VOLXXXII We now have a larger, finer and better se lection of Surries, Buggies, Harness and everything pertaining to a driving or team outfit than ever before. Call and see us before buying. S. B. MARTINCOURT & Co., 128 E. Jefferson St., Butler Pa. P. S.--Prices will never be lower than just now. Kramer Wagons. 4DaysJL4Days 4 Days Sacrifice Sale! JULY 10, 11. 12 and 13. Our 4 days' Semi-Annual Sacrifice Sale will commence on Wed nesday, July 10th and close on Saturday night, July 13th. These four days sacrifice sales have become a feature of business and are eagerly looked forward to by our customers. The success and good feeling that have attended these sales in the past will not be wanting at this, our fifth sacrifice sale, if untiring effort on our part can make it so. We will offer for 4 days only our entire stock, consisting of Dry Goods, Millinejy, Wraps, Ladies', Men's, Boys' and Girls' Under wear, Hosiery, Notions, etc., Laces, Trimmings, Embroideries, White Goods, Wash Goods, Lawns, Dimity, Swisses, dotted and plain, Muslins, Calicoes,, Ginghams and Damasks, all will go regardless of cost at this 4 days' sacrifice sale. Space forbids our mentioning prices, but this announcement of our regular 4 days' sacrifice sale means that all these goods go at genuine sacrifice prices. Re member the date and the place, July 10, 11, 12 and 13th, 4 days' sacrifice sale, at the reliable store of Mrs. Jennie E. ZimmermaN, Oppj4it» -li.ji Li >fr Successor to Ritter Ralaton RUNNING PLHNO = P STORED POWER Furnished by the "Piano" Fly Wheel, is tbe greatest ■■■■MkHiMßaM improvement tver made in Sell-Binding Harvesters... L „» ro* HMO *o* _ * _. O4»«T- rnwuui* THE FLY-WHEEL'S ON TMft FLA NO ALONE. THE PLfIHO LEADS Because IT IS THE BEST! Hpyi* f a \g ••*■■■■■■■ Gives it steady motion in tangled grain, and on rough, uneven IHP M T Mf HPPI ground; causes it to run lightly over soft places, makes it run ■ ■*■ ■ " llfcfcli one horse lighter draft ana bind a bundle after the team stops. More Jones Steel Headers Sold in '94 than all others combined. You should see the JONES /*l| II |kl II All/C D before you buy. Simplest, longest lived And lightest draft mower In the 1)11111 li /ft WII LIV world. Never out of repair. Nogearsto wear out, no friction, no noise, nothing to make the farmer "cuss." Chain Power runs the great Ferris wheal. This prove* its strength. Bicycles are Chain Drive. Why? I.ight draft! • CNO FOR OUR FREE-FOR-ALL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Tbe Piano M tg, Co., £umrt«u£tr». West Pullman, Chicago, 111. SARVERSVILLE, BUTLER CO., PA., JUNE nth, 1895. PLANO MF'G., CO., — GENTS: I saw one of your Jones Lever Binders with fly wheel, work in green rye, May 30th., 1895; and must say I have used other Binders myself, and have seen manv different kinds of Binders work, but never saw any machine do nicer work in ripe grain, than this one did in green rye. The thermometer stood 90 degrees 111 the shade, and two horses took it nicely. The fly wheel, Ido think, is a grand thing; giving you a storage power that you do not get 011 any other Binders. For Lightness of Draft, I never saw anything to Inrat the Jones Lever Binders. T. H. GREER. The JONES LEVE.R BINDER is made by the PLANO COMPANY, and is the same machine as the Piano, excepting that there is less cog gear ing and it is built lighter for hilly ground. For sale by W. H. WITTE, Sarversville, Pa. Also dealer in HARDWARE, and all kinds of AGRICULTURAL IM PLEMENTS. Write for Circular and Prices. THE QUESTION is often asked, What Paint shall we use? THE ANSWER I If you are looking for covering capacity, wearing qualities, general appearance, and your money's worth, you must buy THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS - GMWT* Moat, Looht But, Wiari Longttt, Hoit Economical, Full M taturt. Our prices are for "best goods" first, last and all the time. We are in the business to stay and ■RUSHES. _*•*■ P- stays with us. COLORS IN OIL. ' HOUSC I COACH VAJINISHCSt J. C. REDICK, 109 N. Main St. DIAMONDS (•'»«»■„ NS ST „ D , T*j H I uknth 1 GOLD, LAIUKS 1 o<>l.l>.> " "■ * tl 1 <;KNTS' SILVER, LAOIKH' CHATLAIN. «T E lAi F!T,R V \ <iold PUis ' R,n( f s ** *-» WJ * M / chain*, Bimeelete, Ktr. HZTT-VrTIH TXT ASX U* l a Castors. Butter Dishes auilSlKvervUiUifi •-* • **** WW A.X*. Km f that ran t)e foun-J in a first class store.. AM RODGER BROS. 1874 }S^s* 8 - FORKB,BPO TRIPLE PLA™ E. GRIEB jbw ™r. Ho. orth[Main St., fi JTLEE,|PA., THE BUTLER CITIZEN. 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Well we have too mam' tan goods on hand and we are going to cut ti. pv, just now while you nee d thei .. All new goods, new styles at greatly reduced prices Fo. an example we offer a Lad : es' Fine Tan Shoes in lace ~>r bu"on, heel or spring, bought f o sell at $2, but they are marked down to • $1.25. The prices will make them go. When you want foot wear of any kind, try 'TlieNew Shoe Store C. E. MILLER, 215 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. _ HEINEMAN & SON, SUMMER | is approaching and tqa # only way to keep cool is J to go to J Ilcincman's pA M M , • aud get yourself a nice 4 JJ Hammocks 3 J We have the largest J g PQ J and finest Hue of J zj Hammocks Q ever brought to Rutler. # VVall Paper ic 2 5 from tbe cheapest to the <£ J finest of Pressed \ s? PAPERS. 