VOL. XXVIII PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOSEPH W. MILLER, M. D. Physician a;:d Surgeon, Offlee tad residence "4 i. Ham St Bntler, r*. Dr. N. M. iiOOVER, 137 K. 1 to 3 F. M. L. M. REINSEL, M. D, I'BYBICIAN AMD BCKOKO.V. Office and residence at 127 E. Cunningham St, L. BLACK, nmiclix AMD 81'KUEON, Mew Trout man Bnllding. Bntler. Ha. X. JJ. LKAKK, M. D. J. K. MANN. M. U. Specialties: Specialties: Gynaecology and Sur- Bye. Bar. Nose and gery. Throat. ORS. LEAKE & MANN, Buller, Pa. G M."ZIMMERMAN. ruraiciAK and rukm. Office >1 No. is. B. Main street, over Prank * I'-o'i UiUk' Store. Butler. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. do. 22 East Jefferson St., Botler, Pa.' W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN AHD SURGEON. 8. W. Corner Main and North Bta.. Butler. la. V. McALPINE, Dentist, la now permanently located at ISO South Main Street' Butler. Pa.. In rooms formerly ;ccoupled by Dr. Waldron. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth Inserted tn the latest Un proved plan- Oold Filling a specialty. Offlee— over Sruaul's Clothing Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession; execut- and PalnleasEx tractlon of Teeth. Vital tied Air administered. O Me* w Jibma Htrwt.oM d*or bit afLawry vac* e> B .« U( 1, Btain. Offlee open dally, except Wednesdays an J Thursdays. Communications by mall receive prompt attention. I. B.—The only Dentist In Butler o*lng the beat makes of teeth. c. F. L. MCQUISTION, SKGIKEEB AMD SURVEYOR, Oyrics kiai Dia*ojh>, Bunaa. Pa. H. Q. WALKER, Attorney-at-Lsw-Offlce tn Diamond Block Butler. I'h. J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-at-Law. omct—Betweerfl'ostofllce and Diamond, But ler. Pa. A. T. SCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office at No. 8. South Diamond, Butler. Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATIORNEY AT LAW. Office second floor. Andereon B1 k. Msln St., near Court House, Butler, Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on second floor of the lluselton block. Diamond, BuUer. Pa. Room No. 1. JAMES N. MOORE, Attobkst-at-Law abb Not act Pcblic. Offlee la Room No. 1. second Door of lluselton Block, entrance on Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law, Office at No. IT, Kast Jeffer son St . Butler. Pa.; W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at U» mid Keal Estate Agent. Of flee rear of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Offlee on second floor of Anderson building, near Court Uouse. Butler. J. >. BRITTAIN. Atfy at Law—Offloe at 8. B. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler. Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'jr at^aw— South side of Diamoud L. 8. McJUNKIN, liranißee i»d Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERBON|BT. BUTLER, - PA. i nLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham fits. G. 0. ROEBBINO, PRESIDENT. 11. C. IIKINEMAN, SKCBKTAKT. DIRECTORS: 0.0. Knesslnc, Henderson Oliver, J. L Purvis, .lames Stephenson, A. Trout man, H. C. Helnemao, Alfred Wick. N. Weltzel. Dr. W. Irvtn, Dr. Blckenbacb. J. W. Burkhart. ID. T. Norris. LOYAL S. M'JUNEIN, Agent. STJTPA. A. E. GABLE, "V eterinary Surgeon. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Toronto, Canada, Dr. Gable treat* all diseases of the domesticated animals, and makes ridftliog, castration and horse den tistry a specialty. Castration per formed without clams, and all otber surgical operations performed in the most scientific manner. Calla to any part of the country promptly responded to. Office and InGrmary in Crawford's hirer j, 133 West Jefferson Street, Batter, Pa. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. w-H- O - ? WHO has the Polka Dots in wide and fine goods? WHO sells them at 12 1-2 cents when they are ffoino* like hot cakes in the %J o ZD citv at 15 cents? j WHO has the only lull line of them in Butler? RITTER & RALSTON And they are the scarcest and most •/ desirable goods in the market to-day. O J SOMETHING ABOUT DRY GOODS CARPETS. DO YOU NEED—Are yon goiug to buy a new dress this spring? DO YOU WANT a new Jacket in all the new colors and styles? DO YOU WANT anything in the Notion line? DO YOU NEED—Are you going to buy any carpet this spring? DO YOU WANT Fresh, Clean Goods, the latest and choicest styles? DO YOU WANT any kind of Brussels, Velvets, Mcquett, in tfce choicest