VOL. XXX. Mrs. Jennie E- Zimmerman. Courtesy Is extended to all who come to us. No trouble to .-how goor'B, even if \ou do not want to bu/. It is as easy to get out of our store as ia r o it V\ .• think, however, yoa will find it to your advantage not to go away .r«d figure, worth 15c-; new (Jrupalin.\ 15c, Irish and GrectHß Lawn*--, 12£ c; colored figure Dimity, sometning entirely new, 12j-c; Beautiful line of French Sateens, iu black and colors; Ladies Jersey Vests Sc; f .'hildreo's ribbed vests at s'*; Men's fine balbriggaa u'iderwear,soc to £2 a i-u'l; fine black silk finished Henrietta*, 4ij iu., for 75-\ worth sl. Such i -gh qn-ilities and low prices are cer»:Jnty not at'ernptcd or equalled by any ii her house . One glance into our large show window will convince you v. h l»-*d in Millinery both in style and qualiy. Ask onr price We will convince you that iu this department, as in all others ..ur prices are the low est. MRS. JENNIE E. ZIMMERMAN. Successor to Ritter & Ralston. Are Yon One Of The Lucky Ones Who Will Attend The Grand Clearance Sale At routnian's^ For the next two weeks. Remember it is not our fault if you come too late,it will commence Jan, 25 and continue till Feb. 4. Carpets, Cloaks, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Dry Goods, Flannels, Ginghams, Calicoes, etc. See our big bargain counter on left © n hand side entering store. YOURS RESPECTFULLY, A. Troutmari & Son, Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa. Jewelfy, Clocks, Silvefwafe, Purchasers can save from 25 to 50 per cent by purchasing their watches, clocks and spectacles of J. R. GRIEB, The Jeweler, No. 125 N. Main St., Duffy Block. Sign of Electric Bell and Clock. All"are .Respectfully Invited —"Remember our Repairing Department —20 years Experience."— , RINGS, I lifurinnrl , »i J ear-rings. L/ldlllOlH lb j SCARF PINS, 'STUD , ( GENTS GOLD, WfltfllPC; { LADIES GOLD, YY cllCJlfh (GENTS SiLVEiI LADIES CIIATLAIN. Tc»W£ilr\7 <• Gold PillH ' tiar-rings, MOW y ( Rings, Chains, Bracelets, Etc, {Tea sets, cantors, batter dishes and everything that can be found in a first cla.ss store lOltfl MIS. IK) I Si ™"- E. GRIEB, THE JEWELER No. 139, North Main St., BUTLER, PA., PENN'A White-Sand Oil Co. [A. STEELSMITH, Manager, Butler, I'a.] Dealers in Illuminating, Lubricating, Cylinder and Dynamo Oils—all free from Lima Oil. ThiV oil is made and handled by Independent Producers not con nected with the Standard Oil Co., as reported. All orders will be promptly filled. Warehouse in rear of Nicho as & Hewitt's planing mill, near West Penn depot, Butler, Pa. Refinery at Coraopolis, Pa., near P. & L. E. R. R. This oil can be secured at McCrea's Feed Store on E. Jefferson St ~' .v -/ . TliE BUTT ER CITIZEN. ■ THE KIND | S TH ■ 1 ' I MR.'. OLIVER CHERRIES, TS MAlone, N. V. H b On Crutches IG Years! § g EATING SORES THAT a WOULD NOT HEAL !It J CURED! CURED! j§ BiDASA SABSAI-Ar.II.LA Co.: ™= G.'.NTLEMPN —I «: Ii to testify to the Rlicccys gof DANA'S SARSAPARILLA. S 8a F' r » rerftl y- an I have been suffering from nl =El)ad lti'ifji! HRii.i :hy t.. ; Pbjrsw :iiij who atl n-i •! ir mm « ,ut V.' i l>;)ii!e 11. '■ ■runninc »or«% win -M h • It||| t ;.i >»r- / lf Daritßro*. it Die frofh th<* fir»t. SB I took it faithfully, ond I can now attend to== |H my luiiHehold dutie»«n'J wulk M wellj = RJ ever. ■n lam furetli&t myecse is&) near a miracle ss« Hanythln? that happfns at the present day. B I am very aincerelv your*, =~ g Malone.N. Y. MRS. OIoVER CIIERRLER- M I H OENTLKMI.N : —We enclose testimonial of Mr*. = I IgCherrivr, which is a strong endorv ment of lis valuable compound. W A believe her statement t K ■be true In every rea|»ect. We arc very vours. DAT 18 BROS. ■ ■g Malone, N. Y. Wholesale fc Retail Druggists. Eg HI Dana Sarsaparilla Co.. Belfast, Malno. I feed. Fur prices and terms. Ad drt-r, J. W. MILLER, 131 Mercer S: , Butler' Pu. A $25 Gold Watch FREE. With every dollars wor'h of goodt* purchased, you art) given up« 3 on the length of time it wiil ak»; the watch to run dowu, aud the one guessing' the Dearest will get the watch. In c:te ol P. lie the one hav ing bought the most will get it The. watch will be blurted June 13th at nino o'clock A. M., and no guessing will l.st ki-u after that tiui..