VOL XXVII.
WALL PAPER!
Believing tbat it is best to close
out each season's styles before the
CDSuiDg s -asf-u begins, even at
H great sacrifice, I bave marked over
two-thirds ot my entire stock of pa
per hangings, the largest beet
seclected line in Butler,
AT HALF PRICE
The balance of the paper was mark
ed so low before that half price would
be giving them a war. These yea
will get below cost notwithstanding
their forme r cheapness. Just imagine
Drowns at <?c a double bolt, Whites
• fat 10 and 120, Gilts 15 and upward.
Buy now ! r your fall papering, you
will not get su'.'h bargains then.
My Wall I'D per, Stationer v and
Art Store is easy to find.
W. A. OSBORNE,
E. Jefferson St., nest to Lowry
House, Butler, Pa.
Wir sprecben ancb Deutsch.
Dry Goods
AT LOWEST PRICES
AT THE NEW STORE OF
1). E. 7ACKSON.
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 enabled to sell goods
at the smallest possible margins. We
coold quote . prices on clean, new
yoods, no trash, from all parts of our I
store, especially on the following !
foods. Dress Goodn, White Goods, '
Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus
lins, Lace Curtains end Curtain j
Poles, Corsets and Corset Waists, j
Ladies', Children's and Gents' Under- j
wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid ■
Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet, i
Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes,
Bead Wraps, Jerseys and Jersey
Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins,
Towels, &c._ &c , but as new goods
are arriving all the time, we would
not likely have the goods now
quoted, bu' 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 priceM have met with approval
sad commendation, although subject
td 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
'DCSS transactions pleasant and profit
able.
D. E. JACKSON, Butler, Pa.
Next door to Heineman's.
C. & D.
WE
Have the largest stock of.
hat.s and outfittings for men, I
boys and children in the i
county.
Are especially strong in un
derwear for Fall and Win
ter. besides many stand
ard makes in all grades; we
are tycclu&ive sellers in this
ccunty 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 pave
the consumer the middle
profit.
W K
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
jartment, full and overflowing
with our immense and choice
stock of paper hangings. You
nsust help us out, we haven't
r loin lor halt our goods, until
3 ou relieve us of some of them.
We have the choicest selec
tion of patterns in every grade
f:om Brown Blanks at 10 cts
to Gilts at from 20 cts to $1
p ;r double bolt.
Examine our Stock.
t". H. Douglass,
f
fU L E S M EXJ
WA ISTT T>
LOCAL OR TRAVELING.
In well (nr Nureerj tock, salary, expenses and
M "•"» empUivn .-lit Kiiirinteed.
I BKUTIIKKN ( OXPIST.
Kro» hester, N. Y.
0U C NI INDmSEJ
0 I'L- »I i'JTi I.' ,i ltn> A.I-1-rl -M< L.urem. <>F
°u , HEKLNGTOIT BEOS.
will contract lor adveriiauig at lowe»t r^iea.
THE BUTLLR CITIZEN.
i PROFESSIONAL, CARDS.
L. BLACK,
PHYSICIAN AND SIRIJEON.
NO. 3M, S. Main St.,—Butler, l'a
Dr. A. A. Kelty,
l Office at Rose Point, Lawrence county. Pa.
! K. N. LEAKK. M. D. J. E. MANN, M. D.
Specialties: Specialties:
S Gynaecology and Sur- Eye. Ear. Nose anil
firy. Throat.
DRS. LEAKE & MANN,
Butler, Pa.
G. M. ZIMMERMAN.
rij Y:iCIA> AND SURGEON,
| Office atNo. 45, P. Main street, over Frank &
j Co'# Diujf SU,r»*. Butler, Pa,
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
Physician and Surgeon.
£«o. 22 Last Jefferson St., Cutler, Pa.
W. R. TITZEL.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
9. W.Comer Main and North Sts., Butler, Pa.
J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist:
Butler, Penn'a.
j Artificial Teetti Inserted rn the latest im
proved plan. «.old Filling a specialty. Office—
I over ScnauFß Clothing Store.
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession; execut
ed in the neatest manner.
Specialties : —Gold Killings, and Painless Ex
traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered.
Offlrr on Jefferson Mrwl, one door Emit of Lowrj
>lou*e, Ip Stairs.
Office open daily, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mall receive
prompt attention,!
S. B.—The only Dentist In Butler nsing£the
b*»t makes or teeth.
J. W. MILLER,
Architect, C. E. and Surveyor.
Contractor, Carpenter and Builder.
Maps, plans, specifications and esti
mates; all kinds of architectural and en
gineering work. No charge for drawing if
I contract the work. Consult your best in
terests; plan before you build. Informa
tion cheerfully given. A share of public
patronage is solicited.
P. O. Box 1007. Office S. W. of Court
House, Butler, Pa.
C. F. L. McQUISTION,
C.\GL\£EK AND SURVEYOR,
ORRICE KEAB DIAMOND, BUTLBB, PA.
J. w. HUTCHISON,
ATTOHNEY AT LAW.
Office ou second floor of the lluselton block.
Diamond, Butler, Fa., Koorn No. 1.
A. T. bCOTT. J. T. WILHON.
SCOTT & WILSON,
ATTOR X E YB-AT-LAW.
collections a specialty. Office at No. 8, South
Diamond, Duller. Fa.
