VOL. XXIX. JSC as Btatler Fair. The Butler County -A-gricultural A ssoci ation will hold its fifteenth annual exhibition on its grounds in Butler SEPT. 6,7,1 & !,1U Liberal Premiums; an Interesting Race Program for Each Day; Excursion Rates on all Railroads to Butler; Special Pre mium of SIOO for Herd of Seven Head of Either Holsteln Her fords or Durhams. Entries for Horses and Cattle Close Monday Evening, Aug. 29, or one week before the Fair; Music by the Great Western I'and, Etc., Etc. Fo Premium List and other information, address Ira McJunkin, Sec'y. 13 Years Sentence. Twelve years experience for your benefit. For twelve years we hare been in the baggy business and in all that time not a single individual has accused as of misrepresenting the quality of a vehicle sold. It mast be a satisfaction for eyeryone to know that they have a firm that never misrep resents—and that years of experience enables them to know the quality of work they sell. Oar business has increased year by year until it is twice that of any other similar concern in the State, and we feel so good that we have a notion to jump ont of onr 3d story window—but we won't—for now. just before the Fairs we want one great big busy month, and are ready for it. We have the goods and most make prices so as to induce customers to boy quick. Remember we keep everything pertaining to a driving or team outfit. Now look at a few prices: Leather halters 50 cents, team work bridles 90 cents, buggy whips 10 cents, a whole set ef baggy harness $4.75, a fall set of wagon harness, with breeching, for two horses $18; heavy leather fly nets $1.50, wagoa and buggy cushions 75 cents, top baggies $45, two seat spring wagozJ S4O, etc Vehicles of all kiads; harness of all kinds, lap dusters and everything used in connection with a driving and team outfit except the horse, Now don't be backward, come in whether you want to buy or not. Wslk in just as you would into your mother's room—»yoa are just as wel oome. Take a ride on oar new elevator, fret. Now do come. If you don't seed anything oome walking right in and say you don't want to buy but look and you are weloome. If you have a package of any kind yoa can leave it here uotil you are ready to go out of town without charge, our location is central. Remember the place and remember we are the first and only persons Ifho ever had enough energy within themselves and confidence in their folia* citizens to bring down tfee price and depend on increased sales to compensate tbem- We did it. You appreciated it and dealt liberally with 0> sod now we want the crowning month of our life-. Hurry, now come along, get ready for the Fairs and drive thereto in just as good a rig as your neighbor. Respectfully, S. B. MARTIN COURT & CO, S. B. MAKTINCOURT. J. M. LEIGHNER This Is The Lowest Price Ever given on ? Bed Room Suite Solid, Polished OaK, glass 26x30, beveled plate, FOR $23.00, We offer this suite for 30 days only. Our Bed Room Suite for $9 You can't get elsewhere for less than $23 to $25. We don't only offer the above goods at low prices, but anything in our store away down In price. All we ask ydu to do is to examine our stock and you will say as we do—best goods for least money of any FURNITURE store in the country. Campbell & Templeton, 136 N. Main St., - - Butler, Pa. FOR Ti HUMS ILV 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 are Respectfully Invited —"Remember our Repairing Department— 20 years Experience."— THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, i SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. *OO West Cunningham St. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, IST K. \V»>ue St.. omce hours. 10 l» 12 M. and l to a P. M. . _ L. M. REINSEL, M. D , PHYSICIAN AND SITBOEON. Office and residence at 121 E. Cunningham St, L. BLACK, PHTSICIAN AND BIROKON, New Troutmaii Bnlldinff. Butler. I'a. K. N. LEAKK. M. D. J. K- MANN. M. D. Specialties: Specialties Gyna*colO(ry ami Sur- kljc. Ear. None and gery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G M. ZIMMERMAN. raraiciAN AND SUKOEOH. Office at No. *.V S. Main street, over Frank 4 Co s 1)1 UK Store. Butler, Pa. V. McALPIN E, Dentist, Is now located In new and elegant rorniw ad joining his former ones. All kinds or clasp plates and raoderen gold work Ji J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a.J Ar'iiiciat Teeth Inserted tn the latest im pruvetl plan, tiold t'lllluK a specialty. Office— over SchauTa < lothlne Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. Oold KlUinfi rainless Extraction ol Teeth and Artificial Teetl; without I'lates a specialty Nitrous Oxide or Vitalized Air or l-ocal Anaesthetics used. Office over Millers Grocery east of Lowry House. Office closed Wednesdays au.l Thursdejs. C. F. L. McQUISTfON, EMiI.VEEIi AM) SI'BVEYOK, Of fice NEAR DIAMOND. BITLKK. I'a. H. Q. WALKER, Attorney-at-Law-omce in Diamond Block, Butler. Pit. J. M. PAINTER, lAttorney-at-Law. omce—Between rostoffice and Diamond, But. ler, Pa. A. T. SCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. omce at No. 8, South Diamond. Butler, i'a. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATIOKNKYJVr LAW. Office second floor, Anderson B1 k, Malu St., near Court House, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'v at Law—Office on South side of Diamond Butler. Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, ATTOKNEY.