VOL. XXVIII
Robes and Blankets
As cold weather approaches
horse owners will save money
by buying tlu r horse blank
ents, knee rob' , tc.. now.
A good warm blanket on a
lioree 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 county,and at. the lowest
prices, will always be found at
Fr. KEMPER'S,
1124 N. Main St.,
Butler, Pa
D. E. JACKSON.
203 8. Main St - - Bailer, Pa.
Everybody Delighted.
Who are in need of Seasonable
Goods.
Having bought a large Stock of
Fall and Winter Ooods, and owing to
bod weather and worse roads, they
have not been going ont as fast as
they ongbt to
We have
CUT PRICES AWAY DOWN,
as we mast on account of scarcity of
. room close them ont to make room
w for Spring Goods.
If you want a Cloak, Jacket or
Bbaw!
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE.
Or if yon want Blankets, Comforts
TJnderweur. Ladies' or Gents', Flan
nels, CaDton Flannel or anything in
that line.
COME NOW
before the Stock is broken, bat
DON'T FORGET
to examine oar large stock of Dress
Good?, which are included hi this
CUT,
Aleo Fancy and Dress Plashes,
Black Sutah and Gros Grain Silks,
all Marked Down.
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, we haven't
room fcr half our goods, until
you relieve us of some of them.
We have the choigest 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,
Near Post office, butler, Pa.
Rare Bargains,
Extraordinary Bargains are offer
ed here in
UNDERWEAR,
HOSIERY,
GLOVES, *
HANDKERCHIEFS,
MUFFLERB,
Everything in furnishings for ladies,
children and men.
Compare our prices with what you
have been paying and see if yoo
cnn't t-ave money by dealing with
ÜB. •
John M. Arthurs.
33:j SOUTH MAIN STREET. 333
Big Overcoat Sale
AT
The Racket Store.
OVERCOATS OF ALL GRADES,
STYLES AND COLORS AT
ROCK BOTTOM PRICEB FOR
CAMI
REMEMBER THAT NO FIRM
DOING A CREDIT BUSINESS
CAN QUOTE THE LOW CASH
PRICES YOU WILL FIND
AT THE ONE PRICE
RACKET STORE,
4 1 H. Main St.,
Butler, Pa.
SAW MILLS
I'atcal Variable Friction tad Belt Fm<l.
Steam Engines, Hay Presses,
ShingTe Mills. &c
' Portable Grist Hills,
bend for Illttt. Tliroahlnir Nark ln«*. At,
Catalogue. A. B. FAfMJLH AK CO.. York, l»t.
®POM MI. ao n year is ma 4« by Jobs K.
f! - work tor as. KrtuUr,
l*« Jr.'.u >|uirk IV Ik«W lO#»r# froBJ 91 to
#lO « ,\my at Ik* sisri, »n4 »«• U yom fo
"n. Both kim, all »«•*. lu say fart of
Amerfc s. yon ran c«Mm#nr« al Itoni#, gl*-
Om *rw4. Ail's SU Great pay His for
• *erjr Worker Wi i&tri yew, ApHM»f
•vemfcin# RASILY, hI'KKDILT learned.
I-AhlK I I.Al'.rt HULK. A<>4r«M at otw«,
hTINWtt * to., I OUTLAID, MAIML
U CAN FIND ;,3&
( ' • • i *.u i.una i
I - .'.REMINGTON BEOS.
«lu/ Hill wiiract far aaTWtiaiag at lowaat T"*ir.
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
PROFESSION AL, CARDS.
V. McALPINE,
Dentist,
la BOW permanently located at 1» South Main
Street' BuUer. Pa., in rooms formerly .ccoupled
by Dr. Waldron.
L. M. REINSEL, M. D ,
PHYSICIAN XSV SCBOEOX.
Office and residence at 224 Graham Street,
Butler, Pa.
L. BLACK,
PHYSICIAN INII SURGEON,
New Troutman Building. Butler. Pa.
Dr. A. A. Kelty,
Offlc* at Kose Point. Lawrence county. Pa.
K. N. LEAKE. M. D. J. E. MASS. M. D.
Specialties; Specialties:
Gynaecology and Sur- Eye, Ear. Note and
eery. Throat.
I DRS. LEAKE & MANN,
Butler, Pa.
G. M. ZIMMERMAN.
FIIYBICIAN AND BCBOBON,
Office at Mo. 45, S. Main street, over Frank t
Col Ding Store. Butler, Pa,
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
Physician and Surgeon.
No. 22.Eut Jefitrtou fct., Butler, I'a.
W. R. TITZEL.
PHYSICIAN SURGEON.
S. W. Comer Main and North Sta., Butler, Pa.
J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist.
Butler, Penn'a.
ArttDclal Teeth inserted on the latent Im
proved plan. Gold Filling a specialty. Office—
over Scnaul's Clothing Store.
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work pertaining to the profession; execut
ed in the neatest manner.
Specialties Gold Killing*, and F&inletw Ex
traction ol Teeth, Vitalized Air administered.
Olct M JtfeiMi Street, oae doer tut of Lowrj
Hone, I'p titalrs.
Office open dally, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mall receive
prompt attention. » <C
I. B.—The only Dentist la Butler osingtUie
best makes of teeth.
J. W. MILLER,
Architect, C. E. and Surveyor.
