VOL. XXIX. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOSEPH W. MILLER, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, • Offlce and residence M 338 J. Main St Bntler, la. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, 1«T E. Wayne St., offlse hours, IS to 12 M. and 1 to 3 P. X. L. M. REINSEL, M. D, Physician did Scrokow. Office and residence at 12T E. Cunningham St, L. BLACK, PHTBICIAX AMD BUBO EON, Sew Troutman Building. Butler, Pa. K. N. LKAKK, M. D. J- K- MAJW. M..D. Specialties; Specialties; Gynaecology and Sur- Kye. and DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN, ravnciin anD scaoso*. Office at No. 46. 8. Main street, over Frank * Co's Diutt Store. Butler. Pa. . SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. No. 22 East Jefferson St., Butler, Pa. V. McALPINE, Dentist, U „ow pennatenUy located at m South Main gocet Butler, Pa., in rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Waldron. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, " - BUTLER, PA. A SSST^r U MUier» Grocery east of U>wry H< Office closed Wednesday s aud Thursdays. j. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. cxir K»naul's ClothiuK Store. I . t. L. McQUISTION, ENGINEER AND SUBVEf OE, Omct kiai Diamond, Ben**. P*-l • A. B. C. McFARLAND. AttT at La* and Notary Diamond bt—opposite t£e Court House-sec ond floor. H. Q. WALKER, Attorney-at-Law—Office in Diamond Block, Butler, Pa. J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-at-Law. Ofhce—Between Fostofflce and Diamond, But ler, Pa. A. T. SCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office at No. 8, South Diamond. Butler, Pa. A. M. CHRIST LEY, ATIORNKV AT LAW. Offlce second floor, Anderson B1 k, Main St., near Conrt Bouse, Butler, Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Offlce on second floor of tbe Huselton block. Diamond, Bntler, Pa.. Boom No. 1. IRA McJUNKIN. at » T . Ja « er * W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law »nd Real Estate Agent. Ot flee rear of L. f. Mitchell's office on north aide Of Diamond. Butler, IV H. H. GOUCHER. Attomey-at-law. Office on second floor ot Anderson bsliding, near Court Hooae, Butler, NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Lav—Office.on South slde'ot Diamond Butter. Pa. L 8. MeJUNKIN, Insurant? aid Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERSONJBT. BUTLER, - PA. BITLEP COUNTY Mutual Fire insurance Co. Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Pts. 11, C. HEINKMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORB: Alfred Wick, Henderson Oliver, r»r. W. Irvln. James Htcphauson, W. W. Blackmore. N. Weilzel. F. Bowman. I). T. Norrl*. . HARVEY, Contractor and builder In brick work, urate and mantel setting and all kinds ot brick-laying a specialty. Also dealer In barrel lime, wam pum loore lime, cement*. National. Portland and all best grades In the market. Calcined Blaster, piaster hair. King's cement. Ore brick, U)e. white sand and river sand. Main office 315 Jt. Main street, and all orders left at ware bouse will receive prompt delivery. Terms reasonable. I fICcT ft! AHA ''fless you write us quick fcUa I WUUU ly. We want more sales mon. and will guarantee permanent position* With salary and expanses paid weekly- Full or part time. Bxpeneuce not required. Stock complete, including many fist selling special ties. Elegant outfit free. Address C. H. HAWKS h CO., • rXurseryman. Rochester. N. Y. established UTS. ■TXTAKTIB— Agent* to solicit orders for ou " choice, and hardy Nursery Stock. Steady Wtrk Fer Energetic Teaperate lea. Salary and expenses or commisslou If prefsr ed. Write at once. State Age, Address. 11. 6. Chaaa&Co.'litt.W THE -BUTLER CITIZEN. : THIS IS A SHOE / * ; that's sure to go through C ; eighteen hundred mnetv-two. : Give your feet a show—they'll have to carry you through the new year. If you give them their deserts, you'll put them into shoes that they will take kindly to. \ou 11 be doing a handsome thing by them if you encase them in a pair of our |3 00 SHOES. When you are wearing them, neither you or they will have anything to complain about. The day may come when a better shoe than this can be sold for the money, for time brings wonderful improvements as well as new years, but it hasn t come yet and there s no sign of it. AL RUFF, SHOES A SPECIALTY. SHOES MADE TO ORDER OR REPAIRED ON SHORT NOTICE. H USELTON'S SHOES! |JU Worth Looking Oar Bootß and Shoes are making ®D impression "on tbe sands of time." I ■ >M | - ■ e e 'P cnr CDBtonjerß to make tbeir in life easy by fining them with V' '4 If Ik 'hat tbeir fe«-t comfortably. rHSuS\ ■' *We pay special attention to this, as no Boot or Bboe will wear well that does not fit properly. There is enough trouble and pain in this life without incieasiug it by wearing 111 fitting shoes. All onr footwear is selected carefully from the most improved lasts as well as quality of stock etc. We keep tbe k>ud that will fit comfortably and wear, we keep the beet at tbe lowest prices. We don't keep a Ladies Shoes at SI.OO and say it is worth s2.oo.that is an old, old chestnut, but we do say we have a Ladies fine Shoe at $1 00 that cannot be matched either for Style or wear, wo say the name of cu> Ladies entire line