VOL. XXX. BICKELS Grand Bargain Sale Still continues and will continue until we have sold out our stock of Sample Boots and Shoes and Oxfords. B&rgaiu BB«k«rrt8 B «k«rrt should not mis* thin Graod Bargain Sale a< we offering greater bargain* than ever before. Having received a Urge line of iadies fine shoas an i oxfords, I am pre pared to show a better selection than ever before, and prices much lower . Ladies Fine Russia Bluchers at $2.00 to $4.00. " " " Oxfords at SI.OO to $2,25. " •' Chocolate Oxfords and Blucher stjle at $2.25. " Hand Turn Oxford and Sonthern ties at $2 50. Ladies fine Dongola Shoes hand turn) jy i STYI FS a a a a a W elt) * J Misses Fire Dongo'a Shoes at $1 00 to $2.50.* '• School Shoes 75c to $1 25. " Tan or Red Shoes at SI.OO. " ' " Oxfords at 90c. CHILDREN'S SHOES AND OXFORDS ALL COLORS. Infant Shced at 18c to 50c. We Stand foi* Quality MEN'S .FIISTK SHOES. Oar Men's Cne shoes are more varied in styles this year than ever be fore, Ful- *!-«. ck of men's fine Tan shoes in Lace or Blocher styles. Men's fine patent leather shoes in lace and congress, plain toe and tips. Men's fine Calf, Cordovan, Kangaroo nod Porpoise 9hoes in all styles fid at low prices. Men's low cut shoes in Oxfords and Southern ties in Tan color or of Calf and Kangaroo stock. Boys' Tan BloChers at $1.50. Fine shoes, lace congress or button at $1 25 to $3 00 per pair. Our stock of men's and boys's working-shoes is larger tbau ever before. NOTE THE PRICES. ! Men's kip shoes 75c to $1.25. Men's grain shoes SI,OO and upward?. Men's grain box toe shoes at $1 50 and $2 00. Men's kip and calf box toe shoes $1 50 to $2,00. Men's fine calf dress boots at $2.00, fall stock of our own make- Boot and Shoe Repairing Neatly Done. COMPLETE STOCK Of LEATHER and FINDINGS. When in need of' anvtliins* in mv line give me a call. JOHN BICKEL. 128 South Main Street Butler. Pa. Spring and Summer FooTwear! You might just as well have the first selection from our new stock of shoes, slippers and Oxfords. Some of the new styles we arc showing this season in fine goods are fetch ing. The large and well selected line of LADIE S SHOES AND OXFORDS are worthy of special mention; however, we will only state that you will be pleased with their style and fit, and we are 1 selling the very prettiest styles ut prices ranging from 75c to $2.25. Light colors will predominate in Children's Footwear this season. Call and see the pretty things we arc showing in Tan and Chocolate Colored Oxfords and Blutchers. We have more and prettier styfes for little ones to select from now than ever before. SHOES FOR GENTLEMEN. In regard to our new goods for gentlemen, we wish simply to state that we have exercised our usually care in their se lection. We have all the newest and latest styles in men's and boys' wear. We feel confident that we can suit you not only in the shoes but as to the price. AL. RUFF, 141 S. Main St. 1 N. B..—Just now our BARGAIN COUNTKR is quite a 1 feature. Almost all the goods on it arc marked at less than half price. SP SHSESFOR EVERYBODY, i An immense exhibit of spring shoes. All ' TOUR FEET CAN BE the latest shades in tan goat and Russia ' FITTED WITH calf, newest tips and styles of lasts. We 1 HUBELTON'B SHOES. show everything in the lino. Footwear 1 worth the having—but no traßh. ( LADIES' FINE SHOES. Never have shown to onr customers so many new and heautifnl 'styles as we are showing this spring, we are drawing customors every day by the power of low prices backed with good quality. There is nothing,in a low price unless the qnality is back of it. | LADIES' FINE SHOES. All the styles worth having have found there way to our bonse Ladies' fine shoes from 85 cts. to $4.50. Don't forget to see our shoes at SI.OO, $1.25, $1.40, $1.50 and $2.00, tip or plain too,common sense opera or Phil'a. last. MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S FINE SHOES. We are showing a beautiful line in tan goat and Russia calf, heel and Spring. Tbey combine beauty, service and low prices. Misses' shoes at 80 eta. op Pine dungola patent tip spring heel, 12-2 only SI.OO. Misses'and children's oxfords all colors. Infants soft solo shoes in colors. Children's •boe« 25 cts. to 50 cts. MEN'S FINE SHOES. # New attractions in