VOL XXVIII Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF D. E. JACKSON We are new comers, but have come to staj. We buy our goods at lowesl cai-h prices and as we sell for cash only. We are enabled to sell good? at the smallest possible margins. Wc could quote prices on clean, nev goods, no trash, from all partß of oui Ptoro, especially on the following proode. Drevs Goods, White Goods, Ptiots, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus lins, Lace Curtains and Curtail/ Poles, Corfete and Corset Waists, Ladies', Children's and Gents' Under wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mits, Kid Gloves, Ribbons, Silk and Velvet, Bleck and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes, Bead Wraps, Jerseys and Jersey Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins. Towels, &c., O and other itrong New York Lite lii!.urHuc« Co., axseU sy<>,ooo,ooo. Office Jitw Jluoelton building near Court Howe THE /BUTLI ,R CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS L. M. REINSEL, M. D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGKOW. Office—."MS South Main Street, In Bocs build lng—upstairs. L. BLACK, PHYSICIAN AM) SL'RKKON, New Troutman Building. Butler, l'a. Dr. A. A. Kelty, Office at Kose Point, Lawrence county. Pa. E. N. LEAKK, M. D. J. E. MANN. M. U Specialties: specialties: Gyniecology and Sur- Eye. Ear. Nose ant gery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. PUYSICIAN AND SCBOKON, Office at No. 45. S. Main street, over Frank i Co's Diug Store. Butler, Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. Wo. 22 Eaf-t Jefferson St., Bi.tler, l'a. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON S. W. Corner Main and North Sts., Butler, Pa J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth inserted cn the latest im proved plan, (iold Filling a specialty. Office— over Schaul's Clothing Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession; execut ed m Ihe neatest manner. Specialties :—Hold Fillings, and Painless Ex traction ol Teeth. Vitalized Air administered. OBlce oa Jeffenon Street, one door East of Lowrj lloH*e, I'p Stairs. Office open dally, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention,. N. B.— The only Dentist in Butler usingithe beet makes of 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, EMiI.XEEH AND SURVEYOR, OMCT NKAK DIAMOND. BUTL*R, PA. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office second lloor, Anderson Block. Main St., near Court House, Butler, Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second Door ot the Huselton block, Diamond. Butler, Pa., ltoom No. 1. A. T. 6COTT. J. P. WILSON. SCOTT & WILSON, ATTORN EYS-AT-LAVV. CoUectlons a specialty. Office at No. a, South Diamond, Butler. Pa. JAMES N. MOORE, ATTORNKV-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office In Room No. 1, second floor of Huselton Block, entrance on Diamond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second door of New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law, Office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St.. Butler. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Of flee rear of L. /. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond, Butler, I'*. H. H. GOUCHER. Ittorney-at-law. Office on second floor ol kiiderson bulidlng, near Court House, Butler, J. K. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law-omce at S. K Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Dlamoud Butler. Pa. 'PTLE BUTLKK COUNTY NATIONAL BANK, BUTLER, PA. CAPITAL Paid I'p, - _ _ $100,000.00. OFFICERS : "J 0 ?} I '. res t - "• Osborne, Cashier. J. V. Rltts,\ ice Pres t, C. A. Bailey,Ass't O'ash'r DIKECTORS : Jos- Hartraan. c. P. Collins. O. M. Russell. p ?• om,n • j - v -Ruts, E. K. Abrams, Leslie Hazlett I. u. Smith V>. S. Waldron. D. Osborne. A general bunking business transacted. In terest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on approved security. Foreign exchange bought and sold. L. S. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - BUTLKR COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. >3. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. H. C. IIKINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: 3. C. Roesslng, Henderson Oliver, '• L Purvis, .lames Stephenson, J-;, Tr outni;in, H. C. Heinen.au, Mired W Ick, N. Weltatf, Kit* LOYAL M'JUNKIN, (LEA. AE'T STRR.T/ERR, PA. YOU CAN FIND NSN | TmiamlMHD. * . I %s§BoH ~o • •• ■ ■''Ok v ' l i iTS : - raft »-' - - —-» "• r& f 30 5. MAIN ST. r;~ ' & '. - . ... PUTL:^R"-?a. X?r|v®) • 9gf - ,/ " ~ -"n •» »*•■—r> '-"' if i |We are Leaders in our Line. We are now prepared to show you the finest line of FURNITURE Ever {-l.xwn in Butler county. Do youfwant CHEAP GOGDS'- Come and see us. 