VOL. XXIX. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOSEPH w. MILLEK, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Office and residence at 338 3. Main St. Butler, Pa. " Dr. N. M. HOOVER, I*7 E. Wayne St., office hours. 10 to 12 M. and 1 to 3 P. M. " L. M. REINSEL, M. D, PHYSICIA* AKD SCBGBOX. Office and residence at 127 E. Cunningham St. L. BLACK, FHYaiCIA* ASD BUBGROS, *;ew Troutmau Bulldiuj?. Butler, Pa. B. N. LBAKE. M. D. *• D K«*-i*ltle«- Specialties: and Sur- Bye. Ear Nose and DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. rursiciAN awn sr*o«o*. Office at NO. 4*. 8 Main street. over Frank * Co's Diug Store. Butler. Pa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. No. 22 East Jefferson St., Ci ller, Pa. V.Mc ALPINE, Dentist, is now permanently located at no South Main Street Butler. Pa., In rooais formerly occupied by Dr. tValdron. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. /'Am Fillinc Painless Extraction of Tcrtb vsatrta vres A oSS""?r l Mi?len Orrery east of lowry H Office closed Wednesdays aud Thursdsys. j. j. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. . «ij>.i « »roaiv, (Q tb6 itn* £?£*&& omc^ C. F. L. McQUISTION, BftiOKBB AKD SURVEYOR, Orrica HEAM Diamomd. But lie, Pa. , A. B. C. MeFARLAND. i t|t« ft # \mw and Notorv PoUllc —office on 8. nV&nd tie court House-sec ond floor. H. Q. WALKER, At tor ney-at-Law— omce in Diamond Block. Butler, Pa. J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-at-La w. Office-Bttween Postoffice and Diamond. But ler. Pa- A. T. SCOTT, ATTOENKY-AT-LAW. Office at No. 8, South Diamond, Butler. Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, atiobney AT LAW. Office second floor. Anderson B1 k, Main St., pear Couit House, Butler, Pa. J. W- HUTCHISON, ATTPBNEY AT LAW. Office 011 second floor of the II uselton block. Diamond. Butler, Pa.. Boom No. 1. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. Office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St..Butler. Pa,; W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Peal Estate Agent. Of flee rear of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north aide pf DUqinud, Butler, P*. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor of Anderson building, near Court House, But-sr, h. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office.on BoaiU aldelol Diamond Butler. Pa. (~ S. McJUNKIN, litirance and Beat Estate Ag't 17 EABT JEFFERSON.BT. PPTLER, - B I r J 1 if COUNTY Mutual • Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main dc Cunningham fits. vJ. 0. ROESSING, Pb*Bid«rt. H. C IIKINKMAN, SKOBETARY. DIHSCTORS: a 0 Homsluk, Henderson Oliver, j' l purrli, Jaires Stephenson,* A. Troutman, H. Heluemiui, Alfred Wick. N. Welteel, Dr. W. Irvln. Rr Kickonbach, J. W. Burkhart, D. T. Norrls. LOYAL S. M'JUMKIN, Agent. STTTJL."ra"R., PA A. E. GABLE, Veterinary Hurgoon. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Toronto, Canada. Dr, Gable treats all diseases of the domesticated animals, and mokes ridirling, castration and boras ti#try a specialty* Castration per formed without clams, and all other surgical operations performed in the motit scientific manner. Calls to any part of the country promptly responded to. Office and Infirmary in Crawford's Liverv, 132 West Jefferson Street, Bntlcr Pa G. D. HARVEY, {Contractor and bulUtor tu brick work, grate tld mantel setting and nil kinds ot brick-la\ Ing specialty. Also dealer In barrel lime, warn tarn lowe lInJS. cemeuts. Notional, Ptirtianil |i|4 all oeai grades iti thp market. calcined piaster. planter balT. lung's cement, tire brick, fete, white Kami ana rfrcr sand. Mam office ;tls N. Main street, and all orders left ai ware house till recede prompt delivery. Terms reasonable. FOR SALE. LOTS I will offer for sale u number of lota Situated on the high ground adjacent to H. H. Goucher, Ksq., and tbe Orphans' Home. The land la laid out lu squares of something les« than one acre, each square being surrounded by a 50-foot street, and containing five lots M feet tront by 1-0 feel back. Them; lots aro offer ed at very reasonable prices and on terms jo salt purchasers. Tbfts« who wish an entire square can tie accommodated. ALHO--I will sell my »Hrtn In Summit town thlp.situated within ou»-'ittir mile of the Hutler Eorou gli Uue. adjoining lands of lames Keurna and others, on the MlllerstoMrn roae villi either as a whole ordtvlded t«i suit purchaser*. Kor further Information In regard to either ot theabovi properties, call on .1. u. Sullivan. Eas North Street Huiier. Ha MIUJ. V AUUUA SULLIVAN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. FURNITURE -ytinoaaaooaiywt • ■ Thanking* vou for c • last year's patron age, and wishing you a prosperous new year. We intend trying to increase our trade for 1892 by greatly reducing prices 011 many goods. Save money by buying this month. -:- Yours Truly, Campbell & Templeton, 136 N. Main St., - - Butler, Pa. F R KK ! A Handsome Three-quarter Life-size Crayon Portrait Free. As a