VOL. XXVIII. NIXON'S HOME. 35 North McKean Street, Bntler, Pa. Meals at all honrs. Open all Night. Breakfast 25 cts. Dinner 35 cts. Sapper 25 cts. Lodging 25 cts. SIMEON NIXON, - - Prop'r. Hotel Waverly. 8. McKEAN ST., - - BUTLER, PA. Opposite School House. This elegant new hotel is now open to the public; it is a new honse, with new furniture throughout and all modem con veniences; is within easy reach of the do pot* and business bouses of the town, and has a splendid view of the eastern part of the town. Rates Reasonable. Give me a call when in Butler. CHESS STONER, Prop'r. WmardHotel. ff. H. REIHING, Prop'r BUTLER, " FJI. BTABLIKU IH COHRKCTI6S. KASrLE 8008 for COBB EBOLA L TRAVELER Mifflin Street Livery. BIEHL & HEPLER Prop'ra. One square west of Main St., on Mifflin St All good, safe horses; new buggies Mid carriages. Landans for weddiDgs and funerals. Open day and night. Telephone No. 94. New Livery Stable. New Stock, New Rigs. —OPEN DAY AND NIGHT— Horses fed and boarded. PETER KRAMER, Prop'r 39, W Jefferson St. Bntler, Pa. Hotels and Depots, W. 8. Gregg is now rnnnipg a line of carriages between tbe hotels and depots of tbe town. Charges reasonable. Telephone No. 17, or leave orders at Hotel Yogeley. Good Livery In Connection CRAWFORD & KENNEDY. The well known liveryman, Win. Kennedy, has bongbt an interest in tbe above barn and will be pleased to have bis friends call at bis new place of business. Tbe Best Horses, Buggies and Car riages in Bntler at tbe most reasonable rates. Tbe place is easily remember ed. The first stable west of the Lowry House. DO YOU NEED A Traveling |Bv A Dress batt ■ -735? Kc A street hatt An Evening BonnetT Our Special Shapes Always Fit Oomforta bly, eve ■ trimmed plainly. M. F. & M. Marks'. e. o. It will be to your own inter est to come in and see what a first-class Hat and Furnishing Store can do for you. The success of the £ast makes us confident of the present and future, and notwithstanding the depression in business all over the country we have' largely in creased our lines throughout and now show a full and comprehen sive stock as can be found in the cities. We have gone right along from the time we started owing to the fact that we adhere strictly to first quality goods at the very low est prices, and we would rather miss a sale than misrepresent any thing. COLBERT & DALE, Hatters and Furnishers, 242 S Main street, Butler, Pa. A. J. FRANK k CO. DBALKHS IM DRUGS, MEDICINES, AMD CHEMICALS FANCY AND TOILET ARTICES, SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, AC nr-Pliyslcl&ns' Prescriptions carefully com pounded. 5 S. Main Street, Butler, Pa. G. D. HARVEY, Contractor and builder In brick work, grate and mantel setting and all kinds ol brlck-laylng a specialty. Also dealer In barrel lime. Wam pum loose lime, cements. National, Portland and all best grades in the market. Calcined plaster, planter hair. King's cement. Are brick, ttle, white sand and river mind. Main office 315 N. Mam street, and all orders left at ware bouse will rw elve prompt delivery. Terms reasonable. We will £Qnfl Qalaru ai "l Commission PAY Jto Men and Wom rn.-ii. Teachers and Clergymen to sell our New. Popular standard Work. MARVELS of the NEW WEST No Oner book published. Over 350 choice en gravings. 10,400 copies sold In one week. En dorsed by the greatest men of the country. This la no humbug offer. Writs* at nnn« KORPAttTICI;t ' AR3 'N TV IIIG at UIICo KEGARD TO SALARY. Ik Httv Bill Pulling Company, Norwichi Conn. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. m JOSEPH W. MILLEK, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Offlce and residence at 338 3. Main St. Butler, Fa. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, IST E. Wayne.St., offlce hours, 10 to 12 M. and 1 to 3 P. M. L. M. REINSEL, M. D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offlce and residence at 127 E. Cunningham St, L. BLACK, PHYSICIAN AND BCKUKON, New Troutmau Building', Butler, l'a. E. N. LEAKE, M. D. J. E. MANN, M. I>. Specialties: Specialties: Cynsecolog-y and Sur- Eye, Ear. Nose ar.d gery. Throat DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. PUTBICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at No. 4J, S. Main street, over Frank s. Co's Dtug Store. Butler, Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. rio. 22 East Jttiiersou St., liuUer, Pa. W. R. TITZEL. PHYSICIAN S. V. Corner Main and North Sts., Butler, Pa. V. McALPINE, Dentist, Is now permanently located at 120 South Main Street Butler, Pa., In rooms fotnierly occupied by Ur. Waldron. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. AftUlcial Teeth Inserted (n the luttst im proved plan. Gold Killing a specialty. Office— over Scliaul's Clothing Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession." execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties :—Hold Filling*, and Painless Ex traction of Teetti, Vitalised Ait administered. Oilic* t> Jelfenoi Htreet, one door East of Lowrj llonse, lip Stain. Offlce open dally, except Wednesdays anil Thursdays. Communications by mall receive prompt attention, N. B.