VOL XXX Happy Homes#- Comfortable Homes!! Any Person can have such a Home if They will BUY FURNITURE QUEENSWARE STOVES CARPETS OIL CLOTHS TIN WARE. And all House Furnishing Goods From CAMPBELL S TIPLSTOII, Butler, - Penn'a. Complete House Furnishing Goods House. WILL YOU BE ONE TO READ THIS AD. AXD ACT PROMPTLY. EVERY ITEM IS A LEADER. tinn'» felt I»hi|> and "Ver *1.85 U»>'>• k<.o>l -"in. u «■!« - i ~lt«5 95-. MOU'D f<Mti b'itkel arctie- 95 i ..ver- i..r Mi tiiots 51.15 im i $1.25 Men'. ff.».d solid 50. I M-n'-i ,{...,.1 ...liil w..rttf- |T HIKH-H »5. Uuti'x line dr*-an -hoei- la<-e or i <ili)[irr>n $1 25. THE NEW SHOE STORE LEADING THE.vI ALL. L*Him Xi-: natrn.l mh'-'-' ttji t |<l .' U5. L. i. tt .u ImcuO <1 00. *r»in -p il.j I L i-.1.-K- Kip l«Ce -Hoec 95 JliiMM' kid button Kboen spriim n PH: | La<l.. n' Ji„c ruLitiern 25. ALL RUBBER GOODS REDUCED AT THE NEW SHOE STORE. 215 S. Main Street, ft V MIT I UD Opposite Arlington Hotel, v. Ju. luILLIm. Sweeping Rednctions have been Made on all Winter Clothing, OYercoats, Underwear, Cap, etc. Our business has been very successful since our opening nine months ago, leaving us a lot of odds and ends, which arc ALL NEW and which we arc- willing to sell at a sacrific rather than carry them over. Be sure and see us bt r <> eyo i buy if yHI want to save money. Wishing you all a Happy New Year. We arc Yours Respectfully, DOUTIIETT <fe GRAHAM. Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts. BUTLER, PA. The 0. W. HARDMAN Art Company Limited. G.i U %'u FLOOR STUDIO. F.ncst and .no t artis . ,»iiotographs. Hand made portraits a specia :y. Pictu and po ait fia:ncs. If co:i:»< icntio is work i-. of any vaiue to yot, vc the •:» .!■ i.■* here. Be vare <f i arti t-ul :r» parties and sitati,;. rs wh / arc Stniio, ilB Noiiii Mii.i St., Butler, Pa. - "t i . kniils done at the "Citizen Office." THE BUTLER CITI; |\ Read Our -• .New. Serial I, r** By fI.GONAN £ DOYLE. 1 Pr jfln H- \\P . \ o tensely Interestino "g Storu. \f \ \ m Beoins In Odp Next! PROFKSSIONAIT CARD". G. M. ZIMMERMAN. PHYSICIAN AND BCROEOK. *fliC6 at No. 45, S. Main street, over Frank * o's Dtutc Store. Butler. Pa. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, 137 K. Wayne St., office hours, 10 fo 12 M. an 4 t to 3 P. M. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. 200 West Cunningham St. L. BLACK, rnVHICIAN AMD HLRUEON. New TrouniiiUi RnUdins, Sutler. Fa, u. K. I.KAKK, 11. D. J. K. MAS.N, M. U .Specialties: Specialties; •/iHecology and Sur- Kye, fcar. No»e at a tfery. Tliroat. URS. LEAKE & MANN, tiuiier, Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist, butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeta inserted tn the latest In . ru*e<i I'lan. iKild Kill. tin a specialty. Offli«— ver BclialU'E CIOUUUK tJUire. V. ivic ALPIN E, Dentist, snow located lit new and elegant rooms,ai>- JTiiiiiuK "1» loimi-r ones. All kinds ot clanj. Uln ana uioaeten goid work. -Uus AdminibtereU." DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. .ENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. Gold Killing Painless Extraction of Teetli •ud Artificial Teeth without l'lat<-h a specialty .<ltloiu Oxide or Vitalized Air or 1-ocu; • u-estuetles used. ■ mice over Miller* Grocery east ol Lowr> u.ine. >tflce closed Va ines lays aud Tn ursdayrf. IRA McJUNKIN. ttorney at Law, Office at No. 11, ■u St., IJutier, Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law anu Keal Estate AKent, Oi ice rear oi L. Z. Mitchell's omce on north Bide i Diamond. Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. ttorney-at-iaw. Office on second floor o uderson building, near Court Uouse. liutlei a. J. W HUTCHISON, A'ITUKNKY AT LAW. office on second floor Jf the lluaclton oloca. tamond, Butler, Pa.. Eoom No. L S. H. PIERSOL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office ut No. 101 West Diamond »t. A. T. BLACK. ATTORNEY IT LAW. (tootn P., Armory Hutler. Pa. COULTER & BAKER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offico In io< m 11., A rtrory Kulldl&g, ilullt-i H. Q. WALKER, AH«rney-at-Law—omce in Diamond Hlock u'ler. Pa. J. M. PAINTER, Attornoy-at-Law. lli>:«—l»etwe,-ti puatoUce a Lit 1 Uiuuieud, ti u . Pa. A. T. SCOTT, ATTOIiNKY-AT-LAW. O at No. H, Houtli L>KiiiOU«l, IJ'itler. P i A. M. C.HRIbTLEY, ATIOKNEV AT LAW. O • second Hour, Anderson til k, Main M. n r liourt iluusu. liuUer, pa. NEWTON BLACK. A v at. La* —i >mc« on tloutli Hide ot lllamond B ,>-r. I'a. C. F. L. IW.cQUISTION, EHUMEEK AND Mt'KVEVOH, ornua HKAK DIAMOND, HrTi.HK. PA, VicJL iNki \, insurance and Real Afi I 17 KaHT JKFFKRHON ST. HITI .Kit. - PA. II T "* wtc A PERaOUS PASSAGE. An lea Boat Adventure on North umberland Strait. IKc E E °- Jf H WARD island '!?