VOL XXVIII © WALL PAPER! BelieviDg that it is b®st to close out each season's styles before the ensuing season begins, even at a great sacrifice, i have marked over two-thirds of my entire stock of pa per hangings, the largest and beet st elected line in Bntler, AT HALF PRICE The balance of the paper was mark ed so low before that half price wonld he giving them awar. These you will get below cost notwithstanding their former cheapness. Just imagine Browns at 8c a double bolt, Whites at 10 and 12c, Gilts 15 and upward. Buy now for your fall papering, you will not get such bargains then. My Wall Paper, Stationery and Art Store is easy to find. W. A. OSBORNE, E. Jefferson St., next to Lowry House, Butler, Pa. Wir sprecben anch Deutscb. Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF D. E. JACKSON. We are new comers, bat bare come to stay. We boy our goods at lowest cash prices and as we sell for cash only. We are enabled to sell goods »t the smallest possible margins. We coold quote prices on clean, new j goods, no (rash, from all parts of oar ; store, especially on the following . goods. Dress Goods, White Goods, ! Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mas- ; lins, Lsce Cprtains and Curtain Poles, Corsets and Corset Waists, ! Ladies', Children's and Gents' Under-! wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mita, Kid j Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet, ; Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes, , Bead Wraps, Jerseys and Jersey ' Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins, | Towels, Ac., Ac., but as new goods j 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 n.rutiny and comparison with the goods offered by others. | We solicit your patronage, and will do all in our power to make our bußi- i nesa transactions pleasant and profit* able. V. K. JACKSON, Butler, Pa. Next door to Heineman's. C. & D. WE Ilave the largest stock ol hats and outfittingH 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 freph, 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, full and overflowing with our immense and choice stock of paper hangings. You must help us out, wo haven't room lor half 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, hear" Postollice, "Uutler,|SPa. SALESMEN WANT 13 i>l LOCAL 0B TRAVELING. To sell our Nursery.slock. salary. expenses and Bfady employment Kiinranteed. I'll AMI, HKOTIIIKh (OMPAKY. . lirochcater, N. Y. YOU CAN FIND pi"- e 019 in Pirnat.'K n '.t Iti- a,i t . PHYSICIAN ASD SUBGEON, New Trout man BnlJding, Uutler, IV. _ Dr. A. A. Kelly, | onto* at Kosc Point, Lawrence county. Pa. K. X. LEAKK, M. D. i. K. MANN. M. I>. j Specialties: Specialties; ! GyuaK-ology and Sur- Eye. Ear. Nose ami gery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. V. ZIMMERMAN. PUVSICIAN ASD PC RO EOS. Oflke a; No. 4r>. S. .'.lain street, over Frank A Co't> I)i uk Store. Uutler, Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. No. 22 Efcst Jjfftiton St., 11l lltr. Pa. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN A> " D SURGEON. S. W.Corner Main and North Sts., Butler, Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth Inserted on the latent Im proved plan, (iold Killing a specialty. Office over Scnaul's ClothinK Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the pretension, execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties Oold Killings, and Painless Ex traction ot Teeth. Vitalized Air administered, once Jibrwi Street, tit door East of Lowrj lions?, If Htsirs. Office open dally, except Wednesdays and Thursdajs. Communications by mail receive prom pt attention J M. B.—The only Dentist ia Butler best sokes of teetb. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Maps, plans, spccihoatious and esti mates; all kinds of architectural and cn rneering work. No charge for drawing ii contract the work. Consult your best in terests; plan before you build. Informa tion cheerfully given. A share of public patronage is solicited, p. 0. Box 1007. Office S. W. of Court House, Butler, Pa. C. F. L. McQUISTION, EMiI.VEKK UD 81KVETOB, OFKIC* SKAK DIAJIUSD, ISCTLIK, PA. J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTOBNEV AT I.AW. Office oil F*<-or»cl fi<*r of the lluselton block, Diamond, Butler, Pa., llooic No. 1. A. t. acovr. J. r. wilhon. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTOHN EYB-AT- LA W. Collect lon h a specialty. Office at No. 8, 8011 th Diamond, butler, i'a. JAMES N. MOORE, Attobsky-at-Law asd Notakv Public. Office In Koom No. 1. second iloor of iluselton Block, entrance on Diamond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT I.AW. Office on second ilo<>r of New Anderson Block Main St.,—near Diamond. IRA McJHNKIN. Attorney at Law, Office at No. 17, East Jeller- ' ton St.. Butler. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Heal Estate Agent. Of nee rear 01 L. Z. