vol.. XXV] ! I Robes and Blankets As cold weather approaches horse owners will wtve money by buying tl . Y horse blank ents, knee rob e.. now. A good wai .~ oiankel on a horse 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, trunk 8, valises, etc.. in the county,and at. the lowest prices, will always be iound at Fr. KE]\IPER'S, 124 JS. Main St., Butler, Pa D. E. JACKSON. 203 S. Main St. - - Butler, Pa. Everybody Delighted. Who are in nc-c-d of Seasonable Goods. Having bought a large Stock of F*U and Winter Goods, and owing to bad weather and worpe roads, they have not been going out as fatt as they ought to We have CUT PRICES AWAY DOWN, M we must ou account of scarcity of roooi close them cut to make room for Spring Goods. If yeu want a Cloak, Jacket or Bhawl NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. Or if you went Blankets, Comforts Ucclerwear. Ladies' cr Genls', Flan nels, Canton Flannel or anything in that line. COME NOW before the Stock is broken, but DON'T FORGET to examine our largo stock of Dress Goods, which are included in this CUT, Also Fancy and Dress Plushes, Black Soiah and Gros Grain Silks, all Marked Down. full Again. We mean our wall paper de partment, full Bnd overflowing with our immense and choice stock of paper hangings. You must help us out, we haven't room lor half our goods, until you relieve us of some of them. We have the choicest selec tion of patterns in every grade from Brown Blanks at 10 cts to Gilts at from 20 cts to $1 per double bolt. Examine our Stock. J. H. Douglass, Near Post office, Butler, Pa. Rare Bargains, Extraordinary Bargains are offer ed here in UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, ULOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS. MUFFLERS, Everything in furaishirgs for ladies, children and men. Crmpare our prices with what you have been pnying and see if you can't Fave money by dealing with ÜB. John M. Arthurs. 333 SOUTH MAIN STREET. 333 Big Overcoat Sale AT The Racket Store. OVERCOATS OF ALL GRADES, STYLES AND COLORS AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES FOR CA-11. REMEMBER THAT NO FIR!. DOING A CREDIT BUSINESS CAN QUOTE THE LOW CASH PRICES YOU WILL FIND AT THE ONE PRICE RACKET STORE, 48 S. Mam St., Butler, fa. SAW MILLS Patent Variable Friction and Belt Feed. Steam Engines, Hay Presses. Shingle Mills. &c . Portable Grist Mills, Send lor lllus. Tlir.»liln» flarhln™. Ac. Catalogue. A. B. HK9IIUU t;o., York. »*«. A. J. FRANK k CO, PK«!.KB* tJ» DRUGS, MEDICINES, AND CHEMICAL*. FANCY AND TOILET A RTICEB, SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, SURGEON. S. W. Corner Main and North Sts., Butler, Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth inf-erted Cn the latest im proved plan. Gold Killing a specialty. Office— over Scbaul's Clothing Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertnlmiiK to the profession execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties tioid Killings, and Painless Ex traction ot Teetli, Vitalized Air administered. Office on Jcirmon Street, on* door East ot Lowrj linau, I'p Stain. Office open dally, except Wednesdays ar.4 Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention, y » S. B.— The only flutist In Butler u.-in;r t the best makes of teeth. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Maps, planf, specifications and esti mates; ail kinds of architectural and en gineering work. Sii charge for drawing if I contract the work. Consult your best in terests; plan before y< u build. Informa tion cheerfully given. A share of pnblic patronage is solicited. P. 0. Box 1007. Office S. W. of Court Honso, Butler, I'a. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENWIXEER AND SURVEYOR, Ovnca near Diamond, BCTIJER, Pi. A. T. SCOTT, ATTOB KEY-AT- LA W. Office at No. 8. South Diamond, Tlutler, Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATTORNEY AT LA . Ofllcesrcond floor. Anderson 111 k- Main St., near Court House, Butler. Pa, J. W. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. I' Office on second noor of the ilnselton block, l/laniond, Butier, Pa., Room No. 1. JAMES "M. MOORE" ATTORMSV-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. CHlee In Boom No. l. second floor of Iluselton Block, entrauce on fdumond. A. E. RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT f.AW. Office on second lloor of New Anderson Block Main St..—near Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. Office at No. 11, East Jeffer son St., Butler, Pa.. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Ltw and Iteal Estate Agent. Of flee rear of L. Z. Mll< hell s office on north side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second "floor of Anderson building, near Court llousc, Butler. Pa. J. K BRITTAIN. Att'y at l.aw—Office at 8. E. Cor. Main St, and l>tamoii(l, Ilutler, i'». NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South Hide of Diamond butler, fa. L. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST j EFFEUSONjST. BUTLER, - PA. BUTLEK COUNTY tfluiuaJ Fire Insurance Co. Oir.ce Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. •J. C. KOESSING, I'iiesident. H. C. HKINEMAN, SWJRKTAHT. DIRECTORS: G. C. Roi'idlnif, Henderson Oliver, J. L Purvis, James SU'phrnsop, A. Trouiman, 11. HciheiciUi, Alfror ttU'k'>nbach, J. W. isurkharf. I). T. Norris. LOYAL UI'JUNKIN, Gen. A?'t. J3TJT.r_.li3r?, PA. OA LESM EAT j) WANTED. }]| Traveling aiutCocal, lo sell our cliolce nurwwy stock. Ku-t special tie* In liarily hulit. ••ic. splendid outfit free, steady employment guaranteed. Vour pay win klv. Write for terms. (iKIiMAMA M ItSKKY CO.. Kocliester, N. Y. P. K \" ■■■■,■ :ii® consult ' THOMAS, •'Ui-srSfwtV ahmh, CtUa>ACt> ' Wn iMM i laMD, * * •50 Ei jriJJj , ———*— " .—' r?h j 30 S.MAIN ST. ~j?r Don't Resul This Unless You Want To! ' ' -- ■—rnsmsz ' AVe feel confident it will pay you. Now that the Holidays are over we are busy ovttinu ready for Si>rino» trade. We want all persons to know where to buy goods at right prices. This is the place. AVe sell goods as cheap as any person in the United States, il not cheap er. AVe RETAIL FURNITURE AT WHOLE SALE PRICES. AVe uive von first-class goods; what more OJ. ~ ■ can we do. e also do just as we ad vertise. AVe will sell you a Good Oak Bed Room Suit for #K) and a fine Pol ished Oak Bed Room Suit tor #25. You can't buy it elsewhere under #35. • Any thing you want in the Furniture line you C 1 %J v will find at our store at low prices. Come and see us whether you want to buy 01 not. AVe want to show you our goods. J O Campbell & Templeton, OLD TE OUT MAN STAND. BUTLER, PA. 1891. We start 1801 with the greatest line of bargains ever offered. We have bought some thousands of yards of COTT"GE CARPET e have marked it 20 cents p« r yard. This is 25 per cent, lower than it has ever been sold anywhere iu America. WRAPS. ftill si nice iffcnnn ta:s2 to ?35. Were $4.50 to SSO. ALLf OUR DRESS GOODS Domestic Gcodu, underwear, iu fact t verything in our immense stock to be run oil regardless of cost. 1 Loau who huvo dealt with us know we always mean just what we advertise; those who have not, will learn that wo do by callif-'g and examining goods and prietK Ritter & Ralston. [A VALUABLE A«D DOUBLY USEFUL LITTLE iHSTR'JMENT FOR LADIES. "DUPLEX" ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CURLER AND CRIMPER. Till* in «»•m..st ptrfert. convenient, v.icju l and rtfictire littlo toilot articleerer inT«»ntod. It coni- U .«V t . i ! ' r ' ~. , ,r' 'r l" r nn . ,nf r *, lLh ""P•*'' vt ' ll T0,, « Crimfwr.aiid tioth P'.rt- tn-n »?Kioctro- SI M i I wondci ftj.y pleanins and fani.ionaWe r. Hult». With it* aid the hair ran . II !i y . » . a P? wl ?°" t *° 1,1,1 1 Wl " ! tbi " Jnntrument it retains tho effect much lODgW, and id not ®Ttn effected by the damn air. Onet trud, altcaya used. •' - - -- TALL DEALERS. It dorn f»ot break off or rain tbehairliSin r.-. ft ir « CritT AM Ui;PKB«KMT^». I 1 ' '' f,?r fah» wr tlie i.-adtntf dnia. dry and fancy goods trad.- on. raMv. but if not ohtainafdc in y tur l. » i:iity w 0 £•*"A'J. au: i l |H'.Ht-yaid, m K * nafo Jclivc-ry, on rrcHj-t <»f SOc., or 5 yniit draft, c\prpp« t or post-omro money order, or currency in rofrtet*- n j tatter I.u a-etofiieA. K'utcuttn N. V. M.ntiou this paper. AcrntH wanted fr 1 1>: Jrldgcian sCorsets,Brualitfa.liclU.andi?iK-ciaHitfS. Bcaqtirulan ii < Muni iibtral tcraja, EVERr WATERPROOF COLLAR or CUFF —1 THAT CAN EE RELIED ON B 3xrot; to ai3iit! THE MARK Wot tQ DlSOOlOyg ■ BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE MARK. NEEDS NO LAUNDERiMC. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. 'ood revenue? resuii-r .VrtAl cle&nline ss&r jAPuLIU > iSaTsoOd c&kc so&p Try ihinyournexl*house-cleaning &nd beho^ppy Looking out over tho many hoinc sof thic country, wo see thousands of women wearing away th ;ir lives in household drudgery that might be materially lessened by the use of a few cakes of SAPOLIO. If an hour is saved each time a cako is lzaeu, if one loea wrinkle gathers upon the face because tho toil is lightened, she must bo a foolish woman who would hesitato to make tho experiment, and ho a churlish husband who would grudge tho few cents which it costs. BXJTLKR, PA..FRIDAY, JANUARY •■>:s. 1801. HER GUARDED SECRET. "When I shall discover a woman who declines to i-peak evil, whether with or without cause, of another, then I shall love, and not until thsn." These words were spoken half jestingly and half cynically by Theodore liarleigh— a grave-faced, keen-eyed, handsome man of thirty. The speech echoed impressively through Kuth Avery's heart and brain; she wondered if it implied some rebuke for her; if he counted her. too. among those who were ready to think »nd >peak unkindly of others. Kuth was one of few who oc casionally subject their thoughts, deeds and motives to a severe and searching ex amination. She wished to see what was riprht, -imply for pure right's sake; but all the same she desired Mr. Darleigh's good opinion, and his half jesting and cyn'cal comment had strangely disturbed her sen.