high grade goods of the latest make, sound in quality, thay are straight square bargains every one of them, and at a close | price. Men's brogans only 70 cts. and sl.oo' Men's fine shoes with tip at SI.OO and $1.25. Men's fine shoes extra nice at only $1 50 Men's fine ■boes genuine calf fine only $2.00. In lace and congress tip or plain, then onr tan bluchers and patentcalf are beauties, goodyear welts aud baud Mired in calf and cordovan at $2.50 and up. IN BOY'S AND YOUTH'S SHOES We lead at usual in style, qualitj aud low prices. Boy's fine button or lace at SI.OO and $1.25, sizes 3to s£. Youth's fine shoes at 75 and SIOO. Full line Men's box toe heavy shoes in grain and kip at $2.00. Kip box toe boots, three soles, long leg, at s:{.oo and 3.50. Repairing all kinds done at reasonable prices. Came and see for yourself. B. C. HUSELTON. •SPRING.* . We are approaching the days of all the year, the days when the air is freighted with the perfumery of flowers, and everything is symbolic of Peace and Good Will. In this respect these days re semble our shoes Their Good Will is shown by their willinguess to stand by you,as long as you stand iu them. (Quality, not price is cheapness, and we believe our prices quality considered to be the lowest in Butler. ROBINS BROS., 8. B. Corner of Diamond. • .. _ Butler, Pa /v ' • THE BUTLER CITIZEN. ITHE KIND | | THAT CURES! I " i I * W 'J A I ■' n #! •- ' B Ijj * A. iVOLLABER, ■ 1 Torturing Eczema, ™ ■INDIGESTION AND! I LOSS OF APPETITE | j§ CURED. m H Tire FOtio WIN:; bi®o:,*o TKSTl mental WABB ==9EXT I*S 15V TH>: LAfci.- MTBCIiANTILE UOLSE=== ■<>R C. \v. PALM ZN Co., IIESJOMEB, X. Y. ■ ~I>ANA SAMAL'AE.LLA CO.: GKMTLZXEX Dtirimj the thr* year* Bhst-e 9ul! i 1 e n udcraiAy -.r'th I>zenta, fetM ==tira'*s so that 1 vrzs una! to cttend to my work. 1= sutf red Iroin iutlittcmion, andV&s bauiyaa ■run d jw:;. I trie-! van :s rern'.-dic* without =«in:ng any relief until I wad induced to tiy I D\v\'tf 1 §. SARSAPAR ILL A 1 ■I have taken on'.v two * . cr. 5 feel like aB n«-.\ man. Plapl . .. blotches = e«t irc-ly isection good. In fact I believe ifß| I had not taken lIANA'S I would not be nli\'e?= ==now Yours truly, H Htltotr.S. V. L. A- VrOLi~iLc.il. gf = Dana Samparlila Co., Belfast. Maine feed. For prices an'J terms Ad dress, J. W. MILLER, 131 Mercer St, Butler' Pa. SPRING STYLES READY. YOU WILL CERTAINLY HAVE A SUIT MADE TO ATTEND THE WORLD'S FAIR. YOU CAN AF FORD IT, WHEN YOU SEE THE SPLEN DID ASSORT MENT OF MATERIAL, AND THE MOD ERATE. PRICE AT WHICH WE MAKE YOU A SUIT THAT IS CORRECT TO THE LATEST DECREE OF FASHION. Aland's, Tailoring Establishment. C. & D. ALWAYS Take into consideration that money saved is as good as money earned. The best way to gave money is to buy good goods at the right price. The only reason that our trade is increasing constantly is the fact that we handle only goods of first quality and sell them at very low prices We have taken unusual care to provide everything new in Hats aud Furnishing Goods for this season, and as we have control of many especially good articles iu both lines we can do you good if you come to us. We confidently say that in justice to themselves all purchasers should inspect our goods. Visit us. COLBERT & DALE, 242 S. Main street, Butler JPH. Wall Paper CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, FINE AS THE FINEST. -A/NID The C 'hoice of All, .A.T J. H. Douglass' Two Doors North of Postoffice. Hotel Butler, J. H. FAUBEL, l'rop'r. This hp use has been thorough ly renovated, remodeled, and re fitted with new furniture and carpets; has electric bells and all other modern conveniences for guests, and is as convenient, and desirable a home for strangers as | can be found in Butler, Pa. Elegant sample room for use of commercial men. CONNORS. The* Value of a Kind Word to a Lonely Man. "Connors," the lieutenant had said during their memorable interview, "hare yon never known anyone who was always interested in what you did. who was sorry wh"n you got into trouble, and glad when you behaved yourself?" "No, sir," he had replied; "I ain't had friends. 