—The only Dentist In Butler wing the best makes of twtfl. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, inrrtu* MKAR DIAMOND. BCTLKR, PA. A. B. C. McFARLAND- Att'y at Law and Notary Public—omce on S. Diamond St.—opposite the Court House—sec ond Hoot. H. Q. WALKER, AUorney=at-taw—oitlce m Diamond Block, Butler. Pa. J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-tti-Lnw. Je Ogce-Betweaa Postofllce and Diamond. But- A. T. SCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Offlce at No. 8, South Diamond, Butler, Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATIOBNEY AT LAW. Offlce second floor. Andcreou F>l k, Main St., near Coiut House, Buller, Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, SATTOBNEY AT LAW - Office on second floor of the Husclton block. Diamond. Butler, Pa., Room No. 1. JAMES N. MOORE, ATTOKNET-AT-LAW AND VOTARY PUBLIC. Ofilce In lloom No. l, second floor of llusellon Block, entrance on Diamond. IRA McJUltfklN. Attorney at Law. Offlce at No. 17. East leder son St., UuMer. Pa.; W, C. FINDLEY, Attorney lit 11.V ;,tal l.'fiU Estate Agent. OI flee r< ar of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north skle of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHEK. Attorney-at.-law. Offlce on second floor of Anderson building, near Court House, Buller, Pa. J. K. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—Office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Offlce on South side of Diamond Butler. Pa. L. 8. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFKERSON.ST. BUTLER, - PA. (SUTLER COVWn Mutual Fire Insurance Go. Office Gor. Main & Cunningham fits. a. C. ROESSING, PEESIDINT. H. CJ. IIEINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: O. C. Roesnln*, Henderson OHv(-r,BR£ J. L Purvis, .lames Stephenson,; A. Troutman, H. C. Heineimui, • -*3 Alfred Wick. N. Weltzel, r*K.-a Dr. W. frvln, Dr. Blrkenbach, J. W. Burkh&rt. ,D. T. Norris.!• LOYAL S. M'JUNKIN, Agent. BI7TI.ER, PA. A. E. GABLE, V eterinary Surgeon. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada. Dr, Gable treats all diseases of the domesticated animals, and makes riddling, castration and horse den tistry a specialty. Castration per formed without clams, and all other 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 We6t Jefferson Street, Butler, fa, THE BUTLER CITIZEN. OUR GREAT FALL CLEARANCE Sale is Now Going on in M M h 1 Farm Wagons, Spring Wagons, Delivery Wagons, Bag gies, Snrries, Carts, Sleighs, Bob-Sleds, Buck-wagons, Slat wagons, Spindle-wagons, Buggy wheels, pointed; Buggy wheels, not painted. Shafts and Poles, finished; Shafts and Poles, unfinished, Buggy Curtains and Lazy-backs, Buggy Tops and Wagon Tops, Bugsry Dashes and Wrenches, Cart -V heels, finished. Harness, of all kinds from the Cheapest Machine to the very best Hand Mad'-, Won: Harness and Buggy Harness, Horse Collars, all kinds and sizes, Sweat Pads and Collar Pads, Back Pads and Interfering Pads, Hobes of all kinds and blank ets to fit any horse at any price, Buggy Whips and Wagon Whips. All parts of Harness —Hames, Tugs and Traces; Halt ers of all kinds. Fly Nets ami Lap Dusters, Buggy Paint , the best make, Single Trees, Double Trees, Neck Yokes, Horse Brushes, Curry Combs, Springs tor Wagons, Buggies and Carts, Hoof Ointment. Top Dressing & Harness Oil . Hitching straps, Hame straps, Hiding saddles. Bridles, and Harness Saddles, Buggy-washers, Snaps, Bridle bits, Hoisting jacks, Anti-rattlers and everything—at Wholesale or Retail, We have all our stock made to order. We give our own guarantee ao that when you buy of us you know just what you are getting, We do not put you off with a manufacturer's guarantee whom you do not know. We are here to in;ike goo l all our own contract Our reputation is established —it took us years to make it. We intend to retain it. It is that which enables us to buy more, sell inorej buy cheaper, and sell cheap er than any other firm in the State and you who buy of us re ceive the benefit. Come and see us. If you deal here once you will deal here always. Yours &c. 5. 1 HARTINCiRT 8. CO. 216 W. Cunningham St S. B. Martincourt, - J. M. Lieghner HENRY BIEHL, 122 NORTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER FEiM ZsT'A DEALER IN Hardware and House Furnishing; Goods. reaper and steel frame binder, Warren ready mixed paint, warrented; screen doors and windows, refrigerators and lawn mowers. No better place in the city to trade. Come and see my large store room full of goods, 136J feet long. WHERE A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAP AS A MAN STOCK ENTIRELY NEW! Pine Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware and Spectacles At lowest cash prices at J. R. O R Ij|E B ' No. 125 X. Main St., - Duffy Block. Sign of Electric Bell and Clock. 