designs, made up with beautiful match borders in first class style? DO YOU WANT an Ingraiu. .'5 ply, or Cotton Carpet of any kind? DO YOU WANT any Lace Curtains, Portieres, Curtain Poles or Win dow Shades? AND ABOVE ALL,, Do you want to pay less than you have been paying elsewhere for inferior goods? Then Come and See Us, We Can Save You Money, TROUTMAN'S Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House. BUTLER, - - - PA. HENRY BIEHL, 122 NORTH MAIN STRKKT, BUTLER - DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing Goods. o . Washing Machines; the Standard Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine, 2000 tile No. 7 American.sewing machine. J also Singer and Empress; agricultural implements and Lansing farm wagons; New Sunshine & How.ird ranges, m c|k) M Stoves, table and pocket J ■ cutlery, hanging lamps; K manulacturer of tinware, tin jm roofing and spouting a spec- HLm&gsz ialty; the Johnston mowers, reaper and steel frame binder, Warren ready mixed paint, warren ted; screen doors and windows, refrigerators and lawn mowers. No better place in the city to trade. Come and see my large store room full of goods, 13Gi feet long, WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN , RINGS, Diamonds (EAR-RINGS, J_7ldlllUllUh 1 SCARF PINS, 1 STUDS, c GENTS GOLD, o pti J LADIES GOLD, t? 1 GENTS SILVER W, A DIES CH A TLA IN, TpwV=»lrAr i Gold Pins > F «r-rings, ( Rings, Chains, Bracelets, Etc. {Tea sets, castors, butter dishes and everything that can be found in a first class store, RODGER BROS. 1847 I £$TH.^ E. GRIEB, THE JEWELER No. 19, North Main St., BUTLER, PA, All Kinds of Job Work done at the "Citizen" Office. TWO IUCYOLES. Thoy Piay an Important Part in a Love Affair. LD HUNDRED S VJy'' real name was P. _J.V W/ u , , fit VI T- Simmons. tk ", Just R T |"J^ / J always insisted. / wßf thing'. Father and ( I mother ran out I °' namcs when V and gave me ini ■" village wag dubbed hiin Old Hundred, for short, and the name adhered. For Old Hundred was one of those dried-up little men who might be con sidered twenty if some inconvenient old ladies did not remember holding them in their arms just forty years ago. He wore a dainty juvenile mustache, walked with a smart swing, although one might notice that his heels came down rather stiffly, and played games among the most frivolous at the church socials. He was a tailor, an excellent one, by the way, and his apprentices had by this time ceased to griu and chuckle when their master sprang down from his cross-legged position on the table every morning precisely at ten, as 11. C. passed on her way to the post office, after the mail. He would jump down, snatch up his hat in an absent-minded, blushing way, and remark that tho mail must be distributed by this time. If the apprentices had ceased to smile at this sort of thing, you may be sure that it had become an old story. Indeed, Old Hundred had been court ing IJ. C. for a long, long time. And that was too bad, beciuse B. C. de served a better fate, a more vigorous lover. No one could tell when Susy Bennett was first called B. C. If one could have told that, you see, it would have given some clew to her age. Susy was a dear old girl, however, with kind, laughing eyes and a shrewd little brain of her own. It wasn't her fault if she was getting up startlingly near a very rheumatic forty without netting Old Hundred For when a man has gone through forty years with a sneaking desire for matrimony titillating his heart all tho while without the grit and manliness to say so when given au opportunity by the proper person once, twice dally —Cupid despairs of him more than of the most rabid mysogynist in bachelor dom. There is t-uch a thing, you know, as a heart which is too soft for those dainty little darts, which merely nurses them as a feather pillow would. Well, that's Old Hundred and B. C.; how came in the Bicycle? In this way: The ancient twain were strolling back from the post office at 10:30 a. m. with the incipient courtship air which had been petrified so lemg ago. She was smiling at him bravely and hopefully and talking bright nothings, while his feather pillow of a heart fluttered drowsily. Suddenly there flashed around the corner and bore straight down, upon them Will Davis and Lucy, his young wi'e, on their safeties, off for a day's holiday together, if one might judge from their bundles. I'pright they