VOL. XXX . OUR NEW -:-Carpet Department-:- "Wil Soon Contain a Complete Assortment ot Carpets, Curtains, Oil Cloths, &c. First ind Second Shipments have arriyed and balance will follow soon as the Manufac turers can make the GOODS We have selected the best styles and colorings to be found in the market. o Not a single old style will be found in our stock. FURNITURE. CARPETS, OUEENSWEAR, HOUSEEURNISHING GOODS UVHU.I TEMPLETDN, Butler, - Penna. DURE DRUGS IT LOW I PRICES is., the motto at oar 1 store. If yoa are sick and need mfHicin you want tho BEST. Tbig JOl • alwavs depend upon getting iroui uh, as we use nothing bat strictly Pare Drags in our Prescription Depart ment. Yon can get the best of every thing in the drug line from u* Uur store is also headquarters for PAINT S OILS, VARNISHES Kalsomine, Alabastine k Get oar prices before yoa buy Paints, and see what we have to offer. We can save you dollars on your paint bill. Respectfallr J C. 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The best way to save moucy is to buy good goods at the right price. The only reason that our trade ia increasing constantly ib the fact that we handle only goods of first quality and sell them at very low prices. We have taken unusual care to provide everything new in Hats and Furnishing Goods for thin season, and as we have control of many especially good urticlon in both lineß we can do you good if you come to us. We confidently say that in justice to thems' lvee all purchasers Bhoald inspect our goods. Visit us. COLBERT & DALE, 242 S Main street, Butler, Pa. NO t:J C E ! ' jYI i THK w ell- W OPT 7 £d ~WD ■ Will I /i graphtr;formerly XX \J X \j LA I the head of the ' Wertz-Hardm a ri Art Co., will open u Studio ar.d Photo Par lors opposite the Uotel Lowry, Cor, Main and Jefferson Bta , Rutler, Pa Thin will be the liest lighted and equipped Studio and galleries in the the county. The work will he strictly iir>t class and tnade under new formulas by the artist himself, who has bad 15 years practical experience in large cities Portraits in Oil, Crayon, Sepia, Pastel, : ! rious victories by the , genius of Sheridan and his able lieuten ! ants and resulting in driving Gen. Ear ly to the mountains, where cavalry j could not well operate. In every skirmish, raid and battle in I which Private Leslie took part he won j golden opinions from his officers and I comrades, and it was rather curious ; that on two occasions he owed his own ' escape from death or capture, and once i the life of his captain, to his skill as a I swordsman —an accomplishment ac ! quired from the teachings of Sydney | Temple in their college gymnasium! Of the first two incidents we need not speak, but the last will bear telling. | 'Twas at the battle of Winchester, when , the union forces were being driven in i confusion from the field, under the erro i neous impr~ssion that they were beaten. ; In the melee, the commander of Her ; bert's troop had become separated from I his men and was closely beset in the angle of an old stone wall by five mounted confederates, who, as it hap pened, had already fired away their scant supply of ammunition, and now, with drawn sabers, rode down upon their expected prize, summoning him to surrender. Hut Captain Vincent's blood was up, and his chagrin at the unlooked ' for rout of his men was so great that he forgot all prudence and tauntingly challenged the fellows to come on. Still more rashly, having two cart ridges left in his revolver, he dropped a man with each one, and then defiant ly sat in his saddle, his horse backed into the sharp corner of the partial in closure, and, with his single blade against three, awaited the assault. The men, furious at the fall of their comrades, and crying out to "give no quarter," charged all together; but the space was rather narrow for three horses abreast, and the riders, when so placed, could not well use their sword arms. Hence, one'of them naturally was forced to the front, and as he dashed in with uplifted saber, the cap tain, lunging straight forward, drove his own blade clear through his body. The trooper dropped his sword, reeled and would have fallen to the ground, but was, for the moment, fop held by Capt. Vincent's heavy pull in attempting to withdraw his weapon. It stuck fast, however, and, to save him - r W' I ii ;#2S§> A DEADLY THRCST EN TIERCE. self from being dragged down with his slain enemy, he was obliged to let go the hilt, and was then quite defenseless. Another moment, and the brave fellow would have been hacked to pieces; but ere the maddened assailants could col lect themselves to strike a short, sharp cheer rang out behind them, and they turned to see Herbert Leslie bearing down at full