it." "He seems worn out," replied the man addressed. ••He shouldn't be. I're had him down in New York for a week, to see if I could not polish him up a bit, and get gome new ideas in his bran box; I'm just clean dis couraged about Japhet." "Good worker on the farm, I should judge T" "Yes, Tery fair; but I wanted him to tackle somethin' better. If he was only like his brother Bill 1" "What sort of a boy is Billt'' "He's regular XXXX flour, and 200 pounds to the barrel. Up to the time he was 20 he didn't know enough to slice tur nips fur ealres. Then ho suddenly began to hump himself. He went toreadin' about nnti-poverty and free government, single tax, free lands, the grindin' monopolies, the oppressed classes, the bloated bond holders, the electire franchise, and all that, and inside of a year be oould out talk any raau in the country." "That was nice." "Guess it was! He begun to talk to the mill hands, and in a week they were on a strike. He got 'em to gtrike ju the factory, conrinced all the farmers' hired men that their life blood was bein' pumped out, and drawed $T> a day and boarded at a hotel." "A working man's adrocate, ch f" "That's it. He tells'em all about how the rich are growin' richer and the poor poorer, how capital has 'em by the throat, how Jay Gould and Vanderbilt are gnaw ing out their beatin' hearts to make a profit. Gets $2,000 a year now and ali expenses, and wears as good clothes as the Governor. Has a S3OO watch and a S2OO diamond pin, and I reckon he has oysters and turkey at erery meal." "I see." "And when I see this dander-headed brother Japhet hillin' up 'taters for sl4 a month the comparison knocks me clean out. I hare slight hopes, though, that this may be the means of changing him. I had him out with an agitator for three days at $.") a day, and to-morror he's goin' orer to the cooper shop and pro\ e to the six coop ers that their boss is sackin' up their life blood by the gallon, and that if they don't stand up like men and demand $4 a day he'll soon be walkin' on their neck and makin' faces at their starrin' children. It's n golden opportunity, and if Japh don't seize it and make a hit I'll boil him up with carrots for the steers."— New York Sun. Exploration of Alaska. A bill introduced in the House of Repre sentatives prorides that the Secretary of War be authorued to send an expedition to the interior of Alaska for the purpose of making a thorough exploration and surrey of that Territory, with a view of ascertain iug its resources and capabilities. It is proposed that the party sent out should locate near the center of the Territory, and from that point as a base push expeditions into all parts of the interior. The party is to remain not less than three years. In this way a thorough knowledge of the topography and other features of the country may be gained. An appropri ation of SIOO,OOO is asked. —The range and penetrating power of ' the modern rifles are tremendous. The i i>ix-inoh rifle will hurl it# projectile throngh I ton and a half inches of wrought iron a ■ thousand yard* from the muwle. The j eight-inch rifle will pierce aixteen and : three-tenth inches of iron at the same dis : Uuce. The ten-inch rifle that the rejuven ated Miantonomab will carry will send Us miw-ile throngh twenty one incbet of iron a thousand yards away. The twelve-iuch ritle, of which we are to have a supply in tne future, will penetrate tweuty-eight , inches of iron at a range of three thousand I feet. N 7 O 49- AGRICULTURAL. how TO PACS moc. Gather eggs fresh. Roll i„ » w —, about six inches square. Beginning at one corner, roll and twist at oppomto corners. Lay in a box anyway and keep Ln a dry i place. They will be frosh as loaf at ym wish to keep thein. I have kept fifty dosn at a time, not losing one. Have paoked them in this way for fiv* year*. Tail* Talk. •JCICK TRACT. The UuHfihohl says; "Twelve medium sixed potatoes boiled, mashed; »tir into the mashed potatoes three tahlespoonfult each of dour and snpar, and two tabiespoon fuls of salt. To this add one pint of boiling hot potato water, one quart of boilinc water, aud one quart of cold water. Stir well, and when cool add two or three yeast cakes according to strength. Let It atand over night before using, or until a white scum rises to the top. When you want to make your brea 1, take what flour yon are likely to need and heat it thoroughly oa the stove, then use one pint of yeast to eath loaf of bread yon want. Work ia plenty of flour, and make up into loaves to bake. When light, pat in the oven and bake an hour. We have the nicest bread when made this way." PRACTICAL HIKTS. Manure never made land poor. Healthy stock stands many a knock. Well laid plans are easily hatched. One dog only, but lei him be a good one. Carrots for horses are better than currr combs. l et no man stmd between you and yonr c istomer. The best seed is the medium