1 don't seem to mak3 friends easy. I had a good pal oncet in Chicago, but he didn't gave a—he didn't care anything about my gettin' into trouble." "Connors," said the lieutenant, and he looked thoughtfully at a .silver framed photograph on hi.s desk, that Connors saw w.. . a picture of a little girl with long tresses of wavy hair, "I've a little daughter back in St. Paul.. I hope she will come out here some time. More than anything else 1 should like to leave to her the memory of her father as an upright and, I hope, a brave soldier, and if I have any as pirations for great deeds in this profes sion of ours, it is because 1 want her to be proud of me when she grows older. I think it helps us to do right if we sometimes think of the sorrow we bring to those who love us and to our friends when we do wrong, and, if you've no objections, Connors, I should like you to think of me as your friend, if yon will, for I take more of an in terest in you than in most men I've known in the ranks, and nothing would do me more good than to see you bring credit on yourself and your regiment, and hardly anything would grieve me more than to see you go to the devil, ai you will if you don't stop now. But I think you will stof), and, if you will let me, 1 should like to shake hands with you." Connors had suddenly found the pic ture of the little girl grow rather dim before his eyes, and something felt un pleasant in his throat, but he managed to mutter a "Thank ye, sir," and since that time he had been drunk only once, and the feelings he had known when he found that the lieutenant had heard of that he had never experienced before. And now he was standing on the edge of the parade-ground looking out on the brown prairie over which the cool au tumn wind was steadily sweeping, and wishing he had been a better man. Far away the curious peaks and rocks of the Bad Lands rose like the citadels of some ancient city. The scene was a picture of dreariness, not a living or moving object in sight. If Connors had been imaginative he might have fan cied he was a lonely mortal looking out on the primeval world. But his weary familiarity with these surround ings prevented their arousing any un usual feelings. He was thinking of his wretched boyhood and youth, and of the vice and crime he had seen and taken part in, of the year's sentence he had served, and how he had enlisted under an assumed name to es cape capture for shooting Sandy Feters in Fagan's saloon in Chicago. It was true that if he had not shot Sandy, Sandy would have shot him, but he knew very well that the plea of self-de fense would have availed him little? with his past record, and with any number of Sandy's friends ready to testify against him lie had sometimes wished since then that he had not dodged the rough's pistol, but had stood still and made a fitting er.d to his youthful but precocious career in the appropriate setting of the vilest dive in Chicago, and gone into the history of that city's crime as a terror to the po lice and an object of worthy emulation to every young tough. What made this all the more pllluVlc who Onl Cuuuors, with all his knowledge of evil and un happiness, was little more than a boy in years, the time when hope should seem brightest and life most full of promise. But of late, since that talk with the lieutenant, and especially bincc the little girl had come out to join her father, life had seemed more hope ful somehow —he could not exactly tell why. "They're the only friends I've ever had—him and the little 'un," said Connors to himself, "and I won't go back on 'em; I'll be a credit to 'em yet —if I can." A great intimacy had arisen between the little girl and Connors from the moment when tho lieutenant had intro duced them and the child had said, in a polite little grown-up manner: "I'm very happy to meet you, Mr. Connors," and had insisted on shaking hands with the orderly, much to his con fusion, for lie did not know exactly what to do with the soft little hand she held out to him, and his sensations were curious as he looked into tho great brown eyes she smilingly raised to his. "I think Connors will excuse your calling him mister," said the lieuten ant, with a smile. As Connors looked out on the prairie and thought in his way about all these things, he was conscious that he had changed very much in the last few weeks. If he could have analyzed his feelings he would* have