-AT LAW. Office 011 second floor of the Huselton block, D aniond, 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 Agent. Of flee rear of L. Z. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond. Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attorney-at-law. Office on second floor of Anderson building, near Court House, Butler, Pa. L 8. McJUNKIN, Insurance and Real Estate Ag't 17 EAST JEFFERSON BT. BIJTI.EH, - I* A, 81 TLER COUNTY Mutual Fire insurance Co. "•ftico Cor. Main & Cunningham P>ts. II 0 HKINEMAN, SECRETARY. DIRECTORS: Alfred Wick. Henderson Oliver, l>r. W. Irvln, James Stephenson, W. W. Black more. N. Weitzel, F. Bowman. D. T. Norris. Geo. Ketterer. «'has. Itebhun, JohnUrohman. John Koenlng. LOYAL S. M'JUNKIN, Agent. STTTL SR, 1? A . DR. JOHNSTON'S IMPROVEMENT IN DENTAL PLAIES. Patented February 25, 1890. f This Improvement ft Jdoes away with the large suction plate in common use. The plates are very small, only about one-eighth to one-fourth the usual W size, and being con structed on true mechanical principles, lit the mouth with perfect accuracy. Any number of teeth can be put in without extracting any good teeth you may have, and no plate in the roof of the mouth. The patent plate Is specially adapts ed to partial lower dentures, since It is we 1- knowu that the dental profession have nothlßg successful to offer In tnat line; and further more . partial lower plates have not nor cannot be successfully made bv any other known method. This is an Important mat - ter when we take lntoV/ cons leratlon that lower ajHCSW teeth a-e as necessary as upper. For further information, call at Imu 111 Cut J«rmoß Street. BI'TLEB, PA. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY OOMPLEXION 18 BETTER. My doctor pa jt It act* gsnt.r on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and 1* a pleasant laxative. This drink U mad# from herbe, and to prepared for use a m easily as to*. It Is called LANE'S MEDICINE All druggists s«ll It at 60c. and 91.00 per package, lluy one to-dar. LANE'S FaMIT.Y MKIHCINEMOVES THE UOWELo EACH VAY. •In order to be health/ this Is necessary' f« : ift LJ ! KUI ' W ■ illii i r.V I ■luSSitf fed "l~ * Ie ''»• 3! CHAPTER VLL THE IBS 13 STOLES. i How really likn a house their rude,'. Mttle old house-boat appeared to the boy who had been lost in the woods and spent the night in a tramp's camp, and to the old man who had passed the! long hours in wandering up and down the lonely road searching for his lost one. What comforts it contained, and with what a delightfully easy motion it glided down the sunlit river. Even Rusty seemed to feel that he was at home, and to recognize the place; for tho moment ho was taken into the cabin ho sprang up on Arthur's bunk and nestled down at its foot, where the boy| had prepared a bed for him two days before. While Uncle Phin was getting ready tho breakfast for which they were all so hungry, Arthur and Rusty, who had, fully recovered his spirits, had a fine game of romps, during which the dog displayed so much intelligence, and performed so many funny tricks, as to oompletely win his young master's b«art. When breakfast was finished Uncle Phin and Arthur sat on the cabin .roof, under a bit of an awning that the form er had contrived, and talked of their ro cent experience, while watching, with the delight of simple natures, the ex quisitely beautiful scenery through which they were drifting. Between them, apparently appreciating it all as much as they, sat Rusty contentedly wagging his tail, the little white tip of whlsh seemed the emblem of perpetual motion. He had evidently transferred all his affection to Arthur, and tho ex pression of his honest eyes as he turned them upon his young master was of love and perfect confidence. This day was but the first of many such, during which the ark, with fre quent stops, drifted down the quiet riv er, ever southward, and, as its occupants fondly hoped, ever getting nearer to the far away home that thoy sought. They always tied up to the bank at night, and every now and then they spent several days in a place, while Uncle Phin sought odd jobs of work by which he might earn a little money for the replenishing of their stock of provisions. At length during one of these stops their dream of continuing to their Jour ney's end in the ark was rudely dispelled by a man for whom Uncle Phin did a job of work. "Get to Richmond or anywhere near there in that craft and by following this river!" he exclaimed with a loud laugh, when the old negro had explained their plans. "Why, if you keep on, this yiver'll take you into the Ohio and the Ohio'll carry you into the Mississippi, and it'll drop you into the Gulf of Mex ico, and then if you keep on. you'll bring up, may be, at the South Pole, but you won't ever make Richmond. Oh no, what you've got to do, is to sell your boat when you reach Pittsburgh, for money enough to carry you in the cars to Richmond, and I don't reckon you'll have any trouble in finding a customer if you don't set too high a price on the old craft." Further inquiry assured them that tho man's words were only too true, and so, when, a few days later, they reached the smoky city, they realized that their pleasant voyaging was over, and that new trials were awaiting them. It was late in a dull November after noon when they moved the ark in tho mouth of a small croek in the outskirts of the city and began to