JAMES N. MOORE,
ATTOKJ.KY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
onicc in Room No. 1. second floor of lluselton
Block, entrance on Diamond.
A. E. RUSSELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on second floor ot 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 Law awl Real Estate Agent. Of
llct- rear ot L. 7.. Mitchell's office ou north side
of Diamond. Butler, r».
H. H. GOUCHER.
Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor of
Anderson building, near Court Ilou.se. Butler,
I'a.
J. K. BRITTAIN.
Att'y at Law—office at 8. E. Cor. Malb St, and
Diamond, Butler, I'a.
NEWTON BLACK.
Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond
Butter. Pa.
L. S. McJUNKIN,
Insurance and Real Estate Agt
17 EAST JEFFERSON ST.
BUTLER, - PA.
E. £■ ABEAMS & CO
Fire and Life
INSURANCE
Insuraitf-i> Co. of North America, incor
porated 179 4 , capital $3,000,000 and other
Htroug companies represented. New York
Life Insurance Co., assets »'J0,000,000. Office
New Huselton building near Court House.
UKE SHORE NURSERIES.
ERI&PA.
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. Mechling, Jame
Shanor, Jr., J. E. Forsythe, Geo. Shaffner
(3. "Walker, Esq., Ferd Reiber, Esq. and D
L. Cleelaud.
G. F. KING, AGT.
EITEMJUILtkR IIOCIHB, BUTLER, PA.
BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts.
•■k. C. ROEiSSING, PUESIDENT.
11. (J. ItEiNEMAM, toiCKKTAhr.
DIRECTORS:
I.C. HoesstDß, Henderson Oliver,
I.Purvis, .lanes Mteph>-nsoii,
v. Trout man, H. 0. Ileinrmiui,
vitrei Wick, N. Ueltzel.
ir. W. Irvlii. ~ (r . Btckenbach.
. W. Horl.hart. I). T. Morris.
jOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Ae't-
BUTLER, FA.
—Adyerticw in tbe CITIZEN.
Wit Li AM iuMQ, # *
i/AJ Ji JLl_?r'V ,
*- ■■ • - i — *
*-" 1 30 S MAINST -
Ml EST 01 Tffl FLY.
- k / J We wore fishing on the sly
C-Z 'J' ( "* n( * caught on the fly,
ft », rrf~jfcr'\ \ Jnet-abore the eye.
viM] xZ 7 y
KJ _Ji—7 Catching a tucker is an easy thing.
* '■'■ e are pot after that kind of game.
tl y / The fact is we've got no bait for suckers
_ in our sure. We are after whales. Our
rfT jfry™h •-1,. ; t i.-j bargains; genuine bargain?, re
' • Ti "taX A>a number; ieal bargains. We don't use
'• «K J|p jl Hrtificial bait, got up just to catch cus
-4y ton). About one man iu ten does not
~ trade with us. We're after that then
About one in ten does not know that an.
other nine of his fellow mortals have come to-the conclusion that it is
always safest to trade with Hf<k. We are after that man. About cue man
in ten docs not know that his neighbors are saving money, because they
trade with Heck. We nre after that n:an with a big stock, big bargains,
with low prices, with fair dealing, and we esp< ct to eet his trade. Are you
the tenth man/ We are after yon We have got the strongest line of first
class goods ever tfftrfd for sale in this market. It is this fact and our extra
low prices that n : k(s cur present bargain offer the great event of the sea
eon. We went smart luyers, sensible people to drop in on us and see us,
and see the stctk we are handling, lcok at the goods and get our prices.
See what we offer acd you will be convinced that cur truth is etranger than
fiction We deptL-d on fads, cot fakes, to win us custom and increase our
ever growing business. As we said before we have no bait for suckers. A
bright penny will please a child, but you would not think of giving a man
a pennv; the idea then of c String a man or woman a penny bribe to draw
their custom. Yet that is just what is offered where a reputed dollar article
is marked at 99 cents or a SIO.OO article is n arked 59.?)9, or still worse, a
reputable 15-cent article matked out only 19 cents or a 25-cent article mark
ed only 29 cents, a 35-cent article marked only 49 cents. These are called
baits and so they are, but only sucker baits, and you will see suckers
jump for miles and swallow them whole. We consider such bait too small
to go fishing for custom with, too small for a large firm and quite too small
for us. Our principle is SI.OO worth for SI.OO, and we live up to it. We
give a premium in the quality of our goods. That is worth more than a
cent's worth of chewing gum. It is now 18 years since we shied our cantor
into the clothing arena, and in that time we have captured the field of cloth
ing buyers far and near. Of coarse, once in a while a concern started up
that was going to exterminate and obliterate us from the face of clothing
dom. Where are they now! They have gone to join pterodactyl, icthyol
saurus, megasauraus and the rest of the family, and we are hero now root
ing, not like a hog, but like a tree that gives back in the air what it takes
from the soil. Yes, here we are with a stock that can't be surpassed, and
challenge all competition on the score of goods and prices. We're no dodos
but we do do all we say every time. Please give is a chance and when voa
call ask for a card, and should you desire one sooner just drop us a posta
card with your name and address, and we will send it by mail.
Yery respectfully,
D. A, HEC K,
Chainr>ion Clothier. Hatter and Furnisher.