were, noiseless, swift, graceful and full of life in every movement and in every fluttering garment, glittering eyed with handsome, healthful faces. Old Hundred and 11. C. turned 'to gaze admiringly after them. "How finely Mrs. Davis rides'" mur mured Old Hundred. "And how exceedingly graceful Mr. Davis is!" r« .pond ad B. C. rather sharply. "I've often thought I should like a wheel," said Old Hundred, with, of | KVKIIY iII'SCLK WAS TAXED TO HOLD Till: WHKKL t'I'UIOIIT. course, no i>crccpth®i of her annoy ance. "And I should enjoy one very much," added B. C. "You!" Old Hundred blurted out, be fore he thought Ho took mental cred it to himself for not finishing the sen tence! "You can get tricycles nowadays for almost nothing," said 11. slyly, "and of courss that's the only wheel you would think of at your time of life, Mr. Simmons!" "Hum!" said Old Hundred, and "Hum!" said B. C. Now don't expect to be treated to a lover's quarrel. Our sedate couple had got far beyond that dangerous stage of courtship Yet as they parted some what grimly, "I'll show him!" mut tered B. C.. and "I'll show her!" mut tered Old Hundred. And that very aft ernoon the In-art of the village bicycle agent was made glad by an order for a lady's safety, and an order for a safety for our doughty tailor. That was on a Monday, and our nar rative calmly skips a month at this point—calmly and mercifully. From timo Immemorial it had been Old Hundred's habit to call on B. C. on Sunday evenings. At the beginning 1 of his courtship, the hand of the feather hearted tailor had quivered suspiciously in the operation of shaving for this im portant occasion. In the adjustment of his necktie his clumsiness had bgen phenomenal—for a tailor. llis steps up to the board walk which led to 11. C.'s front door had been noticeably un ■toady. I!. C. had coyly sent the ser vant to usher him in. and had often, with an affectation of careless indiffer ence, received him without rising from her chair. All that had long been changed, but this particular nlifht seemed to repeat the experiences of old Old Hundred's toilet was accomplished with blunder ing- slowness. And why does the odor of liniments follow the fiery lover from his room? And why docs he groan as he bends to reach the gate latch? And what has become of his brisk, swing ing gait up the board walk? And why does not 11. C. receive him, smiling, at the door? Why does she remain in that thick-padded arm-chair and stretch her hand out to him so slowly? And what is the use of using cologne where arnica has been? "Miss Bennett," said Old Hundred, after a few wandering remarks —(he al ways Miss-ed her) —"didn't I notice a bicycle standing in the hallway?" "Why, Mr. Simmons! Didn't you know that I could ride?" asked 11. C., with a radiant smile. "Is it possibl •! Why, we must have a ride together!" cried the astonished tailor. "Together, Mr Simmons! Can you ride, too?" inquired It. C., with real amazement. "Of eoiuvio I ean'. That is—um-er— in fact, I'm learning. And I'm getting BUTLER, PA., FRIDAY, A I 'GUST 7. 1 803. oa well, excenenuj nva. mi opunr tire savs, for a man of my—«r —l should say, excellently well- Hut ho .v did yon learn so soon?" Old Hundred asked, ad miringly. "Well, I can't say that I am through with my apprenticeship yet," confessed I?. C., with a charminff olil blush; "but Air. Spoketire says he hardly has to hold the machine at all. and lie thinks I'm doing 1 better than most jfirls do who are many years youn that is, that I'm doing very welL I need to l>e helped into the saddle." "So do I," admitted tho tailor, hon estly. "15ut onco in, 1 have absolutely no trouble, provided the road is smooth and level and Mr. Spoketire just keeps his hands on the machine to kind of steady me, you know." "I still find it a rather difficult task to dismount—without letting the wheel fall, that is. Miss Itennett." "Why, do you? The last time Mr. Spoketire helped me out he said I was as graceful as a young girl. Mr. Spoke tire is so nice." "Miss Bennett, we must go out to gether next week, and as soon as possi ble! Or rather about Saturday, eh? We'll both be in better trim by then, you know." "Without Mr. Spoketire. Mr. Sim mons?" "Of course. What do we want with that contemptible little dandy?" B. C. smiled happily at the tailor's manifest jealousy, yet smiled rather uneasily and fearfully. However, she agreed, with many a misgiving, and the