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., <tc , but as new goods
are arriving nil the time, we would
not likely have the goods now
qnoted, but possibly have them at
still lower prices as the season ad
vances. We are proud to say that
iu this city and county our goods
end prices have met with approval
and commendation, although subject
ed to close scrutiny and comparison
with the goods offered by others.
We solicit your patronage, and will
. do all in our power to make our busi
ness transactions pleasant and profit
able.
D. E. JACKSON, Butler, Pa.
Next door to Heineman's.
C. & D.
WE
Have the largest stock of
hats and outfittings for men,
boys and children in the
county.
WE
Are especially strong in un
derwear for Fall and Win
ter. Besides many stand
ard makes in all grades; we
are exclusive sellers in this
ccunty of the celebrated
Stoneman handmade under
wear.
WE
Deal directly with the man
ufactures and our goods are
freth, 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 \Vall paper de
partment, full and overflowing
with our immense and choice
stock of paper hangings. You
must help us out, we haven't
rcom for half our goods, until
you relieve us of some of them.
We have the choisest 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,
ft ear Postoifice, Butler Pa.
Robes and Blankets
As cold weather approaches
owners will save money
by buying their horse blank
ets, knee robes, etc., now.
A good warm blanket on a
horce in cold weather saves
more for the owner than any
thing else.
The largest and most com
plete line of robes,blankets,har
ness,whips,trunks, valises, etc..
in the countj',and at the lowest
prices, will always be found at
Fr. KEMPEE'S,
124 N. Main St.,
Butler, Pa
Rare Bargains,
Extraordinary Bargains are offer
ed here in
UNDERWEAR.-
HOSIERY,
GLOVES,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
. MUFFLERS,
Everything in furaiahings for ladies,
chiluren and men.
our prices with what you
have bten paying and see if you
can't save money by dealing with
us.
John M. Arthurs.
333 SOUTH IIAIX STREET. 333
E. E ABR AMS & CO
Fire and Life
IN SURANCE
Innur.ii.c» Co. of North America, iooor
p iratnl I,<i4, ca P u a | S3,O(H),(X>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.
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|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.'