speed and already within thirty feet. Supposing that they had only a boy to deal with, the half-trained soldiers nonchalantly awaited the onset of this new enemy, but were woefully unde ceived when, with an easy motion, he parried their downright, skilless strokes, then sent the sword of one Hy ing from his grasp, transfixed the right wrist of the other and, with a deadly thrust en tierce, whirled the'first dis armed man to the earth —finally riding off with his captain, both unhurt, and taking the wounded confederate along as prisoner. The two unionists then busied themselves in aiding to rally the demoralized battalions, in anticipation of the coming of Sheridan, who, upon being told of the affair after his bril liant victory that night, gave one of those peculiar smiles, which we boys learned to know so well, and taking a small notebook from his pocket made a short memorandum therein. "He jabers," said old Sergeant Boyle, a "naturalized" citizen, who fought for the pure fun of the tiling, "Little I'hil's got that down in black an' white, sorra a fear; and for a gossoon phwat was picked up for dead at the Wilderness plisantry, that bhy, Lislie's, got a mighty sthrong arruin intoirely!" "True for you, Pat," replied a stal wart Wolverine, "and if he studied his books at school half as much as he did his fencing lessons, Private Leslie must be a pretty good scholar, too." The future —provided hi! could live to seo it—did indeed appsar to be full of promis • for our young New Yorker and tor one piece of especially brilliant serv ice, following upon his former record, he was promoted, at one jump, to the rank of second lieutenant. This service consisted in carrying an important dispatch from (Jen. Torbcrt to Oen. Crook across a line of country where all the telegraph wires were cut and which was at the time thoroughly patrolcd by the enemy. So desperate seemed the enterprise, that volunteers were called for. From among the crowd of brave fellows who btepped forward, Herbert Leslie was selected, ami, having received detailed instructions, he set out at once on his perilous mission. For several hours, with singular ad dress, he avoided the oulying hostile pickets and having at length reached the jfreat military road leading through the Shenandoah valley, felt secure of accomplishing his purpose. Everywhere, as he rode along, the fearful ravages of war were apparent; smoking ruins, deserted dwellings, slaughtered cattle and burning crops were to be seen on all sides, and the very soil itself seemed to smell of blood! By and by, in the heat of the day, the solitary rider turned into a short lane, at the further end of which stood an empty house, and in front of this house, near the door of a log stable, lay a trough of water, supplied by a tiny stream trickling through an old musket barrel. All appeared quiet; not a sign of life was to be seen anywhere about; and the thirsty trooper, without dismounting, dipped up in his canteen a copious draught and imbibed it leisurely, while his good horse drank deeply from the trough. Just as the unsuspicious young man had thrown back his head to drain the last drop of the refreshing fluid ho heard a slight sliuflliDg noise and simul taneously au elicit. Hflf turn HFTLER. PA,FRIDAY. AUGUST 25, 1893. ru« in xii> fuuttie nc saw wunrn a lew yards of him two barefooted "bush | whackers," who had evidently up till I now been concealed in the stable, j one ui tnese dangerous tramps car i ried a long- ducking-gun, already stead ily covering Herbert's breast, and the other a locklcss rifle and bayonet. "Up with yer hands, ye d —d Yank!" yelled the fellow with the gun. But Private Leslie was not that kind of a "Yank." He had been carefully \ coached for just such an emergency as this, and instead of leaving his revolver in the holsters had one of them l3'ing on the pommel of his saddle. Quick as thought he dropped his hand to the I weapon, but swift as his motion was I his fingers had barely touched its butt 1 when the menacing ruffian pulled the j trigger of his smoothbore. If the clumsy piece had exploded its ; three-ounce load of slugs and buckshot would have torn the bold unionist's j body to shreds, but fortunately for him | the hammer fell upon a spoiled cap, and seeing there was no time to replace it the guerillas rushed forward with frightful oaths.' One took two steps, the other three, and then both lay weltering in their gore—shot down by the deadly, rapid ! tire of their bovish foe. Xot knowing how many more of these vagabond, no-nation stragglers might be ambushed within hearing. Herbert dared not wait to ascertain the condi tion of his assailants, but, wheeling his horse, rode off at speed, little imagining