00 Pittsburgh, Fa. — —" IP an . (, ., r , < ' liu ', l J. f " Institution lias prepared thousands of young men anil women for tlic active duties ol Hie. To those la want or a useful, practical education, circulars will be sent on application. r. DIFF x SONS. BUTLER, IJA.,1 J A., FIUDAY, 0< TO BISK 30. 181)1. THE OLD MAN'S WATCH. A-siace I left tte village whoro I Uvea as boy and man, And settled in the city here, where things are spick and span. I've noticed something queer about the work ings of my watch— It seems to be forever running backward, notch by notch. I've took it to the goldsmith and inquired the reason why, But he says he thinks the trouble li"s mostly in my eye. Fv bought snow spectacles (they're brighter than the old), But still my watch runs backward, and the past alone is told. When I take it from the pillow, Just before the break of d_y, It reminds me of the morning that our Jiunie went aw ay- Went awa-a ay to the metropolis—aad all the hopes and fears Come surging to my heart again, and melt theirselves in tears. Aud when the dawn come; struggling through the shadows of tbc street I hoar a muffled ticking like the pit a-pat of feet. And Sairey's little toddler, with his towsicd golden head. Comes in again and clambers up the side of grandpa's bed. When Lindy calls the time of day, I never see the hour, But in its place some picture o'er my senses wields a power. At noon I hear the and join the merry band. For once again I feel myself a hungry harvest hand. At one o'clock, at two, at three, fond recollec tions come Aud shut away the present scene, and still the city's hum. At six o'clock the cows begin to low, at eight the chores arc done, And fairy realms are wrought of clouds above the hidden sun. At nine—l blush and stammer then—l'm not myself at nine. For that's tho biessed hour I asked sweet 'Lindy to bo mine. At ten I kneel besido a crib and breathe a fer vent prayer: "O, God, O, Father, hear our plea! In mercy spare, oh, spare!" And then the hour grows dark and chill; the night winds, passing, sigh. As, bending low, I kiss farewell and see my tlrstborn die. No matter what tho hour at whiei tho watch may point its hand 3. Each ligure on the dial for some dear remem brance stands. I've took it to the goldsmith and inquired the reason wjjy. But he says he thinks the trouble of it's mostly in my eye. I looked at it this morning at a quarter after eight, And saw the school, a mil c av.-ay, and knew I should be late. But I.indy said: "Good gracious, John, that watch is awful slow: You haven't been a schoolboy since some sixty years ago."' And so my watch goes ticking, ticking back ward toward the past, And so It will go ticking, ticking backward 'till at last I close my weary eyelids and by tender hands caressed, Am cradled in my coßln, once again a babe at rest. —Willis J. Hawkins, in Detroit Free Press. {WSITTEN row TH'S * j§| HERE are many \ M ways of treating * (A ij fj the ague, but the J, Vf .. most original Mi method that ever \TW n I came toID y l ) VXii SjaSg" knowledge wa « J/Stlijit to which Pifikney Lazen berry subjected his father. When that tenacious and enervating* disease fastens upon its victim he can take the big "doctor book" and the ad vice of sympathizing friends and find himself in possession of a large num ber of recipes, all believed by their formulators to be good, or bad, for the ague. The "granny" remedies, as the form ulas of kind and experienced old ladies are sometimes irreverently called, num ber more than a score and consist of as many different combinations of various roots, herbs and barks, each, if passible, more unpleasant to the taste than tlic other. After one has been the victim of yel low-dock, sumac berries, mandrake, bone set, poecoon, wahoo, lndiap tur nip and what-not, in the various delec table combinations of which they are capable, he is pretty apt to be in a condition to appreciate the fullness of the feelings of the late Job, who de ] THE CRADLE ROCKER GETS IN ITS WORK. sired to be delivered from his friends and likewise, perhaps, their remedies. If by this time neither the patient nor the ajue have succumbed to tho treatment there remains, if he does not retain energy enough to resist them, the water cure, the earth cure, the old Uncle Darby Ilicks cure, the pack and one or two other that I do not now re call. Mr. Watts Lazenberry and his ague had survived all these cures, and while the poor man, by reason of the disease atad the remedies, had been reduced to a pitiable condition of resignation to almost anything, the agrie seemed in nowise discouraged. It was about this time that he experienced the original method of treatment of his son, Pinlt ncy, who the family weft agreed was destined to become a great inventor. "For the land sakesl" Mr a Lazen berry would often exclaim in admiring contemplation of her son's latest achievement. "What will Pinkney do next?" That seemed an unanswerable ques tion, for the somewhat remarkable things that his ingenious brain had already incited