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond, Butler, iv H. H. GOUCHER. Atlorney-at-law. Ofllce on second Door ot Anderson building, neur Court liouse, HuUer. Pa. J. K BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—OfJlce at S. B. Cor. Main Ut, and Diamond, butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law-OOlca on South side of Diamond Butler. Pa. <]MIB Bt'TLKK COUNTY NATIONAL BANK, Burr.BK, PA. CAPITAL Paiil I'p, - - $100,000.00. OKFK'KKS : ./on. Hartinnn, I'res'l. D. Osborne. < ashler, J. V. Kilts, Vice Pres't. C. A. Balley,A*s t Cash'r DI HECTORS: ■lot. Hart num. p. Collins. (). M. ICihm-11, It. Mc«»ueney. C. I>. i.n eitieo, .1. V. mita, K. E. Al>rams. Leslie Ha/.h tt. 1. li. Smith, W. S. Waldron, I). Osborne A general bunking imalness transacted. In terest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on ipproved security. Foreign exchange Dour lit. and sold. L. S. McJUXkIN, Insurance anil Real Estate A»'t 17 EAST JEFI'EKSON BT. BUTLER, - PA. E. E ABFAMS S CO Fire and Life INBU 11A NC E Inkuranc » Co. of North America, incor porated 17lH, capital $.'1,000, 000 and other >. Office New Huhelton Ouildirg near <'ourt tfoaMe. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Inburarxe Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. •3. C. ROESSING, Pbehidbwt. 11. C, lIKINEMAN, Nkukjctakv. DIKKCTOHS: 'i.e. ltoi vs.uir. Henderson Oliver, .1.1. I'urvls, .lame* hl<-phrnson, X.. Troulmmi, 11. I'. Ileliienuui. Vlfrcl Wick, N. Well M l. Or. W. Irvlu. lir Itli keubacli, J. W. Burkliart, I>. T. Norrln. LOYAL M'JUiJKIN, Gan. A*'t. "VtobIAMTGAHD. * *i 3L* -:Ci -4 { 30 5. MAIM ST. % ■ : pw , Ktmea-m. li '"!"'' ' C . . " •- - •«? -•-'■■ ' 1 . "■ J_ ; J'"" ' IWe ;ire Leaders in our Line. We are now prepared to show you the finest line of FURNITURE Ever cl.twn in Butler county. Do youfwant CHEAP GOODS? Come and eee u?_ Do you want MEDIUM PRICED GOODS-' Come in. Do you want FINE GOODS? "We are in it/' A new line of RATTAN GOODS lor Gents, Ladies and the Little Ones just received. Whether you want to buy or not come and see us. E. S. DREW, 128 E. Jefferson tet., - 33n.tler» fa Our Overcoat DEPABTHEIIT Is now completed and we extend to all the readers of this paper a cordial iovitatiou to call and examine our stock of new fall aDd which we have in great variety, in WORSTEDS, KERSEYS, MELTONS, CORKSCREWS and CHEVIOTS, lu ail tbo new fhades of GREYS, TANS, BROWNS, BLUES AND BLACK. The youog and stylish drefowr will want his fabrics made in MEDIUM SHORT, SINGLE or DOUBLE BREASTED BOX COATS, Finished with lapped seams and inserted velvet collar, (which is the latest this season) of which wo have several styles iD light or dark color, very nobby, and sure to please the most fastidious. lu addition to the above we htwc overcoats of all styles for Men, Youths, Boys and Children, AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. H. Schneideman The Peoples Clothier. 104 S. Main St. - - - Kutler, Jr*a. J. R. GRIEB. PROF. R. J. LAMB. GIIIEB & LAMB'S MUSIC STORE. NO. 16 SOUTH MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. Sole Agenia fci Butler, Mercer and Clar ion counties for Behr firos. & Co's Magnificent Pianos, Shouinger, and Newby & Evans Pianos, PacKard, Crown, Carpenter and New England Organs. Dealers in Violins, Strings, Kruoo Guitars, and All Kinds of Musical Instruments. SHEET MUSIC A SPECIALTY Pianos and Organs sold on iLbailments. Old Instruments taken in exchange. ( ome and see us, as we can save you money. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds of Musical Instruments Promptly it tended to. EVERT WATERPROOF COLLAR OR CUFF | THAT CAN EE RELIED ON B to P j to apiit! THE MARK | tX> DlSOOlOr! ' BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE [LLULOID MARK NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. Some 1 i 5 like * Morsdyfelbhoes ttie mors brighter!* Busy wives who use SAP OLIO never seem to £rowold.Try&c&ke-•• A complete wreck of domostic happiness has often resulted from badly wnuhed dishes, from an unclean kitchen, or from trifles which seemed light as air. But by these things a man often judges of hia wife's devotion to her family, and charges hor with general neglect whon he finds hor careless in these particulars. Xa&y a home owes a large part of its thrifty neatness and its consequent happiness to BAPOLIO. M-cirorern often sulMtltute rhriiwr roods for ItAFOI.IO, to make a profit. Mend back such ftrllclri, and luilit on havlnjr Just wkst you ordtrcd.'U A BUTLER. PA. FRIDAY. NOV* MBKR2I, \m A Smart Spy. Some of the most valuable as well as courageous secret agents of the South dur ing the war were ladies. Possessing, as many of them did, beauty, finesse, the iu stinetive knowledge of human nature tha' enable- the sex to penetrate the weakest point of man's armor, and a patriotism | that uiade them proud to assume any risk ! that wonld benefit their cause, many nn dertook missions so desperate that only | their womanhood saved them from a short | -.hrift when discovered, j A case in point occurs to me. Wo bad fallen back from Fairfax Court House and into camp hV Centrevillc. Winter was at ha.id and smoke curled lazily rip ! ward from ten thousand clay built chim- I ueys. Every tree had been leveled by the ; .