next Saturday afternoon was fixed for the adventure. Many a time during the following week Old Hundred and B. C. regretted their precipitancy. But B. C. was clear grit, if she was approaching that awful fortieth birthday, and the little tailor had been roused by the Spoketire hints to somewhat of the ardor a lorer should have. A careful observer might have noticed that the daily walks from tho post office were far more deliberate and loverlike than usual but only Spoketire and the arnica bottle guessing the true cause. Oh, how they both wished that their machines would break before the fateful afternoon! But they were none of your cast iron "best-ln-the-worlds," and Spoketire was only too zealous in his watchfulness, so that the bicycles really received less damage than their awkward riders. Saturday dawned perversely fair, with roads outrageously perfect, and the afternoon saw our hero and heroine trundling their wheels through the village out to the Middleton road. "We'll not ride; through town," each eagerly agreed, "because people might laugh," which was very true. The Middleton road was an excellent stretch for the purpose, in prime con dition. and little frequented. Old Hundred and B. C. walked out of sight of the village, chatting gayly, avoiding all mention of the wheeL At length it became impossible to deny that the right spot had been reached, and with set faces they placed their bicycles in position. "You must help me on, you know," said B. C. with a rather pale face, but brave withal; "Mr. Spoketire thinks it is still necessary!" "Oh, yes! Why to be sure 1" stut tered the little tailor, looking awk wardly around for something to lean his bicycle against, and at last laying it down clumsily in the middle of the road. IS. C. sprang into the saddle with an elephantine feint of girlish spright liness, and the poor tailor's weak muscles were unable to prevent a most portentous swaying of the wheel. "Mercy on us!" shrieked B. C., "Don't let me take a header before I start! and oh, Mr. Simmons, I shall l>e so grateful, if you will only hold on to the machine for a few steps, just until I get started!" "Certainly," grunted Old Hundred, whose every muscle was taxed to hold the wheel upright. B. C. started, the perspiring tailor trotting after, t*>th hands clutching the saddle spring contributing so ma terially in his awkwardness to the diffi culty of the steering that the agonized maid in front soon cried back to him: "That will do. Thanks. Now mount and catch up!" and away sailed B. C, staggering all over the road Old Hundred trotted back to his wheel, picked it up and glanced de spairingly after Uie retreating safety, llow could he ever catch up? But that query was merged in a gTeater one. Could he ever mount? He made three attempts, each failure being hidden in a thicker cloud of utLst, and inscribed in a deeper rent somo where. l!ut what were clothes to a tailor? There was Miss Bennett's un steaont l!>« Labor Performed by u Stoker. A Scottish contemporary thus de scribes the firing service on board an ocean greyhound: On the City "of Paris there are sixty firemen, who feed the fiery maws of fifty-four furnaces, that create steam in nine 1 .oilers. Fifty coal passers shovel the fuel from the bunk ers to the furnace door, and the firemen toss it in. There is something more than mere shoveling in firing. Tho stoker must know how to put the coals on so they will not burn too quickly nor deaden the fire. He must know how to stir or poke the fire so as to get all, or nearly all, the heat out of the coal. Service in the fire room is divided into six watches of four hours each. The fireman works and sleeps alternate four hours. After the first day from port two out of every six furnaces are raked out to the bare bars daring the first hour of each watch. Thus, in a voyage, all the furnaces are cleaned once in twenty four hours. The steam goes down a bit In the hour while the cleaning is going on. The stokers shovel into the fur naces fifteen tons of coal every hour, or three hundred tons a day. The uhip usually takes in two thousand tons at Liverpool or New York, and has be tween five hundred and eight hundred tons left when she arrives at the other side. The engineers' department is en tirely distinct and separate from the firemen's. In the City of Paris there are twenty-six engineers, including hydraulic and electrical. They are