prepare for sup per the very last food remaining in their llender larder. After eating their scanty meal and after Uncle Phin had lighted his pipe they sat down in tho little cabin for a serious discussion of their future plans. As their backs were turned to the wtndow that was nearest the shore, AN EVIL-LOOKING FACE WAS PEEPIN« IN AT THKM. neither Arthur nor Uncle Phin knew that, during this conversation, an evil looking face was peering in at them, and that its owner was an attentive listener to all that they said. Mow, as they looked up, startled by an uneasy growl from Rusty, who had just detected the strangor's presence, and sprang barking toward the window, the face was hastily withdrawn, and ap peared no more. The next morning they cast tho ark loose from its moorings and allowed it to drift a mile or two down past the city water front. At length they reached a piece o i comparative quiet, amid the bewildering numbttf of steamboats, tugs and barges by which they were now sur rounded. It was just below a great bri<??o that spanned the river at this point, and here, after half an hour of great anxiety and hard work, they Anal ly succeeded in making their boat fast to the levee. Then, not knowing what else to do, they waited patiently for some hours in theliopothat a customer would appear and make them an offer for the ark. Rut of all the hurrying throngs who passed the place no one paid the •lightest attention to them. Unole Phi u had just decided that it would be scoessary for him to go ashore and in some way make It known that he had a boat for sale, ytben a stranger came walking briskly toward them and sprang aboard. Growling savagely, Rusty would have flown at the man whom he recognized as the one who had looked Into tne cabin window the evening before, had not Arthur seized and bold him. "Good morning," said the s}ranffer politely. "Pine watch dog you've .Jot there." "Yes," replied Arthur, "he Is; but I sever know him 4o want to bite any body before." "Oh, well,"said the man, "he proba bly Isn't used io city folks; btjt he will get over that. 1 came to ask If this "Of course ltjs," replied tho IxJy, de lightedly: "we havo been hoping some body wfUld come along, who win ted to Buv it. IBTJTLKR, PA.,AUGUST 20, 1892. Then they showed the stranger all | over the boat, explaining to him what an unusually One craft It was, and, be fore long, had told him all he wanted to know of their history and plans. He was a shabbily-dressed man; but they were accustomed to seeing such peo ple, and never for a moment mistrusted him, when he said tfyat he had been look ing for just that kind of a boat, in which to take his family to New Orleans for the winter. They only congratulated each other, on securing a customer so readily, by exchanging sundry signifi cant looks and smiles behind his back. At length he asked their price for the boat, and Uncle Phin, emboldened by his praise of tho craft and evident de sire to possess her, answered that as boats seemed to be in pretty good de mand, he thought this one ought to be worth twenty dollars. "Nonsense!" exclaimed the stranger. "Twenty dollars! Why, she is worth fifty, if she is worth a cent, and I couldn't think of offering any less for her. Kay fifty and we'll call it a bar gain." Was there ever such a generous and honest man? Both Arthur and Uncle Phin thought there never was, as they gladly accepted this magnificent offer, and thanked him fcr it besides. "Now," said the stranger, "business is business, and I should like to take possession of the boat at once; while I presume you are anxious to pursue your journey. If you will just step up-town with mo to my bank, I will pay you the fifty dollars, and on the way I will show you the station of the railroad that goes to Virginia. Then we'll get a team to come down here for your baggage, and you'll be all right." Neither Arthur nor the old negro could think of any particular baggage that they wished to carry with them, unless it was their bedding and Uncle Phin's axe, and they told the stranger so. He said they might think of some thing else after they bad got their money, and that at any rate they had better go up-town with him and secure it at once. Arthur suggested that it might not be safe to leave the boat all alone, and pro posed that Uncle Phin go for the money, while he and Rusty stayed behind to guard it. "Ob, that's all right," said the stranger. "You never knew such hon est folks as live around here. They wouldn't touch any thing that didn't belong to them for the world. Resides I want you both to sign the bill of sale and the receipt for the money." So, after carefully closing che cabin doors and windows, the trusting old man and the boy, ignorant as yet of the world's wickedness, accompanied the plausible stranger up-town. Arthur led Rusty by a bit of rope fastened to the leathern collar Uncle Phin had madefor him, and had some difficulty in keeping him at a safe distance from the stranger, toward whom the dog seemed to have taken tho groateit dlslika. Moved by some impulse that he could not have ex plained, the boy bad also taken his pre cious book from Its shelf at the last moment, and now carried it under his avm. Tho stranger continued to bo very polite and entertaining, as they walked through the crowded streets, and point ed out several places of interest; among others, the railway station from which they were to