-oldier's ax; the old turnpikes were lost in a labyrinth of foot worn paths, and fields where only a little while before wind played hide and seek among the growing corn were now as hard as the bed of a billiard table. The headquarters of Beauregard were in a farmhouse, unpaint ed and unpretentious, that once had been the home of famous Virginia hospitality, but "the boys had gone to the war," the old folks had retired to more congenial scenes in the interior of the State, and all around were signs of ruin. The plans of McClellan, whose army was encamped in our front. his fighting strength and disposition of his forces, together with the new phase of public sentiment in the North that was then beginning to take shape, were at this time subjects of grave concern to our commander, and it was im portant to obtain more definite informa tion than had been furnished by the regu lar spies. How to get it, however, and through whom was the question. The problem was solved while at break fast one morning by a member of Beau regard's staff. "I know a lady," he said, "iu the neighboring county of Loudon, who possesses every qualification of a suc cessful secret agent. Her name is Mrs. Virginia Mason. She is young, fascinat ing, highly educated, a welcome guest in many Washington families and acquainted with a large number of Northern people who spent their winters in the capital be fore the war. Withal, she is a widow, her husband having been killed at the battle of Manassas, and brave enough to under take anything that will serve the land she loves." Beauregard instructed the officer to ride over to Loudon and invite the lady to visit headquarters, and in a day or two she ap peared. In the interview that followed he told her what be required —A report from McClellan's army, its condition, the dis position of his Alices and tho plans of the military authorities in Washington. For this purpose she was to ingratiate herself with prominent officers, visit New York, Baltimore, the various departments or any other points where information could be procured. She was also to communicate with the representatives of the Confederate government in different cities of the North. The lady eagerly accepted the proposi tion. and supplied with un abundance of money, started at once on the perilous errand, which meant glory if she was suc cessful, and prison if -lie failed. She returned after an absence of several weeks, cro.-.-iijg tiie Potomac opposite Dumfries, and iniivi-d at the camp of Colonel, M>« Senator, Wade Hampton. Thence, escort ed by one of his officers, she was driven to headquarters at Centreville. I can see her now as she alighted from the ambulance on the piazza of the litil<- brown larin house; a young but matron I v looking lady, handsome, too, with glowing, dark eyes, that looked as if they had lire works iu tbem. She was dressed in black, and her only baggage was a small hand satchel. She was also accompauied by a shaggy Skyc terrier, a mere armful, that made a soldier who hadn't seen a pretty woman for a month of Sundays envious. What occurred within the doors that closed upon her was related to ME after ward by General Jordan, then and sub sequently Beauregard's adjutant general. BT auregard was, of course, delighted to see her, anil with a woman's volubility she told him more in two hours than he could remember in two months. The verbal part of the interview being ended ho in quired for her papers, the record of her trip and the dispatches ho expected from Confederates in tho North. "Why, General, I didn't dare to bring them on my person," she replied with a peculiar smile. "It was unsafe, you know; 1 might have been captured, and therefore I have told you all I know by word of inoutb." Beauregard could not conceal his vexa tion, und the moru be showed it the more the little woman seemed to enjoy it. Finally, after teasing bim to her heart's content, she said with affected dcmurcuess, "General, have you a pair of scissors or a knife! I'd like to use it for a minute." Heauregard handed her the ink eraser, "Couie here, Dot," she called to the dog, and taking hiui in her lap continued: "X told you, General, it wan not Kale to carry important papers on my person and 1 have not done MI; in fact, I have been suspected and searched, hut a woman's is sometimes superior to a man's, judgnn nt. See!" she said with coquettish nonchalance, as she mrned the little animal on its hack and deliberately proceeded to rip him open. "Here are the dispatches!" As she spoke she held in one baud the hide of her Skyo terrier and with the other smilingly ex tended a package of closely written tissue paper, while dancing about the floor was a pretty "black and tan," happy at his de liverance from another dog's clothes. The deception wan perfect, the mission a suc cess, Beauregard was enabled to antici pate MoClellan'a movements, and the charming spy not only received a hand some reward, but was led to the altar aft« r the war as the bride ol the young > fib er v.'ho ang her praitt** at Beta regard'n bri ai;fast table. Mi Mason afterward engaged in a nuni bcr