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. D R !E W, 128 i£. Jefferson tet., - Hntler* Pa NEW FIRM! THE LATE FIRM OF BLACKMORE & GRIEB IS NOW GRIEB & VOGELEY, And, owing to the change, we are now closing; out our entire Fall line of goods, O O 1 regardless of cost. Among the many bargains we are o Jo now offering we quote as follows: 30c. Men's Embroidered Slippers, Gtoloat 80 cts. $1.25. Men's solid, first quality, buff, seamless shoes, in Bals, or Congress at 81.25. • " We are making a sacriOce on a Ladies shoe with a patent leather tip, running from 3's to G's for 00 ct . "We make these great offers because of the change in the firm, and that we are needing the money at present more than the goods. We also do repairing of all kinds on short notice; and handle Leather and Findings. © Hoping that YOU will call see us the next time you are in town, we are Yours R esj)ectfully, Grieb & Vogeley, 34 7 S. MAIN STREET, - BUTLER, PA. Opposite Williard House. EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR OR CUFF ————Tj THAT CAN BE RELIED ON B to P to 3put! THE MARK 3>Jcyt to Discolor! L —— BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE FLLU LOID MARK. NEEDS NO LAUNDERINC. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. #HATISSAPOLKJ? scouring so&p which h&s noecfu&f for ail cleaning purposes exceph'n the l&undry-To use it is to value it . . _ What will SAPOLIO do? Why it will clean paint, make oil cloths bright, ar.d give the floors, tables and shelves a new appearance. It will take the grease off the dishes and off the pots and pans You can scotrr the knives and forks with it, and make the tin thingsshine brightly Tb * wash-basin, the bath tub, even the greasy kitchen sink will be as clean «« a new pm if you use SAPOLIO. One cake will prove all we say. Ba a clever housekeeper and try it. C? IMITATIONS. THEE 2 IS BUT ONE SAPOL2T ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO., NEW YORK. BUTLKR. ?A.. FRIDAY." NOVEMBER2B. Ic!>0 LOST. ! Alone in the misty twilight, j Alone in the midnight deep: My soul and senses are fettered by A terrible nightmare sleep. A hideous, haunting darkness Fills my passionate dreams. With a horror thro whose blackness Xo ray of sunlight gleams. And always in the midnight, And in the noontide glare. I see the grace of a passionate face, Lean out from the fathomless air; And ray soul in torment writhes, 'Neath the spell of those love lit eyes. Ah! the consuming fire of my desire- Is a pang that never dies. Far away from out the silence, A sweet voice calls to me; I hear it o'er the tempests roar In the murmur of the sea. | And a shadowy form arises Down where the tall cliffs shine— ! Along the shore where ceaslessly roar The waves of flashing brine. High above the night wind, | Tho soft as the J2olean's moan, There ever is sounding the echo Of the unforgotten tone Of a voice so sweet and low, And with it rings on the haunting air: Xerer again, no never again! The refrain of my despair, j Cutler. Oct. 1890. KATE EASTON SMITH. Miss Hannah's Thanksgiving. BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. j The governor of her state had issued an | uncommonly stirring proclamation, one j Uiat with quick response in the hearts I of all people who loved merrymaking, and made many an urchin smack his lips over j his pro.-pects; and the President of the United States himself, wrapped, to Miss Hannah's mental gaze in the White House clouds and splendors, had so far conde scended to household and human affairs as to issue another of nearly as much worth. Miss Hannah Patten, sitting by the fire on the evening before the day in question, was perusing the two documents with an equal eye of displeasure toward both. Her gown was folded back over her knees, her cap strings were thrown back over her shoulders, her gold-bowed spec tacles were tilted at a defiant angle, and her cat sat looking up into her face, evi dently aware of electrical disturbance. " 'Tisn't consistent, and tisn't right," she muttered, looking from one to the other. "I can't see how governors of common wealths established to set Church and State apart can meddle in the matter; and as to the President's meddling it seems to me it's treading very close on the skirts of state rights, though I can't bay that I re member the issuing of Thanksgiving proc lamations being one of the rights reserved to themselves by the states." Aud she went on with her reading, politics having taken the place with Miss Hannah of both family and religion. "Anyway, if there was anything to make it worth while, it wouldn't so much matter," her thoughts ran. "But every year, and year after year, tho same eter. al iterations about nothing! And few people have more tbau they've a right to have? and the idea of giving thanks for your rights! And what have I got worth giving thanks for, I should like to know!" she cried out savage ly. "The house that I've earned with my own hands, and the cat, and Asenath Ann. Don't talk to me about Thanksgiving—a lonely old woman without kith or kin,with neither chick nor child, husband nor happi. ness! With nothing in life but just dull comfort! 