said tlmt he had more self-respect than ever before, for he had been lh'ing straighter, as he would have expressed it. He had a dis tinct longing to do something in the world, and to bring some happiness to those who were kind to him —matters he had never taken much interest in hitherto; but he may not have been greatly to blame, perhaps, for he had never known anyone who was kind to him. As he stood there he heard his name called behind him, and turning, saw the little girl running toward him across the parade ground, without her hat, the wind waving her brown hair back from her forehead. * When she came up to him she caught hi.s hand in one of licr own, resting the other con fidingly on his coat sleeve, aud, as she looked up at him, Connars saw that licr eyes were brimming over with tears, and a frightened little quaver sounded in her voice as she said: "Connors, they're—they're going off to fight the Indians. Papa will have to leave me, won't he? and he may be killed. Oh. Connors, do you think he'll be killed?" and she bent her head oyer Connors' blue sleeve anu sobbed aa if her heart would break. "Don't cry, miss," said Connors. "Killed? W'iiy, he couldn't get killed if he wanted to. I'ooh!" he contin ued, grandly, "Injuns is all cowards— they'd run if you waved your hand at 'em." lie knew that, not to put too fine a point upon it, he was lying outright; but he told himself that he was used to it and ought not to mind it now. "Do you think, Connors, you could take care of him some and not let him get shot?" said the little girl. "Why, certainly, miss," answered Connors, promptly. '•You see, I'd feel more comfortable if I knew you were looking out for him." "I'll take care of him all right, miss," said Connors. "Don't you worry. Why. in a few days he'll he back here same as to-day." "Connors," said the little girl, brokenly, in a rush of childish grati tude, "you're—you're so good." "Me good," groaned Connors, inward ly, as they turned back toward the fort. Four days afterward all that was left of a detachment of twenty officers and men from X Troop, Tenth United States cavalry, were grouped in an ir regular circle on a small liillcck in Devil's Creek canyon, husbanding their remaining cartridges, and sometimes wondering whether they would ever see the familiar buildings of the fort again—a hypothesis that seemed cx- B ITTLKK. FRIDA'Y, MA V MK IS treineiy linproDame even to tne most sanguine. They knew that two of their number had been killed when the led horses were captured, and the bodies of two more were-lying side by side in the center of the group, while three were wounded and one of whom was slow ly dying behind a protecting rock. The rest were crouching or lying behind the rocks and rubbish they had hur riedly heaped np as a breastwork, wat hing for stray shots at -.he dusky figures that were occasionally seen darting from rock to rock or leaping up suddenly to fire into the little circle. They knew that there had been some mistake in the information they had received. No one had imagined that there were such numbers of hostilcs so near them. They had been entrapped, cut off from the horses and surrounded before they fairly knew what had hap ponc .. T'.:3 regiment was doubtless expecting their return, but could have had no news of their danger or of the proximity of the Indians unless the redskins had been bold and numerous enough to attack the whole force sent against them. The small supply of water was going fast and the number of cartridges was becoming smaller and smaller. They knew very well what to expect; in a few hours there would be the yell, the rush of the hos tiles, the hand-to-hand fight, and all there would be left "would be the heap of bodies on and about those forms al *eady in the center. But the discipline of the regular service was strong even in this crisis, and the love of fighting for its own sake, that makes good sol diers, was still apparent in the gleam that shone in a man's eye when ho saw through the smoke of his carbine one of those dark figures throw up its arms and fall back. Most of the men felt in some way that there was some thing heroic in this position; they understood that they would die as true soldier.; should fighting to the last. But