OL. XXX. ij> HOXSIE'S PIP | —* « CROUP i The smallest child can V-[ " , 1 nofconuii! opium in any o§l Ha $ | ! f GUARANTEED ALWAYS READY FOR USE J TO CURE Hoxsie C. C. C. Co.. | C.I MONEY REFUNDED. BJFFALO, N. Y. S ! aaannmriiinTirrir'nrfirrntitT'" ' • PENNA White-Sand Oil Co. [A. STEELSMITH. Manager, Butler, Pa.] Dealers in Illuminating, Lubricating, Cylinder and Dynamo Oils —all free from Lima Oil. This Oil is made and handled by Independent Producers not con nected with the Standard Oil Co., as reported. All orders will be promptly filled. Warehouse in rear of Nicho las & Hewitt's planing mill, near West Penn depot, Butler, Pa. Refiner}' at Coraopolis, Pa., near P. & L. E. R. R. This oil can be secured at McCrea's Feed Store on E. Jefferson St. Are Yon One Of The Lncky Ones Who Will Attend The Grand Clearance Sale At *vT roLitm ci it ' For the next two weeks. Remember it is not our fault if you come too late,it will commence Jan. 25 and continue till Feb. 4. Carpets, Cloaks, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Dry Goods, Flannels, Ginghams, Calicoes, etc. See our bio- bargain counter 011 left hand side entering store. YOURS RESPECTFULLY", A. Troutman & Son, Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House, Butler, Pa. EVERYBODY WANTS TO MAKE MONEY. Bome try to Bare money, some in one way, others in another way. The true way to make money is to save money, but it would not be prodent to expect for instance that you can bay an article at 50 cts. as good u one yon pay SI.OO for, this would be losing money. It is Simply a Matter of Business With yon to bay from a reliable house and one that you know has only one priee, a boose that gives one man as much as his neighbor for his dollar—no two prieee. Houeee that are always advertising goods at SI.OO worth $2.00, and all tbis kind of bosh as • role are dangerous places to make money in,it is used by them as a catch to get yon in their net. It would not be safe for you to take part in any schema where the merchant is going to lose money and you make, for fear the merchant would make the money and yon lose it. We carry the largest stock and best rubber goods of any house in Bnt- Isr, we give a new pair of men's rubber boots if not satisfactory to the customer free of charge, ask one of these little follows to do this, see what he will say to yon, we have all these cheap or should say dear rubbers, men's at 25 cts., chil's 10 cts., etc., and that is all they are worth or all soy of them are wortL. Oar atoek in men's, boy's and youths' boots and is not equaled in Butler. Men's fine shoes at - - and 1.25 " extra fine calf shoes at - - - - 200 Ladies' fine button shoes at 1.00 and 1.25 " " grain button shoes at - - - 85 cts " slippers at 25 cts. and 50 eta " flannel lined shoes - - - 75 cts All these not half price, but regular price. Men's wool boots and robbers at - - 1.90 Old ladies' flannel lined shoes and slippers in great variety, we tel 1 you whst goods are and give you tbe lowest price. No old rusty job lots in tbis stock,s!l clean fresh goods. Come and see us. B. C. HUSELTON. , RINGS, Diamonrls I E AR RINGS > LJ\ cUIIUIIf < SCARF PINS, 'STUDS, (GENTS GOLD, \\l o tfeTi LADIES GOLD, YY (GENTS SILVER. LADIES CHATLAIN, T/-txsr/nl |»tt f Gold Pins, Ear-rings, otnCll J | King*, Chain?, Bracelets, Etc, {Tea sets, castors, butter dishes arid everything that can be tound in a first class sto^e, SODfiEB MIS. Ilfl E. GRIEB, THE JEWELER No. 139, North Main St., BUTLEB/PA., * Job Work of all kind done at the "Citizen Office.' THETBUTLER CITIZEN. 4 iTHE KIND a ■ THAT CURES. HI Cohuv.3, y. v. j§ A MARVEL IN COHOES! ■ ■Kidney and Liver Disease! H FOB 15 YEAES, -■ t CUBED BY 3 BOTTLES! i ' IDA.VA SAR.-»APA RILLA CO.: *' «l GENTl.kmkn Hav.ugbeen r»*stored to ~ ■ health by the use of your Saraapanlla I fwl itH SB my duty to let other* know tic grvm t benefit 1= ! recehred. == |H For 15 years I have been trooblau withal r-»evert* puina in the Mtomurh, -p,•-j ~ney andJLlver I>l»e«*«-. *o badly that for ~ Hweek« at a tfinc-1 had tn stay in bed. SSJ =§ I have used three bottles of « DANA'S ■ | SARSAPARILLA f jaand I fr.-L like :I MW man. 1 1 Bnx r'l it to «n* iiTJirt.,l w th diMir of the nry«. \ oar* rcpenfullv. 3 Cohan, N. V. CIIARLES SIMMONS. Mj s The troth of the ftl-.vc ii <*rtilU-d to by * _ JAMES S. CALKINS, = H brusrirt of Cohoes, N. T. |H ■ Never purchase of a " SUBSTITUTE!!, '(j| 3 a person who tries to sell you something jg| Helee when you call for Dana's.) Our bot-f Sties are being filled with a COUNTERFEITS SARTICLE by "Substltulers." Buy of the§| BHONEST DEALER who sells you what you|| ask for. and ff you receive no benefit he== ■ will return your money. II 51 Dana Sarsaparilla Co., Belfast, Maine. = ■THE KiNl> § | THAT^OR^ _ MRS. P. J. CROMWELL, 9jt ■ Eiperancc, J». Y. ■A WORLD OF JOY INS | FOUR WORDS! ss jj"Two Bottles Cured Me!"*~ BDAN* SARSAPAKILLA CO.: Si DEAR Bnt» —For yesra I have be n t-.a.wd : -r == with Rhenunti .w.olso Livpy uil fiSney Trouble. Nothing rca&i t) help until I tried I DANA'S 1 SARSAPARILLA * ar.d two bottles CVHEI) ME. ■ Yours re«KctrullT. *™ M Efperan o, N.\. 3IHS. P. J- CROJIWEIX. g ■SCHOHARTT. CO. 6S. B This eert:fi' S that I know the above Mr*. P. J.