-. We can lilso t=avo ion money on ev. rv article in onr stocks of Ul th ing, lints, and Uents Famiahiage. THE RACKET STORE, 120 S Muin St, Butler, Pa SPRING STYLES READY. si YOU WILL CERTAINLY HAVE A SUIT MADE TO ATTEND THE WORLD'S FAIR. YOU CAN AF FORD IT, WHEN YOU SEE THE SPLEN DID ASSORT MENT OF MATERIAL, AND THE MOD ERATE PRICE AT WHICH WE MAKE YOU A SUIT THAT IS CORRECT TO THE LATEST DECREE OF FASHION. Aland's, Tailoring Establishment. C. & D. ALWAYS Take into consideration that money saved is as good os money earned. The heat way to ave money is to buy good goods nt the right pric. The only reason that our trade is increasing constantly i;< the fiirt that we haudle only goods of first quality and cell them at very low prices We have taken unusual care to provide everything new in 11 at s and Furnishing Goods for this season, >md as we have control of many especially good articles in both lines we can do you good if vou come to us. We confidently ray that in jmtice to themselves all should inspect our goo 1> Visit us. COLBERT & DALE, 242 S. Main .street, Butler, Pa, ST ! "?>T y. " •f fM 9 m /'< lml // j j /)\ hf I I 1 7 vc h /) B "THE FACK WAS OF A SKCX.T»" "UE HAD SUDDENLY WALKED OFF." "If any of you gentlemen have lived continually in Moscow," began Cliero muhin, laying his pipe aside, "you have surely noticed that a periodical invasion of white-walled Mother Mos cow by our provincial brethren usually begins before Christmas. Almost at the same time with the appearance of frozen meat and turkeys in the game market there stretch in, through all the barriers, endles ear.-vans of kibit kas and all kinds of winter equipages containing whole families of landhold ers hastening to have a' n .1 time in the capital, examine male candidates for marriage, show their daughters in society, aud spend in a ' w weeks all they have saved during: tho year. "But in 1796 this increase of tempo rary residents began with the first snow; and, according to tho oldest in habitants, the ancient capital had not teen so crowded, or rather crammed, for many aycar. The managers of the Nobles' Club shrugged their shoulders whenever they had less than two thou sand guests at a ball, and laid the blame on the Italian Medoxi, who gave masquerades in the halls and rotunda of the Petrovski Theater. "Indeed, public masquerades —at which peoplo did not dance, but stifled and crushed one another —were during that, winter the favorite amusement of the people of Moscow. "Among the constant visitors at these masquerades was a certain young but not from the interior. Ivan Nikolaievich Zorin was his name. He had just returned from foreign parts, had lived long in Italy, loved music fassionately, and always spoke of the talian opera with transport that turned almost into madness whenever conversation touched a certain prima donna at the Neapolitan Theater. In conversation he called her Lauretta, but would not discover to any of his acquaintances the name by which she was known in the musical world. It was evident in every way that not en thusiasm for art alone had aroused his admiration; and though Zorin did not confide his heart secret to any man, all his friends, and I in that number, could guess why he seemed always sad and dull, and grew animated only when conversation touched tho Italian opera. His unbroken sadness, with pining aud a certain gloomy despon dency which the English would call spleen, we simply called hypochondria, and laughed at the doctor when he shook his head over the mental disease of our friend. 'Oh, stop, Fomich" we would say; 'what pleasure do you find iu stuffing him with pills? Prescribe a Couple of bottles of champagne a duj", five or six balls a week, with a dose of masquerade and theaters; that will be better than your depressing and ex citing medicines.' "No matter how Foma Fomich re sisted at first; he decided at last to lis ten to our counsel anil to advise Zorin to go to every ball and not miss a mas querade. "In real truth, through taking part in all the amusements of the city, our patient seemed to grow calmer and more cheerful. Sometimes he failed to visit the theater and refused an invita tion to a ball, but he always came among the first to a masquerade and Went away last "1 was serving at that time in the guards; my leave of absence ended with the first week in Lent, and to avoid trouble I was obliged to start for St. Petersburg on Monday of that week. Wirhiug to take advantage of the last days of my leave aud rejoice in full measure, I passed the whole carnival in boundless fashion. In the daytime breakfasts w itli pancakes, sleigb-rideH formal dinner in the evening, thea ters; and at night, balls aud private masquerades till morning dawn. This tound of amusement gave me no time to collect ray senses. I was in a sort of walking dream and lost sight of my /riand Zorin completely. "On Sunday— that is, the last day of the carnival—l went to the public mat.