VOL XXXI 01 SPRING STOCK Was never so large, Prices were never so low. ■ ■■ ■! fir m ** t -#Tlie Styles More Beautiful Than Ever.#- Parlor Suits, J Bed Room Suits, 2 Hall Racks, i Side Boards, 2 Extension Tables, j Book Cases, Rocking Chairs, Couches, Lounges, Pictures, \ Ajntbing yon want in the House Furnishing Goods Line. CAIHPBBLL Si TEIHPLETOH, Butler, - Penn'a — —— J! -*A TRIP#- J! TO J PATTERSON'S J * WITH THIS I | I Coupor\t I iWill entitle you to a discount ofs ? 15 per cent on all j percoats, Heavy Suits and Underwear,; !j For sixty days from this date, I j| Jan. 22. j {PATTERSON'S 141 s "H J! BUTLER. € STHE ONLY STRICTLY ONE PRICE CLOTHING? 4 HOUSE IN BUTLER COUNTY. J LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSE. The toliowln: ipjlleitl m« lor wm .«i i!*\ tavern, an-l restaurant liwuvm to sell vinous Tlrltou-, limit -r hrt-wo l lln ior< or&uv- i/luiurure'li.-re ir it tbo w.-ral places f'h • i;i.T v■ ' o nrr -r >ri«i)n „f itm|i. r ciiiilfv P« hii wlli be beaido-. the aaiii Cour ou ilie -1 'A - .-il.,i-..iay or Mar • i inn twlnir iii- ai-,t ilay thereof aud lo.iHuulns' Iron time to lime a n.I all mj.mc iti i'ii sluli bate t>< en heard. WHOI.KSAI.K. Name*. lieni'tencr. Place r.'r wbli h apollratlon is m,i Hotel) Alexander WUltoM.Jdwd 311 Main St •• (European Hotel) lAokjuuu Hoob. Mlllerstowi) boru. Ta. (Central House; Mllloretown, i'a. (Auoipnua ttocn, Benjamin J Koror °. I' - Baxonhtirii, Pa.. (Liiube House jM"bC. Hyle. Kvanstiu gh noro.. Pa. Kvansburßii, Pa. (Hvie Home) t/Darle» il. Miliar, •• .. 'Miller Hoobe) Heiinr W rrtokey. Ztlienoplc, l>oro.. Pa. (Crenel Ct*i.trai) Z-ilfuopTe. V*. C. Hiokcv. 44 (Hr<»k*-v llouv , b " r " II",.«•) liatm»i)). Pa. U-vl 1 ttcvart K nfre v. P-n i >w| ( , Butler <•■>., (K"ufr -v House; i'e:..i i «v.. milorCu ,P i. Uatilel M I noli. Kan,-l In ,•». II i. - . •. .j; tu, Co.. Ha. Hem..' thutuo tttalloD, pa. ksoo tttaltoa, Hultnr, Pa. ttxun Cit) liute!) K Xl'.vl'KAM'. ££I:: illnlU'c ; •. «-«Li , " :rt Uut ' vr 1 *• m . w sr uuner boro.. ra Cle.Ka ouKts teb, lU, i«rt. Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, Lace Curtains, Curtain Poles, Window Shades, Dishes, Stoves, Tinware, Wooden ware, Sewing Machines. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. After the Grip SHE WAS Sick, Lifeless, Du!l BUT NOW 13 Healthy, Happy, Lively This Decided Change Brought About by Taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. "C. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass.: "Gentlemen —I wish to certify to the follow ing facts: My little girl. LUIa May Guthrie, had a severe attack of the grip, ami got some what better, but she i, i c a tj ! has BO .'NN:iI for (tapped han-ii. lips ..1 i © fac;-. <• . •;&!.. -t , Is not nr.'- j,* ;t arv!ts;;n; I •• Utter shinny : _,IU by .al „ •vcntjf.fjve Ccnti a Bottle. ii S# BY -£i~- COWAN UOYI.::. cnAPTifR n. THC FLOWER OF CTAH. This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immi ra-.t Mormons be "ore t!»cy caius t-j ilieir linal haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky mountains thev had struggled on with a constancy almost unparalleled in history. The man, and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue and disease ever.- impediment which nature could place in the way, had ail been over come with Anglo-Saxon tenacity. Yet thf ]nn;' journey and the accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among them. There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer when they saw the broad valley of Utah bathed in the sunlight beneath them, and learned fr.j.n the lips of their leader that this was the promised laud, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs forever more. Young speedily proved himself to be a skillful administrator as well as a resolute chief. Maps were drawn and charts prepared, in which the future city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each in dividual. The 1 ra-1' mr i was put to his :aue and the artisan to his calling. In the town streets and squares sprang up as if by magic. In the country there was draining and hewing, planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop. Everything pros pered in the strange settlement. Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the center of the city grew ever taller and taller. From the first blush of dawn until the closing of the twilight, the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw were never absent from the monument which the immigrants erected to Him who had I d them safe through marks' dangers. The two castaways. John Ferrier and the little girl who had shared his for tunes and had been adopted as his daughter, accompanied the Mormons to the end of their pilgrimage. Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleas antly enough in Elder Stangerson's wagon, a retreat which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son. a headstrong, 'orward boy of twelve. Having rallied, with the elasticity of childhood, from the shock caused by her mother's death, she soon became a pet with the women, and reconciled herself to this new life in her moving canvas-covered home. In the meantime, 1\ rrier, having re covered from his privations, distin guished himself as a useful guide and an indefatigable hunter. So rapidly did he gain the csti em of his new companions that when they reached the end of their wamlerin ;■» it was unanimously agreed th. he should be provided with as large a .as fertile a tract of land as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself, and of Stangerson, Kimball, Johnston and Drebber, who were the four princi pal elders. On the farm thus acquired John Fer rier built himself a substantial log house, which received so many addi tions in succeeding years that it grew into arr imv villa. He was a man of a practical tarn of mind, keen in his dealings and skillful with his hands. His iron constitution enabled him to work morning and evening at improv ing and tilling his Hence it came about that his farm and all that belonged to him prospered exceeding ly. hi three years he was better oil than his neighbors, in six he was well to do, in nine he was rich, and in 1 welve there were not half a dozen men iu the whole of Salt Lake City who could compare with him. From the great inland sea to the diftant Wah satch mountains there was no name better known than that of John Fer rier. There was one way, and only one, in which he. offended the susceptibilities of his coreligionists. Xo argument 01 per-uasLon could ever induce him to set u:> a female establishment after the manner of his companions. Ha never gave reasons for this persistent refusal, bat contented himself by reso lutely adhering to his determination. There were some who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion, ar.d other , who put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur ex pense. Othern. spoke of some early love affair, and of a fair-haired girl who had pined away on the shores of the Atlantic. Whatever the reason, Ferrier r. mained strictly celibate. In every other respect he conformed to tiie religion of the young settlement, ate l gained the name of being an or thodox and straight-walking man. l,i;:y Ferrier grew up within the log lion ■. and assisted her adopted father in nil his undertakings. The keen air of th.- mountains and the balsamic odor of the pine trees took the plaeeof nur • and mother to the young girl. As year succeeded to year she grew taller {-nil stronger, her cheek more ruddy and her ■ tep more elastic. Many a wayfarer upon the high-road which ran by ! i • rier's farm felt loug-for fot -len thoughts revive in his mind as he wale led her lithe, girlish figure trip ping through the wheat lields, or met her mounted upon her father's mus tang, and managing it with all the ease and gra '3 of a true child of the w st. So Ihe bud blossomed into a ilower, and the years which saw her I f ither the richest of farmers left her i as f** i r a sp citnen of American girl- j hoo ! , could be found on the whole Pacific slope. It w:i not the father, however, who tirst divejred that the child had de veloped into the woman. It seldom is in such e: t >. That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be m-a -tired by dates. Least of all does j tiie maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand j : >ts her heart thrilling within her, and | she learn . with a mixture of pride ! and of fear, that a new and larger na- | tnre has awakened within her. There : are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life. In the "'.se of Lucy Ferrier the occasion v.- serious enough in itself, apart from its future influence on her destiny and that of many be ides. It was a warm .Itine morning, and the l,att nlay Saints were as busy as the be" whose hive tbey have chosen for their emblem. In the fields jind in the • •■tsro.-.e the same hum of numau ind :■ ! ,y. Down the dusty highroads defile i long streams of heavily laden mules, all heading to the west, for the gol' ! fever had broken out in Cali fornia. and the overland route lay thr lgh the city of the elect. There. . <■>, were droves of sheep and coming in from the out lying pasture lands. u~i 1 trains of tired iiaiuigivuits, men and horses equally weary of their, interminable journey, j IUTTLER. P .Y.. FRIDAY. MARCH I<>. 1H94. xmougn all this motley assemblage, threading her way with the skill of an accomplished rider, there galloped Liv •• Ferr : - r, h« ■ f*ir fficeflW-hcd with the exercise and her long chestnut hair floating out behind her. she had a commission from her father in the city and was dashing in. as she had done many a time bef ; - e. with all the fearlessness of youth, ; Slinking only o1 her task and how it was to be per formed. The travel-stained adven turers gazed after her iu astonish ment. and even the unemotional In dians. journeying in with their peltry, relaxed their a -customed stoicism as they marveh 1 at the beauty of the palc-faeed maiden. She had re;. : i the outskirts of the city, whqn she found the road blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by a half-dozen wild-looking herdsmen from f mlf!lilk* 1 ' mi'o'^ IN AS IV-TAST IT BEAJIED UPON ITB rr!NT> I.KGS. the plains, in her imp.;: n;v -he en deavored to pu thisobstacl; 1. • ' i ing her lior ■i; ; 3v. hat app ir •!t ~> ' a gap. Scare -!y had she got i,..: ! , i..