froui $1.25, $1 50.'52.00, $2 50, and $3 00 acd up to $4 00 and $4 50 v Don't you get tired of rending some fellows advertisements when they say good* are being Slaughtered at any price to clean up. etc , that thiß or that Boys Boot is felling at $1 00 worth $2.00 Now there is just one of two things, either they made a big profit before or not telling the troth, recollect these liberal fellows don't lose any monev, goods are per haps dear at the low prices named after you see them and more especially after you wear them It seems useless to quote a long list of prices as you caonot judge unless you see the goods, but if you want the best Boys Boots at $1 00, sizes 1 to 5 you ever taw you ran get it here, a Man's Boot at $1 50 Children's Shoe at 25, 50 and 75 cts , Boj'p fine Shoes at 85 cts., these are straight, prices uo bnmbog to pull you in. neither are they sold at 60 CENTS OH THE DOLLAfI. Have a lot Misses Rubbers at 10 cts a pair and they a/e not worth 30 eta. ei'her, recollect we have the largest stock to select from, best goods and lowest prices, we don't handle «ny old jobs, sold cheap on account of some imperfections, but solid, new and desirable lictsst lhe lowest price B. C. HUSELTON, _ _ _ 105; N. MAIN ST , BUTLER, P a The Price Broken Rubber Goods Forced to go! The greatest rubber sale ever known In Progress at Bickel's! Men'e Rubber Boots $2 00. Boys' Rubber Boots $1 40. Youths' Rubber Boots SI.OO. Child's Rubber Boot 90 cts. Read and Wonder! Come and Buy! Men's Rubbers 40 and 50 cts. Ladies' h'ubbers2s cts. Mi sees' Rubbers 15 cts. Child's Rubbers 10 cts, Customers Delighted! Competitors Depressed! Ladies' Buckle arctics G5 cts. Ladies' ("loth alnskas 40 cts. Men's Cloth alaskts 50 cts Perfection overs for felt Boots 60 cts. Rich and Poor Alike are Benefited. Men's Kip Boots Si 35. Boys' Kip Boots Si.oo. Child's Kip Boots 50 cts. Men's Working Shoes 85 cts. Boys High Cut Button Shoes 75 cts. No Cobwebs on my Goods. I Sell Ladies' Button Shoes 90, Si 00 and $1.20. Misses' Shoes fine 75 and Si 00. Child's Shoes pat-tip 50 cts. Bady's Shoes 10, 25 and 50 cts. Remember Ihe old saying "The ear'y bird catches the worm." Con eto this Sale Quickly. It can't last long. Boots and Shoes to Order. JOHN BICKEL. BUTLER, - - - -- - - PENN'A All Kinds of Job Work done at the "Citizen" Office. THE PINES. Fai Vack In the (lays of childhood stood a grove of stately pines; Tbe fields spread green arounrt them and tbeir shadowy outlines Reached ui> Into the sky so far that I believed It true That angels in their upstretched arms passed through the heavenly blue. And when the night winds murmured in theii branches, sweet and low, 1 listened through the dark and said: " 'Tis angels' harps, I know- Good angels who will give me all I want, if I air kind," For childhood's eyes look far out wide, but childhood's faith is blind. And as the angel music filled my soul with vi sions brigßt, I lay upon my pillow in a charm of rapt de light, Where noble knights and maidens moved in an enchanted land Of palaces and gardens fair and castles tall ani grand. ; " Sweet angels, grant me but two gifts,"and I*ll be good—l pray : A palace for my home, and let my mother live alway: My mother dear, so beautiful that like to yot: she seems, Oh, let her live forever!" thus I whispered in iisj dreams. No palaces are mine, but near me woods and mountains stand, Arrayed in all the splender of the wondrou* fairyland; And o'er a grove beneath the pines the bird* sing all the day. And Faith's bright angel tells me that my mother lives alway. —Zitella Cocke, in N. E. Magazine. " "point of a D ar- row tongue of land, jutting into Lake Eric from its southern shore, rising for fifty feet without a limb and then spreading wide its immense branches, tall and solitary, stood the old tree whose com panions had long since been swept away by the heavy surges of wave and storm that had washed bare its own great roots and seemed ever trying to wrench the old oak from its mocyings, but in vain. A landmark by sea and land for miles around, it held its ex posed position as if in proud defiance of the forces of waves and winds. But not alone for its great size and striking situation wa° the old oak noted. High up in the topmost branches, so high that the foot of the most expert elim ber had never ventured there, a mass of sticks and dead limbs was the nest of a pair of eagles, who sought it every spring to rear their young, and prey upon the gulls and fish hawks who sought their food in that vicinity. A magnificent pair were those old eagles, the pride and admiration of all for miles around. No one could remember when this had not been their eyrie, and the time of their coming lay far back in the time of Indian possession. From the Indians had also been handed down the tradition that even more than sentiment or local pride had preserved the lives of the eagles and restrained the inhabitants from any act of violence or barm. "For," so ran the legend, "whenever the eagle's nest should be touched by a disturbing hand, the eagles would leave it never to return again, and with their de parture dire calamity would over whelm the neighborhood, while ill luck and misfortune would ever after fol low the rash mortal who