VOL. XX VIII
PROFESSIONAL HARDS.
JO** - PH w. milleh, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
O.Vc* .i.nl it lit ** Main St. Btttkr,
ft.. . -
Dr. N. M. HOOVER,
13*. K. V»'*\fic.Bt., 08l •• hours, l» to 12 U. ami
i ro a r.
!.. M. ;;einsf,L, m. I>,
I'lIV :-1 1 'I AN A»0 gCESR'IS.
( ITS. e ;.iid re iJence at ISI E. Ciimdiighatn di,
L BLACK,
1-11 • iSCIAS JM»I UOt.'K,
* t vv Ti out man liulldlnff. !!iitler. I'.u
. ■
. i -..Aiif ;.i. i>.. t. MANN m. D. j
i.Jti' : Specialties:
■ :■ . .i.i | s is t'>e, Sinn and |
.. i' \ TliriuL
•-. LEAKE4 MAi\lN,
Butler, Pa.
A!Si> it
e i. IX S. Maiu Mr. otiw Frank «
i.i, r.nr:.-?, r.<
UEL M- BfPI-Üb.
' 1 >siciati and Surgeon.
K« x' . .!'- ■ iivticr. l'a.
\\ K. riTZEL.
! . Vii i.. '-BURGEON.
f. ■ , ...j- s .!.i i.i Kor' st- . liutler. Ia-
V. r*.cALPINF,
Den list,
I: j ~ :i u'.'v I- raicu ::t l-a) Soiilli .Main
S:M .| ! t . i, si. HM !: •- T.-IIII' I !y o-Mifi *d
t; l:r. '■
, J. uo.N ALDSON, Dentist.
Butler, Penn'a.
in vial 'loll, i 1 • -« tied in tl.c latest im
. ,'i |I S.i.-li. . •■Mflllll.iC a !,!<•• Ujti. office
\\ , y i Vi.til>.tS...»Wt-*B!We.
- ' '
I K. :■) A. JOI'NSTON.
; . ,;. i . LU 1 LEK, f'A.
rs j. rtMHiinji to the execut
, 0 • 1.. ,iU>t liiamier.
... 1,,... ! nn.l PainlessKx
1. j, , th. v itelUcd Air administered.
1. ... Un -li-tTsrson Sti-wt, ont door K«hl cl Lear)
li--j*f. < p slain..
t 1 .mi daily, exct • t Wednesdays an-!
< utmii"! I'.atious by mall welve
i' . ;.i »ilti ntion.
. i;. t ill only Ocntlsi Wi Butler uslni: the
I, * orioetli.
t i L, WcQUISTION,
JA.MM Kli AMI SURVEYOR.
• -5 WKA* >•!»• Bnw» '•*.
j\ ; - . McF ARLAND.
Nit >rv Public— <>nice C!i s.
M ih- <oun :it>use-see
i 11
j!. Q VV At K. ER,
.II , t . ;'-|..iW • 11l lllUKmil BlW:.
J. M. PAINTER,
Aitomej'-at-Law.
, , i', uvtfi 1"< >tofllee and Diamond, But-
V'a.
A. T. SCOTT,
ATTOKNKV-AT-I.AW.
or ■ :.tI<"o. s, South !>iamoiid, Bailor. Pa.
A. M. CHRISTLEY,
atiohnev at LAW.
4 n■ • * ■>" i, ': Moor, An-'.rTSon 11! I;, ilalu *^l.,
r • rt'l IM' Butl 'l'. F».
J. W HUTCHISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
(p. .-.> l ft-i-ond ii<. .-r of the Hii'-'C'lfon block,
. llutlfr, Ta.. Room No. 1.
JAMES N. MOORE,
• I rOitNEV-AT-LAW AND NOT ART PTBLIC.
i v •in ltoooi NO.-1. second floor of UuseUeu
1 • . en'rincft on Dlamrind.
IRA McJUNKIN.
Aliorn -v a: Uw. Offl'-* at No. IT. Hast -leiler
*.-»n St , ! hi 'f»r« Pa.J
vV. C. FIND LEY,
.*.! ;. . :;t f. v. ; , : Itti l r>tp'.- Apwl . Of
f.. r t-i I- /. vii '.all's ofS:--r- 011 o'»r«l>
<>' i)i.im ■ ••!. !'• t
H. H. GOUr.HEIL
A''urr.-"-:i!-,a. . • <;n un w»WI 'soor ol
Aii.'er f, i- 'oi'i-ii: : * r Cin'rl House. Butter.
j : i.
J. K. BHITTAIN.
Atl'y at 1..V.V O:!V.'- at s. f, ( or. »Inti> H», snd
Diaii-oiMl, Bniler. Pa.
SKWTON BLACK.
A.i'y «' L..W »m w •-■■■ So'ltn fil-lc of I'lat'ior.d
Bmie- :
L Mi-JiiiNKiN,
InsnitHice ami Rial Instate Ag't
IT V.A'-: rr.i i
inriiiiii.
% j 1 4 •; - N
;*j >?r- jflSt'l'JiraS G' v .
-O'iic't Cor. Main & t >i!ni»h.-uB .
i. t. ROESBIKQ, Punoin.
.( (.' IfKiNEMAN, SftoitK'ary
DH;?<C
(..■ 1:2, tleudeison Oliver,
.1, 1.. . lames Stephenson,
a ■!.'■. ,n, !l. Heineman,
A' W'ltzoi,
1> !>r It ' liMibsi'tl,
•J, V. Iji:i . :: r, I>. T. S'orrli?.
L Y . , Agont,
t=»TTT' i. ■ ■: - , • ' -
A. . GABLE.
V '• rirt; tr.> H n rge on.