=j= gOmvdt to be trustworthy, ai.d oueup - ■ whose- word yan can rely. *• A. if. McKtL Jusucc of iue Peace. .; Eiptrancc,N. Y. .... a |p Dana Sarsaparilla Co., Belfast, Maine, gg FRANK KEMPER, DEALER IN BLANKETS, HARNESS, And everything in horse and buggy liir nishing go ods—HE ar - ness, Collars, Whips, Dusters, Saddles, etc. Also trunks and va lises. Repairing done on short notice. The largest assort ment of 5-A. Horse blankets in town will be loiind at Kemuer's. DIRE DRUGS IT LOW J PRICES is the motto at oar X store. If yoa ate sick and need medicine you want the BEST. This you can a'wavs depend upon getting from us, as WH use nothing but strictly Pure Drugs in our Prescription Depart ment. You can get the best of every thing in the drug line from us. Uur store is also headquarters for PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, Kalsomine, Alabastine k Get our prices before you buy Paints, and see what we have to offer. We can save you dollars on your paint bill Respectfully J. C. REDICK, Main St., next to Hotel Lowry, BUTLER, PA. SEE These Prices on EVERGREENS. 10,000 Norway Spruce. 4 too inches high, $.-u. 10.000 Balsam Fir, 4 to 8 inches high, S«. lo.ocio Arbor Vita 1 . « to 15 Inches high, s£>. 10.000 Scotch Pine. 4to 8 inches hlgli, Mo. Over -joo varieties. T.000.0w for sale. TfiPFI iOO.W) White Cottonwood. rvnLoi inijDo.! to V 1 lnch _ tm _ 100.000 Yellow Cottonwood, 1-.'to 21 lncit, SHJO. 1«>,0"" Sugar Maple. Ito 8 inch, 135. iflno.ono Elm. 4to « incli. We sold 8,000,0c0 in 1&02. We mast sell twice as many this year. Our nursery is overstocked with all varieties and sizes of fruit and ornamamal trees. We must clear some of them out. ses»d for price lists. . EVERGREEN NURSERIES, Evergreen, Wis. NEW CUSTOM GRIST MILL. I have placed in my Mill a firat class Roller outfit for Buckwheat Flour. Also Roller Corn and Chopping Mills, all the best the uiarkct oilers. Give us a trial, we'll do our beet to .rive y<>ti a go-ul turn oat. Running every day except Sunday. WM. F. MILLER. 313 N. Washington St., Butler Pa, lUTTLER, PA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1808. AT THE CORNERS. [Tale of a Tramp.] A dreary, wild November day, The winds are whistling on their way Across the moor- He does not hesitate to wedge His ahirer'.ng form within the hedge, A shelter poor. Along the slippery, rutted tracks, High loaded with their bursting sacks, Farm wr.gons rolL They heed i.:n not. r.- v «eem lu ..ear The wail of misery and fear That rends his souL The daylight fades and with it hope. Again through cruel night to grope His bitter lot But stay: What sound comes through the storm? A little voice: A child's wee form, Its way forgot: "Alas: poor comfort of my rest. Without a roof or shutter blest. What warmth is her*' We'll offer t:. r.i'.Jcred child— -0«2 • : :'_j oiorm is howiing wild. With wintry fear! "There, little one. I'll wrap this coat. Such as it is, 'bout arms and throat. Dear frozen mite I Lord! can X think beyond the j oars I My babe—adrift and cold—in tears On such a night! "Rest, child: your head upon this arm Is safe enough from other harm Than wolfish co'.d. Don't cryt Till morning comes Just sleep, Somehow we'll manage life to keep. You see I'm bolA" Along the slippery highways shine, Now high, now low, torchlights of pine, Whose eager rays Hunt but the shanows from the hedge And throw within the woodland's edge Their aniious blaze. They're meeting- at the corners now, Strong heads in tearful sorrow bow, For hope seems fled. When, from the hedge's gloom a moan Comes faintly, and the light is thrown, A glow of red. There, folded to a loyal breast The child enjoys a troubled rest, Yet nothing cares: He's certain his poor ragged friend Will guard till night be at an end, Though 111 he fares. The tramp, pocr fellow, bent and cold, A piteous sight—gray-haired and old- No word he said. They try to rouse him from his seat. But rest has come at last most sweet. The tramp Is dead: —George E. Bowen, In Inter Ocean. A PRECEDENT. Two Deer at One Shot Not Ex traordinary. The news liad come iu that a hunter back on P'ison Run had bagged two deer at one shot, and there was great diversity of opinion at the tavern as to whether the hunter had actually done It or not Some professed to believe it, while others loudly proclaimed that they would bet a little something that there wasn't a word of truth in it. The squire was among the latter, and the Old Settler coming in when the discus sion was at its height, he was placed in possession of the disturbing news. "W'at-a ye think 'bout it, major?" asked the Squire. •'Who were the hunter?" 