VOL. XXX. F)R. HOXSIE'S CERTAIN] « « « « CROUP Tlie smallest child can UIIWUI take this remedy without 011 rtf™ any bad effects. It does | |IIc k not contain opium in any ENU UW 11 Ln ■ GUARANTEED np ALVAYS READY FOR USE TO CURE Hoxsie C. C. C. Co. | I OS MOMEY REFUNDED. BUFFALO, N. Y. 'Do Yon Want to Hake Hone;? Do You Want to Save Money? j -*Tliere+Are+More+Ways+Than*Ooe-HoHet+Ricli !#- If you don't want to save money don't * . read between these lines. TLis ad is written for clow catdi buters that are always f< bargains when there are any to be had, and if thing* had tnken then iHa»l coarse this winter this ad with all its wonderful bargains would nev* have appeared, bat Dp to Jan. let we hid a very mild winter Heavy leather goods and robber good* have been very much plighted, scr to trll the troth I am over stocked but I have a plan to unload TT——tot— —nrrMrr —nr—n—■■anrnrnf i ~i —nri —n"f~~ It is simply a matter of business and concerns only money saving people, j; No others need read between these lines. My plan to onload my eorplus stock of boots, shoes and rubbers i dimply this I have got to lose some money on these, lam not goint? '• ••arry them over ontil next season, I will sell them at any price fir*-' Leather goods get bard, the life gets oat of them, and thr-y are un?al<-Hhl> Robber goods are even worse, for they will rot and become worthier hence you can see at once sod understand why this sacrifice must h. made on goods tbat are now seasonable and jast wb»t you need. One man's dollar is es good as an i other's If lie puts it to the right us»- It may cost something to read be tween these lines, »—aa———————nae.wiMMmf n■mi in-jiiii'msnijin in • If reading low prices will interest yon, I will interest you It voi : don't care for bargains vou roieht as well stop right here, -j- '•Cros-J; road to let yoo off." Just at this time of the vear there are more ruhbi j eoods worn than at any other time, and as rnhher ir- ods are pii>d uronii> j me until I can hardly se<« daylight I will tackli* them first, and th* ji prices I quote are less th«n first cost and if you are too coD-cientious t come and help me lose tome money, yea will hf.ve to go elsewhere ao< pay a profit. ■■■■MMMHann ————mi n nnwi'i i i n The object is for you to make money and for me to lose it. Can you take part in such a scheme? I will sell for twcDtv davs men's rubber boots Lvromtng maW> f>■■ $1 90. Soston robber boots $2.00. Cacdee robber boots $2 00. Woonsock> ! robber bootk $2.00; a pair of good ronvss slippers goes with rscb pair.onr if I can't produce any of the aboye makes at prices quoted, will snrre;>d< > my claim on your attention in all fatnre ads. or a round trip ticket to tb» World's Pair Boy's robber boots sizes Itoft $1 ®>o. yooth's rubtv'i boots 11 and 12 $1 00. ladies' robber boots 3 to 8 $1 15. Mines' rnl>h» boota 13 to 2 SI.OO child's robber boots 7 tc 10 90 cts., men's Storm Km«. boots reduced to $2 50 -A. farmer came to T3utler broke. He sold 1 O bushels of potatoes and went home with, ai wagon ftill of shoes. "Where did he get them? 111 BIIH wr' As soon as be sold his potatoes be went to Bickels, be got a pair H good robbers for himself for 40 cts.be bought a pair of warm lined rubber for bis wife for 25 cts, be bongbt each of the tix children 8 pair of rnM.«-rv for 1C cts. s pair, be bought the hired man a pair of stogie boots for SI 50 and hU grown op dsugbter a pair of fine shoes for SI.OO, and ; till be money too, sell do yoo know wbat he did ? He got mad bscked hi> wagon op to the door and looded bis goods and left saying be did not wan- ! people to think be stole the goods or be would Lave spent the bal. of hi> money, he promised to call again. When you get tired Stop! You don't have to read betweer these lines. Nor It is strictly Private. If yoo are needing any leather goods come and see wbat I bave tc, «ell. I bave one lot of ladies' fine botton sboes for sl. one lot. of t-amplt nhoes at $1 00 worth $2 00. one lot of fine gr hotton sloes for 90 cts. om lot of serge gaiters for 50 cts , one lot of slippers for 25 etP., oue lot o-ji Misses' sboes 85 cts., one lot of child's shoes 40 cts . one lot of infant*-', shoes 18 cts All of the above are about one half the regular price come in and see bargains oo onr sample counter. A word to the wise is sufficient--that is sometimes it is and sometimes they get left. A man that likes nice shoes and needs a pair is not wise if he don'i call aod get a pair of Edwin Clapp's hand made sboes for $3 00. and if b>- don't woot to pay that roach will sell bim a nice drees shoe lor $1 25 to $2 00. We make a great many boots and shoes to order and do all kinds of repairing io connection with sboes. We have a large leather depart ment, and foil stock offiodiogs always on band Remember the place aod Call. "**"W—MMntTlwrnTTT"! ¥riiiiM«ii ■l>+Jolin BicM* BD P f ■ Street * ft- EVERYBODY WANTS TO MAKE MONEY. Rome try to save money, some in one way, others in another wav. Tbe troe way to make money is to save money, it would not be pradrut to expert for in-tance tbat you ran bnv nn"article at 50 cts as good as one yoo pay SI.OO for, this would be losing money It is Simply a Matter of Business With y»u tobuv from a rfliable house and one tbat yr-u know has only one price, a boune that gives oue man as uiu in-ifee money io.it is used b» thrm a catch to got you it their n«-t It woitld not be safe for vou to 'ak* part in any ecbeins whore 'h»» mt-rcbuut is going to lose inouev and you make, for lear the mer.