-if the Ontario Veterinary
C To;'oat i, t'anadii,
Pr, liable treotrt all dlfteapea of tht
domett i rated nnini:t!r<, find imkea
ri>i !i; <a. castration and horse den
tistry >1 wjj,!eia!ty. Castration per
formed wi'hc lit clumt", find all otber
snrgictil operatioDfi performed in the
moi:t pcieatific manner
Oalla to any part of the country
promptly responded to.
Office and Infirmary in Crawford's
Livery, 132 West Jefferson Street,
Butler, Pa.
THE BUTLER CITIZKN.
some Iff.
And it pays \<>u to road all advertise
monts when it makes von money to do
so.
W hen von can find out where to buy
the hest I Jed-room suit in tlie market for
I #l9.
When\ou can find out where to l>n\
the best Parlor suit for S3B, best crush
J plush.
A beautiful set of dishes, I 14 pieces,
| for #12.50.
jJeautiful toilet set, 12 pieces, tor
#4.91).
Then we say it doubly pays you to
see our adv, this week and next.
Don't forget to see our display nt the
Fair, September 8,1), and I I and
our store, 13<> N. Main St., Butler, Pa.
Campbell &
Templeton.
AFTER HARVEST
you want NEA\ FURNITURE to re
place some of the old
We are headquarters for lirst-elass
goods. Remember we have no mark
©
down sales; our prices are alwat s as low
as is consistent with good goods.
A full line of QUILTS in addition to
other bedding.
o
E. S. DREW, - 128 E. Jefferson, St.
HENRY BIEHL
122 NORT II MAIN STRKKT.
hi If I.jJiTFi IPHJiSJ TST ' A
DEALER IN
Hardware and House Furnishing: Goods.
o
runper and st«ei iiame binder. Warren ready mixed j aint.
warranted; serpen doorrf and windows, relrigerut ors and lawn
mowers.
No hotter }>l-ce in the city to trade.
Come and see my large store room full of goods, 136* feet
long.
WiiK RE A ( : t? I LI) CANBUVAS CH KA I' AS AM A N
, RINGS,
'
I JI.IIIIOIHIS ) KOARF PINS.
' STIJD^,
(GENTS GOLD,
W l-ADIKb UOLI).
yy <iu nt> (gents silver
LADIES CHATL.MN,
f Gold Pins. Far-ringf,
j ' • i Ringn Chains, Bracelet*, KtCj
I Tta M ts. castor*, butter dishes
1 VT'I'WM l'P \ ' A<l .^tbing that can be
V C/J V* <ll | found in a first claws stce
into w>.m fsswr*
E. GRIEB,
THE JEWELER
No. 19, North Main St., BUTLER, PA.,
SURE THINGS.
Do Courtney-Joaes U-'wt lar.-o idea* of g»vorn
went rt form.
Ami thousht I',' only tad to ninan ltak. Mh
toru t>> stem
Ii clloo day Uiinga luftked oo bright lUat h»
could almost sec
Th ' jltent ballots plliti? up hU majority;
Bui as he coui.tt-.l tlie returns at two o'clock
that iiljrlit,
Thro# 1 - afe" precincts came In and hi, l hi* i*t
lice Ml < f
H. Knocke l out—complete ly crushed, hi:
l.ri htest hoped took win,.-,
llou could lie l«eic: He; knew he had
A
Dead
Sure
Tbing.
Tom .leiil,in ■ fate was even worse; he loved a
roguish miss.
Who rath' r liked a quiet hup, and didn't mind
At last Tom thought the time had come to end
his lonely life.
And ;;ain her deepest gratitude by making tier
bis wife;
With eouflderi • lie asked when she "would |
name the blissful day,"
And build she would liot "name" at all. s>l}e'd
only been In play.
So, to his empty pocket he returned the ill®
mflud ring
And fe.und h' I K'-iii-ed some points about
A
Dead
Sure
Thing.
Ala.-;! such luck is « .mmon in th«sc barrassing
days
We allliavo stumtled i.ver it iu ; unexpected
ways.
II may have ben a tip about some flyer at the
track.
Or el.- ■ red v.-on a dozen times, and thtn we
played the black;
Or our small flash ran up against one headed
by a king
In fact we all htive i,-amb!cd on
A
We ad
Sure
Thing. |
—Harry Romaine, in Detroit Free Pres3.
h i 11—Ralph
Hollister and I —aud they liad dressed
me in my wedding dress, and bade me
look at myself and see how pretty I
was. Well—but that is not for mc to
say. Only I did not feel as if I knew
myself standiuff there all white, with a
veil on my head and white roses in my
hand. We couldn't get orange-blos
soms, and we were all glad, I think. I
know I was as happy as the angels are
in Heaven.
You should have seen the picture
from our door. One side the green
woods, the other the green prairie—
like a sea it looked with the wind
sweeping its grass gently up and
down, ns waves rise and fall, and just
oighty little houses and then barns
gathered together anil the stone church
on the liiil and t\;e selioolliouso below
it It was called Hope Settlement, and
it was prosperou; and others were
tdng out to us shortly, and in so
. mall a place we were all
friends, and everyone was bidden
to the wedding, and everyone
came. We walked to the church, and
I walked beside Kalph, and the rest
came after, arm in arrj, with inanj' u
jok aud many a laugh. The minister
!ind his wife and five little girls in
white muslin gowns were already at
th church. So was tin- old man who
kept it tidy, and a v. agon full of men,
passing by u . to clear a place farther
on. had stopped to sec the wedding.