-itive heart. She had dreamed that he might love her. There had been times when she fancied that his grave face brightened at her presence, that his voice took a softer tone, lis dark eyes a tenderer light when she was near him. She recall ed his words now » she sat watching the ground at the farther side of the long parlor. The newly-engaijjd governess had iast entered with two roey little lads—Ruth's motherless nephew* the children of her brother Chester. Chester Avery at the moment was chatting in a friendly fashion with the governess, and Mr. Darleigh was turning over a pile of music at the piano. As Ruth silently watched the group, it occurred to her, as it had several times be fore, that the new governess—Miss Eldridge —was singularly familiar to her, somehow. Tho straight,slight figure, the delicate and colorless profile, tbe midnight eyes, the massive coil of blatk hair—all impressed Rnth with a vague feeling that she had somewhere met Mias Eldridge previously. Theodore Darleigh.turning over the music, presently adjusted 1 sheet before him and struck the opening chords of "The Roman Charioteer." "Do you not sing it, Miss Eldridge T he asked.' For a second Mils Eldridge made no response. At the ojc-ning chords of the song her whole attitude and expression changed. She started as if before a threatened blow; a scarlet spot like flame leaped to her colorltss cheeks; her mid- D>ght eyes diluted as if with terror. "I am hardly equal to singing it now," she snid at length, with the piteous failure of a smile. Ruth, sitting at the opposite end of the room, had noticed the agitation of the new governess. Her own face whitened, and she could scarcely restrain the cry which quivered on her lips. She knew now where she had met Miss Eldridge. Memory pictured tho scene—a glorious Southern sky, the thronged sea of a brdliant South ern city, a grim prison-building looming blackly against the dazzling sunlight, the iron doors yawning to receive a weeping girl who had been accused of theft, and not fur away a band playing the weirdly resonant air of "Tbe Roman Charioteer." In that weeping prisoner she recognized Miss Eldridge, and she did not marvel that the governess had shuddered at the sound of the strain, which must ever be associa ted in remembrance with a scene of pain and ignomy. In that moment, in the shock of that re cognition, Ruth Avery deemed ber duty clear. A girl with such a blot upon her past was surely not a desirable instructress and companion for those two innocent little lads. And there was no doubt about the accusation against Miss Eldridgo. Ruth herself had been stopping at one of the hotels in the fashionable Southern re sort where tbe affair happened, and one of Rnth's acquaintances had made the charge againt the girl. The acquaintance was a wealthy lady who was fond of an almost ostentatious display of costly jewels and trinkets. Among these articles was a curious fan which she had purchased at an almost fabulous price from nomo musty relic depository of Europe. Tho mount ings of the fan were of the richest ivory inlaid with gold and precious stones, several of which were of considerable value. She had left tho article for a moment, with her book,upon a garden scat; when she returned it was gone. No one had been near the spot bat the governess of her little ones, and some one had ob served tho governess bend over the seat for an instant and immediately hurry away. These details and the sight of tho girl vanishing within the black prison doors constituted the story as it had been forced upon Ruth's attention; of the girl's name at the time she had been ignorant. As Ruth recognized Miss Eldridge and recalled the affair, she felt that the duty before her was no less painful than plain. Miss Eldridge had produced excellent and unquestionable recommendations; she had but recently been in the employ of an ex clusive lamily, who esteemed her highlr, and were loath to dispense with her ser vices. "But, of course, all these people are ignorant of what I know; she has managed to keep hidden the black stain upon her honesty. It will be painful for me to ex pose her and have her sent away, but I cannot, in justice to my little nephews, do otherwise," Ruth reasoned with a sigh. While she sat there meditating,sheltered in th<' velvet hollow of a maroon and orange Turkish chair, the group in the front parlor disappeared. Miss Eldridge with a rosy lad clinging lovingly to either hand, withdrew; a moment later Mr. Dar leigh departed, and then Ruth's brother retired, and she was quite alone. The lights had been extinguished; the room was quite dark, save lor the gleam of a low, white moon, which sent a few narrow rays through the thick ivy framing of a window near her. Suddenly in the air, in the silence, a voice seemed whispering on tho air. "When I shall discover a woman who declines to speak evil, whether with or without cause, of another, then I shall love, and not until then." Ruth stirred uneasily; an impatient sigh quivered from her lips. Theodore Dar leigh's lovo she would have held the most precious possession of all the world; to make herself worthy of it would have been her dearest ambition. "But I (-hall be unworthy if I assnmo to bo what lam not. If I should be merciful toward Miss Eldridge, not from the promptings of my own conscience, but with the motive instead, of gaining favor in his sight, I should be a hypocrite. And I suppose there is no possibility of tho girl being innocent," Ruth thought. The latter idea had not occurred to lior before. And after all there was a pos sibility of the girl having been wrongfully accused; it might all have been some ter rible mistake! Or it might have Wen the one temptation, the one sin of a lifetime, a moment's weakness, which hail been sin cerely repented and which migEt yet be re deemed and outlived if man were merciful. "I will give her the benefit of the doubt; the chance to redeem herself, as the case may