- to it, however. ' . for. ike bea -Is clo "d in behind her, and she found hei df completely embedded in the moving stream of fierce- yed, long-horned bullocks. Accustom i as she was to deal with cattle, -ivj was not alarmed at her situation. but took ad vantage of every opportunity to urge her horse on in li:.: hope of pushing her way through th ■ cavalcade. (u --fortunately, the lior - of one of the beasts, either by a ■ ' 1 :nt or design, came in viol, it cos ::et with the tlank of the m;!stan •, and excited it to mad ness. In an i' ;tant it re ired up on its hind legs with :i aort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have nnseate I any but a most skillful rider. The situation was full of jjeril. Every plunge of the ex cited horse brought it against the horns again, and goaded it to fresh mad in • It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death iv. er the hoofs of the unviel 1 * ai d t.-rrii' d animals. Un ac . >'i. "1 to sis iden emergencies, her head began to . : and her grip month*- bridle to relax. Choked by t. •re ing cloud of dust and by the steam from tl e struggling creatures, she might ha\ • -v'.oned her efforts in despair, but for a kindly voice at 3 ' mi - t\ ■ • tef ' Mra ; \35 '• "I AM OFF, Ltrcr," IIK SAID. her elbow which ir, l her of assist ance. At the bain i momenta sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by the curb, and, foreing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts. "You're not hurt, I hope, miss," said her preserver respect fully. She looked up at his dark, fierce face, and laughed saucily. "I'm awful frightened," she said naively; "whoever would have thought that Poncho would have been so seared by a lot of cows?" "Thank God you kept your seat," the other said earnestly. Ho was a tall, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful roan hoi- <•. and clad in the rough dress of a hunter, with a long rille slung over hi; shoulders. "I guess you are the daughter of John Ferrier," he remarked. "I saw you ride down from his house. When yon see him, ask him if lie remembers tlio Jefferson Hopes, of St. Louis. If he's the same Ferrier, my father and ho were pretty thick." "Hadn't you better come and ask yourself?" she asked, demurclv. The young fellov. . .eemed pleased at the suggestion, and his dark eyes sparkled with p'.eaure. "I'll do so," he said; "we've li ■ n in the mountains for two months, and ar< not over and above in visiting condition. He must take us as he find . us." "He has a good' ileal to thank you for, and so have I," she answered; "lie's awful fond of me. If those cows had jumped on mo he'd have never got over it.'' "Neither would I," said her com panion. "You? Well, 1 don't see that it would make much matter to you, anyhow. You ain't even a friend of ours." The young hunter's dark face grew so gloomy over this remark that Lucy Ferrier laughed aloud. "There, 1 didn't uu an that," she said; "of course, you ar a friend now. You must come and see us. Now I must push along, or father won't trust mo with his business any more. Good-by!" "uood-by," he answered, raising his broad sombrero, and bending over her little hand. She wheeled her mustang round, gave it a cut with her riding whip, and darted away down the broad road in a rolling cloud of dust. Young Jeffer ',ii Hop rode on with his companion . i r \- my and taciturn. He and they had 1 n among the Ne vada mountains pr< pocting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of rar ing capital enough to wore • ■ aie lodes which they had discovered. He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn hit thoughts int > another channel. The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholi—me a the Sierra breezes, had stirred hi- volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. When she had Van ished from fa! sight, he realised that a crisis had c- no in hi ' life, and that neither : ilver • eolations nor any other ,ue't o s;l.: ever bo of such importats to h'. i . . thi . new and all absorbing one. '1 !"■ ' ■ which had sprun; up r» his lie ft was not the sud den, ch:t i i hie fa ey of a boy, but rather the wild, ll- rcc passion of a uian uupenous temper. He had been accustomed to succeed in all that he undertook. He Fnore in his heart he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful. He called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again until hi.; face was a familiar one at the farmhouse. John, cooped up in the valley, and ab sorbed in his work, had little chance of gaming the news of the outside world Waring the last twelve year . All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father. He had been a pioneer in ("aliiornia. anil <: u! ! nar rate many a strange is:!.