Before we went in my father invited
them all to come over and share the
supper and. the dance, and they thanked
him kindly and said they would if their
rough dress might be excused, for they
had no holiday clothes with them; and
so we went into the church; and then
THE \VI:DI>!N<; I'KOCItSSION'.
all weit ilent :md reverential, and wo
two jo 1 before our good Parson Ty
ler I premised to cleave unto one an
other in good report or evil report, in
sickness or in health, until death did
us part: a id the pastor kissed ine upon
my forehead, and my parents took me
in their arms, and all the folks came
about to greet ino as a wifo, and I was
no longer Prudence Lee but Prudence
llollister; and away again along the
footpath that cut a brown way through
the green grass from th» church to the
settlement, every woman with her
gown over her arm, every man with liis
gun over his shoulder.
Xo, I make no mistake. In 1772 men
always took their guns to church with
them on Sundays, and at any time
when there was a meeting there or a
wedding; for, look you, there was
never any telling when the redskins
would be upon a place.
They were always-ready to kill and to
make prisoners. They revenged on
those who would gladly have been at
peace with all the cruel treatment they
ha/1 had from wicked pale faces; and
once revenge fill:', the heart of a savage
It goes with him to his grave. Yes, It
goes down to his children, and rankles
in the heart of his great-grandchildren.
There is no forgiveness in a heathen
soul.
But Hope Settlement had been spared
so far. We had been very quiet and
harmless, it is true, but that was no
reason. We were out of the way of the
worst tribes, and not in plain sight of
the paths they mostly took; and we
were not in terror, only prudent in
keeping ourselves ready for defense;
and once home the guns were all
stacked outside the door and we had
our feast. Simple > uough, but we were
healthy and happy und not used to
great daintie .. They drank my health
in cider, and they wished me all the
happiness the world could give and
Heaven after it; and then the dance
began.
We hail a contra-dancc, and 1 led it
with Kalplu 1 stood there smiling,
joyous, full of hope, without a fear in
my mind, when suddenly from the
crowd outside the door came a cry that
froze the blood in iny viens:
"The Indians! The Indians are up
on us!''
4 clung to Kalph. The world grew
black before me. Then all was hurry
and bustle. The young women, white
with terror, gathered their .children to
gether; old women cried to God to
help us; men flew to their weapons;
and, oh, the scene that followed! But
1 will not try to describe it; J t.ould
not do it even now without losing my
1 * I.IT IjK R, PA.. IK I DA V. SEKI'KM Hi • li. I«.
senses tor tin- tuno, as I uitl men. i
si- ■ tin* painted fae - of the tlends: I
see mv mother' - eye -;m l (■■■ 1 her gray
hair droppi". gfr >:a li e nnb over my
arii:- as i held her CIUSL 1 .
•>our father!' she i-usped. "Thay
will kill your father!"
1 dragged her down iut>> the cellar
below ill.- house; many <»f the women
ami children ct'Ollched there. Wc
heard the ounds of the firing, the
shrieks of the red tiend the cries and
groans of the wound *!, "no moment
1 cried: "Ralph! Th.t next: "Father!''
How long it la-t'-l none of us eould
evtr tell; l>ut tln ie .va.s silence at last,
and feet .am - ove» ttie :1 >-»r and down
the ladder t>> the cellar—my father,
with his head Umn ! in a handkerchief,
but alive—able to walk.
"'l'll -y hail the worst of it! They had
the worst of it this time!'' lie said, mid
fainted in our arm.-.
And there we Mother men who found
their women folk KIK! clasped them to
their heart.-;. l>ut my Ralph did nut
come toiue. 1 knew he would not from
the tirst. I knew my dowm was writ
ten when that cry: " The India nt are
upon us!" smote luy ear.
• Well, death had come some, and
some were missing. carried off to lie
killed more barbarously. t<> lie tortured
before they died. My Kalph was among'
these- my Kalph. But manv Indians
dead also, and they had been
bravely withstood, and bit 1 the worst
of it in numbers slain, a; iry father
said. All the village was in grief, for
we were like one great family, but
each mourns his own- ' mourned
Ralph—my Ralph. There was no hope
of mercy, as the day had gone. They
had left t>o many braves upon the
ground to spare their prisoners, and
; yet it seemed to m \ day by day, hour
: "by hour, for a long while, as though
Ralph might return. Not a figure came
along the prairie or over the brow of
j the bill but 1 fancied it was he, until at
i last despair seized upon me.
Oh, I leave it to those who have suf
fered ao I did to know what I felt then.
: As for others to whom such grief has
never come, they cannot understand.
Cod grant they never may. And while
our hearts break the year.; goon all
the while, and the skies are blue, and
| the spring flowers bloom.
llow many moons grew full and
waned? How many dark nights through
which I wept incessantly? How many
harvests were gathered? How many
times did young flowers spring up in
the young grass, and the winter come
' with its snows and sleet-storms?
i Enough to make my elder sister's little
daughter seventeen years of age —she
was but ten on my wedding day—and
to bring her to her own marriage eve.
There hail been v«oddings, of course,
but not in our own family, and I had
been to none; but now I innst go to
Annie's. The settlement was larger;
the safety greater. The men were
never without their guns, but they had
had no reason to use them for some
time. Did they know how the memo
ries trooped upon me all that time
when they were making little Annie's
wedding clothes and talking of her
happiness? Just so they talked of mine
seven year , before—seven years before.
I had put *>n a black dress and a
widow's cap when I gave up all hope
tbat Kalph was living, and nothing
else seemed right for me to wear. My
heart within me was like a lump of
lead, but 1 said nothing. Only, as I
climbed the hill with the rest, I said to
myself: "Ah! if they only came here,
following nie in my eoflin. with my
hands crossed upon my heart ami that
heart at rest, beating no more, aching
no more —broken, not breaking, at
last!"' And ever in my ears I heard the
words: "Kalph is dead! Your Ralph
is dead!"