-b nt w< uld mak* the money and you lose it We carry the largest stock and beft rubber trood* of anv house in But. ler, we give a new pnir of men's rut.ber boots if satisfactory to the enstomrr free of charge, s»k one of the«e little follow* to do this, soe what be will say to yoo, we bave all these cheap or should t-ay dear rubber men's at 25 els., chil's 10 cts., etc., aod tbat is all they are worth or all any of tbem are worth. Our stock io men's, boy's snd youths' boots snd is not equaled in Butler Men's Goe shoes at; - - - - 1.00 and 125 '* extra fine calf shoes at - _ _ 200 Ladies'fine button shoes at _ 1.00 and 1.25 " " grain batton sboes at - _ - 85 cts slippers at - - - 25 cts and 50 cts flannel lined sboes - - 75 cts All «hese not half price, bot regular price. Men's wool boot* and robbers at - - _ _ 190 Old ladies' flannel lined shoes and slippers in great variety, we tel I you wbat g«toda are and give you tbe lowest price No old rusty job lots in this Stock,all clean Iresh goods Come and see us. B. C. HUSELTON. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARDS COULTER & BAKER. ATTORNEYS AT UW. Office tu re< m 8.. A rrnfllce second floor, Anderson ill k Al<: m . near f'ourt House, Kutler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—office on South s'de or Diamond Butler. Pa. J. W HUTCHISON, ATTOKNKY AT LAW. Office en second floor of the llu&elion oiocK, Diamond, Butler, Pa.. Koom No. 1. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at I-aw. Office at No. IT, £;nt Jeffer son St ~ Butler. Pa.. W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Keal Estate Agent, ui uce rear of LZ. Mitchell's office on north side of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. \ttoroey-at-l&ff. Office on second floor o Anderson building, near Court House. Bntler *&. Dr. N. M. HOOVER, 137 E. Wayne St.. office hours, 10 to 12 M. and to 3 P. M. SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. 200 West Cunningham St. L. M. REINSEL, M. D , PHYSICIAN AND SCBOKOK. Office and residence at Petrolia. Pa. L. BLACK, PHYSICIAN AND SCBIiEON, ew Troutman Building, Butler, Pa. N. LKAKK. M. D. J. E. MANN. M. !> Specialties: Specialties: •yr.aH'ology and Sur- Eye, Ear. Nose »n<> eery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. NL ZIMMERMAN. PHYSICIAN AND St'HGKOK. >iEce at No. 45. S. Alain street, over Kroiik > 'o's Drug Store. Butler. Pa. V. McALPINE, Dentist, Is now located In new and elegant rooms ad joining his former ones. All kinds of clasp plates and moderen gold work. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a." Arliilcial Teeth inserted cd the latest Im .•roved plan. Oold Filling a specialty. Offlctv •ver Schaul's Clothing Store. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. Gold Hilling Painless Extraction of Teeth and Artlfleial Teeth without Plates a speclalM Nitrous Oxide or Vitalized Air or Loca Vniestaetles use I. office over Millers Grocery east of Lowr\ House. Office closed Wednesdays aud Thursdays. C. F. L. McQUISTION, ENGINE Kit AND SURVEYOR, offick NEAR DIAMOND. Bonn. PA. L. 8. Vic J UN'KIN, Insurance and Real Estate AJS'I 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Gt »flßce Cor, Main & Cunningham H-s II C HEINEMAN, SECRETARY DIRECTORS All red Wick. Henderson Oliver, •>r. W. Irvln. James Stephenson. W. W. Blackmore, N. Weltzel, K. Bowman, D. T. Norrts. Geo Ketterer. ehiis. Kebhun. lohn Grohman, John Koenlng. LOYAL S, M'JimiN. Agent. BUTLER. IF>A C & D Ready for All. WE HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN THIS COUNTY. Everything tbat is new in Stif £latß. Oar fl 50 sad $2.00 are wonders for the money. * : [•', ranging in price from '25 eta to J5.00 AH the new blocks iD Silk Ilati*. Greatest line of Furoiabiag Good* we ever hud. An inspection will bo an advantage to any one. COLBERT & DALE, Hatters and Furnishers, 242 S. Main street, Butler, Pa. TT 7 y T *'TBRBB*S MONEY IN IT. W ±V WAM YOU to act an our Agent, full or pirt, I,m ■a* able I'eriiiunem position KU.traiiiel to m n or wo men. pay weekly, st.*-k i-omplete. Gilt edited specialties. Kxperl>-nce '..ni.ccessiry. lilegant outllt Iree. Address, Nurserymen. C. 11. HAWKS £ CO., Established 1875. Kocliesrer, N. Y BUTLKH, PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY '2l. 1 GETTING UP IN THE MORNING. When dark are the mornings and chilly wfib out. And J*ck Frost la nipping whoever' 3 about. How truly delicious It is to repose All sr.ug in the bed and there blissfully tloza In spite of the knocking* ar.d calls that It's late, In spite of the breakfast that for us must wait. Regardless of duty and c:irrie«- if ' - - W» under the blankets nud LOU>IU rt suLiitae. The longer we linger tho tarfler It seems To lea re our warm nest with Its half awake dreams. And oft as wo try to be brave and arise So often we fall and again close our eyes. More knocks on our door and fresh calls from below; "You'll miss the train surely—lt's late, don'l you know," "All right, we are coming," we answer and then Turn over to peacefully slumber ajain Once more ire ~'e c-Iled, and this lime wo are hold. And almost get up when a thought of the ccld Just give 3 us a shudder an 1 back in our nest We snuggle and know tow It feels to be blest At last we must rise and with spasms of dread We slowly crawl out of our soft, pleasant bed And stand with bare feet on the ice-like floor To shiver and wish that the winter was