sited If otherwise well grown. The roam for improvement; how many of your acres does it covert Hoots of all plants tend downward*, let you plow make it easy for them. Money, manure and mental (acuities must be kept busy, or they get mouldy. Land never stands still; it i* either grow ing better or worse. How is yoursf The man who uses poor tool* » a poor tool himself; birds of a feather flock to gether. Don't let yonr wife chop all the wood; do as much as ono stick a week to encour age her. Whatever you do, do well; even if you lounge around and let your farm work it self, lounge vigorously. A QCICK WAY TO GBT RID OP MOTH*. When moths once get into a room it is difficult to extirpate them. Harper's Bazar gives, however, the following pro cess for destroying them, which is easy and worthy of trial: Close all the windows and all doors leading from the room about to undergo treatment; open wide each drawer and closet and bang the content* over chairs or upon n clothes horse brought into the room for the occasion. Take a piece of gum camphor as large as a haielnut for an ordinary room (as large as a walnut for a room 20 by 16) put it in an iron pot or upou an iron stand. Set fire to the cam phor. It burns very fiercely, so set it at a safe distance from the furniture and hang ings: the middle of the room is the best place for it, unless this is dirootly under a chandelier, in which case It can be placed more to the side, as the heat is apt to in jure the gilding or bronze. The dense smoke soon permeates every nook aud corner aud suffocates every in sect that inhales it. Canary birds and gold fioh arc to bo carried from the room before beginning operation?, and as soon as the camphor begins to burn the operator may leave the room, as. provided, she has taken the above precautions, thore will be no danger of the lire spreading. The camphor will buru from a quarter to half an hour, but it cah be extinguished at any moment by placing over it a stove lid or the oover of the pot. Let the smoke remain in the room about hall' an hour, then open the windows wide, leave Ihem go all day. All the rooms can be treated in suooeesion or all at once, a care being taken to guard bgainst fire. Why He Got the Job. Farmer Crane, who lives over on the town line, says the Toledo Bind*, has some very unique methods of examining the men who apply to him from time to time for wortc. Last evening a tall, big bbned fellow in his shirt sleeves asked Crane if he had any work to do. "I don't know," said the farmer; "can yon 'tend horsest" "Yes, indeed, I've worked about horse* all my lite." "Come around here to the pnmp," said Crane, and ho led the way to a oommon sucker rod pump near the barn. Going in side he got a long, narrow pitoher and placed it under the spout. "There," he said, "pump that pitcher full of water." The big boned fellow complied, carefully pumping the pitcher fnll withont spilling a single drop. "That'll do," said Crane, "go inside and get ready for supper; I'll give yon a job in the morning." About a week later the big boned fellow asked Crane what pnmping the pitcher lull of water had to do with his getting a job. '•Well, I'll just tell you. Thli is mighty dry weather, and water is getting scarce. Yoh must have thought that far, for yon didn't spill any water. If you hadn't pumped hard the water would hare been spilled, and if you had pumped too hard the water would have gone over the pitch er. Now, the way I argue is this: If * fellow don't pump hard enough he won't work hard enough. If he pnmps too hard, ie'll work too hard for a little while, and 1 don't want either kind to work for me. You puuiped exactly right, and yon got a job." How to Sweep a Store. We don't nse a leaky old sprinkling pot to sop tbo floor all over in puddles when sweep. Xo, sirl We have wet sawdust, and I put a row of it across one end of the store and sweep that right along to the other end, just like a regiment marching across a ten acre lot. It catchea all the dirt and carries it along. If it get a little dry. I add some more. Some folks scatter sawdust all over the floor, bat Mr. VandeA says that's no good; that the reason for using sawdust is to avoid wetting the floor all over and to have something that will absorb the dust.— Com. Enquirer. —For headaches, biliousness, constipa tion, diiziness, sle'eplessnes*, the bine*, scrofula, the blood and all skin eruptions Dr. Feuner's Blood and Liver Remedy ana Nerve Tonic never fails. Wananted to satisfy or money refunflefl". —Tbo thin girl Is coming into atyle again, and the big. fat girl will have to take a back seat, or two back Kitt If sh6 requires them. He could not afford a paper— Tbe price ol it made him sick- But one fine dar there came his way Two men who were very "sliok," And he paid them a coo] ten thousand For a worthless gilded brick.
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