[ ■ Pec a 1 iarly i f j/J* \ inaccessible in >; if I ' / \ winter on ac ;/ 5/. \ count of the W formation of jl i ' ''■ \ ice around its }'< ,M\ coast In very j, S \ cold and stormy 'fa" weather ice boats are its '- only means of communication & * with the main* * "" land. They are so constructed th3t they can either skim over the ice or sail throug-h the water. This is necessary because the ice, constantly subject to the tides and currents, may break up suddenly and leave large spaces of open water between the fields. Frince Edward island is well known for its tine dranght-horses, so superior in size and strength that buyers ffo there from the Xew England states. In the fall of 1885 I went to the is land to buy some Clydesdales for a firm in Boston. Being barely eighteen years old, I was very young to be sent on such an errand, but I had earned the confidence which the mission im plied While making my purchases I stumbled over an opportunity to buy a large quantity of oats cheap, ami de cided to do a little speculating on my own account The buying and shipping of the horses and the attention my own venture required detained me much longer than I expected, and by the time all was completed the weather had become very cold and boisterous. Owing to this the steamboat service from Shediac and Pictou suddenly eeased, and I found that I would have to stay weeks on the island, or get over to the mainland on the ice boat carried the mail in such contin gencies. "We'll take you all right sir," the captain of the hybrid craft assured me, "if vou're bound to go, but we don't insure no passenger that he'll get there, and in case of trouble all passen gers has got to turn in and work their passage." The next morning I found threa otlier travelers ready to brave the dan gers of a passage across the strait They were all Canadian "drummers," who, like myself, had been shut up by Jack Frost in "P. E. I." They were stout, athletic fellows, and proved to be most agreeable companions. At the breakfast table of the inn at Bummcrside, near our embarking place, Capt Hawkins informed us that the chinces were "reasonable good," and that as soon as we had provisioned our selves for the trip we must goon board. When we got under way about eleven o'clock, the sky was perfectly clear and the wind fair, and there was every prospect that in about three or four hours we bhould reach our destination. Iceboats travel with great velocity when the wind is with them, and the distance from the point of departure to Cape Tormentine, our objective point on the New Brunswick side, is only about twenty miles. With a clear sky, a fair wind and plenty of wraps, commend me to an ice boat as the most agreeable met hod of progress in the whole wMe world. No pen could do justice to the delight of being the only Jiving thingson a great wide expanse of clear, glassy ice, and of skimming over it at the rate of ten miles an hour. The bracing wind that blew in our faces made every nerve tingle, and IK A. TBRKIBLK PLIGHT, gave sucb vigor and tenseness to every muscle that whon we were half an hour on our way we were all declaring that we felt as If we could "whip our weight in wildcats," or something to that effect. Before we reached the snowbanks on the opposite shore wo had ample opportunity to show what we really could do. When we were something less than half-way across, the stearing-g*e ar broke loose. In order to repair the damage the Wolverine had to be un loaded, and her bow slightly raised. Capt Hawkins proved himself to bo a brave navigator, and the cheerful ness with which he faced this emer gency kept us all in good spirits. "We'll sample the Wolverine's stores, boys," he said, whon she was in sailing trim onco more, "and then we'll put her noso to the cape und keep it there till she driven it ashore." But cveu while ho was speaking ho discovered that tbo wind was veering round, and the prospects were that in a few mornentn it would be blowing through the strait instead of across It, which would oblige u» to turn out and haul our boat, instead of having our boat carry us "I don't conceal from ye, gents," lie added, "that we're a-goin' to have a rough time. The lighthouse on Jouri. main island lies thereaway," he con tinued, thrusting out his arm. "It cau't be many miles off and soon as we hear the gong we're all right, but il the wind keeps like this it'll be « steady pull until we fetch it and every odo on ye'll have to take his spelL l'n> sorry for ye, gents, but ye was told, ye know." We drank our coffee and ate oar rations hastily, and then started in on as suiut a struggle for life as ever eight men engaged in. These boats are the merest cockle* shells, but even so their weight is not a trillc, and ours was loaded heavily with the mail matter that had been de layed by the recent storms. Two pushed at the back. Two got into a sort of harness rigged at tho bow and pulled Ho we "spelled" it as the captain had warned