the lieutenant wondered, as he steadily watched a rock from behind which two Indians were tryiug to get a shot, why the inspiration supposed to accompany such scenes was wanting. In another part of the circle Connors had been meditating a plan for the last hour, and as night approached it be came a determination. Near his posi tion, outside of the circle, was quite a large number of bowlders piled togeth er, around which the sagebrush had sprung up rather thickly. On this side the Indians were fewer, and he thought that perhaps it might be possible for a man to get through them in the dark. If thff scene had been changed to the slums of Chicago, and the Indians to policemen, he felt quite sure he could do it easily. But he reflected that In dians and policemen differed. Still, there was a bare chance, better, at least than waiting to be butchered, and he determined to try it. When the stars began to appear, and the enemy commenced to fire more rap idly, he turned to the man next to him. "Look a-herc, Jim," he said; "I'm—" There was a crash of two or three shots from the Indians, and Jim rolled over on his side, his arms and legs con tracted, then stiffly extended, while his face turned a ghastly white, and Con nors saw that he was stone-dead. They dragged the body into the center and laid it beside the others. Connors thought better of speaking to anyone about the project, and in the slight confusion occasioned by moving the mar who had just been killed, stepped suddenly into the darkness, over tho low protection, among the sage-brush and rocks, and disappeared. The men in the circle wondered at the sudden firing and a few yells among the enemy, and as Connors' absence was not no ticed in the excitement, a faint hope of relief was raised; but the noise soon subsided, and all was as before. In the camp of the regiment the men were bitting about the fires singing and telling stories, while the officers were gathered together smoking, and occasionally wondering where that de tail of X troop could be. Still there was no real anxiety, as no hostiles were supposed to be in the neighbor hood. The prairie stretched away lonely and white in thcmoonlight, aud the voices of the regimental singers sounded sweet and plaintive on the night air. On a sudden there was a shout from the sentinels on the western side of tho camp, the singing stopped, and two or three of the officers ran toward the western outposts, while some confusion arose in the camp. Soon there were cries for the surgeon, and that officer, who had been interrupted by the noise at the height of one of his best stories, grumblingly arose and walked over to the spot where a group of men had gathered, bending forward to look at something in the center of the crowd. As the surgeon approached he was sur prised to see an unmistakable Indian pony standing perfectly blown near the knot of men, its leg? wide apart and head down, while the steam rose from its wet skin. "Here's the doc tor," said some one, and tin* .surgeon made his way into the center of the group. Connors was on the ground, hi.s head and shoulders supported by one of the men. He was trying to say something, but could hardly whisper. "The detail's up in Devil's canyon— eight miles—east side. Injuns all around 'em —shootin' 'em like dogs may be all dead now. For God's sake hurry!" whispered Connors, weakly, and then fainted. In the circle in the canyon a little flicker of hope had arisen when Con nors was missed, and the shots and yells of the enemy thus accounted for; but the probabilities were so much against any man being able to get through alive that it was a very small llarne, indeed. The heap in the center was larger, and the grim certainty that that fatal rush would come and the wish of all that it might come soon were stronger every minute. It was quite clear moonlight now. The shots of the enemy came faster, and had closed in perceptibly in the last hour. The men fired slowly, and the order was given for each man to use his last two cartridges on no account till the end. They could not see the Indians, but fired at the Hashes. The faces of the men were set and rather pale; one, with a bloody shirt sleeve bound tight ly around his head, looking particular ly ghastly. The