what was next to befall. He had arrived, with no further mo lestation, within six miles of the outer line of Crook's videttes and was riding, now more slowly, along the edge of a wooded tract, when he heard a low, moaning cry which appeared to come from an adjoining thicket. "Some poor, wounded 'reb' needs help," the humane young fellow mut tered, and, promptly dismounting, he proceeded to make a search, having first, for fear of treachery, placed a re volver in his belt. Creeping on hands and knees through the dense under brush and guided by the still-continued plaint, he came presently to a prostrate, blood-stained form clad in a torn uni form —not of gray, but of blue! "Ah! one of our own brave boys," thought he, and, kneeling by the side of the helpless man, he gently raised his head. The wan, pinched, hunger stricken face, covered with mud, seemed that of a stranger, but no sooner had the sunken eyes turned upon Leslie than the wounded soldier gasped: "Oh Herbert don't—you know me?" "Merciful Heaven!" exclaimed the astounded rescuer, "it is Fred Ainslie!" and. throwing his arms around his so st .gely found friend, he burst into very unsoldierlike tears. "Why, my dear Fred"—he began, but t":e wornout boy had fainted aud now lay senseless upon his old schoolmate's breast. Owing to the hasty manner in which Herbert had been obliged to leave the water he had not refilled his canteen, aud now he had not so much as a drop to force between the swollen lips of his unconscious comrade. Yet not a mo ment must be lost! He saw that Fred's right leg was shot through above the knee, that he was utterly exhausted by loss of blood and might die before other help could be brought, and, besides, his own business would not admit of delay. So, with infinite «are and tenderness, he drew the motionless form out to the road and placed it across his saddle. Then, remounting, he held the light weight fairly in his arms and, putting his well-trained charger to an easy canter, carried poor Fred safely, and without a jolt, to Crook's headquarters, where, by the aid of cautiously admin istered stimulants, he quickly revived. The shattered limb was then properly attended to and in the course of the next twenty-four hours Herbert heard his friend's story from his own lips. It seems that, three days before, Sergeant Ainslie (for Fred had been pro moted) had been sent out in charge of a foraging party, which, being waylaid by a greatly superior number .of con federates, was obliged, after receiving a volley or two, to beat a hasty retreat, leaving the sergeant and several pri vates, supposedly dead, upon the field. Fred, however, who happened to fall close to the thicket where he was found, had presence of mind enough to crawl into its shelter and in the confu sion was not noticed by the enemy— thus escaping capture and saving his uniform. For seventy-two hours he had lain there without food or drink, except one rati an of biscuit and a sin gle quart of water which he had brought with him, and but for Leslie's oppor tune arrival he must have perished be fore the dawn of another day. A single remark made by Fred after he had told Herbert of the various bat tles he had been in while the latter was laid up in New York, will serve to show how greatly a man's nature may be tWy->y "IT IB FRED AIXSLIE." changed by habit and discipline and a realizing sense of responsibility and duty. "You remember, Herbert," said he, "how terribly scared I was at the very idea of being obliged to fight, und how, but for you, I would have wrecked, perhaps lost, my lift; in that vile attempt at desertion you so nobly frustrated and even after so generously concealed. You remember, too, how, when we came uudcrflre at the Wilder ness, I was utterly paralyzed by terror until you cheered me up. To you, not to me, should have fallen all the luck, but you were shot down at once and thus missed all the glorious opportuni ties I have had to serve our country; and I grieve over my present wound, only because it will keep me out of the field for awhile." "God bless you Fred, you have made me very happy," replied Herbert—and he stooped down and actually kissed the boy as if he had been indeed a very own brother. Trooper Leslie went back nest day to his own squadron, and Sergeant Ainslie was sent to the hospital at Fredericksburg where ho was nursed back ty health Uv his. mothvr.iUJd sister. assisted quite often by Miss Jessie (Tlynn, wliom no one would now have thought a "butterfly," though she was. notwithstanding her serious and thor oughly discharged duties, the brightest, most cheery and happiest little soul in the place. About two weeks after Fred was brought in Miriam, one morning, an nounced that