- . fortunes made and fortune ; J..-; j n • ' halcyon day:. He ha! it, too. and a trapper, a silver . -\pl..rer and a ranchman. Wherever stir ing adventures were to be had, J .ler • m Hope had been there in : -arch of theui. He soon became a favorite with the farmer, who spoke eloquently of his virtues. On such occasions Lucy was silent, but her blushing cheek and hr bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young' heart « no longer her own. Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms, but they were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her affections. It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate. She was at the doorway, and came down to i.: - t him. He threw the bridle over th ■ fence and strode up the pathway "I am off. Lucy," he said, takui;; her two hands in his and gazing tenderly down into her face: "1 won't ask v a to come with me now i t will you be ready to come when I an here again?" "And when will that be?" --he asked, blushing and laughing "A couple of months at the outside. I will come and clam you then, ray irw' ' 1I 1 , lAwL- i .t \ \a// EE WAS STII.L SITTING WITFL HIS 11.- BOWB ON 1113 KN'KKS. darling. There's no one who can stand between us." "And how about father?" "He has given his consent, provided we get these mines working all right. I have no fear on that head." "Oh, well, of course, if you and fa ther have arranged it. there's no more to be said," she whispered, with her cheek against his broad breast. "Thank God!" he said, hoarsely, stooping and kissing her "It is set tled then. The longer I stay, the harder it will be to go. They are wait ing for me at the canyon. Good-by, my own darling—good-by In two months you shall see me." He tore himself from lieras he spoke, nnd, flinging himself upon his horse, galloped furiously away, never even looking round, as though afraid that his resolution might fail him if he took one fflancc at what he was leaving. She stood at the gate, gazing after him until he vanished from her sight. Then she walked back into the house, the happiest girl in all Utah. CHAPTER 111. JOHN PERKIER TALKS WITH Till; Til IPHET. Three weeks had passed since Jeffer son Hope and hiscomrades had depart ed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of his adopt ed child. Yet, her bright and happy face reconciled him to the arrangement more than any argument could have done. He had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Snch a marriage he regarded as no marriage at all. but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an orthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in Land of the Saints. Yes, a dangerous matter—so danger oils that even the most saintly dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath, lest something which fell from their lips might be misconstrued, and bring down a swift retribution upon them. The victims of persecution hail now turned perse cutors on their own account, and per secutors of the most terrible descrip tion. Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehmgericht. nor the secret societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which east a cloud over the territory of Utah. It*s invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. It ap peared to be omniscient and omnipo tent. ami vet was neither ■ ?e« nor hear 1 The man who held out against the church vanished away, and none knew whither he had gone or what had befallen him Mis wife autl children awaite 1 him at home, but no father ever returned t6 tell them IMW lie had faretl at the hands of his : -r. ■* jul vs. A ra !i word, or a hasty a -t was fol lowed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature mi' ; it beof this terrible .power which vva suspended over them. No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even- in the heart of the wilderness they ilaxed uot whisper the doubts which oppressed them At first this vague and t- rrible power was exercised only upon the recalci trants. who, having embrace! the Mormon faith, wished afterward to pervert or to abandon it. Soon, how ever, it took a wider range. The sup ply of adult women was running short, ami polygamy, without a female popu lation on which to draw, was a barren doctrine indeed. Strange rumors be gan to be bandied about- rumors of murdsred immigrants and rill ■ 1 camps in regions where Indian had never been t eon. Fresh women appeared in the harems of the elders -women who pined and wept, and bore up >n their faces the traces of unextingn! liable ho-ror. Belated wander.-rs upon the mountains spoke of gang.; «>f armed men, ma .'