5° W * # Jr* ►7 f We ill.- > handle tb»* 6 £# eei«-l.r* . H RAMBLER I? I BICYCLE. ? I M> 1 HEINEMAN & SON. WALL nnnn PAPER. nnnuiun All grades from Brown Blanks up to the finest embossed Bronzes. The better the paper the better the Bargain. Buy your good papers now and get them at wholesale prices. Window Shades *in all the latest colors at DOUGLASS', Near P. O. GO TO VV. E.RALSTON S For fine WatcheH, Diamonds and Optical Goods of all kinds cian, at No. 132 F *Wk% ;1 street, Butler g SPtCUUTION. ID Wall Strert successfully carrleil|;on with the aid of our Dally Market better unl pai.-i)•!> lets on speculation. MAILK') KItKK. DtaereuaMir Accounts a Spectator All In formal lon free, Jtanlc reference*. WEINMAN At (X).. Stack and (iriln liroker.i. 41 .Uroadway. Sew York TbeodoreSwam. GENERAL BRICK JOBBER. Chimneys, Grate and I'oilwr Rettinr. Cistern Bniiding and eewer Work a Specialty HARMONY FA. HTTTLER. PA., THURSDAY. JULY 13. RieiAßD'/ v\sLfr'LA\-JoHHSToN (pPYRIGHT. CHAPTER XXL On the rendition of the verdict in the case just tried, the court announced its readiiiess to sit in ordinary. some preliminary skirmishing. Tor rance said to his associate: "Will you open the case, Dabney?" "By no means, Mr. Torrance. Yor are the one to do that." Passing his hands for a moment 01 two ovef his eyes, he rose, and thus begam '"May it please your honors, I have lived long enough to note many results of human actions done in secret whose discovery seemed to me the ordering of the Divine Being, who wills not that certain among the special objects of his care shall long be outraged with impunity. Your honors, some of whom, I know— perhaps all—are more familiar than I am with texts of Holy Scripture, mnv recall some in which widows and orphans are mentioned in terms of pe culiarly tender commiseration. Some times, not very often, yet sometimes, m the strivings of this lower life, when men are in Conflict with men, equals with equals, one more skillful or more enduring or more fortunate in acci dental circumstances seems to be al lowed to prevail without justice, while tne other is left to his hopes of a bet ter day. But when the battle is be tween the strong and the weak who are fitted to wield no sort of weapon of warfare, and who can only stand and be smitten, oftentimes interference comes from sources unforeseen, so sud denly unexpected and so abundantly efficacious that we think we can refer ibem only to the omnipotent God." His words in solemnest tones, and fiis look, as he lifted it with reverent nquiry towards Heaven, inspired everybody with awe. After a moment's pause he continued: "On this day, I trust, a signal mani festation of such interposition will ap pear, one which possibly may be as sur prising to the propounder of this al leged will as to anyone else here pres ent. A few minutes ago a proposal y,-as submitted to that person for a set tlement upon terms which promptly, and apparently with angry disdain, he declined. It therefore becomes the duty of the counsel for Mrs. Hannah Amerson to present such a showing as may serve to convince him for the bal ance of his life that it comes not with in the limits of his powers to oppress, nor within that of his wariness to de fraud grossly, those whom the Creator in specialest fondness styles his little ones. May It please your honors, I knew Pearce Amerson right well. Al though a firm, perhaps a rather willful man, I had never suspected him of be ing Unnatural in such affections as the Creator, for purposes of protection to the dependent young, has implanted in the being of parents of every sort and degree, nor, as I believe, had any among his acquaintance regarded him as capable of adding to a gross injus tice to one of his own offspring a gross er duplicity. I was much surprise!, therefore, after bis decease, when I heard that in his last will and testa ment he had bequeathed well nigh all his large estate to that one of his chil dren who stood least in need of such partiality. But when I was told of some of his expressions uttered more than once upon his bed of death, while yet his understanding was clear to com prehend their meaning, I said to my self: No, Pearce Amerson, whatever in firmities he had in common with all humanity, was not a man to die with a lie upon his lips; and then I thought that even if ho had done so, there is many a son who in a case so monstrous would have been quick, like the sons of the drunken Noah, to cover up the shameless nakedness of such a father. To my associate counsel, who has pre pared this case with consummate pru dence and skill, as soon as he was re tained as counsel, came a suspicion of fraud. Together we have been search ing for its hiding place, and it has been only within a brief time that, by the help of God, we have found it." He slowly turned his great brown eyes upon Amerson, who, pale as a dead man; Instantly averted his own, and said to his counsel: "I haven't the remotest idea what the mau means." "Ilush!" said Watson. "I want to listen, and I want you to listen, to