take the train for Vir ginia. They walked so far that Arthur be gan to grow tired, and was very glad when they at length entered a flno building, above the door-way of which he read the word "Bank" in large let ters. Here both the old man and the boy were awed and bewildered by the imposing appearance of the interior, into which they were ushered. They wondered at the number of desks, at which busy clerks sat writing be hind a high and strong iron grating, and at tho crowds of people who stood in long lines before the little windows in it, or passed hurriedly to and fro. Leading them to a retired cor ner out of the throng, their guide bade them wait there for a few minutes while ho prepared the papers that It would be necessary for them to sign and procured the fifty dollars. Then he mingled with the crowd of men about them and disappeared. For fifteen minutes or so the attention of the old man and tho boy was fully occupied by the novel scenes about them and in keeping Rusty quiet. Then they began to watch anxiously for the stranger's return and to grow somewhat uneasy over his non-appear ance. When half an hour had passed they were thoroughly alarmed, and be gan to walk up and down the crowded space In front of the iron grating, peer ing wistfully into the faces of those wbo filled it, but without seeing him whom they sought. At last a man who had been closely watching their movements for some time stepped briskly up to them, and, laying a hand on Uncle Phin's shoulder, said: "Come, get out of here, old man! I've had my eye on you since you came In, and It's evident that you have no busi ness here." "But, boss, we'se a lookin' fer —" "Yes, I know you are looking for something you won't find here, so olear out, or else I'll have to put you out." There was no use offering a further resistance to the detective, and so, the next minute, our two friends found themselves in tho street, utterly bewild ered, and not knowing which way to turn. "What do you suppose it all means, Uncle Phin?" asked Arthur. "Don' know, honey. Flit beats do ole man's 'sperlenco an' ho don' kear to know any flng about hit." "There Is something wrong,any way," said the boy decidedly, "and I think the best thing we can do is to get, back to the boat just as auick as possible." By inquiring they found out In which direction the river lay, and started to make their way to it as fast as they could. It was a long, weary walk, and when they finally reached the river, they spent nearly an hour searching and Inquiring before they discovered the bridge near which the ark had been left. Now the boat was n%where to be seen. In vain did they gaze up and down the river. They saw other house-boats, and many strange crafts of all descriptions; but nothing that looked in the least like the one that had sheltered them tor so long that- 1* seemed like a very home. Then the truth began to dawn upon the®. Their boat had been stolen, probably by the very man who had per suaded th<jm to aooompany him up-town and then deserted them. This belief was finally confirmed by • good-natured boatman of whom they made some Inquiries, and who told them that the craft for whloh they wore look ing had been boarded and taken away by a couple of men, more thai two honrs before. They had of course floated off down the river, and the boat man said tho onlv^hhlg^for^t^iuja^O was to hire a tup an.! go after her. As this would have cost at least twenty dollars, and as they did not have a cent, it was o? <-our*e out of the question, what were they to do? And what w as to become of them? It was almost night, and In addition to being very tired they were very hun gry. This latter unpleasant sensation was evidently shared by pour Kusty who began to whine and look pleading ly up into his youflg master's face. To add to their misery the dense clouds that had been hanging lower and lower over the city now enveloped it en tirely in damp, sooty fold:; and a cold, drizzling rain began to fall. Poor Arthur was so utterly wretched that he would have cried, but for the re membrance that he was a l>ale. As they turned slowly away from the river with- NOW THE BOAT WA6 NOWHERE TO BE SEE*. out knowing where to go, their future did indeed look black and unpromising. Never before had Arthur felt the terri ble gnawings of hunger as now. "Oh, Uncle Phin," he moaned, "can't you think of any way to get something to eat? Just a loaf of bread or some crackers?- It doesn't seem as if I could stand it any longer." "Well, honey! My pore lil lamb! De ole man is er rackin* his brain an' er projectin' an" er tinkin' and hit's mo'n likely he'll strike up wif somo plan d'reckly. You see. dis yeah 'sperience hab kim up powerful sudden, an' its emposserbilitles hab tuk me by 'sprise. Now, we might sell dat ar dog Rusty, for ernough to buy a squar meal, ef we know'd whar to fin' a pusson what wanted a dorg." "Sell Rusty, Uncle Phin! Sell my dear little dog! Why, I'd starve first!" "Hat's it! Dat's jes de way I knowed 'twould be," said the old man, shaking his head sadly. "Well, dar's dat ar book of yourn. We might er—" "My precious book, that the beautiful lady gave me!" cried the boy. "Why, Uncle Phin, that's worse than Rusty. 