VOL. XXX. I : f\n. HOXSIE S :;MHU CERTAIN • • IS • ■ ■•CROUP CURE Guaranteed to | !! NO OPIUM. rilßF^rMoneyj <» at all druggists. UUIIL Refunded. < / ♦i+We t Are f Now+i- DOING +BUSINESS* IK OUR -NEW STORE SOUTH MAIN ST. Grand Opening About April Ist. ■nOOQUQPmnb B H Campbell & Templeton. FURNITURES -^OEENSWABE. CLOSING OUT SALE! I The Goods Must Go. Bargains! Bargains!! Bargains!!! Bargains in Dress Goods, Bargains in White Goods, Bargains in Hosiery; Bargains in Wraps, Bargains in Millinery. & J Bargains in Carpets and Rugs. Having purchased the large stock of goods of Ritter & Ralston, of Butler, Pa., at Sheriff's sale 1 will offer the people of Butler county bargains in all kinds of goods, such as they have never before received. Wedr\eaday, March H, 1593. I will offer the entire stock of goods for sale, and continue from day to day until the entire stock is disposed of. Parties can buy goods as cheap as at public sale, with the advantage of examining goods before purchasing. Come one, come all, and buy what yon want, at the old stand, corner of Main and Jefierson streets, Butler, Fa. Jennie E- Zimmerman. W. G. DOUTHETT. H. W. F. GRAHAM DODTHETT+fI+GRAHAM'S NEW CLOTHING AND Furnishino STORE WILL OPEN .APRIL Ist, ATE Corner of Main and Cunningham Sts., REIBER BUILDING. Latest Styles, and all New Goods. ARE STILL ON DECK. We have better facilities, larger stock and lower prices than ever before. We broke the back bone of high prices in Butler county several years ago, and have been pounding it ever since. The result has been satisfactory to us,although it took lots of nerve and hard work, but the people arc with us and by their support financially, and good words spoken, we have kept manfully on in the same way we started out, having for our motto — "Never misrepresent nor try to get rich off one customer;" so that to-day everbody is our friend and customer. One purchase here means a customer for life. + + + If you have not been here lately you should come and see us now. t t t t t t t Top Buggies, only - $45,001 And everything belonging to a Spring Wagons, only - 35.00 I driving or team outfit at corres- Buck Wagons, only - 30.00 pondingly low prices. No Buggy Harness, only - 4.25 difference what you want to Leather Work Harness,only 18.00 ' use about a horse or team come Buggy Whips, only - 10 here for it. We have even reduc- Harness Oil, per gallon 50 'ed the price of Kramer wagons. Sweat Pads, (collar) - 35 IWe also have now a lot of the Singletrees, only - 25 very finest buggies, wagons and Team Collars, only - 75 , harness made in the world, Buggy Collars, only - 75 j which we sell at prices others Curry Combs, only - 10j charge you for common work. B. Martincoiu-t & 00., 128 East Jefferson Street. Butler, Penn'a. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. j (THE KIND 1 : | THAT CURES" ■■ v : M SfoTritom.X. Y. 9V . § Kidney Trouble for 12 Years, jj ■ Completely Cured. j|| I B D kNA SAV iPAEILU Co., ; M —F"r 13 yean I have b**n fcftd?Tß| = with Khlney Trouble. Two r»mrf I h*d •• t+ih » 1 .. ;n== j H§» y b«rk. Att:nv« it vuhini lor me tojrtH Jgl around. Luc Wtb. I had smother attack of '• I.a == ■Orippr," wh. h Irfl rr.f to I rould^ "hardlr ff I arrnoa |hr rooic. Our aarr- H se chant BaviM-d mm to try a bottle of _ DANA'S i | SAKSAPARILLA ■ I Hi did to. ana hjrvp tak'-n three* bo(t!«of SAR-m SSAPAKILLA »nd on* boK** of DANA « PILLS.™ j Bt.'l lam (OMPI.r.TF.I.V CI'RED.^ ■ .Votroohlr with Kidnria; no hurk-B = achr; giHtd app<*tit<-. snd Inr: r Mt b*t- = ■Ur in my lit*-. Y-,u may pot&ah thta it y : wirfi.= u every word i* true. g | |B Vviun truly. I B Uorridovn, NY- WESLEY STERRY. jgj H Or*W —Wr an- pcraocaliy aerjuaintwl w.th JL B rod know tuj ateSrroent* arc tra«- ~ j ■ R»pectfuLy, A. F. ft GF. McNEILL jgj Dana Saruparilla Co., Belfast. Maine, g§ I FRANK KEMPER, I 7 DEALER,IN j BLANKETS, HARNESS, everything in J horse and buggy fvir- I nishing goods—H ar - ness, Collars, Whips. Dusters, Saddles, etc. A-lso trunks and va lises. Repairing done on short notice. The largest assort ment ot 5-A. Horse blankets in town will be found at Kemner's. DURf DRUGS II LOW 1 PRICES is the motto at our X sto re. If you Bre sick end need medicine you want tbe BEST. This you can always depend upon petting from us. as we ute notbir.s but strictly Pur' Drugs in our Prescription Depart ment. You can get the best of every thing in the drujr line from us. Uur store id also headquarters for PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES. Kalsomine, Alabastine , Get cur prices before you buy Paints, sad -ee what we have ;<■ offer. We can pave you dollars oi) your paint bit! Respectfnilv J. C. REDICK. / Main St., next to Hotel Low ry BUTLEK, H/Y. Here We Are Right To The Front With Spot Cash Prices. We have some overcoats left and have made prices on them that will move them soon. We do not wish to carry over a garment of heavy goods and if low prices will clear them out we shall do it, so before buying clothing or furnishings for men or boys inspect the goods and reck bottom spot cash prices at The Racket Store, 120 S Main St., Butler, Pa. L. <J- WICK DKJLKB 15 Rough and Worked Lumoei OF ALL KINDS Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Shingles ?nd Lath Always In Stock.; LIME. HAIR AND PEASTEh. Office opposite P. 4W. Depot, BUTLER - - PA. SEE These Prices on EVERGREENS. 