compliment to oar many patrons, and the public generally, for a short time we are going to give to ever? porcl aher of Ten dollars worth of gooda a FINE THREE QUARTER LIKE SIZE CRAYON PORTRAIT. There is not a family bat poeseaaes some picture of Father, Mother, Brother or Sister which they would 11ke to have reproduced iu a life like and durable manner Call at once and see specimen'at our store What mure editable for a present? And 88 our liberal offer will insure immedia e orders in large numbers, your early yia't is desired. To secure one of tb'-so portraits, you first trat'e Ten Dollars worth with us, and then give us any picture of your self or friends that you wish to have enlarged The frame (samples of which you wi I sen in our store) together with the glass and mounting will only cost you $2 75. These portraits are made by the celebrated Acme Copy, ing Company, 302 and 304 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, 111., which is a guarantee of quality of work we intend to give you. RITTER & RALSTON WOOL BOOTS AND Perfection Heel & Tap Overs $2.00 $2.00 FOR TIIE COMBINATION. We offer the Fr.rmers of Bctler Co., tbis season the greatest value for the money they have tyer bad. The Hoots are £hc heaviest and best made and are fitted with joint and hack stay ot leather I'hcy are nil woo! and seamless. made ctiinmoih size and then fulled down to the proper dimensions Tbev combine Softness Pliability and Durability and will keep your feet warm the coldest d*y. CANDEE BUCKLE OVERS. This wall known brand of overs., which forms over one half of the great combination needs no commeat as to their quality. Everv one kuoww that tbey arc one of the best makes of rubber Roods on the market to day Their style is that of a buckle ankle boot. The buckle is a patent claxp. They have solid Heels aud Taps The taps over extra thick at tbe bail wbcre the most wear comes. We will se'l either part of the combination separately for SI.OO per pair. This will give those \ybo bay* b'-ots b4t uo shoes a chance to buy tbe best shoes at lesg than wholesale prices and vice versa. A last word. Don't delay in buying. We have lots of these goods now bat no telling how long tbev will labt at these prices. A-L. R-U-F-F. 114 South JButler, ;Pa FOR THE HOLIDAYS ONLY JEWELRY, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, Purchasers can save from 25 to 50 per cent by purchasing their watches, clocks and spectacles of J.R. GRIEB, The Jeweler, No. 125 N. Main St., - Duffy Block. Sign of Electric Bell and Clock. All arc Respectfully Invited "Remember our Repairing Department— 20 years Experience." ADVERTISE IN CITIZEN MY DEAREST FOE. OCTOBER. '.S9O. I can't say why except tbat man. Since Adam, will do what he shouldn't; While others thought Miss D. so nice, 1 couldn't. I can't say why or wherefore: each Must draw his Individual moral. But ere we spoke three words we seemed To Quarrel. It wasr" Tat she pinched or dyed; She oldn't. any more than I did: SOT did she smoke, or favor skirts Divided. Nor were, fo far as I could see. Her stockings blue, nor red her tressefc Nor did she love esthetic fads In dresses. Nor was it that I ever found Her fringe in curl the least bit lacking, Or chanced to note her shoes In need Of blacking. She'd none of these faults: yet dislike Gr<-w into hate. I couldn't stop it; Nor can I tell the reason now. So drop it. That she was handsome. I'll admit. And looked at time* a very goddesA Nay. more, a Venus plus a skirt And bodice. Her lips were like Diana's bow. Her dark eyes would have graced a Juno, She waiked like— l forget her name— But you know. And I must fain admit, although 1 loathed her. noi to put 11 finely. She was a clever gin. and sang Divinely. And I was rubicund and pla'.a As cooks when out of situations, And envied those who could achieve Flirtations. Vet when by some 111 chance we met My steady pulse declined to flutter. And I'd no other wish except To cut her. While she delighted to invent Somf horrible nickname to dub me, And seized with rapture every chance To snub me. I had no reason In the world To hate this Juno-Venus Naiad, And she bad just about as much As I had. But this I know though fourscore years Should be our lot ere falls the curtain. Miss D. and I will ne'er be friends. That's certain. P. a—OCTOBER. '9l. Dear reader—lf so long you've tarried— There's on y one li*e more to add. We're married' —Pall Mall Gazette. // Vy H HAT 1 was con- Vy /a siderably sur fj AjgJ** %' \ prised to hear B mar " W sitting in his lji\ £ ft, wheeled chair no such idea in his head. But every thing happens for the best, and the old place is clean run down for want of a nice stirrin' housekeeper Berenice Stubbs charges a dollar and a half a week and wants the washin' put out at that. Things didn't go on in this 'ere way iu the lifetime of my second de parted—no, nor yet while my first was livin' I'm willin' now to confess that I was sort o' turnin' over in m.y tnind the idee of askin' Pantheon Jones' widder if she d any objections