1 wouldn't give it up for any thing in the world; not even for a great heaping plate of hot buckwheat cakes with maple syrup on them." "Or a fat possum roasted in a hole in de groun'?" suggested tho old man, his mouth watering at the thought. "No, nor a beefsteak with baked sweet potatoes and hot rolls," said the boy, who, under the circumstances, was cer tainly placing a high value on his book. "Or a big dish er hominy, smoking frum de kittle, wif a plenty er po'k gravy," added Uncle Plin, eagerly, un able to conceive of any thing more like ly to tempt a hungry little boy than this. "No, not for any thing that ever was cooked, or ever win be, would I give up my own dear book," said Arthur, stoutly. They had found a temporary refuge from tho rain in a doorway, and stood within its shelter during this exchange of the tantalizing thoughts uppermost in their minds. Nearly opposite to them IT WAS A DIM. FOR FIVE TKH.L.VRS. there was a street lamp, that had just been lighted, and they watched tho lamp-lighter as ho shouldered his flaming torch, and walked away, whistling merrily, doubtless to a home and supper. "Now," as In answer to Arthur's last re mark, Uncle Phin was saying: "Well.den, honey, I don't see but what we'se got 'er go hungry 'til to-morrer, when may be I kin git a job er wood-saw in',"' there came a quick rush of feet on the wot flagging. Arthur turned to look at the flying figure, and gave a little cry of recognition, as the light from tho street lamp fell on its face. At the same in stant, Rusty recognized In it his old persecutor, the boy with whom his young master had fought in the tramps' camp. With a growl, he sprang forward. Arthur still held the end of his rope, and the dog's movement was so sudden that It nearly threw him down. As it was he stumbled, and the precious book, so recently the subject of their conver sation, fell to the sidewalk. The next moment another figure, and this time It was that of Sanay Grimes, the big tramp, rushed past, evidently in pursuit of his boy, and then all was again quiet. Recovering himself, and taking a firmer hold on the rope that held the still excited Kusty, Arthur stepped for ward and picked up his book of fairy tales. As he did so a bit of dark paper, that seemed to fall from between its leaves, fluttered to tho wet stones, and this the boy also picked up. Curious to see what it was, he held it to the light and uttered a cry of incredulous amaze ment. It was a bank bill for five dollars; ard, although Arthur did not know it at the time, it was tho samo one that his friend, Brace Barlow, had slipped be tween tho leaves of tho book on the night that he bade them farewell. Why Arthur had not discovered it long be fore will always be a mystery that can only be accounted for by the fact that the book was a large one, and contained many stories, several of which he had not yet read. Between the leaves of one of these the bill had probably lain all this time, and now in the hour of tho boy's sorest need it came to him as though it were Indeed the gift from the (airy godmother, who had penned the inscription on the fly-leaf of his precious book Continued next ireek. —Tho Washington State building at the World's fair will show to sopie eitent the forest resources of the state. The foun dation nloDe will contain 1~1 log*, -nine ot them 120 feet long and 42 inches in diama ter at the small end. The sjper-tructure of the building will contain, be»ide-< heavy timber, fine finished wood-, showing the grain and structure of the woods, and a complete exhibit of shipbuilding material. USE OF A PASSPORT. Th« Mnf ular K. ipert«n< e of * Trtirlw In IStnuo;. "Mine is rather a hart >'ur," nlil a discouraged rradmtr of a yonng iadie«" seminary. "I can't pet a position a» a teacher because I haven't had « cnce, and if I m, never allowed to tea. li, how :im I to pet my experience 7" A Minowhat similar p&rwlox nu per petrated by a German officer, mentioned by Mr. Henry W. Wolff in "The Conn try of the Vosgcs." This traveler had been wardering ahont Met* Baking questions and seeing the sight*, and he SAYS: On my return to the station, I found a surprise awaiting me. The German police had found me out; not a difficult task, since I purpodrty went about quite openly. However, that, it appeared, made no difference. There, at the entrance to the station, stood a Prussian gendarme, all on the alert, looking very ferocious with what th« German s<>ng calls "a moustachioed air." He was on the lookout for me. and stopped me at once. "Have you a legitimation about you?" he asked, rather gruffly. "Yes; but do I want one? Ami not entitled totravelin the country without a passport?" He looked angry, eyeing with disgust my "Murray," which bore, all too plain ly, upon its cover the title "France." "I must see it. I hear you have been about the town looking at things and asking questions." "It is true; that is what I am travel ing for." "I must see your passport." "What? In defiance of the emperor's regulations?" "Do yon not understand," said he, pompously, "that I must see your pass port in order to be able to judge whether or not you are entitled to travel with out one?" Here was logic, but logic which, how ever feeble, must be heeded- I pro duced my passport, and after having studied for a tedious interval, he grave ly announced that I was fitted to travel without one. WE LOVE MEDICINE. A Doctor Sayi That Amrrlraiii Ar* • Nation of Drug-Taker*. I think Americans should be described as a nation of medicine takers. The re turns from the sale# of patent medicine* are astonishing, but no general practi tioner is at all surprised at this. b<N.