VOL. XXVIII PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOSEPH W. MILLER, M. D. Physician arid Surgeon, outre and residence at -tw •>. Main Bf. Butler, P;.. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, 13? E. Wayne,St., offl.e hours. >0 to 12 M. and I IO 3 r. M. L. M. REINSEL, M. D, PHYSICIAN AMU SCBQEON. Office :iod residence at 12T E. CUIIDIDKU.HU at. L BLACK, rilY.-UCJAN AND SUBCKOS, New Trouttnan IJullding, Butler, ha. K. N. LEAKE, M. 1). J- E. .MANN. M. O. Sii-.lj.lUOt Specialties: (lyiisc-'-i V.v and »ur- K>'«. am ' DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. U % ZIMMERMAN. PUTiICIAN AND SPKGEON, "Oitite a NO. 15. S. Main street, over Frank t Co'* In ut* Store. Butter. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. * hysician and Surgeon. iN». ia JeflciKiu Su, Ui tier. Pa. W. R. TITZEL. r t i YSICIAIS ANO hURG KOM. 8. W.corner Sli.lL aL« Neitli SIS.. Butler. Pa. V. McALPINE, Dentist, Ik iiow pcnuatently located ut lvo South .Mala Street Butler. I'a., In rooms toiniwly occupied by Dr. ffoldron. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. AMiliciitl Teeth Inset ted in tlie latest Im i4o\ed plat). t.old Killing a specialty, omce over h> Minis nothing Store. DK. s. A. JOHNSTON. 1/ENTtST, - - BUTLER, PA. Alt work pertaining to Mie profession execut eu ill lUe neatest, niauner. Pnini~.it, specialties Cold i Mints. and 1 alnlesskJt U.'ctlou ot Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. ItClm on Jrltemu Street, onit door tut of Lowrj House, Up Stair*. Ollu-e open daily, except Wednesdays anJ Communications by mail receive prouipt *< ttciition, S. B.—The only Dentist In Butler using the ke»t makes uf teeth. C. F - L. McQUISTION, KMiI.\KKU AND SURVEYOR, (■FFtCB NEAR DliJir.Nl>, UtTLKK, Pi. A. B. C. McFARLAND. Att'v ut I.uw and Notary Public—office cn 8. DifcDioud st --opposite the louit House—sec ond Uoor. H. Q. WALKER, A tuirney-at-I.nw —Offlce in Diamond Block. Butler. I'.i. J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-at-Law. Ollirfr —Between restofllce and Diamond, But ler, Pa. A. T. SCOTT, .VTTOJtN KY-AT-I.AW. tifuc ;ii No. s. south Diamond. Ilutler. Pa. i ' • A. M. CHRISTLEY, atiobnky at law. oniee secor.d tloor, Anderson B1 k. Main St., Bciir rcuit Hcuee, Butler, I'a. J. W HUTCHISON, attobnky at law. office cat second uoor of the Hueelton block. I leir.onti. Butler. I'a.. Koom No. 1. JAMES N. MOORE, ATTOKNET-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. oiiirr 111 Boom No. 1, second Door of lluselton Hlrx-k. entrance on Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. OOlce at No. IT, East .lelter soi! St.. Butler. Pa.. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at l.aw and Heal Estate Agent. Of flee r.-:ir of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second Uoor of Anderson building, near Court House, Butler, Pa. J. K. BHITTAIN. Atl'J' at l.aw—Office at 8. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler. Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law-Offlce.on South side of Diamond Butler. Pa. L tS. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 KAST JEFFKBSONJST. BUTLER, PA. .{ In i 3 I mrjm Fire insurance C&. 3T/C.tr. tfsin A; Uonninirhwn s!ts. }. C. K.OESSING, PBSSIDJCNT. 1- « HKINKMAN, SKCUXT*RT. DIRECTORS: (!.(". iNx-ristus!, Ilondenon Oliver, J. I, I nrvls, .lames Stephenson, A. Trout man, H. c. Heiuemau, Alfred Wick. N. Weitxel, Dr. W. Irvln. !>r. R!r-kenbaub, J. W. Hurkhart. D. T. Morris. LOYAL S. M'JUNKIN, Agent. 1 E.,T?!"R., PA. A. E. GABLE, V oterinary Surgeon. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Gable treats all diseases of the domesticated animals, «ud ridgliog, castration and horse" den tistry a specialty. Castration per formed without clams, nnd all otber surgical operations performed in the most scientific manner. Calls to any part of the country promptly responded to. Office and Infirmary in Crawford's Livery, 132 West Jefferson Street, Batler, P». THE BUTLER All Styles, Oxfords, All Grades, Patent Leathers, All Materials, Tennis, All Prices, g igvvanis, Now is Your Time to Buy. Bio* Bargains in Seasonable Goods. C> Having just returned home from the Eustcni markets' where 1 purchua ed a large full stock. I am now prepared to offer *otue gritnd bargains iu Seasonable goods— opera toe slippers, oxford tie.-*, lawn tennis shoes, wig wams aod tiiD color goods One hundred pairs men's patent leather fhoes, coDgrees or lace at $2.25 per pair, wigwams at 50 c., cloth slippers at 25 c., and manv other bargains in the same line of goods. We have just received a fine line of ladies band welt shoes butt >:i and lace, with and witboat patent tips, which »>■ are a great man* pairs of It is the very latest style shoe and uianv pairs will be worn' this > ear They range in price from $2 00 to $5 00. I "all aod select yourself a p-iir be fore valuable sizes ute taken We have ulso a few dozens pairn of t!n- $1.75 lace shoe still ou hands, sizes 3to 5-J-. Infant* doogola shoes ones '<• lives at 25c Infants chamois moccasin aat 25 c per pair. A full stock of ladies and gents every day shin;*, oil grain, kip, r.alf and satin oil. tt a £tnull margin. Men's line calf, kangaroo nnd dongola s'toes at $2.50 (special line) Men's hand sewed shoes any -tyle-i or tuaierial dy.