ol perilous enterprise*, visiting the Xorth stivi rul times and once running ihe blockade from Charleston with the bite ( aplain "Hi. I' lA>Cl.W<>< contradict his ac count for certain reasons, especially be cause the committee did not desire him to reveal anything. He proceeds to describe how Bartellot, after Stanley left Yambu ya, finding food scarce, employed urnied Soudanese to attack neighboring villages but found them deserted. Ue then had re course to capturing native women aad de manding food for their ransom. Bonnv did the same thing The women escaped "•ften Thi* caused isolation in the camp, the natives each fearing kidnapping. As sad relates how Bartellot daily ordered tin men to be given from 2d to 100 lashes lor various offenses. lie describes the arrival of and the negotiations with Tippo .Tib. lie speaks of numerons cases of the steal ing of food, the thieves being punished 100 or more lasbes each until their flesh was torn. In one case the Major ordered the pun ishment to be stopped, but a few days later, the victim having recovered some what, was given 150 more lashes. The man was then compelled to walk ten hours in the sun daily heavily chained. This was continued two months, when the victim's sores became pntrid and maggoty. The Major then relieved him for a week and Dr. Bonny gave him medicine, alter which the punishment of marching in the sun was resumed. The man finally decamped but was recaptured after four days through the offering of a reward, and was shot de spite Jameson's protest. Incidently, while describing Ward and Troup's return with ample supplies from their visit to Tippoo Tip with a message to hurry the porters, he says: "Ward and Troup having everything lhey wanted were content with the life at Yambuya and declined to march. The Manvemas daily brought plenty of varied food which they exchanged for cloth and matches, and the natives brought fresh fish daily, but the men in the camp were starving and dying daily, being reduced to skeletons. Often we asked the Major to issue a little old rotten rye to make SOUP for invalids; but this was impossible. The camp became a miserable sight, yet none of the offic< rs seemed to care." After dealing with the report of Stan ley's death and the j etting of Tippoo'S men, comes the Jameson affair at Sibaib kai. Jameson expre ed to Tippos'S in terpreter curiosity to witness cannibalism. Tippoo consulted with the chiefs and told James he had better purchase a slave. Jameson a.-ked the i'rice, and paid six handkerchiefs. A man returned A few minutes afterward with a 10-year-old girl. Tippoo and the chiefs ordered the girl to be taken to tho native huts. Jameson, himself, Selim. Ma-'mdi and Farhani, Janie.-on'S servant, presented to him by Tippoo, and many others followed. The men who had bought the girl s*nd to the cannibals: "This is « present from A white man who desires to see ber eaten." The girl was tied to a tree, the natives sharp ening their knives the while. One of tbem stabbed her In ee in the belly. She lid not scream,but knew what would hap pen, looking to the r ght and left for help. When dabbed she It dead. The natives cut pieces from ber body. Some took »!.<• legs, aims, brea-ts and other portions .itiaiglit to the huts, while others took the entrails to the river and washed them. Jameson iu the meantime masii g sketches of the horrible scenes. Then we all returned to the chief's house. eson afterward went to his tent, where he fiuished his sketches in watercolors. There were six of them, all neatly done. The first sketch was of the girl as she was led to the tree. The second showed her stabbed, with the blood gushing from her wounds. The third showed ber dissected. The fourth showed a man enrryiug a leg iu one hand and a knile in the other. The fifth showed a man with a native ax and the head and breast of tho victim. Jameson showed these and many other sketches to all the chiefs. Bonny makes a further statement to the effect that the cannibal iucident was the cause of the death of both Jamesou and Burtellot. Four Astonished Preachers. A good story is told of four Baptist preachers who started to attend a conven tion at Acbor, 0. Three of the number were from Sharon and vicinity, while the fourth hailed from New Castle. By a strange misfortune they missed the train at Wampum, and iu hopes of catching it at Darlington they hired a team and were driven across the country to the latter place. When they arrived there they found that the train had departed some minutes before. IT was a wet day but be ing Baptists they didn't mind it, though thoy seemed doomed to disappointment. Then they sought and found a hotel. There can be nothing vague about this lor there is only one hotel in that town. They en tered the office and registered. The good preachers then retired TO a private room, removed their overcoa s.und seating them ■elves around a table ailed for the clerk. "Well gentlemen, wl at can 1 do lor youT" said the latter. "Gi.e us the very boat you have in the house and just as soon as possible." .he flerk retired, and in a few moments returned with a tray, lour glas.