6aidthe Old Settler, sitting down, and assuming a wise and judicial air. "Baisly Cronk," replied the Squire. "O'Cronk Hill?" asked the Old Set tler. "Yes; him." "Do y* krow wnther his gun were loaded tol'able heavy?" "Dunno nuthin' 'bout his pun!" "Did y' hear wuther he were patient er than common w'ile he were waitin' fer his shot?" "Duru his patience! Do y* b'lieve he got them two deer at one shot or don't y'?" "Were tha anythin' said 'bout his waitin' till he see the whites o' their eyes?" "See here, major!" exclaimed the Squire, his patience exhausted. "Be I a witness in a britch o' promise suit, or be 1 wantin' to know what y' think 'bout Baisly Cronk gettin' them two deer at one shot? It don't make no differ'nee, ez a matter o* that, w'at y* think; but w'at's all this here rig'ma role o' your'n got to do with it?" "Squire," said the Old Settler, bland ly, and without a feather ruffled, "alluz load yer gun heavy an' hev patience, an' don't shoot till y' see the whites o' their eyes. Then if y' don't git enough b'ar meat an' venison, et cettery, at one shot to last y' pooty nigh all win ter, it'll be sumpin' that hain't in none o' the perceedents o' the past that I know anythin' about! That is. pervidin' y' don't shoot too high, or too low, or too much on one side, or too much on t'other. Tha hain't nuthin' that'll knock perceedents inter a cocked hat so quick ez that kind o' shootln'! Do I b'lieve Baisly Cronk got them two deer at one shot? Not if he didn't hev his gun loaded heavy, nor didn't hev no patience, nor didn't wait till he see the whites o' their eyes, I don't. If he did hev all them, o' course I b'lieve it. An' if his gnn were loaded heavy enough, an' he had patience enough, an' he waited till he see the whites o' their •yes enough, he orter got more than two deer at shot. Tha's perceedents fer it." There was a look >of mingled disgust and commiseration on the Squire's face as he stood for a moment gazing at the Old Settler. Then he exclaimed: "Mebbe tha is perceedents fer it, but if tha's any perceedent fer a man a gittin' ez foolly ez you be, day arter day, I never heerd on it." "Mebbe!" said the Old Settler, with surprising and aggravating calmness. "But then tha's a good many things yon never heerd on, Squire, an' 1 shouldn't wonder if one of 'em were the time I stood on a runway fer an hour seein' a b'ar feedin' an' prancin' around in the scrub oaks, an' not wunst a-pullin' bead on him, 'cause I had pa tience, b'gosh, an' know'd that if 1 handled things right the future were bulgin' fer me with more than jist one b'ar! I shouldn't wonder a bit, Squire, but w'at that time were one o' the things you never heerd on!" The Squire shook his head slowly, and, as if soliloquizing over some mel ancholy fact, muttered: "Foolier an foolier ev'ry {lay! An' his pap lived tc be eighty-six an' wa'n't a mite child ishl An' a sensibler woman at ninety than his ol' mammy were I never see!" The Old Settler bristled a little, and there was a little warmth in hi 6 tongue as he remarked: "I was sayin' to M'riar only this mornin', 'M'riar,' I says, 'seems to me the Squire's gettin' oncommon sociable all to wunst, hain't he?* I says. "'How so?' says M'riar. " "W'y,' I says, 'he's stopped at the gate more'n a dozen times this week,' I says, 'an' ast p'tie'lar how you was,' I says, 'an' how yer lard tried out,' I says, 'an' how my roomytiz were,' I says, 'an' if my 'taters was rottin' any,' I says, 'an' if we wouldn't like to try a roastin' o' his spare ribs,' I says, 'an 1 seemed ter'ble anxious,' I says, 'about how things wa"s turnin' out 'round our premises in giner l,' I says. 'lt's ben a year an' better,' I says, 'sence the Squire has ben so oncommon sociable anxious. W'at do y' s'pose has struck him, M'riar?' I says. " 'Mebbe he's heerd,' says M'riar, 'bout them three bar'l o' cider we've rolled inter the cellar,' says she. " 'B'gosh!' says I. 'That's it!' " The Squire's response to this sally of the Old Settler was lost in the burst of laughter that the latter called forth, and when quiet was restored he waa serene and good-natured, and the Old Settler was beaming again. But he was not to be diverted from what he had set out to narrate, and he immedi ately returned: "Lippy Conkrigiit, he says to me one | day, he says: 'Sile, tha'e a slammin' over on Wild Gander,* he says. 'Less go an' plutr some inter it,' he says. That jist suited me clean through, an* we went," •' Will y' drive the ridge?' says Lip py. 'Or will y' stan' on the runway?* "'Woll, Lippy,' I says, 'bein's It's a cold an' squally day an' the runway is the toughest job," I says, 'you kin drive.' "So Lippy tojk the dogs an' went off back on the ridge to start out the big buck. I put myself on the ol' red oak runway an waited for the nnfort nit deer to come along. I hadn't ben there ten minutes 'fore off on the scrub oak barren I see a golthumpin' big b'ar come out and go to feedin' on the acorns. My gun were loaded heavy, I kin tell ye, an' I says to myself: " 'See here, b'ar," I says, *you come a C'.'.J r.'. ;!:cr, au' I'll lief to har- vest ye!' "Wull, the b'ar. not seein' or gittin' scent o' me, kep on feedin' nigher an' nigher, an' 1 could 'a' bored him ex easy ez borin' a hole inter a sap tree, but it come over me, ez the b'ar fed along, that w'at I wanted to do were to hev patience. " 'We hain't out arter b'ar,' I says. 'We'm arter deer, an' if I plug that b'ar,' I says, 'the buck is liable to hear it an' shy off fer some other runway, an' we won't git him,' I says. 