Contractor, Carpenter and Builder.
Haps, plans, specitications and esti
mates; all kinds of architectural and cn
fneering work. No charge for drawing if
contract the work. Connult your best in
terests; plan before you build. Informa
tion cheerfully given. A share of public
patronage is solicited.
P. 0. Bo* 1007. Office S. W. of Court
House, Butler, Pa.
C. F. L. McQUISTION,
ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR,
OWE* hkar Diamond, Butler, Pi.
A. M. CHRISTLEY,
ATIOKNKY AT LA .
Office second floor, Andereon I! 1 k, Main St.,
netur Court House, Butler, ha. •
J. W. HUTCHISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
p Office on second floor of the Huaelton block.
Diamond. Butler. Pa., Room No. 1.
A. T. BOOTT. ). r. WILSON.
SCOTT & WILSON,
ATTORNEY 8-AT-LAW.
Collections a specialty. Office at No. 8. South
Diamond, Butler. Pa.
JAMES N. MOORE,
Airoaarr-AT-LAW ahd Notary Public.
Office In Room No. l. second floor of Huaelton
Block, entrance on Diamond.
A. E. RUSSELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on second noor ot 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 Heal Estate Agent. Of
flee rear of L. Z. Mitchell's otace on north side
of Diamond. Butler, IV
H. H. GOUCHER.
Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor of
Anderson building, near Court House, Butler,
Pa.
J. K. BRITTAIN.
Att'y at Law—Office at 8. E. Cor. Main Bt, and
Diamond, Butler, Pa.
NEWTON BLACK.
AU^ratj^w— Office on South side of Diamond
L. S. McJUNKLN,
Insurance and Seal Estate Ag't
17 EABT JEFFERSONJST,
BUILER, - PA.
BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts.
*3. C. ROESSING, PRISIDINT.
H. C. lIKINEMAM, SKOHKTAKT.
DIRECTORS:
Q. C. Hoemlng, Henderson Oliver,
J. J. Purvis, Jamett Stephenson,
A. Trout man, tl. C. Heln^mau,
Alfred Wick, N. Wellzel.
Dr. W. Irvln. Dr. ltlckenbach,
J. W. Burkhart, I). T. Norrlß.
LOYAL IM'JUNKIN, Gen. A«'t
.GTJT-LEJIR,, IP A..
ft A L E S M E"V
WANTED.
LOCAL OR TRAVELING.
To sell our Nursery stock, salary, expense* and
steady employment guaranteed.
IHAHE BUOTIIKKK COMPART,
Itochester, N. Y
t Kow*p«p»r Advertising consult
LC:?D & THOMAS,
S Km Auuia,
mum is Mm*. cwMoo>
WiiXIAM jtvL Al iu, " *
r • 130 5 MAIN ST. #
A Plain Statement.
Now that the Holiday rusli is over we
arc ready tor the buyer who has a house
or room to furnish and wants a large and
new stock, experienced salesmen and low
prices to select from. If (he buyer mere
ly wants a chair, a desk, or any of tlie
countless bits of furniture to be found in
our stores,the principle remains the same
and the wise buyer acts accordingly.
We haven't a piece of furniture in the
store that's been in stock over two months,
and we haven't a piece that we would be
ashamed to offer at our prices in any city
in the land, Our more expensive articles
are rich, stylish and offered at low prices
Our cheaper goods are well selected, and
the very best for the money that can be
gotten anywhere. Mark this.
There are many who have not yet been through our
stores. We want yon sill to look ii). li does not matter one
bit whether you sue buying or not, a look through otirstoie
is an advei tisemenl of it, and we [j.iy big money to the news
papers every year lor woise onos, Why there's no advertise
ment like an inspection ol our slock. Your eye is the
salesman we want.
Campbell & Templeton,
OLD TEOUTMAX STAND BUTLEK, PA.
1891.
We start 1891 with the greatest line of bargains ever offered. We have
bought some tboasands of yards of
COTTAGE CARPET
We have marked it 20 cents per yard. This is 25 per cant, lower than it
has ever been sold anywhere in America.
WRAPS.
Still a nice cssortment at $2 to $35. Were $4.50 to SSO.
ALL OUR DRESS GOODS
Domestic Goods, underwear, in fact everything in our immense stock to be
ran off regardless of cost. Those who have dealt with as know we always
mean just wlrtit we advertise; those who have not, will learn that we do by
calling and examining goodß and prices.
RITTER & RALSTON.
A VALUABLE AND DOUBLY USEFUL LITTLE INSTRUMENT FOR LADIES.
"DUPLEX" ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CURLER AND CRIMPER.
This I* th« moat t4rfcet % eonvrnitnt. and tfitctiw little article nvor Invented. It com
bine* a Comb-i'urler of superior finish with itn improved Ton# Crimper, ami both port* jM-ime Klertro-
MaKOotic, it gtiM-kly produce* womlcrf oliy pleasing ami fiiMhloriaMo r< HUUH With UH ai«i the hair ran
be lise4 in any <!uftir»<l style, and when no fixed with this little luMtrutnent it retains the <*!lect much
longer, and is not oven effected by the damp air. Oars trua, alicaya us*4.
PRICE, 50c. o ft.