edu cated in engine shops on shore, and a certain number of them go on ships every year. They arc all machinists, so whenever the machinery breaks down they know how to repair the damage. In case the chief engineer should be dis abled any assistant could take his place. DOGS ON MONEY. The Canines of Different Nation* Shown on Their Coins. There is an important group of alH.ut forty coins containing outlines of dogs, which deserve careful study. The in terest of some of them, says Chambers' Journal, is mainly mythical, as with Ltelaps, the hound of Actajon, presented to Cephalos by lYocris; or with the dog of Segcste. which symbolized the river Crimisus. But there are enough to show how extensive were the operations of the dog fancier in early times. The coins afford no evidence of the develop ment of a spaniel, there being no ex ample of a pendulous ear, or of a mas tiff, though bulldogs were undoubtedly known in the arenas of imperial Home. But they prove conclusively—what Is shown, indeed, by the less artistic products of Egyptian pictography—that the ancients had four kinds of dogs—the wolf dog, the hound, the grayhound i«id the terrier. The Umbrians had their wolf hounds, the Apulians, of Asculum, their grayhounds, tho more rugged hunters of the Tuscan forests their fox dogs. The favorite dog of Artemis Laphria, as on coins of Patrio ami Sparta, was a grayhound, while Act (Bon's dogs must have been half-breed deerhounds. Khcgium, if the coins may be trusted, had" his sheep dogs; the Macedonian city of Mcnde its terriers, and Cumen, just above the bay of Naples, to which all the luxuries of the ancient world were brought, its poodles. Further pursuit of this line of inquiry would probably throw some useful light upon the direction of canine do mestication. Returned in Installments. "What are you crying about?" asked i kind-hearted stranger of a lad who ivas standing in front of a newspaper >ffice, weeping as if his heart would break. "Oh. dad's gone upstairs to lick the •ditor." "Well, has he come down yet?" pur sued the gentle Samaritan. "Pieces of him have," exclaimed the boy, indulging in a fresh burst of tears, "and I'm expecting the rest every min ute."—Peterson's Weekly. A Frightful I'rcdicauinit. Mrs. Grayneck—Why, Johnny, what in the world are you striking Willie for like that? Johnny—Well, I should think 1 had £Ood cause. Mrs. Grayneck—What do you mean? Johnny—Well, I let him use my l>ean shooter all last Sunday afternoon if he'd say my prayers for inc for a week, and I've just found out that lie'sskipped three days.—Jury. , THE MUSTACHE DROPPED. Funny Eipcrimo' of a Clergyman at > Colored Couple'* Wedding. That poverty is no bar to the mar riat,d relation is evidenced by tho num ber of impecunious persons who s*em desirous of sharing each other's misery. Among colored people especially, it seems to Vie bold ttiat two can fight the wolf better than one, even when they do not possess a dollar or the security even of steady employment. All they have is spent in preparation for the nuptials. Sometimes it happens that they have not enough remaining to fee the minister. When Rev. Charles Cole man, now a popular Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, was pastor at East New York, L. 1., a young colored man called on him one wet and dismal day, and standing upon his doorstep while the rain dripped from his clothing and ran in tiny rivulets down the seams made by smiles and grins in his other wise smooth and ebony face, told him he wanted to be married. Hut "de . young lady" was not feeling verv well % |_l| UIS MUSTACHE FELL TO THE FLOOIL and did not wish to risk her delicate health by going out in such a storm. i Could Mr Coleman oblige by calling at ' a designated hour that afternoon? At the appointed time the clergyman pre sented himself at the one-story frame ' shant) to which he had lie 1 n directed. | It appeared to contain only two rooms. The first one—a combination of parlor | and kitchen—was filled by a dusky group of men and maidens, who, from a ' perfect Battel, lapsed into the dumb ness of curiosity when the minister en tered—the silent-,- b.