an officer of Wilson's cav alry brigade had called to see him Fred tidied himself up as well as he could to receive tli£ unexpected visitor, and presently a handsome young fel low, in a brand new, full-dress uni form, was ushered to his bedside and roguishly introduced by Jessie Glynn as "Lieut. Herbert Leslie!" Fred, however, got even with the girls by solemnly affirming, then and ever afterwards, that this joyful sur prise did him more good, and more greatly hastened his recovery, than all their coddling and nursing put together! And perhaps it really was 6o; for cer tain it is that in less than four months the young man was again on duty; but this time as a sergeant in his friend's troop, and the whole army could boast of no better soldier than was he. When (January 31, 1565) the constitu : :. ) r lner.dment abolishing slavery \ . f.r d. all men saw that the end of .l.i fratricidal strife was near; and al ready the matrons and maids of our war-worn land indulged in fond hopes of speedily welcoming to peaceful homes those of their dear ones who still sur vived—though, alas! many brave men, on both sides, were yet to falL In several of the greater or less im portant battles occurring'in the follow ing month of March, our young heroes took part, and at that of Five Forks, fought on April 1, both won promotion by conspicuous gallantry in the field. In this battle, as everyone knows, tae cavalry in great force assaulted the enemy full in front, while the infantry attacked the rear, the result being that the federals took five thousand prison ers at a loss to themselves of about one thousand men. As the cavalry, en echelon, moved up to the attack, the regiment, in which served Herbert and Fred, found itself confronted by a vastly superior number of confederate horsemen, and, despite a stubborn resistance, was in imminent danger of being routed, when Lieut. Leslie, whose captain had fallen, called Sergeants Ainslie and Boyle to his side, dashed with them to the head of his own troop, charged furiously into a dense mass of yelling foes and, cutting down or riding over all who opposed his progress, made an opening for his closely-following men, who spurred in with reckless abandon and quickly re deemed the fight, Leslie himself bear ing off a guidon, fairly won in single combat, from the enemy's standard bearer, while Ainslie, whose horse had been shot under him, actually, when thus on foot, struck a confederate offi cer from the saddle and, mounting in his place, rode off with his victorious comrades. .Tolly Sergt. Boyl» received an ugly slash on the cheek during the scrim mage, but was, nevertheless, lively as a cricket and brimful of fun, as his squad gathered around their little camp fire that night. "Begorra, bhyes," said he, when speaking of the day's doings, "yez may say pliwat yez loike of viterans an' all that, but do yez moind now, that smooth-faced spalpeen the liftinant calls his fi-fi-fi- ('Fidus Achates,' prompted some one) —yis, yis, his fidus achates, bates the divil himself. Whin his baste rowled over to-day I giv the bhy up for a goner, an' I wint euttin' away right an' left to make a kind of divarshun in his favor, whin pliwat does he do but pulls himself from under the dead crathur an' quick as lightnin' runs that tall Johnnie through the gizzard, hops into his saddle an' was in the thick of the fun agin in no time Faix, the liftinant'll have to translilate his furrin name into plain English an' call him fightees an takeex, I'm thinkin'. It's liimsilf that's made this no April fool day at all, at all!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Code. Caller—Why are you waving your handkerchief so wildly? Murilla—Since papa has forbidden Jack the house, we have arranged a code of signals. Caller —What is it? Murilla—When he waves his hand kerchief five times, that means: "Do you love me?" and when I wave fran tically in reply, it means: "Yes, dar ling." Caller —And how do you a&k other questions? Murilla—We don't. That's the v« hole code.—liter's Bazar. Not Exactly a I.exicog:rai>her. "What became of that bright son ox yours that you sent to college? Was he graduated?" "Oh, yes. He is at present interested j in dictionaries." "Ha! Become a lexicographer?" "Well, not exactly a lexicographer. He is soliciting subscriptions for a dic tionary."—N. Y. Press. A SPRING FIG. H it -A# There are spring chickens and spring lambs; but here's a spring pig, and a fine bouncing fellow he is!—liarper'e Young People. liow Those Girl* Love One Another. Capt. Dash—What delicate, dark eye brows and lashes Miss Budd has, and what a rich color in her cheeksl Yet a great many girls speak unkindly of her, and say that her beauty is due to cosmetics. Do j*ou believe it? Miss Blank (who happens to be a rival) —Capt. Dash, I am certain she is not so dark as she is painted.