It does not break off or ruin the hair like moat Curler* and Crimpers. never fails in operation, and
i* cuarant4*ed to jrive catiHfartion. JiONI.V IF >«»T AH Ktfr:i*Kfr'f»»:>T*:i>.
It in for Hale hv the l»adiug draff, dry and funcy #o»kls trade tfenenillv, hut if not obtainable in your
vicinity we will mail it to any address, pout-paid, Kuarantecintf sicfe delivery, on receipt of SOc., or
• i»e fur 92.00, Remit by draft, exprctM. or poat-omco uiom-y ordofc or currency in registered letter
oayahle to Tiar A. lirftlffman €'o.« 373 Broadway. N. V. Mention this paper. Av<rit* wanted for
I>r. Bridgm&ii'sCor&cts.BruiiUetf.lMtf.attii Specialties. Beautiful and popular tfoud*. iluu; liberal terms.
fior WATERPROOF
THAT CAN BE RELIED ON
BE UP ISTot to Spm!
T|£E MARK JST Ot to JLJISCOIOyj
BEARS THIS MARK.
NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT.
THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF
COLLAR IN THE MARKET.
■Some live 5 1 i ke 9
Horsejyiyßhoes
the more bright"er!«
Busy.wives who use SAPQ Ll©
never seem to grow old.Try
A complete wreck of domestic happiness has often resulted from
badly washed dishes, from an unclean kitchen, or from trifles which
seemed light as air. But by these things a man ofton judges o lis
wife's devotion to her family, and charges her with general neglect
when he finds her careless in these particulars. Many a homo owes
a largo part of its thrifty neatness and its consequent happiness to
SAPOLIO.
Wlirotew often Mibxtltute cheaper goods for MAPOI.IO, to make a
better profit. Mend back such articles, and Insist on having Just
you ordered."^
BUTLER, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1891.
A Fearful Flirt.
Although man's path through life s begirt
With many a curious kind of Air'-
For coquetry prodigious.
Of all the horde that devastates
Our hearts, the worst one down to date s
The flirt who is religions.
She looks so sweetly innocent,
As one on heavenly things intent;
You'd never dream she'd hurt yon;
But, Oh, beware when she b<£ins
To sigh about your soul and <ins,
And sets out to conver'. you!
Plain facts,of course,you're boind to blink;
Of conrse you'll never stop to think
How queer 'tis that wit! dozens
Of them around, she never waats
To save your uncles or your amts,
Or eke your giddy eousbs.
For women's sonl's she never {oes;
A caro for them she never knws;
'Tis passing strange th£ when folks
Of her own sex go wrong sheipurns
Them with a cold disdain, ye- burns
To save the souls of mai folks.
Yet, think not, though she l«oks so like
A saint, that she can never irike
A man a blow that's truel;
For, 0, to feed the fatal firtf
Of vanity she never tires,
Though hearts may finuish tuel.
She 7 !! lead yon on until you p'l l
The question. Then my ladyll stop
Yon with a chill negati>n;
Of love, she'll vow she never-thought!
0, no, indeed! She "only scJght
Your precious soul's station!"
TOM'S MONIY.
Mrs. Laughton had foundwhat she had
been looking for all her life -tho man un
der the bed.
Every night of her nearl>thirty years of
existence this pretty litte person had
stooped on her knees, betre saying her
prayers, and had the space
beneath her bed, a light brss affair, hung
with a chintz valance; had hen peered be
leath the dark recess of the dressing case,
and having looked in the tiep drawer of
the bureau and into the closit, she fasten
ed her door and felt as secun as a snail in
a shell. As she never, in his particular
business, seemed to havo aiy confidence
in Mr. LaughtoD, in spite of ihe fact that
she admired and adored hin, neither his
presence nor his absence eier made any
variation in the performame. She had
gone through the motions, hwever, for so
long a time that they had cone to bo in a
manner perfunctory, and the (tart she re
ceived on this night of which '. speak made
her prayers quite impossible.
What was she to do ? Sh*, a coward
par eminence, known to be the most timor
ous of the whole family; her trenors at all
sorts of imagined dangers affording laugh
ter to the flock of sisters and brothers.
Should she stay on her knees aitr having
seen that dark shape, as if going on with
her prayers, while revolving some plan of
procedure ? That was out of th» question.
Scream ? She couldn't havo screamed to
save her life. Run ? She could no more
have set one foot before the other than if
her body had melted from the waist down.
She was deadly faint and cold and shaking
and all in a second, in tho fraction of a
second, before she had risen from her
stooping posture.
Oh! why wasn't it Virginia instead of
she T Virginia had always had such he
roic plans of making the man come out of
his hiding place at the point of her pistol;
and could cock a pistol, and wasn't cover
ed with cold shivers at the sight of one, as
she was. If it had only been Krancie, whose
shrill voice could have been heard over
the side of the earth, or Juliet, whose long
limbs would have left burglar, and house,
too, in the background between the open
ing and slamming of a door. Kithcr of
them so much more fit than she, the chick
en-hearted one of the family, to cope with
with this creature. And they were all
gone to the wedding with Fred, and would
not be homo till to-morrow; and Tom had
just returned from the town and handed
her his roll of hills, and told her to take
care of it till he came back from galloping
down to the work? with Jules; and the
had tucked it into her belt, and had asked
him, a little quakingly, whßt if aDy of tho
men of the Dead Line that they had heard
of, or Hod Dan or an Apache came along;
and he had laughed, and said sho had bet
ter ask them in and reproach them for mak
ing such strangers of themselves as not to
have called in the two years she had been
in this part of the country; and sho had
the two maids with her, and he should be
back directly. And she had looked out af
ter him a moment over the wide prairie to
the hills, all bathed in moonlight, and felt
as if sho were a spirit alone in a dead
world. And here she was now, tho two
maids away in the little wing, locked out
by tho main house, alone with a burglar,
and not another being nearer than the
works, a hall mile off.