o'er. A douse cf cold water, heroic in size. Compels us to gasp and wide open our eyes: A rough towel rubbed briskly and then In a glow We're ready to plunge in a mountain of snow. We dress In a jiffy. To breakfast we fly, "Good morning!" wo hear and "good morning" we cry. And hot cakes an;l coffee we merrily taste— Then rush for the train in undigniiied haste. But. bless us: How fine Is the crisp, frosty air; We thought It was cold, but it's warm every where; Why didn't we rise two good hours before And In the bright morning fln;l pleasure ga'ore* Why didn't we do It? Because, I suppose, 'Twas nicer in bed to do nothing but doze. And long as we're able we'll stick to that nest And let those who have to, get up and be blest —H. C Dodge, in Goodall's Sun. SS OSNE" "1-^CHAPIN turned ***-"■* A U ?1 the key in her front door, und walked down the straight, board walk to the littlo gate, with a quick, decided air that spoke of business. Jacob, her "man of all work,'" stood by the horse waiting there, not to hold the fat, patient beast, bnt to whisk away its tormentors, the flies, that, on this warm October day, nearly drove it wild. "Goin' fur?" he drawled, as Miss Onner climbed over the wheel into the square box wagon and gathered up the reins. "That's as may be," was the am biguous reply. "I expect to bring back more than I'm taking," "Don't say, now?" dropping his brush in surprise; and, stopping to pick it up, received such aR eff.-ctual slap in tbe face from the reatless animal's tail as stopped all speech, and left him gazing with watery eyes after the re treating wagon; for Miss Onner, taking advantage of Billy's freak, had hurried off to escape further questioning. "Wonder what's up now?" Jacob muttered as he went back to his corn husking, "and what bee Miss Onner's got buzzing in her bonnet this time? Well, the Bible says there's no peace to tho wicked, and Jacob Vanslyke must be one of the worst kind goin', for there never seems to be no peace for him. Funeral of the old lady not much more'n over, and picklin' and preservin' about done for the season, and I was expectin' a little quiet at last; but 'tain't to be, 1 see. Guess I'll never know any till I get tucked away myself in my 'peaceful, narrow bed,' as the hymn has it. Wonder who 'tis, anyway!" But Miss Onner was rattling down tho steep, narrow road toward tho town four miles distant, and taking her secret with her—a life-long secret, 'HEAKD THE NEWS, ON'NEU? ' too, if Jacob had known that. And more yet along the lonely ways where were only scattered fa: m houses r homes of plain workmen, she was sniilin- , :\nd whispering the whole Btor<- ' > thj soft, wooing sunshine, laughing uloud as th • tall golden rods brushed her very cheeks with a kiss; and sometimes looking off to the fair valleys and distant hillsides, all in their glory of russet and gold, with eyes too dim with a glad mist of tears to see but dimly their beauty. For the story went back so far, to the days when she played alone, the only child in the farm house on the hill side, and, longing for companionship, peopled the wide, low rooms with oth er children with curly hair, such as she longed for, and torn clothing to mend, and sick turns to be nursed out from. 'I hey should be younger than herself >-o that she could do for them. They should go away and be educated while she would stay at home and churn, and we&ve straw hats and pick fruit, and save and do it all for them— the little children who never came to the houe, but who lived with Onner day and night. She bad done the work, surely. I.ook at the strong hand in its cotton glove on the reins, and you will sec. For wiicn (' 'ner was only sixteen her qui ••.. • • ' mother ! ad faded out of life, aii.; kit lUegirl with a sturdy, hard working father, a querulous, exacting grandmother and Aunt Ilitty, who was, as the neighbors said, "not very ofli cient," or "slack and shiftless," accord ing to the hearer. For twelve years she had them all. 'I hen Aunt Ilitty •eri I to find even living too great a:i ei.'ort and gavo It up. The father frew bent with rheumatism, worried over the affairs of the farm, and expected Onner to be both son and daughter to him. "If you'd only been a boy, now," he would say sometimes; and Onner laughing would assure him she was "almost one," and she would go out and rake hay or milk cows, or see how tho men were getting on ditching. Seven years more and she was left alona with the blind, feeble grand inother, whoaj quavering voice calkd so very often: "Onner, are you there?" "Are you sure, Onner?"—until one niffht, or rather early dawn of the summer morning-, Onner, waking, as one does who has missed something, went softly to the other bedside, and found lips that had been sealed into long quty, and a face oj pe%ce. "I'm so glad I've Deen good to ner," | she said, with softly falling tears, "and anyway she's most like a littlo child lately, so how could I help it?" That was, as Jacob said, only a few weeks ago, and now, at forty, Onner ; was alone in the old home and could fill it as she would. That was the se cret she was whispering over and over, on her way down the hillside. The children should be in the home at last and they should be hers, her adopted children, to care for, work for, love and pray over. A branch brushed her head once, and swept off her hat and let her hair loose. She had to stop and j twist it up. It was abundant still, but there were threads of gray among the brown, and Onner smiled a little sadly. "They'll be growing up to take care of me, too: for I'm ajing. I can't deny it; i'.