*au*e he has long since learned that hypo chondria exists almost universally, and that medicine taking is the great de light of an enormous percentage of mankind, says a physician in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One great object a doctor should have in view is to sure with as few doses a* possible, and I believe that ninetv-nine out of one hundred medical students commence practicing with this idea be fore them. If their experience is like mine they have somewhat let down in their efforts in this direction, and if they have not done so they have cer tainly offended quite a large number of patients. There seems little to choose between the sexes in the matter of a desire to take medicine regularly, and it is often Impossible to persuade an apparently rational-minded patient that a cure has been effected, that no more medicine Is needed and that nothing but good diet and careful habits are required to build up the constitution. A number of doctors save themselves from falling from grace by prescribing a harmless tonic after effecting a cure, but those who pride themselves in dis posing of cases by aid of a dozen doses or less seldom attain any great popu larity. The often quoted and much vaunted practice in China of paying a physician while his patient is well and stopping his pay dnrhig sickness could never be introduced successfully into this coun try, because so many people who are perfectly well are prepared to file affi davits that they are dangerously sick, that no doctor under the China regime would be able to earn his board. WHISTLING A GIFT. Whftt ft ProfusioQAl L*dy W hUller Saji About the Art. Mrs. Alice Shaw, the celebrated American whistler, has this to say of her peculiar gift: "A clever whistler must be born, not made. The natural gifts necessary are a good ear, a sound pair of lungs, a favorable formation of the cavity of the mouth, regular teeth and a flexibility and agility in the orbicular and buccinatory muscles. The strain on these muscles arc great. After an hour's practice I have been compelled to apply electricity to my lips to get them into a normal condi tion. I breathe like a singer, from the diaphragm, and whistle as any artist would sing. Trilling is to me as easy and natural as ordinary speech. It is the notes which must be long sustained that are most difficult. My compass is two and three-fourths octaves. I never whistle on an inward breath My notes are always directed outward. The higher the note the closer my lips; the lower the note the larger the orifice. The possibilities of a whistle are almost unlimited. The art is at present in ita infancy. I phrase music as do the most careful singers. During my first Der formances my lips became so dry that it was difficult to produce a clear, liquid tone. I now use an ointment which obviates that difficulty. I practice an hour —sometimes more—daily, and this has had a doubly beneficial effect. It has not only enchanced my proficiency as a whistler; it has caused my chest to expand four inches in the last three years." ••Bummer" Not American Slang. Americans get credit for a great deal of slang which originates on the other side of the Atlantic. The word "bum mer," for instance, is not an American, but an English expression, being found in the market laws of two hundred years ago, where it was used to desig nate a retail dealer in fish who peddled his goods outside the market and with out a license. A transition from an un licensed peddler to a disreputable loafer was one which came easily and natural ly in the course of time. Make* Its Own Trouble. "That's a mighty poor circular yon have to advertise your eye wash." "Why?" "It is so illegible it gives a man sore eyes to read it." "Well, isn't that good for tho eye wash?"— Harper's liazar. AX ELEPHANT ON HIS HAND*. —Life Hli Reproof. Minister Those wicked boys were playing ball again in Jones' lot aa I came from church. Minister's Wife—Didn't you stop to reprove them? Minister—Yea, but it didn't have any effect. Youpg Cowlea made a <ia»y three-bag hit and let in three runs, and the crowd didn't have any use for me.— IniUa OUfl country roaos. TWj It iUtr tb* hrwr M 4 An • liMM »Ht« m 4 «MMf. TV St. r*nl hoorcr IV*, In re viewing an article in the F<rura by John »«ji- "Wii!# Mr Ik«>kwmlt<T is right in ascribing mucii of the ten len ■? of pnjm't'.ian to mute from th« country t-> tU city to the is> datum of farm Mm, and whilm h*a plan of having farm lands to surveyed that there would be a rillafi in the center of each aeetton where aii im families mifrht lire Kn »*<-eilent fea tures, we think that he haa searrrlj Ifiven due weiffht to the evil effects of our o 'antry n <via in creating aad et>- forcing almost abaolat* seclusion (or country IneT.era "The worst difficulty about rural iifa is not the distance that separaU-< on* habitation fr m another-, it is the fact that this distance to be traversed is a barrier, during certain seasons of the year, almost as impassable as a m> na tain range or a swollen t. rrent Farm ers as a rule, are well supplied with ▼chicles and horses. They are n. >t woil<Jpd to a life of solitude, bat ion cheer knd sociability ifra better th .n other folks. They And these denied to them by the condition of the country roads during a large portion of the year This Ls less marked in cmr prairie country than it is In sections at