—Truth, reraiflaco Over the Baby. "I'm going* to call my baby Charles," said the author. "After Lamb, be cause he is such a dear little lamb." "Oh, I'd call him William Dern," said the friend. "He Ilowellsso much." —Brooklyn Life. A RECREANT SPOUSE. Colt—Why , this sadness, mommeri why those tears? The Mother—Ab, my son! 'Tis great trouble I have. Your father ran ofl with a woman this mornintf. —Puck- WHO OWNS POPE'S FOLLY? A l.lttlr Inland Which Is Still Claimed by the Inltcd State* and England. The northwestern boundary of the United States is still a matter of dis pute. Two commissioners, Dr. Men dciihull for the Ignited States and Mr. &iug for Great Britain, have recently been appointed. They are to deter mine whether Pope's Folly is on the American or English side of the line between Maine and New Brunswick. The treaty of Washington in 1542. says the New York Press, defined this boundary, and in accordance with its provisions the initial monument to mark the line was established the same year at a point near the source of the St. Croix river. Thence to the south ward to the Atlantic the line was to coincide with the axis of the channel, or the line of greatest depth. Notwith standing 1 its importance as an interna tional boundary, this line, if definitely determined at the time, was not ac curately and permanently fixed. As sistant C. H. Boyd, acting 1 under in ; structions of the coast survey office, . organized a party in the summer of ISS'J, and began the work of definitely establishing the boundary line. There was at that time no map of the coun try on a sufficiently large scale to lo cate the initial monument, and they were obliged to conduct a lengthy | search, depending almost entirely upon popular reports in the vicinity. The monument was evidently discovered, and consisted of a square cast iron col umn in three sections secured to a i bowlder which is situated in swamp ground on the town lines of Amity, Me., and Richmond, N. B. On the north side of the monument was inscribed "Treaty of Washing ton," on the south side "Boundary, August 9, 1842," and on the east and west sides the names of the commis sioners. The monument is 1 2-10 feet square and 9 8-10 feet high. In June, ISB9, Assistant Eugene Ellicott was instructed to make a survey of the riv er and to determine the channel by taking systematic soundings. In his report, which is now filed in the ar chives of the coast survey office at Washington, Mr. Ellicott recommend ed very strongly a survey made with great accuracy of detail to serve as a basis for definitely markng the bound ary. Pope's Folly is situated at the southern entrance to Passamaquoddy bay. about one mile to the northward of Lubec. Me. In case of war the is land is of the greatest importance, as the nation possessing it has absolute control of the entrance to the bay. The latest United Stateshydrograph ic office chart, No. 1,247, places the island on the eastern or Canadian side of the boundary line, thus giving Eng land undisputed possession of the is land. The English admiralty charts of 1842, however, show the island on the western or American side of the channel. Our knowledge of this fact Is due to the re<*-nt examination of the charts of that date by Dr. Menden hall, who is the present superintend ent of the coast survey office. In ac cordance with international law the boundary was fixed by the axis of the channel as it existed at the time of the treaty of Washington, and the bounda ry was a fixed line, although the chan nel may have changed. That the channel has changed is proved by the knowledge of local shipmasters and a comparison of the charts made from the survey of 18S9 and those in use in 1842. ' A KENTUCKY SNAKE STORY. Remarkable Scene Witnessed by a Ken tucky Judge While Oat Walking- Judge J. B. Bowman, who lives near Tallsborough, gave a Vanceburg (Ky.) correspondent of the New York World an account of a wonderful snake fight that he recently witnessed. He was going through a strip of wood land on the way to his wheat field when his attention was attracted by a peculiar noise near his pathway. Look ing in the direction whence the sound proceeded he observed a black snake and a rattlesnake twined to gether in deadly combat. The black snake was wound about its venomous enemy, endeavoring to squeeze the life out of him. The judge became an eager spectator of the novel combat. Ever and anon the rattlesnake would bite the blacksnake. Then a remarka ble thing would occur. The blacksnake as soon as bitten would uncoil himself, dart for a small bush, and bite off one of