121 North Main St. - DufTy's Block, Butler, Pa.
WHEN IN NEED OF
CALL ON
HENRY BIEHL
122 NORTH MAIN STREET,
btjtleb . - - - - penn , a
Where you can haye your choice oot of the largest assortment of cooking and
heating Moves in Butler county; alfo dialer in Hardware, Lansing Wagons, Wheeler
Jc Wilton and Standard Sewing Machine*, Hanging and staud Lamps. Manufacturer
of Tinware; Tin Hoofing and Spontinfc a Specialty.
WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN
WEST END GROCERY.
F. W. LIMBERG, PROP.
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 flour and leed.
A Full Line of Fall Dry Goods Just Received
Ooods Delivered Free to any part of Town-
J. R.GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB.
GRIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE.
NO. 16 SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA.
/• * Sole Ajrents foi Butler, Mercer and Clar
'oll cuuil^es f° r Behr Bros. &Co s Magnificent
t 'iano? - . JShoninger, and Newby & Evans
ijinos, I'acK trd, Crown, Carpenter and
f w England Organs. L'ealers in Violins,
-tiiiigs, Bruno Guitars, and
All Kinds of Musical Instrume ts.
SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY
Pianos and Organs sold on ii bailments. Old Instruments
taken in exchange. ( on;e and see us, a.s we
can save you money.
Tuning and Repairing ol all kinds of Musical Instruments
Promptly Attended to.
-BI'TLKK. PA- FRIDAY. OCTOBER3I, IBHO
Grandma Baker's Thumb.
sorniE SWKTT IS HARPER'S WEEKLY.
••Vhen is that giii over to Manning's
a- goin' homeT" demaided <jid Mrs. Baker,
in an aggrieved tone, of tier grandson Ru
dolphus. who was meditatively whittling
upon the door-stone. "If sh» Keeps school,
' why ain't she a-doin' cf it, instid of spend
' in' her time a-traipsin'round here?"
ltudolphus pretendei not to bear—a pro
yoking habit of his.
"It's time she TM earnin' herself some
d ecent clo'es. if all abe's got is the rigs she
wears round here," continued the queru
lous old voice from the bedroom. "Last
1 time she came ovei here—time you was
1 down to the cranb'r medder—the had on
a little mite of a 'bite cap atop of her
yaller hair, and a Uue and wiite flannel
dress striped like a febry, with :he top of it
made je>t like a saior's blouse, and there
' was anchors sewec on to it. I put my
head out of the *Tltier, and says I. 'Be
| you aboard of the nivyt* She laughed jest
a< pleasant as conll be, though the giri
that was with her, aid was dressed pretty
much the same riditkerlons way, she flush
ed np. and looked r«al mad. Says old Mi-'
Nlckerson. tbat was a-scttin' here with me,
say- >he. -'Twori't do for her to be mad.
seein' >he's a-gettin' Radolphus.' 'You
hadn't ought to talk so. Mis' Xickerson,'
say* I, -when everyb«dy knows that llu-
I dolpbus has fceni krfpm' Company with
1 Aurilly Cleaves these two years, and she's
hooked six rugs, anl made a beautiful
worsted motto that >®ys, "God bless our
home," to -ay notbin of sheets and table
tablecloths that wou.d do your heart good
to see, and five hundred dollars in the
bank, and a cranb'O' mt-dder j'ir'i' ours.'
j 'She's a ketch for «iy youcp man, Aurilly
i is,' says Mis' Nickirson; 'but the other one,
! she's a tyrant.' Jiul I dedare if tbat girl
don't make me thbk of on« of them creturs
with fishes' tails that folks used to tell
about that com«s it over sailors. Ru
dolphus! Rudolpius! I declare when
j folks is helpless 'iis is tie way they're
I treated. 'Twa'n't so whet 'twas t'other
J way, and I had to :are for rou."
! This pathetic reninder w»s lost upon Ru
j dolphus, who wasclimbing the light-house
! stairs, not to attend to the lamp, which, in
J its daylight coveiing, like a hnge
| sheeted ghost, witl no sipi of the unwink
; ing eye which kept nifhtly watch over
j dreary sand dunes, ahalthidden, gnawing
I rock ledge, and the endless shifting waves.
I Rudolphas turned the >py-glass toward
I Manning's Point, in the lope of catching a
! glimpse of the "zebry"' dress which had
| offended bis graridniither. Manning's
Point was but a drca-y waste without
those fluttering strifes. Grandmother
Baker had been bedridden for nearly a
year, having had a paraluic shock; it wa.-
agreeable to reflect that she could not
climb the light-house stairs to see the di
rection in which that spy-glass was point
ed. And her thin, shrill '.ones -«ould not
penetrate the iron door or the brick walls
of the light-house; neveitheless the re
flection that she was still talking caused
Rudolphas to wipe his brow wearily, lie
was a brawny six-footer, lut his blue eyes
were mild, and something gave him a sub
inisnive aspect; it may hare been his stoop
ing shoulders, but people generally ascribed
it to living with Grandma Baker. She was
but a morsel of a woman, and almost nine
ty, «nd her face was like a little withered
apple, but a spark still lurked in the depths
of her deeply sunken black eyes, and her
•»»» <-hiii looked
to time and fate. <
Rudolphus, meditating in the light house
tower while the fig settled sadly down
upon Manning's Point, felt in himself the
strength to conquer poverty, ignorance,
obscurity, but there remained the depress
ing conviction that Grandma Baker would
be too much for him.
