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
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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.