what he Is baying." "I have abundant proof," continued Torrance, "that after making q will which was witnessed by my old friend - ill/ AFTER A MOMEKT'S I'AUSE HK CON- TnrCID. Mr. Flint, whom 1 see in this court room, and two others, convinced that at the time of its execution he was be set by influences leading him to thoughts and feelings unjust to one member of his family, he determined to destroy it. I have proof (juito as substantial that he declared upon his deathbed that he had destroyed it, aud that lie died fully believing that yv-liat lie said was the truth. It was here that appeared that mysterious Providence who delivers from the hand of the destroyer such as these two, this husbandless woman and this fatherless child." As he turned toward his clients, tears, seldom shed by him, were ip his eyes. Wiping them away with his vast silk handkerchief, continued: "God, indeed, is past finding out; how tendefly loving', how aboundingly merciful, how matchlessly just, h<i\\ terribly vengeful! I'earce Amerson. misled by falsehood and domestic treachery, did execute a will in the terms of the paper which this eour) has allowed as sucli to go to probate In time, dissatisfied with it, he re solved to revoke it, and lie solemnlj declared to his sou that he had revoked it. Aud, sirs, he told the truth." Lifting his voice until it jarred the timbers of the room, he cried: "I'earce Amerson died intestate! God rest his soul!" Amerson rose shuddering and took steps toward Carruthers. . "Mr- Carruthers," said Torrance, "will you please take the stand, sir?" Amerson then passed to whore Mr. Flint was still seated with Rainer. "Don't say anything to me, Wile. I ain't in no fix to talk to nobody. I ain't quite cert'n in my mind whether I'm a livin' person or a dead one. Look like I ought to be a dead one. You'll have to take keer o' yourself, Wile. Look like it a-goin' to be showed I can't take keer o' nobody, not even myself, let alone o' t'other people. Go 'long and tend to your own case best you can." When Amerson withdrew, he said, piteously: "Stand by me. Jeems, till they put me in the pen'tenchary. I never—" "Do hush, Uncle Lishy. There isn't a particle of danger for you of any sort." The penitent groaned, but otherwise held his peace. Without once looking nt Amerson, Carruthers answered the questions. When tbe clerk at the call of Torrance handed to him the paper, Amerson again rose and advanced two or three steps, looking eagerly at it. Torrance, smiliug, said: "There's hardly a doubt, Mr. Amer son. that this is the paper referred to. If it be not, the mistake can be cor rected hereafter." "Sit down! Do sit down, Amerson," whispered Watson. He obeyed and AMERSON HOSE SIUTDIIEBINO AST) TOOK STEPS TOWAIILI CARRUTHERS. watched the witness with anxiety painful to be seen. "Mr. Carruthers," began Torrance, "will you be good enough to state to this court whether or not you were present at the execution of a will by Pearce Amerson? If so, then please say at about what time, in what capac ity you acted, and mention any others who were there." "Yes, sir, I was present, It was in the summer, July, I think, In 1830. I had been acting as clerk for some time in Mr. Wiley Amerson's office. Mr. Pearce Amerson came there with Mr. Lishy Flint and Mr. William Lilly, and told his son that he was ready to sign that will. Mr. Wiley Amerson got it from his desk in the back room and handed it to his father. He, after looking it over, called on us to witness it. We did so after he signed it him self. As soon as it was done, ho and the other two witnesses went away." "Did he, the old man, ever again make any allusion to the matter in your hearing?" "Yes. sir. About the same time the next year, when I was again doing some work for his son, he came to the office and said to him that he wanted back his will, and that ho Intended to burn it up, because, he said—" "May it please the court—" said Wat son, rising quickly. "Stop, Mr. Carruthers," said Tor rance. "If my brother Watson will al low me to anticipate his objection to answering the question, I will say that my intention in offering proof of Pearce Amerson's words was to show his purpose to destroy the will, with which reflection had made him dissat isfied, even to disgust. lam frank to admit that a mere intention to destroy, however positive the words in which such intention is declared, cannot amount In law to an annulment or a revocation. How far such evidence might be admissible as a foundation on which to lay a charge of fraud in preventing the execution of such a pur pose I do not consider necessary in the circumstances to discuss. Really, your honors, my principal object in the question was that the answer might go as far as such a thing could go in rescu ing the name of Pearce Amerson from the shame that has been put upon it. I withdraw the question." If it had been of any importance to him, he would have been pleased at the displeasure apparent on all faces at Watson's interruption. As it was he asked: "Mr. Carruthers, I'll thank you to in form the court of what followed Pearce Amerson's demand." "Mr. Wiley Amerson answered that the will was at his house, and that