be. I will keep her secret," Rnth de cided finallv. Hut ltuth Itttlu imagined tber trial »he wm yet to undergo, the tieraa struggles she would ret be compelled to wag.' against tie inclinations of her tortured and rebellious heart. She little guessed how. as the days rolled by, Theodore I>ar leigh's little courtesies toward the beauti ful young governess were to arouse a mad ness of jealousy within: '"He has learned to love her! and he would have cared for me some time if he had never met her! She has fascinated him as she fascinates every one. Even my staid brother is infatuated with her. There is nothing but misery'for us all, and it would never would have happened had I revealed what I knew of her past and sent her away," Ruth murmured bitterly to herself one evening as she again sat by the ivy-framed window, watching the riging moon swinging like a great white jewel between the hands of golden clouds. At that moment there were hesitating steps near her. and she lifted her troubled eyes to look upon the colorless face of Miss Eldridge. '•I have something to say to you, some thing to tell you, Miss Avery," the gov erness began timidly. "I know—l have forseen it for some time; he asked you to be his wife," Ruth returned coldly and wearily. "Yes; bat it is not of that which I wish so mnch to speak—it is of my past," the other responded chokingly. Ruth was silent. "I can not be bis wife, and I am going away," the governess continued in slow, piteous tones. "And you will tell him why—after I am gone—after you have heard the story of my pastf "I know the story already," Ruth re plied, less coldly. She was touched to woman's quick sym pathy by the anguish of the colorless face, the entreaty of the midnight eyes. "You know my past and yet you have kept silence—you have allowed me to remain!" the governess exclaimed in won der. "I have tried to bo your friend," Ruth said faintly. "But you are asking of me now more than I can do. You must tell him your story yourself." There was a sound of some one approach ing. and Migs Eldrige, weeping piteously, glided hurriedly from the room. The per son approaching was a servant bringing Ruth a letter. She started as she glanced at the postmark and recognized the pen manship. The letter was from the ac quaintance who had made the terrible charge of theft against the beantiful gov erness. It was a frivolous, chatty epistle, and Ruth perused it indifferently enough until she reached the concluding sentences. Then her face whitened and her eyes filled with tears. "Of course, you remember the lovely fan I thonght was stolen," was what Ruth read. "Well, my. dear, only the other morning I actually found it slipped be tween the silk and lining of the dress I wore that day. I remember now putting it there myself, although at tbe time I was sure I left it on the garden scat. I hear that poor Miss Eldridge is with you, and if you like you can tell her I awfully sorry fer my stupid forgetfulness and the un pleasantness I caused her." Ruth could never define her paramount emotion of;the moment; it might have been indignation againßt the frivolous woman who could so unfeelingly discuss a terrible injustice towards an innocent girl; it might have been gratitude that she had spoken no evil of the accused governess, and it might be a mournful satisfaction that"Theodore Darleigh was to be spared a pang of grief. Just then Mr. Darleigh himself stepped across the threshold of the parlor. With her face flushed with tears, she advanced to meet him. "Miss Eldridge has told you? We must prevent her going! Here is her vindica tion; and oh, Theodore, I am so glad for your sake," she said tremulously, almost incoherently, as she extended the oppor tune letter toward him. Mr. Darleigh looked mystified. "If it is anything concerning Mias El dridge which will keep her here as ypur brother's wife, I shall be well pleased," he said. "Chester is half distracted with the fear of losing her. But Ido not know why you should be particularly glad for my sake, Ruth." "But I thought—oh, Theodore, I thought it was you who cared for her, you for whom she cared," Ruth stammered. "Did you?" he smiled. "My little girl, I supposed you understood long ago that I loved only you; that I never havo loved an 3' one else." Ruth lifted her eyes in one floeting glance, and in that glance her lover read all her heart's sorrow, her heart's gladness and heart's reply. "There are few who could have kept the secret of that unhappy affair as you have kept it," he remarked once,some time after Miss Eldridge had become Chester Avery's wife. • Ruth blushed rosily. "It was something I heard yon say once long ago that influenced mo at the crisis, lam afraid," she confessed. "Your words about speaking evil, with or without cause, of others, were echoing through my mind; it was love's teaching, Theodore." "But I had given you my love before I made that cynical speech," was bis earnest reply. Laziness a Foe to Originality. Wo do not know who said it, but it is a fact well stated, and we regrot not being able to give tho writer proper credit. The great enemy to individualism is laziness, and those who know anything of human frailties will, I am sure, bear me oot when I say that 'mental" laziness is far more_ common and far moro difficult to overcome than that of the body. It is so much easier