him to accomplish seemed to promise almost anything in the way of unexpected results. "Just think how he spliced out Jolly's tail!" his mother would say pridefully, when reverting to Pinlt ney's record and apparent possibilities. "Who else would have thought of such a thing?" Probably no one. Jolly, the dog, had for a long time managed to get along very well with an abbreviated caudal appendage—the result of a youthful mistake which led him to attack a large and cannibalistic tramp dog. For some reason Pink finally conceived the iflea that Jolly needed more tail, and proceeded t6 sup ply it Perhaps if the reader had felt called upon to retail a dog he would have con structed a serviceable if not ornament al tail by making a cloth contrivance not unlike a stuffed club. At least I should have done so. But Pink re solved that Jolly should have a tail that lie could feel proud of, no matter in what company he might find him self. To this end, he procured at the slaughter house .the tail of a l*tsly .(Us ceased cow, which he carefully tinea ntul sewed over an oak stick. This was splio»il on to Jolly's stub and really looked first rrCe, in spite of the fact that a yellow dop with a perfectly stiff rM tail tipped with a fly-bru.->h, is a rather unusual sight. Jolly was introduced to the family and the merits of the improvement ex patiated upon. Just as the baby wad dled up. Mrs. Lazenberrv presented the rejuvenated Jolly with a beef bone, which so delighted him that he wagged his new tail with such vehemence that he knocked the baby down and threatened to beat his unfortunate brains out be fore the wagging could be stopped. This led to the speedy detailingof Jolly, Mr.. Lazenbcrvy considering a hirgo d<g with a club attachment undesir able. That was the way it was with the majority of Pink's inventions. They promised fair enough, but often man a ,'ed to achieve the most unexpected and sometimes distressing results. Vink's rabbit traps were the wonder aiul admiration of the youth of the neighborhood. Hut, it seemed as if they had an unaccountable predilec tion for catching skunks instead r>t rabbits. At one time, he constructed a com plicated attachment to the churn. The only fault to be found with it seemed to be that churning with the improve ment involved an outlay of labor near ly double that required to operate tlio unimproved churn. Pink's riding-saw promised great things, but at the first trial it would probably have sawn the young inveu tor, himself, in two had he not been rescued before it was too late. It certainly was an ingenious and promising contrivance that he rigged for rocking the baby by wind power. With the expenditure of no little time, thought and labor, he rigged a wind mill above the roof of the porch, to which was attached an arrangement that rocked the cradle nicely when the wind blew gently. It promised to make quite a saving of time to Mrs. Lazenbewy, who could place the baby in the cradle on the isliady porch and let the mechanism rock him gently to sleep. This she ditt, one afternoon, and when the trial was over no fault could be found with Pinkney's crea tion. Isut, upon the following afternoon, the invention fell from favor. The wind was mild, the day fair and the baby sleepy, and so Mrs. Lazen berry placed the little fellow in the cradle and ran over to Mrs. Shipley's to borrow some yeast. Little llenry Clay Shipley was threatened with whooping couch, and, after the child had been brought out to cough for the syinpat*zing visitor, the ladies drifted into a discussion of various childish maladies and their treatment, and from them to the gossip of the neigh hood. Thus it happened that the errand occupied an hour in accomplish ing. Meanwhile, the breeze was freshen ing preceptibly, and by the time Mrs. Lazenberry started homeward it was blowing briskly. She looked to dis cover the windmill revolving merrily and the cradle rocking at a great rate. The baby was being rattled from side to side in a way that must have been decidedly uncomfortable, and howling like a good fellow. The mother hurried thither at her best speed, but was too late to avert the catastrophe which followed. Just as she reached the pate, there came a sudden and harder gust of wind, and the cradle gave one mad roll and hurled the baby out on its head and off from the porch. While yet there was considerable un certainty as to whether the poor little chap's nose was really broken or only badly skinned, Mr. Lazenberry up rooted the windmill and reduced it, to gether with the attachment, to kind ling wood. This, of course, happened before the ague fastened upon Mr. Lazenberry. But, in spite of such drawbacks, Pink continued to invent and his par ents to prophesy a triumphant futuro for his genius. By the time that Mr. Lazenberry and his ague were approaching the Uncle Darby Hicks' cure stage, Pink Nvas deep in the greatest effort of his life. Ttus was an attempt made for the spe cial benefit and pleasure of his