10.000 Norway Spruce. I to u inches hlj;h, s_•!>. 10.000 Balsam Fir, 4 to 8 inches high, #43. 10,100 Arbor \ Ita 1 , s to 1.1 inches high. (jr.. lo.o'Mi | Scou-h Fine. 4to 8 inches high. Wo. Over varieties. T.ooo 000 lor saie. TRRFS ,vilite Cottonwood. runLoi i iujLO,, u , J2 i :i ,. u ftJ) Yellow Cottonwood, 12 to ih inch, sloo. liwooo Sugar .Maple. 4to « inch. t35. 1000.000 Kim. Ito u Inch. t'T>. We sold s,ouo.i*o In i -u.'. We must ■sell twice as many Mils year. Our nursery is overstocked with all \arl-tles and sizes ({rrutt and ornaiaanial trees. We must clear some of them out. Send for price lists. EVERGREEN NURSERIES, Evergreen, Wis. WANTED. Agenta to sell uur choice and Hardy Nursery Stock. We have many special varieties, liotb in fruits and ornamentals to offer, which are controlled only by us. We pay commission or salary. Write us at once for term.-, and secure choice of terri tory. MAY BROTHERS, Nurserymen, Rochester, If. Y. I Adventures of Tad; OR THE HArS AND MISHAPS OF A LOST SACHEL. A Story for Young and Old. BY FKAXK 1L OONYiufeSS, Atrrnon op -ttrrzn Adams." ••bi.ows Ott to Sea," "Paci. Grafton," Etc. [Copy! :■]!■'•■]. I-SS, b<j D. Lothrvp «f- Co., end PuMUhtd by Spf 'l'tl Arrang?mint.] "Tliere—them's all the ropes," said Mr. Small, with an air of relief. "Now, all you've got to do is learn low to steer, .in' fie * reef p'iut, r.n' ! ,-ou'll 1 ■ n a sailor as anybody." So saying, Mr. Small polled a jack inift- and a piece of shingle from his pocket, and, setting down cu the fore latch, began whittling, while Tad, greatly surprised and considerably re .icved to find that the whole art of »ea jianship wa3 so easily learned, drifted to the rail, where he stood gazing lelightedly at the panorama spread jnt before him. Great ships, pulled by little panting tug-boats— with sides rusty from a long sea-voyage—came slowly up the harbor; while others, with loos aned sails, began their outward-bound j TAD' 3 FntST LESSON". voyage, with the chanting song of the sailors as an accompaniment to the clanking capstan. Enormous iron steamers, handsome brigs and three- : masted schooners as large as the ships j themselves, passed and repassed, in be wildering succession. ••I think it's real nice to be a sailor," said Tad, enthusiastically, to Polly, who was walking the deck, followed by the small dog. Polly had named him "Bounce," and as he trotted sober ly at her heels, on a pair of very short, ! unsteady legs, he resembled nothing so much as an animated bunch of black j zephyr worsted. "Oh, I knew you'd like it," was Pol- ; confident answer, "and you'll like it all the better before the voyage is j over." lad was quite delighted at this pros pect. But it occurred to him all at j once—and for the first time—that il j the Toyage sh ;ld be a very long one he was rather poorly off for clothes. Though perhaps (he thought) Captain Flagg could stop somewhere ou the way and buy him a few, out of the wages which he was beginning to earn. " Where is the vessel bound to, miss?" asked Tad, respectfully, being much impressed by the rratter-of-fact manner in which Polly spoke of the voyage that lay before them. " Why, away down East, to Bixport, J wlmto father and I li VP.' 1 returned Polly, with a comprehensive wave of her hand, which took in about half oi the northern and eastern horizon. " Bixport's a real nice place, though it isn't quite as big as Boston," she con tinued, explanatorily, and Tad caught himself wondering if it was anywhere near the Arctic regions of which we had read, and if so what he should do for an overcoat—for even then he was beginning to feel chilly in his thread bare suit. So the afternoon wore slow ly away. Captain Flagg smoked and steered, Polly played with the dog, George Washington got supper. Eph Whittled up another shinglo (which he pull oil out from under the hatch covering), and Tad meditated. "Strike eight bells, Mr. Small, and call the watch!" shouted Captain Flagg, in a stentorian voice, as a glance at his old-fashioned time-piece showed that it was four o'clock p. m. The chief mate shut up his jack-knife reluctantly, rose to his feet, and, dust ing off his tarry trousers with great de liberation, struck eight resounding strokes on the small beU for'ard. Then, lounging aft, he relieved the wheel, and, seated on the rudder-head, steered with one hand, while the other absently fingered liia jack-knife in his pocket Captain Flagg now t x>k a seat on