'Tisn't enough that nature made me plain and sour, that life left me alone in the world, but fate has to make me grow old and takes away from me even hope. For my part, I'd give thanks if I'd never heen born!" Hut this not being feasible, Miss Hannah meant to compro mise matters by giving no thanks at all. "Xo, Asenath Ann," she exclaimed, as that pretty young woman opened the door from the kitchen, "we will not cook that turkey to-morrow. It's good catching weather and the bird will keep; and if he doesn't, my appetite will, and yours will have to. You can put him by for Sunday, aud we'll have toast and tea for dinner to morrow." "My, Miss Hannah! I never!" said Asenath Ann, who. never having kept any Thanksgiving at all till she came to live with Miss Hannah, had the zeal of all new converts. "Toast and tea on Thanksgiv ing! It's a flying in the face of Providence. And what if the neighbors ask?" "You can tell them, then, that we had lay-over for meddlers," said Miss Hannah, growing more good natured over the fancy of saying an ill-natured thing. "Shut the door, Asenath Ann." And Miss Hannah recurred to the proclamations. "Perhaps there are some that have reason," she said, more gently. "Rut I'm not one of them, and I'm not thankful; and eatfng turkey won't make thankful. Thaukful for what? That I sit alone? that I'm just the opposite of all that a husband's care and the love children would have mado me? that" — and here Miss Hannah's thoughts were wandering back into a past so damp with tears that she shivered. T&e past, it was where Si.'as Wheeler walked with her in the moonlight and drew her hand through his arm and held it —many, many years ago! It seemed to her, as she saw the moonlight now in fee - thoughts, as if she had been walking in dead white ashes ever since. They had een talking of their wedding day, when lif« seemed to stretch before them as rosily as it now lay gray behind her; and the jV»'y of it all was a sur prise to her even the" a; for she and Silas had all but grown i ip together, and she was so well acquaint ed with her own plain face and tall uma inliness that she had never dreamed oil his choosing her from among all their -cheeked, white-toothed and laughing (.«©» pan ions. Why he seem ed to have dooe*o she had never known to this day, u'.iS*** he had an eye to her father's bro tarm and little hoard of bank stock—thr, farm and bank-stock that had all liielto' j away, and left her to earn an other b< jine and support herself in it by the work 1 f) or hands, till a piece of growing *-° o '' .land that nobody Lad thought of, up ani jug the hills, had suddenly como into D '.arket and enriched her, when long past Jjiddle life. Rut hero in her recollections Miss Hannah stopped. She could never bring herself to dwell a moment on the dreadful time w-hen that pretty little Ann Rums—a rosebud, a blush and a smile and a dimple, a voice like a • sooing dove's, an armful »»f loveliness—c; »me to the place; and after one wild, short struggle, everything endtjd without a word, and Silas married Ann and went a\ ray to the far distant South west, and 1 eft her alone to her fate. And she had in ver heard a word of bim since the day he went. And then had come prostratii .u with grief and shame, follow ed by her father's discomfiture and loss, and then » hard, grim taking up of life with he : heart against the world that had used hi jr so ill. Since her fortune had mende j, hhe had improved her home some- : what, fcud had .taken Asenath Ann into her I service, service which was tolerably equal I division of labor, as the custom of the country was, and an entirely social equal j ity at table and elsewhere: Asenath Ann not being one of those who claim all the ! rights, a little wai." and stray appearing j with her bundle at the door one day from Miss Hannah knew not whence, and cared not whence either, being, as she herself said, as well able to read a person's face as any other written character, and the girl being too glad of a home to make much ado over such trifles as Miss Hannah's : sharp sentences or the neighbor's equally sharp retorts. I Rut, her home improved or not, when Miss Hannah reviewed the years, she felt as I say, that she had no reason for thanks giving. least of all for the fact that she had years to review, every one of which left her less able to fight her battle than it found her. She remembered now, with a i dull indignation, the minister's telling her that her lengthening days gave cause for ! gratitude. "I should be grateful, should ' I," she exclaimed to the embers, ''because I my teeth are gone, my hair is gray and : thin, my skin parchment, my sight dim, 1113" hearing slow; because nothing tastes i the way it used to taste, and I can't smell 1 a rose? Oh! yes; I should be thaukful that 1 nothing gives me any enjoyment now of it ! self; only a recollection of the enjoyment it j gave me once: that all the nerves are dull to pleasure and only alive to pain, that young folks jostle me aside while they take the world to themselves, that I have one foot in the grave and shall soon have the rest of me there, with nothing but clods for company. Oh! of course. Thankful, indeed!" Poor Miss Hannah, it will been seen, had many reasons for discontent: and this year everything had gone against the grain in an especial fashion. The drought had burned her grass, and killed her flowers, and dried her well, and obliged her to have