-i flawing old, or will be toe soon." she whispered, softly. She knew what she was going for now. A neighbor bad stopped at her ! gate that very morning while she was busy in the garden. "lleard the news, Onner?" "No; what is it?" "Powder mill blew up yesterday out at the Hollow." "You don't say! Anybody hurt?" "Yes, three men killed. Two of them I don't know about. The other one was Tom Shannon." "Tom Shannon! What, Roxy's hus band?" "For sure. Isn't it dreadful? and Roxy not dead thiee mont'.s yet: and those three children left without father or mother." "Haven't they anybody?" "They say not- Roxy was an only child, you know, and Tom's sister died out in California, and his brother, dear knows what's become of him. Miss Marsh was telling me they're real pretty children, and good and quiet too. They're good stock, you know. ] Why, Tom's father was a deacon, and Roxy's folks had a minister among them somewhere. All the same. | they're left now. But 1 must go. The j dinner never'll get itself into my kettle, though it seems to in some folks'. Come and see me, Onner, do." | She was off; and Onner, who had had hard work to keep her smiles hidden by her sunbonnet, marched straight up to her open kitchen door, and on into the pantry, where she kneeled down by the flour barrel and just cried out: "0 Lord, make me worthy. I'm not halt | good enough to take care of the poor j orphans; but just let me have them, and make me worthy." Then she went up the short stairs. There was a little room that the sit- ■ ting room pipe went through. That must be the boy's room, and she raised the white curtain, picked a stray leal from the yellow-painted floor, and looked about. "I hope he'll be a good boy," she said aloud. Below, there were two small rooms opening from that same living room. One was her own, the other must b« for her little girls. "I can hear there then if they're croopy at night, and it'll be so handy when they have the whooping-cough and the measles. I'll go out and pick a lot more sage, too; all of them will want a sight for theli colds, and then the turkey, too, at Thanksgiving. I'm glad I saved a lot of pennyroyal in the time of it. I'll get a piece of bright calico and cheery up things here for them. Dear hearts sc ns if I couldn't wait" You know now her errand, and the secret Jacob was wondering over. A half mile before it reached the lit tle village, the road was crossed by s railroad track, and Billy, having re membrances of former experience? there, began to prick up his ears and quite affect coltish ways. "Guess I'll stop at Uncle Silas' and see if it's about car-time," said Misi Onner, and turned up u short lane to a tiny bouse where "Uncle Silas," a broken-down lay-preacher, lived witb his good wife. Once there it was easy to see there was trouble, for the worthy couple were both in tears and only toe glad to unburden themselves. "You see," said Auntie Silas, "the town isn't willing to give us outside help any more, and we can't get along without: so they say we must come into that noisy Mill Falls, and they'l give us places in the Home." "Well, it looks pleasant there," said Miss Onner. "Oh, it's all nice enough, too nice, in fact. You see I used to take butter there, and I know all about it, but 'tisn't home-like, the rooms are dread ful high, and they're white as ice; and the beds, no patchwork there; every thing's so dreadfully smooth and shiny. But I could stand all that if they'd only let Silas and me stay together." "Why, can't you?" "No, not a bit. He's got to sit on a bench one side of the wall and I the other; and in the house, Sundays in church, we can look at one another, and Wednesday afternoon we can visit, just like other folks—and after I've cared for and nursed him forty-five years, just as well as I know how. It's dread ful—dreadful!" and the quiet, hopeless tears of the aped saint coursed down the worn cheeks again. "It's the Lord's ordering, Onner, and ma and I mustn't say a word against it," the old man interrupted, with quav ering voice, "and ma, she doesn't mean anything against Him. Only after forty-five years of getting along to gether through \ips and downs, it seems a little strange to think of a high brick wall being between us. But it can't get between our hearts, can it, ma? not a bit, not a bit." "Well, I haven't heard the Lord or dering any such thing yet," said Miss Onner, "and I didn't suppose there were men mean enough to do it." "But it is no worse than what's hap pened to Lucy Whitton,'' went on Uncle Silas. "What's that?" "She's gone to the pcorhouse. You see she hadn't any friends as we have to-get her into the Home." "Lucy Whitton! Old Squire Whit ton's daughter!" "Yes; the old squire didn't think, when he took some rather hard ways to get his money, that his only child would get cheated out of the whole and go to a poor house." "She never shall!" said Miss Onner, rising. "They took her yesterday. She stopped here a ininuta. and it won't last long, Miss Onner. S:io looked then like one struck with death. She'll soon b« free." "Well, I'm not iroing to be one In as sist in the murder," Miss Onner re marked, drawing on her glovec. "And you, too, Uncle Silas. I don't believe OISAJK L —* rI. FT |j&| PILJPff "JT'B Tilt I.OUU'fl OBDEIUKO." in any such divorces as yours, either, | and if you'll go up and share pot luck , with