the east and south, where the soil under the influence of rainfall, to a tenacious mud that practically nega tives all locomotion. But et»n here there is a considerable portion of the year when a drive of from three to ten miles is anything but a pleasant nnder taking. In the most unfavorably situ ated communities there are fully si* months when neighborhood intercourse is denied to all but pedestrians. This is the great sacrifice which he must make who decides to try country life in the United State*. "It is hardly doubtful that a large share of the average Englishman's pw sion for residing in the country, and a still larger share of his fondness for long walks and rides, is doe to tbe fact that he does not know what a poor road is Such a highway in Great Britain as the best of oar eoantry rmub wrmld proToke the natives to an Insurrection. From one end of the island to the other the trnwler finds everywhere the same beautiful, even surface for driving, equal m comfort and very like in ap pearance to our asphalt streets, though it is ocly a superior macadam. Ovar this tho heavy English carriages. which a horse could hardly more in this coun try. bowl merchants up hill and down dale. On one side is the graveled foot path for WALKING neople. OD the other the dirt bridlepath for those TO riorse biick. And between them the ideal highway stretches its glistening length, free from mud or stones or dost at ell seasons of the year. It is small won der that people lore the country, an.l that short distanoes do not deter them or compel them to lire seeluded where the facilities for travel are soch as thesa. "Yet the difference between the coun try roads of Great Brita'n and thoee of the United States Is rather one of in telligent interest and painstaking than one of expense. The Englishman haa simply learned how to go about road making He prepares the surface with almost or quite as much care as we do for laying a pavement. Then. wh«-n the macadam is laid on, he sees to it that it haa constant attention. A little break, a slowly forming depression, is not allowed to ruin the roadway. Stocks of finely broken stone arc ready prepared everywhere, and the slightest defect is repaired immediately. "We think it can be proved that la many of the older communities of this country the people hare actually paid out more money for highway construc tion and repair per mile than it has cost the English to create and maintain their almost perfect system of roada. A good deal of the money has been wasted by political spoilsmen. Most of the remainder has been applied unintel ligently, a lot of men digging deep ditches on either side of the highway, throwing the earth from these Into the center and thinking that this convex surface of newly-dug mold could be called a road and this process 'road mending. * "There are signs of aa awakening of intelligent interest In the subject in some quarters. I*rofessorships hare even been established in son* of the colleges to teach the art of roadmakmg. anil people are beginning to understand the frightful economic loss of putting an embargo on travel during a good portion of the year, or else compelling all beasts of burden to consume vital force ami exhaust themselves unneces sarily. It will be a saving to be { counted by millions of dollars annually. ! ami it will be a marvelous gain socially ! and morally as well as industrially, when we shall have such scientific j road making in the United States that the rural dweller will possess, so far as j private conveyance is concerned, the I same advantages that are enjoyed by the residents of cities." -■alplist* of C«ff« Hoist lo®. Dr. Jnbez Fisher (Bulletin No. IT of the health experiment station, Massa ' chusetts, is of the opinion that a solu tion of sulphate of copper in the pro portion of 1 pound to 900 gallons of water is ordinarily safe and sure for spraying fruit trees and vines. Exper iments at the station showed that cov ering a grape terrace with ail awning, so as to keep off dews and rain, made the space under the trellia "an oasis of health in the midst of a desert of fungi" To develop the spores of fungi they must have moisture. eradicating IIIMU* Eradicating disease is not a nrntter of a week or a month. While it ia proper to use all precaution in order to , prevent disease in the herd or flock, it is only by selection of the hardiest and most vigorous animals for breeding that disease may be mostly prevented. It is from inbreeding and debility that I disease becomes permanent. Inheri ted defects can nev*r be eradicated In the natural condition animals select their mates from among the mo-*t vig orous, and in domestication man must use judgment in mating bis stock. r.lk»ialr<l. Cleverton —Last night I called npon that girl you introduced me to the other day. Dashawaj—So she Informed me thia morning when I met h«*r. Cleverton (eagerly)— Tell me. old man. did she say anything abont me? Dashaway—Sot a word. She *ald she was too tired to talk.—N. Y. World. He Told the Tretfc. Dora Summergirl—You told me yon were a gentleman of leisure; and now you say you have to go back to the city on business. Lannt Ennis—What I say is true, t am a clerk in one of the municipal at- I aces, ami have to go »>ark to morrow to draw my salary.