wildest rumors were entertained by the most hopeful, but the determination of despair had set tled on most. One poor wretch, mor tally wounded, lay near the center, talking loudly in his delirium. He thought he was back at the fort with his chum, Tom Gordon, one of his trumpeters. Suddenly the shots came faster, and the Hashes drew quite close, especially 011 the side where the defense was lowest. "They're coming in a minute," said In an instant there was a harsh, wild yell of a single voice from the savages, and immediately the cry was taken up by the creatures hidden behind roclt and sage bush, till the whole canyon seemed to be full of devils. "Here they come, boys!" shouted tho sergeant. He was an older man than most of them, and his stern white face looked steady and cool as lie raised his carbine for those last two shots. liut there was a pause among the savages. Most of the men thought it was the stillness that came before the rush. In the lull in the firing the voice of the wounded man could be beard. "IlarU!" he said, in a hoarse whis per, and raised his hand waniingly. the biiL'le! It's Touynv. I'd Know that bugle anywhere." But they thought he was raving, and lie lapsed again into his fever, thinking: he was at some great review. But the lieutenant bent forward and listened. "Keep quiet," he said. '"Lis ten!" And up the canyon, through the heavy smoke of the rifles, came the notes of a bugle clear and distinct in the sudden silence. It was the "gal lop." It was rather a chokiug, feeble cheer the j- gave, but it reached the regi ment. "There they come!" yelled the ser geant excitedly. And they dimlj- saw a dark mass in perfect order come around a projecting' crag of the canyon and move swiftly and steadily up the great gulch A few shots met the ad vancing column. The Indians around the circle were slipping away. In a few moments the colonel stepped over the low breastwork, went up to the lieutenant, who was leaning dizzily against a rock, and took his hand. The colonel did not say anything, for he was not a demonstrative man, and per haps he thought no words were needed. But he stood silent for several min utes, and the men came up and stood about looking with half-smothered curses and wild faces on the debris strewn bit of ground, on the cartridge shells, canteens, torn pieces of cloth ing. and on the pathetic heap in the center. Gordon, the trumpeter, had one of the bodies in his arms, and, with his back to the moonlight, was crying like a boy. Connors woke at last, with a rather luxurious sense of weakness, with a dim recollection of some horrible dream, but with a feeling that it was all over now, and that ho was rather happy and contented than otherwise. llis head felt cool, aud though when ho tried to raise his hands he found tint they were so heavy he could not lift them six inches, the discovery some how did not cause him much anxiety, but rather amused him. lie must have slept again, for the n3ter (in cheap restaurant) —The steak they have here reminds me of a woman's work. Willard —Why so? Iloster—lt is never done.—Truth. In the Country. "John, John! Tho house is on fire. Ring for the fire engine." "I guess not! We're insured against fire, but not against firemen. Let her burn." —Jury. Good Kcason Why. Mr. Fog—Yes, he must have been a good husband. They tell me that his wife says she never saw the least fault in him. Mrs. F.—Perhaps she was blind.— Boston Transcript. An lusuperablo Objection. "Barrows' wife is a very handsome woman." "But she has one abominably homely feature." "What is that?" "Barrows." —Harper's Bazar. NOT THE ONLY ONE. Mrs. Lafferty—Oi was a big fool to marry yez, so Oi was. If it wasn't for me ye'd shtarve to death. Mr. Lafferty (haughtily)— Don't be so stuck-up, Mrs. Lafferty. You needn't t'ink dthere air no other fools in dthis wor-r-rld besides yoursilf.—Puelt. Well Said. Flattery, when delicately adminis tered, cannot fail to be acceptable. "You forget that I am an old woman," said a lady, in response to an admiring remark from one of the old school. "Madam," was tho reply, "when my eyes are dazzled by a diamond it never occurs to me to ask a mineralogist for its history." Horace Walpole in dining with the duchess of Queensborough ou her eightieth birthday, said, in pro posing her health: "May you live, your grace, until you begin to grow ugly!" Her ladyship's tongue was as ready as his own. She replied; "I thank you, Mr. Walpole. May you long continue your tasto for antiquities!"