How did this man know that she was
without any help here T How did he know
that Tom was coming back with the mon
ey to pay the men that night T How did
he happen to be aware that Tom's money
was all in the house T Evidently he was
one of the men. Xo one else could have
known anything about it. If that money
was taken, nobody would believe the sto
ry; Tom would be cashiered, he never
could live through the disgrace; he would
die of a broken heart, and she of another.
They had come out to this remote and
lonesome country to build up a home and
a fortune; and so many people would be
stricken with them ! What a mischance
for her to bo left with the whole thing in
her hands, her little, weak, trembling
liunds—Tom's honor, his good name and
success, their fortune, the welfare of the
whole family, tho livelihood of all the men,
the safety of the enterprise! What made
Tom risk things so ! How could he put
her in such jeopardy J To be sure, he had
thought the dogs would be safeguard
enough, hut they had gone scouring after
him. And if they hadn't how could dogs
help her with a man under tie bed t
Light and electricity aro swift, but
thought is swifter. As 1 said, this was all
in the fraction of a second. Then Mrs.
I.aughton was on her feet again and before
a pendulum could have more than swung
backward. The man must know she saw
him. She took the light brass bedstead
and sent it rolling away from her with all
her might and main, leaving tho creature
uncovered. Ho lay easily on one side, a
stout club like a policeman's billy in bis
hand, some weapons" gleaming in his belt,
putting up tl e othor hand to grasp the
bedstead as it rolled away.
"You look pretty, don't you t" said she.
Perhaps this was as much of a shock to
the man as his appearance had been to
her. He was not acquainted with the say
ing that it is only tho unexpected that
happens.
"(let np," said sho. "I'd bo a man if I
was a man (let up. I'm not going to
hurt you."
If the intruder had any sense of humor,
this might have touched it; the idea of
this fairy queen of a woman, almost small
enough to havo stepped out a rain lily,
hurting him! Hut it was so differncnt
from what he kail been awai'.ing that it
startled him; and then, perhaps, he had
some of the superstition that usually
haunts the evil and ignorant, and felt that
such email women were uncanny. He
was on his feet now, towering over her.
"No," said he, grufHy; "I don't suppose
you're going to hurt me. And I'm not go
ing to hurt you, if you hand over that
money."
"What money?" opening her eyes with
a wide sort of astonishment.
"Come! None of your lip. I want that
money!"
"Why, I haven't any money! Oh, yes,
I have, to be sure, but—"
"I thought you'd remember it," said the
man, with a grin.
"But I want it!" she exclaimed.
"I want it, too!" said he.
"Oh, it wouldn't do you any good," she
reasoned. "Fifteen dollars. And it's all
all the money I've got in the world!''
"I don't want no fifteen dollars." said
the man; "and I don't want none of your
chinning. I want the money your hus
band's going to pay off with —"
"Oh, Tom's money!" in quite a tone ot
relief. "Oh! I haven't anything to do
with Tom's money. If you can get any
money out of Tom it's more than I can do.
And I would not advise you to try either;
for he always carries a pistol in the same
pocket with it, and he's covered all over
with knives and derringers and bull-dogs,
so that sometimes I don't like to go near
him till he's unloaded. You have too, in
this country of desperadoes. You see —"
"Yes, I see, you little hen-sparrer," his
eyes coming back to her from a survey of
the room, "that you've got Tom's money
in the house here, and would like to throw
me off the scent!"
"If I had," said she, "you'd only get it
across my dead body! Iladn't you better
look for it, and have me tell you when
you're hot and when you're coldf
"Do you mean to tell me—" sail he,
evidently wavering, and possibly inclining
to doubt if, after all, she were not telling
the truth, as no man in his senses would
leave such a sum of money in the keeping
of such a simpleton.
"I don't mean to tell you anything!" she
cried. "You won't believe a word I say,
and I never had anyone doubt my word
before. I bate lo have you take that fif
teen dollars, though. You never would, in
the world, if you knew what self denial it
stands for. Every time I think I would
like an ice-cream, out here in this wilder
ness, where you might as well ask for an
iceberg, I've made Tom give me the price
of one. You won't find anything but rib
bons there. And when I felt as if I should
go wild if I couldn't have a hoi of candy,
I've made Tom give me the price of that.
There's only powder and tweezers and
frizzes in those boxes," as he went over the
top of the dressing-case, still keeping a
lookout on her. "And when we were out
of apollinaris and Tom couldn't—that's my
laces, and I wish you wouldn't finger
them; I don't believe your hands are clean
—and Tom could get anything to drink,
I've made him put in the price of a drink,
and lots ol ten cent pieces came that way,
and— But I don't imagine you care to
hear about all that. What make you look
at me sot" For tho man had left his search
again, and his glance was piercing her
through and through. "Oh, your eyes are
like augers turning to live coaJs!" she
cried. "Is that the way yon look at your
wifet Do you look at your little children
the same way?"