us we should have to do. ley blasts drove down against us, and swirled the snow around so that we were literally enveloped in clouds of it. It chilled us to tho very heart, and in spito of our severe exertions frost-bite became imminent The first man to give out was "Jim," one of tho crew. Ho fell face down ward in the snow, and was unable to raise himself, so benumbed were his legs and feet We were obliged to place him in the boat, and as tho terrible haul was beginning to tell on ail of us the mall matter had to bo taken out and left In the snow. Wo covered Jim up carefully with everything that wo could spare from our own necessities, but we could hear his teeth chattering like castanets all the time. Every few moments we haa to »tnp for some one to rub his frost -biUyn hmiris or Icgt with anew, aadjve RFTLER. PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY *26, ljj all were* beginning to feel more or lass numbness in our feet and legs. Another of the crew soecy m bed. They ■were not so warmly clothe ' as we who were passengers. He, to<\.bad to be placed in the boat, and then ? noticed for the first time that Jim's teeth ceased chattering-. The poor fellow was dead. We lifted him out. and laid him in the snow. It ' emcJ heariless, and the captain muttered about '"not being able to face his folks," but we could do nothing more for him, and our own chances would hare been ma terially lessened by not leaving him be hind. Next one of my drummer friends gave out Lie stumbled and feH at * iP, Jfl \X&T i * .^2 N "rr'S HERE A WAV, GEXTB." every step, and two of us had to drag hira along by the arms. The captain now decided to abandon the boat, as the struggle had narrowed right down to ft fight for dear life, and we had only stuck to it so far in order to have the means of carrying those who gave out It wrung our hearts to desert the poor fellow in it, but he had already sunk into th" fatal stupor that precedes death by freezing. We filled our pockets with beef and biscuits and started once more to plow wearily through the driving snow. Now we were completely lost The captain had been steering us by a pocket compass, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that we could now and then keep a match lighted long enough for him to tell in which direction it pointed. At last there was not a match left and nothing to do but blunder around until daylight broke. Everything depended on our powers of endurance. That the poor fellow whom we were assisting along- by turns could not hold out until daylight was only too evident We wero all utterly benumbed and exhausted, and but for the captain's freqdent assurances that we might stumble up against the base of Jourimain island lighthouse any mo ment, would have sunk into the snow and given up the struggle. "It's hereaway, gents—it's here away," he declared every few mo ments. "I've lived round here, boy and man, for twenty years, and fetched it hundreds o' times and can't have made no mistake"—but it struck me now and then that he talked like one who was trying convince himself. At last he stopped—stopped so sud denly that the sole survivor of his crew who was plodding along right be hind him was sent head over heels into the snow. We could not see the captain's face, but the moment he Bpoke we knew we were saved. "Do you hear it?" he asked. - first we could hear nothing above the wild howling of the gale. Then a Bound like the tolling of a bell came t -ross the snowy wastes. "It's the lighthouse gong," he briefly observed, and turning started on again. We followed in his vvako with feelings that can only be entered into fully by those who have come suddenly out of a great and prolonged peril. In less than an hour we were io safety at a comfortable little inn, not a stone's throw from the lighthouse, were receiving every attention that our exhausted and benumbed condition required. As soon as day broke, a party was or ganized to go in search of the boat and the bodies of those whom we were obliged to abandon. They were the sons of farmers who lived in the neigh borhood. A melancholy procession it was that came off the ice that afternoon, and wound over and around the great snow drifts in which the storm had almost buried the neighboring hamlet We, who had so barely escaped a place in its sorrowful ranks, watched it out of bight with bared heads and thankful hearts. This is a true story. It was told to me last summer by the horse-bnyei who escaped.—Clara A. Harper, in Youth's Companion. After the Shower. Fanny—How kind it was of that gen tleman to lend me bis umbrella during the 6hower. Jenny—lt was, indeed. He is one of nature's gentlemen. B'anny—Yes; quite a rainbeau.— Texas Siftings. Notliliiff N>w to Illm. Johnny (proudly)—My father is building a new house for us to live in. Bert (whoso father is a builder) — Pooh! that's nothing; my father is building new houses every day for oilier people to live in.