-cs and a picher of water aud a bottle of the •)e»t in the house. The preachero looked »t each other, then at the clerk, after vbicli the room shook with t.'ie laughter of the happy quartet!* The clerk couldn't catch on until one of thepreachers explain ed that it was a lug dinner they had order ed, and not the whist . Here the curtain 'alls; and whether tin tempting liquor was ordered hack, summarily disposed of oi left there to moralize over, deponent saitb ml. This is a true story.—Heaver Falls Journal. Watching the Clock. As tli- I hriHtiiin I , -ays, th",v i- a d(|)atMHHM MOM MM) lut'V. told ol KUlron, whether be said it or not. A gentleman went to the great electrician with bis young son, who was about to be gin work as office boy in a well known business house. The father asked Kdison for a motto which the boy might take to heart in his struggle for promotion and success. After a moment's pause, Kdison said laconically, "Never look at the clock!" Kdison, meant, we take it, that the man who is constantly afraid he is going to work overtime or overhonrs doesn't stand a chance of competing with the man who clears up his desk, no mutter how long it tukes. The carpenter who drops his hamuier, uplifted about his head, when tho whistle blows, is likely to remain a second : class workman'all his life. The carpenter who stiiys lift cell minutes to fini-di a "job" j is workint' toward a of his own. —Dr. Fenner's Gob en Kelief is warrant -1 *)d to relieve toothachi, headache, neural '! gia. or any other pain in 2 to H minutes Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swellings, bites burns, summer complaints, colic, j < til so in horses), diarrhoa, dysentery and ij flux. If satisfaction not given money I! returned. Won Haifa Million. ! "The oddest betting I ever heard of" said one oil broker to another in the Hoit i uian House, the other day, says the Se i' York World, "was between lleury Hurley, , who lirst conceived the idea of a tidewater ; pipe liue from the oil regions, and THE ii! J operators who used to make their head quarters early in the seventies in Harley's J ' ffit es. The gambling spirit pervaded TH>' j whole business in those days. Henry Uar ley and his Brunswick crowd used to get together about 10 in the morning, and ; Henry ofteu opened (he ball by offering t | Imy or sell 500.U00 barrels of oil at a giver: j ligure at a certain hour that day. He inigl.t I irain or lose as much u- JIOO.OOO on one of ! these offers, and that, sort of gambling ' -flcmod to satisfy hiui. He fought shv of | *ide issues. But not so the gang. | "Nigger up or nigger down" the avenue was their favori'e gambling game. It was their own invention. Two of them would sit at a side window and the other three at window fronting on Fifth avenue The two on the side would bet each other $lO. S2O, |SO or SIOO a clip, as they felt in clined, that the first colored person pass ing would go up or down the avenue. The three in front would be judges and referee. Day after day and week after week the gaDg taxed their in genuity to get Harley into their game. "Phillips— not one ol the brothers, but an oil man also—had lost $15,000 to Wes ton one morning in an oil deal before Har ley got to the office. Phillips felt a little sharp set, and be bet Weston SSOO more that he would get Harley into the 'nigger up or nigger down' game before night. Weston took the wager. "On his way down town Harley, who was a pretty close observer, had read in his morning paper that the colored people of New York were going to celebrate Emancipation Day that day by a grand parade which would form in Union Square and march to Central Park. He attached no particular importance at the time to the announcement, but when he got to his office and Phillips began badgering him to bet 'nigger up, nigger down' at S2O a head his eyes flashed and, to the astonishment of all the oil men within hearing, and the gang in particular, he broke out with: " 'l've stood this thing long enough now, and I'm tired of it. I'll bet you an even hundred each that more negroes go up than down to-day.' "So the judges end the referee wei.t to their windows and Harley went about bis business as if nothing out of the way had happened or could happen. "By 11 o'clock 870 colored people — men, women and children had gone down Fifth avenue in plain sight of tho judges and not a single one had gone up. Phillips natur ally felt a little 'sot up' since he was SB7- IMM) to the good, and he ordered iu a ba ket of wine. Harley kept up an impertur bable front. He was secretly astonished, inasmuch SS the matter had gone just I!.»- opposite of what he believed he Ladarit; t to expect thoy would go. It didn't occur to him that THE 870 people were goir.g down to where the parade was to form. "At 1 o'clock he returned. He bad hardly got his head inside the door when :I wild barbaric strain was heart! pt-aling i.p the avenue, in' l in a moment a gorgeous sahle drum major broke into view, at t! o In.atl oi a spleudid negro band. Every neck was craned out to see what bad broken loose, but Harley. who felt, that lit* lime was c iming ut last, k«q>t his own ■ unsel Before J o'clock that day 6.' ' colored p.