-ing broken only by tin- 00-astonal explosive giggle of some young miss, fol lowed by the sudden sympathetic titter of the assembly Meanwhile all eyes were steadily fixed on the clergy man, who was thus compelled to endure cert, in of the sen sations of the pillory while the bride's belated preparations were ; going forward After considerable de i lay the door of loom number two opened, and in Haining red dress, wear ing enormous plated ear-pendants, the dusky Diana made her appearance on the arm of the bridegroom, whose time had evidently been most lately occupied in drying out his wardrobe and adjust ing brilliant scarf to a very large shirt collar As they took their places In the center of the room the company snickered immoderately, the bride huug her head, and the bridegroom carefully stroked his mustache with his forefinger and thumb. The service was impressively conducted, as was the clergyman's wont, until he came to that portion of it wherein he asked: "Do you solemuly promise, etc., to take this woman to be your law fully wedded wife?" "Ya-yas!" said the bridegroom. But as lie uttered the word, alack, his .mus tache became detached from his lip and fell on the floor at his feet! The guests burst into roars of laughter. The men held their sides and squirmed in contor tions of risibility, and the girls choked themselves with aprons and pocket handkerchiefs. Stooping, hastily, the bridegroom picked up the mustache and put it in his vest pocket, and the sur prised (not to say perplexed) clergy man, with the best grace he could com mand, went on with the ceremony. At its conclusion the bri .egroom took him aside and explained that tho bride had insisted on his wearing a mustache to overcome his youthful appearance. "But de paste wall mean; 'twouldn't stick," he added, ruefully. Continuing, in a pathetic undertone, he said: "I'se very much 'bliged fo' yo* a murryin' me, dominie; but I'se sorry I'se got no money. Hows'ever ef yo' want a job o' kalsominin' yo' sen' fo' me. I'se a boss hand on de kalsomine." Wheels Within Wheel*. Meftinnis Your overcoat is awful dirty Gilhooly—Yes, I dropped it into tho mud last night when I was coming home from the lodge "Ilow did you happen to let go of it?" "I didn't let go of it. I was inside of | it when it fell in the mud."—Texas Siftings. A Cane In I'olnt. Clara—lt's possible to dress very nicely without spending much, if one only has a little taste. Laura —I suppose you speak from your own experience, for I know you don't spend very much, and I'm sure you only have a ver3* little taste.-—Mun sey's Weekly. Conlldent-eft of Dear l-'rlend*. Irene (in a whisper)— Sec that hand some young man across the aisle, Laura? I can bring Viim to my feet any day I want to. Laura —Indeed, dear! lie doesn't look the least bit in the world like a chirop odist!— Chicago Tribune. Ala*! She—You lack energy and push. Kvery man is the architect of his own fortune. He —Yes, but the girl's father is tho contractor. — Life. Would Not Mult. Horse Dealer —Here's the liorso for you if you want to drive a bargain. Customer— But I don't want to drive. I want one to ride.—Munscy's Weekly. Hard Linen. Miss Alabaster Wooltop—Wat's you gwine to wear to de Coonvillc ball? Miss Lily Snowllake —I dunnoyet, an' dat's w'at makes me so anxious. Miss Alabaster Wooltop—Why, ain't you dun got yo' shrimp pink? Miss Lily Snowllake (contemptuously) —Dat I has; but my mistress she done got one de same color.—Judge. MeMMnge* for Two. Call Boy (snap theatrical company) Twenty-seven men at the stage door with hills and three reporters want to know if it's true the company is in financial straits. Manager -Tell the bill collectors that I haven't a cent. Tell the reporters that the rumor that we are short of cash is the work of envious rivals.—Goe kept so cold as to favor bitter development, nor get so hot as to in jure the texture of the cream, to intro duce the right kind of bacteria obtained from pure, clean, skimmiik kept free from noxious surroundings, and mix it thoroughly and uniformly with the cream that it may multiply equally in all portions—that is, "ripen" the cream uniformly, as every drop of properly ripened cream contains several hundred thousand separate bacteria which double every hour or oftener. It ii easy to understand why particular care is necessary to secure the ripht kind and ripht stage of ripening, for if not stopped at the proper time other bao- Utr.a cause decomposition. BASKET NAILING BENCH. A Or Tire Which Ila* More Than Satisfied It* Inventor. I find a bench, such as shown in ac companying' sketch, quite convenient for nailing berry boxes. Upon a standard i, which is a