VOL. XXIX. EVERYBODY will tell you that Ritter <te Ralston's wraps are the best made and the best fitting wraps in the market, and it you want muslin underwear that at Ritter & Ralston's you can secure full size o-arments, well-made and at about the' © same cost as the material. But to cut the story short, it a well known fact that you CPJ get all kinds of dry goods, carpets, wraps, furnishings and trimmings at the most satisfactory prices at RITTER & RALSTON'S HUSELTON'S SH OES! f > Worth Looking 1, t Into. v«v " Our Boots and Shoes are rnakintr an "on the sands of time." „ . . ...... _ We help rur customers to make their • 'i walk in life easy hy fining them with -,/ Shoes that fit their feet comfortably, 'j % We pay special attention to this, as no Boot or Shoe will wear well that doe* not fti properly. Thim m iiuo tr»ult nl >iiiii*.iM lite witliat toere ir, br 111 flcr.i A.II oar fir m4«tt r. 11 ;»rjt iM j >llr \ 1 all hi •'« i 1 *-«n m well a* qaility of nt >.;k. »f,». Wo kwp tin kia i t'lit urill fi •, 0» □ ''»**. 1»' / 111 v li*. v 1 knj th-? best At the lowest pricaa. We d »a'i krt old, old chestnut, but am d»s iy <"r> biv I\[j 1 lim 4i ■ S1 >» 1 SI 00 th»t cuoQQt bd m-itahe'i-*icbnr fir S r >rlt v v>i r . *Mif •>' iir L*ii«M entire line frou f 1.25, $1 50. si.o). $2 r »). ill $Mi ul 11 •s».')» and $4 50. Don't you get tired of s»ni felliv* il» a< r < they My giorU ~r# beiaf 3lia{httr4l v. *ir >*i * * 1 •> i 1 11 ■ ; '.it this or thit Bits B»»t h -nlli 1 r v -. ji )>y.• 1«J 1 > • t 1 •< * jut one of in tbiufj, iti'.luf iljt? oili 1 >* • i 11' 1• 1 • 11 1; th>* truth, recollect thes 4 lib >r il f-tll >'V <'l > i'~, I> t < iu nil". r»il' i-< nor h»pj dear at the low p-icei ovo*l ifu* jr 11 so f i l au I n m »vji* 11 v after yon wear them It seems useless to quote a 1 >nj lut jf o*i m » 1 w > 1 ;1 1 Ir, j 11 j * unles' yon see the go}ds, bat if r>>i Witt tb* bt*!, B i.*-i ') > > < 1 Sl') > >«« 1 t» 5 yoa «?er saw yon can get it here, a Mm'-» 8 > >t -it $1 50 'Hid I*< i'-» Si ie< at 25, 50 and 75 cts , Boy's fine Shoes *t 85 on., thus **■.> no humbug to pull you in. neither are they sold at so oghts onr ths do^av Hare a lot Misses Rubbers at 10 cts. a pair and thsr are not w »rtb 30 eta. either, recollect we btre the largest sto:k to select from, bist g>ids and lowest prices, we don't bvHle in? old jobs, sold chiao on accmnt of some imperfections, bat solid, new and desirable liaes-it r.he lowist pi*ic*. B. O. HUBELTON, - - - 102 N. MAIM ST., BUTLKS PA Better Late Than Never. ONLY A FEW DAYS MORE AND Bickers Great Odd and End Sale Will Close. The Attention of Shrewd Cash Buyers is Called to this ad. The Following Goods Must Be Sold At Once 180 pairs Ladies' Fine Doogob. Button Shoes $1 00. 260 " " " Grains " '• 90 c-nts 280 " " " Gaiters - - 50 " 210 " " " Foxed Gaiters - 60 " 240 " " " Grain Slippers - - 50 '• 190 " " Oil Grain Shoes - 75 " 120 " Old Ladies' Fine Shoes - - SI.OO. 410 " Ladies' Brussell Slippers - - 25 ceuts. 20 Cases of Ladies' Fine Kid Walking Shoes T ppad 75 ce' ts The above mentioned Goods are at Half Prices. Read on, Dear Readers, Read on. 320 pairs Men's Fine BolT Congress Shoes at sl.lO. 290 " " " A Calf Lace Shoes Tipped 90 380 " •* Working Shoes (former price 1.25) 85. 310 " " French Calf and Kangaroo Shoes $2.00. 290 " Boys' Sue Lace Shoes 3to 5 - $1 00. 600 *' •• Working " " 1 85. 240 " Youths' Fine Button Shoes high cut 75. Men's and Ladies' Cloth Slippers at Your own Price. 410 pairs Children's Spring heel bhoes at 40. 390 " " fancy tip Shoes at 35. 520 " " plain Shoes - 25. 120 " Misaea' fine Grain Button Shoes 85. These Goods are All Warranted to be perfect in every respect and they are only «old a: prices named on them to make room for new goods, if you want to get -some footwear cheap, take in this Sale. ifew Sprind Goods Arriving almost every day, and too much cannot be said in praise of them; ask to see our line oi Walking Shoes and Slippers, and also our line of children's fancy Walking Shoes in Red and Black. A beautiful line of Ladies' White Kid Slippers very cheap, don'l boy any Shoes until you have looked over my stodt and learned prices. Bhoea were never cheaper than they are now. Misses' Rubbers Free of Charge for 10 daya I will give a pair of Misses' Rubbers any Size from 11 to 2 free of charge with every purchase of *1 .25; and with every pair of Ladies' Bhoes from $2.50 np, 1 will give a pair of Ladles' Rubbers Free of Charge- Remember this offer holds good for 10 days only and if you wani rubbers for nothing, jou must get here on or before the expiration of this time. ■RMKy Remember The Place, JOHN BICKEL. BUTLER, - -- -- -- -- PENN'A All Kinds of Job Work done at the "Citizen" Office. THE- BUTLER CITIZEN. MRS. W. J Is the wtfe of one of the best known phar macists In New naven, doing business at 141 Dlxwell Ave., and ex-presldentof the Connec ticut Pharmaceutical Association. He says: "My wife was for several years 111 bad health, due to A complication of disorders. Friends persuaded Iter to take Hood's Suraa parllla; she took 0 or 8 bottles and Is cer tainly a great deal better since, hi every way." Mrs. Martha Reed of 1835 Kamsey street, Baltimore, Md., voluntarily says: " For over 2 years I suffered with a Complication of Diseases Ull the summer found me a confirmed Invalid, blood poor, appetite gone, bowels out of order, and I was rai«rroble in mind nn.i t»«dy. t read of such wonderful cure? per formed by Hood's Sirsaparilla that, at last. I thought I would try a bottle, as, If It didn't make me better. It could not make mo worse. It did mako me better, and on my third bottle I found myself almost A New Woman I will gladly convince any lady, as I h&vs iroved to myself, that purifying aud eurlch .ng the blood, which Hood's Sarsaparllla does ) perfection, Is the best Co«iitati«nal ( rcatmrnt, and ill many cases, does away th all f.»cal Treatment in the many dls -- es with which women are afflicted." Try It. HOOD'S Sarsapar;.la is es pecially adapted For Ladies -.id will cure difficulties peculiar to the sei. N. B. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparllla. HOOD'B PIL L 8 cure liter ilia, constipation .liousneflfl, Jaundice, flick lit-adflche, tndlgflitiuu. c. ryiUdrniKliti. Prli e cwtl. PROFESSIONAL < AKI)>. • —* OsEPII W MILLER, M. D Physiciati and Surgeon, office and residence at 338 . Main St. Bntler. fi. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, IST K. Wayne St., office hours. 10 to 12 M. and I 0 3 P.M. L. M. REINSEL, VI. D , PHYSICIAN' AND SCKUKON. Office and residence at 127 E. Cunningham Si L BLACK, PHYSICIAN AND 9UROKON, <ew Troutman Building. Butler, l'a. K. N. LEAKE. M. I). J. K MANN. M. I Specialties: Specialties: Gynaecology and Sue- Eye. Ear. Nose all gery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G- M ZIMMERMAN. enYStCIAN AND SUROKON. Jitioe al No. 4fi, s. Main street, over Frank :o's I>> iig Store. Butler. Pa. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. No. 22 East Jefferson St., Bi tier. Pa. V. McALPINE, Denlis-t, s now permanently located at 120 South Mai Street Butler. Pa., in room* formerly o ei-.p!- My l)r. rt'aldron. l)K. S A.JO! NSTON il- fc I'l ST. - - BUTLER. r> Coli Killing Painless K<'r -iii of T. -c■ iud -\rtitii i li reetu without pi i ••- i sih* • -.it, MttOUS OXlde or VlfA'lzei All CT t oca \nsesthetie* office o er Millers Grocery ' .ist of l.uw> HoUae. Otlice closed tVediiesdu}* ami I'ltuisd i J. DONALDSON, r;onl i. butler, Fenn'a. Artificial Teeth Inserted n tlie iiilist •\ed plan. Odd billing ■ special!}. I >' '•r Sen a u IN' loi hmg S' or". < h. L. IV: eg UIS lO' AMI si k« l-.i >»u, umi k KKAK Diamond ITIUK. <' A. B. . VIcKARLAND. Atl'v at Law anil Nut-iry Public- nice iit - >umoud St —oppwlte tile court UOUN • •ad tloor. H. Q. WAI K;. R, uUer, l'.t. J M. PAIMER, Atlorney-at-Law. oflice—Between I'ostolllce ami Diamond, Hu ler. Pa. A. T. SCO I T, ATTO UN EV-AT- LAW. Office at No. 8, South Diamond. B itler. Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATIOKNEV AT LAW. Office second floor. Anderson K1 k. Main St near Court House, Butler, Pa. J. W HUTCHISON, attokney at law. Office on second floor of the 11 ust'lton block. Diamond, Butler, Pa.. Koom No. 1. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law. Office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St., Butler. Pa. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at law and Heal Estate Aireul. <» 'ce rear of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north sld if Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Vttorney-at-law. Office on second floor o' Anderson building, near Court House, liutler Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'v at Law—office on South sldejof Diamond Butler. Pa. G. D. HARVEY, Contractor and builder in brick work, grate and m intel setting and all kinds of brick-laving aspeclalty. Also dealer in bane) lime. Warn pum loo.»e lime, cements. National, fori lam' and all best grades In the market. Calcined plaster, plaster hair. King's cement, fli* brick tile, wlilie sand and river sand. Main olll'-e 31* N. M 'lu street, and all orders left at ware house Win IWwflv* prompt delivery. Terms resgtmatfre. HIS LAST TRICK. Why Tod and His Mother Left the Circus. Everything had seemed to come tc Ted by instinct until he was taught the great "ring trick." He had been born in the circus, and long before he could walk was used to riding round and round the ring on the "learned pony," swinging his bare legs defiantly and crowing with g'.ee every time he passed the starting post He climbed ladders and poles, holding on by his chubby little bauds, as soon as he could toddle alone, and crept into risky places where, as the whole troupe used to say, watching him with joy and pride, he was obliged to "hang on by his eye lids." When he was five years old he used to perform regularly with old Renny, the famous •'bareback rider," in the "wild Indian" act. All the glitter, color, stir, life of the circus was the joy of the youngster's existence. He was so used to the sight of expert riders and acrobats going through their parts he hail no thought of any possi ble danger attending their exploits, and all that others could do he felt he could do and longed to do. llis father had been the wonderful rider, Llewellcn, killed, unluckily, by a kick fron his favorite horse's hoof just as hi carelessly stopped to feel the fet lock. That was when Ted was but two years old, and Llewellcn had been so much beloved that the company adopted the. boy. as it were, and took pride irt his cleverness anil promise, for there could l>e no doubt that nature had given him the true eye, the steady liL-ad, the indomitable nerve and the quick sense of the laws of balance, which are needed by a man whose pro fession it is to dangle 'twist heaven and earth. His mother was a farmer's daughter, who had made a romantic match by running away with the handsome Llcwellen. She had re mained in the company after her hus band's early death as a sort of "ward robe woman." It was she who refur bished the old costumes, braiding thein with tinsel, and sewing on fresh spangles; she regilded and restarred golden crowns, and added fresh skirts to the airy exuberance of the circus queens. She was called Mrs. Llewel lcn. and she and her boy lived in a small compartment of the great prop erty vail, which, when the show moved from town to town, was drawn l>y six white horses. Few experiences pleased Ted better than this sort of royal progress, which, in spite of its grand eur. was extremely convenient, since his mother could cook their meals or go on with her sewing while they were in motion, and Ted could eat his bread and butter while he nodded and waved to the boys gathered at every corner to welcome the splendid pro cession. Ted had learned to read from the