to share my solitary lot. but this mar riage o' .loe's puts things in a dif tcrent light. I wasn't sartin but what he was going to be an old bache lor i do hope his new helpmate can make ri* bread and dunning cakes and soft soap. Berenice Stubbs never made soft soap She was fairly ruining me with bar soap boughtcn at the store. And there's all my two de ceased pardners' frowns upstairs, in the blue paper trunk, waitin' to be made patchwork of. Of course she'll be handy with the needle, or Joe wouldn't hov selected her " And Mr Ailesbury chuckled at the prospect of the "good time coming." It was Thanksgiving morning when the young couple arrived. "Is this my new home. Joe?" The bride stood in the clean, white washed kitchen, looking around in a bewildered sort of way. She was ] A EFPLJ,, |jj "18 THIS MY UOMK, JOE?" slight and small, with large blue-gray eyes, and u delicate complexion. Her traveling dress was of the softest pearl gray, and she wore daintily fitting gray kid gloves, and boots so tiny that it Imost seemed as if the (trass of the door yard, like the haret-ells of Sir Walter Scott's poem. must, have "risen elastic from her tread." Iler *talwart husband, standing beside her, looked down with beaming pride on her min iature beauty "Why. yes, pet," he said. "Isn't it like what you had fancied?" The bride laughed hysterically. "Not in the least." said she. "But I dare bay I was absurdly fanciful." "I guess." said old Mr Ailesbury, "that Mrs. .Joe had hotter change that flincky dress for something plainer and help lie re nice htubbs with the supper- Berenice la sort o' plagued with neural* gy to-day " "She's too tired to do much to-night, father." said Joe. "Tired" What's sho done? 1 don't Call it hard work to go ridin' in the railroad cars. Do you?" Berenice Stubbs, a hard-featured fe male with a waist like the town pump and sharp, twinkling eyes thatched with span: white lashes, regarded Mr* Joseph Ailesl.ury with svant favor. "Don't look a bit as if she could worry through a day's wash," said she. "These small folks is wiry some times," said the elder Ailesbury "My first dear deceased wasn't no taller than Mrs. .Joe but my. what a hand she was to turn off work." When Mrs .loe came in from the garden after tea with a bunch of clover pinks in her hand, her fathcr-in-law was ready to accost her. "Now you're here, Mrs. Joe," said he, "to sort o' see to things. I've told Berenice Stubbs she can go homo for half a week, and I'm curious to find out what sort of a housekeeper you'll make." Mrs. Joe looked helplessly at her husband. "I dare say she'll turn out a capital housekeeper, father," said he. "But you won't find out about it at present. I'm goiiiff to take her to Welland Falls to see Cousin Simeon Ailesbury. Her mother used to know Cousin Simnon year J a;, r o." L "What, all that way?" croaked- the BUTLER, FJi I DAY, J AN L T ARY 1">, larmer. Joe nodded. "Traveling's dreadful expensive." "Well, it docs coit something," ad mitted Joe. "And you'll have to stop over night at some tavern." "Yes." "It seems to me," growled the old man, "that all this is a senseless waste of money You'd both of you a great deal better settle down and go to work. I didn't go mooning round the country when I marr ed my dear deceased first, nor yet my dear second. Life is made for work, not play " "Time enough for that, father," said the reckless Joe. "A man doesn't get married, ordinarily, oftener than once in a lifetime." Mrs. Joe drew a long breath of relief when she found herself out from under the farmhouse roof. "Joe," said she. "I'm afraid I'm go ing to be an awful disappointment to your father." "As long as you're not a disappoint ment to me," he retorted, laughing, "it doesn't so much signify " • "There must be a deal of work in that house—four cows, a hundred tur keys, a flock of sheep, a poultry yard of Leghorn fowls, butter, eggs cook inc. washing, baking, scrubbing"— 'How do you know all this?" asked he. "Miss Stubbs told roe. Oh. Joe! why didn't you marry Berenice Stubbs?" "Look in the glass. little girly, if you want the question answered." "But I am so useless. You should have seen Miss Stubbs look at me when 1 said I didn't know how to make bread and that 1 had never done a washing in my life." "You'll easily lerfrn. Ellie." "Do you think I shall. Joe?" A lit tle cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, came over the pearly frankness of her brow "Did your mother wash and bake and brew?" "Presumably she did. But I don't remember her; she died young." "Was she your father's first der.r de ceased?" Joe nodded. "What was the other one like?" "Tall and pale, with a cough and a habit of taking winterprreen snuff." "Would you like rne to take to win terffreen snuff?" she queried, lie laughed "It hardly seems to me. dear, as if you could belong to the same race as those two poor, pale, drudging wom en," said he. "Do all farmers' wives die early, Joe?" Joe did not answer, lie was unfold ing the paper to read the latest news by