—Harper's Young Peopl Nightly Depredation*. Uiggs —ls your wife a fickle woman? Wiggs—(feeling in his empty pock ets) —She is fond of change.—Truth. A CASK FOK THE LAWYERS. Smith —What is the matter with you? I never knew you to have the blues so badly. Jones—l am grieving over tho death of my brother. Smith—l didn't know you loved him as much as all that Jones—l didn't either, Imt tho fact is after I hail him locked up in un in sane asylum he made his will and left me ail his property, and now I've got to prove that he wasn't crazy or hit property will go to somebody else.— Texas tSiftings. Not tho Hotter Half. Miss Struckile —Ma, what is a vulgar fraction? Mrs. Struckile (who married for money)— Your father, my love.—Truth. ODD WM Enough. "You love my daughter?" said the old muu. "Love her?" he exclaimed, passion ately, "why, 1 could die for herl For one soft glance from those sweet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder olifl and perish, a bleeding, bruised mass, upon the rocks two hundred feet be low!" The old man shook his head "l'm something of a liar, myself," be said, "and one is enough for a tmuU familyllkmiflc."— 1 Why Emma home Usod Her Black Lace. ~ Forty m I f or f[ only for trim-J H min g si My* S J a mot her never IP' spent so much on any dress, ' ss. • and you have the dress I , h a t e to seem '!& i,/ cross, my dear, j J but with so j r'Vl many business men falling ev jf ' /'* ery day. one ! 6ees the wisdom of economy. Explain, , my dear." "Well, papa," said Emma, "it is just 1 this. Mme. Farine says I need ten yards of trimming at four dollars a yard. The dress is half finished, and really money goes so! There were other things to get I'm ashamed to ask, but j I was obliged to." "Very well, my dear," replied the I merchant "There is the money, but I j don't think you'll need any more be- ; fore Christmas. Times are not good, you know, and, dear me! Forty dollars | for trimming! Women are getting worse j than ever!" Emma Home slipped the roll of notes j into her purse with a feeling that it ! was dearly bought; but fate has placed so many women in the condition of beggars, and it is so customary to do as Emma did, that she almost wondered at the little pang which shot through her heart Besides, her father seemed to forget the matter soon, and she knew that he was called rich—that, actually, forty dollars was but a small sum for him. So, breakfast over and Mr. Rome off for the mysterious regions known as "down town," she dressed herself becomingly and started on her shopping expedition. On the way thoughts of her new dress ran through her mind. She intended to wear it on an occasion which to her seemed very important. Some one was to be present whose opinion she valued —some one she herself admired very much. Did he admire her? She had asked herself the question over and over agmin She had even pulled away the petals of a Marguerite one by one, counting them as they fell, with the *vords: "He loves me—loves me not" And there were to be many pretty girls present, and she was not vain. Oh, she must look as well as possible! Thus absorbed, she suddenly found herself several blocks below her des tination. There was nothing for it but to walk back, and the way lay through streets filled with miserable tenement houses. Emma hurried along until, all at once, she found a sort of barri cade across the street The middle ob ject of this barricade was a sewing-ma chine, to which on one side clung a woman, on tho other a man. The wom an was crying; the tears splashed down on her hands. An attendant crowd of residents contemplated this scene with evident interest and Emma became, perforce, one of their number. Scarcely ever in her life before had Emma Rome been in close contact wUh actual misery. Poor, to her, simply meant not rich. Now she was amongst rags und dirt and misery, forced to stand still for a moment and look at it At first the only emotion it excited was disgust But as she was about to aeek a passage through the squalid KMMA lIURRIKD ALONG crowd, words fell upon her ear that ar rested her attention. "Forty dollars I've paid you on that machine, and now you will not give mo time! I only ask time. I'm an honest woman. I'll pay you. Man, do you know it's all there la between us and starvation? Let me have the thing back. It's but ten dollars I owe you." "You have owed that two months," replied tho man. "Come, let go, missus, I don't want to hurt you. I've got to . obey orders. 