-ired at $3.50. A big assortmtnt of mens "A"' coll ui.d bufi goods, lace uud c ri greSH, plain toe or tipou too at $1.25 to $1 75 Boy's shoes fine, calf and kangaroo, cut at $1 75, medutn cut $1.25 to $1 50 The stock of Misses and children's shoes was never so full and complete as it ia at present, offeriug many inducements to buy, and styles that will suit and please all A full stock of men's box too boots and shoos. Sboes rangiug in price from $1.75 to $3 00. Boots $2.50 to $3 50 At all times u full stock of our own make box toed boots rnd shc.es always on band. Six dozen of out own make fine shces ut $5 00 per pair. Boots and Shoes Made to Order Repairing neatly mid promptly done. Foil stock of leather and findings, blacksmith aprons and shoemakers supplies of all kinds. Now i 6 venr tin;e to buy li r we wish to reduce our stock t5 make room for fall goods Whet, in need of anything in <ur line jjve tie a call. Orders by mail will receive prompt un<! careful attention. JOHN BICKEL. BUTLER, ------- - - - PEN N'A Yew, any one with hall an eyo, f Even if he's near-righted, / Can sua that there's at least ono store „ a.w«. g|i a h S w rfjgffi The mind", eye «f » nightie..* man MfiT| Has powers of observation, jjjs33\V J N^ttTTJ Which tells him that we sell at rat.ss ylfim—"~jl j The lowest in creation. DOUBTLESS WILL BE CONVINCED IF THEY CALL AT AL RUFF'S SHOE STORE and examine the following bargains: Ladies' Fine Cloth top, dongola vamp, patent, tip, $2 00 " New proeess French Kid - 2 00 " Fine dongola kid - - - 125 " •' Goat - - - - 1 25 " Kid - - 1 00 '• Patent leather tip dongola butt. - 1 25 " " •' lace - 1 25 " " Oxfords - - 75 " Opera slippers - - - 50 " Cloth Slippers - 25 " Every day shoes _ 75 Space will not permit us to tell you about the extremely low prices ol our men's ffcoes. We are selling children's at such ridiculooß low prices that yon will be surprised. Call and see us. It costs nothing to see our goods, Yours for Solid Leather, AL. RUFF, 114 South IMain Street. Butler, !Pa FALL AND WINTER STOCK OF Boots, Shoes and Rubbers NOW READY AT HUSELTON'S, Comprising Every Known Style in Footwear in the Great Shoe Manufacturing Centres of the East Daily Crowding Uur Big Store with all the Choicest and Newest Styles in Footwear from a Cheap Brogan to the Fin est Hand-Turn Lady's Button Boot. NOW IN ! COME AND SEE THEM ! There isn't a style worth considering we haven't got.and the prices are so low as to within the reach of every man or woman in Butler county. Our Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots tire a grand display, cut from tho choicest Chicago Kip. Women's heavy calf, kip, grain and veal in lace and button, they posi tively will resist water, Prices iu women's, 85 c. to $1.25. Ladies fine shoes at sl, $1.25, $1.35, $1.50 and $2. Can't be duplicated in Butler Co. Men's fine shoes in calT, cordovan, kangaroo, buff and veal in McKay, Goodyear and hand welts, all styles, all widths, from $1 up to s.'{. Drop in and see UB: we will interest you. Recollect, everybody's dollar is worth 100 cents at Ilaselton's. No two prices. (Joods guaranteed as represented. Repairing of all kinds done. B C. lIUSELTON, 102 N. Main St., Butler AT 8:30 P. M. The music of the distant sea Now murmur- through the balmy air, No lonpcr butterlly nnd bee I'lit round the flowers here an.l tbero. The Cn.t wbite star Is in the sky. The hoptoad rests beneath the weod. And In a heap The eow's asleep Upon the bosom of the mead. The bat is circling wild and free, The froß i» croaking lou.l and long. Mtnc car. mothinks, discovers the Mosquito's rude, vltihallowed song. 1 hear the shrieking whip-poor will That keeps it up with Spartan spunlt. While on yon Dane, A wild refrain. The June bug goes "kerplunk! kerplunk!" The banner of the mellow corn Now ripples lik" a silver lake Beueath the rising moon, whose horn Keeps your infernal dog awake. The dewdrop's on the Illy bell, The hollyhock's asleep, and hcnco I*U tilt my chair In comfort rare. And re ;ts my he-1- upon the fenco. • The night Is grand, r.o cloudlets sail Across the star-besprinkled sky; The turkey roosting on the rail Is not one-eighth as glau as I. Oh, golden rapture brims my cup, I dream on Pleasure's pearly shore— Now there squalls Joe, Which means a go- As-you-please all niffht upon the floor. THE CREEPING PLANT. A Botanist' 3 Sad Death in the Wilds of China. ° ° R HAM ' MOS I) man -3 \ aged to get a \l J month's leave \HI at t ' ie same JY time as myself. £<lJw Si' 'i' That was how gjjßf • fv,. i we came to join < hands and ar " ran ge for the trip to Formosa ' I wish I had * worked on for a year longer & now, with all my heart. We crossed from Amoy to Taiwan, a big town on the west coast of Formosa, and made our preparations for getting well into the wilds. You see, we had both been in China a mat ter of ten years, and could pass muster very well with our knowledge of two or three dialects of the dreadfully pro fuse language of the empire. And so we expected to get along all risrlit —I to shoot a variety of strange quadrupeds and feathered creatures, and Hammond to enlarge his already very copious col lection of plants and grasses. I never knew a man more enthusias tic about his hobby than was Ham mond about his specimens. It cost him many a groan to leave them on the mainland. But for the infinite annoy ance they would have cost us both, he would have carried them with him to Formosa. They filled eight boxes as big as American traveling trunks — what with their layers of wood and thick blotting paper, and the camphor wood cases in which the different species reposed apart from each other. Poor old chap! he might have pleased himself in the matter. I wish he had, for his interest in the things might have kept him from the craze that killed him. For a week we hail a very agreeable time in the bungalow of a certain Scotch missionary whose name will be a familiar memory to every European who has stayed awhile in the island. He was —indeed is—a very remarkable man, and a credit to the Anglo-Saxon race. If every man had his due, lie ought to be appointed governor gen eral of Formosa; though I doubt