.ted, stealthy, and noiseless, who flitted by them in th • darkness. T'nrse tales and rumors to il; .substance an 1 shape, and wer • eorrob irated and re-corroborated until they resolved themselves into a definite name. To this day, in the lou -ly i.i uihes of the west, the name of t't ■ D.mit • Band, or the Avenging Angel . is a sinister and ill-omened one. Fuller knowledge of the organiza tion which produce-1 sieh t.n i' le re sults prve t to incr rather than to les; -n t lie a. ;-o>r. wi. leh it inspired in the r.iinds of men. N'lu.e knew who b -k,:. vd to this i it'i'e •s • .duty The names of tin; participators in the deeds of blood and violence, done under the iiari • < exact a t .-at!.in. Hence, every man ■ his ru-i -hbor. and none spoke of the i'lirrr; which were nearest his heart. i.v >:nin,-. .lohn Ferrier was a' ut •> :-t ut to his whcat-tields, lie the click of the latch a: •1. 1 'kin : through the window, saw a ■•out. sandy-haired. middle-aged m:t3 eo:aiag up the pathway IIU heart leaped to his moui h. for this was r. one other than the great Krighain Voun-r himself. Frill of trepidation— for h•• knew that such a visit boded him little pood—Ferrier ran to the d' .or to greet the Mormon chief. The laf •. however, received his salutation coldly, and followed hira with a stern fnee into the sitting-room. "Brother Ferrier." he said, taking a seat. and ej-cing the farmer keenly fr- 'in under his light-colored eyelashes, ' the true believers have been good fri T.ds to yon. We picked you up wa i you were starving 1 in the desert, we shared our food with you. led you sa to the chosen valley, gave you a goodly share of land, and allowed you to wax rieh under our protection Is not this so?" "it is so." answered John Ferrier. '•ln return for all this we asked but one condition: that was that you should embrace the true faith, and conform in every way to Its usages. Thi • you promised to do: and this, if coin'ijori report says truly, you have negl«- ted." "A: 1 how have I neglected it?" asked Ferrier, throwing out his hands in cvpostillation. "Have I not given to the eoiiniion fund? Have I not at tended at the temple? Have I not—" "Where are your wives?" asked Young, looking round him. "Call them in. that I may greet them." "!t is true that I have not married." Ferrier answered. "But women were few, and there were many who had better claims than I. I was not a lone ly man; I had my daughter to attend to HIT wants." "It is of that daughter that I would speak to you." said the leader of the Mormons. "She has grown to be the flower of Utah and has found favor in the eyes of many who are high in the land." John Ferrier groaned internally. "There are stories of her which I would faindisb -lieve—stories that she is sealed to some Gentile. This must be the gossip of idle tongues. What is the thirteenth rule in the code of the sainted Joseph Smith? 'Let every maid en of the true faith marry one of the elect: for if she wed a Gentile she com mits a grievous sin.* This being so it is impossible that yon, who profess the hoi j- creed, should suffer your daughter to violate it." John Ferrier made no answer, but he played nervously with his riding whip. "I'pon this one point your whole faith shall be tested—so it has been decided in the sacred council of four. The girl is young, and we would not have her wed pray hairs; neither would we deprive her of all choice. Weelders have many heifers (fleber C. Kimball, in one of his sermons, alludes to his hundred wives under this endearing epithet], but our children must also be provided. Stangerson has a son, and Drebber lias a son, and either of them would gladly welcome your daughter to their house. Let her choose be tween them. They arc young and rich, and of the true faith. What say you to that?" I Trier remained silent for some little time, with his brows knitted. "You will give us time," he said, at last. "My daughter is very young— she is scarce of an age to marry." "She shall have a month to choose," said Young, rising from his seat. "At the end of that time she shall give her answer." He was pas-sing through the door, when he turned, with flushed face and flashing eyes. "It were better foryou, John Ferrier," he thundered, "that you and she were now lying blanched skel etons upon the Sierra Blanco, than that you should put your weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four!" With a threatening gesture of his hand he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunch ing along the shingly path. He was 1i 11 sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how he should broach the matter to his daugh ter. when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up he saw her stand ing beside him. One glance at her pale, frightened face showed him that she had heard what had passed. "I could not help it," she said, in an swer to his look. "His voice rang through the house. O father, father, what shall we do?" "Don't you scare yourself," he an swered, drawing her to him. and pass ing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair. "We'll tix it up somehow or another. You don't find your fancy kind o' lessening for this chap, do you?" A sob and a squeeze of his hand were her only answer. "No; of course not. I shouldn't care to hear you say you did. He's a likely lad, and he's aChristian, which isinore than these folk h«-re, in spite o* all their praying and preaching. There's a party starting for Nevada to-morrow, and I'll manage to send him a message letting him know the hole we are in. If I know anything o' that young man, he'll be back here with a speed that would whip electro-telegraphs." Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description. "When he comes, he will advise us for the best. Isut it is for you that 1 am frightened, dear. One hears—one hears such dreadful stories about those who oppose the prophet; something terrible always happens to them." "15ut we haven't opposed him yet," her father answered. "It will be time to look out for squalls when we do. We have a clear month before us; at the end of that, I guess we had best shin out of Utah." "Leave -Utah?" "That's about the size of it." 'Hut the farm?" "We will raise as much as we ean in money and let the rest go. To tell the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time 1 have thought of doing it. 1 don't care about knuckling under to any man, as these folk do to their darned prophet. I'm a free-horn American, and it's all new to me. Guess I'm too old to learn. If ho comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot traveling in the op posite direction." "l!ut they won't let us leave," his (laugher objected. "Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that. In the meantime, don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't get your eyes swelled up, else he'll 1. • walking into lue when he sees you. There's nothing to lie afeard about, and there's no danger at all." John I rrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, but she could not help observing that he paid unusual care to the fastening of the doors that night, and that he care fully cleaned and loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of his bedroom. [TO oe CONTTKrED.] II Wai BUH). "Ilenrv, weren't von awfully scared when you proposed to me?" "V. hy —yes, dear. I was. I—l thought 1 heard your father's foot steps in the iiiilLo*" 1 kaefw. "—CLJvaitfg I INVITED TO HER SUICIDE. A Chinee* Woman Call* In Her Krlu4a In tVltneaa Her Adieu. Mr. Medhurst, for many .rears British consul at Shanghai, tells of a singular "card of invitation" which, says the Million, he once received in China. It was from a lady, intimating her inten tion to commit suicide at a specified date. She was very young and attrac tive, and belonged to a wealthy family; but tho Chinese gentleman to whom she had been affianced from childhood, having died just before the date fixed upon for their nuptials, she rave out that she deemed it her duty to render her widowhood irrevocable by dying with her betrothed. So she sent cards around to the local gentry giving no tice of her purpose. No attempt was made by her rela tives or the local authorities to frus trate her design, though Mr. Medhurst appealed to the mandarins, the gen eral opinion being that she was about to perform a meritorious act. Eventu ally, on the day named, the woman did deliberately sacrifice her life in the presence of thousands of spectators. A stage was erected in the open fields, ■with a tented frame over it, from which was suspended a slip of scarlet crepe. One end of this slip she fastened round her neck, and then, embracing a little boy presented by one of the bystanders, 6he mounted a chair and resolutely jumped off, "her little clasped hands saluting the assemblage as her body twirled round with the tightening cord." The woman was not hounded on by a frantic mob, as was the practice at suttees in India, but immolation ap peared to be an entirely voluntary act. Sacrifices of this kind, according 1 to Mr. Medhurst, are not uncommon in certain districts of China, and, strange to say, they are rewarded with monu ments, sometimes erected by order of the emperor. DASHING A DUDE. A Mather Who Coold Not Stand a Gtrl with a Sketch Book. Three decidedly attractive girls got on a Sixth avenue elevated train and immediately a score of masculine eyes were leveled at them, says the New York Advertiser. The girls found seats together and tried to appear uncon cerned and quite oblivious to the pro neunced advances for a flirtation from two young swells who sat opposite. But all their efforts to appear at ease were unavailing. The young men per sisted and the girls blushed and looked uncomfortable. Finally one of the girls opened a small sketch book on her lap, and then raising her eyes she gazed straight at her admirer opposite. He petted his mustache and smiled. She made a few strokes with