'Money or the machine' was what tho boss said." But tho woman did not relinquish her hold. Still clutching the machine, she turned her agonized eyes upon tho bystanders. "Forty dollars," she repeated, "and the machine but fifty, and he's taking it! I never failed until Jim broke his leg, and his work stopped, and his i wages with it, and I'd doctor's bill and j aIL" "No, that sho didn't," cried a voice j from the crowd "I'm knowing to \ that" "And he'd better bo off with his cart," cried a tnau who had stalked out ! of the entry of the house near which the crowd had gathered, rolling up his 1 sleeves. "Look here, good people," exclaimed 1 the man who held the maehine, "I don't want to do thia I've got to obey orders, or lose my position and ' my bread und butter. Hhe'd better go to the boss and talk to him —not to j me." "I've been," said the woman. "He's j made of stone. I told him he'd starvo j us. He will. There, what is the use of my fighting like a drunken body j in the street—me, a deci-nt woman! | They've more than the th( I thing uow, God knows; but they'vi the power, Take It." And she let go her hold, and covered her eyes with her ! hands. But in place of those rough, red fin gers, others, dainty and small, and well-gloved, came down upon the cover of tho machine. Emma Rome bad pressed forward, and now spoke. "Stop," she said. "Will -you let this woman keep her machine if I pay you ten dollars?" " Them's the boss' orders, miss," re plied the man, "and I'd be glad to do it too." Then, while the crowd gathered close, and the woman who had told her piteous tale sobbed with joy, Ernma drew the sum named from her purse, ! received a receipt, which she gave to | the poor woman, and experienced for i tho first time the delight which the performance of a good deed brings with it. Moreover, when the machine had been borne upstairs, Emma, who liud exchanged a few words with Us own- j er, followed her to her miserable room, noted its poverty, beard all the bitter tale. It was a true one —the hot tears told that. "But I don't mind anything now, mlas." sobbed the narrator. "Now the maehine is my very own, I dou't mind J how hard I work. And the only great tug is the landlord—four dollars a month for rent" "As much a month as a yard of that trimming!" thought £miua> with a lit tlSPlDg. . 1 "STOP," SHE SAID from the door she had emptied ber purse and had paid three months' rent ! in advance. "Your husband will be well and at work by that time," she said; and there were no regrets for the lost fringe as she made her way homeward. She was not even stung when Mme. Fa rine remarked with a glance that said ' volumes: "The black lace from your old gren adine dress? Certainly, since it is your | taste." The dress, however, was not unbe coming, despite the refurbished lace, and Emma wore it to the party. She was conscious that every woman of : her acquaintance knew what the dress was trimmed with, but her conscience whispered to her that she had done ; right Moreover, the light of the bet- . ter thought was on her face. Some- : how. Arthur Maine foimd himself more I than ever attracted by it, and as she i drove home that night Emma felt that tho Marguerite which had said to her: "He loves," had been no false prophet She had learned two lessons in a little while. One that the poor might be clothed and fed from the trimmings of the rich; the other, that extravagance in dress is not always the way to win a man's heart—Woman's Journal. PHILOSOPHICALLY VIEWED. Adversity Is the Test of True Friend ship. "Sweet are the uses of adversity," but it takes a philosopher to see it while the storm is on. After it is over, and the sun of prosperity is again shin ing serenely anyone may see it Shakespeare, philosopher as well as poet, knew this when he put these words into the mouth of his spokes man. Jacques: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious Jewel in Its head: And this our life exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues In trees, books In running brooks. Sermons In stones and good tn everything " Here is philosophy, and if you will take the trouble to study it well yon may find a groat deal of comfort in it You will learn that everything has its uses, and he that abuses them suffers most Has it ever occurred to you that it Is your adversity that tries and proves your friends? While you are in health and in wealth you have friends on every hand, but when in adversity yoa stand almost alone. The few that re main are worth more than the whole vanished train. Then, when adwersity overtakes your friends, the genuineness of your friend ship is put to the test Thus you are made acquainted with your real self, besides showing the quality of your mettle to others. Friends come; they are not bought This is happily expressed by a western poet: "Thy friend will come to thee unsought, With nothing oan bis love be bought. His soul thine own will know at sight. With him thy heart can speak outright Greet him nobly, love him well, Show him where your best thoughts d well. Trust him greatly and for aye: A true friend comes but once your way." —Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette. lie Didn't Exaggerate. "Ate a quart of raw oysters at on* time? Ob, pshaw! you couldn't do it, Patrick " "Well, it's meself that did do it no later than the day afore ylsterday." "Patrick, Patrick, you're a great liar." "I've not exaggerated at all, sor. 1 ate a whole quart, sor, but at the samt time I'll acknowledge that the oystcri wur schmall wans."