'But,' I says, 'if 1 hev patience, tha's a future right here on this red oak runway,' I says, 'that'll make comin' ginerations hoi' up their hands an' wonder,' I says. "So, hevin' my gun loaded heavy, an' hevin' patience, I stood thar in the blustcrin' cold an' waited fer the future. The b'ar fed nigher an' nigher, an' come so close, b'gosh, that I conld 'a' twisted fur outen him with a ten-foot pole. Then he fed away ag'in, till he got most out o' range, an' then 'spose I hadn't 'a' had patience? I'd 'a' drawed head an' plugged that b'ar. sp'iled the future, an' my gray hairs'd a gone down in sorrer to the grave ev'ry time I'd a thort of it! "W'ile the b'ar were feedin' away from me two great big white swamp rabbits come a-lopin' out o' the bushes an' went to grass almost where I could touch 'em. Them kind o' rabbits was 6ca'cer than money in Sugar Swamp deestric' jist then, an' money were so sca'ce that folks usety come twenty miles to git a look at a silver shill'n' my pap brought with him from Jersey. If I'd 'a' had my ch'ice I'd ruther gathered in them two big white rab bits than the buck or the b'ar, an' if I hadn't had patience an' my eye on the future I'd 'a' banged away an' got 'em. But I let 'em feed an' said nuthin'. Ez the rabbits fed around a flock o' pheas ants come peckin' an' peckin' out inter the openin' right in front o' me. My mammy were consid'rable low with a fever in them days an' had been cravin' fer a hunk o' pheasant. I'd been out ev'ry day fer a week, an' I couldn't git pheasant to save my giz zard, an' here was a half dozent or more, an' all I had to do were to pep per 'em over! I come pooty nigh raisin' my gun an' bangin' 'em w'en my eye got onter the future ag'in, an' I stood still in the cold wind an' waited. "Ol' Jedge Sniffets, at the county seat, had a standin' offer o' sixty dol lars for the skin of a silver gray fox, but tha hadn't one o' them foxes ben seen in the deestric* fer ten year. Ez I stood there waitin' fer the future, with th" big b'ar feedin' in to'rds me ag'in, a., ihe white rabbits nippin' the grass around me, an' the pheasants peckin' in front o' me, I heerd sumpin' in the brush, off to ray right, an' peek in' out o' the corner o' my eye, w'at should I see but a shiny silver gray fox. " 'Gosh!' thinks I, an' 1 thunk it so hard it's a wonder the b'ar an' the rabbits an' the pheasants an' the fox didn't all hear iu 'Goal*! Thin future'* gointer be wuth while!* " The b'ar fed nigher an' nigher. I know'd w'at the fox were arter. He had his eye on them white rab bits. The rabbits nipped around till they was right behind me. The fox sneaked around nigher to 'em. The pheasants kep' peckin' away an' wal lerin' right in front o' me. Pooty soon I heerd the dogs, an' knowed the buck were comin'. " 'Now,' I says, 'if this here gun is only loaded heavy enough, b'gosh, the future is made!' "The b'ar got nigher, an' I see tbe deer creakin' over the ridge. " 'Wait till ye see the whites o' their eyes,' I says. "The b'ar riz np on his haunches ei he see the deer comin', an' I see the whites o' his eyes. The buck come boundin' along, an' ez I see the whites o' his eyes he were right betwixt me an' the b'ar. I let the ol' gnn beller. She were loaded heavy enough, fer she kicked me over back'rds like a log a fallln', an' I heerd the skeert pheasant! whizzin' up ez I went. I throwed up my hands an' clutched at sumpin' ez I went down. I squashed down on sumpin' that were soft and wiggly, an' I stayed there. I were sort o' obfusti cated fer a minute, but ez soon ez 1 come to, b'gosh, I know'd the future had come an' hadn't got by me. I had a pheasant by the neck in each hand. I had sot down onter the two white rabbits jist ez the silver-gray fox had made a jump fer 'em, an' the fox were ketched under me, too. Jist then the dogs come up, an' I riz up, piled my pheasants an' my rabbits an' my silver gray fox in a heap, an' went to see w'at else the future had brung me. The ol' buck were stretched out deader'n a log, an' on t'other side of him laid the b'ar! "Squire, 1 dunno whether Baisly Cronk got them two deer at one shot or whether he didn't, an' I don't keert" concluded the Old Settler. "But if he had his gun loaded heavy, an' had pp tie nee enough, an' waited till he see the whites o' their eyes, I say that ac oordin' to all the perceedents that 1 know anythin' about he orter got more than three deer, b'gosh!"—Ed Mott, in N. Y. Sun. How Things Have Changed. Tourist (from the north) —Uncle, can you get us up a real typical southern dinner? Mr. Milledge—Bless yo' heart, sut tin'ly, sah. Mammy, jes' tippicle a can ob dem Bost'n bake-beans, on t#r de fiah an' slice off a hunk ob dat Sheecago dried beef. We sen's all our chick'ns an' hawgs an' hominy down t" Ro'noke now, sah.—Judge. More Gas l ied. Slimson—Heavens! look at this gas bilL It is more than double what it was last month. Clara, can you account for it? Clara—l can, father. It was just a month ago that you forbade that lovely Mr. Spooner to call.—Judge. Had Been Paid For. Editor—You say you want a check for some jokes you left here two weeks ago? Why, those jokes have been paid for. Mr. Chestnut—How long ago, sir? "Oh, about fifty or a hundred years, I imagine."—Life. Encouragement for the Timid. "Humph!" said a young gentleman at the theater to a young lady, "I could play the lovor better than that myself." "I should like to see you try," washer naive reply.