piece of scant ling two and one-half feet long, another piece nine inches long b is mortised and bolted. An iron plate e, one-quarter inch thick, screwed upon 6, serves a good purpose in clinching nails. The seat d is two and three qwarter feet long, and made of trwo- BASKET NAILI.VO BKNCU. inch plank. a foot wide. This is mor tised anil bolted to <«, and lias two legs at the back end, which are eighteen and one-half inches long. The holes through which they are inserted into the plank seat from below should be bored nearly but not quite through. Upon the plunk scat, next to the stand ard, is a little tin box, made of an old oyster can. for receiving nails. I am well pleased with this device.— Popular Gardening. How HUck Hot Starts I ilack rot in the jrrapo Is not so severe a pest in the north as in the south. The winter spores arc contained in little pustules in the dried and shriveled re nains of the infected berries. The I terries drop to the ground, where the aibcrnating spores rest until spring and ire then loosened froin the grape tissue tnd blown upon the now green foliage. Here they produce small oval brown spots, not more than one-fourth Inch in lianieter, where the pustules are formed, which exude in jelly-like masses, myriads of little round spores which arc washed down upon the young jrape cluster where they grow and send •heir threads into the pulp of the berry, ;ausing it to turn brown, then black, ind later to become covered with pus tules like those upon the leaves, which atcr form winter spores and arc ready the following spring to begin again the •ycle of life.—D. G. Fairehild, in Furin ind Home. STKAW-PII.K shelter as usually prac ticed is an al»omination and a source of iisease and - hould always be avoided The Value of*CitUen«lilp. Cassidy (to his brother Tim. Just landed)— That's the coorthouse. We'll dhrop in and yez can take out yure first citizen's paper. Tim—An' is there annything to pay? Cassidy—A thriflc al>out twinty cints: but sure, 'tis a good invistmiut. In foive years it'll pay two dollars an nu'lly at iv'ry eliction. —Puck. A Sure Krinrdy. A—So you have sworn off from using tobacco? It—Yes; 1 suffered a good deal during the llrst week, but after that I felt all right. "What did you take t<> allay the crav ing for tobacco?" '•I took to smoking again. That al layed the craving right off."—Texas Sifting*. , Very Suaplrloai. Magistrate—Why did you arrest this man? Office* —On suspicion. I thluk he's a .Philadelphia boodler. Magistrate— Do you know him? Officer No, v'r honor; but he *aid ho was from Philadelphia, and he seemed to IK- in a hurry.—X. Y. Weekly. <>eritlem«*n <>f I.eUure. Kind Lady—What a nice little girl you arc! Is your father in business in this city? Little Girl Business! My papa doesn't have to bother about business. "Ah! Gentleman of leisure, then?" "Ycb'm; he's a detective." Good HORSES THAT SELL. Tilublf Sa;c''>lDi» for fiuwn Ko- K*l[ed In ilunt Bt«'nv." pood horses than for others. For instance, if one has a good-fcteed. Nic '-l xiking, sound and safe gentleman's d:- v-r that can trot in three or thr - ■ a i 1 a half minutes, it is not a liar.l 1:1 :tter to find a place for him at the • generally asked for that kind, say (to 5350. Or if one has a trotter that can go three times in S:SO and is a :;iro of race horses. It is not a hard matter to find a customer for him or her at a good, stiff price, say SI,OJ >t" • :.<)>), according to age, size, iobti hi-.-ss. etc. lint when one' has a lior.e fiat can trot about 2:40, and no la t ;r, and is valued at from SivW 11 >7jo, it is often quite a hard matter to find a place for him at whatever tie ought to bring, be he ever so pood a horse individually. When a man buys a horse for speed he wants extreme speed, and nothing slower than 2:30 will do A 2:40 horse _ is but little bettor than a three-minute horse for the road. When a horse is I fit and ready for the market and the ; owner is ready to sell, then let him ! sell for what some pood customer will I give and then try apain on another j one. And if the animal acts particu i larly well and there is quite a stir about him, and you are offered all you ask. don't pet scared and go up so high that no one will buy, but take the oiler if it is a fair one. If you don't, ten chances to one the horse gets out of fix in some way before you hare an other offer, and no one will buy at any price. I'nlesa a horse is something ex traordinary in some respects it is no use to put a fancy price on him and ex pect to sell for cash.