- querade earlier than usual. There was a throng of people; every door had to he taken by assault, and by force alone Was I able to reach tho rotunda in a quarter of an hour. Music, loud con versation, and the assumed tones of tliasks who, although suffocating from heat, ceased not to be amiable and talk nonsense; the blinding light of Crystal lustres; the many-colored dresses, aud that sound of the unintel ligible but deafening talk of a multi tudinous mass of persons resolved to be amused at any sacrifice- confused do at first to such a degree that for some mluutes 1 neither heard nor saw anything. Wishing to draw breath, I began to seek a place where I might look around a little. While !i I 'TL KI i. PA FR 113 AV. Jl'N K 1 893. pushing along the wall, l lieara some one calling- me by name. I turned and looked; a tall man in a red domino and a musk beckoned to me. The moment I approached, his companion left him • ' Sit down near me. It is with dif ficulty that we have met,'said he. 'But why do you look at me so? Is it possi ble that you do not recognize my voice?' " •There is something familiar in it,' th<_ eternity, and thai their souls, like light and darkness, would never bo luiugled the one with the other. " 'All this waf told in verses: but the music! O. uiy friend. whfri 1 can 1 tinU words to describe to you the inexplicable sadness which pressed my poor heart as that entranc ing but hellish music shook the air? There was nothing of earth in it. but neither was there an echo from Heaven in that voice, tilled with tears and sobs. I heard the groans of men doomed tc torments eternal; the gnashing of teeth, the scream* of hopeless despair, and deep eighs, coming- from a breast worn with sufferings. When in the midst of a thundering crescendo composed of the very wildest and most discordant sounds. Lauretta stopped on a sudden, a general and reverberating bravo wa* heard through the the hall, and a num ber of voices called out: " 'Signora Haldusi, Signora Haldusi: show yourself to us; remove your mask.' "Lauretta obeyed. The mask fell tc her feet; and what did I see? Merciful (iod! Instead of the young and bloom ing' face of my Lauretta. 1 saw a dead and dried skull. I was dumb from amazement and horror; but the other spectator.-, spoke all at once, and raised a great cry. " 'Ah, what charms!" exclaimed fhey, with enthusiasm; 'look, what a skull —just like ivory! But the mouth, the mouth! A wonder,- it extends to her ears! What perfection! Ah. how ! charmingly she gnashes her teeth at j us! What nice round cavities she has for eyes! Oh, she is beautiful!" " "Signora Haldusi,' said Mozart, rising, 'errant us a favor —sing Bion dina. in liondoletta-' ! " 'But that is impossible,' said the : director of the orchestra. 'Signora Baldusi sings the cavatina Hiondina. in Gondoletia, only with a guitar: and there is no such instrument here.' " 'You are mistaken, maestro di capella,' answered Lauretta, pointing to me. "There is a guitar before you.' "The leader of the orchestra oast a quick glance at me. opened his owl's beak, and laughed so malignly thattbe blood grew cold in my veins. " 'But, really,* said he, "pass him this way; we can make a good guitar out of him.' "Three of the spectators seized mm, and from hand to hand passed me to the leader of the orchestra. In half a min ute he wrenched my right leg off, tore the flesh away, leaving nothing but bone and dry sinews; the latter he be gan to stretch out liko strings. "I cannot describe to you the unen durable pain which this preliminary operation caused me; and although my right leg was torn off, still, when the villainous leader began to tune the in strument, all the uerves in my body were straining and ready to snap. But when Lauretta took from his hands my poor leg, and her bony fingers