-ople nutri-licil passed the off. - windows in the Brunswick Hotel and H ■ ley was $513,000 ahead of tho game I ■nigger up or nigger down.' i don't !<• - lievc it was played there much after tha . Harley accepted a dinner to the gang IU lieu of bis stakes. To Utilize Salt. If the feet are tired or painful after lone standing great relief can be hud by bathing them in salt water. A handful of salt to a gallon is the right proportion. Have the water as hot as can be comfortably borne. Immerse feet und throw tho water over the legs as far as the knees with the hunds. When the water becomes too cool rub briskly with a tlesh towel. This method if used night and morning, will cure neuralgia of the feet. Carpets may bo greatly brightened by first sweeping thoroughly and then going over them with a clean cloth and clear salt salt and water. Use a cupful of coarse salt to a large basin of water. Salt as a tooth powder is litttor than almost anything that can bo bought. It keeps tho teeth brilliantly white, and the gum hard and rosy. If after having a tooth pulled the mouth is filled with salt and water it will allay the danger_of huviug a hemorrhage. To clean willow furniture use salt and water. Apply with a nail brur,h. scrub well and dry thoroughly. When broiling steak throw a little salt on the coals and the blaze from the drip ping fat will not annoy. Damp salt will remove discoloration of •nps and saucers caused by tea and care less washing. Hrass work may be kept beautifully bright by occasionally rubbing with salt and vinegar. Wash the mica of stove doors with salt and vinegar. Salt iu whitewash will make it stick better. — Hull's Journal of Health. A Marvelous Recipe. "Dear me," she nicd. as thev met on the 'troet "hut I was just wondering how }o i aino out with your tomatoes." "They were splendid." '•So were mine. Got all through with your peaches?" 'Yes." "So bare 1 Miule nnv catsup?" "Yes." "How did it route out?" "Fine." "Mine didn't I'm afraid it didn't boil >;uite long enough. Have you g"t a roe.;' lor chow chowt" "Ob,yes." Tt.en, I ■ ■ ke let me ',:»ve I. I've lo.'t the one I had laut year.'' • With pleasure." '•And you'll come over and taste it?" "Yes." "Thanks. My husband is worrying for fear we shan't have any. Hoes your recipe call for tomatoes, cabbages, onious. popper, horseradish, red peppers, carrots, potatoes, celery, parsley, egg plant, cinnamon and currants?" "1 am quite sure it does." "So glad. I can use it one day for chow chow and the next for mince pies I'll send the girl right over after dinner." — Detroit Free I'rrs*. —1 have used Or. Hull's Cough S\ rnp and found it the best cough remedy I ev«r tried.—W. P. Clarke, 020 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa it sells all tl.e years lound and alw» ■ cures. Salvation Oil the great remedy tor pains. 25 cts. —Mechanics i>f all kinds Mill bin r plei of work. j —A dealer says there are millions in the I invention of a pocket umbrella. Koch's Consumption Cure. The nen-s of the saooewful working oj" Prof Koch's consumption cure make every thing in relation to it interesting to the j public. A Merlin dispatch of Monday -ays: "The Piofesaor expects to have a new tock of the jrerni destroying lymph ready jin two to fonr weeks. After that several ; physician.* and surgeons will he in a position to attend ull surgical consumptives I in the order in which they are lnwikeu. > foreigners arriving previous to this time must wait their turn. They are reasonably -ore to have a trial of the cure within a few weeks. The nntuher of patients crowd ing in is sure to be tremendous." Lang tuberculosis is the most difficult to cure. The lymph must be inoculated six or eight weeks in succession. Minister dossier lia> invited Prof. Koch to demon strate to him the manufacturing process of tbe lymph. Dr. Rerginan is to lecture on Koch's methods. The influx of physicians to at tend the lectures will be very great. It is ■bought that a representative American medical man will be sent. Consumption is the most fatal and dreaded disease of the United States. A welcome feature of the mew discovery is the fact that Prof. Koch is not mercenary over it, but wishes it to l>e known for the benefit of mankind; also, that the fear of tbe great cost of treatment is groundless. A dispatch from Berlin, says: ID accordance with bis statement that he desires neither material advantage nor pecuniary reward for his discovery of a method for the core of consumption, Prof. Koch will in two or three day* publish a full account of his researcher, in con nection with the discovery. The Frank fort Zeitung affirms thai the lymph used for inoculating the patients will b« within the reach of all, and that it will cost only 25 marks for a small phial. The nucces? of treatment is certain in tubereuUr affections of the skin, joints and bones, and also in the early stages of pulmonary complaints. The lymph destroys the tuber cular baccili. Several