to accept dogmatic teaching, and to shift tbe responsibility of our views on to others rather than to concentrate our thoughts and work out the lessons of our own observations. It is much more pleasant to butterfly from theory to theory than to seek truth with patient tenacity; why trouble ourselves to learn self-reliance, when natural indolence protests against the sacrifice? It is easier to imitate than to originate; plagiarism and mimicry are Fuch promi nent features in our lives, that their pres ence might almost be quoted as an argu ment in favor af our evolution in past ages from simiam ancestry. How plausible are tho excuses we make for our want of this individualism! We are so dreadfully afraid of being thought bumptious, we are so de lightfully humble, wo really do not wish to intrude our opinion, and yet all ttie brightest lights of our profession havo been men of strong individualism. —Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief is warrant ed to relieve toothache, headache, neural gia, or any other pain in 2 to 8 minutes. Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, Bwellings, bites burns, summer complaints, colic, (also in horses), diarrho a, dysentery and flux. If satisfaction not given money returned. —Ho —"l'd like to see you women strug gling around a bargain counter just once, for the fun of the thing." She—And I'd like to see you men struggling round a freo lunch counter." —ltch oni human and hnrwN una nil arm main cured n 110 minute* liy Woolford'* SnriilKi} l.< ti< r. IkilMra Il9>. Sold by J C Kedick, druggist, Butler. A Negro's Calvinism. Senator Yanee. of Xorth Carolina, un j questionably the champion story-teller of j the Senate, has a broad stripe of Calvinism down his back, though be is not a com municant in the church. It is told ot him that while riding along in Buneombe county one day he overtook a venerable darkey, with whom he thought to have "a little fun." "Uncle," said the Governor, "are yon going to church?" ' So. sir, not exzactly—l'm gwine back from church." "You're a Baptist, I reckon—now. ain't you!" "Xo, sir, I ain't no Baptist, do' most of the brederen and sisters about here has been under de water." "Methodist, then?" "Xo, sah. I ain't no Mef(»dis, nudder." "CampbelliteT" "Xo, sah, I can't errogate to myself de Camelite way of thinkin'." "Well, what in tho name of goodness are you thenf" rejoiued the Governor, re membering the narrow rango of choice in religions among the Xorth Carolina negroes. "Well, de fac' is, sah. my old master was a Hernild of the Cross in de Presby terian Church and I was iotclied up in dat faith." "What! You don't mean itt Why, that is my church." The negro making no comment on this annnouncement, Governor Vance went at him again: "And do you believe in all the Presby terian creed?" "Yes, sah, dat I does." "Do you believe in the doctrine ot pre destination?" "I dunno dat I recognize do name, sah." "Why, do you believe that if a man is elected to be saved he will be saved, and that if he is elected to be damned he will be damned?" "Oh, yes, boss, I believe dat. It's Gospel talk, dat*is." "Well, now, take my case. Do you be lieve that I am elected to be saved?" The old man struggled for a moment with his desire to be respectful and polite, and then shook his head dubiously. "Come, now, answer ay question,'' pressed the Governor. "What do you say?" "Well. I tell you what 'tis, Marse Zeb: Ise been libin' in dis hyah world nigh on sixty years, and I nebber yil hyard of any man bein' 'leetod 'doubt he was a candi date." » A Fable. Three weeks ago there was a great con vention of snowflukes in the air just over tbe heads of our Forest county folks. It was held to decide a very serious matter. There was wet, soft, deep, dirty mud on the roads and their improvement was to be decided by this great meeting. The in terests of onr people were at stake. The president, a handsome star-shaped flake of symmetrical proportions, called the meet ing to order, and made an eloquent appeal for volunteers to follow his leadership to certain death, the first few million of flakes must be swallowed np in the moistened roads that others might lie on their decom posed bodies and form a pure, white bed for tho traffic of our business people and the pleasure of our boys and girls. What a sacrifice, even grater than the charge of the Light Brigade. The hearts of the flakes were won when one,the ugliest look ing of them all, came forward the first to volunteer. Tbe cff< ct was wonderful, mil lions started for second place, the air was filled with their eager race for the mystie death, tho mud was thickened until it could absorb no more, the fields, the trees, the roads were covered with a mantle of purity, the bells jingle, our young folks are coasting on the hills, and man, the noblest workmanship of God is happy. Conclu sion. If we would make others happy there must be a spirit of unselfishness and sacrifice on our part. There is clear water under the ice, a bright sun behind the cloud, a golden streeted Heaven just beyond time. It is faithfulness not snccess that merits reward. Profanity is the foolishness of language. Obedience is immediate, willing re sponse. Vulgarity is tho cess-pool of speech— Tionesta Vindicator. Ingrowing Toe Nails. To the Editor of the Scientific American. I havo noticed in