the leaves. He would moisten it in his mouth, press out the juice, apply it to the bit ten place, and then return to his en emy again. This was repeated sev eral times, until finally the black snake squeezed the life out of the rat tler. Judge Bowman says he never kills blacksnakes. He says it is their mis sion and one they greatly enjoy to de stroy all the venemous snakes they can find. The judge has a pet black snake that stays in his barn and keeps away all the rats and mice. The Rarest Plan's. The question which are the rarest plants on earth admits of two answers —as to rarity of distribution and rarity in the numerical sense There are some plants which grow in one small spot and nowhere else. Such are the Kerguelan cabbage, which is found only on Kerguelan island, a remote island in forty-five degrees south alti tude and sixty-five degrees east longi tude in the South Pacific, the species of harebell which glows only on Mount Parnassus, and a yam which is found only on the Pyrenees. The palm of numerical rarity is divided among two hybrid orchids—artificially produced crosses—laelia bella and lae lia sedina, of each of which only one specimen exists, a unique flower called odontoglossum vecillarium, ex hibited at the last exhibition of the horticultural society in Temple Gar dens, and a tiny Japanese plant, over weighted with the pretentious name schizocodon soldanellioides, which was brought from Japan about two years ago by Capt. Torrens. So far aa is known it is the only one in exist ence. Sensible at I.ust. Aunt Way back —What kind of a thing- do you call that you're wearing? City Niece—That's my Eton jacket, aunty. Aunt Wayback—Well, I must say that's sort o' sensible. The front folds back so you won't drop the vittles on it. —N. Y. Weekly. Not So Very Extravagant. Mr. Cheeky— Your bill for gum must be heavy. You have been chewing gum every time I met you in the last month. Miss Peastraw (speaking with diffi culty)—lt's the same gum. Town Topics. What Did She Want, Anyway? "She's only a fussy old maid after aIL" Mamma—What's wrong now? Johnnie —Well, teacher told me not to speak out loud, and then kept mo in for whispering.—Boston Globe. Equal to the Emergency. Perdita (yawning) —Did you propose to me just now? Cholly (languidly)—l don't know. P'waps I did; and, yet, ordinarily, I—er —aw exercise more judgment, don't you know. —Truth. Sheer Vanity. "How did Fred come to get so hor ribly round-shouldered?" "He isn't. He humps himself that way because he likes to look like an athletic bicyclist."—Chicago Hccord. THE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS. Why r.iCi-c --li.nilil tlwtji liu p Faith uit.'i Tkt it- It.'J Thai .t man should keep I.is promise is a prop )sitiou so self-evident that it should s.eed uu argument. If he should keep his promises) with iii.s banker or merchant, how much more should he do so with his own tiesh and blood. While farmers, as a rule, recognize their obligation to make good their promises to their neighbors, merchants and bankers, we are sorry t > : ay. preaches the Kansas City Live Stock Indicator, that a promise made t > the boy or girl Is not always considered equally bind ingl. If he has a pig, which for some reason does not thrive, he says to the boy: "Now, Jiuituie, if you take this pig and make a nice pen for it and feed it you may have half that it sells for when it is (frown." Jimmie enters into the scheme with spirit and with full confidence in his father's word. For months to come there is nothing too I good in his sight for that pijj. and it is with very laudable pride that he sees | it catch up with its mates and event ually surpass them. The fall of the year comes and the pigs are to be sold, and Jimmie's pig goes in with the rest, probably not even weighed separately, lie has !-pent a good many hours think ing what he will do with that money. I To plan what to do with it was a real pleasure, lie awaits the return of his : father with the pig money, and is : grieved and hurt that nothing is said ' about the price of the pig. Then, if he 1 ventures to suggest that he is entitled ito the half he is probably met with rebuffs, or told that there are 1 taxes and interest that must be paid and the money is abeolmely needed, i Most boys in an emergency of this kind will say: "All right, father." Frequent ly, however, lie is met with a rebuke and told that he has been boarded and clothed for so many years and that he owes all of this and more too. This is simply brutal. The boy has contracted no obligations to his parents that were not known at the time the promise was made. It was therefore made under these circumstances and conditions. The money for that pig is Jimmie's, and to