authorities confirm the report of the cure by Dr. Koch's method of a ease of lupus on the face and arms withiu five days. The lymph throws off the baccili by the necrotic process. A Compass In the Watch. A correspondent of the London Truth sends the following: "A few days ago I was standing by an American gentleman, when I expressed a wish to know which point was the north. He at once pulled out his watch, looked at it, and pointed to the north I asked hini whether he had a compass attached to bis watch, 'All watches.'he replied, 'are compasses.' Then he explained to me how this was. Point '.he hour hand to the sun. and the south is exactly halfway between the hour and the tigure XII. on ttie watch. For instance, suppose that it is 4 o'clock. Point the i.»nd indicating 4 to the sun and II on the * atoh is exactly south. Suppose that it is 5 o'clock, point th 6 hand indicating 8 to tne sun, and the figure X on the watch is due south." My American friend was quite -urprised that I did not know this. Think ing that very possibly I was ignorant of a ling that every one .dsn knew, ar.d hap petting to meet Mr. SUiilev, I asked ttiat eminent traveler whether ho <>• simple mode of uiscov«r : ig the points ' tin: eoinpas.-. 1I« s.iiu that be had never leurd of It. 1 presume, therefore, that tbe •voriil is !!, the ndtce -Ulf of iguoiat-Ce. \ naiti is piv of bavins been the home >; ihe luvt-ii'or of the compass 1 do not .now what town boasts of my American riend as a »iti*in." A DOCTOR'S CONFESSION. He Doesn't Take Much Med icine and Advises the R«. port er Not To. "Huuibugf Of course it is. The so call ed science ol medicine is a humbug and has been from the time of Hippocrates to the present. Why the biggest crank in the Indian tribes is the medicine uia(i." "Very frank was t head mission, especial ly so when it came from one of tho bigg.st young physicians of the city, one whose practice is among the thousands, though ho has boon graduated but. a few year*," says the Buffalo Courier. "'Very oozy wis his otlicc too, with its cheerful grate fire, its yueon Anne furniture, and its muuy lounges and easy-chairs. He stirred tie fire la/ilj', lighted a IVosh cigar, aud went on." "Take the prescriptions laid down in the books and what do you find' Poisons main ly, and nauseating stnffs that woald make a healthy tuan an invalid. Why in the world science should go to poisons for its remedies I cannot tell, nor can I find any one who can " "How does a doctor know the effect of his medicine!" be asked. "Ho calls, pro scribes, aud goes away. The only way to judge would be to stand over the bed and watch the patient. This cannot be done. So, really, I don't know how he is to tell what good or hurt he does. Some timo igo, you remember, the Boston Olobe sent out a reporter with aßtatod set of symptoms, lie went to eleven prominent physicians mil brought back eleven different pre -criptions. This just shows bow much science there is in medicine." There aro local diseases of various characters for which nature provides positive remedies. They may not be in- Inded in the regular physician's list, por iaps, because of their siinp'icity, but. tho evidence of their curative power is beyond impute. Kidney disease is cured by \V tuner's Safe Cure, a strictly herbal remedy. Thousands of persons, evory jc«r, write as does H. J. Gardiner, of Pontiac, H. 1., August 7. 1890: '•A few years ago 1 snffered more than probably ever will be ki'own outside of myself, with kidney and lirer complaint. It is the old storj —1 visited doctor after loctor, but to no avail. 1 was at Newport, nil l>r. Ittaekman recommended Warner's Cure I commenced the u*e ' fit,a.id found rel.'-i' iuwndiatoly, <og; th. r 1 took three battle;, and 1 truthfully state : Lat it curi (1 me.'' —Hundred* of ton* i»f l><>uen of bufTaloeti killed bj banter* merely for the i vent* pi)"- HiiU eunlarilH Iroui burning. —No matter how hard silence (alls, it does not break. N 0 3. AGRICULTURAL. It is recommended in one ol oar ex ! changes to bathe a cow # teats in hot water when the cow attempts to hold up hor milk. It is claimed that tbe mnscles are r< laied and cow is powerless. It i s a ■simple remedy, worthy of trial at least. A Virginia fruit-grower sprayed his plums with I'aris groen, using one table spoon in live gallons of water, applying w.th a Whitman force pump. He sprayed soon alter the blossoms fell, and again in a week or ten days. The result was the most perfect crop of plums he bad ever grown. The wet weather sometimes forces the < übbages to burst or crack. This is due to continued growth, caused by the rain*. To prevent the bursting of tbo heads go over the field and pull each cabbage nearly out of the ground, but not wholly so, in order to loosen the roots, which will check further grow;h and prevent injury to the head. The amount of water that falls upon ex posed manure during tbe winter is very large, and as it passes through tbe heap it carries oil' all matter that is soluble, leav ing a larg* pile of material containing but little Liutntiou lor plants, but which costs juei