—Boston Globe. She Knew the Man. The Parvenu—l enjoyed a perform ance of the opera "Faust" last night. The Member of the Dahntay Club— Oh, how I envy you. Goethe's music must be f*> much lovelier than his libret to.—Chicago News Record. SIOUX MORTUARY CUSTOMS. Trrrlbl* *«lf-Tortur« Inflict#* by Both Br*vet »nd *qo»w«. The Dakota Sioux paint a corpse red across the mouth, the hand biaclc, with the thumb on one side of the mouth. A Sioux, says the St. Louis Republic, never cries with pain and never exhib its alarm at death or shows fear of any kind. The medicine bag is placed on the heart. There is little or no prepar ation for death. The corpse is blanket ed. boxed and lraried with the head to the south, whence they believe they originally came. A person who has been murdered by one of their own tribe is always buried face down, with a fat piece of pork or bacon In the mouth to prevent the spirit of the mur dered person from scaring the game from that section. A kettle of food is sometimes placed at children's graves. Girls eat the food out of it at girls' graves and boys at boys . The scalplock is cut off. hung up in the lodge and considered "keeping the ghost." Formerly these Indiana buried in a tree or on a platform, and burial in the ground waa a disgrace. They even sometimes carried the dead body of a person with them on their journeys. The most cruel mourning is practiced. The squaws hack themselves to pieces with stone flints until they are covered with blood. The braves run sharpened sticks through their fleah un til the scene is fairly sickening. A sin gle scalp avenges the death and atop* the mourning. While they mourn they never laugh, wash or comb their hair. They also have what is known as the "ghosts' gambol." The Minnataree In dians, of Dakota, cut off their fingers for the dead till the whole ground Is strewn with them.. They are Invari ably buried in a green blanket, though they never wear green when living. PUSSY DIED OF GRIEF. H*r Only Friend Wu a Xnrd«r*r Whom Sh« Followed to th« ScsSbld. Ellis B. Smith, the only republican sheriff Pettis county has had since the war, and the only sheriff that has ever executed a criminal during the criminal history of that county, was relating hi* experiences as an officer to a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I wit nessed quite a peculiar thing in the jail at Sedalia last year," he remarked. "I had the very unpleasant duty of offi cially removing an old man by the name of Tom Williamson, who had been con victed of a triple murder. About two months before the day of the execution the old man asked me to get him a young kitten to raise. I did so. An at tachment grew up between the two that was certainly remarkable. If at any time I happened to lock the old man up in a cell without the cat, she would raise such a disturbance that I would have to lock her up with him. They were together day and night. When the day of execution rolled around, the cat appeared to t>e the chief mourner and brought up the rear of the death march to the scaffold. When the trap was sprung, the cat walked back into the jail and, after walking up and down the corridor for an hoar, pounced upon old man Wil liamson's cot, where it remained for a week, refusing to eat or drink. A boat eight days after the execution I deter mined to remove her. When I attempt ed to frighten the cat off, I discovered that she was dead. I actually believe she grieved herself to death." PROGRESS IN BURGLARY. hb-Cr*ckln( flu EMOBC a Srt*nc« ud the Jimmy I* Obselet*. Burglary is a trade. It has Its tricks, its tools, and its ups and downs. It is a trade which, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is continually changing and improving. Methods of trnrt* t-njpn twenty years ago are hardly known now. The thiefa "jimmy" is ont of date. Safe-blowing has given way to safe-cracking. Four or five men, with a few sticks of dynamite, rob a train nowadays as easily as twenty men, armed to the teeth, did it a dozen years ago. But in spite of the changes the motto of all low-grade crooks is: "The way to steal is to steal." They em brace every opportunity, and steal whenever they can, often making a bnngling job and getting nipped. After a few terms in the penitentiary, how ever, they are no longer low-grade crooks, but have become educated pro fessionals. The penitentiary is their school. There they are taught all the improvements of the "trade," and there many burglars' devices are invented by brainy but vicious men. English Farm Hands. When, as rarely happens. English farm laborers come to this country, they find it extremely difficult to accommo date themselves to the current American custom of eating but three meals a day. An English maid servant and nurse who lived to be more than a hundred years old averred that she hat! always been accustomed to "a dew bit and break fast, a stay bit and dinner, a nommet. a crummet, and a bit after supper." Extra meals are common enoogh (luring the harvest season in this country. The hasty breakfast at half-past three in the morning is followed by a "stay bit" at eight o'clock and by a luncheon be tween the noon-day dinner and the after-sunset supper. In parts of south ern Pennsylvania the dinner hour is eleven o'clock in tbe morning, and it would not be difficult to show that Americans living on the aame meridian are dining all the way from that hour until seven in the evening. The great mass of country folk still dine at noon. Cnrlooa Death Custom* of FIJI. The Fijians believe that in case a marriageable youth or maiden die* without having gone through with the elaborate nuptial knot-tying ceremony of tbe islands his or her aoul is doomed to wander about forever in an inter mediate region between heaven and hell. When anyone dies, man, woman or child, a whale's tooth is placed in the hand of the corpse, the missile to be thrown at the tree which stands as a guide poet to point out the road that leads to Heaven and the one that leads to helL Waiting. Tbe mistletoe hangs from the cbaadelier, Her cheeks are ro»y red; Yet In her blue eye (learns s crystal tear— " He cometh not," she said. —Judge. The lnnorent Voting Thing. He —You know. Miss Smythe, I fancy you— She —Oh, George, this is so sudden.— Truth. ▲ MODERN CHIXNET-SWEEP. - it. Nicholas fggg FEEDING HEIFERS. ft* !*eed of a More !klutllc Trastmeat of Toung Dairy Stock. The first year of tbe dairy cow ia the most critical of all her life. Immature, because not more than half grown, she has had to give life to her calf, she is now called upon to give milk for het owner, and within a few months she will again have to furnish iife and sus tenance for her second calf. So she , has nearly a constant threefold demand upon her energies, and unless the ut- \ most skill Is taken the usefulness of the coming cow will be Injured by care- ! less and ignorant methods of feeding and care. This young heifer should receive, not only a great abundance of food, bnt that which is succulent and easily digested, and the greatest care should be taken to develop the aan mary gland That is, her food should be so regulated that it would not only • sustain her and produce material for j the growth of herself and the embryo I calf, but there should be a surplus re sult of the food consumed; the milk and butter product is the result of this surplus. We want to so breed and feed calves for the dairy that they will I make cows that will put this surplus i feed into the milk pail and nowhere else. 1 wish I knew how to better empha size the need of a more scientific treat ment of our two-year-old heifers. If all of them could be fed right for one or two generations, the average prod uct per cow of our dairies could be easily raised 20 per cent. As soon aa the animal digests and assimilates more than it wants for its daily susten ance. and all healthy animals can di gest more than ia needed for their daily wanta, it seeks to do something with it. Sow it is the province of the breeder to direct this surplus energy into specialized channels, a* may be desired, and creating a tendency to re ceive this surplus and store it in the form of growth, milk, beef or reserve energy appears to stimulate the power of the animal to increase the amount of surplus assimilated food, and so the animal may be induced to go on and in crease its production until it has reached the limit or end of the law of ita being. The change and variations desired often come alowly. but each additional generation may add some thing valuable of surplas directed ia the channel best suited to minister to the wants of makind. —Prof. I. P. Rob erts, in Farm and Home. THE COMING HOG. Not an Ideal-Looking Creator*. But a Very profitable Uae. The future hog must be a rustler, by which Is not meant a "raator back" or "hazel splitter" but one that has the getup and grow to him; an animal of fine proportions, with extra top line, broad deep hams, clean cut, smooth un der line, free from flabbiness of jowl or belly, with deep bacon aides and deepness extending well back to flank and forward to shoulder, not uneven, and deep in center, having a fine cut head, smooth and broad between the eyes, jaw broad and tapering well and even to muzzle, eyes clear and promi nent, with ears standing ont well from the head, breaking evenly and smooth towards the point, but wonld even pre fer a standing-np ear to a drop or flop ear, as a drop or flop, flabby jowl and anderline in my experience are not rustlers and are more inclined to di»- ease frou> »iki«ive «•# »«s and these bad habits are generally found together. The bone should not be too large, but one of fine and strong texture, legs firm, standing erect on their pins and tapering well from arm down to their feet. Some people have an idea that the size is the mo«t de sirable in the selection of a hog, and that large bones, no matter how badly shaped, is the hog for them, claiming that large hogs mutt have large bones. While a good bone is desirable, if well shaped, a small bone ia more to my notion than a big, awkward-shaped one, for this reason—a bog that has the right form and small bone po«sesses tbe property of patting on deep flesh and making big returns for his feed, and carrying to market desirable meat, while the other is