he wou 1 i give it to him when he came over there that night." "Do you know whether or not this was done?" "I do not, sir." "Mr. Carruthers, at the execution of the will, or at the time of demand for its surrender, did Pearce Amerson make any allusion to Mrs. Culleti A me rson?" "At the making of the will he did not. When he called for it he said that he had come to believe that Mrs. Amerson was not the kind of a person Mr. Wiley Amerson had made him be lieve, but that she was as virtuous a woman as ever had lived or died." "Silence in court!" cried the sheriff at the demonstration of applause. "That question is not in issue, Broth er Torrance," said Watson, and then muttered: "You artful scamp!" "No, my brother Watson, not now. It had been, and was. The honor of the caveatrix in this case has been fully vindicated by the life she lias led and by the words of her father-in-law. before whom it had been aspersed. Returning to the witness, he asked: "Mr. Carruthers, recurring to the time of the execution of that will, what was done with it after the de parture of the old man ami the other witnesses?" "Mr. Amerson handed it to me to make a copj' of it." "Did he give any instructions as to how that copy should be made?" "He only said that he wanted me to be very particular and copy as nigh as 1 could, according to his rule in such things." "And what wis that rule?" "To make the copy as nigh like the other as I possibly could." "Following that rule, being facile in tho use of the pen, you had become somewhat dexterous, had. you not, in the Imitation of others' handwriting?" "I had, sir." WJiat did Mr. Amerson say when you carried the copy to hlxn?" "He said 1 had don© it very well, very well Indeed, even perfect." "Back, gentlemen!" called the sher iff; "them behind are pushing uncom fortable them next the railing. Please be keerful, gentlemen." The courtroom, which had capaolty for two hundred, was more than full, and many, pressed by the overflowing, climbed unhindered w-;thin the bar. "Have you ever seen that will sinoe?" asked Torrance. "I have not, sir." • "I believe it Is generally known that on occasion of the probate you were not able to be in court" "I wasn't, sir; I was at home, bad off with rheumatism." "So I learned. Had it not been so ; perhaps all litigation in this unhappy issue might have been prevented." He paused, and almost mournfully looked over the dense assembly, as if he would delay the outpottr of their indignation. In that brief while Wat son, looking fiercely at his client, said: "The hell, Amerson! what Is this Coming to?" "God knows, Mr. Watson; I don't," was the answer. In a tone of apparent carelessness, Torrance proceeded. "Mr. Carrutherß, look upon this pa per and say whether or not your signa ture as a witness Is genuine." Glancing at the paper, he answered: "It Is, sir." "Is that the case with the others?" "No, sir; it is not." "By whom were they appended there? And, Mr. Carruthers," he added, his voice risen to disgust tliat seemed sickening to feel, "by whom was that paper—text, clauses, and attestations —bv whom was the whole of it writ ten?" "By me, sir." "The witness is with you, Brother Watson." •'Hand me that paper," said Watson, in a tone of angry command. "You see your orders are instantly obeyed, my brother," said Torrance, delivering it with assumed high re spect. Watson, turning it over to his client, asked: "What have you got to say about this thing now?" Amerson looked at it closely for sev eral moments, then with a groan of anguish handed It back, saying, in piteous tones: "Don't leave me, Mr. Watson." "Well, of all the rascals I have ever known, Amerson, you are the cussedest fool. My advice to you is to go to hell, where you belong." The wretched man rose and slunk away. "I have no question for the witness;" said Watson, rising and throwing a courageous glance around. "I beg your honors to strike my name from the docket as counsel for Wiley Amer son in all the cases thereon. And I trust that it is not necessary for me to declare that I had not the most remote foresight of the revelations which have just now been made. My client has anticipated mo in withdrawing from this contest; but I ask your honors to issue orders for his apprehension, and I assure your honors that it will give me particular pleasure to offer my as sistance to the solicitor general in hav ing him sent to the penitentiary." "The words of my brother Watson," quickly said Torrance, "are of the sort I expected to come from the mouth of one so far above the uses for which he was employed bv a man whose baseness there was not full op portunity for him to discover, nor even to suspect. I sympathize in his just indignation at the attempt to avail of his admitted great powers in oovering a fraud of such magnitude. It is in deed true that he needed to make n9 disclaimer of participation. Yet I must beg yo\ir honors not to comply with his request in the matter of be ginning a prosecution against that up- Lappy man. It was the dying wish of his wife, who seemed to foresee his ruin, that he should not be made to undergo any punishment beyond what the law would regard needful for the vindication of