the edge of the little trunk cabin, yawned, squinted his eye toward the western horizon, where the sun was going down In a great sea of purple and gold, and patronizingly beckoned to Tad, who, with some diffidence, sat down beside tbe ancient mariner. "Like your shipmates in the port watch pretty well, my lad?" inquired the Captain, kindly. With a shy glance at unconscious Polly, who was tantalizing Bounce by swinging the big sun-bonnet by the strings, before his nose, Tad said he liked "em ever so much. "That's proper," approvingly re sponded Captain Flagg, "and mind that yon learn all you can from 'em. Eph is a tremen'us smart sailor," continued the Captain, lowering his voi-je as he regarded the youth in question, "and what he don't know about ship's du ties and reggerlations ain't worth knowin'." As Tad's eyes involuntarily followed the direction of tho Captain's gaze, he secretly wondered whether it was ec centricity that prompted Mr. Small to wear a faded calico shirt, a battered slouch liat, tattered vest and dingy canvas trousers. For Tad's idea of a sailor's rig was derived from the one or two highly-wrought nautical tales which he had read in his life. He fancied that in all climates and weath ers, Jack Tar wore a little glazed black hat with long ribbons, and a blue jack et resplendent with brass buttons, blue trousers, silk stockings and low-quar tered shoes. "But he's the—the greatest chap to whittle I ever see in my life," pursued Captain Flagg, meditatively—" the very greatest." Polly, who overheard tho remark, laughed gayly in the depths of her sun bounet. "He's got half a bunch of loose shin, fles in tho bottom of his bunk, that ho taved from our last deck-load, and sakes out a fresh one every time he goes below—that's where George Washing ton gets his kindlings for the galley ttove from," she remarked demurely. "The most I'm afeaml of," observed aer father, in a confidential whisper, s that his tisin' of a jack-knife so much aiight get tho vessel into some sech a •crape as the ol* British East Indy ship •Win'sor Castle' got into once whilst I ires a sailor." •'What wss that, 6ir?" eagerly in- Isi£cd Poll* kftpwjug fuU wejl what a \ TUTTLER, PA.,FRIDAY. 3-4, repository for the material out of which sea-varns were spun wus her father's manly chest. "Well," slowly returned the Captain, "near's I can remember, the etory's Ehis: The ship was on her home-bound aassage from Chiny, an' pot becalmed for two or three days somewhere on the 'qualor. So, it beia' hot, nnd the sailor to the wheel bciu' r. abse'i^mindedsort of jv chap, what does ho 1 * do but out fer.ife and cut his name—'James W. Dunn'—along on the rim of the m'hog any wheel!" Here Captaia Flr.gg em phasized the enormity of the offense by a portentous shaka of the bead, cuid went on: ••So, when the Cap'n came on deck, there wai a pretty row. lie claps Jim in irons, and d'ra'tly they got into pun, iiau mm "rested, r.ad the only way poor Jim could get out of it was by pajing for a bran'-new wheel." ••That was too had!" interjected Tad, who was eagerly listening. •*"s\ ell yes," assented Captaia Flagcr, who had a curious way of some times combining th» practical and scriptural when occasion offered, '"but it goes to ?how. Tfc:.d that —the — TOE STORY OF THE WHEEL, the—way of transgressions is hai and —anyhow—" said the Captain, break ing off his quotatioa rather hastily, as ho saw a gleeful twinkle in Polly's eyes, "anyhow, it took nigh all the wages Jim had comin' to him, and so he felt so bad that he went to c'asult a great London lawyer about it." "I don't sec what good that would j ! do," observed practical Polly; but, pay- ! ing no attention to bis daughter's un conscious sarcasm, the Captaia went on: "The lawyer, ho studied over it a spell, and told Jim to go off to sea ag'in, and, when he came back to Lon don, to give him a calL So Jim went off, and shipped on a long v'y'ge, and it was nigh two years 'fore be was back; the 'Win'sor Castle,' 6lie'd come in meanwhile, and the lawyer had her libeled, as they call it—a kind of a warrant served on her, like a 'tachment on property. And what do you s'pose," asked the Captain, slowly, at this culminating point of interest, "what do you s'pose was the charge he brought ag'in tho owners of the ship?" Polly timidly thought it might be the sailor's false imprisonment; she remem bered to have beard that such things wc--> done sometimes, while Tad shook his iieaa in silent bewilderment. •' Well, sir," exclaimed Captain F!ag<r, pointing his topic, so to speak, by touching the end of one stumpy fore finger with the tip of the other, and speaking with intense though quiet en joyment, •• he put it like this: 'James W. Dunn, my client,' he says, 'claims pay at the rate of live pound a day tor the use of his wheel, durin' c-ighteen month* voyage. It's Ats wheel, isn't it? be had to pay for it, and there's the name on the