"That lay won't work," said he, with
another grin. "I aint got no wife or kids.''
"I'm sure that's fortunate," said Mrs.
Laughton. "A lauiily wouldn't have any
peace of their lives with you following
such a dangerous business. And they
couldn't see much of you either. I must
say I think you'd bo a great deal happier
if you reformed —I mean—well, if you left
this business, and took up a quarter-sec
tion, and had a wife, and—"
"Look here!" replied the man, his
patience gone. "Are you a fool, or are you
binding me? I've half a mind to knock
your head in," he cried, "and hunt the
house over for myself! I would, if there
was time."
"You wouldn't find anything if you did,"
she returned, leaning back in her chair.
"I've looked often enough, when I thought
Tom had Borne money. I never fouud any,
What are you going to do now?" with a
cry of alarm at his movement.
"I'm going to tie you hand and foot
first —"
"Oh, I wouldn't! I'd rather you
wouldn't —really! I promiso you I won't
leave this chair —"
"I don't mean you shall."
"Oh; how can you treat nie so!" she ex
claimed, lifting up her streaming fuce.
"You don't look like a person to treat a
woman so. I don't like to be tied; it
makes one (eel so helpless."
"What kind of a fool be you, anyway?"
said the man, stopping a moment to stare
at her. And he made a step then toward
the highest of drawers, half bureau, half
writing-desk, for for a ball of tape he saw
lying there.
"Oh!" she cried, remembering the tar
baby. "Don't go there! For mere}' sake,
don't go there!" raising her voice till it was
like the wind in the chimney! "Oh, please*
don't go there!" At which, as if feeling
morally, or rather immorally, sure that
what he had come for was in that spot, ho
seized the handles of a drawer, and down
fell the lid upon his head with a whack
that jammed his hat over his eyes and
Olinded him with pain and fury for an in
stant. And in that instant she had whip
ped the roll of money from her belt, and
had dropped it underneath her chair. "I
knew it would! It always does. I told
you not to go."
"You shut your mouth quick!" roared
the man, with a splutter of oaths between
each word.
"That's right." she paid, leaning over
the arm of tho chair, her face like a pity
ing saint's. "Don't mind mo. I always
toll Tom to swear, when bo jams his
thumb. 1 know how it is myself when I'm
drivin'a nail. It's a great relief. Id put
some cold water on your head, but I prom
ised you I wouldn't Btir out of the chair—"
Tho man went and sat down in the chair
on whose back he had been leaning.
"I swear, 1 don't know what to make of
you," said he, rubbing his head, ruefully.
"You can make friends with me," said
she. "That's what you can do. I'm suro
I've shown you that I'm friendly enough.
I never believe any harm of any one till I
see it myself. 1 don't blame you for want
ing the money. I'm always in want of
money. I've told you you might take
mine, though I don't want to. Hut I
shouldn't give you Tom's money, even if I
knew where it was. Tom would kill me if
I did, and I might as well be killed by you
as by Tom—and better. You can make
lriends with me, and be some protection to
me till my husband comes. I'm expect
ing him and Jules every moment."
Tho man started to his feet.
"I)o you see thatf" he cried, holding his
revclver under her nose. "Look right into
that gun! We'll have ny more fooling.
It'll be your last look if you don't tell mo
where that money is before 1 count three."
She put out her hand and calmly moved
it aside.
"I've looked into those things ever wince
I're lived on the prairie," said rho. "And
I dare say it won't go off —mine won't.
Besides. I know very well •on wouldn't
shoot a woman, and you can't make bricks
without straw; and when I've told you I
don't know anything about that money."
"Yo'i are a game one,'' said he.
"No, I'm not," she replied. "I'm the !
most tremendous coward. I've •uie out J
here in this wild country to live, and I'm |
alone a great deal, and I quake at every
sound, every break of a timber,every rustle
ol'the grass. And you don't know any
thing about what it is to have your heart
stand still with horror of a wild beast or
a wild Indian or a deserted—a deserting j
soldier. There's a great Apache down
there now. stretched out in his blanket on
the floor, before the fire iu the kitchen.
And I came up here as quick as I could, to
lock the door behind us and sit np till Tom
came home, and I declare, I never was so
thankful in all my life as I was just now
to see a white face when I looked at you!"
'■Well, I'll be ! Apache!" cried the
visitor. "See here, little one, you've
saved your husband's money for him.
You're a little double handful of pluck. 1
haven't any idea but what you know where
it's hid—but I've got to be making tracks.
If it wasn't for waking that Apache I'd
leave Red Dan's on the wall."
And almost while he was speaking he
had swung himself out of the window to
the veranda-roof and had dropped to the
ground and made off.
Mrs. Laughton waited till she thought
he must be out of hearing, leaning out as
if she were gazing at the moon. Then she
softly shut and fastened the sash,and crept
with shaking limbs to the door and unlock
ed, and fell in a dead faint across the
threshold. And there, when he returned
some three-quarters of an hour later, Tom
found her.
"Oh, Tom!" she | sobbed, when she be
came conscious that she was lying in his
arms, his heart beating like a trip hammer,
his voice hoarse with fright as he implored
her to open her eyes; "is there an Apache
in the kitchen?"— New York Ledger.