And could 1 be the -ame woman who
climbed the hill with my hand in his,
and my bride dress over my arm, and
the white rose in my bosom? So hap
py! So happy! Oh, so happy! Could
it be I —a thing with a lump of lead for
a heart and no hope of happiness
while she lived? And Annie went on
b, fore us on her bridegroom's arm,
just as I went on that past da}-, and
we followed her into the church. The
minister's daughters were mostly
grown, but there 'tliey were. There
was their mother, not as much altered
as they. There was the good parson
himself, with the great scar across his
cheek that he had worn since the day
he married me. Outside were the
graves of the men murdered on my
wedding day, and of one woman also
whom they found dead in her dead hus
band's arms.
It was only what I thought of every
Sunday, after all, and the parson be
gan his service, and the words were
said that made those twain one, and
we ha ! gathered about the bride, when
suddenly the shadow of an Indian in
(lis blanket fell upon the wall behind
the low pulpit, and every head turned
An Indian stood there, his blanket
irawn across his face, but about him
he wore the tokens of peace and
frieudly intention, and he made a kind
ly gesture with his hand and knelt as
though in prayer, covering his face yet
more with his blanket.
liut redskins are treacherous. The
men ran to the door, bat saw nothing
to alarm them. The bride's color had
all gone. As for me, I expected every
moment to hear the hideous war
whoop.
The men, each with his gun in his
hand, encircled the kneeling Indian,
lie arose then, and his eyes looked into
theirs.
"I am alone," he said. "No one
comes with me; and I come in love, not
in hate."
"You do not speak like an Indian,"
said my father.
"I have lived with white uicn; 1 have
learned their speech," replied the In
dian. "Have no fear. I swear there
is no treachery."
"He speaks the truth," said my
father.
He held out his hand. The Indian
grasped it.
Yet he was an Indian, and we had no
reason to do aught but hate his kind
And now we were on our homeward
way, and I lingered a little to shed a
tear, and suddenly I saw the Indian at
my side. His eyes only were visible
under his blanket.
"You wear black clothes, squaw," he
said. "Whv do you not wear white and
blue and pink like the others?"
"Because seven years ago the Indians
killed my husband, and I am a widow,"
I said.
"But you arc pretty!" the man said
"Some other man should have made
you his wife."
"These arc things not to be talked
of," I said. "Ah, how do I know but
you are one of his murderers!"
lie shook his head.
"Did you see the Indian who killed
him?" he asked.
I answered him rudely and fiercely.
"No—but you are all alike. They
bore him away to torture by firo and
poisoned arrows. Oh, my Kalph! my
Ralph! Kill me, also, if you like, but
do not talk to me! I loathe you all!"
But the Indian did not move.
"Indians do not always kill prison
ers," he said. "I knew a white man
once who was spared and lived with
them for years. His name was like
your husband's—Ralph. Oh, yes; they
tta not always kill."
I was trembling now from head to
foot.
"Ralph!" I cried "Tell me where
he is! Tell me where you saw him!
Speak! Speak! Savage, have mercy for
once! Is it he? I will go to him if it la
through fire! Tell me!"
! He shrugged his nhouhlers.
| "You would not know him if you saw
j him," he answered
"lias lie so altered? Have tiiev dis-
' fS
,7 fh: \
A WniTE MAX 61'OOD HEFOKE ME.
fljfiir.'il liim'. 1 Ah, but l sitoulti know
him aiul love lain still!" I eried.
•So VOll tuitfht meet him andnever
(juebH llii.t you s.nv yoi:r husband," he
1 answered, and turned away.
A little spring l was close at hand, he
bent over it. I sat down upon the
ifrav- I could 110 louder stand. Was
he drinking? No; he was washing his
face, a.id suddenly he wheeled about
I and l.x)ked at me, and I saw no Indian
but a white man. lie throw away his
! ilead-band aud feathers; his blanket lay
upon the ground; a white man stood
j licfore me.
1 ''Don't you know r.ie now, I'rue?"
j he cried; and 1 lay in his arms
It was lJalph—my Ralph, and I know
j how the blessed spirits feci when they
meet their lost and loved in lleaven.
Oh! how could I live through such
sorrow to meet such joy! lias any
other ever been so comforted?
What a day that was! What joy all
seemed to feel! How good was God!
How I loved Ilim and all mv fellow
be'm -'s! I was gladder than the bride,
au-1 young again, though the tale he
told of his captivity and his longing for
home made 1115 weep Vet he was with
me again.
Thank (iod we are together still,
though twenty years have Down; aud
it is now the year of our Lord IT'JJ In
those days when we have both passed 1
away from earth they will tell our story
in the town that lias taken the place of
our settlement; but I can 11 ->vr tell them
why tli" Indians spared Rulph's life
while the other prisoner* were all
killed, or why they were al ways good
to him until the day of his escape, for '
that he never knew himself.—Mary j
Kyle Dallas, in N. V. Ledger.
' —About the middle of February last
a northward migration of butterflies
over tli • C alf of Mexico was observed
at a distance of five to ten miles from
the Florida coast. Th-j nearest land to 1
the south being Cuba and Central i
Ameriea.tlie rjuestion is raised whether
ii is p:> siblc f r butterflies to fly so far
—Comb:iti:.g the iu "Cts which have
been ruitdng the h :s:nl crops id
Uavaria h .itiss ii 1 e -i the go rn
mciit ■ ii ;.i:ir'.,- hi I t » rom
tau;i I ;'Ji , • •. 1 1
"a'l'Cv l-'"-' 1 .-'"-v ■■ "
s : ,.irk ! -17 w:t.