—Texas Siftinga —"Then you don't believe it is th« use of tobacco that has inlured hig nerves?" Doctor —"Itn sure not; ha gave me one of the cigars he smokes." —Chicago Inter Ocean. The Boat Not Too Good for Illm. The Lady—What are you carrying so carefully. Col. Blood? The Colonel—Whisky, ma'am; old Rooster whisky. The Lady—Oh, that's bad, colonel! Very bad! The Colonel —I shall bo pleased to learn the brand you recommend, ma'am.—N. Y. Sun. lie. Too, Was Slippery. "I swear by those tall elms in yon der park"—he commenced, but she in i terruptcd him. "Swear not by them," she said im ploringly. "Why not?" "Because those trees aro slippery elms," she said simply.—Texas Siftr i"ffs- Kob Earned It, No Doubt. Aunt Jane—Kob, dear, won't you try , to be a real good boy to-day? Rob—l will, aunty, for a quarter. Aunt Jane—Why, Rob! you wish pay for being good? i Kob—Well, aunty dear, you wouldn't have me good for nothing, would you?— Harper's Young People. A Delicate Attention. Vivian (of certain years) You j treated me as if I were an old maid to- . day when Mr. Hpoouers was calling. Guinevere Nonsense, my dear. I Why, he unci I had been talking about | old people and we changed the sub« j j Ject the minute you came in tho room. —Chicago Record. The Cause of It. j "Cholly Lightpate seems to be a mod est fellow. See how the blood rushes to his face when a young lady speaks : to him." "That isn't a sign of modesty. It's only an effort of nature to till a vacn ! um."—Chicago Tribune. Iterometrlo Indications. Senior Partner—One thing I like about our new clerk is that he Is relia ble. You can always tell what he Is going to do next Junior Partner—And what is that? Senior Partner —Nothing.—Truth. Odlj m Comparison. "The sun never sets on England's possessions, you know," said the Eng lishman, proudly, i "Yes," crushingly returned the Amer ican, 'and the same might be said of a hen." —Vogue. A Long Full. Mrs. IClngley—l ain sorry to hear your husband la ill. What is the I trouble? Mrs. bingo— Pure weakness. It took him two hours last night to get up one flight—Life. Hospitably Kerelvod. Mrs. I'rtiner —Have yougot acquaint ed In the church yet? Mrs. Prim—Yes, indeed! I already belong to one of the oldest factions is I it—Pi*iiiUc»ler. * WUI Obey the Tale*. There are many things that should be carefully observed in the education of hones that are entirely omitted. Too much dependence ia placed in the bits, lines, strength of the harness, the ute of the whip and the ability of the driver to control the hone by sheer brute force. Ilence there are so many fata] accidents. The hone is a sensible and sensitive animal, possessed of many attributes, among- which fear often predominates. On the road a horse sees or imagines danger, and the ignorant driver, in stead of allowing time for the horse to take in the situation and satisfy him self that he is mistaken, plies the whip in the most vigorous manner. Tha sensible horse always resents such treatment and, scared and angered, dashes off in fright and fury. If the harness is strong, the bita reliable, the driver able to guide and control the horse, all may be well; should some thing give way the results are serious. A safe horse must be one with sense enough and so trained that in emer gencies it does not become frightened and uncontrollable. It may require some patience and tact to talk a horse out of running away or kicking things to pieces, but this should be possible with a safe horse. A horse must be taaght to stand still when it is desir able either for getting in or out of the wagon, or to mount or dismount under the saddle. The horse should under stand that it is not to start until the word is given. It ia of the highest im portance that the horse should be taught to stop for the word whoa, whether on the farm or on the publio highway It might be considered ridiculous for the driver to be calling out free, haw, whoa, get up, etc., to a team of horses on the boulevard, but it would be a wonderful safeguard to have a horse so trained that he knows what to do when spoken to by his driver in a firm, quiet manner. Hone* should be taught to go down a hill in a slow, careful manner, and to stop and hold the wagon whether going up or down a hill. In no case should a horse be allowed to cross a bridge in any gait but a walk. This should be drilled into a hone, so that in case it should be running away it will come to a walk when a bridge is to be crossed. It is the reckless driving of horses, the depending on the man. and what is called (rood luck, that causes so many disasters and fatalities. It is time to train driven of horses aa well as the animals. It Is not every man who can hold a pair of lines and a whip that is fit to do so.