Where Polly Went.
One summer evo Deacon Calejcame into
tho town of Concord, N. 11., and driving
up to the dry goods store at which he al
ways traded, in front of which there were
half a dozen loungers, he inquired if any
one had seen his wife Polly that day. No
one trod, and he went on to say that she
had suddenly disappeared about 9 o'clock
in the forenoon, and he had not seen her
since.
"Do you figure that she skipped out?"
asked one of the crowd.
"Hardly. Polly's 57, you know, and as
homely as a toadstool."
"But wimin is curus critters," observed
another citizen. "She might have gone off
to the naybur's in a huff."
"I've been to all the nayburs," replied
the Deacon.
"Searched the housef"
"Yes."
"Ain't in tho garrctf"
"No."
"Nor in tho smokehouse?"
"No."
"Well, that beats me. Bet you ten to
one she's gone crazy and wandered off, or
else she has gut tired of you and skipped."
"What's the fuss here?" asked a tin ped
dler as be drove up.
The facts were given liiui, an.l he return
ed on the Deacon with:
"Why,dang yer buttons, you don't know
even a little bit! She fell into the well, in
course, and you'd better hurry home and
git her ont!"
Tho Deacon drove away at a rattling
pace, while the crowd laughed at his ex
pense, but next day when he appeared in
town I asked him if he had any news of
his wife and he replied:
"Oh, yes. I'olly was in tho well all
right enough, and bad been standing in
water up to her chin all day. Kather
blamed me for not hearing her holler, but
she got all over it after being dried out."
How They Stand the Heat.
How the men employed in iron foundries,
steamship boiler-rooms, blast icmates, and
other torrid places stand the terrible heat
is a mystery to all bnt tho initiated. In
the melting-room of a mint the thermom
eter usually indicates one hundred and sii
degrees, in gasworks one hundred ami
eighteen degrees, and in blast furnace'
about one hundred and fifteen degrees,
while in steamships the firemen sometime!
have to endure one hundred and. forty do
grees of heat.
In all these places the men wear veij
little clothing, undoubtedly suffer from tli<
exposure, but not so much as a person
might suppose. An observer gives th<
following explanation of this curious fact
"The whole point is," said he, "thai
these men are not reached by the humidity
of the atmosphere. They are working ii
places where tho artificial heat is so in
' tense as to drive this out, and one hundrei
and eighteen degrees of heat in dry air i;
not felt so much as ninety degrees of hea
when the atmosphere is moist; the latte
tells terribly on people, and sorely Iriei
their vitality.
"When the humidity is very intense i
prevents the perspiration from passing ou
through the pores. Its pressure ou tb<
flesh is very exhausting, and the confine
ment of the perspiration is exceedingly uu
healthy. Although people do not know it
they would really be cooler while sitting
beside a red hot stove than the/ would b<
in the street on such a day as sometime*
occurs in midsummer."— Tin Holiday.
Two Points of the Compass.
A brilliant society leaders, the fairest ol
Washington's fair,
Once said to Commissioner Greely—'twat
at a reception they were—
(The discourse had turned upon weather,
and so the connection is plain).
"Hear sir, you can answer this question:
If, as we are wont to maintain,
Two-and-thirty degrees mark the state
where water commences to freeze,
What, then, do you think is the point at
which people are like to Hqueezet"
Commissioner blushed; he could not tell;
the lady, continuing, said
(Roguishly tapping his ann with her fan):
"Why, when it is two in the shade!"
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Two ladies met to fight it out,
Somewhere where no police is;
And Mary Christmas quickly knocked
Sal Ary all to pieces.
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The Gnckenbeiuer distilleries at Free,
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daily. Who says Kreeport is a dry town.
Detecting a Thief.
Not long ago 1 bad occasion to penetrate
wrll into the northern part of Mesopota
mia, says a letter from Turkey in the BJS
ton Globe. One morning when I arose I
lound that a leather purse containing some
JC34 had been taken from my saddle-bags
during the night.
I at once spoke to the leader of the large
caravan with which I was traveling. He
was an old Arib chief who bad seen far
better days, but owing to war and famine
had been driven to the caravan business,
which, by tbt way, is often profitable.
He was not at all excited by my tale,and
when I had doue quietly said: "The effendi
shall soon have his money again."
My reply was: "And then you shall have
your present."
"In about half an hour he called all the
men of our train together and made them
sit down on the ground before him in a
row. He himself was perched upon a bale
of goods, with his feet tucked under him,
und really looked patriarchal with his long
white flowing beard.
He explained to the men the nature of
the theft, and then added : "1 have no
idea who has taken the Chelebi's money:
only the thief and Allah know that; but
as the American effendi is under my care
I upon this journey I am bound to protect
h;iu. It is a shame to me and against my j
honor that he should meet with th's loss
from vocr hands. The thief must be dis
covered and severely punished. Xow I
propose to leave the Question to the thief
aud Allah to settle. My white donkey (he
rode a large white donkey, which is great
ly prized in this country) is now tied
alone in my tent yonder. That donkey is
a direct descendant from the one upon
which Mohamet rode when he fled from
Mecca to Medina in the year of the
Hegira. He has wonderful wisdom. Al
lah is with him. He hates sin and sinners.
The holy prophet often speaks to him."