not he would refuse the dignity. This by the way. And yet I ought to mention him if only for the earnest warning he gave us about the vermtn and reptiles of the interior. We spent two days in jour neying from his house to the woods in which we proposed to camp for a fort night, as happy as Adam and Eve be fore the fall. The forest scenery was magnificent, but the brake of brambles and flower ing creepers which matted themselves between the tree trunks made progress very slotf. We did not stick to the tracks; otherwise, of course, it would have been different. And we were re paid for our labor by the strange creatures I shot, and by many a grass and flower which Hammond was as elated over as a mother with her first child. Two more days passed, and we pro nounced our holiday a success. Then Hammond sickened of a fever or a sun stroke, I could not determine which. HE LOOKED A STRANGE OBJECT. ne became deliripus, and I feared he would die. I mu.it say the native For mosans, for all their savage look— they were all but naked in this part of the island —were very kind. They brought me various juices and bimpjes, which they urged me to use upon the invalid. But I\v as afraid to do that. I preferred to rely upon cold sponging and the quinine in our medicine chest. On the seventh night of his illness, when he was so quiet and improved in tone that I thought I could leave him |n charge of Wan Tan, our little native aide-de-camp, airl get a good sleep my self, I was suddenly awakened by the boy with the words: "He has gone!" True enough, Hammond had evaded his guard and run off into the woods in his •'pyjamas." I was dreadfully alarmed. Without loss of time, however, the boy and I set out in pursuit; and after about half an hour we caught him up as he was returning with bent head and puckered brow, but looking as frco from delirium as man could. "Why, my dear fellow," I said, "what in the world led you to do so mad a thing?" Hammond gazed at me indifferently for a moment. It was just as if ho had not yet got his senses fully after a bad night. Then, with a good deal of ex citement, he bade me congratulate him. "Upon what?" I asked. "Do you not remember," he replied, "how we two have talked about the possible existence of plants that move from one spot to another with the same freedom as we conceited bipeds? Well, I've solved that problem. They do exist. But 1 can't—l really can't — make out satisfactorily whether they do it by the exercise of volition, or whether they are transported in spite of themselves. It's not a bit of use troubling the British association on the subject until we have settled that— is it?" I was half disposed to laugh at him when he said this. But the mysterious and quite unusual kind of earnestness in his expression while lie was speak ing not only deterred me, but even again made me feel uneasy about him. '.'You arc not serious, Hammond?" I BUTLKR, FRI DAY, SEPTEM BKR. 11, I*9l. saiil. "Anil liesiiles, old fellow, it s very wrong of you to run av. ay in this fashion. Not to speak of the fripht you (javc nie. you 11 catch a chill, and we shall have that fever business all over acHin "Fever business! hat doyow rn-*:iu? * "Why, you know you have been ill, and you're not well yet; and so come right along 1 to bed ayain." lie said nothing to this, but allowed the boy anil tui* to take care of him. I must say he looked a strange object wrapped up in the blue blanket which I had seized for the purpose when we went after him. and especially when the inoon shone upon him through the teak trees of the forest. The scurrying among the branches overhead seemed to imply that the monkeys also found him a spectacle too strong for their nerves. lie was better in the afternoon and talked of the service and other matters in a perfectly rational manner. It seems he had written to Pekin begging to be ivmoved from Atnoy; and he dis cussed the chances of a favorable re ply to his letter rationally enough, thougli with a disregard . .• the be reavement that I in that ease should suffer which puzzled me. For he was naturally the most unselfish of men, and he had over and over again said he would never leave Amoy without me, and that he would never be ieft in it if I appointed vice consul else v. re. Towards sunset he became excited. I did not like the metallic glitter in his eye. It recalled to me in an ugly man ner a certain visit I had paid to a Chi nese madhouse a little time previously, lie was irritable, moreover, and would not let me touch his pulse. hen I wanted him to come into the hut for the night he objected. "Xo, I'andolph," he said, "not till the moon there also goes to bed in the antipodes. I particularly mean to be awake to-night" "Why?" I asked. "Because I am as sure as 1 staud here that I saw one last night, and it was when the moon was high. I reckon it went at about the rate of a yard a minute. 