— A. T. Maxim, in Horse and Stable. TRIANGULAR IN FORM. A Poultry House of I'nlqae Dwlp Suita ble for Fifteen Fowl*. The following communication, which, \ with the illustration, is from the Poul try World, explains the construction of an original poultry houso: "The north side is to stand up straight, the other sides, fitting back edges to it and front edges to each other, come together at I the top. The three corners can be neatly titt.-d and covered with a board TKIANOL'LAR POULTRY HOUSE. to make it tight We suppose the building to be twelve feet at bottom on all three sides, narrowing at the top, which is twelve feet high. A loft can .be put in, if desired. The glass in this shape of building and position gives 1 full force of heat all day in winter, and it is the best and cheapest house I could build. It will accommodate twelve to eighteen fowls—enough to put together." PIG-PEN POINTERB. THE tendency of the market is, for good bacon hops rather than for heavy lard hops as has been the rule. THE very best cure for hog cholera is not to have it. which implies taking all reasonable means to prevent it Do NOT depend upon corn alone either in feeding for growth or fattening. A variety will be more economical— IF the pigs must be confined care should be taken to see that they are supplied with a pood variety of feed. A STRAW stack -is a very poor place to allow hops to lay around; it is al most certain to breed disease if it is al lowed. IT is quite tin item in feeding pigs tp keep the trouphs clean and only to feed sweet foods, this will aid to prevent scours. OLD sows, stockers and pigs should never be fed together. Some era oer tain to pet more and others less than their full share. OATS and clover sown together make one of the very best feeds for growing pigs or fattening hops during the latter part of spring or early summer. No DIFFERENCE if a hog will eat *l - everything placed before him, he should not have everything that his cor rupted appetite craves. Clean food will make clean jß>rk. and only cl<*n food is healthy and will make perfectly healthy meat.— Colman's Rural World. IMPROVED HAY RACK. Id fw Will Prevent the PaoKinff of Hay In Manger*. To prevent the packing of hay in mangers, Mr. F. U. Lindsay has de- B signed a new ***** form of racks. ff r of which h e tj sends us the ac /FIG-3- .companying B ' sketches: By B packing the hay II down into the wedge-shaped rack. Fig. 1. il become# wedged tighter and tighter until by use and continued putting in of fresh hay the horses wil turn from the refuse left by careless feeding: while, on the other hand, in the plan shown In Fig. 2, there is an inverted wedge, the slope not being sufficient to take up very much room iu the stall. A slope of six inches from top to bottom will allow all the bay to slip down as the horse takes it out from the lower part, and no matter how tight it is stuffed at first, as it is eaten out below the hay above will slip of its own weight down to the bottom. The rack is open at the lower end, the hay being kept in by the slats the same tis at the sides so that the racks become almost self cleaning- Tlicy are one and one-half feet wide at the top. and can be made as long as de sired—American Agriculturist. No Fun for Bobby. Mamma—Bobby, don't you want to po over and play with the little Brew ster boy? I lobby—No; 1 don't- Mainma— Why. Bobby, he's a nice boy. Hobby—Yes; he's too nice. Every time I hit him he yells.—Judge. Iljr the Had Sea Wave*. "Ah, Jim, we poor folks has our trials!" "Yes, I'se had a good many; but it ain't the trials what annoys me, it's the verdicts they brinps In arterwards. Life. An End of Kervltado. Mrs. Bloomer—Did you ever! Miss De Talent, the wonderful actress, has mar ried her manager. Mr. Bloomer—l presume she got tired of being managed.—N. Y. Weekly. Love'i I«ofte> She —Papa, may 1 marry Jack? I could go further and fare worse. He—You couldn't fare worse. She—Then what's the use of mjr poing further? —Judge. Accounted For. "My health is petting shaky," said the popular old pcntlcinan. "That's because it has been drunk BO much." returned his crony. —Puck. No Danffr. Guest (in an agitated whisper)— There are thirteen of us at this table! Poor Ilclution —Na Only twelve I don't count. — Chicago Tribune.