afflicted father —a kind of wheeled reclining chair or vehicular couch. Not being an inventor, I can hardly describe intelligently the wonder, there not now existing its like to which I might refer. Two old cultivator wheels of eqital size placed side by side and connected by an axle, a small er wheel for steering purposes ahead, a low-hanging couch, swung beneath somehow, a crank arrangement and other contrivances of which only Pink knew the name and nature —that, briefly, was the invention. The opera tor was supposed to recline at ease on the swinging couch, and, manipulating the proper parts of the mechanism, go trundling gently along. It had been some time since the vic tim of the ague had been able to go about the neighborhood, but, as the in vention took shape, the family felt sure that it would enable him to take little excursions without fatigue and be the means of cheering him up con siderably if not of hastening his recov ery. Finally, the masterpiece was com pleted and the time of trial at hand, finding Mr. Lazenberry in a mild way interested in it as much as an ague-at flicted man could well be interested in anything but his own woe. Desiring to make the trial excursion as eas3 r and pleasant as possible for his father, Pink decided that ho should ride down the near-by slope, keeping to the smooth road down the gentle In cline and across the little bridge that spanned the gully at its foot, stopping as soon as he liked on the level be yond. Thus he would have little to do but guide the machine, as it would practically run itself down the slope. Mr. Lazenbury left his easy chair, crept out to the starting place and stretched himself on the low-swung bouch with an "um-ah!" of mild satis- HEBOIC TREATMENT FOIT TUE AGUE. faction. When all was ready. Pink re leased the wheel he had been holding, and Mr. Lazenberry, with a feeble smilo of anticipation, started gently down the slope. Then, the unexpected, which so often attended tho operation of Pink's creations, manifested itself. Wlion this invalid attempted to turn tho crank he displaced tho center of gravity, or from some tuck catiso put a portion of tho mechanism out of gear, tangling himself up in a most uncom fortable fashion in the machinery, and away went tho contrivance down the little hill at an unexpectedly rapid rato of speed with the victim in the middle with his feet considerably higher than his head. "Hold onl Hold onl'J shouted Pink. seeing clearly, when too late, just what ' was tho matter- It seemed unnecessary to offer such advice, for poor Mr Lazenberry, tan(rle<l up as he was in the midst of the invention, appeared to bo unable to let go Neither could he steer the ma chine. It did not confine itself to the road but seesawed from side to side and out of it. jouncing and bumping over hummocks and stones in a most unpleasant manner, jerking aud thump ing and scrubbing poor, ague-weakened , Mr. Lazenberry shamefully Pink started to dash down the hill after the invention, but stubbed his toe and tumbled headlong By the time j h* had picked himself up it was too late to prevent the mischief. Before he : could catch up, the masterpiece, with j his father in its clutches, ran off one end of the little unrailed bridge at the ] foot of the slope and dropped into the • gully. The cry that Mr. Lazenberry uttered as they went over the brink was a surprisingly energetic one for a ; man who had hail the ague so long L'pon investigation the invention j was found to be badly wrecked, but for tunately Mr. Lazenberry had received nothing worse than a severe shaking up, but his faith in Pinkney as an in ventor was well-nigh shattered. The vehicular couch received no fur ther improvement. The wreck was left in the gully till washed away, some weeks later, by a freshet Neither did l'inkney's unique treatment euro his father of the ague. But, finally, the disease, either succumbing to the influence of quinine or getting tired of his company, deserted its victim, and to-day he is as well and hearty as al most anyone you could name. I'ink ney continues to invent and his mother to encourage him, but his father is less sanguine. TOM P. Mono AN HU Crcdeutlalj. It doesn't make any difference wliiih United States senator it was so as the story told of him cannot be iised upon anybody he can get his hands on Suffice it to say it was a United States senator and he had come to Washing ton to be inducted into his high office, lie was out in a committee room with two or three senators during the pre liminaries. "By the way," inquired one, "have you got your credentials?" "You l>et I have," he replied on the spot, yanking a big wallet out of liis pocket and slapping it down on the table. It was a clean give away, but they never told anybody except in execu tive session and that is how it leaked e\jt»—Detroit Free Press. Anonymous Letters. if, since the world stood, there have been composed and sent off by mail or private postmen 1,000,378 anonymous letters, derogatory of character, then 1,600,37S were vicious and damnable. If you are compelled to choose be tween writing a letter with false sig nature vitriolic of man's integrity or any woman's honor, on the one hand, and the writing a letter with a red-hot nail dropped in adder's poison, on a sheet woven of leper's scales, choose the latter It were healthier, nobler, and could better endure the test of man's review and God's scru tiny. —Talmage. Conversational Item. Jones—l bought a parrot the other day, but the confounded bird don't learn how to talk. Smith—Send him over to my house for a few days. If my wife doesn't teach him how to talk then you take him back to the bird store, for there is no hope of his ever learning.