should dare to molest the birds or their habita tion. " Such was the prediction told by the earliest settler »to every newcomer, and repeated in turn till the old oak and the great nest within it came to be almost objects of reverence and super stitious dread, and daring hunters shunned it as a tree of ill-omen, while timid childVen playing about the beach kept far aloof from the "Old Eagle Oak." The tradition was again repeated to the Van Fleets when one early spring they came to make their home on the shore of the lake, about a mile from the point where the great oak held its solitary state. Martin Van Fleet listened to the story as the old hunter Mackworth told it, his eyes in the meantime watching the eagles as on widespread wing's they sailed in great circles high m the air above him. A bright-eyed, well-knit, active boy of fourteen, was Martin, alike ambitious, intrepid, fond of daring and adventure, and who as yet had to learn the meaning of the word fear. From the first the eagles were an object of fascinating interest to him, and also to his younger twin sisters Grace and Clara, and often they might have been seen watching them or haunting the vicinity of the eyrie. For a time there was comparative quiet in the old oak; seldom wm but one of the eagles seen, and lie re mained much of the time perched on a limb near the nest. But at last one day Martin rushed in to the house crying: "New neighbors have come to town. There are young eagles in the eyrie!" That such was the case was soon ap parent to eyes less keenly watchful, and both the old eagles now made long excursions in search of food for the hungry little mouths so securely hidden in the nest. "O dear," sighed Grace one day, a £ the old bird disappeared within the tree, "how I do wish I could see tliose little eagles." "Do you? ' : aid Martin, with a curi ous Mnile. "Well, who knows but oue of them may fall out of the nest one of these days?" "But that would kill it," rejoined Clara, "and we want to see them alive." Nothing more was said on the sub ject, and but incidentally was it noticed that the next week all of Martin's ipore time was given to some work in regard to which he preserved a studied iilcnce. Finally one afternoon be asked his sisters to go vrith him for a row over to the eyrie, and on reaching the spot drew from under a thicket of stunted, storm-twisted bushes not far distant a rude but strongly-made lad der and a coil of knotted rope. "What are you going to do?" ex claimed both the girls in one breath. Martin laughed. "I am going to get you a .young eajrlc." "O Martin!" protested Grace, "the tree is so high—what if you should fall? You must not think of such a thing." "And," urged Clara, "you know what will happen if anyone meddles with the nest Fray, Ma.-tin, let it be." and she gave a little shudder. "I'oohl" with a contemptuous snap of his lingers; "what do you suppose I care for an old Indian superstition? Besides, I'm not going to kill the eagles or hurt them; I wouldn't do that for anything. If there is only one bird in the nest I \von't touch it; but if there are two, as 1 hope there are, I am going to take one. We can take good care of it and feed it fish, and just think what a grand thing it will be to have an eagle for a pet." The possession of a pet eagle was a tempting possibility that easily oyer cone the little srirls tears and BOTHtttlt.' BXJTLER, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1892. while as to danger, Martin scoffed the idea. "Many trees as I've climbed! and then see here!" and he displayed a pair of old shoes he had fitted with sharp-pointed nails to serve as climbers. I The old eagles had bw?n seen to leave the nest shortl* before they ar rived, anil, taking advantage of their absence, Martin set up his ladder and with a bag fastened around him to hold his prize aud with a stout rope on bis arm, began the ascent. In the meantime the light wind that had helped them over had. died away and been succeeded by au almost un natural hush, with hardly a ripple to break its surface. The lake stretched before them as far as the eye could reach, and up the sandy beach the little waves crept softly towards the great tree's bare and knotted roots, while overhead the leaves hung mo tionless in the still sunshine. Up the great bole pressed the young climber, higher and higher; the branches were reached, and he was lost to the gaze of the eager watchers below; higher, still higher, aad then a loud, exultant shout told that the goal was reached. Soon Martin was on his downward way, carefully picking his steps with his iron-shod feet, and swinging and steadying himself by the aid of his rope till he reached the ladder, and then the ground, with his proud and hardly-won trophy, not one bird, but two, for, having found three feeble lit tle eaglets in the nest, he had deter mined to bring Grace and Clara each one. "For, you see," he explained, "that leaves the old birds one, just as I intended." At that moment steps were beard, and turning, they saw Mackworth, the old hunter, who had repeated the In dian tradition to the Van Fleets, and who from a not distant field had seen enough of the movements at the old oak to rouse his suspicions. As he saw the eaglets in