rim. The ship's had the use of it all this while, and a ship can't gc-t along without a wheel no better'n without a compass,' says the lawyer, 'and you can settle it right now, or else we'll take it up to the adm'raity court.' " " Wasn't he smart! and did the own ers have to pay it?" exclaimed aad questioned Polly in the same breath. Captain Flagg nodded aa affirmative. " And so the sailor got a big lot of money?" put in Tad, cs an interroga tive. "He got what the lawyer left, most bkely," returned Captain Flagg, rather dryly—which slight reflection against the legal professions was, fortunately, not understood by his hearers The sun disappeared behind the ocean rim, and after supper the side-lights were put out, and Tad instructed as to the duties of a lookout; for now the " Mary J." was headed right out to ward the open sea, which looked terri bly dark and cold to Tad's astonished eyes, particularly as there was no such thing as a sign of land anywhere to b« seen, excepting the low sandy cape shores astern, which were fast disap pearing in the distance and increasing darkness. Before sending the youthful mariner for'ard. Captain Fl3gg called him be low, and gravely commanded him tc put on some well-worn under-flannels, several sizes too large, which, however, Tad found very comfortable, a pea* jacket, within whose capacious folds three or four boys of Tad's dimensions could have been buttoned, and a large fur cap, which, only tor resting on the rims of his ears, would have complete ly extinguished him. "You don't look so stylish as yon might," Captain Flagg acknowledged, after Tad had effected the required change, "but sailors go in for comfort, mor'n style;" with which assurance Tad—conscious that he looked rather funny, to say the least—was fain to be comforted. Indeed, the most that troubled him was the fear that Miss Polly might possibly laugh when he ventured on deck. But, though Polly had been brought up in tho country, she had too much natural politeness to laugh; yet it must be confessed that the depths of the deep sun-bonnet hid a dimple or two, as Tad waddled for ward, wcndcring what tho matter could be with tlic water to inako tho vessel tumble about so. CHAPTER V. Darker and darker grew the night, tho wind sounded more and more dreary, the vessel tossed about in what seemed to Tad a terribly dangerous manner, while he began to feel an tm pieasant nausea, which recalled his first r.nd last experience in tniug to smoke a five-cent cigar. "I wonder if I ain't going to be sea sick." thought Tad, with a terrible sinking sensation in the neighborhood of his stomach. It was fortunate that < none of the far-away dots of red and green, which represented the lights of distant ships, caffie very near the track j of the "Mary J.," for the unfortunate ( lookout very soon became insensible to , every thin<j but his own sufferings. ( When Eph came forward to strike , the bell, poor Tail was whooping over the rail, in all the agonies of sea-sick ness, which was not made a particle less p.- inful by Eph'g assertion that it wasn't nothin' killin'—he'd soon get over it. Meanwhile — "The storm crew loud apace. Tl:e water wraith was shrieking." And as Captain Flagg glanced at the 1 compass tho skv, he ] | wish th.?t he'd " come to anchor in the i lower bay, and hung on till mornin'." But wishing availed nothing, cow i that tho *"Mnry J." was w<U out to j c ca. with the March wind blowing half a f,n':e offshore. And a3 tho next best | thing to being anchored was laying the schooner to, the Captain shouted as a preliminary warning: "All ban's short'n sail!" "All hands" came tumbling aft—that i\ Eph and G. Washington Jones did. Tad himself was already there, hating crawled into the very centre of a big coil of rope, where be huddled down as in a big biri's-ncst, groaning and sigh ing, end occasionally faintly calling upon some oao to cast him into the depths of tho sea. Captaia Flagg was on tho quarter-deck, too, his heaTy gum-boots seeming to appear in half a i dozen places simultaneously, as he ! pulled, and hauled, and shouted, in the ensuing operation of reefing, while Polly, enwrapped as to her slim form in a sort of feminine storm-coat of I water-proof cloth, which buttoned tightly about her, and an oil-skin hat ; f?.