—Texas Siffc ings. Crushed Again. Dressmaker (to fashionable customer) —Oh, I am so glad you called to-day, madam, as I have a new wrinkle in waists just from Paris. Fashionable Customer (icily)—l thought you knew that I never wore a waist with wrinkles in it?— Detroit Free Press. Reversing It. Mr. Lakeside—l be.lieve it was an Englishman who called Boston the Athens of America, was it not, Mrs. Bean? Mrs. Browning B?an —You are mis taken, sir. It was the Greeks who called Athens the Boston of Greece. — Life. A Warning. Trotter —Was your husband's death 6udden? Widow—Very. He was just learning to play ou the violin, and — Trotter —Ah, I sec —and the neigh bors objected.—.Judge. All In a Nutshell. "You refuse me," he gasped. "I do," replied Araminta. "It is because I am poor and un known. You do not understand me." "That is just it, George. You are too obscure." —Puck. That's Just About It. Molly—Ned Croesus is a much better match than Charlie Bullion; his fortune is larger, and he has some intelligence. Polly—You mean that he has not only more dollars, but more sense.—Jury. ltoth Knew It. Minnie—l heard you are engaged? Whom to? Alice—Do you recognize this ring? Minnie—O, yes; that's Hilly Bowles.' —Jewelers' Circular. About Wills. "Do as I say," thundered an angry father. "My will shall be law." "Well, then, I'll l>et it wasn't drawn by a lawyer," returned his son. —Life. NOTHING MEAN ABOUT HIM. I w Servant —Goodness! Master Tommy, I'd rather have the whole family sick than yon. Sick Boy (savagely)— Well, so would I! Golden Days. Couldn't Have Ilfrn Fweddjr. Gus—Choll.v, I think I saw your old friend Fwcdd>»a little while ago. One of his trousers legs was creased a little further up than the other and he was in a terrible state of mind. Cholly—ln a state of mind? Then it wasn't Fweddy.—Chicago Tribune. Equal to the Occasion. "Now, dearest Etlicl," said the anient lover, "since you have answered yes to my proposal, I presume I shall not be too bold if I ask for a kiss." "You want the earth." "You mean heaven." lie got it.—Cape Cod Item. An Heiress. Finkle—What a lovely head of hair Miss Northerland has? Diukle— Yes: she inherited it from her father. Fiukie —Was he blessed likewise? Digkle—No; he was a wigmsk^r.— 1 WELL-MADE CISTERNS. They Aa.ure a SuMrirnt Supply of Par- Uutrr for Mock. Having noticed fceverai nrtlele* on th» •abject of pure water for t4ock, am knowing its importance, and also tha' there are many localities where it it "♦•"impossible to briny the water frou springs or depend on the small supply from wells, 1 would nc-mmend a well constmcted cistern or a numlvr of cis terns connected together. I.et lis luo) to the roofs of available buildings at th fir.-d source of supplying water. Talc a root" say of 42x5:1 feet, including pro jeetions, and we have 2,154 square feel of surface. Allowing the annual rain fall to be 38inches, a building of the : dimensions given would catch, in a | year. 5 - J,411 gallons, or I.C'VS barrels \ which had much better lw utilised ii ' this way than to be allowed to drl\> into manure piles, thus washing theii goodness away A cistern large enough to hold 1,603 barrels would have to be i CO feet in diameter and 23 feet deep, : but as the rain does not all come at once, and it is not all used at once, the dimensions need not be quite so large. FIO. I. A A, corners of outside walL H. filtering vralL C O. inlet and outlet pipe*. In choosing a site do not make the make the mistake of building in an in convenient place just to save a few ceuts' worth of spouting, but consider the number of steps you may save in a year. To illustrate: Mr. A. has a barn in which he keeps stock. To save spouting he digs a cistern at the oppo site end. .".I feet from the stock, to which he carries 18 pailfuls per day; six rod:, per pail and 10S rods per day; 60Ji miles in six months, when ho might have built within 15 feet. Do not mat:.' even a horse or a cow drink unfiltercd water. There are al ways dust and dirt uround a barn, especially if there Is thrashing dono near it, and a great deal will get on thj roof and be carried by the rain into the cistern Having had over twenty years' experience in building I like the following plan for general purposes as well as auy I have ever