the children's hands his face darkened with anger. "Martin Van Fleet, what have you been guilty of?" he demanded, sternly. "In all the years I have lived here never before has a soul, boy or man, disturbed the eyrie. You ought to be shot for it, you had, and if you have brought a curse on yourself, it is no more than you deserve." "But I have left one in the nest for the eagles," protested Martin, his high spirits over his success suddenly fall ing under this sharp arraignment. "I don't care if you have; you have broken the prohibition; you have tam pered with the nest But yonder," pointing to a black speck in the sky, "comes one of the old eagles; if she eats you up to pay for what you have done, I shan't care," and turning on his heels he strode wrathfully away. With the old eagle so uear, the chil dren did not dare to escape, but hastily hid under the low thicket where Mar tin had concealed his ladder. Wheel ing round and round in great circles, the mother bird drew near her nest There was a moment's silence after she reached it, and then a hoarse cry of disappointment and rage told the trembling listeners that she had dis covered the robbery; then, stretching "MARTIN VAN FLEET, WHAT HAVI TOO BEEN GUILTY OF?" her wide wings, the powerful bird flew rapidly away again. It was but a lit tle while till she returned with her mate, when both, with loud calls, swept round and round searching for for their little ones; while Martin, be ginning to realize as he had not at first the seriousness of his act. crouched be side his sisters under the bushes, with the eaglets held close to his breast, lest by a sound they betray them. Finally, with a last cry, the old birds turned and flew away over the lake, their dark forms growing more and more indistinct against the darkness of a swift-rising stormcloud, till final ly they were lost to sight, just as a flash of vivid lightning zigzagged across the ominous-looking sky. "O Martin, what have you done?" ■obbed Clara, breaking the almost spellbound silence that bad held them. "The old eagles will never come back, and what will become of that poor, little bird in the nest?" "I can't help it if they don't," re plied Martin, doggedly, though his face wore a troubled, anxious look; "l'in sure I didn't mean to frighten tficm away; maybe they will come back yet, and if they don't 1 can get the other little eagle to-morrow Hut we must hurry home before that storm comes on.' There was no elation now over their trophies. Fold on foHl the blacU clouds were rising in the north, an out ward oxpiv,,ion it seemt'd to Martin of Uis own overcast spirit Already lines of foam could l>e seen flicking the surf»;ce of the lake; the close-brooding stillness was broken by the mutter of distant thunder; the rush of the rising wind filled the forests, an 1 just before their little reached the shore a strong gust struck and but for the shallow water would have over turned it. ISut not till the night and darkness were e|o:.i'l v gathered did the stm in br.-ale in it , full fury Then the great waii'S came thundering in to break far upon the beach beyond the rcimtm brunce of the oldest settler; the rain BUBYINO THE KAOLET. beat in swirling, blinding sheets, and the gale swept with terrific force ever the whitened, water-leveling fences, unroofing buildings and snapping strong trees as though they had been but saplings. From old Maekworth the news of the spoiling of the eyrie had rapidly spread through the neigh borhood, with a general indigna tion at the act, arising even to threats of violence; and dur ing the hours of the brief but awful tempest, wherein they that slept were few indeed, the thoughts of more than one turned to the disasters pre dicted to follow the touch of hands on the old eagle's nest. While at the same time, under a quivering roof in full hearing of the surges, a white fased twy lay with hi* tavo bar led i» liis pillow, nis heart heavy with re morse for his afternoon's work, and the shuddering fear lest he had indeed broken a mystic spell and brought upon himself the threatened ill, that tho "Indian superstition" he had so scoffed might after all prove a dreadful reality. Morning dawned with skies as clear, sunshine as bright, and air as calm as though the elements had known no rage. But traces of it 9 wreck were not so quickly vanished. As Martin Van Fleet, heavy-eyed and pallid, came down the stairs, an exclamation from Grace, standing in the open door way, brought him to her side. Follow ing the direction of her outstretched hand, he looked across the bay to the point of land where the old landmark, the great oak. bad stood so long, but where it was no more to be seen. For a moment Martin gazed motionless, and then, followed by his sisters, dashed off along the sandy beach, now beaten hard and smooth as a floor, to where, driven by wind and wave, a bruised and wrenched and shattered ruin, the great tree lay. Not a trace of the nest was to be seen; the eyrie had disappeared as though it bad never been, but on the sand, crushed by the fall of the prostrate trunk, drenched and dead, lay the puny body of the third young eagle. Martin took it up and tenderly amoothed the sodden feathers. "I don't care," he burst forth, his fears of the