-tcned under hor plump *hin, stood I holding the w heel, in obedience to her father's cheery commands. All that took place was to Tad's be wildered mind a terrible complicated experience. He knew that while the " Mary J.'' was pitching and tossing and rolling in all sorts of ways, the sails were lowered part way down the ma-t, where they hung banging and . slatting in a most exasperating man ner. And he was dimly conscious of seeing Eph's long legs astride the AN ATTACK OF SEASICKNESS, boom-end, waving hither and thither, as he tugged at p. rope, while Captain Flagg and George Washington per formed the most rnhcard-of prodigies of seamanship, as . despite the strug gling and bellying of the stiff canvas, they contrived to tie it down to the boom, so that when tho sails were hoisted up again, they were not nearly as large as before. And then waxing bold, the gallant old sea-dog. Captain Jcthro Fiagg. de cided that, instead of lying to till morning, he would—to use his own nautical expression—" keep her a-jog ging to the nor'ard and easi'ard." So all through that eventful night the "Mary J." pursued her billowy course, while poor Tad, in a sadly de moralized state of mind and body, lay nested in the coil of rope I have men tioned, feeling, even in his deathly sickness, oh, so ashamed! that Polly, a girl, not quite as old as himself, should show such courage, while he, a lubber ly boy, couldn't even offer to do the least thing to keep the vessel from go ing straight to the bottom of the sea! But I, myself, don't think there was any thing very strange in the matter. It was Tad's first experience, and sea sickness, like conscience, makes cow ards of us all. The Atlantic Ocean is a terrible fellow to take the courage out of a landsman, when ft gets on a sort of rampage; and I don't wonder tfeot msthetio Mr. Oscar WHde, with his fastidious tastes, should shudder ingly declare that he was disappointed with it. But I believe that, in spite of this severe criticism, the Atlantic goes right on roaring and dashing, and swallowing up ships, and making peo ple sea-sick, just as it has been doing for ever so long. Tad couldn't be persuaded to go he low. He thought that when the vessel did come to go down, he would |>erhaps stand a better chance on deck—though, it is true, he couldn't swim a stroke. And as he lay there all night long till sunrise, his sickness began to abate a little, as did also the stiff westerly breeze which, coming further from the south, gavo the "Mary J." a perfectly fair wind for her home-bound passage. They were all so kind, when, quite dizzy and weak. Tad managed to stag ger to his feet, like a fly thawed out by the warm rays of the morning sun, which dried up the wet deck, and made tho waves of the great bluo sea all about them sparkle with gladness. George Washington got him some hot coffee, and said he wa3 glad to see him "coadolescent." Captain Flagg, who looked quite fresh and hearty in spite of having been up all night, smiled broadly, telling Tad that he'd got over the worst of it, and would bc fin to get his sea-legs on in a jiffy, ph grinned at him over the top of the wheel, and proffered tho use of his jack-knife, if he (Tad) wanted to whit tle. Polly glanced at him demurely, and Bounce lapped tho ends of Tad's extended fingers. On the whole. Tad didn't feel nearly as badly regarding his humiliation as be had expected to; but all his bright visions of the pleasures of seafaring life had been swallowed up in the darkness and terror of the right before. He was not intended by nature for a sailor, and now Tad's greatest desire was to set his foot on dry land again. I know that, in contrast with tho average boy of juvc nilo fiction, this sounds tremendously unlieroic, but I can't help it; thero are "born sailors" and born landsmen, and Tad was one of the latter. One must take people and things as he finds them in real life. Yet, as Tad began to feel better, there was much to wonder at and admire all about him. Far away on the port hand was the distant coast- , line, dotted here and there by the white ' shaft of a light-house. To starlioard, the ocean rolled on r.nd on, till its waters washed the very rim of the great arching dome of blue which came down to meet it. On every side were the sails of passing vessels, and beauti ful beyond compare was the sight of a handsome ship, with all drawing sail set, standing in for Boston Light, head ing almost directly for tho schooner. On sho came, with her yards braced sharp against tho back-stays, throwing the sparkling foam from the cutwater in great swaths, that swept along her glassy sides and formed a creamy track astern. As the stranger was p:issing so near. Captain Flagg hailed her ; through an immense speaking trumpet. I "What ship's that, and where from?" | "Ship 'Sooloo,' a hundred and thirty days from Calcutta —what vessel's thai?" bellowed back the Captain, who was standing by the weather mizzcn rigging, with bis hand on a backstay. "Schooner 'Mary J.,' of Bixport; twenty-four hours out cr Boston," , fraglgfl Fbrgg, a gTHcioO-" i ~ ! wave of the hand; and Tad. who had listened to these nautical queries aad j replies with great marveling, wondered j what made the Captain of the ship { double himself Hp. like a man with a sudden attack of colic, or like a person in an agony of laughter. a* tho great Vessel went plr.ngi&g onward tow mi her destination. t "Them that goes down to the sea in ships has cur*us cxper eaces. Tha.l --* dens," said Captain Flagg. laying down * his big