He knew that it was his duty to go at
once, for the fog was thickening, and bring
Aurilly Cleaves over from '"the main" lo
do the house-work ami take care of his
grandmother. Guly Silva had been a inns'
capable Louse-keeper and nurse,but Grand
ma Baker "couldn't put up with Portcrgee
ways." She bad discovered this as soon as
Aurilly Cleaves came home from Province
town, where she had been visiting, and
(July was dismissed. Xo one but Aurilly
would do, and this was somewhat em
barrassing, since Kudolphus had been
aware of Aurilly - s red cheeks and curly
hair, and had escorted those charms to the
harbor picnics and to singing schools, until
Mary Ilobart, from New Bedford,had come
down to Manning's Point to spend the
summer, and cast them utterly into
eclipse.
"Keeping company" was the equivalent
of being engaged in Dangerfield society.
Kudolphus was aware that he might have
at one time permanently attached himself
to the curls and red cheeks, if Aurilly had
not had an unpleasant habit of comment
ing severely upon the "shiftlessness" of
young inc.: who had "no stiddy trade."
She disapproved of bis taking the Method
ist melodeon to pieces and putting it to
gether again for nothing, and although
clock-repairing was not to prove a
very remunerative calling in so sparsely
settled a region, it was, nevertheless, very
short-sighted to repair one's neighbors'
clocks and not charge at all, and in
Aurilly's opinion it was much better to do
"stiddy days' works" than to spend one's
nights in trying to invent new-fangled
inachiuerv.
Xow Mary Ilobart understood and sym
pathized; she predicted success for the in
ventions, and Kudolphus had made the
mature discovery that congenial tastes are
more satisfying, in the long run, than curls
and red cheeks.
It was Aurilly'# influence which had led
him to secure the position of light house
keeper, a step which he constantly regret
ted. The immediate cause had been Grand
ma Baker's uncontrollable desire to "live
under gover'munt. Them that was under
gover'munt was always sure of their pay."
But Grandma ISaker, in her normal state
of mind, liked "to see passin'," and abhor
red isolation, and it was perfectly clear to
Kudolphus's mind that Aurilly bad her ear.
Aurilly was one of the few people who
could influence Grandma Baker; she had
five hundred dollars in the bank and a
c ranberry meadow, and grandma respected
"proputty " When the fog had entirely
swallowed the Point, with all its possibil
ities, Kudolphus hurried down stairs, and
put off his row-boat from the sandy beach
of the little island. Grandma's voice hail
followed him through the house. "Folks
that flew in tin? face of Proverdunce," was
the burden of her discourse. '-Them j'inin'
cranb'ry medders" were providential
guides to matrimony, in Grandma Baker's
opinion. Aurilly, with her small and
thrifty trunk, came back with him in the
boat. She had an air of injured dignity—
rumors of the attraction at Manning's
I'oint had spread as far as Provincetown—
and it seemed to Kudolphus that her hair
curled more crisply and her cheeks were
redder than ever. Sitting on her trunk in
the stern, she loomed through the fog like
»n avenging fate. How could he ever—.
lut there art' no eipl»nations vouchsaft d
to puzzled humanity of its own glamours
when they have vanished.
"I expect I might as well have Btaid.
down to Provincetown. Folks seem to be
getting along well enough without me up
here," said Aunlly, when KuJoiphus had
declined to rise to less direct personal bait.
There were tears twinkling upon her
lashes, and Piudolphus felt himself to be a
deeply dyed villian. He had pressed her
hand and her waist, and whispered soft
nothings in her ear; if she had not been
so business-like and sj disapproving of his
way of life, he would now be a lost man.
'"I m goin' up to Xew Bedford to
morrow, Aurilly," he said. "Tin goin'
long of some folks that have been sum
meriu over to the Point. I'm goin' to try
to get a patent on a lamp-burner that I've
been workin' on. I expect it 'll amount to
something. Miss Uobart's nnele is a
patent lawyer; that's—that's why I'm
goin' with her."
And then Rudolphus knew himself to be
a blacker villain than ever. Rut grandma
must be pacified: he must depend on
Aurilly lor that office.
"I expect you'd better stay to home;
ther. 's a hundred fails where one makes
out with them patent fixin's," said Aurilly.
But her tone was somewhat mollified;, per
haps it struck her being too much so, for
she hastened to add: "I expect them
patent men won't do nothing for you
'thout yon court their nieces. It's sur
prisin' how handy business does come to
some folks that hain't never been oil"in the
It was evident that not ninc-h of an ally
against grandma was to be looked for in
that quarter. But Rudolphus resolved to
strengthen his faipting courage. To some
extent his cause was j(<-t; there ira.« some
thing in that lamp-bnruer.
He worked away at the finishing touches
all that evening, while Aurilly hooked a
rug in lonely industry beside the living
room fire, and grandma heroically post
poned the hearing of Aurilly's budget of
gossip, in the vain hope that Rudolpus was
"courting" Aurilly and her "proputty."
He hurried off at noon, with but a hasty
explanation to grandma, to take the train
at the nearest station.
"He's goin' 'long of that striped girl,"
said grandma, sitting up in bed for the first
time in months, with the sparks gleaming
in her little sunken eyes. "If you'd had a
mite of spunk you'd have hindered him,
Aurilly Cleaves."