me the rest of your days, you're welcome; and there won't ba any brick j walls between you two. cither. What I do you »ay?" "What?" Of course it was soon arranged. ! Their little goods were mostly sold al ready. They could pack the few re maining while Miss Onner went on for Lucy Whitton, and Jacob could come the next day and carry their remain ing possessions up the hill. The poorhouse was near the village, a half mile distant; but. on her way. Miss Onner turned a little aside to see Tom Shannon's three little children. The neighbor who had them in charge was very talkative. "They'll have good homes in no time," ahc said: "they're so pretty and bright. There's one or two spoken al ready, but the minister's looking for the best Christian folks to take them Their folks were tbat kind, you know. Of course if they could all go together 'twould be nice, but they can't —'tisn't likely." Miss Onner looked at the three i bright faces—there was the early hair too—then she kissed them all j and, turning away, climbed again into her wagon, feeling very much as if she had closed the coffin lid over J some of her beloved. "But I hadn't any call—really, it leads this way," she whispered to her sore heart, and then, at the poorhouse gate, forgot all in the great joy it waj hers to give. The westering sun fell softly ovel the plain wagon as it rolled slowiy up the bills home again. Miss Onner sal up straight and square driving, while, on one side. Miss Lucy's pale fac« grew brighter, and brighter, as she went back to the scenes familiar to hei childhood: on the other. Auntie Silai sat and exclaimed, and rejoiced; and on a trunk in the back the peaceful look of the old man was a simple: "God be praised:" "Here we are, Jacob, and I've brought somebody, just as I said." Miss Onner announced at her own gate. "I ' hope you've started the fire, for I want to make a johnny-cake for supper. Uncle Silas says he's fond of johnny- | cake, and those folks must have jusl what they want, Jacob. They're mine now. I've adopted them," and Jacob was wise enough, after that toSe, tc keep his lips closed so long as his mis tress' ears were within bearing. But as he led away Billy, Miss Onnei fumbled with the gate latch for more than a minute, as though it were hard ! to close. "Not your own," she whispered, soft ly, with her eyes off to the hills round about, "ye are not your own"—then she turned. There was Miss Lucy, half-way up the walk, with her face close down to the dahlia heads was she kissing them?—while at the door of their new home stood the two aged ones, wa'ting, hand in hand, in a great peace and con tent; and over all fell softly the level beams of a royal sunset. Howe Ben ning. in Chicago Advance. —lt was in California. Judge Blank a>ked after the health of a gentleman's wife. "Slip's si-si-sick," said the hus band, who stuttered. "I'm sorry tc hear that. Not serious, I hope?" "Sh« a-a-te ate cucumbers." "Ate eight cu cumbers? I should think she would Ik ilL"—Texas Sifting*. So Sh<>w for Xlim. A pretty and altogether m'xlest young Irish girl, evidently a nurse, stood pa tiently waiting her turn in a big drug store. At last one of the clerks, a rather dashing young fellow, disposing of his last customer, made his way to the young woman's side and asked, po litely: "Is anyone paying you attention, miss?" The young woman blushed, hesitated a moment and answered coyly "No, sir; I am married!"— Christian Advocate. ••TRYING ON 1114 PANTS." t Sft Fine Clothe*. "The soil of California is so fruitful," said a native of the Golden state, "that a man who accidentally dropped a box of matches in his field discovered the next year a tine forest of telegraph poles." "That's nothing to my state," said a native of Illinois. "A cousin of mine who lives there lost a button off his jacket, and in less than a month he found a bran new suit of clothes hang ing on a fence near the spot."—Texas Sittings. A Puzzling Problem. Scratchley—l have an order for a portrait of Gen. Tfcomas. How in the world can I find one to draw from? Daubley—Why, there's one on a five dollar bill. Scratchley—But how in the world can I get a five-dollar bill?- —Harper's Bazar Ills I>antirnl Touch. Mrs. Iloetong—Sig Klavierspiel, the pianist, has such a beautiful touch, basn't he? Mr. Bobberly—Yes, he touched me for five dollars in the conservatt >ry a minute ago.—Chicago News Record. A Chicago Dialogue. Mrs. Penns—So their marriage was secret? Mrs. Porcus—Alas, yes! Mrs. Penns—llow was it discovered? Mrs. Porcus—The divorce proceedings were by publication. Puck. Kec'.prooll y. A Tailor Green—l like that youig fellow. He takes anything I give him and never asks tbe price. Old-Hand—And you take anything he gives you, too. when it comes to paying —Detroit Free Press. •Johnny'* Theory. Mamma—What's the reason you and your sister can't get along without quarreling? Little Johnny—l dunno Mebby she takes after you. an' I take after papa.