a harder, longer feed er, and goes to market with a larger per cent, of low priced meat —IL C Dawson, in Colman's Rural World FINE COMBINATION. Stack Tard nad Manger for Pre.eatla# Waste la Feeding. Moat farmers utilise tbe straw move than they did twenty years ago. and many of them consider good bright oat and barley straw to be worth for feeding purposes quite as much as over-ripe clover or timothy hay. and, pound foe ■■ma ma lasiasiise waste IV FEEHM. pound, worth fully half as mochas any good hay. Hence, instead of wast ing the straw by bnilding flat-topped stacks and allowing the cattle and other stock to have free access to them, a yard is boilt around the stacks and the straw fed out as regularly as hay or grain. To make all secure a log pen ia built, like the one iu the illustration from a sketch by L. D. Snook. The logs rest upon a foundation of stone or wood, the lower log being one foot from the ground and three logs oo each aide, the extreme height of fence being sot leaa than four and a half feet On the leeward side of the stack pen a permanent and durable manger can be easily made from small poles. This may extend the entire leaffth of tbe pen and be built upon one or more sides. The straw is thrown into it di rectly from the stack, and if a ration of hay or straw be fed at noon it will prove equally as valuable, the only ob jection being that it ia located out of doors. However, it is more convenient and economical than to throw the food upon the ground or in the nearest fence corner.—American Agriculturist. Papa'* Consent. Bhe— Isn't it lovely? Papa consents. He—Does he, really? She—Yes. he wanted to know who you were, and I told him you were tape-clerk at Scrimp A Co.'a, and he seemed real pleased. He—l am delighted. She—Yes. and he said we could be married jnst as soon as you were taken into the firm.—X. Y. Weekly. Her Question. Briggs—l called on Miss Birdseye the other day in my new auit, and when I kissed her she waa quite indignant, un til I told her it was always the custom to christen a new suit in that way. Griggs—Then what did she say '.' Briggs—She wanted to know if that waa the only new suit I had. —C lothier and Furnisher. Hard on *appy- Barlow —Old man Timberw heels wants to condemn Sappy to perpetual ullence. Taddles—How's thaf Barlow—l beard him tell Sappy he ought to thiak before he speaks.— ABOUT ROOT CROPS. TWf An rrdaakU for r>rai - rortion to their price \go -! deal of art] work most go for alt the m »ner tbej bring. That ia true also of p>t» toe* The* are not like the cheaply and easily harvested graia crop* The roots are worse than potatoes ia tha, that after they are oat of the ground their tops bare to be rat 'iff Potatoes can be dag by machinery, and only need hand labor in picking jp and con to the market wir'a W»ll frown root crops. however. j wUI m much more heavily thaw do potato crop® that for tn.ise not afraid of hard work they pay better tbaa most others. If land is jp»l and sea son favorable they will, at * I -w pr-ce. give a lanre ret am per a—*. Root crops are one >f the sore ways by which an industrv>us man fan pa»- for his farm Maybe be will earn his farm while paying for it M -*t d«x Bat it is at least better thaa the hard work that men most afraid of labor often are obliged to do and grt »' re turn at all If • man has enough to sustain himself while working it be may bay an acre of rich Sand, pat it into roots ia the spring. s»t pay for the land with the prod art tue com ng tail It is not rery likely that the price of any kind of roots will fall low enouirh to prevent this betnir done There is never likely to be the clone competition In root growing in tbut country that will always prevail sn grain growing. Though they mar not w:sii t) grow roots for market, ye' farmer* should grow enough to at least make a change of feed for the stock they keep through winter Turnips and beet* axe best for hogs, and are especially good f<>r breed ing- sows before as weli at after far rowing. Carrots are excellent for horses. A peck of them a day is worth mora for each horse than the price of them in the market. Beet-*, carrots and parsnip* will each pay better fed to cows t'nan they will he to market. With a well stocked farm there im a home market for a large snppty of roots, and if any are grown for market ing by the bushel the horn- market may well take the place of any oUter when the price is !