— Pork. the A«e of Orgaafsttoa. Sew Bn»rdef-W»ll! well! Tkb ts the flrst place I're strur-k wkw» they have preserved strawberries kiwi peach }ta Instead of * tewed prune* Old It artier—Allowing to Tftka-z* tion. my boy. l"» Have * mutual protective Mocwtimi, with iron clad rules and IKITJ penalties. "Oh. bo! Yon kicked against pror.es, did yoo7" "Not much we didn't. ffi paaacd a law that whenever pn»a»-« came en the table tmjr member »k«iU eat a qi.irt or pay <lO fine. That settled it. The landlady found prunes too expensive." j —N. Y. Weekly. >s O. 4-1 «ACH kCAF CVffL. hotii «i* Mseaia, This peculiar di nss« is widespread Mk ia this <*n«atry sikf in fcrr^pe ••ar-JHt aie-s-eer the peach ia fiwv*. ft often wtrrrlf tajitfrs nursery mm h. thrifty rw*n« trw« are mrrrm lsb>»t to rts attar k» than ttinse mom* mature. The curi Is to the leaves are moat leader: afWr the «fta> se»-s of t :-ese parts are faHy fin awd • they are no loader nifPs■ Tad The <!t*raae shows Itself as srana as fea !»»♦« are By the Int rm mHMIe of J-me the oaly rtgaa of tha malady sne the withered .eaves oa the F" and and the shrieelad atwifi <m tk* tree, new >aeaa haee lbsaiy k> vel oped on the lateral twtga The l9a»- tration, F g t, shows the eiiarianifef Istic aptearaae* of a peach leaf a* f-e- <i » the earl aad the mma em graving Ulistrates a twig diaeaaaA from the same cansa. Frequently tha rtt : -UAfcr* iiiicuptttf «• rwa entire leaf la iavolved, the di«MMd part being somewhat thicker aad «f a more fleshy texture thaw that ia health. The under surface is nsuallj smooth but the upper haa a more or less mealy appearance. When the leaf stoek ia af fected it swells to seerrai tunes ita normal thickaaas and seldom attains ha full length. These poniuaa haws a pale green c lor, the surfece ia swollea aad ooeTen. aad tarns Mack aad jha The cause of peach-leaf earl ia a uiiiia— ia cioaeiy related to the fuagua which causes "plow poekela. " The tnyeeihua or spore producing part at thaa fuagua forms a net work of threada rs—blfaag a string of head* ia the tisanes of tha peach leal This is Illustrated ia ITg. X Fr in these threads tha spores or seels are produced by which tha Ha aaae ia sprsad from tree to tree. Theaa n«. S.— i rxr crat rrr « were waaar naa. tailing oa y nng leader shrink pene trate their substance ami raasn them to eurl up aad riaaliy die. 9a 1 it tie ia really known of the life history of tha earl that little can be said fganiiag preventive measures. Retaosin* aad destmyiag all the leases aad yoaag shoots aa sooa as they shese stirna at the malady, aad at the proper season, cuttiag well hack the brmachea where the disease -sisted. ia the beat course, and mfht to mitigate th* erfL le aa esperiment it ia suggested that the tn-es be spraysd ia March or hefcea the buds begia to swell, with aJt« * par cent, solution if sulphate at ina— Orange Judd Farmer. AGRICULTURAL notes. I» buying a giv*n mmcmm* «rf fan* tm the cheap fertiltosr yon ?•# pnrhajpn twice as much far freight. rartage. b«c --j gin,; haivlltog aa yim ilo ki b«yto* ! the better brand. P*or. Botun, of Cornell ■nivnmty. flnds by repeated experiments that sheep are the moat valuable erf U iwa tic anim-Oa in keeping *p the produeing capacity of the farm. ()SLI aheot ten par eMt at the ap ple trees planted erer eotaa into Bear ing This bur warte (• «w.rtVd to a combination rf causes, the eh»ef on* lack of rare the ftrst yaw. Sebraafca , Farmer. A w**» » a plant outaf pi sea A oar* plant, a wheat plant or a potato pi mi* fear be a weed by bete* too eloee to another. Treat meh as weed* and Mi them oat withont delay-—Prairte View er. Tnx Mich iff an farmer say* aa Sag llah gardener. who hae had great mc eese te raisin* radlahea, unaee hw m*- tah beds with oae half soft eonl aahen and soot Coder thm piaa hto he* mm a»t Infested with won* MA*T tons of manure are traaepwerd from oar cities which .uatem =ean toaa a dollar's worth of solnbto fa« 4 W* may ba beneficial aa a aahh Xto too often a very eoatly way of jm seel» ing the fertility of the tol-Bwr ft , Summey IT ia beet to gram a variety o# mam that will mate**. tf it Is *trueh by frost after it haa arrived at the fiaaad stage it will keep aa Weil to the nlo and make aa atood fodder ea if it bad an# beeo froxen; that la oar «J pen ieitan Prof. Robertson. AT the first appearance of blight hill your potatoes a* high aad steep aa yon can The fu.-igaa hi washed <h>wa through the soil by rain. If it reactors the potktim it esueea them to ft By hilling. I* will bo washed hstwea* the rows away from the potatoes. ~>n»piata about the Jokes I print being .tolL Well, per hap* they are. bat yoa oagfc* to mm thoe I do not prist. Critio—l dr.. to other papers, sad I enjoy them hugely.— Trath. He—Will you marry me? She- <•n -oe -woditioa. He—What la that? She—Aa imprrwad laaa rial. uadllti a. —Kate Yield's Washington. Frank—flow <-an yon toll a wnbiew from a dnisr"* > OHev»A daiwy la yell am aad whtoe. tost like the son wW« a «mdwwr , fel l Harper's Tonag People. Orare— Is there anything I iagbt an* to read to thia book? Mrs. Kipper—So, dear. Grnre —All right; than I <wet mm* 11-Park. Dnflae I hear thnt yon pi npnaaJ to Mies Testy laet nigh* and got a ■ fusl? Callous—Well. aa to that. she didn't bhmtly r-fnse me; she wowldnl wnani my feelings by doing that, yet the to /et*ore f her mnarb watfiaineeosgh Dallme-What reply did she ■aakn to your pr jwenl? taitone—She atod tf I waa the Into man on earth she m%bt tototo ft— " BoaVoa Qp«rf««i
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