divert it to any other purpose without his consent is simply robbery no matter if it is done by the parent. We are quite well aware that parents do not intend to rob their children in this way nor break faith with them, nor deal unjustly, nevertheless the in justice is none the less clear and the boys feel it keenly. We know some thing about this from experie-ice. It is not a desirable thing for a boy to lose faith in his father or mother, or to have the slightest misgiving as to whether or not thej- will keep their promises. So common is this, that the phrase "Jimmie's pig," "father's money," "Susie's calf," "father's cow," "Torn my'scolt," "father's horse," have passed into proverbs. Nor is there any way by which a boy can be more completely disgusted with farm life or his affections more com pletely alienated from home than by this method of dealing with him. The excuse is sometimes made that the boy may spend liio money foolishly. Wc beg leave to say that it is none of the father's business. He has a right to spend it how he pleases. The boy, however, who has the sand in him to take a worthless pig, an orphan lamb or a stunted calf and develop cither of them in accordance with nature's in tentions, will listen to a suggestion from the parent as to the best method of spending his money. What if he does make a little mistake, lie must learn to spend money wisely sometime and will inevitably make mistakes. He is a dozen times less liable to make mis takes with money that has cost him time, thought and labor, than with money that the father gives him either before his death or after. Therefore, we say, keep faith with the boys or the girls. They are priceless jewels of a parent's crown! On them must the name and honor of the fuinily depend in the future. Let it be an untarnished name. Let a boy or girl think of his or her father and mother as persons whose ■word is as gyod as their bond, and have no more doubt about the literal fulfill ment of it than they have of the sun rising or setting. HAYRACK SHELTER. The Barn Loft In the Place for the Imple ment When Not In Use. One of the most cumbersome imple ments on the farm is the hayrack or rigging, which takes up so much room that most farmers leave it out of doors when not in use. A good hayrack is worth at least ten dollars, and leaving it exposed to the weather throughout HAYRACK IJF BARN. the year renders it liable to give out in some vital part in five or six years, and the failure is apt to occur in a time of greatest need. A convenient place for the hayrack is in the barn loft. To hoist it near the roof two pulleys are used at each end. The position is shown in the illustration. The rack is raised directly from the wagon by one man who pulls up each end a few feet at a time, and winding the lower end of the rope about a strong pin at a. It can be raised entirely out of the way of the threshing machine, or other farm implements, and when it is to be used one mau can easily lower it upon the wagon.—American Agriculturist The Hand of Fate. "Mary Jane," exclaimed the editor of the Bluegrass Vindicator, rushing hurriedly into the house, "put me up a little lunch as quick as you canl Where is my valise?" "In mercy's name what Is the matter, Jared?" "Matter?" he shouted, diving into the bureau drawer for clean shirts and other things necessary for a journey, "nothing's the matter, only I wrote last night that "we noticed Col. All gore riding about the city this morn ing at a comfortable jog.' and it camo out in the paper this morning 'com fortable jag!' I start for the world's fair, Mary Jane, in ten minutes if I'm still alive!" —Chicago Tribune. Thin la a True Storr. Yarnspun—Talk about grit. I never saw the real article till I went west It was in a little mining camp that had been terrorized for months by a profes sional terror. Everybody was afraid of him. One day a little, white, deli cate tenderfoot came into the cntnp and the big bully went for him- Chorus—And the tenderfoot did him up! Yarnspun —Oh, no; the bully whipped him in thirty seconds. Chorus —Then where did the grit j come in? Yarnspun—Why, the tenderfoot had the grit to admit that he waa licked.— j Chicago BecortL O^IIIARDEM. S;MPL- REFRIGERATOR. Can R.,- at Home at HII rZxpenae of :t Few OuU I saw a refrigerator constructed last summer at n:i actual outlay of so few cents, whi h -'id stvh good work, both in its tv ". ;u:nse of ice and in its preserve;.