—Waverly Magazine. Some Mistake. Cubbage—Did you say Snooper could play the French horn? Rubbage—Y cs. Cubbage—lt's all a mistake. He doesn't know a word of French. — Judge. A Content in Wealth. "My papa owns a gold mine," bragged Wallic. "That ain't anything," retorted Fol ly. "My mamma owns a check-book, an' just writes all the money she wants." —Harper's Young People. Ho Wan One. Cholly—Don't you believe what I saw myself? Perhaps lam an idiot Trotter (dryly) —My dear boy, don't make such a statement —there's 110 per haps about it.—Truth. Ilx<'h;iiiCC of Mrs. Gofrequcnt—My husband is a bear on 'change. Mrs. Fly about —So Is mine. Never given me a cent. —Chicago Tribune. LACE MAKING. A School Near Venice Where the Art li Taught. A school of about three hundred and fifty Italian girls, wearing the national costume and all industriously at work ou exquisite lace, is a pleasant and in teresting place to visit. So writes Mme. de Boret, who visited a lace making school at Ilarano, an island in the Adriatic s«a a few miles from Venice. The girls, who are from ten to eighteen years of age, sit in great, barely furnished, well-lighted rooms, on low chairs, holding their lace frames on their knees. They wear a short, bright-colored petticoat, a green, red or orange fichu crossed on the chest, silver rings in their ears, and around the neck bead or coral necklaces. They have dark eyes, teeth like pearls, smiling red lips, oval faces, fine profiles, and black hair worn knotted in the back of the neck with a silver pin by the older girls, or in long ringlets by the younger on«s. They draw their needles slowly and gracefully back and forth, and grave ly except when some girlish joke raises a storm of smothered laughter. The teachers superintend the work carefully, and the pupils make fine Venetian, Brussels, Aleneon and Ar gentan point aud guipure laces. They sometimes fill orders for veils worth five thousand francs. A lace drapery which was shown Mme. de Boret repre sented a vast amount of work. Seven months had beeu spent in making the foundation for it. The price of the laces is fixed ac cording to the time spent in making them, the rate being a franc a day. The more skillful pupils add to their income by doing lace work at home also. They all like the school, and though the pay seems small for such fine work, it secures them a comfortable living, for a little money goes a long way in the island of Burano. Queen Mar gherita of Italy has been a generom patron of the school. THE COLORS OF BUOYS. Each One a Message to the l'atftlng Sailor. When you enter any harbor in the world where the channel is marked by buoys you will find that those on your right, as you pass in, are painted red, and those on your left black. If you should set- one painted in red and black horizontal bands the ship should run as close to it as possible, because that indicates the center of a narrow channel. Buoys with red and black vertical stripes always mark the end of spits and the outer and inner ends of ex tensive reefs where there is a channel on each side. When red and black checkers are painted on a buoy it marks either a rock in the open sea or an obstruction in the harbor of small extent, with channel all around. If there are two such obstructions and a channel between them the buoy on the right of you will have red and white checkers and the one on your lett will have black and white checkers. When a wreck obstructs the channel a green buoy will be placed on the sea aide of the wreck, with the word "wreck" plainly painted on it in white letters, provided there is a clear chan nel all around it; otherwise, an even number will be painted in white above the word "wreck" when the buoy Is on the right side of the channel ana an odd number if the buoy is on the left. MILK CARTS IN FRANCE. They Are Alwayn Drawn by Dogs and Women. No mattei how much an American has heard of foreign milk carts drawn by dogs, and often by dogs and women, it always seems odd to see such a