"I ain't drove so hard for a beau that
I've got to hold on to no man," said Au
rilly, with dignity. But she furtively
raised her apron to her eyes; and, after a
moment, she added: "I don't know but
what Proverdunce is Joey
Atwood says that a freight train got stove
np on the track, and the afternoon train up
can't leave Provincetown till four o'clock."
Grandma Baker silently picked at the
bedclothes with her little bird-claw hands.
Some people said tbat that habit of grand
ma's was a sign that she was going to
die; but she picked chiefly when her mind
was verv active.
"I expect Rudolphus give you a sight of
charges about the lamp, didn't he Aurilly?"
was the first thing she said. "Rudolphus
is one that feels responsibility. I don't
know what he would do if anything should
happen to the light."
"1 ain't one to let anything happen to
the light," said Aurillv."
"I know you ain't, Aurilly. I didn't
mean nothin' like that," said grandma.
"It'll be nigh about dark before ho takes
♦he train over to the Walwich depot, won't
it—nigh about dark?"
"It'll be along into the evening; but they
wro'i cure nnthiu'* akoot it, tbem two," said
Aurillv, bitterlv.
"Along into the evening," repeated
grandma, meditatively; and she offered no
consolation to Aurilly, although she was
wont to feel tbat one could not be too con
siderate to the owner of a cranberry mead
ow and five hundred dollars in the bank.
She sat up in bed, with the spark in ber
eyes gr< wing brighter and brighter, and
picked away at the bedclothes in a way
that almost "gave Aurilly a turn," as she
afterwards confided to a friend. And then
suddenly sbo wanted flapjacks for supper.
"There hadn't been no taste to her
victuals," but if Aurilly would make some
flapjacks she thought she could cat them.
And when Aurilly, having lighted the
lamp as carefully as if she had no thought
of the pair who would see its rays from
the Walwich station, prepared to get sup
per, grandma earnestly enjoined her to
keep the kitchen door closed, lest "smel
ling 'em beforehand should set her agin
'em."
While Aurilly made flapjacks wiih the
kitchen door closed, grandma got out of
bed and stood upon her feet.
"It's jest as that healin' woman said: if
you can only believe that you hain't got
no body nor feelin's, why, you hain't. It
bad ought to be easier for me than for folks
that's got more of a body." And grandma
laughed grimly at her joke as she hitched
along, shaking—shaking like a leaf in the
wind, catching for support at chairs and
table, her little withered face beaded as
with drops of rain. When it came to the
light-house stairs it was worse.
"I've got to believe I'm a sperit, nothiu'
but jest a sperit, or I never shall do it,"
groaned the suffering old woman. "And
I've been such a dretful long time about it
that Aurilly'll get the flapjacks done, and
be comin' to see where 1 be; and like as
not'twon't be no use, after all. Mcbbe
he'll be too kerried away to notice whether
there's a light or not; but that wouldn't bo
Kudolphus."
Aurilly was too deep in thought to be iu
a hurry; moreover, it was her way to have
the flapjacks doue to just the proper brown
ness, and carefully sprinkled with sugar
and cinnamon. As she turned the last one
she heard a queer little bumping noise from
the direction of the tower.
"1 should think some young one was
sliding down them stairs bumpity bump,"
she said to herself, and thought no more
about the noise, perhaps because her
thoughts had a strong tendency to revert
to Kudolphus.
"Why, Mis' Baker, you're all pale and
tremblin', and dretful bet up, too," she ex
claimed, when she carried to grandma's
bedside the flapjacks and the cup of strong
tea which she loved.
"I had kind of—kind of a sinking spell,"
gasped Grandma Baker; "but I lit it off.
You jest sit right here by me, Aurilly.
You won't want to go out doors; it's dret
I'ul raw. I ain't a-goin' to die yet, Aurilly,
you needn't think I be."
But, in spite of this assurance. Aurilly
was alarmed by Grandma Baker's altered
appearance and her strange agitation, and
obeyed her injunction to sit beside her as
constantly as possibly. Towards eight
o'clock Kudolphus came rushing in. It
was raining, and he was drenched. Ho
had come on foot over sand hills and
through swamps.
the matter with the light V he
gasped.
"I lit it just as you told me. There ain't
nothin' the matter that I know of," Paid
Aurilly.
He flung open the d"or and showed the
tower as dark as the grare.
"I'm sure I don't k' iw how it came to
o out/' faltered auri y. "1 lit it just as
ou told me." She followed him, wonder
ing, up the dark stairs.
The great flame leaped up under Kudol
phus's angry tiugers. Aurilly was fright
ened. his face was so white.
"It was lighted. I saw it I waited at
the station for over two hours. I saw it go
out. I waited as long as I dared to see it
lighted again. It couldn't have gone out
of itself: somebody put it out. I ought to
have known better than to have trusted—"
Aurilly went down stairs in indignant
silence. Little old Grandma Raker, in her
bed. chuckled almost audibly. She beck
oned Rudolphus to her as soon as she had
an opportunity for privacy.
" 'Twould tech most men's feelin's to
have a girl do such a rcsky thing as that
to get him back to ber," she said. «
"A girl ought to be ashamed of herself
that would disgrace a man like that!" said
Ivudolphus hotly. "As for what she did
it for—well, a man wants to do bis own
courtin'."
Some confidences had been exebauged
between him and Mary Hobart in that long
waiting at the TValwieh station, with the
result that Mary bad said that he ought to
go back to Aurilly. He had declined to do
this until the light went out in the tower.