water fetched from the lake; the corn fodder hid not been properly cured, and the cows milk was too bitter to drink; the county commissioners had taken a piece of her front-yard to widen the road,and when she claimed damages had threatened her with charges for betterment; the assessors, too, had raised her taxes; her hens, now when eggs were forty cents a dozen, re fused to lay an egg. Absorbed as she was in politics, her side had but lately suffered an inglorious defeat, and she. herself, had advanced on the polls like a grenadier, fully impressed with the sacramenta] nature of voting, only to find that she had not been polled and registered, and that if she had been she had taken the wrorg ticket of school-committee-meu. She had unfolded the grave-clothes,which she made thirty years ago. when it was impossible to realize that she should ever need them, and had found them a mass of fuzzy ruin from the moths; she had discovered, also, by happening, on an old family Rible, that she was a year older than she had thought she was, and so had a year less of life be fore her. The old minister who, as long as he was alive, she felt equal to her salvation at any time, had suddenly died and been sacceeded by a little whipper snapper, giving advice to his elders, and not cap able of saving an unborn baby; and, to cap the whole, some arbitrary idiot had gone to fooling with the time and so confused the universe, with dropping out a quarter of au hour and over, that the fowls of the air themselves did not know when to get up. This last seemed to her the crowning outrage, the last tyranny of man. Once before, she knew, this tyranny had snatch ed eleven or twelve days out of the year in the change from Old Style to New, and the world had tamely submitted, and the solar spstcm had gone on without knocking its head against a comet. How they had only taken minutes; but the principle remained the same, and for all she knew made the comet possible. And Miss Hannah had refused to accept it. She was not going to have one minnte, let alone sixteen, dropped oat of her life at any one's order. It wasn't legal: it wasn't constitutional; it wasn't decent; it wasn't right; it shouldn't be done. Her father died at six o'clock. She wasn't going to say he died at sixteen minutes and forty four seconds past six, and nobody should make her. As a free American citizen she had a right to her own time, and she should take her right. How in the world was anybody to read the almanac for the next year, with all the moons and tides and eclipses and things put down at the wrong minute? And what became of those sixteen lost minutes, any wayf Miss Hannah knew nothing about the fourth dimension of space; but she felt now that there was a new quality in time, and that these lost minutes, swallowed by same mysterious gulf, brought one in a black and grewsonie way close by yawning eternities, while yet tingling with life. The issues of time, as of life and death, she de clared, were not in our hands. She had an idea that time was ordained in the first chapter of Genesis. It made her bload run cold, that fateful Sunday, to see the minister in the pulpit set back the hands and snap his watch together lightly at the awful instant. Xo, she believed she had always had her time by the sun. and she always meant to have it so; she wasn't go ing to tell a falsehood every time she had occasion to say what o'cock it was; and, consequently, the clock in the kitchen re mained as it was, and consequently noth ing had gone right for ten days, from coming home at one time by the town clock to find the potatoes boiled by her own clock, and naturally spoiled, to sitting at another time an interminable period, a true mauvau quartd' he are, with her things on, waiting for the church bell to ring, and, at yet another time, to returning from Hilltown,where she had gone to draw her dividend and find that the bank had this year passed it, and, meeting no chaise with Asenath Ann at the station, plodding home through t he rain and catching a cold, which for all s\ie knew might finish her yet. The last funeral she went to was that of a person who died of a cold. So, on the whole, it is evident that Miss Uannah was neither in a. thaukful or comfortable frame of mind, everything having gone against her, and, if able to reason away the small grievances, yet utterly unable to reason away or for give the great grievance that had robbe d her of a husband's love and Silas Wb eeler. Of course her mood boded uo good to the adventurous hand which at thai on oment rang the door-bell. Mis s Hannah took tho ring, of course,for that of tho castomary Thanksgiving beg gar. "You may just go away from here!" she cried, flinging wide the door before Asenath Ann could run to it. "I've noth ing for you, unless it's a good rap with my stick!" "Why, Hannah Patten!" exclaimed a great choery voice. "This is a pretty greet ing! Don 't you know me? Have you for gotten—do- tell !