several of tho lr.te issues of your valued paper some methods of treatment of ingrowing too nails. As I have had a number of cases to come under my notice in dispensary practice, probably the course of treatment that wo pursued may be of interest to some of your readers. In all cases, aud even in severe forms of ingrowing toe nails, where one would be disposed to think that the only procedure would bo to remove a portion of the offend ing nail, together with the matrix or bed of the nail, we resorted to the simple method of packing the ingrowing portion of the nail with cotton. After tho nail has been well packed, a few drops of the tincture of chloride of iron are allowed to soak into the cotton. Tho iron acts as an astringent, hardening tbe usually very tender and sensitive granulations; it also | deadens pain to a great extent, and by its ! stimulating action causes healthy tissue to form rapidly. The packing is repeated three times weekly; and at the end of one or two weeks the use of the iron may be discontinued.' The nails, however, is to be well packed with cotton until tho in growing portion has grown out and is able to be properly trimmed. In trimming the nails one should be careful to cut them straight across and not to carry the scissors deep down into the corners of tho nail, a* so many are apt to do. I have seen some of the worst cases of ingrowing toe nail cured by following the above plan of treatment. CHARLES B. WILLIAMS, Resident Physician, Pennsylvania Hospital, Phi la. Dangerous to Live. Are we safe nowhere from bacteria, some ore inquire*, not even when we are sealed uj> in a vacuum in a glass case? Xot con tent with showing us that horrid monsters claw und fight in evry drop of water we drink, scientific gentlemen have nojv been microscopically overhauling a hailstone and finding that an infinitesimal speck of tbe ice contains no less than 400 to 700 bacteria. TJ.iey may be thegermsof small pox, scarlet fever, leprosy, naughiine:«s. and crime. Xot even ice will kill them, for they thaw out and wriggle ferociously. Tbe i nventinn of the microscope aevealed wonders to man, but it has made life a burde nto nervous people. Nothing is free fro:n ; nicrobes any more, nothing is pure, oxcept the benevolent motive of one, says the same inquirer, who lends a friend fiv«« dollars when he never expects to get it back i> .gait i. "Whe re ar <• yon going my pretty maidf" "To i oilk old brindle, sir," *he naid. "May I go too, my pretty niaidt" "The, cow n. ight eat you, six," nhe »a d. 3 Came to Sse Bill Hanged. Harris burg Telegraph. Occasionally the Board of Pardon* com mute* the death sentence of a murderer to imprisonment for life. Sometime ago this course was taken in the case of a murderer named William Busch, who killed hi# uncle, Philip Busch. up in the wilds of Elk county. The men were bark-peeler.'".and if you ever saw a bark-peek-is camp in the wilds of Klk comity you can imagine how they lived. The uncle had twice whipped the nephew one day. and the young fellow, suffering very much from the effect* of the second drubbing, had gone up on the loft to lie down. While sleeping he beard the voice of his nncle shouting that he was going to "lick him again," followed by the uncle's appearance up the ladder with lire in his eye. The young man evaded the unole and got down the ladder as soon as ho could. As he jamped to the floor he ran up against a rifle hanging on the wall, and it was the most natural thing in the world for him to grab the rifle and turn and shoot down the old man, who was bent on his injury, killing him instantly. A jury found William guilty of murder in in the first degree and he was sentenced to be hanged. Eminent attorneys like John G. llall were amazed at the verdict, aud the Board of Pardons, convinced that the only element of murder in the case was the killing, and'that it was not premeditat ed, nor was it malicious or revengeful and was purely in self-defense, commuted the death sentence to imprisonment for life. The action of the Board was taken just a few days before the day set for Buscb's hanging, and the news did not spread very quickly through Elk county. On the morning of the day set apart for the hang ing there drove into Kidgway, the county scat of Elk county, a nondescript team that occasioned considerable mirth. A mule and an ox were hitched together in an old hay wagon, and on several rudely constructed seats in the wagon sat the entire Busch family, the murderer's father, mother and other relatives. The equipage came to a halt in front of the liyde House, on the principal street, and the party climbed down. Then the mule and the ox were unhitched and tied to the rear end of the wagon to munch the sidehill hay that was tossed into the box. Forming tho party into procession the elder Busch, father of the murderer, headed them for the jail. A loud rap on the jail door brought the sheriff out. and ho recognized the party instantly. "Good morning, Mr. Busch," said the sheriff. "Mornin','' said the old man. "What is it you wish!" ••We kim down to see the hangin'. What time doe? Bill go oft?" "There will be no hanging." "Whatt Ain't goin'to be no hangin'f" said the old man in surprise; "Well, that's powerful disapintin'." "No," said the sheriff, "the Board of Pardons has commuted Bill's death sent ence to imprisonment