"Now I command each one of you, one
at a time and entirely alone, to go to my
tent where the donkey is tied, close the
door so uU one can see in, and then pull
the donkey's tail. "When a man who is
not guilty does this, all will be silent and
well ; when the thief touches him he will
kick and bray. The effendi will make
ready to mete out the proper punishment.
That is all. It is spoken, let the man
nearest the tent go first, and the others
follow in the same order, one by one. Si
lence !"
The first man went. The deep stillness
was broken only by the heavy breathing
of the twenty-six men men who sat in that
solemn row.
No. I returned to his seat, and No. 2 fol
lowed ; then another, and another, and
another, and yet not a sound from the tent
or tho donkey.
I began to feel anxious. I had some
money up on that game. I watched the
old judg*. He seemed as calm and undis
turbed as tho donkey in the tent seemed
to be. There was not a trace of anxiety
upon his face.
There were only two men left. Then
one. I held my breath, for I knew that
now we mußt hear a rumpus. But, no;
ha cauie out aud took his seat again, and
all *ycs were turned upon the old man.
1 had expected that in some way the old
fellow would find my money; but he bad
not only toiled, but had put himself aud
me in a most rediculous position position
before the caravan. Our influence would
certainly be injured by this act. I was
chagrined, and angered, and rose up to gj.
The old man aa calm as a hojah, motion
ed me to be seated. I sulleuly obeyed.
He then in a firm voice told the men to
stand, each <me hold holding his hands
open before bim together with the palms
up. They mechanically did as he ordered,
in mute astonishment, and 1 must confess
that I could not make out at all what he
was up to.
He arose and, beginninf *t the left cud of
the row,held his face for a couple of seconds
in the upturned palms of the firßt man.
The operation he calmly repeated ivith tho
second and third.
When he camo to the sixteenth mso bo
suddenly lifted his face from his hand*, |
clutched the fellow by tho shoulders, and!
pushed him out of line.
"Thief! dog!" said he in a voice of
thunder. "Where have you put the for
eign efTendi's money t Bring it ul once, or
I will break your vile head and water the
sands with yoor blood !"
He gave tho twscbling man his liberty,
and in less than minute I had my
purse that was lost.
I wMti confounded. dsJthough 1 had
closely watolied every more i was yet on
oblo to understand how the old 4heik had
' di.«cov*rod J.he thief. The licit day uwo
roilo along 1 «*ed to explain to uie
tho process of tho revelation. He s»>d ■
"I prepared the donkey for tbe trial by
shaking b is toil for a few moments in the
tea of an herb that grows in abundance
about here. It has u tcuaeiouu though not
stroug odor."
, I suw through it ail. 0/ com."*
did not pull the tail and all the res., "
. and by sinellin,*? of the hands ho knew who
. was afraid of thi donkey's kick and bray.
I leave it to my readers to judge
whether the old mail did not have a pretty
good working knowledge of human nature.
Good for the Blacksmith.
A young lady in Washington has fallen
in love, so her friends say, with the wrong
man. Society is all agog with gossip in
consequence, and the cheeks of "our set''
grow white as the story passes from lip to
Hp.
The lady is an heiress, ha.- a million—
so chirp the dicky birds—in her own right.
A score of dudes.have paid court to this
million—beg pardon, to this heiress—but
she has treated theiu disdainfully and
scornfully.
Her heart was elsewhere. It was in the
quiet possession of a sturdy blacksmith; a
lusty, well made, handsome youth, who—
great Hcott!—shod mules for a llvlug. lie
fitted the iron to those refractory hoofs
with a skill which charmed her fancy and
excited her admiration. Daily she watched
liiui at his task, and at each resounding
stoko of the hammer she loved him more.
The man who could handle the hind legs
| of a mulo had qualities which appealed
iiresistibly to her affections.
The two have eloped, and tho hair of the
best circles stands on end. But why
shouldn't a sensible girl prefer a black
smith to a dude! Indeed, for that matter,
how could she help doing sot
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Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swellings,
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(also in horses), diarrhoea, dysentery ana
dux. If satisfaction not given money
returned.
Now the year is coining
When poets may have fun;
There was no rhyme lor '9O,
Out there is for 'Ol.
"N"0.10
Pious Persuasion With The Ruca).
A cultured aud refined mother in a
Maine city has a scapegrace son whom »he
has striven in every way to reform. He
persists, however, in absenting himself
from home on periodic sprees, and at such
times bis mother is in a continual parox
ysm of terror, imagining that all sorts of
calamities will befall him. He seenrely
hides himselt in low haunta, and his poor
mother can never gain the slightest know
ledge of bis whereabouts. The suspense is
torture.
During one of bis recent lapses the fami
ly pastor called, aud in the coarse of con
versation suggested that "thief be set to
catch thief, that also a denizen of the
slums might be procured to search out and
bring home the son. Accordingly, in
some unknown manner, a chap, a typical
rough was collared, and on promise of
"swag" was indnced to visit the lady for
instructions. Oh, yes. he "knew the young
feller, ye know, and he would jump on his
coat collar and yank bim back to his
downy nest; see f."
As the lady bowed him out she implor
ingly said : "Oh, sir, you must use your
ntelligence."
(He didn't look as though he had any.)
•;Yis, mum. Oi'll use 'urn."