telegraph. Cousin Simeon Ailesbury was the vil lage doctor, a pleasant old man with a bald head and a genial smile. Ellen Ailesbury made friends with him at once "You are very like your mother, child," said he. "She always remindad me of a little mountain daisy." Ellen's lips quivered. "1 am glad you speak so kindly to me. doctor," said she. "for somehow since 1 came to the old farmhouse 1 feel as if 1 was a fraud." "A fraud, my dear!" The bright tears sparkled now. "1 was brought up to teach." said she. "1 can do nothing about the house. And Joe's father seems to ex pect me to be the maid of all work. Of course I can learn. I'd do anything to please Joe But it's hard to think one is such a dis ppointment.'" "Humph!" said Or. Ailesbury, "I'll speak to Joe about that." And that afternoon, when Ellen and Mrs. Or. Ailesbury were gone to 1001.- at a pretty cascade in the woods, the old man had a long talk with his cousin's son. At the end of the week Joo went back to the Ailesbury farm. "Well, I'm glad ye've got through galivanting," said the old man. with a long breath of relief. "All the farm work is behind, and Berenice Stubbs ain't worth half what she used to be. I hope your wife is prenared to take right hold of the butter and the poul try and" "No, father, she isn't," said Joe, val iantly "Ellen isn't very strong, and she has never been used to the hard ships of farm life." "What did you marry her for?" snarled the old man. "To be my companion and friend, father, not my drudge and servant" "Your mother warn't above work." "My mother was dead and buried, sir, at the ago of thirty—worn out. as all the neighl»ors tell ine. by the hard ships of her life. Your second wife, too, was a victim of the Moloch of work. I don't intend to lay Ellen in the church yard at their side." Mr Ailesbury s brow darkened. "I won't have no one iri the house who don't earn their board." said he. "Very well," said Joe. "We'll rent the little Barrow house down Locust lane. It will be handy to my work at the carriage factory, and Mllen shall have a strong servant to help her with the bouse." Oltl Ailesbury started up, forgetful of his infirmities. "Joe," said he, brandishing his crutch, "if you've been such a fool as to marry a mere wax doll" Just here his foot slipped; he fell, a dead, heavy weight, his head against the sharp edge of the table. The sen tence was nevor linislyrl. "A month!" cried the old man in a cracked voica; "a month since I had that fall' Then I must a-leen out of my mind. I must have had a fever." "Well, I guess you ju:.t have," said I'.erenice "And who took care o" me?" "Mrs Joe, to be sure, night and day. I ain't no baud at nursin' sick people, and there was a hull week some one had to sit up all night with you." "But that slim, pale face creature never done it?" "Yes, she did. She said you was Joe's father and there was somethin.' about your eyes and forbid, as you laid asleep, that reminded her o' him. And she wouldn't leave you a minute." "God bless her!" said the old man, turning his face away v" ith a curious thrill at his heart. "Joe,' said he, when his son came in, a few hours later. "I'fe been very sick?" "Yes, father." "And they tell me I nearly died." "They tell you the truth, father." "The doctor says if it hadn't been for your wife I'd l>eeu under the Churchyard sod by now." "1 believe it is so. father." "Joe, she's an angel!" "Don't I know it. sir?" "Joe, I'm sorry I said all them things about her Do you suppo.e, | Joe, she'd stay here if I'd hire a gal to | do all the rough work?" "We have planned, sir, to move into j the Barrow cottage, and" — "But you mustn't do that, Joe. 1 j can't feel to let her go," urged the old man. "All the luck would go out of the house once the door closed on her. Ask her to stay, Joe. Tell her"— The door opened softly. Ellie her- j self came in. "Father, do you want me to stay?" she whispered. "God knows that I do, child." "Then I'll stay " That self-same evening Berenice Stubbs was engaged to remain perma nently as houseworker and general factotum. "Yes,* I'll undertake all that," said sht-. "Mrs. Joe mayn't know much About, housekeepin". but there's lots be- 5 %} "do yon want me to stat?" side housekeepin' in the world Mrs. Joe can do things I can't." And Ellie took her place as queen of the little home kingdom. "Your wife must be a wonderful person. Joe," said the squire the nest week. "Your father is never weary of singing her praises, and Berenice Stubbs has never said a vford in her disfavor. And of all the people that I know your father and Berenice are the hard est to please. Pray, is Mrs. Joe an en j chan tress?" "Well, I rather think she is," said , Joe- —N. Y. Weekly Uerald. DON'T TOUCH THE WIRES. Excessive Care Nrnlrd to Avoid Danger ill These liuys of Electricity. In these days of abundant electricity, says the Paper World, the following suggestions from one well versed in the subject are worthy of careful study and | remembrance: "Never touch an electric wire that i has fallen down across