Then he had allowed Mary to take his
model to her uncle, the patent solicitor.
There would be no need for him to go for
some time.
tirandma was secretly exultant when
she heard this, but Rudolphus chafed under
the chains of duty and was cross. Aurilly
had an air -
her eyes, and even sanguine Grandma iia
ker could not say that there was any
"courtin'." Rudolphus took his own parlor
organ to pieces and put it together egaiu,
which was not a good sign, and he went
over to Walwich and repaired the Baptist
church clock for nothing as usual. And
Grandma Baker wept when the minister
came to see her, because her "posterity
hadn't the fear of the Lord before their
eyes."
When at length he heard from bis inven
tion Rudolphus had not the strength of
mind to keep the news from grandma. He
felt reckless, and even grandma's reminis
cences of Joel Freets, who "went crazy
a-tryin' to get np a new way of tryin' out
cod-liver oil, and died on the town," failed
to increase his misery. The invention was
not new; another man hid patented it be
fore him ; and electricity was so rapidly
superseding oil for lighting that i 3 was
likely to prove of little value in any case.
"I guess I'd better stick to tinkerin'
clocks," said Rudolphus, bitterly. "II" go
round with a big one on my back for a
sign, like Jud Atkins."
"Jud was a stiddy, likely fellow, and
made a good livin'," said Aurilly, severely.
"The works of the Lord is better than
the works of man," said grandma, piously.
"Cramb'ries will always fetch their price.
This hint like many another of grandma's,
produced no apparent effect, but she was
sure a young man with no more flattering
prospects iu life than Rudolphus would not
long be blind to the desirability of securing
a wife with "proputty." She feltheresell
to be an ally of Providence, and was ready
to climb the light house stairs again if there
was any occasion, although she had suffer
ed frightful pains in consequence of tbat
expedition. IJut, alas for grandma's faith
in Providence ! Only a few weeks after
the overthrow of Rudolphus's hopes, and
after he had worked to secure Aarilly's
cranberries from a frost v> ith a zeal which,
to grandma's mind, promised much, the
brig For tuna tux dropped her anchor in the
harbor with Smith Kingsbury ou board.
Smith had been reported to have been
drowned in the wreck of a vessel six years
before, but instead of being food for fishes,
he had come home Irom Australia with
five thousand dollars in solid cash, aud it
was roported that he meant to buy out the
harbor store aud build himself a fine house
on the mam street. Before he went away,
Smith had "kept company" with Aurilly
Cleaves; people began to say now that if
she were not going to luarry Rudolphus
Baker, perhaps she might do better.
Aurilly combed her hair into twice the
ordinary number of ringlets, and rubbed
ber cheeks with a piece of flannel, and
went to a harvest party with Smith, and
then he immediatly bought a handsome top
buggy aud a high stepping horse, aud took
her to drive.
Aurilly privately packed her trunk not
long after these events, and one fine morn
ing she took her leave of Kudolphus. "I
kind of thought 'twas prudent not to let on
to grandma that I was goin', bein' she's so
easy upset," she said. "And she has kind
of got an idee into her head that you and
me was keepin' company. I am sure I
don't know how sftie came to, for I never
was one to be willin' to resk my bread and
butter to them patent fiiin's, and a girl
that bas got some property of her own has
got a right to look for something kind
of solid and substantial in a husband, if I
do say it. I've got Lucindy Mitchell to
come over and take my place. I thought
this would he as good a day as any for me
to go, for you know at the anniversary town
meetin' they voted to hire a carriage to
send Aunt Keziah Plummer —she's my
great aunt —to see grandma, because they're
about of an age, and the oldest folks in
town, and they hain't seen each other for
as much as twenty years. I thought like
enough you hadn't heard of it, not bein' the
kind that goes to town meetin'." There
was a tinge of contempt in Aurilly's voice.
"Mr. Kingsbury he told me, and I thought
'twould lie best to surprise grandma, kind
of take her mind off of—off of things not
turnin' out jest as she wanted 'em to. There
ain't no reason why you and me shouldr't
part friends"—Aurilly extended her band
graciously—"and I do hope you'll get a
good wife, with a faculty to keep things
goin', for that's what you need."
Kudolphus winced sensitively at this
thrust. IJe thought to himself that it was
deserved, and it caused him to straighten
his shoulders as he went to break the news
of Aurilly's departuie and of the prospec
tive visitor to his grandmother.
"Lucindy Mitchell! What business has
she a-sending her here? If I want Lucin
dy Mitchell, I ean send for her. I hired
her once,and she wasted good victuals and
scum off the cream to take off her freckles,
and was always a starching her own petti
coats," Grandma sat up in bed, and her
little witchlike face quivered with anger
"If you'd a-courted Aurilly up spry, like a
man, I should 'a' had somebody to depend
upon. Here I be, bedrid on a foundering
bark, as y«u might say, and nobody to
come nigh me. Keziah Plummer a comin'
to see met I don't want to see Keziah
Plummer. What if I hain't seen her for
twenty years? I don't care if it's forty.