night lessening with the bright morning and the pulse beat of health ful exercise, and all the vigor of his atrong, young nature rising in passion ate protest against a malign fate, "I'm awful sorry for what I did, but I don't believe it had anything to do with the storm. That was coming up anyway, and would have blown the tree down just the same, and if the old eagles had stayed they might have been killed too, so after all maybe I saved their lives." But for all this reasoning, to which Grace and Clara, wi£h the guilty sense of accessories, were only too glad to agree, it was a silent, sober little group that made a grave for the young eagle in the sand. And long was it after public indignation and the displeasare of his parents at his ill-considered aad dangerous act had passed away before the memory of the despoiled eagle's nest and ifs attendant storm and ter ror lost its vividness to Martin's mind, or that on the occasion of any accident or misfortune the "ill luck" of the old tradition did not uncomfortably rise. As for the coveted eaglets one soon died, the other grew to sturdy eagle hood. but always showed a malicious •nmity toward his captors, and with his savage beak and claws proved a most formidable pet, till one day breaking the chain that confined him. he spread his great wings in all the conscious pride of freedom, and, sweep ing up in great circles, vanished over the lake as his parent birds had done before him. The prediction, however, was bu l partially fulfilled, for though the eagles never returned to tlieir dl* turbed nest, no other disaster foil owec the tempest, and Martin Van Fleet still lives, a man prosperous and suc cessful beyond the average —Kla Thomas, in Christian at Work. ___________ Surety. "I do«ot doubt you," nbo slowly said, "But X think It would be better, To prove that you're In earnest now. To propose to mc by leiter." —Jury. Not a Happy Home. Little Johnny Fizzletop was punished because he had punched the baby in the stomach. "Well, that beats all. If I am not allowed any privileges in this house I dou't care a cuss for family life," re plied the aggrieved youth; "I'll go west and have some fun killing Indians."— Texas Sittings. Very strict. Little Girl —My mamma is awful strict. Is yours? Little Boy—Orful. "But she lets you go anywhere you want to, and—" "Oh, she ain't strict with me." "Then who is she strict with?" "P»p." —Good News. The Name Salted. "That chicken," remarked the board ing house keeper, as she beamed on the tab'e, "is of the Plymouth Rock va riety." "No wonder it is hard to carve, then," replied the star boarder, who was en deavoring to dismember it.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Incog. Mrs. Banboz —I understand the prince of Wales was on our train from London to Paris. Mr. Lapsusling—l didn't see him to know him. I guess he must have been traveling impromptu. Detroit Free Press. "CATCHING THE DOWN TRAIN." —Life. A Hopeless Search. Little Dot(gazing out of the window) — I've stood here au' watched, an' watched over an' over again, an' I never saw a letter go over these telegraph wires yet. Little Dick —No, an' you never will, goosey. Those is 'lectric light wire*. — Good News. Not a Sign of Promise. "Ia Miss Winterbloom in?" "No, sir. She told me to say that she waited for you until half-past four." "But I told her expressly I wouldn't be here until five!" "Yes, sir. So I heard her say."— Life. He Knows (letter. Mrs. Stimple—That poor little mes senger boy has caught a bad cold. Mr. Stimple—Don't you believe any such thing, my dear. These messenger boys couldn't catch a slow fever unless it were tied fast. —Harper's Young Peo ple. How to Tell Tlieus Apart. "My aunt says I'm so like my papa that she can't tell us apart, but I know the difference," said Tommy. "What is it?" asked the visitor. "Papa wears suspenders and I don't." —llarper's Young People. Wai It Amlai? "And you really think that a miss is as good as a mile?" "Yaas, and f good deal better, for one can Kiss a miss, when one couldn't kiss a mile, don'cher know?"— Texas Sittings. Worth Twice m Much. Bloobumper—Uow is it you ask teo dollars for this parrot and only five dol lars for that? Dealer The ten-dollar bird can't talk, sir.—Judge. In 111* Ituzxum. I craved one golden lock of hair Of those that like a crown bedecked her. She gave It me, and ever since I'Vo worn it aas chest protector. .. " COLUMBUS MONUMENT. A Work of £xqul*lt« Beauty f*r the Chicago Fair. The design of a monument to Colum bus has, by the request of llarlow N. Hig inbothain, of Chicago, been drawn up by M. Godebski, the celebrated Parisian sculptor, and sent to the world's fair authorities in Chicago. The design, pays the Chicago Graphic, provides for a quadrangular terrace at each angle of which a lamp post may be placed. The monument proper is approached by four long steps and consists of a '*rROPOSED MOXIHIST TO COLUMBUS. pedestal with suitable medallions and inscriptions. Bas-reliefs illustrating the principal events in the life of the great naviga tor adorn the sides of the pedestaL These bas-reliefs commemorate the en trance of Columbus and his son D:ego into Spain upon that mission that waa fraught with such stupendous conse quences to future