—R. M. Bell, in Farm and Fireside. A NEW CHECK-REIN. Said to B« the Moat Comfortable Bit Ever InmUd. Mr. I. Z. Merriam, of Whitewater, Wis., sends to the Rural New Yorker the following description of a check rein device of his Invention: The reins and check line are continuous, and, instead of being fastened rigidly to the bit, they pass over a small pulley at A NEW THUS I* CHECK REINS. each end of it The part which runs on the pulley is about a foot long and is made of round leather. A ring at each end of this round part of the rein prevents its passing through the pul ley. Accordingly, when the reins are taken in band and drawn 00, the hone's head is lifted till the bit comes to the npper ring, when the pull be comes direct On hitching the horse he can drop his head till the lower ring strikes the bit, thus giving all the ease of an unchecked rein, and at the same time preventing his head from reach ing the ground. While the bit is very effective in handling a horse, one of 1U chief merits is its humane featurea It is seemingly the most comfortable bit ever put in a horse's mouth, and doubt less will receive the earnest commenda tion of every humane society. NOTES ABOUT HORSES. TEACH your team lo pull together. FEED liberally and give plenty of ex ercise. FAIR geldings bring more money than fair stallions. LET your horses come to heavy pull ing gradually, and not until their bones are well matured. VERT severe punishment when ap plied to a young horse is apt to confirm liitn in his bad waya GOLDSMITH MAID'* daughter, Rosa lind. brought 12,500 at the New York sale, and her son, Htranger, $7,500. THE English stallion Duncombe, by Speculum, out of Fair Helen, by Oen. Peel, has been purchased by Simon O. Reed, of California. A CONSIGNMENT of about thirty stal lions, broodmares and some trotters for road and campaigning have just been sent abroad. Some of the animals have been already sold, and others are taken on speculation. The idea is to intro duce the American trotter to the notice of foreign horsemen. The ifteet Oate fo» loraaa. Careful feeden of hones know that in feeding oats, especially the whole grain, much depends upon the nature of the hull or chaff. It is not alwaye the heaviest grain which gives the best results. That which is much above the standard weight has most often a rough, gritty chafT, which so acts on the stomach as to expel much of the grain In an undigested state. The hull, however soft its texture, is always laxative, and a moderate degree of laxativeness is beneficial, especially to breeding animals, but there is no gain iu passing through the heaviest grain in a nearly whole state. It Is better to tto light gr&iu, which will be more thoroughly digested. Strategic Entertaining. "What a witty converaationallst Mr. Hanover Square la At the dinner he kept everybody laughing." said Char lie Bondclipper to I'ote Amsterdam "lie always does that He has to keep the guests from noticing what a poor table he sets," replied Mr. Amster dam. —Texas Sifting*. Uuallfjlog Context. "De Winks says his transcendental poems are not appreciated by the com mon herd." "But ho says a great French critic oalls him the poet of the hereafter." "And that Frenohman has written a book to disprove the existence of a future state."—Judge. Tha Only Causae. Mrs. Dobeon— Bridget told me she saw Mr. and Mrs- Hobson going tq church this morning. 1 wonder what'i the matter. Mr. Dobson—Why, either Mr. Hob eon lias had auuther attack of hU beart trouble, or Mrs Bob—a h»s • a,w hat) ONLY good queens should go lata , winter quarters. I MUCH bee-diarrhtea can be traced to , cold, damp hives. ITALIAN boes were first imported ia i this country in 1860. DON'T let the bees either etarve or freeze to death this winter. BTOHE3 gathered from decaying fruit in a dry season are unhealthy. > Ir honey is overheated the eolor and transparency will be affected. MOVING bees, even a short distanoe, invariably results in the lose of some. IN the majority of cases unhealthy stores are the cause of the loas of beea DUBINQ the winter prepare for spring by making and mending tha hives. MOST beekeepen prefer the Italian to the black bees, as they are more gentla , to handle. IN moving bees in freexlng weather care must be observed, aa the ootnb be comes very brittle. WHEN bees are to be wintered oa . summer stands they ought to be packed and fixed up early, i IT is said that a bee-keeper at Reno, Nev., recently shipped 60,000 pounds of honey to St. Louis. THIS is the time to plan all tha 1 changes and improvements to be made in the apiary next spring. 