— Oood News. I.uok.r Man. "Dobbs seems to *o particularly hap py in his domestic life." "Well, you sec. his wife belongs to a dozen organizations of one kind or other and he doesn't see her very often." —Judge. CoiKolrtl. Mr. Ilarroty—Why will you jilt me, Mabel? Don't you love me any more? Mabel—Oh, no. It is not that ! love you less, but that I love two or three other men much more. —Chicago News Record. Tho llouHChold Pett. Th* cockroach Is a thing of hate To every thrif :y dame; lie has no business on your plate- But he gets there Just the same. A lair UuiliiFu i:isk. Cooney Colien—Mein sohn, vliy did you guarantee dot ovcrcoad to la-sd Mr. Nixy as long as he lives? Young Cohen—Fader, he has heart disease—he dies any minute! —Life. l.llrrnry l.uck. He wrote a story, very short, "Accepted true that the nations of Europe put us to the blush. Hut we mmy go back two thousand years for our in structors. The Roman engineers won their fame largely as roadmakers. The roads which they built are to-day their monuments. Thus we find ourselves very archaic in the matter of roads. It is stated that in Illinois alone the loss to the community from bad ro».K last year was a-> much as $16,000,000. If this ratio were taken for the whole country it would give a loss of 5000.000,000. At S per cent such loss would re->-'»sent a capitalization of 510.000.0f 1 This is one-sixth of the total ■< ■ f the country. The subject of deserted been a subject of concern in the New- England states. A farm whose outlets" in the spring and fall months aro hut canals of mud and cobblestones is just ly unattractive to the young. They find the enforced isolation unendurable. ' Rut replace the bad roads by macadam ized or telfordized surfaces, whuh do not feel tho spring thawing and which are always passable, and which are dry a few hours after a rainstorm, and the country wil! take on a new aspect. The agitation for good roads was originally undertaken by the League of American Wheelmen. This is an ' association of bicyclists. On bad roads the bicycle rider is at a great disad vantage. Doing his own propelling, he quickly appreciates a change in the road surface. Tue agitation began to spread. The carriage builders have justly felt that good roads would give | them an enlarged market, and have joined the movement. The subject ■ has been lifted up from the limited bicyclist's platform to a national on* A bill lias been presented before con gress looking to the establishment of a national highway commission. Special laws have been pas-od by states for the construction of roads. The effect , of such laws has already heon widely j felt. The formation of a national as sociation for the encouragement of the j building of good roads has been effect- I ed. The probabilities are that the next ten years will see a g r eat change | —almost a revolution. The era of bad roads is certainly approaching its closer —Scientific American. HOMEMADE FIXTURE. A Derlce for Ilauglac Over an Oiwn I'lrc. As others are sendinsr illustrations and descriptions of useful homemade | implements and fixtures. 1 will send a | description of a handy device for hang- 1 ing heavy kettles over an open fire or i furnace. The material required is an | old chain about four feet long, a stick ! of timber three and one-half feet long j and two or three inches thick, a pair iv t / % 1 \! LA k ■ FOR UANOLNO KETTLES. of hinges of half-inch rods or gate hinges, and a book Fasten to a post, or tree, or any convenient station ary object. See cut. If fasten*-1 to a fence i«ost the kettle can swing around j out of the way when not in use. —J. C | Fmstatt. in Ohio Farmer. To Kffp Away Knt.blt*. A writer in American Gardening says he has tried tarred and oiled paper for two years for repelling rabbits, and has been disgusted with the re suits, the tar blackening the bark and the oiled paper becoming torn with storms and affording shelter for in sects. Hut washing with soft soap ami carbolic acid lias proved effectual and satisfactory. A quart of soft soap j is added to three quarts of boiling water, aud two ounces of carbolic acid are added. An old shoe brush is used in applying it. He applied it last autumn to a thousand trees, and not one was injured by rabbits up to this year, although these animals are abundant. Applied twice a year it re pels borers. rnrly Prvll the M<»*t Profitable. With but few exceptions, the winter kinds of apples and pears are twice as profitable as the enrly kinds, because these must be forced on the market while the keeping kinds may be stored for a long season of sale. They are also in demsnd foreign market* which have no use for tiie summer va rieties. Tbe winter kinds are aisc more valuable for domestic use, as the fruits do not come into competition with the abundant vegetables and small fruits of the earlier season. Thus a few early varieties will supply oil the necessities of a family, while the winter kinds may I* more liberally chosen.—CoJman's Rnral World. The Hard Part of It. '"lt wasn't hard learning how to write," said Bobbie one morning, when he was trying to write a letter to h>« father "What bothers me is learning what to say when I write."" —Harper'* Young People. A rueful Adjunct. "Who is that cross-looking oltl man in the corner?" asked the fair visitor who was looking throtigh the offices. "That," replied the editor, "is the man who writes our smart-child jokes.™ —Judge. _ After the IVedrllng. Mrs. Ketchon—l'll wager you what you like, the bride will wear the breeches. Ketchon— l shouldn't wonder; I noticed she had on suspenders. —Hock. An I'llm holfiouir App^tlt#. Sharpe—l. am My has a taste for in ventions. Keepe —Well, I presume that is why be swallows every lie that is told tohiin. —l'uck. rroMtblr Not. "T see the Chinese are to be enume rated in Ihe census." "So? I wonder if the dudes will be?" —Household Monthly In il»t*. Dude What's the latest thing in »well"hats? Hatter—A swelled bead.