its majesty; and it is now the earnest wish of our client that there shall be no pursuit of him for such a purpose. At least I trust that she - will be allowed to bo the prose cutrix, and abide her own time for moving." As he turned, Mr. Flint, who felt it to be his duty to make some sort of scene in the tragedy before its close, and who had broken away from his keeper, appeared before him, and, putting his hands upon his shoulders, begged, with tears, to be let make a few remarks. "May it please this court," cried Torrance, in a voice high above the im passioned din of the audience, "my very dear friend Mr. Glisha Flint de sires to offer some words of explana tion, and I respectfully bespeak a hear ing for one who is well known to be a man of veracity and all honor." "Johnny Ingrain," plained tho good man, not trying to wipe away or keep back the continued flow, "and you Billy Simmons, and the rest of you jedges that i knowed your parents be fore you was borned, if ary one of you ever knowed me to tell a lie and stick to it, you're welcome to tell it on me. I ain't a-denyin' that in my old age I've told one and swore to it; but God amighty know I didn't know till Jeems Rainer told me so this mornin', that he know my hand-write and I don't. Hut if 1 has to serve my time in the pen'tenchary, that I never ex pected in all iny born days, 1 hope it'll be took into consid'ration that hadn't been for that Owen C'ruthers I'd never done it, and I want it knew that I take back every blessed thing I swore the lie to, which if the good Lord'll forgive me this one time, I'll never sign no paper o' no kind long as he let me live." Torrance, amid the roar of general laughter, grasped his hand and gave the consolation which none so well as he knew how to frame. Not only friends and acquaintances but quite a number of others came In to congratulate Hannah, who, her eyes swimming with tears, had never seemed so lovely atson, catching her friendly glance towards him, ap proached, and said: "Mrs. Amerson, I am sure that the cong. atulations of none are more cor dial than those I beg to offer to you." "1 fully believe so, Mr. Watson," she answered, extending her hand. The last of Torrance. "Oh, Mr. Torrance! Mr. Torrance —" she began, as another gush came to her eyes. "Say no more, madam, I beg you. Whatever thanks you may feel to owe for these results, next to Heaven, are n the greatest part due to Mr. Dabney." He turned at once and immediately left the room, when his colleague con ducted his clients to the house of the friend with whom they were sojourn ing. That same night, while Torrance was in his room quietly smoking a cigar, on the entrance of Dabney he said: "Well, my son, I know you left the client In happy mood. lam gratified to feel certain that the way there is clear for you. You may not see it, but J do, and with all my heart I congratu late you both. Hut don't you know, Dabney. that since you left me this afternoon after we decided upon what was proper to be done in the final set tl«ment of the ease. I've been think ing mostly about that poor fellow? I've bt£n haunted by his look when he saw hlf mistake in letting his father do stroy the will when he had been be lieving all the while that it was th» i=s "I STXT-T BKLIEVE SO. MR. WATSOX." copy. It was a devilish thing to do. Yet I could see plainly, even if I had not known of his proposal for a com promise, that In the depth of his being the controlling anguish was the want of the woman whom he tried to de raud in the hope of possessing her. noted when his eyes for one linger ing moment were set upon her. It was the look of a dog towards a morsel be yond his reach, for the want of which be was dying. Such a wretch deserves compassion, and he has mine most sin- Oerely. These people will most proba bly respect Mrs. Amerson's feelings against his prosecution; but I should pot bo surprised to hear at any time of his suicide." The words seemed prophetic. Im mediately after his exit from the court room, Amerson, returning to his home, mounted his horse, and, hy a circuit ous route, leaving the town, which he saw never more, rode to his native Slace, where for several months he welt in entire seclusion from all ex cept the negroes who were upon it. A few days after the marriage of Dabney with Hannah, he disappeared, and his body was found on a bank of;the Ooo nee. None ever knew whether his death was voluntary or accidental. |TUE END.J Clgarettea Sail in Pap«r Boats. A prisoner lodged in one cell of a Chicago police station cannot easily secure tbe luxury of a cigarette from a fellow prisoner In another cell. Among the various schemes to which he has been known to resort the fol lowing is novel and amusing. Along tbe walls of a station may be seen a water-trough in which a constant stream of water flows through the dif ferent cells. The prisoner eager for a 6n.oke calls out to some fellow prisoner for a cigarette. How will it reach him? The stream of water flows from the cell of the latter to that of the for mer. From an envelope, or such paper as may be on the person of him who has the cigarettes, a little paper boat Is Improvised after the fashion of the small