1 mean to secure it, and I should very much like to photograph it before nabbing it." "What arc you talking about, old chap?" I asked again, with the dismal fear at my heart that the fever or sun stroke had affected his brain. "The creeping plant, Randolph. It was, as well as I could guess at it, nine feet long, with llowcrsall the way along it—the calyx a bright blue. I never saw anything so mid since I was born. Do you know, I almost lost my senses in a sort of excitement over it, and I suppose it got away in the meantime, for when I tried to find it again I couldn't!" I could only stare at him in bewilder ment. lie was certainly not joking, and yet the idea of a plant of this de scription was to my unobservant intel ligence perfectly ridiculous. But poor Hammond did not like my incredulous look. "You don't believe me, I see!" he exclaimed pettishly. "That's ever the way with you prac tical fellows. lam thankful I'm not practical. Anyhow, too, I mean to get it this night, alive or dead —that's a clear thing." "No, no; please, don't think of it," I entreated. "Wait till you're a bit stronger, and then if you like we'll do nothing else but hunt this crawling beanstalk, or whatever it is." "I am as strong as ever I was, if I may judge by my feelings, and so you may as well make up your mind to my going. Ilemember, Randolph, that I'm your senior iu the service., aud I won't put up with dictation from you or any other man of your timrf of life." I could only shrug my shoulders, and suggest to him as casually as possible that of course I had no right to inter fere with his movements, but that for his own sake lie ought not to go off in "pyjamas" again, as he did before. "Yes, that was indiscreet," the dear old fellow observed, with a smile. We humored him for the rest of the evening', and at length he fell asleep in his bamboo couch-chair, and we cov ered him lightly and arranged the mos quito curtains to protect him as much as possible. But I had no intention of going to bed. Somehow or other, I fancied he would wake and start off into the woods, just as he had done before. At the back of my mind I confess, too, there was a thin phantom of curiosity about the shape nine feet long, with flowers upon it, which had fitted so well with Ilammond's ideal of a creep ing plant. Accordingly, I lit my pipe and read the North China Herald until I began to feel drowsy. The paper had dropped from my hands, and I was pondering weakly about the likelihood of some senior in» the service re solving to retire or to die for the good of his juniors, when I heard a rustling. My eyes opened sharply. Yes; it was as, with electrical promptitude, I had surmised: Hammond was bolt upright, staring at the moonlight outside and pushing the curtains away fi-om him. 1 did not move, but watched him be tween my half-closed eyelids. Consciousness seemed to come upon him all in a momcut. lie bounded from the chair and made for the dtoor. Then, with a look I shall never forget, he turned back and snatched up the same blue blanket 1 had wrapped him in before. He flung it over his shoul ders and sped into the open. I followed liim. And 1 had to be brisk, or else I should have soon lost sight of him; for the dark limbs of the trees were thick enough to hide him for a quarter of a minute at a time. It was a strango chase, this in the murmurous night, with ever and anon the startling cry from a parrot or a monkey resounding in the air. A barred tail pheasant shot over my head with a whir that would have made a man unused to such noises wonder what was happening. Hats, too, went to and fro in the moonlight, now and then eclipsing the planet com pletely. I don't know how long I followed the poor fellow; I knew only that I was much torn by the thorns on the. rose-bushes which i-npeded my move ments. How sweet was the perfume of these blossoms in the cool, humid night air I can recall at this moment distinctly. It was almost by accident that I at length came upon Hammond. He was stooping and peering here and there about a small spot of common grass with holes in the ground and a thicket of bramble anil clematis at one side. I did not notiee it at first; but there was a woof of passion flowers hanging from one of the boughs of a tree just over him. One of the flowers was a superb specimen with a dazzling corolla. Staiuting in the shade I watched him. He began to poke among the brambles with a bit of stick. Then there was a movement, and with an exclamation of "Did I not say so!" Hammond stepped tenderly aside while —a great snake crept forth with an angry hiss and a poise of its head. I had time to see that its body from the shoulder was beautifully marked much as Hammond had described his plant; but time for no more. The poor fellow had bent down and made a snatch at the reptile; at the same instant the snake had darted at him and bitten him over the eye. And when I had rushed to the place the snake had gone, and Ham mond was holding both hands to his face and looking about him with an awfully dazed expression. The shock had brought him wholly to his right mind! On our way back ho commented on his folly as if it had been the action of some one else. Hut the pain of the CITIZEN. L s * Wf i .-i> n i )f¥ Juj# WClfm' TH#. POOR FEIXOW MADE A SNATCH AT TICK BEPTILE. venom in him Had aireauy DC gun to tell. Between us we had done what wc could as precautionary meas ures, though this was little enough. He was prepared for what followed— so much prepared that he made me write his will for him the moment we re-entered the hut. I did it on a piece of common tissue paper, the only avail able material. The swelling a'l the time was getting worse and worse; nor was his agony in t£c least abated by the fat and oil which Wan Tan rubbed upon it. The poor fellow died at eleven o'clock, after suffering fearfully. Al most his last words were these, with an attempt at a smile that nearly set me crying: "What an ass I was, to be sure, old fellow!" Before I left the place, and when we had buried him, I made my way again to the spot where he had met his doom, and pulled down the spray of passion flower which had drooped over him when he was bitten. This flower, dried, and under glass, is one of various articles that serve as mementoes of in cidents in my career—incidents, I am glad to say, not always so tragical as this.