as much to haul as that which is more Valuable. A cheap shed, or covering of kind (even if only of boards laid on the heap), will save more than the cost of protecting the heap. The Scientiiie American give* the fol 'owing hint f«r a cheap and effective way t.. remove stumps: Bore a hole 1 inch in diameter and 18 inches deep into the centre of the stump. and put in one onnce of salt petre, tilling up with water and plugging np the hole. This should be done in the fall. In the spring the plug is to be taken ••nt. a ball gill of kerosene poured into the bole and set on fire. It will bnrn out the stump to the farthest root. Another way is to bore an inch hole 10 inches deep in Lhe centre of the si ump and put in a half pound of vitriol and plug up the hole tight ly. In six months the whole stump, even to the small root, will be so rotted as to be easily removed. There ought to be fewer divorces thin year than usual. The failure of the apple crop and in consequence the absence of the apple butter b'ilin' will remove one of the most prolific sources of laroily discord. Every cloud has its silver liniug. The farmers of Xew York raise a profit able crop that the Pennsylvania farmers pay little attention to. This is the hop crop. This year the quality ig vory fine n-id prices high. A doien of the central counties of that State will realise nearly f.ve millions of dollars from hops. One nirmer in Otsego county raised 130,003 pounds on 139 acres, for which be will get > return of $40,000. after paying all ex- I' noses. This is at the rate of $324 per acre. At this rate a ten-acre tielj of hops *"oald be worth the price of a good sized farm hereabouts. Mostly, hops are worth "bout twenty cents per pound. This year it is from forty to fitty cents. Soapsuds are well worth snving for their i it'liziug properties, and no farmer or mily r.-i'h a garden should allow them to ■ wasted, excellent plan is to have a •impost beup on which the sods caa be * iirown an J aid .it its Vhen sprinkled around plajts from a » itoring-pot they s«rvo a dcublc purpose, 'te sprinkling li'iistens the ground, aud . e plants ga the benefit of whatever i-.ant food they contain. Instances are ivou where t' p itjiN of wasbiug days, nra habitually thrown on the ground lionnd the grapevine*-, havo produced ex cellent effects. To inake au impermeable glne. soak or dinary glue in water until it softens, and remove it beforo it has lout its primitive iorm. After thin, dissolve it in linseed oil over a slow tire until it is brought to the constency of jelly. This glue may be used for joiuing any kiuda of material. In ad aiUuJ 10 atreugih and hardness, it has the ni'TauUpC of resisting U.e autioa of water. A naughty exchange says there is scarcely anything a woman cannot do with a hairpin. They use it to pick their teeth, button shoes, clean liuger nails, punch bed tiuirs out of cracks, fasten np stray bangs, clean out their husband's pipe, scratch 'heir head, pick ibeir too nails, run it into (wkes to see if they are done, and about a million other things that the poor deluded uvu know nothing about. Timothy grass takes its name from Tim othy Hauson, a farmer of Maryland, who brought it into general notice aa a bay grass after he had cultivated it extensive ly for his own use for years. Timothy ( auia from Europe, but just when no one knows. A few days since a man living in the west wanted to pay off a grudge against a neighbor without any risk to himself, and olacitd a dynamite cartridge in a sheaf of wheat. The cartridge was discovered be foro it went into the thresher, and no one mm hurt. This suggested an idea to an Ohio coward, who tried the same plan, and succeeded in blowing up the machine, burning the barn and injuring several mem but killing no man. If bad examples were ai slowly followed as good what a fine Hung it would be. now MUCH WHEAT IW A BARREL OF FIOCEt Ordinarily -H bushels are counted equal i • a barrel of flour, but there is reason for 11 inking that, taking a season's run in a C od mill, with careful milling, on average vheat, with a record of receipts and sales < f (I>'ur accurately kept, the score will run l iry close to five bushels of wheat for a barrel of flour. Only last week a well -1 aown winter-wheat miller told me that i,is record of wheat i.:eeived and flour n ede, on the iirind of tho IftSfl crop, call •d for a figure no close to live bushels that n was content to iet if go at that. Mi't tig ll 'orUt WHY URMD ORHWS ST»IE. , , ; pp,. * (I tl it tho fact ■ t , „Rs-talOM i'-'' from the bread iiiuing actually Joer by the gradual in of water hut this ia not the case. Stale 'lead contains almost exactly tho same proportion of water as new bread after it i.as became completely cold. The change is merely in the internal arraugement of the molecules ol the bread. A proof of thin is that if we put a stals loaf into a closely covered tin, expose it lor half an hour or a hour to a heat not exceeding that of boiling water, and then allow It to cool It will be restored in appearance and prop erties to the «iate of new brrad. just taken ,