—have you forgotten Maria Som erby?" And Maria Somerby stepped into- the hall and into the room beyond, whi ro the Hashing of thelfirelight revealed a bt ixoin, rosey woman of some sixty Sum me -s; not the sort of woman to number her v ?ars by Winters. '•Mari' Som »rbv! You don't mean to "Well, no; n. >1 exactly, you know. For I married Joe 1 Wton. But this is what's left of me." "You come right in and take off your things and sit down. I'm used up with a cold; but I'm mightily glad to see you. Where you been all this timet How you been? Come home to stay. "Reen in Texa*. to be sure, where his place is. Reen pretty well. No; just tak ing ail excursion, and thought I'd like to see the old place and the folks and all. I declare you ain't changed any to speak of." "Same old creature." said Miss Hannah, throwing some light wood on the blaze. "Well, you look as though the world had prospered with you." "So it has. And so do you. Yes, our children are all married and doing well, and .loe has a splendid place, far as you can see on every side and soil may-be eighty feet deep and rich as wedding cake, I reckon; two crops a year and sometimes three." "Awfully hot down there in Texas, I suppose?'' "Hot? Xo indeed. Just right. We sleep under blankets. That puts me in mind. Yon remember old Miss Hepsy Bean, we used to call her old —Lor! She was a young woman—that always used to sleep in the blankets, and they shrunk all up so in washing that the night you and I stayed there they wonld not cover eiiher of us, and we teased her about having crib blankets till she cried. I've always had it in mind to give her a pair woven of our wool; aud I brought them on." "Well, poor Old Miss Hepsy's gone where they don't need blankets." "So warm?" said Mrs. Pelton.her cheer fulness unimpaired by the intelligence. ••Say! do you remember when her niece, Susanne, was married and we weren't in vited,and climbed into the scullery window while the minister was marrying of them and stole the cake? What girls we were! I wonder if Jaines Munson, that used to court that girl, is alive?" "Might as w ell not be," said Miss Han nah, shortly. "Lives in a garret, chained to a post, and crazy as a coot." "Don't say? Poor soul! Who'd ever have dreamed tb»t of James. I wonder if it would have been different if Susanue had maried him, instead of the other." "Well, Maria, if that's not just like you! You believe in everybody just the way you used to do. I suppose you never heard that men have died and worms have eaten 'om; but not lor Hive," "Dear me! What set yon against the men so? You used to like them as well as anyone. Well, there," throwing off her hood and shawl, "I'm going to stay an hour; and I want you to tell me all about everybody. I haven't heard a word of Lowtown news, and I've just ached to, since I went away with Joe forty years ago,except what Silas Wheeler brought,and that was 110 groat; for he wasn't much of a talkir.g man, the poor wretch." "Silas AVheeler!" "Why, yes. You've not forgotten Silas Wheeler, the one that came out to live next to u» in San Saba, and brought a pretty little wife with him—pretty as a peach?" "No, I've not forgotten!" said Miss Hah nah grimly. And presently she added, "He alive, then?" "Well, yes, I suppose he is. But to quote your own words, he might as well not be. A great sight better not be, I should have thought if I'd been his wife. I declare I always vowed I'd tell of him back in Lowtown if ever I had a chance; and he's made me blush for my part of the country more'n a little! He's as shiftless as a poor-farm tenant, any way. I don't literally believe his wife ever had a new gown in all the years of her married life. He never took her into town. She never had one cent to spend; aud you know a woman likes a little now and then. She had a whole flock of little children, and nothing but corn bread and bacon to feed them with—she always ailing and they al ways dying. One day I was over there, and he didn't know I was about, and he comes in, and says he: 'Ann, here, what have you been drawing the charge of my gun for?' And then I found out he was in the way of getting drunk and shooting round promiscuously; and I've always had my suspicions if one of the children that died suddenly with nothing the matter didn't die by that gun." "My good gracious, Maria!" cried Miss Hannah, who had been stiffening gradually into her original clay. "Yes, indeed! And that day he just cuffed her ears then and there." "I—l can't believe it." "Of course you can't. Rut I reckon she did. Seeiug's believing; but feeling's the naked truth. 