—Chambers' Journal. Tho Value of Hardship. As a gladiator trained the body so must we train- the mind to self-sacri fice, "to endure all things," to meet and overcome all difficulty and danger. We must take the rough and thorny roads as well as the smooth and pleas ant ones; and a portion at least of our daily duty must be hard and disagree able, for the mind cannot be kept stronp and healthy with perpetual sun shine only, and the most dangerous of all states is that of constantly recur ring pleasure, ease and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough without seeking them; let them not rep'ne, but take them as a part of that educational dis cipline necessary to fit the mind to arrive at its highest good.—N. Y. Ledger. —A Thoughtful Boy.—Son—"Didn't you tell me, pa, that it wasn't healthy to stay in the water very long at a time?"* Father —"Yes." Son—"Well, hadn't you better tell these ducks? The poor ignorant things have been swim ming up and down the pond all day."— Munsey's Weekly. Reason Cor Her Faith. Cousin Mary- -jut dr. you think you can place any .impendence in Harry when he tells yor. he loves you? Kate—Oh, yes, indeed, lie has told me so many things that 1 know are true that 1 can't doubt bis word, you kuow. Mary—As for example? Kate—Well, lie told me, among other things, that I was a wfully good looking and that I was over sorauc'j better than the rest of the girls.—Boston Tran script. Mechanical Item. Gentleman —Why, my little boy, you ought to be at school; you art; too small to work. Boy—l have to work "to support my mother, sir. "Why, is your father dead?" "No. : i": he's an inventor." —Texas Sifting Humble Enough. Mrs. Gadby—Mrs. Henry Peek hasher husband in complete subjection. Mrs. Clatter —From what do yoa judge? Mrs. Gadby—l asked him a question the other night, and ha turned to her and said; "Let me think."—l'uck. Unusual Luck. Gus DeSmith—l see by the papers that the czar has been enjoying the pleasure of the chase in the Jabonski forest, near Warsaw. Gilhooly—What luck did he have? Gus DeSmith —Splendid. He came back alive. —Texas Sittings. A Great .success. Stranger—l understand that electro cution is a great success in this state. New Yorker —Yes, indeed. When a man wants to die a quick, painless and delightful death, all he has to do is to go out and kill somebody. We do the rest. —X. Y. Weekly. She Was Right. Jennie—l hear that you are going to become a lecturer. Minnie—The idea! lam engaged to be married. "Well, I knew it was something of the sort," returned Jennie. —Jury. A I'rovorb I'raetieully Applied. Father —It is the early bird that catches the worm. Johnny—That's so; but it is the little birds that stay at home sleeping in the nest that gets the. worm to eat.. — Harper's Bazar. A Good lieoAon. "Why don't you come in?" said his wife mockingly from the second-story window as be fumbled in his pocket for his latch key. "I haven't got openers," he replied sadly.—Jury. No Oral Credit Given. Rising Young Orator —I intend to try to learn to speak in italics, as Justin McCarthy saj-s Gladstone docs. Knowing Layman—What you need most is to learn to speak in quotation marks. —Judge. Forethought. "Our names are written in pencil in this marriage certificate," sand Waldo Higgins, of Boston, to liis<Chieagobride. "Yes," she said, "that's a Chicago custom. They arc easier to rub out," — 'Epoch. AN CN'I'MCASANT SIGHT. "Come on, Hilly, don't let's look at his nibs. It makes me think of der last timell was sent up."—Life. Appropriate Kpituplis. For a hanged man —he took a drop too mucii. For a lawyer—Hie jacet. For a grave digger—He has got in his work. i For a watchmaker—Run down. 9 For a shoemaker —Rest his sole.— Jurv. , / THE PARCELS POST. Great Success of It* Operation ThrourK* out the I'uitod Iviuctloui. Henry George writes as follows from London to the New York World: J'lio British postal sy: ! i presents three great advantages over our own in iti parcel i>«st. iu [w.t.il telegraphs, and it; post:u-savin'r.. ban!.:,, all of which work with the mo .thness, cheapness, and efficiency of the 1 tter-carryuig service. The English railway companies are required by law to receive, without notice, all parcel mails tendered at their stations on b-ha'.f of tho post of ice, to convey such mails to their proper des tination.-; by their ordinary trains (or steamships), and there hand them over to the officers appointed to receive them. As a rule parcels are forwarded separately in baskets or other recepta cles, but in some eases they are sent in closed in the letter mails. In no case are the railway companies expected to deal with loose parcels, but only with closed mails. In remuneration for their services the railroad companies are paid ."<3 per cent, (eleven-twentieths) of the gross receipts of the post office on all parcels conveyed by rail. With a few unim portant exceptions, the parcel post act extends to the whole of the railways of the United and tinder cer tain conditions the rest may be in cluded. From the outset there has been a steady increase in the amount of the business done. During the first com plete year in which the system was in operation 22,910,040 parcels were post ed, and in the interval the number lias been more than doubled, the latest re turn showing a total exceeding 40,000,- 000. Thi- sums paid for postage, which in the first year amounted to £508.247, have grown to over £1.000,000 a year. The annual receipts of the railway com panies on parcels sent by rail have risen from £350,572 to £499,912, or little short of half a million a year. During Christmas week of last year about 1.500.000 parcels \vere carried ill Lon don, those posted on the 23d of Decem ber alone amounting to 133,030. So far us the public are concerned the benefit of the parcels system has been twofold. They are able to send parcels by post to the furthermost parts of the United Kingdom, and to have them de livered