—Truth. BUILT A RAILROAO ON PAITM. flarkf Taaas Wh» Mailt IW 1 >■ n M I AM k ad OM >■■■< n»—iimi n From Snath Texas ame asu wto buiit mx hundred mi.n of rwlrad » u a 6r»-eu»orTot. He got a charter to build a raiinad fr -m San Abloom to Arlmaaao IW He rrvW a cik of it. throwing a great deal more thaa one shovel of dirt with hi* own hands TV receiver of another road loaned this in defatigable Imililtr enough oM rails for a mile of track. Ia a distant part »f the state w» parrhaw>2 an >Ui engine which had l»*a condemned sis rran before and *ent to the shops to Ha wrecknl for s, rap iron. Two aid eaia were picked up warwhf-* ft* at a bargain And that old rtifiar. drawing tin*e old car*. steamed int> Sao Aa* tinio. Ob eagiQ'- aad cars ia boid let ters wrn- painted in lamp-black. S. A and A. P." With one mile of oid rail track and with the equipment of the old engine an l Ith old can I nab Loti started the A rkansas Pans system. There has been some tail financiering hi the history of raiimad building in this was try. but there iw't anything which for darz'inir plu.-k quite approaches the story of the building of this six hua dmi miles . f road ia South Texas. To the one mile of track three wera added —three miles by a dicker fn this basis s credit was made with a Pennsylvania rolliaf Mill (>r te.i miles of raila. When theyar .ved there wasn't money en.*igh ia the treasury t. > par the freight Bat it was got somehow. Ten miles of track gaee fandsti n for bonds which bnilt f-irty milm. more, and so the system it lew into its present proportions This man who built Itu- Arkansas Pass system mdefrota San Antonio to Chicago at jae critical periis! in his enterprise without a -eat in his pocket. He haii traasportati. a. but he hadn't anything to buy food, and he went through hungry. A TROUBLESOME RIVER. Destruction lamed by the Yellow RNtr of ( kits The St. Petersburg trazette referring to the latest Mbndation of the Yellow river in northern China, which will afrain brinjr a population of a* re than a million upon the point of starvation, points out that these frequent or peri odical calamities arc the work of aaa rather than of nature. Maar niituilti ago the Chinese interfered so much with the stream as to compel it to posit Its immense quantities of sell ; T»e-51 carried down from t!»e moan tains ia the most unsuitable localities. forming shallows and barriers whk-h. when an unusually large mass of water rolls down, will overflow and break through its dykes and inundate the fertae groniwts along the river bed. So it has been for centuries past, and the iivng generations are experiencing attain and again that the sins of the fathers are beinjr visited with moot terrible cruelty upon remote descendants. It ia doubt ful whether the river could be turned bock into its old bed. lying dry at pres ent. Hut. if it could, the old bed ha* been changed so much in the course of centuries that even there. In its old. natural and wonted haunts, the cur rent of the river might not heroaae tran quil. but be forced to produce periodical inundations as it does in Its present course. GRANITE COLUMNS. How tk* flsrvl stnne la Twm4 lac* shape- Granite for columns, ba. asters, round posts and urns is now worked chietfy ia lathes, which, for the heavier work, arc made large enough to handle blocks twenty-five feet long ami live teet ia di ameter Instead of being turned to the desired size by sharp cutting iietra m. at-s, as in onlinarjr machiaea for turainsr wood and metal, granite ii ground away by the wedge-like action of rather thk-k steel disks, rotated by the pressure of the stone as it slowly turns in the lathe. The disks, which are six or eight inches in diameter, ara set at quite an angle to the stone aad move with an automatk- carriage along the lathe bed. I.arge lathes nave f«mr disks, two on each side, ami a column may lie reduced some two inches ia di ameter the whole length of the stone by one lateral movement of the carriages along the- bed. The first lath* fur turning .rranite cats only cylindrical or conical coin inns, bat an imprweed harm is so mailo that iempleta or patterns may br inserted to piitte the farriajn, and columns ha ring any dnired swell maj* be as readily turned. For 9m grinding and polishing thr ptalM m transferred to another lathe where the only ma -hinery used is to produce a simple turning or rerolotioa of the stone against iron blocks carrying the necessary grinding or polishing materi als. EGYPTIAN CARTOONIST. < omlr Art let XX a M«*er» After All. In the museum at Turin, ia Italy, there is a papyrus role which displays* whole series of comical scenes. In the first place a lion, a crocodile and an ape arc givinga vocal and instrumental«**- cert, Next comes an aaa dressed, armed and sceptered like * Pharmh. With majestic swagger he reeetew the gift«. presented to him by a eat of high degree, to whom a bull arta an jirotid conductor. A lion and gazelle are playing at draughts, a hippopotamus ia perched la a tree, and a horse ttaa climbed into It and is trying to dislodge him. ISesides these there ia a Pharo*h in the shape of a rat, drawn in a carriage by prancing greyhound*, which ia pro c ••■ding to storm a fortre** garr»ot»ed by • the latter having no arms tut * th and claws, whereas the rats Uaee lotth axe*, shields, bows aad arrow*. H« Had Wet Lm^H The young man led such » Ufa that hi* employer w*a compelled to die miss. him. A few days later he met a friend ' Hello, Frank." wan the freetiaf "I hear you lost y our