'Twasn't the first time either. But he was usually off hunting with that gun and his dogs and some boon compan ion; and I've seen her digging mesquite roots to burn, and working in the little garden she tried to keep, and planting and hoeing and picking cotton herself. Then he'd come home and have a fit of the chills enough to shake the roof off, and keep her up night and day. He used to be as savage as a wolf then. Once, when ho was get ting better, he up aud locked her out of the house; and I saw her crying on the doorstep, with a norther blowing the rain straight through the air like arrows." "Well!" cried Miss Hannnh, her white face blazing with indignation. "She was a poor stick! Silas Wheeler—it don't ieem —you're sure 'twas the same" — "Sure? I reckon go. Suppose I didn't know Si from a baby's you may sayf' "Then why in the world did she stay?" "Whyt" said Mrs. Pelton, innocently. "What else should she dot She was married to him, she might have gone, but she promised before God to stay by. And then there were the children. She couldn t leave them. I tell you, when you have children, a man has you bound hand-fast. Then she was that kind—regular sticking plaster, love a man once love him forever. Besides. I reckon he cared for her as much as he could for any one. When she began to lose color he was so mad you'd have thought she did it on purpose. When she was sick he'd jump on his horse and go loping into town for the doctor in no time; he always staid there himself then carous ing. When the bill came in, to be sure, ho never had any money to pay it; and then you should have heard him swear at her. You see I heard a good deal of it, being there to see the sick children. She was feeble, and sent for me first thing. Of all the language! And she'd shrink and seem to wither, as if she longed to curl up out of sight. One time, I mind, a great railroad party came along prospecting, and stopped at his cabiu; she'd been sick, and it didn't look smart, her part of it; but his part was just a hovel; and he hadn't been sick. However, it vexed him; and he be gan to swear as soon as they were out of hearing. 'O. Silas,' says she, 'don't, when I'm so sick; and it isn't all my fault. Vi e might have been as forehanded as Joe Pel ton, if you looked after thiugs the way he does.' And then there was music. He just cursed her black and blue, and crossed over and took her cliair and shook it, and she fell out of it fainting. He was sober then. Hut sometimes he'd have one of his drunken rages, and shut her up, and give lier nothing to eat for two days at a time. When he was straight, he was all the time fault-finding; she couldn't satisfy him; I've seen her scrub and scour and dust #nd wipe, and have everything in apple-pie order, and he come* in and takes ber to do for the black tracks of prairie mud he'd left on the floor with his own boota." "Maria," said Miss Hannah, solemnly, "do you think it would have made any dif ference with him if he'd married a different sort oi woman*" "Xot a bit. 'Twas the aature of the beast. I guess she found it out. I've seen such a look in her eyes—as she stared out over that boundless prairie, all yellow with sunflowers high as your bead and thick as your hair, and the boundless sky above burning blue, with the buxiards floating in it so far as to se%m more like spirits thau the dirty things they are—such a look as you don't see in people's eye* un less they know the thing's hopeless. 1 was with her when the last baby was born. There was ten of them out in the little graveyard «here, and one of the little graves she'd had to dig herself— "My Lord!" "Yes. - Mari,' says'she, 'I don't see why it would be wicked for me to take this httle one and go away to my own house. And lup and says. *You can take it and come to my bouse and welcome ' says I; 'and I'll defy Silas Wheeler to get it or you either," says I, 'I mean my narrow house,' says she. All she wanted. I tell you, was death. And one daj she got it. He came home and found her lying half on the floor and half on the settee, and I suppose he though she was shamming* At any rate, be gave her a good kick; and then he saw how it was. and he caught her up, and he called, and he cried, and be walked np and down the floor with her in his arms, and he took on like a raving madman. For a while folks though he was going to drink himself to death then. But all at once be held up. had delirium tremens, got well, sprucod up, sold some land, and I expected he'd be coming up here to bring home Asenath Ann"— "Asenath Ann!" cried Miss Hannah quite faint, and with ber eyes starting out of her head "Yes. His eldest girl. "When the twins died she jost ran away. I expect her mother had told ber about the place. And they says she's up here somewhere in ser vice." "Humph!" said Miss Hannah, recovering her vitality with an idea to tight. ''She m in service. In mine. She's in my house, and I'd like to see Silas Wheeler or any other man take her away"— "Asenath Ann! 'Well, I never. If things don't come round. 'Where is sbet I'd like to see her. I'd"— "You shall see her. But you just bold your peace about where you saw her. She's getting to be the same thing to me as an own daughter. I shan't tell her just vet; but if she holds out as she's begun—and she bates the sight of a man now—l mean to leave her every cent I have, on condi tion of her never marrying any man ulive." "Well, a man's all she could marry any way, and she couldn't marry him if be wasn't alive; but I reckon there's no dan ger. She's seen enough of it. However,if Silas meant to go for her be gave it np; for he saw Sally Lavacca that time the circus tent blew down in San Antone; and now be' courting her. And she's no little Ann Barns, let me tell you; and if she doesn't turn the tabies—" "Asenath Ann!" cried Miss