boy who plays in brooks and ponds. In this the cigarette is placed. The signal Is given and the boat with its precious cargo is sent down the stream to the other end of the line, where it meets with an enthusiastic reception. With Woman's Tact. Bessie was just finishing her break fast as papa stooped to kiss her before going down town. The little one gravely took up her napkin and wiped her cheek. "What, Bessie," said her father, "wiping away papa's kiss?" "Oh, no," she said, looking up with a sweet smile, "I'se wubbing it in." — Boston Post. THE United States bureau of educa tion was established in 1567. A Keen One. Agent—Doctor, can I get your ad. for the Weekly Boomer? Doctor Shocking, sir! Don't you know that it's most unprofessional fof physicians to advertise? (On the q. t.) But you may interview me on 6om<s scientific specialty, two columns, non pariel rates, check In advance. —Truth. She NeTer Tried It. He —Miss Kitty, I've heard it said that a kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt. Is that so? She—Well, really, I don't know—l can't tell —for in all my life I never— He—Now, now, Miss Kitty! She—Never ate an egg without 6alt. —Philadelphia Press. The Horse's Hope. Young Horse —Nothing but work, work, work. I've a great mind to com mit 6uicide. Old Horse —Have patience. When you are so old that you ean't walk, you'll be advertised as suitable for a lady to drive, and after that you'll live in ease and luxury. —N. Y. Weekly. In the Same Bo»t. The Pastor (a dyspeptic taking din (ner with the family) —Thank you, Mrs. Brown. I'd like to have another piece of the pie, but I will have to say no. Willy Brown (in surprise)— Goodness me! Did your mother tell you not to take a second piece, too? —Puck. 'TIIII Ever Thos. An matrimonial angling. Which every malil delights. Tis often found the "catches" In the end are only bites. —Puck. INDICTMENT DEFECTIVE. Judge Biffbang (of Dead wood) —You are charged with shooting your re volver seven times into Rev. Amos Tweedledeede. How do you plead, guilty or not guilty? Bronco Pete—Not guilty as charged in the indictment. Judge Hiffband—Not guilty, eh? Bronco Pete—Yes, jedge; I may hey shot seven bullets inter the Rev'rend Amos, but I didn't shoot no revolver inter him. —Judge. Wliy He Proposed. "You wish me to be your wife? Why, I've known you only fifteen minutes," "That is true, but I wished to give one lady the opportunity of saying', truthfully: 'This is so sudden!' Texas Siftings. iireat News. Mrs. Hicks—You know the girl who screeches next door? Hicks—What has happened to her? Mrs. Ilicks—Nothing; not a thing. She's to be married next month.—N. Y. World. Kiid of Mr. Jackson'ii Honeymoon. Mrs. Jackson —'Rastus, deah, does yo' b'liebe in de survival ob de fittist? Mr. Jackson—Suttinly, love; suttinly. Mrs. Jackson —Wa-al, den, yo' bettali git yo'lif<- insured tcrmorrcr. Judge. On Impulse. She —No, Mr. Blunnderre, I cannot entertain your proposal. The truth is I am engaged to your father. He —Why, the old idiot!—lndianapo lis Journal. In Advance. "Don't you think the man who marries for money is a fool?" "Ho Ja, unless he gets it in advance." —In ; dianapolis Globe. BLASTING WITH LIME. Oen. Newton I.earned a Lesson la an In diana Stone Quarry. Apropos of the late Gen. Newton's death is a little story he told twenty years ago. when hla work at Qell Gate made him a much-talked-of man. "I was in the quarry country of In diana," he said, "where they take great blocks of oolytic limestone without the use of a pound of powder. I h&R heard of the process, and I took & fcam at Greensburg and drove down to the quarries to see. The ruperl,ntendant was a Welshman of unpromising ap pearance. He was certainly an'unedo- Cated man, so far as colleges went, hut he know his business. "X asked him how he ajanfged to blast such huge blocks of fqek, and how much dynamite was required to the ton. fie said he did not tisa dyna mite or any other explosive Qe simply used unslaked lime. It astonished me, but before he took me to the quarry he set up a piece of pine board an inch thick against a wall of rock, brought out a revolver and fired at the t>oard. "The bullet passed through, flat tened against the stone and fpU to the ground. Then he set up the board again, apd, taking the flattened bullet, threw It against the board <vith aston ishing skill, striking It each time In the same place, and after the fifth opist the board was split from top to bottom. "'I didn't use as much force when I threw as when 1 shot, did I ?' fee said. 