<->w. VALUE OF TILLAGE livrMMfd rralu la IW Hawse* ml Cow »-«»trstta bear tag another speak of a certain horse as be la if «|uite speedy, he replied "Troth. I know of a horse that' all trot as fast ss two av im That is the principle to work for Lay oat your capital ia better tillage. -Mi* more acres; ia better cows, horses. K-sf» aad sheep: aot more, bat better orv ia acrsa aad animals. Only ia this way caa true ecnaoay aad a eneservatisai of the farm forces be brooght a boat so as to enlarge the margia of profit The mlscbef with all oar producta ia that they coat ton much to raise Thm state of affairs will coatiaas with every farmer aatai he seea woes clear ly and app'les more energetically thta principle of less acres sad »>ettar til lage; less animals aad better nets Slowly In everi farming msuanitf are a few who are beginning to ge ad ta ste up aad oat of the low level of con trary ideas, and increased profits rome to them as a reward. —folman s Rural World. _ 80XES FOR VEGETABLES. The? are mm ( Sea* mm m Slaai i marevm aa4 Crates. The boxes here illustrated are the cheapest ones we make, says A. L Root, ia Handling Farm Produce, and a rrao aoaaa the ones which sell heat. Far the eada we use six slats instead of boards cross wise, thus making them open on the enda as well as the sides. These are used for tomatoes, apples, cucumbers, etc. In fact, there ia no fruit or vege table of about this site or larger that could aot be handled ia these craars They are aa cheap to ship garden staff to market ia aa the ordinary barrels and crates, bee idea beiag much lighter and neater. The above cut shows the manner in which ail the bones are packed for sapping Doctor—There is «ofnething yoa have which I have not yet been able to get at When I d». I think 1 caa get away with It in a very little while. Patient lugubriously—lt must be my bank account. —Truth. He—lf I should ask yoa to marry ae. what would row say? She —Oucse. || e —Well—cr—what would it rhyaae with? She -Guess.- Pack. t (ntkMß. "Don't you think, the mother said, proudly, "that her playing sfc. >w* a re markable finish**** ••Yes." replied the yoang a.an. ab sently, "but she was a ion# «iase get ting to It."—Jury. Woniaa'i s mr a Ware. Burglar—What woald yoa say If I was to blow ver head off for aot telling ao v»here your iuonev ia? Mr. Joker—Sot a word, air aot a word.—Boston Uioto :>*as»P>NG «IV|A tw rat taw r- .p 11 sm» ay a fMaa> itw «<■■■!■» a«» Saaafe. Twentv years ago tae jianpla at that wrtna >f the omatrr tahvat ia western Jlarth Cirnltoa aad aaaaent Teoaess.ee w permit: ee ia Ma «*• treme. said a traveler . n«uLy. Tew eoald real; not amm Mi a h-itt drevt had ever aeea a railroad or a tows of uae tboasaad lahahitaata, X was tramping *.h- igh the tanavtaiaa irrair iag some fc«Ft<-hea aad say wtfo. tdtott aa exceedingly hoadsctaa mvmmm etf tweatr. ace-impeeled aa «•» stopped one aight st *i«e ja'-.tt at a vrjwtlrr who was a typieal m. an'aiaa»r Bfs wife was a tall, raw Suaad. «laftartflT woaaa with a miff stveh aad a shar t ng-:.- After a sapper of "sanspaw milk aad fat pork the acat :.mfc ae • side aixi. •* inv.ng with has Uaaftssr. his sboalder *o tor aiwili'ii sia said. "How'll yoa iwt^T I had heard that the paoyla gf thr.: cuoatrv soaaatuaee traded wive*. I * regarded.'it aa a fiooiiaa lalwfn "Weil. * said I. inclined tu get «ast. amusement .mt <»f it mska aft *t "l kinder reefco*. aid Mm *..aad u swapper. ' that my s the awl She"s the btguwst'a' s>rnag» it She kaa mitt eows, dig wag aad kta wk a patiia to a tarn. But Pea had her nigh onto a rear aa" aas f.wsl of her old clapper ef a tmagma IT! swap even." I declined the .dfer aad ha teailv offered to give aa annt a mmi»l tdk and a Jus evnated to he iteath «s co>ma. Thu. '.iberal >ffer did aot tsmp' me. aad as we were ab»at ta teave he offere.! u> add a ;ag lawaiigbi whisky r.»» waa taa maeh for the temper of his partae r ** Well. Z -.ek Jenktaa. ' said the. with aaprrltv. "V ve Seea swappad tear timev an* you're the foot Mhr that dhi n't cacker!ate that I was wath a deal more ia a trailt then f ithe woman. '* Wo departed, leaeiag Xaca t» ea plain matter* aa beat ha eoaidL— dt Louis <#l«vhe-De-aoerah NEW INTOXfCAMT. The innabitaata od the anrthenreia part of Aeia rf danger to aad poiitictama. llortaraltaral Tina oae plain shave srtthml taato. "U --hers." be said, hp wag ad aar meat, Tw got aa swMRy lamts i t. aad I want yoa to to very earetol w it-"* The bar tor pmaemed asiaaeaiy • » aad thaa ha praeaedad to itrafi !' razor fiaalv He iafhared Ms parti lar c-ustomer carefWly. 9oah hia ea> hie band aad w£h oaa swipe Pia ■ heart lathar aad catfate fraat hasr ehu*. The aataeat bo a led with p aad situng «dt up m tha chasr aeed the barber repmacbfWly •What ia twiiufor see y««B m ■ Is* dnT* to iemamled. aagnty "Toa see my raaur m too sharp * mr og-je>> the • hesterlii lull— bm m so sharp that whaa « taham hah will aot let go aad I am .eiWed piay the .HIM mt" Time* wards Aaws- caaimil "assaar. * • s hitro. ne * I fie reiga sd B^apy aad it was h sag John who And graat the eitiaeaa u* Lmadna tha rtgh« electiag a mayor aanaaily Tha paa« ef "loci" aad tha style ia 3U Jones— I dna't believw Bhto half sa marh ainaey as ha >Hd tofosa to was laai i n d. Smith Xos I kaose to damt: hit wifo it MOW.. —« hacaffs later flaaam riara- Area t ynm afraai that aftor we are mamrl ww shai I gat tired ad to iag * •"barlie- But. tsar we shaft ha to gath-r so little.—T*sra Topssa *u».tsca tw HHt f '"r !B7 ' hf . ■ .ais" v.a *. she Bii: -Daisy' Why. a tang aafl ag HknaaUK* Jo toa. ShPh a whali hnokay' -Life Old Friaad- WdTl hriahdi tor yam wifo m faliy aa toll myat mm. *r Da *seh to a wbl.f » graeaa that's so. •How caase paa to maavy aarh a «fo Will il shs iilda*T seem »s»a. V uag CaUowa— I eagact to dMvt fta Loadom ami Paria toawevase. "tm I A anything for yaa? Praaella—Tea; la M>« aa# to wtm yomr atsamer Lifo Tern 'her I aa» to sna j— >ag t wntetoy jstq «of»«4aoF^ N0.15