trumpet with an impressive nod ® of the head. With a vivid recollection of his own T experience of tb" previous night. Tad ' replied emphatically that he had no . doubt of it. f "When yon come to he a sailor, i Thaddeus. and. may be. a ship-master. r : like myself." pursued the Captain. , feeling mechanically in his pockets for , his pipe—which he discovered, a DO- J ment later, to be on the deck, in po#- f session of Bounce, who was gravely I dragging it away to the immeasurable t delight of Polly—"an* you've gone t through the r'spo mobilities, an' dangers, an typhoons an'— things gen'lly," he rather hazily concluded, as he recovered bis pipe from Bounce. [ | "you'll realize that what Solomon says about truth being stranger'a fiction is . Jest about as he's put it." "But I—l—don't think I want to be a sailor." faltered Tad. with downcast I | eyes. "What—not want to be a salver ! bold, and plow the ragin* main, ex . claimed the Captain with a look of un utterable amazement. "So, sir," faintly replied Tad. And , as he thus spoke, he hung his head so i far one side that the big fur cap fell i off. and was immediately seized by ' Bounce, who began to worry it, evi ; dently regarding it as some new spe cies of the feline race, until, in the | fervor of his attack, he fell into it bod ily. an<J gave vent to small yelps. ex ' pressive of extreme fear. It was some time before the Captain j recovered from the shock occasioned by Tad's reply. That a likely boy I should prefer a prosaic existence ' ashore, who had once tasted the pleas urable excitement of " a life on the ■ oceari wave," passed hi- simple com prehension. But gradually yielding to Polly's artful arguments. Captain Flagg" s brow began to clear. "All right, my iad. ' he said, quite •heerfully. " I own Pm a bit strnek aback, but, seeing yom don't take nat'rally to sailoririn", there's no prews gangs nowadays to force you Into goin' against your will. Only." re marked Captain Flag«r. tilting back his oil-skin hat, and scratching his head reflectively, •• I don't just know what to do with you, now you've changed your mind." "7 know!" suddenly exclaimed Polly, clapping her hands. "Well?" asked her father, interroga tively. "We'll find him a chance on a farm when we get to Bixport," returned Polly, confidently. "You'd like fann ing—wouldn't you. Tad?" Tad nodded with growing enthusi asm. He knew that farming had some thing to do with new milk and frenh butter and driving horses. Whatevsr it was, it would be far preferable to go ing to sea And so it was pretty defi nitely settled that Tad should be a farmer, provided he be able, through the Captain's influence, to find a situa tion When Tad came on deck at sunrise the following morning, sleepily rubbing his eyes, he rubbed them still harder, and, moreover, gave his elbow a sly pinch to make sore that ho was fully awake as he saw strange transform ation that had taken place in his sur roundings of the previous night Forlo! in place of the far-reaching sea, green fields, alternating with for est* of oak or pine, sloped down on cither hand to the edge of a broad riv er as smooth and clear as glass on whose upmoving tide the • Mary J." was slowly drifting. " Wh-y-y," exclaimed Tad. staring about him in glad surprise, "where is this, anyway?" "This is "down East,' Tad," laughed Polly, enjoying his look of perplexity. a view or " dow* east." "Bixport's right ahead thei*. where you sec the meetin'-hous« steeple over the tree-tops, yonder," j said Captain Flagg. pointing ahead, "and I can tell you. Tad. when a mart's b'en facin' the dangers of the boister ous ocean as we sailors has to, the words of the poet Shakspeare: "Home ag la—borne atf'ln. Prom a furr.n *bore. And ob! It fills mj aoal with Joy To sec my fren't once more." goes to the right spot." Tad respectfully replied that ho was | sure they must, and, at the same time, gave a little involuntary sigh as he re membered his own homeless condition. "But. may be, I can get a chance with a real clever man, and. if I'm smart, save up my money, and some day buy a little house of my own," thought Tad. who had rather a hopeful disposition. And so, with the same interest that h« had given to the sights on the great deep. Tad watched the to him almost i equally novel scenes on the shores I . which they wero passing—scenes that, though perfectly familiar, were hailed with the enthusiasm of voyagers re turning from at least a three years' cruise, by the entire ship's company. "John Doty's got the same old whiteface cow" (ho pronounced it kaow) "he had when he went away; he talked of swappin' with Ozias Nas'n. t one spell." said Eph, as the schooner, drifting slowly with the tide, was borne j within a cable's length of the shore, j where a number of cows were brows ing on the short pasture-grass, which grew down within a few feet of high water mark. " Square Hall's had tho line fence 'twixt him and old Burton white washed. I see," Captain Flagg ' served, as he stood with his eagle eje glancing shoreward through the can vas-covered telescope. And as the " Mary J." very deliber ately rounded a densely wooded point, aided by a light breeze which had be gun to fill the schooner's sails, and the town of Bixpor 4 * appeared in full view. 1 even Polly recoguiaed with rapture that ( l&v ni'J of &e had bfsp j | | Bewly thing' <-«L j "For this and all other merries tht Lord ai lr us truly grateful."