>-. lof the food placed in it, that it appears little short of a duty to describe it- Two dry-goods packing case; were seed red, one considerably smaller than other. The size of the inner box will represent the capac ity of the ice chest (it is to be remem bered when choosing a box for this purpose) while the outer box should af ford a space three or four inches all around the box placed within. It should also afford two inches of space between the bottom of the inner box and its own, and two inches also be tween the cover of the inner box and its own. All these surrounding spaces, except that above the inner box, are to be filled with dry sawdust. The in terior of the inner box should be painted white, for if left in the natural , wood butter and some other articles ' placed in it may have a decidedly ' "woody" taste. So far the ice chest has cost but a trifle, but now it will pay to spend a ! little for a galvanized iron tray to fit ' exactly into the bottom of the inner box, provided with a tub-» in one end, as shown in the cut, of sufficient length to pa«s down through the bottoms of both boxes, which will carry off all water from the melting ice. 'this tray can be made of tin, or even sheet iron, in which case it should be well painted, both within and without, to prevent rusting. The chest mentioned did not have this tri.y, but it is really very de sirable. Cleats are placed upon the inside of j the inner box, and shelves made of slats inserted one above another, with a chance for one such shelf directly I over the ice. as it rests in one end of the box. A thick cloth cover kept well drawn over the top of the outer box will help to keep the ice from rapid melting, though without this in the case mentioned the ice melted but slowly.—Country Gentleman. A TIN CAN SCOOP. Ever j Farmer Should Make a Few for Ilia Wife. A very convenient little article for the farm is a scoop made of discarded tin cans. Cut the can with a pair of old shears like the cut, sloping back to within about an inch of the bottom. Fit in a bottom made of a block of wood, to give it strength to fasten a handle to. Bore a half-inch hole in the block for the handle, then punch a hole through the tin and drive the handle to its place. A good handle can bo made out of an old chair-rung. Fasten securely with a wire nail, cut a lid from an old can and tack on the block inside the scoop. The good wife will thank you for several of these for her sugar and flour bins, and nothing could be handier around the barn for using in the oats and feed bins, where a small quantity is taken out at a time.—J. A. Shafer. in Farm and Fireside. FACTS 6OR FARMERS. AFTER the wheat is harvested, sow a small patch of buckwheat for the bees, plowing under the stubble and putting on broadcast. THE recuperative power of clover in restoring fertility and opening passages in the subsoil, is too little appreciated by the market gardener. IF a patch of willows or swamp ash, hazel or shrubs of any kind are to bo grubbed this year, do it during the hot weather of August. SOME practical farmers recommend sowing grass seed in August as that is the time nature sows it. The ground is, however, seldom ready then. Mow THE weeds along public roads, pasture fences and turn rows now be fore the seed is mature enough to grow. Under no circumstances let dock, this tles, cockle burs, jimson, etc., get any older. IT pays to spend time in thinking and planning the Work and fixtures on farms. Hani work counts for much in all cases, and is indispensible, but is often poorly directed and avails too little. —Orange J add Farmer. C»e of the Harrow. When wheat is to follow corn, pota toes or beans the breaking plow may often be dispensed with provided the soil is in good condition. A disk har row will cut front four to six inches deep and make a tine, loose soil, which may be easily compacted by the roller. This will reduce the cost of preparation very materially anl sometimes save many valti::' !c days. " AN Undesirable Guest. Gamekeeper—llow do you like my new assistant? I nnkeeper—Oh! I like him and I don't like him. Gamekeeper—What do you mean? Innkeeper—He eats enough for two and drinks enough for three and I like him for that, but he never thinks of paying ine and I don't like liira for that.—Fliegende lilaettcr. Mrnnt WJial He Haiti. Mrs. Smythe—What is poor Mrs. Per kins going to do now that her husband is dead? Smythe—Take in boarders. Mrs. Smythe—No? Why, she can't cook? Smythe—Precisely! Didn't I say that she was going to take them in? —Jury. The Heat He Could Do. Hotel Clerk (to new bell-boy) Did you wake up No. 4-1? Bell-Boy—No, sah. Cuddent wake him up, sah; but I did the best I cud, sah. "What was thfT "I waked up No 45, sah."—Harper's Bazar. A Natural Inferein-o. Van Pelt —1 infer that most of the people who pel shaved here have hair on their teeth. Barber—From what do yon infer that, Kir? Van Pelt —The persistency with which you poke the lather into my mouth.—N. Y. Herald. MO 38