at the addressees' house at far lower rates than by any other agency, and the competition of the parcels post has brought about a very considerable reduction in the rates charged by ordi nary carriers for local parcels or for parcels sent over short distances. WILD BEASTS HIS FRIENDS. The Queer Stories Told About a l'loneer Washington Kuuchcr. Among the visitors to Seattle recent ly was Peter Gallagher, a rancher liv ing three miles from Renton. Mr. Gal lagher is one of the pioneers of the sound country, and has lived on the same place for twenty years or more, taking up a quarter section as a home stead from the government. By years of hard toil he has cleared up and im proved a splendid place, which, though secluded from the outside world, is a model ranch of which the owner is just ly proud. Mr. Gallagher, says the Seattle Press, is not given to hunting and does not molest wild game of any kind, and to this may be ascribed the tamencss of a number of animals which make the woods in that vicinity a home. One of these, a black bear, has for a year vis ited his stockyard almost daily and eaten with the cattle, lying down among the calves and displaying neither fear nor ferocity. Mr. Gallagher goes among the stock and frequently passes within two or three feet of his bearship, not only in the yard, but In the woods. lie pays no attention to the bear and the latter never offers to molest him —on the contrary, cats with evident satisfac tion pieces of bacon and other scraps from the table that are thrown out to him. The bear is a handsome thrce liund red-pound fellow and appears to enjoy the company of the cattle. Other pets are a pair of fawns that run around with the young stock on the place, eating with the calves and lying down among them as contented as though with their own kind. They evidently came from the vicinity of Cedar lake, where considerable hunting is done and from which section game is being driven. Mr. Gallagher says he had rather part with the best cow on his place than one of the fawns. This is the second time fawns have taken up their abode at this place, the first pair coming there about five years ago and remaining with the stock for two years; even going into the stables and being locked up over night. He gavo them to a neighbor, who in turn pre sented them to frieiAls at Snohomish tod up the Sliahit. This sounds fishy, but not only is ft vouched for, but it is further said that wild ducks and geese alight in his yard and show no fear in liis presence, though the appearance of a stranger is the signal for flight. Mr. Gallagher never hunts and will not allow hunting on his place nor interference in any way with his pets, either quadrupeds or winged. Caucasian Curiosities. Caucasia constitutes a veritable mine of archajological curiosities, but most of the treasures become the property of foreigners, who transport them to their respective countries. The natives, knowing the liberality of foreign tour ists, willingly show them the places where curiosities can be found and help them dig out the treasures. According to the New York Sun, an Americah named William Johnson recently pro cured in Vladikavkaz a .collection of fourteen hundred and twenty-five ar chajological curiosities among which arc ornaments, weapons, tools and pot tery -of the bronze, iron and granite ages, and human skulls cf prehistoric ages. The government officers of Ba koo recently stopped the exportation of several boxes filled with such treas ures. The Russian press now advocates that special measures be enacted against the removal of such treasures bv ford iiTPers. A Horrible Kiample. Foggs—lt is said that a man once ad dicted to a vice can never really give it up. Trotter—l believe it, too. I know a gambler who is reformed, but every day he plays solitaire and bets with himself that he'll win.—Epoch. At NnrrHßansctt I'ier. "Well, this is act first," said the sum mer youth as lie put his arm around her and drew her tenderly to him. "And it is also scene first," replied the summer girl as she pointed to her frowning chai>cron standing not ten feet away.- —Life. The Watch Was a Failure. ' Washington Jefferson—Dat ar fly back watch yer sold me ain't no good. Jeweler—What ails it? Washington .Jefferson —Hit's been stole m'n fo' days and hain't dewed back yet. —Jewelers' Weekly. A Hopeless Case. Fogg—You refused me when 1 asked you last June to marry me, Miss Flyrte. May I ask if you have changed your mind since then? Miss Flyrte —No; but I have changed my name. —Somcrville Journal. No Money to Lend. "Hello, old chappy! Been inakin' money lately?" "I should smile; got m' pockets full." ""Lend me a V, will yer?" ■"Oh, I can't yer know; it's all dolh, r bills."—Texas Siftiugs. A NOVEL RAT TRAP. An V.-mj Way of f*oi* miner ISodenta With out Itangrr tn Poultry. As nits destroy numbers of yonng chicks, and are difficult to catch in traps, or to IX>I«-HI them without at the same time ii.jurin~ or poisoning the chicks, the illustration shows a cheap and easy mod ■ of p >isoaing rats without danger to the eats, fowls or chicks. Make a box two feet long, one foot wide .i i I one foot high (or use a soap Ixix if necessary., and have a top to it that can be raised up At each end, alxiut four in rh •> from the floor, cut a hole i:i;h.