There's a sight of folks in this world that
I hain't seen at all. And 1 ain't so put to
it to invite company that the town has got
to do it for me! She ain't so old as 1 be,
not nigh. She was never one that you
could depend on what she said she used
to dress-make, and lived round, here and
there, a-tattling her board. It's jest like
her to pretend she's dretful old to make
f'iiik» notice her. She used to pretend she
was dying sick. She said she got the
lung fever from wearin' borrowed night
t ips that warn't aired, and the minister's
wife—she wu.s kind of a peaked little thing
-she cried all one meeting-time becau-.-
« a.-> her nightcap* that Keziali meant.
They took it to church-iueetiu', and it like
to broke up the church. 1 don't ask the
town to pick company for me, and Kcziah
I'luuinier wouldn't never be my choice.
She's an old maid of all the earth. I don't
believe she ever had a chance, without
'twas 'Lias Ramsdell, that was under
wit ted. If they go to blowin' horns for
yon to go off in the boat to fetch Keziah
Plummer over to see me, don't you take a
mite of notice."
Hut there were no horns blown. The
town, determined to do things handsome
ly. had provided a boat, and Deacon Cyrus
Doane, the blandest of the select men, ac
companied the visitor.
"This is a very interestin' occasion, Mis'
Baker," said Deacon Doane. rubbing his
hands in innocent satisfaction at being the
representatve of the town's liberality.
"I don't see nothin' so drettul interestin'
about it," said grandma. She had declined
te follow Rudolphus's suggestion that she
should have her best cap put on, and her
little withered face frowned at her visitors
under a black silk skull cap, whose severity
could not be said to be becoming.
Miss Pluuimer was a little woman also,
and her back was bent like a bow. but her
head was so disproportionately large that
she looked like a gnome in a picture-book,
and her voice was so harsh and gruff that
it seemed remarkable that it could come
from so small a body. Her manner was
timid and deprecating, and she wiped her
eyes as she advanced to grandma's bedside.
"Land sake! what be you a-cryin' for,
iveziath I*l uin inert" demanded- grandma.
"I—l hain't seen you for more'p twenty
years, and the last time was to little
Phrebe Jane's funeral," said Miss Plum
uier. her harsh voice breaking.
"I've been to a sight of funerals," said
grandma, grimly, but the muscles of her
old face quivered. "I've got plenty of
troubles that ain't dead and gone ones.
Where's that good-for-nothin' niece of
yours,Aurilly Cleaves, traipsed off to with
out givin' me a mite of warnin'T"
"Girls will get married," said Miss Pluui
mer, apologetically; "and 6he's got a real
good chance."
"Get marriedt Who's she a-goin' to get
married tot" cried Grandma Baker.
"Hain't you heard that her old beau,
Smith Kingsbury, has got home —him that
she wore a mournin' bonnet fort"
"A mournin' bonnetf What do I care
about her mournin' bonnetst" cried grand
ma. shrilly. "She was keepin' company
with mv grandson."
"I expect she hadn't ought to," said Mi.- 8
Plummer, mildly; "but seein' she'd wore a
mournin' bonnet for him—"
"She's terrible set up with the little
mite of proputty she's got. 'Tain't as if
Hudolphus couldn't look higher. There's
one of the first ladies in New Bedford
a tryin' her best to get him." (The outer
door was heard to close as Rudolphus
went out.)
"I hain't a mite of doubt of it," said
Miss Plummer, pacifically. "I always
heard Hudolphus was real smart, and
I thought Aurilly would be doing real well
to have him, but seems as if after she'd
wore a mourning bonnet the other
one —"
"You never heard that Rudolphus was
real smart; 'tain't no such a thing!" said
Grandma Baker, sharply. "He's kep' his
head above water because Ive kep' a-yan
kin' him, that's all the reason. He ain't
much, but he' good enough for Aurilly
Cleaves."
"I always said Aurilly couldn't do bet
ber'n to have him," repeated Miss Plum
mer, meekly.
"You're dretful polite," said Grandma
Baker, sarcastically. "Wher. you're as old
as I be, you'll find out that talk don't go a
great ways. You ain't a day more'n
oighty-five if you be that."
Grandma Ijaker make this last remark
with such an air of direct attack that the
placid old blood arose to Miss Plummets
withered cheeks.
"I Khali be ninety come my next birth
day. I'm six weeks older'n what you be,
and I always was."' Mi.sn Plummer arose
from her chair, and her little bent back
seemed to straighten, and the volume of
her voice was wonderful. "You're a
terrible old woman, Grandmarm Baker,
and yon always was! You've sot on all
your folks till you've sot the sperit clear" n
out of 'em. Where'f your first husband,
young 'Lias Appleby, that yon drove off to
Californy, aud he got killed in the mines
before he was twentyfiveT Where's your
boy lliram, that run away to sea and got
drowndedf Where's Mary Ellen, that you
made her marry a man she hated and died
broken-heartedT Where's your grand
daughter Lyddy, that had to wear clothes
jest like an old woman, and never went
nowhere with the rest of the girls till she
run away with a scanipT Where's Mary
Olive, that you made ber keep school,
wulkin' ten miles a day, whea she wa'n't
hardly fit to lift her hand, and died in
consumption? Where's Rudolphus's father,
that you harried into his grave, because he
wa'n't so smart as some? You've had all
them folks, aud here yon be without no
body but Rudolpbus, and folks do .say
you've got every mite of spunk and sprawl
out of him. You've had all of 'em under
your thumb, but they'll rise up agin you at
thejedgment day. They'll come a troopin'
up before the Lord, them that you've
ground down and harried out of their lives,
and where'll you be thenf
Grandma Baker actually shrank back,
cowed and trembling, while Miss Plum
mer's withered forefinger was shaken in
her very face.