'But the board would never splik along the grain by shooting at it- I could tear that bOard Into pieces shooting, but If I want it to break in long sec tions on the grain I don't want to use such a sudden force. " 'That's how I blast with lime.' "And then he took me to the quarry. They had drilled a series of holes in the place he had marked, his judgment and trained intelligence telling him where the dividing line should run. Then they tamped these holes full of unslaked lime, poured water on it, keyed them shut and waited. In twelve hours the mass of rock he wanted would begin with groans and cracklings to separate. In sixteen hours it would be free, and the force of the lime would ire spent. " 'lf I used powder or dynamlt*,' said he, 'I would rip out such a mass as that in fifteen minutes; but it would be chipped and cracked Into a hundred pieces. Or, more likely, in a large blast the powder would simply tear out a way along the l|||t resistance, shell ing out a lot of sJwls and leaving my big rock as solid as ever.' "I thanked my Welshman," said Gen. Newton, "and told him he Was much of a philosopher." THEY DON'T SAY " DAAK." In Washington It Might Mean That a Brunette's a Negro. A difference in the meaning of worda that might interest dialectician# was brought to the notice of a NeW Yorker who went to Washington not long ago to help a friend get married, says a New York Sun writer. Nobody can marry in Washington without first get ting a marriage license at the city hall. Neither the man most interested nor his New York friend had ever been married In Washington, and it was with tome trepidation that they went after the licenoe together. It was agreed that the New Yorker should do the talking. After several attempts to extract a license from the tax clerk, the mayor's private secretary and two stray deputy sheriffs, the pair got to the right desk and applied fthe license. The clerk asked the nadies of the contracting parties, their place of residence, and other questions. Then he said to the New Yorker: "Is the groom light or dark?" "Light," returned the young man, wondering what complexion had to do with the matter. "Lady light, also?" asked the clerk, writing busily. "No, she's dark," was the reply. "Dark?" said the clerk, inquiringly, "and the groom light? Ts that right?" "Certainly," replied the New Yorker, with dignity, wondering still more. "Marriage between So-and-so, white, and So-and-so, colored," read the clerk. "What's that?" shouted the groom, taking a hand in the game. "What the devil do you mean by calling her col ored?" "Why, this gentleman said so," said the clerk. "I didn't," protested the New Yerker. "I said she was dark. She's a brunette." "Oh, brunette!" observed the clerk. "I see. You are from the north, aren't you? Down here when we say light we mean white, and dark means col ored. Here's the license. One dollar, please." "Cheap enough, too, with the infor mation thrown in," said the groom to the New Yorker as they took the li cense and went away. "I wonder if they'd call a mulatto striped?" Alaska as a Hunting Ground. Doubtless Alaska will be fori long be come a favorite hunting ground for sportsmen that are content with noth ing less than primitive natUrV. The Journey to the coast of Alaska, is no onger a serious matter, and, while the interior is still difficult to reach, It haft an agreeable summer cllmnt£, knd la no worse region for camping than many another frequented by hunters and fishermen. The Indians axe good and faithful guides, though vhey hi*TC a way of eating up at a sitting the sweets provided uy travelers for along journey. An Kagllsh View of It. "What Is the cause of this Illumina tion?" asked a traveling Englishman of the waiter of an hotel in a German town. "Her royal highness the grand duche&s has just become thp mother of a grand ducal Infant," replied th© Walter. "Is that so?" responded tie Pnglislvman, taking out his note book. "I must make a note of that." He writes: "Whenever the city is illumi nated the grand duchess becomes the mother of a grand ducal infant!" f and then says: "That's very Interesting, indeed." EnfAftd. tisfll Mrs. Hlcks—l can hardly afford to pay twenty dollars a month- Bridget Broket—So the girl next door told me. Mrs. Ilicks—Did she? Her mistress told lier that. When can you cOtne/-* N. Y. World. An Exceptional Cafe. "What makes you think the bill will pass?" "I dyp't think it, I know it. Why. there are influences working for that bIU that 3'ou ucver heard of." "And yet they say money talks."-* Brooklyn Life. Asklilg the Imposslbfe- Scrvant—There's no coal, and th< fires are going out. Mistress—Dear me! Why didn't you toll mo before? Servant —I couldn't tell you there was no coal, mum, when there was coal. - N. Y. Weekly. She Follows Fashion- Mrs. Porker—Our frieud Mrs. Lake side is a very devoted follower of fash lon. Mrs. Feathers—Yes, I notice she is always a season behind. —Harper's Ba tar Mmlll* Rlmlllbas. They found a man who drugged And robbed wai suffering In pain; They called a doctor, and the man Wai drugged and robbed again. —Detroit Tribune INTo-28 THINNING PEACHES. The N»ed of It Is Appreciated b; All Experienced Growers. The need of thoroughly thinning peaches (as also plums and other fruitq nas often been" pointed out. It is well appreciated by all experienced grower! and practiced by the best of them. How to do it in the most expedition! manner is the great question. Some growers we know of Just knock off ft portion of the half-grown specimen! with a pole. This Is a quick, although perhaps a somewhat rude apd rough method. At any rat*, it is better thafi leaving an exoessir* number of speci mens on the tree- Others go over th< ®>es and oarefully remove a portion (A e fruit by hand, leaving the remain* ing specimens, as near as practicable, ai even