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;
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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»"
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