"Ladies! ladies!" exclaimed poor Deacon
Doane, in groat distress. "It seems a pity
that after the town's bein' so liberal, this
occasion shouldn't be more—propit-i-ous.
Ucbbe we'd better be a-goin', Miss Plum-
Tr.»r. Seems as if it had ought to tend to
edification when mothers in Isr'el meet,
but —" The good deacon completed his
sentence by a mournful shaking of the
head.
Miss Plummer's dramatic vigor bad given
way as suddenly as it arose. She was
weeping helplessly, and ad she followed
Deacon I)oane she looked a more bent and
shrunken little figure than ever.
Grandma Baker still Rat up in bed, star
ing at the door by which her victors had
gone out. Vheu Rudolphus came in, be
thought her half delirious.
•'I never done what she said, did I, Ru
dolphus?" she said, her old fare working
pitifully. "She's a lyin' old woman, ain't
>be? I couldn't have kep' folks under my
thumb; it's such a little mite of a one.''
She held up her small, withered thumb in
proof of her innocence. "I done the far-best
always. 1 was smarter'n the rest of my
folks, and if they would have been said by
me, things would have been different. But
they was dretlul headstrong, every one
of'em; that was why things went wrong.
It was. wasn't it, RudolphusT" Grandma
looked up at her grandson with a wistful
look which changed her whole face. "Jest
think of her namin' 'em over to rae, all
them that's gone. I say 'em over to my
self often enough a-layin' hero alone, bnt
'twas different to have her. What a cnr'us
world it is, when folkß can see no wrong,
and blame folks that always done their
best. I got so nervous when she was
>i talkin' that way to rae that my little mite
hi u thumb looked jest like a great meetiu'-
house steeple thut bad fell atop of folks
and crushed 'em right down, as she said.
Twa n't so, not a mitfe M, wa» it, Radol-
NO 51-
phust If they'd have been said b/ me,
things would have gone right. Why don't
you say that you think they would, Rudol
phust"
"I think it's a queer, mixed up kind of a
world, and maybe there are more thai
mean to do right than folks think," said
Rudolphus somewhat lamely.
"I meant to, always," said grandma.
"And she hadn't no business to come here
and heave it in my face that things went
wrong with my folks. They was head
strong. every one of em. Seemed as if I
couldn't have things go wrong with yon,
Hudolphus—you that's the last one of all.
That's why I put out the light. Yes, 'twa'n't
Aurilly; 'twas me, for all you don't believe
it. 1 climb up them stairs, and Islid down
bumpity-bump. I don't kuow how I ever
done it. and I hain't never felt jest the
same since. Out I never was one to value
what I dolie for nff folks; I knew 'twonld
fetch you back, and I thought mebbe it
would kind of tech you like to think Auril
ly thought enough of yon to do such a
thing. But nothin won't seein to go right
forme. It only seemed to turn yon agin
her."
"It didn't make any difference, grand
ma," said Kudolphns, consolingly.
"You was set agin her anyway; seemed
as if 'twas jest because she had proputty—
cranb'ries, too, that'll always fetch their
price. But there! all my folk* "ran hea<l
struuit. And J j guUu Kllh th* beaa
that she wore U.u mournin' bonnet for!
That old maid like to have drove me craxy
a-savin' that over and over; and, Rudolph
us, you can have the other girl, if you're a
uiind to, for all of me. It baint made no
difference to me what she said, not a mite;
but I'm all broke down, and everything's
gone agin me, and 'tain't no use. I can't
look oat for my folks no longer. If that
stiped girl will have you—"
"She will," said Rndo.'phus, seriously.
"I'm not good enough for her; education
and everything she's above me, and I'm
sure I don't inow why—"
"Cat's foot! I don't need no spectacles
to see why. She hain't got a mite of prop
utty, and she's sick of school-keepin', and
men are skurce," said Grandma Baker.
Bit me, 100.
The old doctor and the old captain were
fast friends, both inveterate jokers, and
both despite their aggregate six score
years, rapid sportsmen. The doctor's
frightful stammer did not seem to impede
the flow of a joke, nor did the oaptain's
equatorial girth lesson his agility.
One afternoon the old men set ont on a
rabbit hunt. As they passed through an
( orchard something scurried into a burrow.
"A r-r—wist—rabbit!" shouted the doc
tor. "L-let's p-pull him out;" and kneel
ing at the hole, be thrust his arm in up to
the shoulder. "S-s-nay !'' he remarked af
ter a moment's fumbling; "I c-c—wist—
can't q qnite g-get h him. Y-y—nh—you
t try it, John; y-y—uh—your arm's Mong
er than m-m—wist—mine."
The captain knelt and thrust his arm
down.
In an instant he was executing a war
dance around the tree, waiving a bloody
finger.
"Blankety-blank-blank! That no rabbit;
it's a ground hog.''
"D-d—wist—did he bite you, Johnf"
queried the doctor, anxiously.
"Bitef Blaukety-blank! Don't you
see he took off the whole end of my fingert"
"Wh-wh —uh—why, that's to-too b-b —
wist—bad," said the doctor, taking his own
hand from behind him and showing a sad
ly lacerated thumb. "H-heb-b—wist— bit
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