ran along the stretched sinews, I forgot all pains, so beautiful and sweetly sounding were the tone and music of this uncommon guitar. "After a brief ritornello, Lauretta sang her cavutina in a low voice. Often had 1 heard her before, but never had she produced on me such a wondrous effect I seemed to myself to have become all hearing; and what was more strange, not only my soul, but all parts of my body enjoyed the enchanting music, independently ol each other. But my remaining leg wa» the most delighted of all; its entliu» iasm renched such a degree of ecstasy, each sound of the guitar produced suck inexplicably pleasant sensations, that it could not stay still for one instant Every movement, too, of the leg an swered to the time of the music. A 1 one moment its movements were slow and serious, at another it jumped quickly: then it trembled slowly. "All nt once Lauretta blundered. 0, my frieuu, —. previous puln was noli* ing compared with what 1 felt then. It seemed that my skull was breaking ia pieces, that they were tearing all my nerves out at once; sawing me with a wooden saw, and hacking me with a dull knife. This hellish torture could not endure long. I lost consciousness, and remember only as a dream that at the moment when all seemed to grow dark in my eyes some one called out; " 'Throw that broken instrument into the street' " Training Klephant*. To the uninitiated, it seems wonder ful that these huge creature® can be trained at all. But the process is not so difficult They are first tied between two trees, and are rubbed down by a number of men with long bamboos, to an accompaniment of the most extrava gant eulogies of the animal, sung and shouted at it at the top of their voioes. The animal, of course, lashes out furiously at first; but in a few days it ceases to act on the offensive, and stands with its trunk curled up, shrink ing from the men. Ropes are now tied round its body, and it is mounted at its pickets for several days. It is then taken out for exercise, secured between two tame elephant*. The ropes still remain round its body, to enable the mahout to hold on should the elephant try to shake him off. A man precedes It with a spear, to teach it to halt when or dered to do so; while, as the tame ele "phants wheel to the right or left, the mahout presses its neck with his knees, and taps it on the head with a small stick, to train it to turn in the required direction. He ( unic Out Ahead. Mother -in - law You should be ashamed to stay out to such a late hour. Son-in-law—But your husband, iny father-in-law, was with me. Mother-in-law —That doesn't mend matters Son-in-law—You arc right I can understand his reluctance to going home till the last moment, butcertainly 1 have no excuse. Woman's Inconsistency. "She's as neat as a pin. Won't allow a speck to be seen about her house." "Yes?" "It's a fact, and yet, strange to say, when she wants a bonnet or a dress she likes to see her husband come down with the dust" UU With. Short (gloomily)—I wish I was a ru mor. Long—You wish you were a rumor? Why? Short— Because then I would bclikel/ to gain currency. A Graduated Beter»l». Aunty—What do you drink at supper when at home? Wee Niece —Papa drinks tea, and mamma drinks tea with hot water in it, and I drink hot water with tea in it —Good News. Days of Reckoning. Wifo—When we go anywhere now we have to walk. Before marriage you always called a carriage Husband—That's why we have to walk now. —N. Y. Weekly Squcitlliix at Chicago. "Now," said the editor, "I want you to write up Chicago's magnificence as a pork center." "I see," replied the reporter: "a pen picture."—Washington Star. I'artlccfM C'rlminl*. lie peered behind a theater hat And frowned at tbe broad expense of red. Thcu smiled on the girl who next him sat. With one twice as big on her wobbly bead. —Chicago Record. Not Prepared. Pipps—Whot's the easiest death to die? Doctor—Givo it up; never tried any of 'cm. —Town Topics. _____ INK >.27 FOR WASHING SHEEP. Convenient Arrangement for Italic the Work at Home. Where water is found in sufficient quantities for the farmer to wash his sheep at home, we believe it to be the only safeguard against contagious dis eases. A convenient arrangement for wa-shing sheep at home may be con structed as follows: Take an ordinary store-box. four feet by four feet