great, tlariug hand-bills: "Greatest Show in the Universe," "The Un cqualed and .Matchless Troupe," etc., and his heart had thrilled with a sud den conviction of his own preeminence when he spelled out "Master Edward Llewellen. the Remarkable Infant Rider and Acrobat." Rut, after all, his pride was in the fact of his belong ing to the circus, and not in himself. For all the members of the troupe were so interesting, so superior. There was old Renny—not that he was old, but so "called to distinguish him from young Renny, the lion tamer. Actual ly, there was nothing that old Renny could not do; it was he who performed tht*famous country-bumpkin trick, at which Ted was never tired of gazing; in the first place mounting the horse on the wrong side and holding on by the mane as if he were going to fall off; then, after committing every pos sible blunder, suddenly showing his real powers and going through a scries of dazzling transformations until he emerged the inimitable Renny, the king of the circus. Then there was the clown, a great friend of Ted's; a quiet, melancholy fellow who played the banjo, and the lady riders, chief of whom were Mrs. Rill and Miss Fanny, rival queens of the circus. All were so accomplished, so splendid in their at tire (at least on oecasions) and BO kind and tender to Ted it was little wonder if he thought it the finest life in the world. At times when his mother sighed over her work it disturbed him to think that she was not thoroughly happy and contented, but no doubt, he said to himself, she was thinking about his father. Still, much as Ted delighted in the excitements of his life, the climbing, vaulting, balancing, and above all the riding when he leaned forward "drink ing in the wind of his own speed," he was happiest on Sundays, when it seemed to him in the sudden hush as if the very heart of the world had stopped beating. 1 h6n in bad weather he and his mother could shut themselves up in their own little nest, or if it were fiue were free to wander outside the town into the fields. It-was only at such times that his mother really talked, but alone with her boy she would string out stories about the old farm where she had spent her happy, free girlhood. Ted heard about the old house with its pent-roof and gables; the well by its side, with its long sweep, which moved with a mournful, musical creak when the bucket was lowered. He was used to lions and tigers, aud there was satisfaction in the descriptions of the soit-eyed oxt-n and cows—all the tender, patient creatures of the farm, besides the fierce turkey gobblers, hens and fle.ffy downy chickens. Close by the farm ran a little river, where the geese aud ducks paddled, and on the other side was the wood, where there were always rustles and murmurs, where nuts pattered down in the au tumn, and squirrels whisked their tails and chattered in defiance of the In truders who poached oil their winter stores. The garden and the orchard, too, were something to hear about Ted knew every flower which grew iu the borders, and his mouth watered at the account of the apples, white and red, which ripened on the hillside. It is a great deal to know as much about the world as Ted did, so he used to teU old Renny about the farm which was to him such a wonderful fairy tale. "Pity, now, your mother couldn't go home and take you to see her folks," said Renny. "Go home aud take me?" said Ted. "Why, could she?" "Why not?" said Renny. This new and startling idea dawning on Ted's mind took his breath away. "Mother," he cried, running to her, "Why don't you take me down to sea grandfather and irrandmother and the flowers and th« apples?" "Ah. why not?" burst out the home sick woman, with a bitter cry. "Re cause I gave that all up when 1 ran away with your father. Rccause they wouldn't speak to mc; no, not if I went down on my knees to them." "Why wouldn't they speak to you?" said Ted, aghast "Because I belong to a circus," she replied. Ted comprehended the pain behind his mother's words, although he did not understand the words themselves. Ho . was, indeed, really amazed that any body should not be proud to know the distinguished people he was used to. But be realized now that the reason that his mother sighed sometimes was that she felt shut out from the old para- j dise, and he began to sigh too. Per haps lie was tired; perhaps he had, in his energy, gone a little bej-ond his childish strength, but ha began to feel freUed by the noise of the circus ■»nd a (.'yriouj IromeSjqltnegy^gt^Vii^ BUTLER, FHII3A.Y, APHIL 1 1 Hi>■>. mm tor me wmsper ot tne lorest, me early morning rush of the birds, and sight of animals not trained and kept in cages, but playing about the fields. He longed to climb the hill and meet the wind roady t<jbv!ffet him when he reached the top, and to dabble his feet in the cool stream where his mother's brothers used to swim on summer afternoons The season was hot, and on nights when the animals were restless, when the lions roared and lashed the bars with their tails and the tigers, snarling, paced their cages, and the hyenas yelled, a id the elephants trumpeted, and the horses, frightened, snorted and stamped in their stalls, Ted could not sleep- There was no air to breathe and the many scouts made him loDg for the 6elds of clover and the garden with its bed of mignonette. vMotlicr," he burst out, "why don't thev like the circus?" "Who?" said his mother, startled. She sat late on her sewing as usual; but she had supposed the boy was fast asleep. "Why, grand father and grandmother and the rest of them." "Some people don't like a circus, Ted," she said, gently. "It's just a feeling." "Rut it's the greatest show on earth." "I know it's a great thing in ita way," said Mrs. Llcwellen, "but you see, Ted, my family arc quiet people and their way is different. I suppose it is partly the tights and the spangles and the crowns, the gaudy make-be lieve, which made