her pencil in the sketch book, but did not smile. When she raised her eyes again he realized that she was sketching him. The other two girls watched the progress of the sketch and giggled. This, with the smiles of the other passengers, was more than the subject of the sketch could endure. He crossed and re crossed his legs, pulled his hat down until it touched his nose, and at last rushed desperately into the next car. When he had gone the girls closed the unsoiled pages of the sketch book and laughingly threw away the bit of pen cil, which, when picked up by another, proved to be quite devoid of lead. A Strange Sight. One of the most amusing spectacles of the Columbian exposition was seen in front of the California building on the day of the state celebration. A free distribution of fruit had been widely advertised, and carloads of fruit had been sent —great luscious peaches, plums, pears, nectarines and half-yard bunches of white Muscat grapes and flaming Tokays. Qreat booths were erected outside the build ing, and a dozen fine young California men, her best products, handed out fruit to a vociferous, struggling, eager crowd for seven long hours. It was a sight to be remembered. Sometimes the air was full of the larger fruits, which were tossed out among the crowd and promptly caught, but the bunches of grapes had to be treated more tenderly. Hats, hands and bas kets reached out for the generous bunches, and hundreds came away bearing their well-fought-fcr burden to share with friends. On this occasion many had come from distant parts of the grounds. A Wood-Dvck'i Tomb. At the farm of O. W. Hutchins, seven miles from Marysville, a bee tree was found near the east bank of Feather river, which was cut to obtain the honey. After the tree was cnt down to the ground an investigation was instituted and the honey located in a hollow half-way be tween where it was cut and the top. On cutting open the body of the tree they secured about eighty pounds of honey, eleven duck eggs and a dead duck. It appears that a wood-duck had formed a cavity through a hole that was originally large enough to admit her body. After laying eleven eggs she had commenced setting to hatch them and while doing so the bees had tilled the hole with comb, so that she could not get out and she died on the nest.--Red Bluff (Cul.) Democrat. Crime and Immorality. The international pickpocket art is, in Europe at least, almost entirely car ried on by Roumanians, Servians, Bul garians, Russians and Galicians. They outrank in cleverness by far the once world-famous English and American professionals in that line. The in crease in all civilized lands of crimes against morality, religion, public peace and the government is mostly due to the socialistic wave which permeates all classes. While crimes and crim inals will always exist as long as the world lasts, the next few centuries in their onward march of education and civilization will bring about a marked decrease, and the criminal statistics and annals of the present time will read like fabler to the people of that remote future. Where the Trouble Tome* In. The average young man may know 1 just as much as he thinks he does, but he doesn't usually draw a salary to cor respond.—Somerville Journal. Ilia Particular Aim. Mrs. Watts—Are you anxious to earn a good dinner, my poor man? Weary Watkins—Not half as anxious as I am for the dinner.—Truth. A NATURAL SEQUENCE. Phrenologist—You have been mar* ried some years'.' Patient (in surprise) —By Georgel That's true, flow could you tell? yffmt irfurtr BALKING THE UMBRELLA THICFJ A tt iibloftoß Man Uu *—Tntiit MB Aalm mtloUl; Krtarubl* Rata XfeMfl. Another long-felt wan I la about fcq be filled. Drawings forth* Inwntkn were received at the patent —ly a few days ago, and the man, who, tf the way. is a Washinptonian, is prepeiM ing to build him a new house in most fashionable part of the city wttk the prospective funds from this IHTIIQ ; tlon It is nothing leas than as anto* matically returnable umbrella. Ttat i is, one that will make its own irraafl* menta for its return to its owner wheo lost. The nomadic habit of onibfaUati especially when left unahalned in the neighborhood of a crowd, has long been a subject of comment, and it has been a serious question whether the trouble were altogether with the moT als of the umbrella, that wonld go off aud lose itself, or an innate depravity of the umbrella-using public that made findings kec Ings without mneh in quiry as to the identity of the loser. The new. nou-losable umbrella doea not differ essentially from the ordinary article, says the Washington Poet, ex cept that it has a little stouter Herein is concealed the working part of the device. It is a compactly ir* ranered phonograph, with a multiply ing reverberator, enabling it to heard for. say. the length of a street car or in a pood-sized hallway. In con nection with the phonograph ia a com bination lock which pots the