jobT* "It's a mistake. I didn't do anything of the vwt" • V ou are not working at the old place. *rf you?" "So." "Sot on a vacation?" "So." "Then, why haven't you loet your place?" "Simply hee**** I didn't Inee It; t'.im old man took it from me right, be fore my eyes, and I was help lee* —De troit Free Presa. One fnwaiwt WwM- A lady of an uncertain age w» —kerf by a census-taker. "Flow old are you. madam?" "Thirty year*." ahe replied "That's what j ou told me lact .tenet-*." ' Well. I am not one of the of women who tell one story at one t-.me and another story at another —B>stoo Globe. ___________ Abe knew What «h» Waaleg. Old Lady—l want a watch that woo't tick so loud. Clerk- They all tick like t&is. ma am: there's no other kiad Old Lady—Sho! I know better. Te* heard of them "attest watch** of the night" crerjuqc* 1 ki» widows o* mo**. Am «g the many aai ilnags - r •d With tha .teaa at - ~, m •-- 1 . a 'Mat a More pstaMo thaa tho atato "f 'he for iiuk m |_ Tooth s A rU4-e«k wmtm Tu ■^ ld " ** r * gM " l ** ** «r <«aa Oiaat. eg tie 4eat» mm to dat heat arlth -fisMVe aad w!?h gr*a* *~i ihnaM the ie at the templr oaoae; m giwa to Um pa wan. aUartoi arc antirrtalMß. fitotiagpi aaMftr* gona. aad vows perf.. nas .i ft»r tha pr-» *' mu- »ti of mh i 1 hn-ri h+nlzh mmi Hi' • Whea Ike ia ill tha aih maun h. )ewek puts oa iane etoehing. aad vntea herself to peaver ami ...startHr. If he diea her woe heykaa TRAGEDY IW REAL LIT*. "The meet pathotk- arena I ever a n mil." says Ju.:ge «. L Cawthwa < Tana, te the %. Lmtim 'liiTi. Pain 1 "waa a third Tf a -rotary aga. hat It « •a plaia to my ayaa today ait*.. l hen We had beea bothered ha Irrw thieve* .town oa the fcaaMr, aad knose what that araas ia a wild wmu try A road at mm atartod eat a tho aroundraia. aad jaat hefoee rtmtbmi the Rio Orwde we ae • howamea off to the left who acted *..* pieioasly After them we went. Me « waa a prett v fat foe a while till tare disappeared tohiaO a -lump of We had ahot to stop them, aad w n» we |M ut sight of them sgaau mm Pm—n that one hone had heea shot aad ih-t haddsaerted him. whale texh w«re -,t iog the other They wera eetd- !. Mealeana—a man and a tor —met C e man shewed flgbt. taraiwg ami kr-ttv at a% finally bin ag our .irpatp shee, f *' "• them rapsuly aad' pre* eatly a wetl-diricawl tre seat »U in a heap "Whea we rearhed the* the %•< waa kaeellsg ia frnat of the dyto* Me-sitae auhtdng aad nai aaing m sf her heart w tM ald tnah while tor Mr. which had fajlen foa her eap. Ml 1 he. low her waist. It araa a case of *Je;w» ment aad they had tahaa aa foe toe to> ther's aerraata. while ao Itod toeti equally stap>d aad had idm tbm» foe horaathieer* Whea ha togaa toga-t> «foew a 'title pear'-haadVd ie»'d»<». aad before aaynne eaaM «Mah mt w» p ping her ptared the maah aadee W ear aad foil iato hia aeom a awpar we never heard who they wer W.- buried them aad went after tha h--rs» thieves." vtgiiai t rwaaa Adn'teratfoa iabad aad tamTar t gontl, bit soma at the resalto »h mn. a. , v'gilant .-speetoes and -lew- e*e- , ia thctr "Aeta to sltow the frt - :t*>rt dangers that sammod aa aad ran >ff nders aga.nst sanitary ana are .-. -e funny A whideaale aag highly «e w- a> abie gmeer waa tried ia a Lsadaa «ac* a fow days ago foe aeiiiag tartartr and sdalterated with lead. The arid used hi making ' ■ aarfi aad to -- ia it g-H there frna the - ah to ■' Hi H It sraa matrafartarad The paiiaoa tea «hnwed that the Tart ark arid mat sin OM9* per eeat. at lead. The kl> am vlw>we»i that ia order to gat a taaat»-*>•> part mt a grata of the pamaa iatooae. ■yat*m it sroald he ai 1 naj ta dnaia Irmraaile every .lay for six moathoaft the rate if IW hottlea a dae The ea perta added gi aaa ly that tofoaa -he twentieth part of a grata eoald ha tohen tak that maaaer the experiakrator am aid die of dyspepsia. Tho charge wan de miased. hat to nktiafy tho laaifi 1 -iais the Jadge agree.! to "iitaf aemo> * presumably aa a earning to ither en'- daaaa The psaay-to-tha ate* maahtae haa been alagtod to the aaaeg the etopfMam at tho tf am-hatter aaa Whea a rta*— gives the etephaat a peaey the us> mai drops it ht the alalato geto a to emit. There la ao aaa la trying to nag tlkesa together and aerating to bo pnadi 1 > ig deeply At last ho drappasi tho Ke haif-peace in the hmt together srtth the renal t that the roahtaed weight i»w him the desired htsemt. at wMeh he gambr>ie-l a hoot ht a roan are ohieh ea hibited extravagant delight. Even Switzerland ia hetng iitonnd away by the general Ear-pa an ipak mil. of militarism aad tnanrial exkaaotiua In a bmlget estimated alhigether at Ira thaa #! r.a •* «ao ' r the year VMS adeti t ofckae apou fS.JM.MO.-w upwards •* per sent, of the totol aaa&t mt tbr budget, la doe lared. .31 waeteatho the deto-i' are mode ap at the «.> the military e ip» siitirr Itithe ' ssvHjertaad has haea deserving nt »a huto ra*de mra?»oa oa areaaat fl* «eep>u.. ai -*f fr m r atraeag-usr-w hah e military § niipM'Htiii— Bat the u Me i evident,y - me f>W iMT to afeaweja 1 rantagv i*>Atnd aad mane am« a< • ai « forts for -l<-frailing her soai la the at. of aa aopwwchiag »tHiho at rrr?to A ala-§w»t spectator with 0 aamAm ana aad a haml Uhe a sraotrad horn re shed in betwera tho tow fang man who wer*- pommebag. wraaHha^^tMi • if y a wfc y> u that innyyn n-* . • » '* afenatP r »tlwr atlraawtir erf- f>r 1: . • a»i tfe> nl'imlna of tbe pin»m •* •nalytfn. rte. Ih» -W!ut fond wtil that *>- F*thf-If j»* *> pr«vr«r« of • y tU wrraa^a»^q» No.ia