father feel tha-t noth ing is modest and honest and real about anybody who belongs to a circus. Rut if father knew old Renny, if lie knew him as you and I do, ho would say he was a good man. And if he knew how everybody had to work, to go over every part again and again, he would see that no good performers could be dissipated or lazy." It was just at this time that Ted was learning the "ring trick," and certain ly there was plenty of hard work about that It was, as we have said, the first thing that Ted did not take to by natural instinct, as a duck to water. Never before had he shrunk back from what he was bidden to do, giving way to a fit of trembling. As old Renny said, the new trick was no harder than the trapeze, and Ted liked of all things to go flying from rope to rope to the topmost ring, loving the idea that the hearts of the spectators sank into their boots at the conviction that he was in danger. Now he suffered nameless ter rors; he felt clumiy. he had lost faith in himself. The truth was, up to the present he had gone on doing every thing that came in his way without a thought of what might have happened if he failed. Now be was like a som nambulist who awakens to find himself in a position of danger. It was as if he had to learn his tricks all over again, gaining again pVce by piece by hard trial and proof instead of heretofore swiftly and unerringly by instinct Old Benny was patient and tender with the little fellow. "All you have to do is to catch bold of the ring and turn round on it," said he. "You know all the while there is a cushion underneath you and that if you were to fall you would not be hurt" "I shan't fall," said Ted, "but 1 don't like it" "You have not got used to it, and it's there the fun comes in," said Renny. "You never had a stumble yet, not even a balk; you're like.a bird" Ted hung his head and confessed to himself that he no longer felt like a bird He was so weary. There was a gray haze over all tiiis narrow little world of his, and each day it settled closer and closer. He felt dull, inert, as if he longed to sleep; at least to sit down aimlessly and dream wide-awake about the hill and the river, aud the cool, quiet nights in the old place. "1 myself have hated to do things that I grew mighty proud of when I got at the knack of them," said Renny. "Come now, try again, Ted" Ted braced himself up and went through the rehearsal, but when it was over he burst out crying and sat down all in a trerable. "It's a safe sign to be a little afraid," said Mrs. Rill. "It isn't the tricks one is afraid of that one trips in, but those one feels too sure of." They all flattered and encouraged hiin, and Ted felt ashaftied of his faint heartedness. A regular salary was promised liim by the manager as soon as he made a success of the ring trick, and this was what he and his mother had been looking forward to ever since he was ten years old. It was odd how he disliked the ring trick, when it was simply a matter of swinging himself up to the top of a high, tall framework on rings which hung on horizontal bars. The sup ports below were twelve feet apart, but met with another transom beam and ring on the apex. The way was to catch the lower ring, swing round on it, then with the impetus gained to leap the gap, seize the opposite ring a little higher up, and so on from right and left and left and right to the top ring and down again. It was a pretty feat, and, perhaps, no harder than any other of the flying tricks, but it needed a clear head, and the trouble was that Ted had got into a dreamy mood. He was so homesick nowadays for the farm and for the different life. He liked better to brood over the idea of the bees humming over the flower beds and the doves and martens calling for the cows than to give his whole heart and mind to the actual things he saw aud touched. However, practice makes perfect, and by the time the new season opened in Uriglittown Ted had mastered the ring trick. There was a famous pro gramme, and Ted had six different parts; in the Indian act the buffalo hunt, the chariot race and so on finally to the wonderful ring trick now ex hibited for the first time. The excite ment was good for Ted. The dull, weary feelings he had suffered from of late vanished, his blood warmed to his wish, he liked the mad gallop, he felt the joy of his own youth and strength, and was ready to take wings and float in air. The tent was packed with ad miring spectators, and all the per formers were In high spirits. The ring master and clown cracked fresh jokes, at which even the membersof the com pany could laugh. The horses went like the wind, the performing dogs and elephants and bears all seemed singu larly intelligent, and altogether it was one of the great days of the greatest show in the universe, and.the "ring trick 4 ' was to be the grand climax. "All right!" said old Renny to Ted as the little fellow ran out of the dress ing-tent In scarlet tights and cap. "All right, on deck," said Ted. " Nimbleity, nimbledy, up 1 go. The sky above and the earth below." He stood for a moment measuring the supports and frames with a know ing glance, then with' a bound caught the lowest ring, spun round, and light as a squirrel leaped to the opposite one and thus zigzagging mounted the up per ring. Here, just to rest and steady himself, he swung round twice, then reversed before he should begin the descent He liked it up there. A cool breath of air fresh ened him. The middle flap of the tent was open for the sake of ventilation and light, and as he swung he caught a glimpse of the sky, dotted with tender, fleecy little clouds, like sheep in a pasture, as his mother had once said His thoughts wandered to the farm for a minute, and he suddenly remembered what he had to do; yes, he bad to reverse. He quite forgot that ho had already reversed What was this? Wfcere W as the ring? How iILU It \\£gf waajlf gave u sharp cry'.' What