In a voice ilsir"* uaiuialltr»M« from
sobs she continued: T " ,hnt 0 •»
come to lift him 'if os* f th" mire of doubt.
That he must sham- " T B ' ns anc * tß * e
courage of conviction. Tell my son there
is One who will succor, appeal to him, pre
vail upon him to break from his demon
foes. Will you do this faithfully?"
"Yer bet your life I will, mam, if I
break every bone in de cove's carcass,"
growled the rough, with a fierce vehe
mence that startled the weeping mother.
Then be tipped his hat over one eye, bent
his elbows and swagged down the walk
with such a display of trncnlence that her
heart was assailed with misgivings.
Just after the clock struck 8 that eve
ning the lady was gammoned to the door
by a fierce ringing at the bell. As the
door opened, in marched her big Irish
mossenger, dragging the limp figure of
her son. The mother uttered a scream of
dismay. Wasn't he a spectacle for gods and
menf Both eyes were closed, his cheek
was gashed, a bloody chasm showed where
a front tooth had been, his hat was gone,
his coat was ripped up the baok and one
sleeve had utterly disappeared. Complete
demoralization appeared in his entire
aspect.
"Here's the young fule, uium," huskily
said his escort. "I told him phwat yer
said, bat the young rascal wouldn't let me
tuk him peaceably, ar.d slugged me eyo
and tore mo coat, but I gin it ter him joost
as yo tould me." And a look of pride in
the eye that was intact.
The frantic mother waited for no ex
plauatiou, but paid the fellow and put her
damaged son to bed. As she sat by him
the next day and fanned that marvelously
ipu4sed-up face, tho youth asked, leebly
and reproachfully, "Oh, mother, how could
you do itf"
"My boy, it was for your good, and your
poor mother was—"
"But, mother, how could you send that
man to abuse nie in that wayt"
"My son!"
"Now, mother, that was cruel in you.
That man camo to me, rolled up his
sleeves, shoved to big tists up in my faco
and said: "D'oo see them two intilly
i gent&f Them's what yer inudder called
um. and sho told me to use 'em. She says,
says she, till the bye that ye cooni do him
up, and fire him out. That you must stick
°PP yer fins aud take a hoorar of a lickin'.
She says ye re a sun of a gun and a sucker,
and that I'm to peel yer, whale yer, and
break your doomed nose.'"
Just what his mother's feelings were we
do not know, but if subsequent events are
to be relied upon, that plug-ugly's argu
ment was the most salutary temperance
lecture that tho youth ever received.
A Green 'Un.
The patrons of a down-town hotel in San
Francisco,much frequented by farmers and
miners, were considerably startled on Satur
day a&ernoon when a tall individual with
bright gre«Mi hair, whiskers and eyebrows
walked up to U*o desk and calmly register
ed aa Charles W. iioog from Ward, Nev.
Tho clerk, used to almost any kind of
strange visitors, stopped rfwrt in the
middle of a sentence intend .**«
answer to an inquiring guest who wanted
to know when the JJ o'clock train for the
north would leave, and with a puailed look
eyed the verdant arrival. The lounger
around the lobby were attracted one by
one, and gazed with wonderment at the
green-haired stranger, who, unconscious of
' tlw sensation he created, quietly asked to
be Hhuwj .to a room. A reporter ventured
shortly afterward to interview Mr. Long,
| determined to tind out what business a
man with such a yueqr .Qolqred hirsutic
appendage had outside a .d#ne museum
r and received tho folio* ing explanationfroui
the emerald hued individual's own lips:
"I have for some time been working in
'■" tin White mine, at Ward, Nev./
tho Ai.. -vicars strange to yoa is a
and what a t ,, " I came from. We
common sight whei., * neople there,
have lots of green baireu A f bottle
hvery shade of greon from the darke...
[ color to the brighest grass-green is re
presented in the men's hair in that mine.
The reason for it is connected with the
ore. flic latter is base and it is necessary
to roast tho whole of it. During the roast
ing process no disagreeable fumes are
observablo, yet tho hair, the beards and
the eyebrows of all the men engaged about
the works are soon dyed a bright and
permanent green.
In scores of Xevada mines ores of
various kinds are smelted and roasted, but
at none of them in either the hair or beard
of the workmen changed from its natural
hue.
* "It is said there in less arsenic in the ore
of tho Martin White than in that of many
other mines. Old smelteis say arsenic has
no such effeot on the hair, and all declare
that the green color imparted to it is due to
the presence of some unknown and myster
ious mineral or metal.
'•White, light or sandy beards and hair
take a grass-green, whereas black or dark
brown hair is dyod a deep bottle green.
The hair is not injured by the color, and
retains its original strength and stiffness.''
This is the manner in which Mr. Long
explained his extraordinary appearance.
He will remain here for some time, and
even if he escapes tho ever-vigilant agents
tor dime inusenmH and is not hired as a
freak for one of those establishments, he
will certainly creato a sensation on the
pnblic streets every time be ventures out
lor a walk.—San Francisco Chronicle.
THE OLD MISTAKE.
- '"llang it all," said the poet, "they've
sent this verse back."
"Well, no wonder, " said bit wife; "gee
how you've written it:—
I am glad that Wi gone—
That at last the rising sun
Heralds in the gladsome dawn
Of blest 10-80."
—How are you to begin the new
yearf