your way while yon are standing on the ground, as your body will become a conductor for the electric fluid to the earth, unless you have rubber boots upon your feet Line men are sometimes seen pulling these wires about, but they have insulating rubber boots upon their feet or gloves of like material upon their hands, and some people, supposing these covering to be only used for protection against the wet weather, have foolishly grasped the wires and received severe shocks in consequence Don't employ a carpen ter or ordinary laborer, nor do you yoursalf attempt to fix any electric ap paratus of auv power about your prop erty whether the current is turned on or not. Electric wrtres should be han j died one at a time If it is necessary to take hold of two wires at the same time i don't do it In handlingor drawingany wire ly-ng over any of the ordinary street wires, especially such as convey currents for electric lighting, use a dry hand line for the purpose, or grasp the ! wire with insulated pincers. An ordi nary wire clothesline may liocomc the j conductor of a deedly current. "In a dvnamo room, touch not. taste not. handle not. The most inoffensive looking dishpan raa.v strike yon like a mailed hand Nothing Is safe to yon here, unless you know everything Let workingmen rememlier that when a company has strung wires on the cross bars of poles so closely together that a man cannot move easily between them it is better for him to come down and resign." TVltuoal a acu»a. "Jobson is » sort of a crank, isn't | he?" "Oh, I don't know. lie is very set is Lis ways, of course." "Yes, and some of his ways arc so pe culiar." "What have you in mind particu larly?" "Well, you know he prides himself oa his church connections." "Yes." "And claims that he is absolutely pure?" "Yes." "Well, he told the church director the other day that he should go to some other church if they put stained glass in the windows." "Good-day, - ir." —Philadelphia Press. ScliolhhUc Item. "I suppose you are k"pt very busy," said MLss Murray Hill to a young Co lumbia college student who called on her not long ago. "Yes, indeed, 1 am kept busy. It is not often that I have a leisure hour to myself." "What do you do when you have leisure?" •When I have leisure, and am so bored that I don't know what to do to kill time. I call on some young lady."— Texas Siftings. She Willi Imposed t'pon. Lady (engaging servant) —Why did you leave your last place? Servant—l couldn't put up with the way one <>f the young mistresses used to copy me, mum. Lady—What do yon mean? Servant —Why. I had a private soldier for a sweetheart, and what must she do but go and get a hufSoer for hers! — London Tit-Hits. PICTORIAL. ADVERTISING. BEniutINOTON Beiuiys, Author. Dear Sir: I devoured your list novel, "Why Are Wo?" with groat pleasure. It was quite to my taste. Yours truly, W*. Goat. —Judge. Dem Clolden Slippers. Col. Yergei— Why is it that the ladies of the congregation always present the pastor with embroidered slippers and suspenders? Mrs. Yerger—The suspenders are to keep up his trousers, so that the em broidered slippers can be seen. How stupid you are! Simple furiosity. "Do you want some nice pork, sir?" said a butcher to an Irishman, who was intently regarding a side of a hog, which hang outside the door. "No, sorr! Oi was only wondherin' whin ye was goin' to kill the other half o' that pig."—Pittsburgh Chronicle. A Cat Colloquy. Mouser—See here, Maitie, you are playing a little too rough! You yanked i out a bit of my coat t At. time. Maitie —Excuse me. I only intended it for a joke. Mouser —Yes; but it was rather fur Inched. —Yonkers Gazette. A Iteasoiiahlc Explanation, "I don't understand," said the east side tragedian, "why the Jews never attend my performances." "They never did," retorted the man 1 who was leading the attack on the free ' lunch, "have much use for ham." — Brooklyn Life. Whit On? In Germany teachers nre verv poorly paid. At a teachers' festival somebody or p"'' I t 1 • toast "I.on" live ottr who >1 teacher*!" "What on?" asked awcaduverous-look ixur boccuiien. rib Lag m Texaft FOE COAST DEFENSE. The Monterey Nearing Completion at San Franoisoo. Th# Most Powerful Vessel of IU Klad Ever Constructed In th« United State* Wherein the Craft D.fl>ra from Other War Ship*. The new double-turreted, twin-screw, armored coast defense vessel here illus trated was launched in May last, at the Union iron works, San Francisco, and is now fast Hearing completion. She is designed to »!Tord a floating defense of the highest character for the magnifi cent harbor of San Francisco, while also available for similar service any where on the coast, and would probably have been named after the principal city, had not this name been already given to a new cruiser. As it is, she takes the name of the coast town which was the capital of Upper California when the territory was taken posses sion of by the United States more than forty years ago. The bids for the construction of this vessel were opened April 