ages; the interview of Columbus with Ferdinand and Isa bella and the unfolding of his design to them and to the court; Columbus' return to Europe and tbe triumphal cortege that accompanied him to the court of the Spanish king. The principal front of the base shows the prow of a vessel terminated by a figure holding in each hand a torch to light the discoverer upon his way, and above and back of the ship's prow is a group showing Columbus and his com panions discovering the new land. The principal group, as well as the three statues, is on a pylone which rises in the middle of the monument and serves as a pedestal for Columbus. This ped estal is crowned with an entablature ornamented by modillions and the real column rests on a slightly raised circu lar stylobate decorated with encarpus. This is canulle at least one-third of the way up, whence It is ornamented by emblems formed of anchors and crowns, intermingled with olive branches, and terminates with a top piece that sup ports four eagles, each holding in its claws an American shield and bearing on their outspread wings a globe on which sits Genius holding a crown above the head of Columbus. Lastly, an American llag held by eagle's talons fronts the principal part of the monu ment and floats over the column. The total height of the monument, not Including the terrace—that is to say, reckoning from the base to the summit —will be 98 feet. All the archi tectural work will be executed In clear white marble and all the decorative parts will be in bronze, with the Ameri can shields enameled in their heraldic colors, the same being true as regards the flag and the globe supported by the gilded eagles. MAGIC AT HOME. Aa Amusing Illustration of a Familiar Law of Mechanics. Our illustration supplies without the need of explanation the solution of the problem, how to balance a pencil on ite point. You have merely to dig the blade of a half open penknife into the pencil a lit tle above the point, and to open or close the blade, little by little, till you find that the balance is obtained. The com bination of pencil and penknife thus placing itself in equilibrium is an illus tration of a familiar law of mechanics; the center of gravity of the combina tion falls below the point of support 'M BALANCINO A PENCIL ON ITS POINT. (the finger, edge of table or the like), and thus stable equilibrium is obtained. By varying the degrees of opening the penknife, you impart corresponding degrees of Inclination to the pencil. When the center of gravity of the two combined falls in the same line as the axis of the pencil, the latter will as sume a perpendicular position. Various Measurements. The foot is named from the length of that member in a full-grown man. It was a standard of measurement used by the ancient Egyptians. The cubit. Latin cubitus, an elbow, is a Roman standard of length from the point of the elbow to the end of the middle finger. Fathom Is from the old Aryan root, fat, to extend, and denotes the distance from tip to tip when the arms of an average sized man are fully extended The palm was a measure of length used by the Romaus. Its length was about inches Pictures I hat Never Came. In the dead-letter office at Washing ton are more than 42,100 photograph which found their way there last year Practical Advloa* An Irishman and an Italian were be fore a justice for being drunk, and the Irishman pleaded guilty. The Italian, not knowing the "ropes" so well, ap pealed to the Irishman for advice. "It's thish way, Dante," said Mike. "Af yez soy yez was dhrunk, that -will ind it to wanst; but af yez soy to the conthrary, they will argy and argy and make yez out a dhrunk anny way, so yez had better conflss and be done with it." Dante confessed. —Detroit Free Press. Too Sensitive. Mrs. Yerger was happy in the thought of having secured a reliable servant. This delusion only lasted a very short time—one day, in fact. Mrs. Yerger— As I do my owo market ing I shall expect you tio accompany me to the market. Bridget—Thin, mum, we had better siver our connicti Every person should have a crosscut Mw and a rip saw and should know how to tile both. He will need a three cor nered file and a couple of straight edged boards, two or three inches wide and about the length of the saw, be tween which to clamp the saw in posi tion firmly while being sharpened. The principle of sawing is the same as cut ting. In ripping the teeth act like a series of chisels and should conform to a chisel shape as nearly as is consistent with the proper strength at the base of the tooth. The shape shown In Fig. 1 is about a correct representation of what the teeth of an ordinary rip saw for farmers' use should be. The teeth of rip saws are filed straight across the blade from erery way, thus giving an entirely level and straight front to the tooth, as shown in the cut. The filing of crosscut saws is more difficult than rip saws, at least to the amateur, as they are filed at an angle • both horizontally and perpendicularly, ! and the set, or pitch, of the tooth must be governed by the hardness of the wood to be sawed. The softer the wood the steeper the forward pitch of the tooth may be. In Fig. 2 is shown the strongest form of tooth com parable with execution. In