Hannah, stalking to the kitchen door, and scatter ing the cat on her way. "You may get the dressing ready for that turkey to-mor row; and when that's done and you've set. back the clock sixteen minutes, you come in here for something very particular. It's high treason to disobey a proclamation of the governor's, and we'll have a Thanks giving dinner after all. I've found some thing worth offering up the sacrifice and making a Thanksgiving for. I'm thankful to the I»rd above, and I don't care who knows it, that I didn't marry Silas Wheeler!" She Got Even. "Now, madam," said the attorney for the defendant to a little, wiry, black eyed, fidgety woman who had been summoned as a witness in a broach of the peace case, "you will please give in your testimony in as few words as possible. You know the defendantf" "Know who!" "The defendant, Mr. Joshua Bagg. "Josh Bagg! I guess I do know him, and I knowed his daddy afore him, and I don'o know nothing to the credit of either of Vm and I don't think—" "We don't want to know what you think, madam. Please say 'yes' or 'no' to my question." "What questiont" "Do you know Mr. Joshua Baggt" "Don't I know 'im, thought Well, I should smile! You ask Josh Bagg if he knows mc. Ask him if be knows anything 'bout tryin' to cheat a poor widder like me out of a two-year-old steer. Ask him if—" "Madam, I —" "Ask him whose land he got his cord wood off of last spring and why he hauled it in the night. Ask his wife, Betsey Bagg, if she knows anything abont slippin' into a neighbor's pasture lot and milking three cows on the sly. Ask—" "See here, madam—" "Ask Josh Bagg about that uncle of his that died in the penitentiary out West. Ask him about lettin' his poor old mother die in the poorhouse. Ask Betsey Bagg about putting a big brick into a lot of but ter she sold last fall—" "Madam, I tell you—" "See if Josh Bagg knows anything about feeding ten head of cattle all the salt they would eat and then letting them swill down all the water tbey could hold just 'tore he driv them into town and sold 'em. See wtat he's got to say to that!" "That has nothing to do with the case. I want you to—" "Then there was old Azrael Bagg, own uncle to Josb, got rid out of his native town on a rail 'tween two daj's, and Bet sey Bagg's own brother got ketohed in a neighbor's hen house at midnight. Ask Josh—" "Madam, what do you know about this casef" "I don't know the first livin' thing 'bout it, but I'll bet Josh Bagg is guilty, what ever it is. The fact is, I've owed them Baggses a grudge for the last fifteen years, and I got myself called up as a witness on purpose to get even with 'em, and I feel that I've done it. Good-by."—Detroit Free Press. —Before the introduction of Salvation Oil, rheumatism was considered incurable. Price 25 cts. Lost time is forever lost. Absence from school is often caused by a cough, old or hoarseness, and can easly be prevented by giving Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup to the chil dren. Price 25 ceants. "Yes," sighed the disapproved mother, "I brought m}' son up very carefullj and piously. As soon as he *« old enough I pot him to join the church, and made him »ive ino his solemn promise that when he married he would marry a christian woman." "And didn't bet" • N'o; he married one of the girls of tho choir." NO 4- AGRICULTURAL. FKriTFCI COMPOST. A family with a garden, but no stock to make manure for it. can have a sufficiency without, lor they throw away enough every year to enrich a plot large inongh • to produce a home supply of vegetables. In the most out-of-the-way place on the lot cover a spot, say ten feet square, with a broad roof elevated on stakes. Begin with a pile of dirt, upon whifch throw all the dishwater, washwatcr, chamber slops, vegetable refuse and yard rakings. The pile can be kept sweet by adding soil, coal asbes or road-dust when needed. Such a manure shed can be mad* a thing of beauty as well as of use by training over it orna mental vines which do not seed as weeds a* morning-glory would do. The largest squashes I ever raised were planted at the edge of such a heap. One vine went over the shed and was trained up the side of an adjoining barn and produced fifteen feet from the ground a squash as large as a wkter-pail. This way of making manure relieves the residence of dirty slopboles and dangerous sink-drains. Could earth closets be added aud the contents emptied on the compost heap the premises would be a model of neatness, thrift and health. All this involves some trouble, but there are compensating vegetables, and more important still, an insurance against typhoid fever, diphtheria dis eases of tilth.