*s in diameter. Never raise the top unless to put in the feed or to take out a dead rat Place some corn ineal in a pan and leave it in Ike box. lu the illustration the holes are shown at A A, the top at B, and the pan of feed at C. As the rat will feel safe and secure from the cat and will prefer the two holes, so as to have better opportu nities for escape, it will soon find out the box, and will also soon learn to eat the meal. Once the rat tastes the meal (or other food) and finds it to bo wholesome, or free from poison, it will come every night for the incal and , bring other rats. Do not poison them ' at first, but wait until they have feasted j for a week, when all their suspicions | X NOVEL HAT TUAP. wiß have been allayed. Then add 1 poison to the meal and you will, in all probability, get them all and be troubled no more until a new genera tion appears. Rats can be easily poisoned by bait ing them with food for awhile, but it cannot be done suddenly, as they are too cunning and suspicions, and the difficulty is to poison them without danger to dogs, cats or poultry, but with this contrivance there is no diffi culty, as the box may be placed In the poultry house or at any desirable point The two holes to the box, and the fact that the cat cannot get in, will be suoh an inducement as a secure retreat that the rats will come to it even when the cat is near.—Farm and Fireside. SHEEP SUGGESTIONS. IT will benefit sheep to change them from one pasture tc another occasion ally, and it is of benefit to the pastures, too. GOOD care and good sheep will usual ly make the business of sheep breeding and growing profitable. A great deal of failure in the business is tho result of no intelligent effort to make it suc cessful. THERE is a town council in Illinois that has ordered all the dogs In the town slaughtered. What a favorite legislative body they would be with flockmasters if its province was coun try wide. WE hope it wilt not be considered monotonous if wc say at this time that tho sheep next winter will be greatly benefited by a supply of roots and to suggest that the turnip crop onght to be put in. Do TIIEY make cheese from the milk of the sheep in Canada? asks a corre spondent The story was started some time since that considerable of such cheese was made in Canada. The re port lacks confirmation. THE imagination of some people is so lively that they can taste wool when ever they eat mutton. It has never crept into the ininds of some people that mutton is the most healthful and perhaps the most toothsome of all meats. WE met a Wisconsin farmer and sheep breeder on the train from Lake Geneva to Chicago a few days since and in the course of conversation he wished to know where he could buy turnip seed. He wanted to sow a considerable quan tity to grow turnips for his flock. We could not help thinking that if every sheep breeder in the country would do that what an increased profit there would be in the business of raising sheep and growing wool.—Western Rural. IMPROVED FARM FORK. An Implement Which Facilitate# Rapid Handling of Straw. In the west, where sdtonch grain is cut with the header andthe straw is broken fine in i&Q ihe process of TV , thrashing, tho \\ brdlnary pitch \ \ 6r dung fork 1* \ W. found wholly In *'i itn" adequate for \ \ quickly handling /)C\ 11 I suc h straw when // * 1:1 desired to bo //i> l| moved. Even // [ I the large barley I/ f I fork fails to "get iil '•' there" as fast svrnovKn FORK. as desired. Now, a tool having six or more slender steel tines about thirty inches in length, ar ranged as here indicated, with the two central tines prolonged to form a handle, is a great convenience. The head (A D) is a piece of hard wood an inch and a half by two inches, and two feet long. The two outside tines aro made of one piece and bent to form the bail (c) for the left hand. The next two tines are also continuous; E E are over tines, made in one piece, and tliey may be attached when car rying straw on a windy day. They slide on the handle under the ball and may be grasped at D. 1 have tested the idea by making a wooden one, using strips of barrel staves for tines. I find the tool practical, but some of the tines persisted in straightening out, spoiling its efficiency. Again, by en larging the whole affair and attaching a pair of wheels to the head piece, we have an efficient manure truck that is loaded and dumped instantly.—Ameri can Agriculturist To I'rotect III* I'ellow-Men. Client —Your fee is exorbitant. It didn't take you a day to do the work. Lawyer—lt is my regular fee. I am not charging you for time, but for the cost of my legal education. Client —Well, give me a receipt for the cost of your education, so the next fellow won't have to pay for it, too.— Life. ••Upon ThU Hint I Spake." Abby (who is thirsty)—now long will we have to wait for dinner? Hiram (who lacks decision)— About twenty minutes, I guess. Then 111 have a bottle of plain soda, and have it opened here. She—l should like to bear tome thing pop, if it's only a cork! —Life. Sc&Mtiorc "That's Miss Young down there with her fiaiace." "How do you know?" "See that half-are of purple and yel low light swinging in the darkness? That's her new engagement ring, and she's waving her nnns for us to notice it." —Judge. Matrimonial Item. Cynical Old Bachelor —W hat makes ! you grin like an idiot? Young llappicuss—O, I am the hap piest of mortals! To-morrow I get married. Cynical— Yes, 1 suppose you are the happiest man in town to-day.—Texas Sifting. jSTO.44 WAtOfWSAVINQ LOADER, A B«jr«c/'fiaH !• a Saw Departure Bat No Klperlment on Pipar. The hayrack shown hero Is a new dc* parture in its lino, but is no experiment jn paper. I began using it in Kansas in 187S, when 1 had lots of heavy work for it Some thought it would break down hack of the front wheels, but it has stood severe t ■ its and long 1 service without any app treat weakening. Ons adTuutaj: is tliat it places the load down low, thus making it easier to load ami less liable tr> upset. Again, the chances for cramping and straining, and possibly breaking tho front wheels of the wa-'on, are done away with, as the wheels can turn under the load without touching the timbers, neither can they tilt the rack up edgewise. It also allows sk >;-t turning, almost as short a» tk.