3. ISB3, the Cramps, the Quintard iron works and the San Francisco Union iron works be ing competitors, the contract being awarded the latter firm on their bid of $1.623,950, with the provision that SIOO will be paid for every unit of horse power over the stipulated amount and SIOO deducted for every unit less than this. The Monterey, says the Scientific American, is of the low freeboard type, presenting but little surface to receive the fire of an enemy's guns, and has a curved steel deck to give her further protection. She is constructed entirely of steel, and has a double bottom throughout, with 110 watertight com partments in her hull that can readily be filled with water, submerging the vessel until only about one foot of her • sides shows above water. Iler die* THE MONTE REV. placement in ordinary condition is 4,000 tons, but in fighting trim it will be 4.456 tons. Her general dimensions are: Length over all, 201 feet: on load water line, ' carry machine guns aud a search light. The propelling engines are triple ex pansion, the cylinders being 27, 41 and 04 inches diameter respectively, and the stroke 30 inches, there being two of these engines, designed to work the twin screws at a speed of l. r >o revolu tions per minute on a steam pressure of 100 pounds per square inch. There are two main steel boilers, 11 feet 2 inches diameter and 10 feet 7 inches long each, and four smaller tubular boilers. The fire room is under pressure to give the forced draught when that is required, and the ventilation throughout is ef fected by a large blower, doing away with all funnels. The hatches are closed by hydraulic cylinders. The electric light plant consists of three units, each unit embracing an engine, dynamo and combination bed plate, and eeveral search lights. The armament of the vessel is to be as follows: Two 12-inch breech-load ing rifled grins, with 13-inch steel armor protection and steel shields eight inches thick, each firing a projectile weighing 850 pounds, with a powder charge ol 425 pounds; two 10-inch breech-loading rifles mounted en barbette, with U><- inch steel armor protection and steel shields inches thick, each firing a projectile weighing 500 pounds, with a powder charge of 250 pounds. There are also to be six 0-pouuder rapid firing rifles, four 87-millimeter Hoteh kiss revolving cannon, and two 1-pound rapid-firing rifles. Deepeil Luke In the World. By far the deepest lake known in the world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia. It is in every way comparable with some of the great lakes of America; for. while its area is only 9,000 square miles, making it much smaller than the three largest of our five irreat lakes and about the exact equal of Lake Erie, in superficial extent, its enormous depth, 4.000 to 6,000 feet, makes the total volume of its waters almost equal to thos* of Lake Superior. Its level is 1,350 feet above that of the Pacific ocean, but, notwith standing, its bottom is more than 3,000 feet below it. There are many other deep lakes in the world, but so far Baikal takes the palm. Lake Maggiore is 3,000 feet deep. Lake Como 2,000 and Lego-di-Garda, another Italian lake, nearly I,'JOO feet in depth. Lake Con stance averages about 1,000 feet and Lakes Superior and Michigan about 800 feet. Well Provided. The snail has the greatest number of teeth. It has been proved to possess 80.000 in its mouth, which without % glass looks very innocent. The l'oint of View. "What a world of change this is!" (sighed Mr. Billus, looking over an old newspaper. "And how'little I get hold of!" sighed Mr:*. Billus, lookirig over her old gown. —Chicago Tribune. The St. f.'niiN Clrl. "What would you do if you were In my shoes?" asked the perplexed Chica go girl of her St. Louis friend. "Change them for a smaller pair," was the consoling reply. Detroit 1 reo Press. No Time for Delay. The Priest—This man is so tipsy ho can hardly stand. I can't marry you to him unless he is in his normal state. The Bride—Faith, thin, ye'll have to hurry, for its sobo»in' up he is this minnut. —Life. Mia Did It. Brine —I don't see how you manage | to get along with that wife Of yours. Llenpecq«e—l don't manage. She ; does.—Detroit Frue Press. The Kronomjr ol Health. Pater (sternly) Now. children, I i don't want you to get s'ck any more until that last measles-account Is settled with the doctor.—Judge. The Mljiit KtcU. Do-i't ' t-'i n r- ■! wh'tl he 1« -r~>. A- • t. ... ■.>.« a , *. Re » ■ iie a. j,■ uy - A-u wttnihissed todoobic" Icicit'-.g! -PsLeOelyk.