tried. Dig a cistern, or rather a double one, according to Fig. 1. making one larger and deeper than the other, and, if pos sible, make as larpe as needed, remem bering that the smaller will help some. Begin at the bottom of the side wall and lay one course of brick flatways all around, then commence and lay the brick up edgeways until near the top, then flat, while arching the top. ( — D— ;• i.4 ' I t - ; Jl - FIG. 3. Leave a space of about one inch behind the brick work and every two or three courses fill in the space thus left with a thin grouting of sand and cement, until the top is reached. As soon as the wall of the main cistern is up to the stpaller one join the outside walls of both and carry up together. Thor oughly cement the corners at A, A, Fig. J, and also at the bottom where the filtering wall B is to be laid. Lay fil tering wall of porous or hollow brick, well bedded and jointed with cement, but do not plaster on either side After the walls are up fix the bottom, and thoroughly cement the outside walls and bottom with two good coats of ce ment Make both inlet and outlet pipes in receiving part of cistern. As will be seen by Fig. X, whyi the water is drawn below the lowest point of the smaller cistern the latter will be empty and can easily be entered and all accu mulations of dirt removed, lie sure to build deep enough in the earth so as to escape frost —not less than two feet from the top of the ground, in the lati tude of northern Ohio. —R. Clement, in Ohio Farmer. FACTS FOR FARMERS. A DECOCTION of the common elder is recommended as a remedy for cabbago worms. THERE is no use trying to savo a blighted pear tree with any application for that purpose until nil the affected limbs are removed The same rule ap plies to black knot on plum and cherry trees. Gn.vrES will not mature after pick ing, as fully-grown pears and apples do; so if you wish them to keep well they must be thoroughly ripened on tho ▼inch. With proper caro and handling they may be kept well into the winter. A SEW enemy of the potato vine Jias made its appearance in Michigan. The vine when attacked be gins to wilt at the top. In the hollow of tho stem is found a worm nearly au inch in length, which appears to sap the life of tho plant. Do NOT plant a tree unless you know how to take caro of it. Somo people will plant expensive trees and shrubs and find out how to take care of and protect tbem only after tho tree has be cocao the prey of some of its numerous enemies. A W.ITJ is ia th.i Net'oaul Stockman say 6 that speed of bees is greatly orer&sth.MJ'ied. They io uct fly when empty at t. creator sp*«d than fifteen to twcr.lj miles per 1 our, and when loaded do not mako more than half that 3peed. The Same Thing. Mrs. Ilojack—Mrs. Tomdik is the worst bargain-hunter I know. Uojack—A regular pugilist, eh? Mrs. Hojack (mystified)—A pugilist? Ilojack —Yea; a price-fighter, you know. —Judge. Exterminated. Farmer Wenthar —How'd yer git red of all them woodchucks'n polarcats you bed round here? Farmer Ilollis—A city rooster come up here an' l'arnt Johnny t' smoke ci garettes last week.—Judge. From Hand to Month. Cadson Cholly's a reckless dog", seems always to live from hand to mouth. The Major—Yes; and mostly from some other fellow's hand. —Life. The Latent I'aahlon. Young Lady (familiar with museum collections) —What arc those South Sea Island slaughter clubs for? Dealer (blandly)— Those are parasol handles. —N. Y. Weekly. * The MlaeU ffai Wrong. Marv—The missis says that yon were drunk last night. Pat —She's wrong. Sure It's whisky that was drunk.—Jury. A I.lltie Bit Broad. May—What would you do if you had a complexion like mine? Blanche—Take the black veil.— Truth. NO. 51 ABOUT SPOTTED FIELDS. Bow to Make livery Acre on the Farm rroddM It* Best. There arc to be found on almost every farm what may be termed "spotted fields." I!y this are meant fields which have defective places in them, where the crops have made a poor return. In this oat field there may be found a spot where the straw was thort and on the stalks no beads. In that cornfield is a place where tho ears failed to set and where there was scarcely any growth of stalk. Out in the meadows are thin spots where the grass forgot to grow, and yonder bar ren knoll iu the pasture is evidence In itself that it is not doinff as well as it should. It is well to consider these significant hints furnished by the fields and patch up the deficient places. Some one has said that he who farms poor land should always go about the place with clover seed in oue pocket and gypsum in the other. This figurative expres sion may be taken quite literally by almost every farmer immediately after harvest, for the farms— particularly in the east —are few upon which no un productive places are to be found. It needs not the chemist to analyse the soil to tell what these places need. Two things may ba given as the rem edy on nine-tenths of the farms. Tit, manure and drainage. Let the barren spots be