* "*•! ? Captain I -zz. ntfmOr. as ho took off hi* oil-sl i a hat. in whi h it j popularly believed be .>pt while j royhgiag ■ r«r the ni un. TTuj vx* hi* in t» rUble fc»rm of thanhjflving, w MOB an Bivpnrt wharf 1 *u agb'erf. and with it* isttrrsa.e Capttfa VTjtjry ln» the* anhm. ! there to throw aside. with ku tnrftfW £ attire. tfee weighty re«p«onb*ittie« at the TOTage. J Ten minutes Liter, a* the - Slsrr J " near»d the wharf, where Half >f the 1 resident* of Bi sport wmnl to bar* twmW.il. Captain F.agg reap; wared on deck in hit rut. - nmn ing of a tall hat. a «mt of mtt-Mih". «r.il lrw-qn.-t— "vj shoes highly pi'i.'lwl la a t< uinun4>( voice the Captain gas • the am unary orders for the *h--»oersi>*ag- side the whirl Iv.wa eam>- the dingy ' toil*. ami a half-done a pair* ,f handa * I were »i«nM to cat«-h the Im* , , ihtatrn «o* K , .->aat»r were . ... .. « .1 to Um ' ship'» f.".~ .-. ( tof the , ( liu!. ii,!..n i tIJ --r been , diatnr I r-» >«•« •w , ana or th - .-ij i -,t . , . .'s r>:i.i.llea. and th *m :■ .♦ t >. .1/ —r'liag | park.r l»-i —a P • :it »d ftwtoa was an ■ • .it <i.• ■ : -1 »» impor tance ..a!- -,# at least ihree far eMn• ■( d*y i *i aMr .if v and other gr • -et e. i i prop- rtj-wa. U>r Mr. /'•ac«. the -tore-Sj*r; Mr Atlrn. th»- mirii-ter. h.. t a »>a • ..f hoofer, Zias Kama. a aevr kar a and Dtaeoa V. hit»*r. a at- -hinr tlie first -»f :*■» kind.-• . & apart. Among th s.i ai rif>' d en Um* rhari. Tll ntirt>il i I »;t kiarn •I*. dn"nil in a e.!;-««« nit «d tweed. He had rarly is:r. a pair «f *ery laug'iing li.:- -yea. a till aap «o»« and a freckl dft • M-4 pma*- nent is x k-» and actio i r* tuia jonth. who. npor. >-atch:n'r *»gha «f Bph. per formed a hnlE • of delight. I and in a rery swliv- ruin p tiled oat: •"' Boomy-t in* t.■ -* f •. Bpferum Jtaaafc First Mtn teeon cr -w uk! tfl - "* *" Tha: my ccmt»i?i Jam Whitney." laughed P?lly. u Mutw Jo« pawirt ed in Tip-rDns pantomime to express I unbounded joy at oeein; P >Ily f who ; wared her hand in r-cogaitaoa. (to mm comii en ) Lady <•< the H .o~- tto the aew girt) —I caoi»>t altne row t» keep a follower of roar own. There iaa -orpnral who comes to oar btxiw rrery Huadaj. he i» a«-cu*trOK-i to -tar ways, tad all say former aerraatn hare mmtt him ft«r a sweetheart; row .-an have him tea.— Nebel spelter « en s om Applicant—l aak Irtr the haad >f yoar daofrhter Tareot—Hare yoa any tar the future? "Soae whateeer "She hasn't aay. either. Take her. my boy. aad be happy. Bleaa yoa hnth." ' —Texas <iiKiafi A mi hiWT Head of Firm—Penwtper. wt thill hare to re»ioee ' >ar salary after the Srst. Pen wipe'— What" a the matter, air* Business, i am sore. » fnorl Head of Firm Tea. bat we we taJrfav a new man into the Ira—T. Jow nai. A UStle IM Teacher—Who waa Atlaa? Boy—Odo.' fie waa the biffoM high wayman there erer srao. Be rubbed everybody Teacher X.oaeaae: Boy—Well, the buoh says he held ap the earth, anrhow. —liood Sewa At tk* i«t»»e Conoaar—ls thU man, whaa yoa foand deait >n the railroad track, a total stranger" Mike who has Seen told to he core* fnl in his >tatetiMrats<—So. sor Hia lag waa froik- intoirefy. He wae a partial •thranflvr. sor.—'Trnth. Lwfey Mwm. Trirret—The jury in Xirw Kneiefi breach-of-pr>mise >->■ - HBosr irare her ten thooaoad didlars .laoafOL I>k-er That's moaey ia Hiiow'a prx-ket. If he had aarritd her she would haTe not him ate* than that ia ' three years. -Jadffe At Ik* t«« Mortiaaer— Isa't that elephant toa small for hia skia? Mamma— I doa't lrao** Why do yoa ' think so? Mortimer Why, hrcamr hia shia at the kneea Harper's Tooog j People Wife—Henry, thew'i i twrffaf ti thm coal cellar. Husband All right, dear Let W« carry off as mnch aa he eon. The pelee ia so high that he can't Sod anybody to take It off his hands.—Detroit Free j Presa. Hot*l T«««U. Hotel Keeper—Yea. air. yoa'd ee sar prined at the number of towela wa iaee —hundreds erery year, sir huudra^ Trareler—Ah. yes. I see. <>aeMa a» take "em for handkerchiedfe. —9. Weekly. t«t>etl«ia «a UM CrmM. ' Let yoar motto be Eaeelewrf*" cried the orator. And they caobbed hia. He waa ad dressing a .nreatioa of aMttieaa makers. —C hicago THhaaa, Mamma-Whom do la*a beat la the world. Haroid. yoar father or mmf Harold —My new kitten —Hat |MB** Young People. Mr. n —Well, tarry yoa ace going. But there are tiroes when «>ae has to lean ex err thine behind. Mrs. H Loekily. I should hate to think of yoa taking 'hat ■ ueaat to Heaven —Life. lumh. Friend -Say. I saw a man to-day reading yoar funny paper. He weat j clean through it withoat yawa«>g. Editor—lndeed' Who waa ha" Friend—l don't know. I aeked him for hia same but be coaida't tell a*. He had lockjaw.