will do. Stop all leaks by the use of cloth and pitch, and place the box in such a position as to receive the water from a trough or pipe. Make » a floating lid nearly the size of the box. and bore in it a number of half-inch holes, thus allowing the -vater to pass readily through the floating platform. To the middle of the opposite sides of the box nail two seautling in an up ri-'it position, extending about four lctst above the box. To the top of the scantling attuch a windlass with crank. Join the floating platform to the wind lass with two ropes, as seen in the illus tration. and you have a rude elevator. A BOX ron WASHING BIIEKP. This elevator will raise the washed sheep out of the box without liability to injury. When the elevator is once raised to the surface, fasten the crank so that it will remain stationary, and the next sheep may be led onto the platform without a struggle. The box in present use on the farm of the writer works admirably, and can be recom mended to all who will take the pains to construct one.—Farm and Fireside. LIVE STOCK NOTES. THERE is profit ia raising good oats. There is very little, if any, in raising poor ones. HOT new milk given four times a day is good for diarrhea in calf. Give a pint at a time. HOKSKS will not drink more water than is good for them, if they are watered frequently. IF a colt has white, scurvy spots on the skin, apply carbolic acid mixed with six times its quantity of glycerine. NEVER force a horse with colic to move around. It is cruel and does no good. Tbe quieter the >animal can be kept the better. i A BITING horse is a dangerous nui sance, and yet the habit is generally contracted as the result of teasing the eolt, a very bad, unprofitable business. A GOOD saddle horse on the farm Is a convenience. Such an animal can often be used, wtth comfort, where now a carriage is brought into requisi tion. UXUIBS a running stream can be kept pure, the farm would be better off with- # out it. The owner of many a dead animal can attribute his loss to »pol luted running stream. Wrns a horse discharges a thin watery substance from the nose th animal haf a cold or catarrh. Syrinx the nose with warm water in whkj. there Is enough carbolic aettt to gt»e-*»—■ 2 a slight odor; or with a strong, warm decoction of tobacco. Feed warm bran mashes.—Farmers' Voice. CATTLE AND HAY BARN. A Commodious Structure with Feed and Water Kader Shelter. I send ground plan of my cattle and hay barn (illustrated herewith), which may give some suggestions to yom readers. H is the hay barn, 80 feet long, tO wide, with 34 foot posts. This forms the central main part of the I — V W W OK , - at F 1 ti ABOUND PLAN OF CATTLE AND HAY BARN. structure. Along each side are hay racks, II R, 2 feet wide at the bottom and 4 feet at top. On each side 10 feet wide are cattle sheds with water tanks at 0, windows at W, and doors at D. Outside of these sheds on each side are corn cribs, C R, with openings at W. C M are movable troughs in which to feed corn. They con be used inside the sheds or on the outalde of the cribs as presented in the engraving. Cor. Orange Judd Farmer. The Feed for E*M. Many make the mistake of feeding breeding ewes oorn. A slight ration of porn once a day, with clover hay and good scope of exercise, may not prove injurious, but a full ration continued lor any period of timo during gestation is sure to be disastrous to the lambs. Oats or barley, with a small portion of shelled corn or corn meal, is best adapt cd to tho wants of the flock, and strong, Sforous lambs will be the result tcr lambing, or even before, a little oil cake meal may be added to the ra tion with advantage, as it will increase the flow of milk and add tone and vigor to the system. fitm i aokt* uiris LOVO VJDO iinocncr. First Mature Maiden Mr. Smith looks quite young and jaunty since his marriage, doesn't he? Second Mature Maiden —Yes, so ho does. He looks almost as young as he did when I refused him. Ho was twenty-five then. First Mature Maiden—lndeed? I had no idea he was fifty.—Truth. The lleglnning of 11- "Ilonry, I have something to say to you." "Oo ahead, my dear. 1 am all ears." "I know you are, but that doesn't alter matters at all."—Harper's Bazar. A nrSINESS OPPORTUNITY. A rcttrcd business man is looking for ft lolUblt optaixxff to entor into active flfr Wir _