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>