this form 1 the sides and base of the tooth are equally long. This gives the base of the tooth the strength to resist the pres- ■ sure of the hardest woods. The hard ness of the wood has also to do with the size of the teeth, as the harder the wood the smaller the teeth must be in the same style of saw. For ordinary purposes in a hand saw a slightly forward pitch, from that of Fig. 2, is preferable, as it is capable of great er execution while giving the base of tJie tooth the strength necessary for or dinary purposes (see Fig. 8). The set of the tooth may be given fairly well, by a careful hand, by tapping each tooth with a hammer and punch as it lies flat on the end of a hard wood bl«ck, but it is best administered by one of the many good saw sets in use. The width of the set is governed by the softness or sponginess of the wood. Elastic wood such as willow requires a very wide set. Give in no instance inore set than is required to make the saw run easily, as all beyond this demands extra and useless effort, besides wasting the timber.—Farm and Ilome. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. A SMOKELESS fuel called "inassute" is being used on steam rollers in Vienna. The fuel is composed of the liquid resid uum of petroleum refineries. A VALUABLE find of skeletons belong ing to the fourth dynasty was recently made in Egypt. This is the earliest known date of Egyptian remains. To CUT sheet brass chemically the fol lowirg method meets with great success: Make a strong solution of bichloride of mercury in alcohoL With a quill pen, draw a line across the brass where it is to be cut. Let it dry on, and, with t'.ie same pen, draw over this line with nitric acid. The brass may then be broken across like glass cut with a diai mond. As electric device for clearing a track of obstructions is among the new est ideas. It consists of a triangular steel folding frame, over which a net is stretched This is placed on the front of a locomotive, and can be opened at Will, catching the obstruction upon it An additional arrangement Is a scoop to drop on the track. The recent tests were very satisfactory. A DEVICE has been patented in Eng land by which all kinds of wood can be cut into veneers or boards. The logs are cut Into suitable lengths, steamed in a close box through which a current of electricity is sent, and finally placed in a lathe, where they are rotat ed against a knife. The thin sheets are afterward nipped at the edges, and can be used to make barrels, pails, etc., from one stave. Corlooltlo* About B»i It is estimated that bees, in order to collect one pound of honey, must visit and extract all the nectar con tained in 62,000 heads of clover of the average size. This herculean task (for the bees) would necessitate 8,750,000 trips to and from the hive. Wax is a substance secreted by the bee and is analogous to the" fat of the higher ani mals. The wax of a species of bee com mon in Patagonia, Terra del Fnego and other parts of southern South Amer ica and the adjacent islands is a dark blue in color and is said to be more pois onous than arsenic. A hive of 5,000 bees will produce about fifty pounds of honey annually, and will multiply about tenfold in five years. According to latest statistics the total number of hives of bees in the United States and Europe is 7,424,000 and the annuaL prod uct of honey 188,000,000 pounds. An Kleotrical *lj Ontcbm. A certain storekeeper in Richmond, Ind.,wfth some knowledge of electricity and considerable ingenuity in getting up window attractions, recently con structed an electrical fly catcher that Is unique. It consists of a small induction coil, giving about a quarter inch spark, with a couple of cells of battery and a series of fine wires strung on a board, very much as in tlie musical instrument culled the zither. Each alternate wire is connected to a terminal of the coil, and the sliding regulator so adjusted that the spark will not strike across between wires until an unluoky fly alights on the wire, when the project ing body receives u spark and the vic tim takes a header between the wires and leaves the field clear for the next comer. The Acme or fteaium. Playwright—ls her jacting natural? Manager (enthusiastically) —Natural* Why, when she appeared as the dying mother, last ni£ht. a life insurance agent who has her insured for $20,000, and who was in the audience, actually fainted.—Jury. Naught Nanr Come# to Orlof. Hobson—l'm tired of life, you see, and yet if I blew out my brains, don't you know, the world would condemn me as a suicide. Dobson—No; I believe the general verdict would be justifiable homicide.— Epoch. ____________ Somewhat Particular. City Niece (reprovingly)— Why do you put your own kaife in the taitter, Uncle Way back? Uncle Wayback—Why, Eldora, I don't wanter use that there public knife what everybody uses.