"1 wish I were like ehampagne," he
siy'ied.
"Ah," she (jiKn i -d.
"Yes," he e i<:,: 111. il. "It sparkles
so."
"And it pops >. •nietiines." she mused
s« ftly, .but he was too stupid for any
u»e. — Detroit l-iee IVess
HM TterTtVus Reaoonafclr.
"What is an < !<! > •:» d '" asked Mrs.
Gummey of her in; band
"The term i* applied t;> a mariner
who has soon much service." replied
Gummey
"I thought perhaps a sea dog was an
ocean greyhound." -Judge.
Two Thttixs :it
Small I!oy—Sis says you have the ad
vantage over her Yon can eat and
talk at the same time.
Young Man— How's that .'
'*You talk through your u . so."—Jury.
To What Striii:;a I 1!
Crowpsoa People in New York waste
water terribly
Col. Gore (of Louisville)- Yes, I'm
told they drink a good of it. —Mun-
sey's Weekly
M.irrinl To. spite.
She -Why did a young man like him
marry that elderly woman?
He —I'o get even with her dauglitei
for being a -ister to him. —Kate Field's
Washington
"NINETY IN TIIK SUAUE,"
'*• v. Mk»--
mX . r .'. i- : mk
: I —%&-... Li > v v ! V& J
- Fall Mail Il.idget
Driven to It.
Haggard Citizen That's a rare old
violiu you've been playing every night
at your house for the last month, is it
not?
Next Door Neighbor— Yes. I Seen in
the family over a hundred years
"Sueli a violin would be hard to re
place, wouldn't it?"
"Couldn't tie replaced. If I should
lose it I'd never get another."
(With assumed carelessness) "What
will you sell it for?"
"Five thousand dollars."
(With feverish eagerness) "Bring the
infernal thing out! I'll take it."—Chi
cago Tribune.
Got 11 in Vacation.
Mr. liullion —l>y the way, Mr. Hook
keep, you asked for a va—
Mr. ltookkeep—Oh, Mr. Bullion, I did
not think really you would allow me a
vacation during this busy season.
Mr. Bullion—cation Well, you may
take off two—
Mr. Bookkeep - Thank you, Mr.
Bullion.
Mr. Bullion—Weeks, aud then stay
away altogether.—Jewelers' Circular.
A Safe liace.
Little Louise (at Long Branch) —Ma-
bel, why don't your uiamma wear dia
mond earrings like my mamma's?
Mabel—She left 'em home, and papa
hid 'em where the roblicrs can't get
'em.
"Where hao he hid 'em?"
"Why I heard him tell mamma that
he had put them up iu the spout, and he
guessed they would stay there." —Texas
Siftings.
A Hint. Time, Two A. M.
1 She—Let us rehearse a scene from
j Romeo and Juliet.
| He—With all my heart.
She —But you must let me act the part
j of Romeo.
He—All right. Proceed.
I She—"Look, love, what enviotu .st.-caks
I Do lace the sevi rin» eluuds In yonder cant.
< Night's eandli arc- burnt out, ami locunU iluy 1
1 Standi, tiptoe on th • misty mountain tops."
I He departed. —Harper's Bazar.
AS TO DUCKS.
A Man from the ntjr I 11111.4 Nolh.nif t«
Atluiire in !!.«• \mblUtbiou* I'owl.
Tli B t .1 T. riot do. -u't > 00m
to Ilk .111.-v.- It: a Uli: take, it iv s
to rej. ird t 1 • tin -ii a ■ ip!.*. eat
cheerful, amiable creature. It
is really a eager, unhappy
fowl, with a \* nut long felt, an aehing
void in its crop tht !i> never tilled. A
duek is sinij lv a wa-ldliug appetite.
The faruu rs have t;iki n to raising
dueks to supply erg-, f-.r the lktt»ton
market, wli. ieth< v bri.;g higher prices
Ulan h.-uV ■ ado. Thou .li the farmer
himself aud his family scorn
to cat theiu The is ui>t
considered a rc.pti .ite for ducks.
"Gi i-'eta plenty to at and plenty of
water to drinl;," says I'nele Ira, ".ind
th. y don't v.ant any water t-> swim iu."
I'erhap. tl.ev ik>a't ask for it, but it is
hard to believe that they don't want it.
It is a terrible thing to set- ducks eat
meal. They shovel il with their bills
ni.til their thr.-at. are crammed, then
wa.ldle to th. trough and drink a lot of
water and then shovel a great deal
more of the dough. In drinking they
do not lift their eyes to heaven after
the pious fashion of the liens. Uncle
Ir.. t'H>k a fork and went to digging in
the earth r.e.ir the chip pile. Instantly
the dueks varmed quacking around
and fell to picking up tli ■ ••artli-worma
that came up with the for <. Nothing
could parallel t' eir greed. They cat un
til they eould surely iat no more, anil
L'uele Ira desists for fear of killing
them, and then tlicy run off and go to
hunting insects if they had had noth
ing to cat for a week.
NAMING A TOWN.
The Fattier of Spw j Kc»l-IXca<ietl Sinters
Started the Town of Anl>urnilalt>
The town of Anburndale, Wis., re
ceived its name in a pc -uliar manner.
Years ago, when tli- 1 1 ectioa was com
paratively undevelo;)--.! and land was
cheap, a nian nata 1 King le -. ted there
an<l built a mill.
The place had good shipping facil
ities, and the mill soon become a nu
cleus of quite u thriving, bix-.tliii_'little
; town.