- na'.ca 1 running gear, and for this reason saves the team much travel and many a hard pulL Th.- rack is well explained by the two cuts. Cut N'a 1 shows the plain fram-j without the boards. A. A. are the two main bod timbers, '4 by 4 inches square and of the desired length and distance apart B. 11. are two shorter H-J . ' f i f I® > * y i l FIG I f bed tiin bers, 4 by 4 inehea, while C. C. C. C. are cross timbers, 3 by 4 inches, as long a*s the rack is wide. These are firmly bolted together by 1-lQ or X-inch bolts. D. D. D. D. is a square of 4by 4-inch timbers just large enough to fill between the bolster standards, and 1 inch to spare to notch Inch on each side for standard. The front cross piece must be on top of tho side timbor.i. but the back one may be on top or underneath the long timbers, better on top Cut No. a shows the rack entire. By refering to cut No. 1 it will bo seen that the hind wheels will run under E E. Boards are run from the iross piece in front of thj hind wheels to the cross back of the cat under. Now cut a piece of 2x4 inch joist long enough to reach from the end of tho side timber to the outside of the rack, G. U., and set up on pdge on the board ing l'\ Also cut two blocks 4 by 4 inches for the front corners of the square D. and on top of them lay the front cross timber of oak, a by 4 inches laid flat ways. Bolt the whole secure ly together. Now place on this cross piece boards reaching to G. G. and also Trmifc « F* * bolt Do not nail anything in building this rack. For the cover to the hind wh eels anj boards will do, bat elms is the best Soak in water for 24 or 48 hours and bind over the wheels, bolting to the cross timbers, both in front and back of the wheels. A board as long as the rack and wide enough to fill be tween the long timbers should also be bolted underneath the cross timbers, which sh >uld be placed near enough together so the wheel cannot hit them when cramped under on a short turn. This makes the rack complete, but if desired a ladder may be added, aa shown in cut No. 2. It should be bolted 0 inches back of the front cross-piece so it may lean forward when standing. When turned back it makes a good seat for the driver, as it rests agross the back side of the front square.—L. B- Abbott, in Farm and Home. FACTS FOR FARMERS. TitE use of complete fertilizers in volves a waste in all cases where the soil already contains an abundance of one or two of the chief elements of plar.t food, and requires only the sup plementary addition of the missing one or two elements —T. Greiner. IF you have no silo grow a crop ot corn for fodder. Plant the seed in rows, cultivate well, and cut the fodder corn when the ears are glazed, {he same as for ensilage, but the fodder shdbld be well cured and then stored in the barn in a clean and bright con dition. MOST people think they must wait many years for returns from the planting of peach or cherry pits. We have heard, on good authority, that a Texas man ate peaches from a tree two years and two months after he planted the pit from which the tree grew.— Strickmun. I* Florida, where crickets often seri ously damage choice plants just set oat, the plan has been adopted of cutting; oft tho top and bottom of three-pound: fruit cans and placing the resulting cyl inder over the very small rose bushes, cuttings and other small choice plants liable to attack. CUT down the old fruit trees that, may be standing in the pastures that have passed beyond their period of usefulness. Unless they are taken care of they will become nests for the vari ous fruit pests, and will in turn' be the means of populating your orchard with undesirable colonies. I WANT to say this out of my own ex perience. I have often fed a dollar's worth of feed into one cow and got a_ dollar's worth of butter out of her. I have foil the same amount of feed into another cow and got two dollars out of her, and I am going to stand by the two-dollar cow. — 11. Adams. I.mmrnr-M In Young Turkey*. At this season many complaints are made that young turkeys become lame and swell at the joints. The difficulty is due mostly, to the high roosting places, the young turkeys striking the ground too heavily. Old turkeys are not so liable to be injured, as they are matured, but the rapid growing young ones are too weak in the legs to endure the constant strain upon them when they jump from high perches. I.ookln? Cityward. Western Magistrate You are charged, sir, with killing six of our old est and most respected citizens. What have you to say? Prisoner—They were all of em rich old penny grabbers wot was leavin' the best buildin' sites in town lie idle, wait in' fer a higher price. "Well?" "Well, yer honor, I belong to the village improvement society." N. Y. WaaVll* A DiAlocun Abr<fau. De Gush (in the doorway of an Italian cathedral t-We have nothing like this in America, Smitlikins. I love these deep arched doorways; they sug gest quiet, contentment and—er —re- pose, yon know Smitlikins—Yes; i like them flrst rate. Capital places in which to light a cigar.—Munsey's Weekly. Coutrary to llul«> Husband— You are surely not going out shopping in the rain? You'll be sick. Wife (firmlv)— I never allow tbe weather to Interfere with my shopping. Husband—Then you arc letting your buy-laws interfere with your constitu tion.— Pittsburgh Bulletin. A VUlble Reason. "Isn't this your prayer book, Mtaa Chaser?" "Why, yes; tliauk you, It la. How did you know it, Mr. Blunt?" "When I took it up it opened at tbe marriage service." — Puck.
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