—Good News. Debts of lloaor. Sweet Sister—What makes you M downhearted to-night? Bad llrotber —Debts of honor. Sweet Sister—Well, why dem't you tell papa? lie never objects to what is honorable. —N. Y. Herald. In Front or the Morton Hoeso. First Actor— Have you heard of th« terrible accident that happened to' Mr. Blank last night? Second Actor—No; what ia it? -My wife eloped with him, IWo* 4a*U-"—Texas N"0.15 RATIONS FOR STOCK. H*> Much Should Be Fed aad What Mud* of Fo«d. How much skall we feed? The ques tion just stated is frequently heard and it deserves a considerate answer. With regard to cattle it may be stated in brief thus: It takes just so much to keep the stock in a good healthy con dition without gainlngapound; if more than this is demanded, extra and bet ter rations must be served Two forks ful of liay and six or eight ears of corn fed at regular times will keep a steer at his weight, but if you want him to grow, to fatten, he ought to have of hay nil that he will eat and the corn besides. It is best, however, to give regularly what will be eaten rath er than to feed lavishly to be trampled under foot The same treatment may be given to a milch cow, no matter whether she ia dry or in milk or coming in milk. It should be remarked here that it is best not to feed a cow about to become fresh with mill feed in order to stimn* late and enlarge the milk production; such treatment is likely to superinduce' the dreaded parturient fever. Forty-' eight hojrs after calving, if the cow: has "cl»a«l" well, it will do to in-' crease t9 feed calculated to increase her milk. Horses that labor should be fed their, grain in regular quantities and at reg ular times. Six quarts of oats three times a day with hay ad libitum is enough for an ordinary-sized horse. Aj fat horse will require less feed and' in condition than a gaunt one. It is well to shake the dust out of grain or hay that Is to be fed. Stock relish it better and will eat more of it One must be very careful in feeding shipstuff (fourth grade flour) because a little too much will act as physic aad will give cattle a backset The careful stock feeder will so man age that the animals will be ready for their meals when they are given them. Have salt within reach of horses and give a small handful to each of the cat tle tvro or three times a week.—St Louis Republic. BLACKBERRY INSECTS. Gall Maker* and Borer* and Bow to os«r Rid of Then. In certain of the blackberry regions, according to Insect Life, a number of insect depredators have been noticed and their habits studied One of the most destructive of these is the red necked blackberry cane borer (Agrilu* mficolht). The eggs of this borer are laid at the base of leaf stalks, or in the buds before starting. When these eggs hatch, the young borer enters the 6talk and makes a corkscrew traok be tween the wood and the bark, continu ing until about the first of August By that time some are half an inch long and reasonably stout while others are less than a Quarter of an inch long and of almost no diameter. Usually the borer makes a spiral path going around the stalk five or six times. When this is the case, galls are formed on the stalks and the location of the borer may be known by them. Some times, however, the borer will make .but two or three turns, and while yet small, will pierce the wood and enter the pith. No gall is then made and the position of the borer cannot then be determined. Raspberries which are Infested with borers form no galls, and it may he that varieties of blackberries supposed to be exempt from borers simply form no galls when attacked. The only remedy is the knife and fire. Cut off the infested shoots below the galls in early spring and burn them. Worn out bushes or patches must be destroyed, as these form breeding places and all efforts to keep the bear ing bushes healthy will likely falL BLACKBEBBY riTHT GALL, a, blackberry gall; b, transverse seottea, skew lac larv» cells sad larvw la position: c, larve; d, chrysalis. Another insect that at times does even more harm than the gall-maker Is the larvae of Bembecia marginal* (Hare). The eggs are laid upon the new canes in August or September, hatch the same autumn, and bore into the cane a short distance above the ground. In July of the following year they leave this cane and enter one of the new growth and eat around the base, be tween thi wood and bark, causing the shoots to wilt In August the Ism, which Is about an inch long, white, with a brown head, pupates. As this insect destroys two years' growth. It is quite important to keep It in check. Cut the shoots, as they wilt, close to the crown, and burn the larv« con tained therein. Barrio* Tomatoes. Bagging tomatoes was an experiment the past season which gave excellent resnlts. The fruit ripened ten days earlier than that which was not bagged. A curious result was that while bag ging grapes retarded the period of ripening, the bagging of tomatoes had the opposite effect Tomatoes that were bagged also ripened more com pletely around the stems. Bagging is done by simply pinning paper bags over the young fruit IT IS not necessary to feed the breed ing turkeys so as to keep them fat: v*hat is best is to keep them in h good thrifty condition Not a Winter GlrL The lover'* heart la fall of woe, He hsrkened to her vow; She loved him six short month* sffo, That's why she doesn't sow. COMPETITION. Little Tot (tugplng away at her papa'a leg)—Dimme dime, papa! Her Papa—Why, bless youl what for, child? Little Tot—l heard brower George toll sister Tillie'at he pulled you* leg for five dollars last night I'll do It for less *n that;— Puck. j