was that roar? Not of wild beasts, but of men and women. Oh! that crash—the end of the world must have couie. "I'm not hurt." said Ted. "really. I'm not!" Then he fainted away, and w*s car ried out in old Benny's arms. Word was passed round that the boy was not hurt, and the show went on to its close, although all the performers were flur ried and everything went badly Ted had broken no bones, strange to say; he had fallen on the cushion; yet somehow he was hurt ami badly hurt Nobody quite know why they were afraid it was his back. Days came and went and he lay on his little bed. hold ing his mother's hand "I couldn't get up to-day," he would mutter in alarm when anybody came near him; "hut I'm getting rested, and perhaps by to-morrow —" He was so used to playing his part that he was ashamed thus to lie and eat the bread of idleness, ilut he and old Renny used to plan the wonderful feats he would accomplish as soon as he got well. Vet it was soon under stood that he would never regain his old powers. "YOJ see," the doctor said, "he is shattered. His age is in his favor, and if he could have a good home in the country —" "He shall have a home iu the coun try," said old Benny, and he did not lose an hour. lie set off to Mrs. Llewellen's old home, he saw her fa ther and mother and pleadc I her ami Ted's case with them, but he did not need to plead long Ted got his first glimpse of the house and the river and the road within a week. The sight of it brought the color to his cheek and the light to his eye. "Why, mother," ho cried, raising himself up. "It pa : 'l It paid t<> have the fall. Perhaps we couldn't have come home if I hadn't been laid up." —Ellen Olney Kirk, in St. Louis Re public. FEELING IN THE BONES. They Are KitmiOol with Drllula Nerve* S«nti!>lo to Kfery Injury. People usually imagine that their bones are of solid mineral construction, without any feeling in them. No one who has ever had a leg or an arm cut off is likely to indulge in such a mis taken notion. Comparatively speak ing, little pain is felt when the flesh is being cut through, but when the bone is attacked by the saw. oh, myt You see, as a matter of fact, there are blood-vessels and nerves inside the bones just as there arc outside. Any one who ha i purchased a beefsteak at the market knows about the marrow in the bone. It is the same with other animals than the bullock, including human beings. Through the marrow run the nerves and blood-vessels, en tering the bones from the flesh with out by little holes, which jou can see for yourself any time by examining a skeleton, or part of one When the disease called rheumatism, which no physician understands, affects the nerves within the bones, no way has been discovered for treating it success fully. It does not do to smile when a person says that he feels a thing in his bones. Pearson's Weekly. V ratal IlMpane. A celebrated general once Inquired ol one of his soldiers the cause of his broth er's death. "My brother died, sir," replied the soldier, "because he had nothing to do." "Well, my man," said the general, "thnt is reason enough to kill the great est general of us all!" —Harper's Yoitng People Xi Wonder. He breathed a son?; Into the air, There was a riot thin and there; The gallery pods yelled loud and long. For "In the Gloam,;:g' was the song —Puck An Kx]>lanatiou. Col. Yerger—l believe I am getting the dropsy. Judge Peterby—Why. what put that idea in your head? "I got weighed to-day, and I weighed thsee hundred pounds." "Great St. (Jeorgc' where did you get weighed'.'" "Around ut a coal yard." "Calm yourself Your weight is ex actly one hundred and fifty pounds." Texas Siftings The Correct \V..y of Tutting It. Squildig—l hear you've had the grip, old fellow. MeSwilligen (shaking his head) —It's a mistake. "Haven't you been sick for a c»>uple of weeks?" "Yes; very sick." "Isut it wasn't the grip you had, then?" "No; the grip had me."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. His Skeleton. Featherstone —Do yon believe in ghosts? Travel's— Well, for years I have been living in a haunted house. Featherstone —You don't tell me? Who is it haunted by? Travers —Hy my tailor. —Clothier and Furnisher. A liunrli of Key*. Tom Collins - The singing of the Lonely villa choir reminds me of an ex perience I had, the other night, return ing from the elub. "What was it?" "It took me about half an hour tc strike the right key."—Puck. Somewhat Interested. Pious Jake (with long drawn face)— Are you Interested. Miss Cora, in the heathen? Cora (frankly)— Yes, Jakt, always; and if I can be of any service to you let me know early some morning —N. Y. Herald. A State of Thins:*. The Tweezer—llow are jou fixed? The Hairspring-—l'm in rather % rockv state. The Tweezer —Broke? The Hairspring—No, but pretty badly bent. —Jewelers' Circular. A Slight Coolnena. Shiwer —This is one of those masonio rooms, isn't it? Mrs. Defrees— What do you mean, sir? Shiwer —It never pets above thirty three degrees.—Puck. (ioo<l Investment. Boggs—That watch has been a mighty good-investment. Foggs—How so? Boggs—l never let anyone have it yet who didn't get twelve per cent a month out of it. —N Y. Herald. ... . Hiirht ll« Wor*e. Mother (wearily) lt's perfectly abominable! With all my watching I can't keep Tommy eh an He's the dirtiest boy alive. Father (proudly)— That's «o He's no dude. —Good News. Intuition. Fangle—What sort of a dress-was that Mrs. Snooper wore to-night? . Mrs. Fangle—Demi-train. "That's precisely what Cumpo said when he. trod on it, but how did be know its name?"—N Y Sun. A Siar on tho Profession. Gus De Suiitb —I hear that Filkiii# •inking slowly Mrs. O'Rafferty— Well, you couldn't expect him to sink rapidly He's had no doctor, so far. —Texas tiiftings. How N*tur#» Ap;>ortion». "He hardly seems bright enough to run .1 paper " "Oh, pshaw! h* doesu't run tt> —1»« owns it" —Puck. ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. LIGHT travel* ISH.s«w toilet in a sec ond HOT water cannot lie raiwJ to any considerable hei,jht by aiutina TUK ui> an ..nnuul t« niperature of th« earth ts fifty degret - Fahrenheit; the average rainfall K thirty-si'* inches. Ir i» interesting tn learn from a scientist who likes to delve into the minute that a quart of milk may coo tain as many i» oi*).o(iii.lWO l.aeteria. WHITT IS a onion of all the colors, or of two c> •mpieui- uta.-y o It!is a negation of color tiray. produced by n mixture of black nrnl white, is white deficient In luminosity And yet there are senses in which both black and white may l>e called colors. THE rapidity with which ins»-eta trav el is astoni hiti' i!i ci'iamon !>•«*•»- fly makes six hnndrr- i -.tr.ikes per sec ond when in the aet of onli-iary flight. that number of stroU. - «■.. i-.in:j an .««!- vaneo movement of twenty-five foet- Our best naturalist- sav this can be in creased seven-fold. FOREIGN ARISTOCRACY. Tlir. queen of Italy is a great reader of Engli h novels. THE Grand Duke Paul, of Russia. Is Bo tall that he is obliged to carry his bed with him. as he cannot find one at any public house long < nou_rh to hold all of him Tur. hair dressing of lathes was an expensive affair in the sixteenth cen tury Queen Elizabeth at one time was possessed of no fewer than eighty at tires of false hair. SIR JAMES BACOS, since the death of Admiral J>ir Provo Wallis. is, at th" ar»e of ninety-four, the oldest of the titled classes in England. The oldest titled baronet is Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, who is ninety-two, and Admiral sir Lewis Tobias Jones, the eldest knii'it of the bath, is also ninety-two SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. AKT lonesome? Here is work to be done which requires thought FlfcL the drum and you will hear less noise from it. Is it so with the head? Wot'l.D you be just? Please do not punish a child for a fault learned from yourself. WOULD you loaf awhile? Then here arc the bread pan, molding board, flour, milk, yeast and salt DID your wife look a little bit. just the least little bit, cross this morning? Was the kindling wood fine and dry? Qt'lurriosiM. children aud servants about family affairs is only to lie com pared to the l ; ttle potatoes, called "pig potatoes. " DON'T play off mean tricks on the small boy; he has an i-x ellent memory for injuries as well as for benefits con ferred. In this respect he is like a dog. —Good Housekeeping. FEMININE FANCIES. THE crepe tissue- pa per used in candle shades and in making german favors can be bought by the yard, and these pretty but inexpensive t-ifles may be made at home. "THE DOCTOB'S DAUGHTERS" is the name of an association of forty women in San Francisco, and their mission is to raise funds and distribute them in personal visits to the sick poor. A TEXDEK-UEAISTED Parisian lady has made her pet dog comfortable, in cold weather, by clothing it with an em broidered, fur lined blanket, and deco rating its little legs and feet with shoes and stockings. FOLKS who follow fashion's foibles in almost everything have just learned that a blanket of blue or white flannel is the proper garment for a pet dog while at breakfast They also assert that a dog which wears a collar before noon exhibits ill-breeding. THE WORLD'S FOUR CORNERS. ARABS never eat fish. THE tallest and shortest people in Eu rope, the Norwegians and the Laps, live side by side. THE Egyptian fellah is apparently the worst taxed man in the world. Even on the palm tree, which gives him food and shelter, he pays fifty cents a year. THE natives of Costa Rica not only believe in the mermaids, but pretend to have seen them comb their sea green hair and try the effset of their coquetry on unwary fisherboys. THE people of Rome get their supply of water, which is said to be remark ably pure, from the Appeiinines through an ancient aqueduct that was con structed by their fore l athers. FACTS ABOUT THE U. S. UNCLE SAM has paupers. IT is estimated that at least 550.000,- POO of the government's paper money has been lost or destroyed. Dn. Cvßt'9 Lnsos, of New York, in his article entitled "Do We Eat Too Fast?" publishes figure:, setting forth that the wealth of the United States in* • creased from SUMSU.Otw.OOO to over $30.- 000,000.000 in the decade in which the civil war occurred THE seven wonders of America are classed as follows: Niagara falls. Yel lowstone park. Mammoth cave, the canyons and garden of the gods, Col orado; the giant trees. California; the natural bridge. Virginia, and the j Yosemite valley. IMPERSONAL BREVITIES. BCTLER county, Pa., has a genius who dreams the correct location of oil j wells. 1M Canterbury. N*. 11.. one of the resi dents has a lamp chimney that has been in constant use for twenty-seven years. PORTLAND, Me., is admiring a man who has earri.nl the same jack knife for sixty-three years, resisting all tempta tions to "swap." FIVE experienced miners from the Comstock mines will leave Virginia City, Nev.. very shortly for Peru to help develop the mines of that country All their expenses in Peru arc to be paid, and they are to receive $125 a n.onth each A "SMALL AJiU MBit." iMiWii Thejr Were labile s»r?4»t». stene—Broadway Two Irishmen j scraping and cleaning up the street. "McGinty. it looks loike rain."' "Let's sit down, Mike. Bejabers it might rain and we'd be doin' this worrnk for nothing."