— A Central Xer Yorker. Of all the organizations that have thus far been formed for the advancement of the interests of the farmers, the Grange, which is tne oldest, is also the "best. It* aims are intelligently directed to the com mon good of the farming element. Its ob jects arc to promote the intellectual and financial well being of its members by educational means, on the principle that knowledge is power. To know our rights in this country is more than half the battle. TJ»e Grange is non-political, and works within the old parties for the common good. It is beginning to see what it wants and to ask for it, and it is going to see that it •gets it, too. Those organizations that | form a separate party and Msume a fight ing attitude towards the old parties, pro voke feelings of hostility, and get little or nothing accomplished. The bill to equalize taxation, which the next Legis lature is almost sure to pass, and other measures that will benefit the farmers, are the result of discussions in the Grange. This organization has won the sympathy of both the leading political parties by its intelligent and manly methods and by a steady adherence to its principles, and its power is thus enormously increased.— Ex. TnK HOUSEHOLD. The excellent washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, who get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax as a washing powder, in stead of soda, in the proportion of one large handful of powder to about ten gallons of boiling water. Borax being a neutral salt does not in the slighest degree injure the texture of the linen. Those that try this will be pleased with the result. It is is also nice to wash blankets or woolen goods. To take out machine grease use rain water and soda. To remove oil and var nish from silk try benzine, ether and soap very cautiously. To take out paint mix equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out in soapsuds. Paint can some times be rubbed out of woolen goods after it has dried. To take iron rust out of white goods pour a teacupful of boiling water, stretch the goods tightly across the top of it, then pour on a little of the solution of oxalio acid dissolved in water, and rub it with the edge of a teaspoon or anything. If it does not come out at once dip it down into the hot water and rub again. SELECTING A COW. A model useful dairy cow may be known at a glan-ce by an expert. She his a long, fine bead, broad between the eyes, and a thin, wide muzzle; the eyes are large, and of a mild expression; the neck is thin and long; the ears are thin and covered within with a deep yellow skin; the forequarters • are light, and the whole body has much the shape of a wedge, increasing in siie to the rear; the legs are thin with fine bone; the belly is large and deep, with great ca- . pacity for food; the back is broad and straight, and the ribs are well rounded to wards the rear; the tail is long and thin;* the thighs are thin aud are set widely . apart; the udder is large and full, especial ly behind; the teats are of good iize, and set far apart upon a broad, level tidder,and the milk-vein, so-called, which is the largo vein leading from the udder and pass ing into the abdomen, and which is an in dication of the amount of blood circulat ing through the milk glands, and contri buting to the milk secretion, shonld be full and tortuous in its short course. A fine . horn, a deep, yellow skin,, and a general elegance of form, without any heaviness or bee tin ess in any part, are also important indications of good quality in a cow for the dairy.— American Agriculturist. Ingrowing Toe Nails. To the Editor of the Scicn tijtc American. About ten years ago I cured ingrowing nails on both of my big toes in the follow ing manner, which can be done by any one who has the least amount of ingenuity and patience. First thoroughly clean the parts, and then pack in front of the nail cotton or lint as hard as may be borne. This will remain with tsumfort for three or four days, then remove and in front of the pellet will be found a hardened mass of flesh; scrape this away and repack, con tinuing the operation until the corner of the nail has grown out and is beyond the soft tissues of the toe. Of course easy fit ting shoes or boots should be worn during the treatment and ever after. JOHN- G. HABPKB, D.D.S. —No matter what the season of the year, we always have flies with us. In the warm weather they are house flies, in the cold days snow flies, and perpetually time flies. —Dr. Fenncr's Golden Relief it warrant jo relieve toothache, headache, neural gia, or any other paiu in • to 8 minutes. Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swellings, bites burns, summer complaints, colic, (aU> in horses), diarrhoea, dysentery and flux. If satisfaction not given money returned. Nothing in life is more unfortunate than the position of husband and wife when both realize that they have married beneath them. —A Chicago writer says: "Don't marry a man who wears plaid trousers or colored neckties. The instincts of that man, whether developed or not, are those of a gambler." Weak-minded young men who have worn "loud" clothing, innocently be lieving they were merely following the London fashions, can now see what inno cent scoundrels tbey are at heart and set about reforming. H e sat and looked at the busy edito for about fifteen minutes steadily: Finally ho yawned sleepily and remarked: "There are Voun- tliiugs in this world that go with out saying." "I know it," snapped the editor, "but there are too darned many things that say a good deal without going.'