# Pre**. LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Loading Rata* aad PvtarfeUa aad How to Avoid Mlatakoa. An acquaintance, who has been the owner of a farm for many year* and has given some attention to landscape improvement upon it. asks for some of the leading principles or rule* which he can apply, so as to obtain the great est amount of artificial landscape im provement with a limited expenditure, and avoid obvious mistake* In answer to this request a large book might be written, with the sub ject unexhausted; and it would be well for him to study some of the works which have been written. But this is not what the inquirer asks for, and we therefore comply briefly by giving a few condensed rules, which. If followed, will prevent mistakes into which some distinguished professor* have fallen: 1. Give attention first to securing a smooth lawn, and well laid out and well-dressed walk* 2. Avoid parallel walk* because ex pensive and needless, unless entirely separated in view from each other by dense planting or abrupt ridges of land, andprefer few walks to many 8. Every curve in a walk should have an obvious reason, or turn aside from some plain object or obstruction. Curves without reason are a deformity. 4. Short curves approaching angles sre to be avoided, and longer and mora graceful sweeps preferred. 5. In setting out tree* observe care fully what their effect will be in future years when they spread abroad their branches. 0. Leave a part of the grounds in planted with tree* to allow a suffi cient breadth of lawn In future year* and avoid regular irregularity, but pre fer a constant variety or change. 7. Heavy grading is expensive, and a rounded and graceful variation of sur face may be more pleasing than a level, and it costs much les* S. Dwellings may front streets squarely, when the streets are impor tant and" the dwellings small; but large mansions, at a distance from ob scure streets, should show less atten tion to them. 9. Begin small, and make perfect work; avoid the mistakes of laying out great expense; let the lawn be a smooth carpet, and the walks have per fect finish, even if small in dimension* —Country Gentleman. FOR WINTER FEEDING. Two Cheap UfTlrM for the PrM*rv*llm ol Cornstalks. A low, temporary open shed, made of odds and ends of posts and rails and covered with brush, hedgrgras* sedge and eelgrass, seaweed, or even coarse litter, just to keep rain and 6now from the tops of the stalk* will preserve them better than any stack This shed can be built near the cattleyard and no. L —FODDEB SBKD. become a windbreak at the same time along a fence. It can be made any length and width, so as to store the en tire stalks of the corn crop The feed ing from any part can safely be done, as whether few or many are fed out those left are always in good condition till the last stalk is fed A plain, cheap, movable feedrack can be moved from place to place as the shed is emptied, so that the labor Is simply to toss out no. a —FKEORACIL stalks into the rack at feeding >tlm* Those who have not estimated the value of windbreaks in a cattleyard can bavc no idea of the saving in fodder and com fort of the stock that they effect. Fig 1 clearly illustrates this simple shed, and Fig. 2 shows the equally slmpl« feedrack, engraved after sketches sent us by Dr A. 8. Heath, who has used such appliances for many years on hi* farm on Long Island —American Agri culturist. S..lt and Pack at One*. Salting and packing butter direct from the churn is urged, in an un credited current paragraph, as in ac cord with the approving experience ol a great dairy expert; "The butter milk should be all washed out of the butter so it will not color the last water. Tho butter should then be *1 lowed to drain. It needs no working whatever, but should be carefully weighed; then press in an ounce ol good, fine dairy salt to the pound ol butter, and if you intend to pack loi shipment or to keep in crocks or tubi you never can have it in as good con dition to pack as the minute yon first get the salt Into it The butfer will retain its rosy flavor better to pack im mediately; every moment's exposure tc air lessens its goodness, every particl* of working above what Is actually necessary to press in the salt injure! the grain of the butter and reduces ib value in market" A Dreaded Disease. Among the diseases described that come to us from reader* Is one which is very common. The heads of the heni swell, and lumps appear, both on th« heads and sometimes in the throat* and the eyes arc also swollen and closed. The trouble is roup, and th« symptoms described are due to ex posure to draughts of cold or damp all at night. There are different kinds ol roup, but the form of roup mentioned is always the result of exposure. It U difficult to cure, but the sick birdi should be kept In a warm place, and a few drops of a mixture of one pari spirits of turpentine and three paru sweet-oil used as an ointment on th< face and head Farm and Fireside. Not entity. "Thoro goes poor Jonei—banlrropl orer since hl» trial." "Did lie break the low?" "Nn ; tb- Inw broke him?"