Then arose the question of a name
1 for the embryo city, and by coraim in eon
: sent the right of naming it was conced
ed to the first settler. Mr. King.
The citizens wanted to call the place
i King's Mills, but the old gentleman ob
jected. He said he didn't want lii.-> name
; tacked on to any one-horse or two-horse
! village.
Now, says the New York Continent,
j the old man was the happy father of
seven l>:>uneing daughters, and the vil
lagers sugi T e ted that the name of one
of tlicia should be given to the new
town.
This idea pleas -d the father as much
las it pleased tlu veil daughters, but
' which .me of the seven fair ones should
be honored al< ,»vc her six sisters? The
town could not be handicapped with all
the seven names.
Finally a happy thought struck the
old man. Every one of his seven daugh
ters was rcd-lieaded. He decided to
honor them all by christening the town
Anburndale, and Auburndale it remains
to this day.
CROSSING THE FORTH BRIDGE.
An <>1«1 [July's I'cur About the Under
taking.
A London journal says that a stout
and elderly woman was on board a train
which was approaching the Forth
bridge. Her remarks, which she be
stowed right and left upon her fellow
passengers, showed that she was unac
customed to traveling; yet she must
have been something of a philosopher
in her own way.
The old lady was nervous about the
bridge. She had seen pictures of it, and
had made up her mind that it could not
be quite safe. She kept inquiring when
the train would come to it, and at last
was told that it was close at hand.
"Well," said she, rather solemnly, "I
don't know whether we shall get over
alive or not, but if we don't it sha'n't
be my fault."
Then she settled into the corner of
the seat with a determined air and a
puekercd-up mouth, which were only
less droll than the general air of respon
sibility which brooded over her. Owing
the passage of the bridge she did not
speak a word, but seemed to be holding
her breath.
"There," said a gentleman in a neigh
boring scat, "we are over it safe."
The old woman heaved an explosive
sigh.
"Well," she said, "if we had gone to
the bottom I should have died with a
clear conscience, for it wouldn't hav#
been my weight that did it. I bore up
so that i really made the train lighter
than it would have been without me."
An Inebr'-.ted Cow.
Some time ago, says a Los Angeles
paper, one of our countrymen who
lives at Pasadena was astonished to see
one of his best cows lying apparently
dying in front of the barn. The animal
lay there inert, with open eyes, ob
livious of everything. The man called
a veterinary surgeon, who could not
diagnose the ease, ind a butcher was
sent for to bleed the animal. He was
some time in arriving, and when lie
did come the cow was found eating at a
haystack, but with legs a little uncer
tain. An investigation followed, and it
was found that the cow had eaten
copiously of the refuse at a neighboring
winery. This stuff, composed of grape
skins and stems, had fermented and in
duced a state of intoxication.
Three Kinds of Star*.
There are three well-defined classes
of stars, judged by the quality of light
they \ iclu. 111 the first class are the
clear white and bluisli-white stars like
Sirius and Vega. These are supposed
to be the hottest stars, and most lumin
ous in proportion to the extent of their
surface. Then there are the golden
yellow or pale orange stars, of which
Arcturus and Cappclla are tine exam
ples. These begun to cool. Fi
nally, we have the deep orange ami red
stars, like Aldebaran and An tares.
These have advanced still further in
the . joling process.
A llare Genius.
Jinks —That man does not look very
smart, and yet you say he has made a
million.
Winks—Smart? He's a genius. He's
a great inventor.
"You don't say so? What did he in
vent?"
"He invented an apple barrel that
won't hold scarcely anything at all." —
N. Y. Weekly.
lie In m Benedict Now.
She~-I suppose now that you have
graduated you are an "A. 1!.," aren't
you, Mr. Crimson?
He—Well, to tell the truth, Miss An
nex, I —urn—would prefer leaving off
the and I thought alicm—you,
perhaps, could help me to get rid of it.
—Boston Beacon.
Hadn't. Ileut-i! Her.
Miss Emcrsonia Russell (from Bos
ton) —I have read that Venus de Milo
will be at the Chicago Columbian expo
sition. Won't that be charming?
Miss Calumctia Porcine (from Chica
go)— Very lovely! But I have never
heard the young woman sing.—Jewel
er's Circular.
I.abele.l.
Edith—Was it r.ry ill-natured of me
to tell him that Daisy was rather—
' larky?
Rose —Of course not; it'*- patent to
1 every one. Why, even th. black stoek
| ings she wears iu bathing are stamped:
; "Warranted fast!" —l'uck.
THE PROFITABLE COW.
luuri.tl k l'»|i r lioad lltfora the
(InliirU r»' Iri4t((ut«.
! \ .ut a eosv with a kiowl and
oblong nostrils; I wunt a cow that is
very full u hind the i-ire leg*. She
Wants heart rmm and heart power,
anil the K-st indication of power
will IH> found in the skin of the animal.
Tht* bettor the heart pumps. the more
effc tuallv it will circulate the blood
to the very extremities of the cow s
bodj The skin of the Ix-jst is one of
the l>;>t evidences of its heart power.
The l> it evidence of stomach power
vrill also be fouud in the skin of tit®
animal. If there is vigorous circula
tion. and the blood is defective in
nourishment; then you have a skin
that is hard aud tight and bristly
hair, because the digestive acti iu or
heart action are interfered with and
arc not regular.
Maay men contend that the iinilk
veins should be very large. I consider
that to be immaterial, but the milk
veins should be prominent.
A cow's nose should be dewy and
moist; when it is dry it is an indica
tion of ill health. It means bad diges
tion, waste of feed and waste of profits.