for life. He will not be hanged." "Sho! Ye don't say so. Bill goin' ter jail fer life and they ain't goin' to be no hangin'. Well, if that ain't too disapintin' fer anything. Say, Sheriff, when did ye find this ontt" "Several days ago." "And ye never told us. Wo thought Bill was goin' to have a hangin', an" wo druv twenty-nine miles across the moun taius to see i- It's powesful disapintin' Then turning to his party who stood in wide eyed wonder the old man said: "Sheriff sei they ain't goin' to be no hangin', Bill's goin' for life. Ye can all go home. It's powerful disapintin' but ye'll hev to stand it." And the procession filed out of the yard and took their team for home. Not long ago before the Board of Par dons cauie a venerable Irish woman, a neat looking, motherly old lady, who asked for the pardon of her son, in jail for some minor offense. With her daughter, a sweet, shy girl, who stood beside the mother while the latter,with tears streaming down her cheeks, plead for her boy. The mem. bers of the Hoard were visibly affected by the scene. When the mother had finished, the daughter, looking up shyly, said in a voice scarcely above a whisper: "If yez would take a little money to let him free, I have a matter of ten dollars here," and Rhe showed a failed old purse. The members of the Hoard blushed and frowned, ind told the girl that in recommending execu tive clemency money was not a factor. The poor girl did not mean it as a bribe. Evidently she and her mother had been paying out money to lawyers to secure the boy's freedom, without success, and they thought it would more quickly effect their object if tbey paid the Hoard. Medicinal Value of Hops. One of the best hot water applications fur paiu in pneumonia or dysentery is a flannel bag tilled with hops and wrung out with hot vinegar. The wringing process may be avoided by the use of two tin plates. After the bag is ready pour a little vinegar into one plate, set it on the stove and lay the bag in it. Place the other plate on the top to keep in the steam. When the vinegar has all evaporated into the hops add a littla more and turn the bag. In a few minutes the bag will be steaming hot, but not dripping. This keeps it light, a thing alwoy» to be considered when the chest is weakened by pneumonia, and saves the hands of the nurse from the scalding vinegar. —A Poking journal of recent issue in announcing the discovery of a large short age in the weight of grain stored in the Imperial Granary iir that city, and the punishment of the officials in charge, says: "We are informed that this kind of thiev ing has been going on for several years, and it was always well known that the post of CoDJiuissioner to the Granary was a particularly lucrative one." The farmers of this county who think a Sub-Treasury Granary system would bo a groat thing for making prosperity sprout from the stony soil of hardship may judge from the Chinese experience how granaries all the world over attract the thieving, burrowing tits of officialism. —Many aches or relieved at once by spending 25 cents for a bottle of Sal vation Oil. Strengthen your voice and removo coughs, cold and hoarseness, by taking Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents per bottle. - -It is announced from Baltimore that there is "a decay of the oyster industry. This is bad, but it might be worse, fror instance if there were a decay of the oyster. In the meantime, however, thore will be no apprehension on tbo part of the oyster dovotee. Kvry year we hear reports ol an oyster famine, but there are always plenty of ov-iters for all who want them, and the price is about tho same. The church fair stew will still hold its own in the way of an oyster. A thankless task has he who tries To chip and model The world to just the form and siie Of hi* own noddle. AGRICULTURAL. The new bounty law will enable all far mers who make 500 ponnda or mora mapl.t sugar, a bounty of two cents a pound. By baying refined sugar at six oenta and doc toring their maple sugar with it, they will be enabled to make a snug thing in the woods this spring. How to make a cheap horse blanket: Turn four bran sacks inside out and sew them together where the seams are with a darning needle aud twine. This makes a cheap and goodjblanket for the stable. In putting up ice do not pulverized ice to fill in the spaces between the cakes if you oan get snow. It is much easier to fill with snow, ea h layer of ice can be kept l e rel, and when removing the cakes they come out without any trouble. Try this plan and you will never use pulvorued ice to fill the spaces again if you can help it. There is no doubt that high feeding has much to do with the increase of milk fever and other troubles connected with partur ition; but the latter part of spring and summer are usually considered the most dangerous times of the year for a cow to "come in. Early spring before graas or late fall after cool weather is much safer. But a poor cow is fairly safe at any time. It is the heavy milker in high condition that ruus moat risk. Lack of constitution is doubtless a predisposing cause, but no cow that milks heavily should be allowed to feed at will on succulent food just be fore calving, nor should she have any cold water to drink for two days after. Field and Farm. Cows are milked too close to the period of