—Texas Slftings. A (irate D*lio<|a«ucy- Mrs. Ufcks —Dick* was tried to-day. found guilty, and I bad to give him a sound thrashing Hicks -What was the charge? Mis. Dicks—Trespassing upon my I —N- Y- Herald. A WOHO ABOUT OATS. r**t»OTl]r wm! f«4 mm Pm* tW Inp CM H» 'I ut. «• r»« The pritM-1 p*l profit in frnwiif at* is for feed. Takingr ttaa ttrrafp iitrf mati Uk! *?rn(t price w twa Ifcn>lw4 ready tor market th«ry cmm hanl'T ha coovilrrtd a profitable crop to |M» to •ell Hat they arr a tbort rrop aad properly rnaaa(r<! make a r>**t feed f<>r all kinds of stock. >»1 ran be <«nt to g- ■«! advantage in rtmtaf oat a regular «v»t*m u4 r>*ation Two thing* un- n- cessnry ia(Towm( then. Ot- m to fret them »-e4ed i»rt| and the J* her kto haw the »o»l to a e>»«l aoodit t. I'.y tnain; rarly on well-prepared soli thcr ret a pxid start tn|row and thm'* th>- soil. to that Ihey are «K>t aiffrtwl ao much by the hot. dry weather mm the later «ma At the »■( time there i* no advantage in soariag tba wj * In-u the sod is tuu to a >rk readier; thai ix «tola it ». very «t dr* able to wit car y it h not (ooil o .tn agi-ment to nm 1 them la liar* every thing In readiness and an soon an the aoil can he worked posh the M«lmr. with the ilisc harrow or raltirator to ful'ow the «ower they ran !« worked into the soil rerr rapid y It it nearly always best to use the apike-tont t> har row to finish the work. <>ats irrow near the surface au-1 it is important to hare the soil Well worked Two baskets per acre is an aserwra quantity to now per acre, lot it la near ly always heat to sow more rather tiiM less, the quantity 1m rig deter m .ed by the fertility and mmlit .« o' tto v»il—less see<l Unit n cesaarr i» a rich. thoroughly-prepared s»nl t ia;> ia n thin or illy -prepare! one. The oat lonse has »o aer'..-w*ly <lan»- aged the crop in many ln«aii:ia* dti'mj the past two seasons that it has not been a paying one. Vat e aurally It was the oats «own la c i rather thin land th&t suffered ih r •> * Oal< -nil rliivfr u>« t •_* tbrr ms't» au< - «.i puturc lur ix T ...it is '<fv« a good plan l«» Ml* bj: ■ or th.s pur- I per, especially wLen . *r«* I. not i good pasture on th«- latui iiiat«a W used to advantage a« a h*v '.astare. — !*. Loot* Cfpnblif. THE CAUSE OF FAILURE. larmi ie" SktkMh hi tta» **-»»- a;r.ur:il of I Iff * Ifrk. Tin*re han uitl .«iaj among tha farmers i»f the west Ibal 'I oJurn poiion tl»c land they a!t»ni[t to ctili Tat..*." lunlhiT »i>Pl< a MHL BO mat ter l»ow fertile at tl»e beg.nainir. soon btcniDi' iin pocer.alied aad ifortliiem when su : j ctnl to that superficial 'Vr;t known as • wjtiaw farm ing." We are led to recall this -.aj ia;r from the s'.at m- it. that are oc» Muiiatlji In.ujrht fomu.il to tiic effect that "Wooded stiHl'i ia >o-aod hand* fade I to make as good ga.n aa •scrubs," ar.d lout hint money." etc.. etc. W hat tbe Mjnan is to (food land so is the incompetent breeder or feeder to good live stock—both "piaen" UM object of tbeir untutored devotions. And yet because Mrs. Lo haa not been a success aa a farmer shall it be itid that good or succcsaful farming ia im possible? llardij. Still an equally senseless argument la conatnntly being used by many of those who deny the value of improved breeds of domestic animals. Successful stock raising la just as much of a specialty aa success ful wheat growing, or successful to bacco culture. One must hare a prac tical knowledge of it aad use coaaoo sense and a reasonable degree dt judgment. This thing of eondemning the whole industry because of the fad ures of people who have not brought sufficient intelligence and practical knowledge to bear is growing weari some. There have been too many "injuns" in the stock business, i. e., people who have cither been ignorant of sound principles of selection and manage ment, or who being informed have tempted fate by following np practices which they should have known must ultimately lead to failure.-—Breeders' Gazette. HOUSE FOR LAYERS. A Convenient and Cssdai Mrwtwv '•* the Foaltry tint liens sometimes do better to have a number of small houses suitable for laying rather than have roosting, feed ing and laying accommodations com bined under one roof. The illustra tion shows a cheaply constructed lay house to be built any site wished. It ia made against the wall of another building wsth a southern aspect o* shelter This keeps it free from severe cutting winds aad snow, also damp rains Nothing but nesting com partments are within and the hens know what is expected St them upon entering The entrance for the hem is at the end. In cold weather it shuts out the cold that leaving a larger opening would involve At night a board on the inside should shut up the inclosure to keep tbe budding warm. Farm and Home. AilranliSM •>' Oaatt Koeds. The principal advantages of good roads arc that larger loads can be car , ried with greater speed, that fanners can market their produce at whatever time they can get the best prices, with out being dependent on tbe weather, and that they can also use tbe roads ia wet weather during the winter and spring. when they cannot plow, thus utilizing their horses when they woud otherwise be idle. Henry Irwin, B. A.. C.E.. Montreal. Can. OATMEAL or rolled oats make a good feed for very vounp chickens. Aa I'arkufMM* Waaw. A female of an uncertain ago waa asked by a census taker. "How old are you, madam?" '•Thirty years," she replied. "That's what you told me iaat cen sus.'' •Well, t am not one of the kind of women who tell one story at one time and another storv another. —Texae J Siftings. % irtlaa of lU-LeeU. Jones—Yes. it is sad indeed. Ever i since his marriage Johnson haa b»-"» steadily going down hill, until BOW his property ia gone and hia wife haa eloped. Smith—Poor John: Ue never did aeem to have any luck in speculation of any kind.—Texaa Sifting* A neat lk« Voteeat. Ous Be Smith—Why ia electricity like our police?. _ Ilustctter McGiania—How should 1 know? I never studied electricity or policemen. Why ia it, anyway? (jus De Smith—Well, yon see. they're both an invisible forva —Tevaa 31ft iags !«.