She should have flat ribs, and wide
apart.
You wsuit, beyond these three powers,
the peculiar power in an auiinal of di
recting her energy to do what she is
kept for. You want the directive
power toward beef if you keep the
animal for beef; you want the directive
power toward mill* if you keep her for
milk.
The directive power in an animal is
the valuable power whereby you find
her directing her cuergies to where
you arc to find the biggest profits. A
scrub lias good lungs as a rule. A
scrub l.og will often outrun a dog.
You will have heart power in a scrub;
sometimes you have very powerful di
gestion. but she lacks the directive
power that wiU concentrate those
three powers to service, and not to
wasti.
Iu the milking cow you will find first
evidence of the directive power in the
kind of face she has —a rather long,
lean face, with no superfluous skin; no
iudi.-ation of flabbiness; large, lustrous
eyes, stauding very wide apart and
very prominent, with a forehead dished
downward; a long and broad forehead:
a large muzzle; a wide month, indi
cating large eating powers—the only
coarse part of a cow's head that is
justifiable. It indicates the power to
keep on grinding her food, and indi
cates a stroug constitution.
have a long, thin, tapering neck, as a
bulky, beefy neck Indicates a short
milking season. Her shonlder bones
should be right above the leg and wide
apart, and the joints loose; the wider
these are apart the better indication
you have of a large flow of milk when
the cow is doing her best. I do not
think it indicates anything of the
length of the season.
Thick, beefy hips mean beef, not
milk.
The cow's udder should be long and
shapely, with a long line of attach
ment between the udder and the cow's
body. You never find a coarse cow a
good milker. I like a cow to have all
the angles possible, but the bones
themselves and skui ought to be tine in
quality.
Having a cow of this kind, it is possi
ble to make her serve you well, but she
never could do so without getting care,
right feed and proper handling. Prof.
J. A. Robinson.
SUCCESSFUL DRAINAGE.
Till' Excellent Sjr»tem Kniploj-etl by an
Ohio Farmer.
Last winter a subscriber asked for
information, or rather advice, about
draining a 13-acre field of rolling land
that washed badly in heavy rains. The
piece was slightly lower in the center
than around the sides, and he asked
how best to drain land in that shape.
I have a field similar to his, and I
drained it in this way:
I run an 8-inch tilo from the mouth
up to the box (illustrated) in center of
the field, or lowest place, making cal
culations on having plenty of fall from
there. The box Is 4 feet square, with
4x4-ineli posts in the inside at the cor
ners. upon which the planks are nailed.
The bottom was bricked over, bricks
flat, to keep from washing. In the cut
A shows the tile entering the box, and
II is the 8-inch tile or outlet C is the
the brick bottom. I use 4-inch tile in
draining. Put the box in during dry
weather. Take J- inch plank and mark
size of tile in the lower one. and make
holes to fit the tile. Make the boxing
as deep as neccssaqf. You can run the
branches in any direction. I have
nearly 400 rods entering one box. (jet
all the fall you can in the tile. If you
want to farm over the box cover It with
S-inch plank and then earth. This is
what I did. I put a support intho mid
dle, as there is great weight in a foot
or two of earth, especially when satu
rated—L. T. Ritter, in Ohio Farmer.
Cultivation of Garden*.
A garden will produce large crops in
proportion to the space allotted to that
purpose. A garden is really but a njln
iaturc farm, and <l(*n oust rates the pos
sibilities of the farm. Manure is used
freely, and careful cultivation given
when the garden is relied upon and
with less area cultivated on the farm
and more attention given to the matter
of manuring and cultivating the crops,
the whole farm could be made to eqdal
the garden.
POULTRY like fruit of all kinds
especially apples, which at this season
can nearly always lie fed to a good ad
vantage when more or less is going to
waste.—St. Louis Republic.
A Correction.
Editor—We printed a likeness of you
in the Daily Kazoo this morning. Did
you see it?
Victim—l did not. I saw a portrait
of myself, though.— Munsey's Weekly.
The Autiablo Younger Sitter.
Young Sappy—Do you thiuk Miss Amy
will come down soon?
Eflic —Pin sure I hope so, for really I
tluil you au awfully hard man to enter
tain. —Munsey's Weekly.
Il«* Himself Uai Saltl It.
Mr. l.loobumper There's nothing
egotistical about Goslin.
Mi.-.-; Dollie (sarcastically)— No?
Mr. IS— I heard him say yesterday that
he hated a fool.—Jury.
t urhliiK Her Kt pec tat lona.
ISishop llullcm—So you think Heaven
is like Boston, do you?
Mrs. IS. (from the Hub) —Oh, of
course not exactly; I don't expect too
much. — Life.
Worthy of Imitation.
Miss Trill— l love to hear the birds
sing.
Jack Mallet (w armly)—So do I. Thejr
never attempt a piece beyond their
abilty.—Puck.
A Srrlplural Imtmiic*.
Jack—Well, after all, there never was
a man who never committed youthful
follies.
Tom—How about Adam?--Munsey's
Weekly.
NO. 45
FOR UAGGINQ GRAIN.
U»« «>..*•;, >ia -d Labor at -- -g*~g
. f ■',} t:ito Kaekft.