distances apart. The claim il that it will take lefcs time to nick oij and drop the specimens now. • ' ift erwards gather the line : nd ! tit Which was left at the ir ii,', than gather the whole .1 Ana all of only medium r or sue. Growers oertain'v li:. ti.U double picking by far th- -: c ~j. t- There seems to be a clo * " =*' i between pruning anil ♦ .j- na ture thins by pruning. Overloaded limb) gften break off, somctimw before fh£ fruit comes to maturity, aomctimei when the fruit is ripening. In one Case the remaining fruit may hatfi Some benefit of if! in the other, thf tree will not be in shape to set S3 heavily another year. This method djf thinning is uncouth in the extremf, and not half as etfedtt** as we call make it by judicious pruning by <SWt own hand. Many varieties of peaches, especially the earlier ones, are straggling grow* ers. Their general character is shown m Fig. 1 of the aocompanylng sketch. The fruit grows mostly near the enffl FKACB TREES IX FBflT —XATCSiX AXt) pa CS*D. of the long and slender limbs, bending them low down, ahd perhaps breaking many. To thin the fruit on suoh a tre» we have hardly any choice, but mult resort to the pole and knocklng-ofl method. Such trees need heading back, more or less, every year. Thm we obtain 5 tree like that shoWn in Fig. 5. On thg unpruned tree, Fifl. 1, the fruit groWs mostly outside of an imaginary clnjHT (Indicated by dotted lines), while tftfl properly pruned tree has its fruit most ly inside of a similar imaginary clrctf, ( On the one the fruit is crowded to tfitl' outside, and will remain small and In® perfect. On the otker the fruit sets U1 over the inside of the trfce, and if there be any undue crowding on account Of excessive fruit setting, the excess cifi easily be removed by hand, as we c&fl reach every fruit on the tree eithef from the ground or from ft short ladder. It is only occasionally, how ever, that much thlnciug will be re quired on tree, Fig. 8, and yet this will, bear the fairest fruit and give the most profit.—American Gardening. GARDEN AND ORCHARD. Yorxo shade trees should be trimmed into shape the first few years afttfr having been set out. WHEX the energies of a tree are de voted to the making of wood it £&nnot be expected to do much in prodaclilff fruit. PICK off all the blossoms that may appear on young strawberry plants sftt out this year; fruiting will injure the plants. BY securing a strong, vigorous growth early in the season the plants will be fh a much better condition to withstand drought. MAXY apple trees are too full Of twigs, which form a dense m 148, through which the sun and air canndt penetrate. RASPBERRIES and blackberries are hardier if planted On light sanely loam; to secure fine fruit it is alwayS beat to mulch in July. FOB bagging grapes, get ordinary two-pound paper bags, such as are used by grocers; clip the lower corners, SO as to allow any water that may entet to escape, slip ovet the bunches of grapes and pin the edges together. IF any signs of blight are seen on the pear or plum trees or yellows On J.JIB peach trees, cut off all infected cfr dis eased wood, wash the cut with oil soap; also the knife er saw wltn which the cut was made; otherwise thS disease may be transmitted from 6t>H tree to another. TRAIN up the branches of grape vines and the young canew of blackberry and raspberry in the way it Is desired t6 have them grow. The more perfectly this can be done in the early stages of growth the better. —fet. Loft is ReptJl* lie. now to Cultivate Mu»k Melons. To secure the best results, musk mel ons should be grown in a light, rich, sandy soil. After all danger from frost is past and when the ground is warm and dry, plant in hills from four to sit feet apart each way, with si* to tvteltfe seeds in a hilL When up and all datf ger of insects has passed, pull out all but three. Cultivate thoroughly until the is covered bv the vinfcs, afld pinch off the ends to induce early fruit. Sift ashes or lime Oter the vines, wh<Sb the dew is on, to prevent the attacks of insects. Tbwy Acr««d with Milton. Said Ego Tistic: "I've forbidden mj! wife to take up French. I tell her Milton said: 'One tongue'* enough lor a woman." "Yes," groaned Hen peek, "and con sider how the English vocabulary has enlarged since then."—Truth. No llarm Intended. Pastor lt would surprise you to know how much counterfeit money wa receive in the contribution boxes in the course of a year. Thoughtless Friend—l suppose soj How do you manage to work it all off? —Puck. One Boot foe Many. Head Surgeon at the Hospital—l tell you, my good woman, that yotrf son will be compelled to have his leg taken off- Anxious Mother- Oh, dear! Th€s what can I do with his other boot£—* Das Neue Blatt. DlscussluK an Engagement. "I'm afraid he wjll find it difficult t<s get along with Maud. She is pevei; satisfied unless she is picking flaws In somebody." "Well, she ought not to be disap pointed in him."— Brooklyn Life. Slow Progress. "Did you look at that little bill I lfift yesterday, sir?" said a collector to a member of congress. "Yes," was the reply. "It has p&SSsj| first reading.TO Ti>WCS-
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