calving. They are thus deprived of the privilege of supplying the embryo calf with that which is required for fall and perfect developmeat. As milk also under goes a partial change as the period for calving arrives it is doubtful 11" that drawn so late and close to the time is of a quality to fit for use. 5o subtam e varies in its composition more than mitt. 1* owls often suffer for water when the weather is freezing, and a dish of warm water supplied them twice a day will not only invigorate and warm tbem, but is also a cheap mode of inducing the hens to lay. Being compelled to drink water as cold as ice the warmth of the bodies is les sened, more food is required, and the hens will have all they can do to keep warm in stead of laying t-gga. Ammonia is the stables is injurious to animals, and especially to the horse. Am monia is quickly generated from liquids in the stalls. To prevent this the stall* should be well littered with absorbent ma, terial and cleaned out daily. Litter once need should not be dried and used againj but consigned to the manure heap. Where no stock is kept, and manure must be mode for a garden, an excellent mode of so doing is to begin with a pile of dirt, upon which alt the waste water and • refuse should be thrown. It should be covered to prevent injury by rain. Each family wastes enongh every season to highly manure a garden plat. PIUS THAT PAT. Air. Connor, of Hopkinton, N. H., thus speaks about his practice: "My practice of late years has been to slaughter two sets of pigs during the year, the March or April pig during December, and the September pig in May. If I am keeping ten cows I arrange the time of calving so as to have about an equal flow ol milk at all seasons of the year. The slack, if any, is in July and August. With that number of cows I will fatten ten pigs within the year, making about 800 pounds of pork. My system of feeding is like this: Tbo month old pig is fed three or four days on new milk, then gradually in the course of another week, changed off on to skimmed milk. For the first two weeks use whole grain, sweet or western corn, then commence the addition of middlings in very alight quan titles. When the pig is three or four months old add a little Indian meal and shorts, but not to any great extent until about six months of age. A pig thus fed up to this time on feed containing largely the bone and muscle elements will have a frame that will stand the strain of heavy feeding duriug the succeeding three or four months. About 100 pounds of meal per pig, with the addition of a dollar or two's worth of middlings and shorts during the growing period, will make a pig weigh from 300 to 350 pounds. The hams and sides, the lord and pork from such a pig find a very ready salo."— Journal of Agri culture. Curing A Balky Horse. Old John Ferris made a snng thing for himself by buying at a low figure from their disgusted owners all the balky horses that he heard of that were otherwise sound, and, when cored, selling them at a handsome ad vance. This was his plan: Be would harness the horse, being careful that ho was well fed, the harness strong and com fortalile, the wagon well greased; in short, that tho horse should haw* no reasonable ground for complaint. Then he laid in supplies ior a siege—a lunch, his news paper and spectacles, his pipe, with a filing of tooacco, and a match, and most impor tant a stout crowbar with • ring in the top, and an axe. When the horse decided he had gono far enough, he tried very gentle measure to pnrsuade it otherwise (he never struck him), but when these all failed, he deliderately drove his crowbar in the ground and hitched the horse to it, then took his ease in a nap, or a newspaper. When hunger and thirat began to assail the horse, and vision of fat oats and cool flowing water troughs crossed bis mental vision, ho usually showed a restless desire to move on, but not so hie owner.—He had got used to the sport and desired to stay longer, but when he thought the proper time had|arrived he pulled up stakes and started off, but at the first sign of re tractiveness in went the crowbar again, Belore the horse bad time to forget this lesson he drove him forth again, with the same preparations. He used to say that bo often had to nse the crowbar on the second drive, on the third one. If tho horso showd signs of "balking" he would strike two stones together, and it would immediately start off as if it was glad of the chance to go. —The pitting of Mmall-pox bu been en tirely prevented by Dr. LewinUner, of Constantinople ( ff ien. Klin, ffoek.) by antUtptie treatment as follow*: The entire head and face, except eyes, and the neck are covered with platter consisting of 3 parts carbolic acid and 5# part* each of olive oil and starch. The body is covered over with a mixture of 3 part* salicylio acid, 30 parts starch, and 70 parta olive oil. The internal treatment consists in (jiving quinine in acid solution. —A prominent New York phyiician con demns the throwing of salt upon icy side walks and streets, lie Bays the increaied number of pneumonia cases la due to the fact that salt causes humidity at a point approaching saturation. The atmospheric conditions producing the maximum amount of pneumonia appear to bo when at a max imum degree of humidity. Salt on the snow also cauaos horses hoofs to soften.