I . i . e. ho clean* grata far
■ ■ i.l.t, wished for some
p' ■ • i ■ . lime and the haqk
br:i. i I . ..• t looping it up into
S.V &-V
Wii i '-us.>oio -t in view an ingenious
far • i-i • initv devised and oon
tr i t-1 , .ie which ha yro
n i.s a i ■ ssicceai. After Sev
eral sn>- - i .u-ovements it is yafe
iftaiitiall - described. It if
shuv.i i'i >. tive at Fig. 1. The
eleva: .r '.it , is feet long, rati ad
thr • i •; floor at Its upM
end, aud re I ,r \ a two-inch bovd
at th- lo.ves- ill ? sides of
valor a. »ijlit i.iches apart, inaßf
in -ur • ati-l II mid be about the SSAS
( "
KLKVATOB FOE UAOMAE » ,W
in depth. A roller two and mil half
inch s in diameter is fixed at each
as shown i.i section at Fig. X The
shaft of the lower, upon which t)M
driving pulley is fastened, extends two
feet beyond the body of the elevator,
anil rests at its outer end in a block
mortised into the two-inch foundation
pi.-ce. tSea Fig I ) Tha pulley am
this shaft should not be more than
two and on .--half inches in diameter.
Within the elevator, extending from
one roller t.) the other, Is a smooth
floor, it; unp'T surface on a line with
tli ■ upp >r e I re of the rollers, and each
end hollowed bc:i -nth that it may flt
closely to tli • roller; liut it should not
be made to touch. (See section, A. A.)
The lower board (IS) of the elevator
serves principally to strengthen the
machine, a id several openings may bo
cut into it to facilitate putting IN the
Carrier
The hitter is eight inches wide, made
of heavy canvas, turned under oa inch
or more at each side and stitched slerg
the edge. Slats three-fourths of Ml
inch thick and one and one-half Inch
wide are riveted across this belt Ave or
six inches apart, the rivets passing
through th-. % slat Bear each end, and
through the double canvas at the tdn
of tli - belt. The slats should flt neatly
but loDaely within the shaft at flit
elevator, aud care should be UUslm
to place them squarely across the Mi
with rivets in the center of the uaq
FIXTURES OF GRAIN UITANS
otherwise the machine will M KAFC
The loiter sides of the slata nagr M
beveled, allowing the grata to nU
from them more readily whoa dis
charged at the upper end. Tha jotalpf
of the belt is made by overlapping tht
ends and tightly lacing together.
At the higher end of the machine the
legs arc mortised into a pieee two toot
long to give greater stability, aad near
the top carry a sack holder formed ai
a bow anil cross r#Jce, just far liniiu|t
from the floor to hold a sack property,
this end of the elcvater is covered with
a motal cap to prevent the grain front
flying too far as it leaves the carrier.
At the lower end another sheet oi
metal, nearly touching the slate as they
pass the roller, serves as a pocket W
catch any grain that might accidental'
ly fall back.
Touso this elevator, a grain spout is
attached to the mill, as shown in Fifl
3. Strips of wood or metal are fast
ened upon the incline, bringing the
grain together and discharging It
through a short spout, narrow enoagfc
to enter the lower end of the elevator
shaft. An iuch board across the sn4
of the elevator, fitting closely between
the cleats (C C) on the front of thO
mill, keeps the machine in position
while running.
To run the machine, a belt peaaps
over the pulley and fan shaft Of HI
mill, in case this shaft extends Ottliii
the mill far cuough to permit doing Mk
If not, the blacksmith can make a
crank like that shown In Fig. L Yon
can then attach si ten-inch pnlley, as la
the engraving, with several NIIM
through tke crank into the block, hott
ing it lirmly in placi, and the appara
tus is complete.
Some may thin e jucli a machine will
run hard, but it does not if properly
constructed and kept well oiled, and a
trial will cou'/inee any farmer tltat K
Is just who* he ought to have. —8. P.
Shull, In Rural New Yorker.
POULTRY PICKINGS
SCALD the feed at night and let stand
until morning.
IT is not A good plau to allow the
hens to lay in their roosting place.
STOIH: up a supply of dry, clean straw
for malting nests during the winter.
WIIKN convenient change the mats
rial in the nests weekly.
L'CIFRRTNI l>oi!ed and mixed with
bran make a good poultry food.
OLD barrels or hotrsheads are coa>
renlent for storing the poultry drop
pings.
HAVINO the nests darkened and using
china nest eggs will, in a measure, pro»
vent egg eating.
WKLI.-MATUUEN fowls with small
combs and wattles make the best kiad
to winter over.
IK properly managed the hens that
are moulting now can be made to lay
nearly or quitu all wiutcr.
IF pullets sit-.; depended upon to lay
the eggs for -.prln-r hatching keep a
two-year-old cock to mate with tbem.
A llauiboiM Dovar.
Astonished Clergyman (officiating SO
christening)— Please repeat the mill
of this infunt again, and say it slow.
Farent — Mary - Barbara - Elisabeth?
Farley - Akenside - Johanna - Berdunnp
Williams - Finley - Young - Thompson*
Pickle.
Clergyman (writing it down at PA**
ent's dictation) —May I ask why yon
give the child such a remarkable aaflsel
Parent—lt's all we ever expect to bo
able to give her, sir. —Jury.
Murcin- Will Oat.
Miss llighup—l don't believe the Dl
Styles have been out of the city at all.
Miss Tiptop—Their house was locked
up and they are covered with tan.
Muss II igiiup— Locking up the front of
a house is easy enough, and tan can be
got on the roof. They havent been awiy
and I know it.
"How?"
"With all the tan and sunburn a|TT
freckles, they haven't s mosquito bite
among them." —(lood News.
Silencing Hobby.
Young Father (in the future)—Or^at
bnakes! Can't voudo something to QNM
that baby? It's eternal squalling
drives me wild.
Young Mother (calmly to servants-
Marie, bring in my husband's mother's
phonograph and put in the
marked "At Ten Months." I w%n4
to hear how his voice sounded when M
was young. —N. V. Weekly |