— Pnefc, BTUDYINO IT Till BITTATIOR. jfcjjjl 1 1 | Mother (upstairs) Violet are yon Btudj-ing'? Violet—Ycs'm. Mother —Studying what? Violrt rye* fixed intently on tbe Jamj hnid; i liou the uua'U»mable can be obtained. Golden Days. IST 0.11 THE MAPLE WORM. A Du|, west In the west it is reported now frequently from Illinois, Missouri. lowa. Nebraska and Kansa* in most of which states the soft maple Is ia* digenous, a fact which accounts for the excessive multiplication of ths insect there as compared with the more east ern sections of the country. It feeds on other maples and presumably on all species of the genus Acer, and when forced to from necessity will feed on oak, though nominally never found oa ; that genus of trees, and probably In capable of full development thereon. The eggs are deposited by ths parent moth in batches of thirty and upwards on the under hide of leaves. The egg ia abont 0. OS of an inch long, suboval, slightly flattened, pal 5 gvfoaish, be* cumin? yellowish, and showing the i black head of the Inclosed larva just before hatching, and is hatched in eight or nine days after being depos ited. The larva undergo four molts and reach full growth in abont a month, when they enter the ground and trans from to pttpaa. The worms (a) are long itudinally striped with pale aad dark green lines, and are chiefly distin guished by two anterior projecting black horns on the second segment* and by having segments 10 and 11 a little dilated and rose-colored at the sidea The pupa (6) is of a deep brown or black color, very much roughened and armed with curved horns and points about the anterior extremity and also on the last joint, which terminates in a long forked projection. The pup* oi the first brood give forth the perfect insect in fourteen to sixteen days, those of the second l.rood usually wintering over in the ground. In the west there are usually but two broods In She year, but three broods are occasionally pro duced. The pupa, before giving out the imago, works its way to the sur face by the aid of its spines, allow ing the ready escape of the moth. Ths moth is of a pale yellowish color shaded with pink, as in the figure (c) which represents the female. The male has a smaller abdomen and broad <-omb-Hka antennae. Different specimens vary greatly—the yellow predominating In western and the rosc-color In eastern specimens, while others again, especi ally from the west, are nearly white. Parasitic insects very effectually aid in the control of the worms, which la fact seldom occur two year* in succes sion in injurious number* Spraying with paris green or London purple in the proportion of one pound to ISA to 154 gallons of water, a* soon as the young larva) are noticed, or a week or ten days after the moths appear in the spring, is at once the simplest and moot effect ive re medy If the lams have been al lowed to reach full growth so that spraying will be of no ase, great num bers of them can be entrapped and easily destroyed, by digging a trench either around tho Individual trees or around the groves or belt. The tranob should be at least a foot deep, with the outer wall sloping under. The larva usually wander from the trees bafora entering the ground, and will oolleot In numbers in the trenoh or bury them selves in the bottom, and may then be easily killed. Their numbers may b* reduced also by keeping a sharp look out for the moths and eggs during tho latter part of May, when both may be destroyed in large quantitie* —Orang* Judd Farmer. FACTS FOR FARMERS. L&ROC as was the wheat crop this year it is stated that indications point to *s large an aroa of land seeded to wlieat as before. LOOK after the fences end see if they need any help to enable them to with stand the snows and winds of win tax without falling down. STONES on the farm are not aa on mixed eviL They represent great po» sibilitic* Look around and See ti what good use they can bo pvt. IT is seated by some one that when the thermometer stands flfty dagMM at sundown frost will not OOMr thai night It Is worth observation. "J A PAW" fruit trees are orpatfnf some interest among fruit man bagpaaa of their reputation for be ing proof against blight, Insects aad fnagua at tacks. IT may seem a little hard to plana the best fruit down in tha package where it will not be seen, yet that la the proper thing to doi Tho ooaanasr likes to find some of it there Tramrornatlo*. He dropped Ms glove open the atsl* Be wsa with love so smitten 1 But when she gave It bsek to hla He saw It was a mitten. —Tom M anion, in Ciotbler sad Furnisher. A Labor ftavlag B«ko»e. Husband—Why do you alwaya ask me what I want for dinner, just as 1 am leaving the breakfast table? Wife— Because yon alw*yssay "Noth ing much," and it saves a lot of Book ing. Life. Not Kncurmflaj. Dudely Cancsucker—The young lady I am going to marry Is very poor; aim hasn't got anything at aIL Candid Friend— Well, she wOl have still less after shs has married yon.— Texas Sifting* Uard Look. Uncle Tom— Well. Bobby, what do you expect to get In your stocking on Christmas? Bobby (disconsolately)— Not maobt Horn put me Into socks last October! Puck. ___________ Large Stakes. Hungry Quest—Bow is this? f ordered s steak and a poached egg I see the egg. but not the steak? Tabic Attendant— Dat's all right, sfth Do steak am under do egg.—Tens Sifting* ■ III* MM of TKVA. "I wish I w*« a Chinese boy." welled Tommy, then I won Id be trwgMß^