«<«< rnsenac .Husband—SmikeSOß'S wife ia away, and I'm going over there this eveninr to cheer him up Wife— Why don't yon bring him here Husband— Well—er— I'm not fee'in - very wcil. and need a iitt«*s ap 1 YnvHKlf—Y. WpeVly. N'0.23 i<7u*ti7iMO roo—i •m> rw»o «im «ar nam i m—m When a aartaty at ftnaat la gjmim. Ito H«—t tt ikostd an* to :ri-fwaapd to • $i n tei r aai<«Bt '.Am »k*a §rmm m g *trn TW wba toad graaa Ito ta to tfta «*aaa» m wat aMai F«r * tana« Sea tka* to iff* 1 •toeinj -j-g- er ri!arly tW eadaata at food ail. »w erf prr -to* la tow «MHak hat It +e» a»t <*>)»> say aaptoaaMaa '•»"B •»* t" ww nea tfeoM wto» —nip prarftrr tka* fear nmmmm at (rate la a »»rr «*»U r»nt thiay 'mm fear oaaaaa #f ea»-*a- -t r* 'ataa*. an tba «wha anaeantrated * ««1 wbita Ota *mbaia eaunt larr *f -t w—e M fill' a# corn la ahnwt t.traa aaaaaa. awrf fey anac the fill a* • mmtm a# ■»aaara meat the toaiteC naaf aa aaaHp i»iga lat*l No qi»d< tj mi grata. *kMto nf alitt n» eoea, (toaa (a a toarl shoail »*r -~rl n«e |ffi a <fay. aad *toa also lieprarfa apna tka towad to a f »a> eatent, aad »»» a|n<a ladlaMaai kaaa of the kr*nK aa •-imp eat aaora. and mjaire ai«-ee than miann I fr si. hnaa . artta arfhar ibc ®ea*< is also a ■■on 11 alraa d f» ad tno— aa than |pra n toata. la tba bans i-mm aaa >nt Inar aad ataaa daily ' whieh tan? p|. ». tfea *f!l mi (rata mat ha radare i •» lai ball aa tta bone and awat r-oaayaaaato far tka (rain It amaid b* espaaaie fea•ftaf if thin g. aan attention, the fcaas auald anna km 1 unt naar k* aai wnrtfclaaa Afttin? far® a** of tonal par -day f'heae of jjrtin a» *ate of balky VaA aad esti natiac a rH» a Uirae o fha fill »hoold he eedwapd la aeaatoS •ace wt*h the qaaiity • f tka toad. If aa oaa- iof faa hna- iad mmm l la f eaa. it about ! aa>> i d a half nan mm of (rata If tert <• • ■ late ia |) iaa, one of the elaaar shaald only half aa «nn.— of (ra»a Vacate the (rain Is mnr < norearrated tka* the el.Mrer Wed.. no* taiai to at tkaaa yroporti af c-" I'aal bat thrr aa aide tka to raa(kly esti mate how t j Inl Tba has that daaa no* lay *b>a»'f ha fell inly on- haif aa much as th ! ytag baa. aarto* to tba fact t' .t ia a in ■lull *0»l the otkrr -..»t . iru uil Ftnadr THE conn WEEVIL. U.a *— HI For many years in teHMrine f hen had my com ia the Ma aiia n or lean rained tiy the weevils from my ewa e<rper eace in thia Una 1 ■ heal if Judge taal there ia an aaanal laaa a# aver n million of dollara from wee file la Tanaa alone. ConM tha weevil ha readily de itngad aad aataaailiiaii-i »e eonid »tp«r*. a large wpine of corn an It la now. there la a grant deal of truth in tbe aaytng that Kaaaan toads Tesaa. both man an* h*aat I have ■ or r.aaentad with different inaect.e des to pw vent tha ravages of this insect, bat as It ia bard to kilt aty exoeriment* failed uatil laat year Laat fa! l in potting op ay enra I placed two open bottles a# ttMulphre* carbon, four feet apart, an 11 m Soar at the bin. The aovtka at theee holtlae were covered with n layer of ehaeaa cloth, and each bottle wiatd with aa eld broken box Tbe corn waa throwa on these boxes, and the Ma Clad to Ha utmost capacity Tbe result of this experiment waa highly successful: what eearlla warn admit te..l from the fteld warn deetroyed and none further appeared. Tbua. at a eo®t of fifty ceata. with vary tittle trot! Me. I effectually |mawMd a boat Ave hundred bushels of corn agaiaat weevils. Another feature aboat thin experiment is that I bav« noticed neither moose nor rat In tha Ma, nor any traces of them, which waa aat tha case before, for ia preelnae ye— a they. t.*>, hail done great *amaga ta the corn. Let me rreommead to farmers the trial of my n-medy, for I hfl aaeafnd it will be with gratifying rasulta Austin (Tex> Stitwaii A SUCCESSFUL THA*. Row ta C*»<S W Mala aaa Mar l kli>ia nine This trap 1 have aeed with great na> cesa ia trapping weasela, thttnka. rata and minks in their raida after poaltry. It gets them every timet -Maha n box by using two boarda S feet long and I foot wide, aad W« boarda * fret long and I foot wida Csethe two longer bonrds for tbe s*dee aad tha two shorter ones for tha top aad baMna Close the end at A. aad maha a door. W, of lath and trire netting inch aaeah). hinged at t with leather Magna. The alot I> admi's throagh it a an ail a%a eta pie fastened in the bottom heard. A na l will »- ear« the doe* dint Baaae vataacotipi- of nebee at dirt ia tha open spm-e. 1. for oae er aaora steal trips lle:%>n« ti.t:ng the trap ia plaen pat a coaple of t ve chuheaa ia it aad shut tiiem in. I caught a weaeai tha first aight ami a saaak tbe saermA la the one case F ei'verwd tha trap with light dirt, in th • 'ther with chaff. Tha entrance at E :nay be narrowed If wished by a small stake at taah aidn— John E. Marsh, hi Farm aad BMM. How »«• Haag la aaaC The foliowtr gia a ample wag: Ato a sleeper jw tha bam laaa I I -Of - . ■ balf-tneh sopea L - Jo> and C a faaa- I * * bla «h. wVoh J </ rZrsn that there will he room am aaeh aad for the ropes to wtad D D are laeara to which the ropes are tied. Tha ble arts as a w pdlaaa around nhtoh the rapes wind. With this eeatrtaaaaa two men can hang ap tha liaaileet bee van. —IE E i!»mestead Svtn fm»t* arm a IIILI aally aa the farin, as they are not only areeaottve of health but also aia ialiaaakaa aa* eaaily procured itaude of the bnga atties unless frown foe family aaa Gun De SnMth—Toa aaa Imihtog bright and hnpt»y thia iai ralag. llH* hooly. tiilhooly- Yes; I'm oat of dabtat laah Every hill I owed waa outlawed yeatar* dav by the statute of .imitatioaa t tail ron. Uas. a man feala Ulae a maa wfcas he ia Minans with tha warfak—lbaaa Sifttnm- so taw M twa I ".rat H<«pital "^itrgeaa—Wol A ha net-, ssarr to set that man's ana near again? srtorni H aipttal Sorgaoa— WetL 1 should say « W ay. tbe man will to well in a week tf we (bat Lift" Kn.ar tee liifi iilm New Hoarder— Where la roar miithaf. BubbV «aJd she waa ta show me a moat - M.,m wifl he hara aaaa 9to»'a t he »• me meter—fal JJewa »eb'ai»a>a tiaa flaatr-T Traveler (at rati wag dlgiag atat .» How aooa will tha vala condwt •r'* Ccndne-or—ltU start «a tiaw ate. 1 eia t t much apprtHa. —5. T WHS* »y r>» «—jit •* a*wr«sam a IMI si - -own >nlr two weaani marry <om AV« hatfwa
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