well covered- with manure or fertilizer of somo sort, and if the opera tion is repeated in the spring so much the better. Let the wet places be drained and thus convert waste into productive land. Tile is good invest ment on any laud that needs it, for the land is virtually worthless without If intensive farming is to be the most successful farming in the future, then every acre and part of an acre must be made to produce its very best. Wet places must be reclaimed, half pro ductive spots must be made to bear full crops, and wide brier hedges along the fences must fall before the bush hook. Rocks perhaps appear in patches, en dangering plowshare, reaper and mower. They should be picked up and carted off. They are commonly heaped in some corner or along the edge of a field, whero they arc still in the way, instead of being hauled on the bad ruts and sags in the road, where they are out of the way and useful.—American Agriculturist • BUTCHERING DEVICE. A Simple, labor-Sav'.uj Contrivance Any one Can Make. A subscriber sends to the Orange Judd Farmer tho following simple dc vico for elevating a beef, or any car cass, when butchering: Spread apart the hind legs of tho butchered and dressed carcass, and keep them spread by a stick put across above tho gam brel joints. Through the gainbrel joints run a strong pole, or iron rod —a crowbar will do—letting it extend a foot or two on either side. Attach two ropes to the beam overhead, a branch of a tree, or whatever forms the sup port, as far apart as the carcass is wide, as shown in the illustration. To the low ends of each rope, which should bang to within about three feet of the ground, attach a stick two or three feet long, at its middle point Place the rod, running through the gam brel joints, on the ropes next to the short IlffP,. HANDY BUTCHEBIXO DKVICK. ■ticks. Revolve the sticks about the rod. This will wind up the ropes, and raise the carcass from the grouild. Any boy sixteen years old can do the work with case. When raised high enough, a second rod or a board should be placed between the ropes and the ends of the sticks, as shown in the engrav ing, to prevent unwinding. Both ropes should be so wound that the sticks will tend to turn the same way. Landscape Gardening. Some of the most conspicuous effects that may be realized from group ing and placing trees are: 1. The for mation of distinct groups of the various species and varieties. 3. Planting over greens with a view to forming a dis tinct winter scenery. 3. To gradually blend evergreen and deciduous planta tions by pleasing connections. 4, To place certain trees in conspicuous posi tions. 5. To plant with reference to individual beauty, as also with regard to the resulting from a combination of forms. C. To produce a pleasing sky outline to all heavy masses or distinct groups. 7. To plant with regard to autumu coloring and tho introduction of flowering trees. All of these effects may not be obtainable on tho lawn, but judicious selection and planting will combine a considerable number of them. —Orange Judd Farmer. Buckwheat for Sheep. We should not feed tho buckwheat alone to the sheep, but when mixed with corn aud rye it will make a whole some food. We should mix tho three grains in equal parts and feed wholo with good clover hay if possible. Buckwheat alone is very "heating"—a diet of buckwheat cakes in the human being is only advisable in tho coldest weather. Mixed with corn and rye, you will obtain a ration that la tooro digestible and better balanced. As a rule, it is better economy to sell tho buckwheat ground into flour, and buy bran or linseed meal with the money thus obtained. The samo is often true of rye. —Rural New Yorker. WHILE we wouldn't reject a cow be cause of the color of her hair, yet wo would demand that more of the other good points should be there. In short, brindle is a scrub color. tie Misjudged Him. "No," said the stern father. "I shall not permit you to marry young Fun ster. In the first place he la too care less of the future—" "Why, pa! He Is not a bit careless of the future. He has nearly three htyi dred oyster jokes written up for tho winter market." —Indianapolis Jour nal. And lie Cot It. "I have been particular in giving you my meat order," said the guest, be cause I have a good deal at steak." "Your remarks, sir," replied the dignified waiter, moving leisurely away to give the order, "are entitled to a great deal of wait." —Chicago Trib une. Rainfall and Crop. Stranger—llow are the crops? Fanner— Not wot tliey ought to be. Too mueh rain. Stranger —Hem! The owner of tho farm next to yours complains of not enough rain. Fanner—Well, lie's got a durn sight bigger farm than I have. —N.Y.Weekly. Itiulnee* Befer® Meaaure. Twvnn —Come and dine with me at mv club to-night. Triplet— Can't possibly, old boy, too much business to attend to. Twynn—You are a veritable mummy —always pressed for time. — Brooklyn Eagle- -e. woi ms>
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