—Truth. mtsii X—What's the difference bet wee a a I bore and a boor? Y —One doean't know how to b« a gen tleman and the other kooars hee bat | doeen t want to ba one —Chicatfx* Sm*r* , Record. k - ii i ■ ~ -m " * vast exthaw««amcc. KiwMom »i » Wteea Aheat na-WB aeieaad Ued kawa haea taken fn-m the fkrars of HXiaate Air roaals. This strie-tly for i man * (amis aot laelaaiiag .-sty jumt r !'!age steee** This .aad. at per arre. H swth ft" ■ , «B.rtNO Is <Ma per aere a fair estiatote " ■ , the land ia worth <'.«* per acre,, ai mneh aw • - wor; i JM» per ana, alaa aear where the load ia Waetk fr»»ro to per am Vaefe am load :s worth *lee pmr aera Other lao<2 j» wrwth from «!• to tm par amw A fair aeerace fbr the —hail aaca therefore, ia a..t tar Amas Ma per aasw. Ail the mada a l.liaate are bp Law four roda wida Rat aat ne-gftieth sf the r»i» are aetooUp itiitaad tmr a apaee than two mda wida In one end » -.!e *w twenty .Wt ad i qgli ! The erst—iha -art ant aetaMlp aaed— h *»ted Worar 'han ear id it la the great pnhiie Howtog ft «d ail the amsii'aa iti d> a»i teitrortisw »- 1 seata aaa .surma %hm* a jaw -.he agn eaitare .rf lWia»» The" r» tt s wasae land ■» a panMftea a-roage. raaeiog aa aaaaai imadaii- Iwk of ilntlara to tha «aate. rated. .t» pr.flt whsi.l pi i la hi j e^aa. the eattf* annaai ml d rand ana tea.ar»ve. •Ed that there w aid ba talr a'tew great mm..* n a|>y lag Soar -ida .a wMi tin a»«st ,«f the apnrtaM -iiimta <a eapyiar •»!» '»> -•«*• tn irhth and tweaty int d walk, aad tha ast d the mod iood wam mid <m nMM Bli al>in» tiiirtera -n-. ..limns «f ImWaiM Oe aaftrs the pe'idate foawoer >t tha Into! featured to eaitirattoo. This "«aght to to law. and rtgMiy an fore- j; thai every .aeh d 'mad rakis bp the paiMte ftw mada shanld aa ar taailr asad Car road.*, aad he aepe sa thoeoajhlT woriae»i that aa waatht our no* Wan maeeta eoold paaaiblj grase therwoo. naaeevi '.and to resident* along thai fund "ioe\ either bj abaindiato sale, er hr perpetaai reatat. at apfeaiaed <dua tama the peieetobe paad into the big* way food, to help ttqhe goad not*. This wool j iffer to Aarmrra at enne a great ,a.tw« raint to mi laufsimt gnad mada. pmraied tha law aa rw tfrst ciaa raada are enaannarted and The ouagnitlcettt mndaef Pranee are the delight of ail twsbn fiaai aetaaily wed. The gvaaflaat ad the Sapolenate roada are enip bet; hr wide, hrnadeaad in pnaarag thmag' citiea and large eUtagaa to statp tee' Caere (ml '■# tha widtn ia pane* anuotk and durakli. with ga tors and earba !bar and m vdlag there are sometuaea narrow tdraw j aest to the enrh tinaa Tha Innd r t siatj :oaof r*»*i w anrwtaaw ealtivoted -iear ep to tha earh dnes, Tha randa. ant being f> aw A agpr w like great graeei or paad pntha r aiag throagh an »adlesa tmiien. the laae taapwtant side mnda immaa theme great highsraya are aaau'wa iaa an.y dftrea to twenty feet aula. a. gaaa rally paeid Tha unHaitiii ■ -* Preach agneaiture post that - iaad thos saved awr than par*. *P proCtnhie aaa. the eatiea eaat od ant la England, aiaa. tha •leseier do. heal Md ~>ea<lid aigbaapa betas ■ lor ail eoimportoat roada era? Yea Thep are tha §i iniimt pah lie heoedt the farmer ban In the ordtaarr Uaa* toe a T reach fere amrket vara ia fow to dee tana lav a single pair of horses. Odn saeaa tn ten tone are tshaa to narhet. tiai by three or ftmr bnesaa M whale •taek at hay—a land eiatoaa let hmg. •<gtit fret wale or *ea er isthi %e" btgh. n taken to atarhat ia tan Saod Now see h«»w thai papa Mm Mtonto farmer. Mvt'ag eight, or tenjMtoa fraaa day Say thie tan ia wattk Tkn Preach farmer laala jto nne ad onn lond. worth put So tha Pfanih. tam er marketa dva times aa mnch ia tat dap's woeh as tha Iltiaeia If »r The poatmaa gnee ant daalp M att thana Preach roada ietton* tha tamw know every sf maefcaa tetaaa Do prrews riae. the Preneh fiaaaae hania to market at ana .and dee m tan tea* aad gets tha benedt ai An rdaa Tha tllinoia farmer (If ha hatta wt tha riae > haaia ana tan -miy. and ijfc w^an foil* agoia. Thrsa are fheta that aan amth tha «arefnl stwdr -vary m Mllajam. F.i legislator, every farmer, sal eapaoinitp every farmers' dab ar nhte gaialm taen. —L. J. Bazoa, haChieaan Raaaringa She <refc t ti» -iv - There aet be sarh a differen»-e between «agMtl aad Inlaw Can yon .-vpiotn 9? Ra • reaiiainif ha. np.n laaity>—C«^ tnialv. To att here iho an n>e iirk and wateh yoa a iahae. bag ! (kiaatag her' this n spttal —Ligfito cwtt's Magazine A rnu> <r«U. Wallaee—lf that awda ywn sold Bias*- htt lucha hua. ho sriil gat aftar yoa Till a v - ' H"' Z*m* mmim w** pilann ssy'dußg ae kickt >t -Jm* V- - - N0.20
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