1 THE honey of Central and South America remains liquid longer, as a rule, than that of North America. ' A MAJORITY of the bees that wlntar well are kept in a temperature of 46 to 1 60 degrees, with some ventilation. IN some states efforts have been made to prohibit spraying at certain seasons on account of the liability of the bees dying from poison. SPRING dwindling is often caused by | having too many bees to start In the i winter on. They die before spring and leave the colony weakened in numbers. FAULT is found abroad with eucalypt us honey, the strong flavor of which i does not please the English taste. The | Australians arc likely to be disap , i pointed in the market they had hoped I f° r - THE sting of the bee is more painful while working on buckwheat Thia i fact is attributed either to a more pow erful secretion of formic acid or be cause it is secreted in increased quan tities. i I EXPERIMENTS made to determine the i comparative value of comb foundation, drawn comb and "star ten" brought i out the fact that those swarms hived . on foundation, as a rule, stored the most surplus; next came those hived oa comb, and then those on "starters."— N. Y. World FEEDING FOR EQQS. Nourishing Rations Especially Adapted for lejUif Heat. Cooked feed for the morning meal ia excellent if composed of the proper in gredients aud fed regularly. A good mixture may be made of , equal parts of commeal, fine mld , ; dlings, bran, ground oats and ground meat This should be stirred Into a pot of cooked vegetables while boiling hot until the mass is as stiff as can be manipulated by a pair of atfong arms. The mixture should be seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. Potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, on ions or anything in the vegetable lln% clean and free from decay, will be cop table. Cut clover hay may be sub* stituted for vegetables for an occasional! meal. " 1 The above oontalns a variety of food elements and such as compose the egg and the bone and muscle of the hen, - the fat forming elements not being : prominent 1 For the noon meal, wheat ia the beet 1 single grain. It may be mixed with good heavy oats and scattered In chaff or leaves on the feeding floor. Tho night feed should be a light one ' ! and consist of whole corn -1 I Plenty of grit should be acoeesible at lall times. Unless the morning feed can be given ; very early, we would advise putting a ' j little dry meal in a hopper for them to 'to peck at until their breakfast la ready. We have given substantially the same advice before, but do so again in an swer to repeated inquiries for a ration especially adapted to laying hens. Farm Journal. WINTER POULTRY HOUSE. Oae That Affords rlenty of OutsMe Shat ter from Htorms. An outside shelter and protection from storms is of great assistance to a | flock in winter. Fowla detest eloee confinement and prefer to be in the open air. The illustration shows an ordinary poultry-house, ten feet square, suitable for a flock of a dozen hens. The house has a large window WINTER POUI.TBY HOUSE. in front and a small one on each side, i which makes it very light An opening for egress or ingress is at the front, the door being shown at the side. The house is eight feet high in front and five feet at the rear and faces the south. By the use of two short posts and some light scantling a covered shed, to be made of muslin, may be arranged in j front The muslin may be painted I with linseed-oil to make It water proof. If preferred, the lower or open space may also be inclosed by fasten ing a strip of muslin, one yard wide, from tho side of the house, around the posts to the other side, as a wind-break. With this contrivance the hens will have plenty of light and warmth, the | cost being but a trifle, and as the hens ; will bo more comfortable they will also produce a larger number of eggs. —Farm and Fireside. That's What She Meant. It had been over four months slnoe they were engaged, and as they read the evening paper together he said: "See, my dear, only twenty dollan for a suit!" "Is it a wedding suit?" she asked, sweetly. "No, a business suit." "Well, I meant business," sha an swered. —Life. Theatrical Item. There was one occasion when Mr. Forest received from one of the super numeraries of a theater an answer which seemed to satisfy him. It was the man's duty to say simply: "The m«my la upon u»," which ho ottered at rehearsal in a poor whining way: "Can't you say it better than that?" shouted Forest "Repeat it as I do, and he gave tha words with all tha force and richness of his magnificent voice. "If I could say it like that," replied the man, "I wouldn't be working for three dollan a week." "Is that all you get?" **Yea»" 1
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