machine for action. The owner of the tunbffatta on setting it down simply awitchee in the combination and aa soon as it is picked np the phonograph gets Is Its work. The remarks can be arranged according to the taste in oratory of the man who owns the umbrella and can range from a politely conched request not to disturb the rain protector to a stentorian cry of "Stop, thief." or "This fellow is stealing another man's umbrella," or any other exclamation of a more forcible nature, the strength of the language being only limited the local municipal ordinances regard* ing profanity. Slavery In flltm. Slavery has been abolished in name in Siam, but it can never be abolished in fact, for the slaves have no means of supporting themselves outside their masters' houses. Every member of the Siamese upper classes can fetter his servants or throw them into prison without any kind of trial or permis sion being necessary One morning 1 went to call upon one of the ablest and most enlightened of the ministers, a man who has been to Europe, and who once actually got into serious trouble for trying to inaugurate a sort oi woman's rights movement in Biam, says a writer in the Contemporary Review I made iny way by mistake into a part of bis grounds where visit ors were not expected, and I found a slave fastened down to the ground ic an ingenious kind of pillory, in which he could not move hand or foot, whil< another slave tortured him with severe strokes of a bamboo rod at the wort of a member of the family in order tc force him to confess to some miadeed Deluded, Dut Happy. "There is no use in trying to deny it," said one young man to another. "Blimming is badly married. I hate to say it, but it's so." "How do you know?" "By a talk I have just had with him." "Doea he complain?" "No. That's the pathetic part of it. He was telling me how good uatured and clever his wife is. because, this morning, she showed him how to fasten his suspender with a hairpin."— Life. HU Gentle Wit. She shook her head sadly when he asked a fateful question. "I wish you were all the world," he sighed. "You aaid I was that to you once," she ventured, coquettiahly. "Yes, but I don't think so now." "No?" "No, for all the world loves a lover." And his gentle wit won her over to a reconsideration of the question.—De troit Free Press. No Extravagant. "I would go with you into the conn* try, Gazzam." said the judge to his friend, "but really I am very short of time." "I thought you must be from the way you have been disposing of it," re plied Gazzam. "How's that?" "Well. I heard you give one man six months and two others a year each this morning."—Harper's Bazar. t»h* Could Talk. Brown—That wife of yours is a woman of great accomplishments. Jones—Thanks. That's what every body says, and I believe it myself. Brown—Yes, and eho's one of the finest talkers I ever heard. Why. I could listen to her for a year. Jones (with a sigh)—So could I, but think of it, I've been listening to her for ten years, and she is still in robust health.—Detroit Free Press. Another Philanthropist Thwart*4. "Old Hobbs' last will disinherits all his expectant nephews." "Of course they are crestfallen?" "No; they are going to try to break It" "On what ground?" "On the ground of undue influence. The doctors told him he was going to die before be had made it."—Judge. Mlauaderatood. "Have yez any shoes that will flt the little girl?" inquired a son of the Green isle of a dapper young clerk in a Wash ington street store the other day. "Yes, sir," was the reply; "we carry a full line for children's wear. Step this way. please. French kid?" "No, be gobs; she's Irish." —Boston Herald. Aa Bspaaslva Dru*. Angry Man—That prescription you gave me to have filled for my wife Cost n%s a pretty sum. My dog ate it. Physician—lt certainly will not cost you much to have it refilled. Angry Man—That is not the point. The dog died; and he cost me a hun dred dollars.—Puck. Always Oat the Bast. Mrs. Youngluv (at the grocer's for the first time)—l want some egg-plant. Grocer—Yes, ma'am. Mrs. Youngluv (severely)— And I want some that is fresh laid, too.— Chicago Record. Tlflai to Reform. "My dear," said a most conscientious old gentleman to his daughter, a young lady of nineteen, "it grieves me to ob serve your tendency to exaggerate facta. You really ought to stop it." "I know I ought," replied the fair penitent, ' 'and I am trying to stop it. Maybe you think I am not aware of this tendency, but I know you will ba» lieve me when I tell you that I have shed barrels and barrels of tears arm this weakness."—Detroit Free Press, Potltanaaa Combined with Tract. A celebrated Indian potentate took an English peer, who was staying with him, out shooting. The peer shot very badly, and the eastern prince was sorely puzzled to combine oriental com pliment and empty game bags. At last with a low bow he said: "Your excellency shot splendidly, but God ww verry merciful UJ th® UUIP NO"