strange team, says Harper's Young People. The dogs have pretty harness es, and draw bright green carts, but they look really unhappy, as if they haa no pleasure in their work. They trot along with their tongues out of their mouths, and when they meet an other dog they cannot even stop to bow to him. An American child would Bay: "Poor doggie!" It is said that some countries have made laws prohib iting dogs from working as milk-car riers, and in a few years dog milkmen may be a sight of the past. It is queer that there are so many kinds of milk cans in the world. In America milk is carried in glass bottles and in small round tin cans. In England a pretty tin milk-pail is \ised, furnished with a brass handle and a wide brass hinge to the cover. The handsomest milk-cans in the world are the great brass cans which are seen in the little European milk carts. They glitter like gold, and the froth of the white milk makes pearl rims upon the well-filled cans. It is no wonder that American artists take these cans home to shine in dark cor ners of their studios. KWISH Watchmakers. Watches were made in Geneva as early as 1500, and now that watchmak ing lias become a national industry in Switzerland schools for the perfection of this profession have been established there. Tho principal one of these is L'Ecole Municipale d'Horlogerie in Geneva. A boy enters this school at the age of fourteen and works ten hours for eleven months. Seven hours out of every week, however, are given to various studies. The second class re quirws a stay of five or six months; the third six or seven months; the fourth six months; the fifth—when the work is growing very complicated— eight months; the sixth thirteen months and the seventh and last class about one year, making about five years in all. At the end of the five years each boy has made twelve watches, which are his own property. Trade* of Turk.. Every Mussulman, however high his rank, from the sultan down to the low est dervish, is compelled to have a trade. The grandfather of the present Bultan was a toothpick maker. The boatman, porter or groom is eligible to the grade of pasha. The butcher of to-day may be generalissimo of to-mor row, and the lowest slave may become grand vizier Not I'xclatiive. First Little Miss—Our family is awful exclusive. Is yours? Second Little Miss —Of toursc not. We hasn't anysing to be shamed of.— Hood News. Knle Applied to llotli. Wife (to husband, whoso loud snor ing keeps her awake)— Charlie, Charlie, do stop snoring! Turn over on your side. (Nudges him.) Husband, ouly half awake, grunts, turns on his side and continues to snore. Wife has a happy idea, llemembers a line from an article called: "How to Prevent Snoring." Gives her husband a second nudge, which elicits another grunt. "Oh, Charlie, if you'd keep your mouth shut you'd be all right!" Charlie (still semi-conscious) —So would you.—Boston Globe. 11 «• Hail lilt* Mcaiturc. Mr. F. 11. Winston and Hon. 11. A. Gilliam were for years leaders at the Bertie county (X. C.) bar, and had each a full appreciation, from experience, of tho skill of the other. At one term Mr. Winston was suddenly called away, and placed his business in the hands of his nephew, Duncan Winston, a recent acquisition to the bar. "Now," said he, "Duncan, if Gilliam makes you any offer of a compromise, decline it. If you make him one, and 30U find ho is about to accept, with draw it immediately."—Grcon Bag. VARIETY NECESSARY. A Ttc! N'ot an Thnnmghly l nil.Tsto.xl u It Should lie. One article fed to stock may contain all of the elements necessary to main tain an animal life, yet it will be an ex ceptional case when any one material can be considered the most economical to feted The principal ivason for this is that S..UU" of the elements will be in excess as compared with others. An animal will use only a certain propor tion of the different elements, so that if more than is needed is in the food it is more or less wasted. The most eco nomical feeding is that which supplies the elements of nutrition in the right proportion to secure the results 'or which it is supplied. It is for this rea son that in nearly all cases and with all kinds of stock a good variety is essen tial to the seenring of th>- best results. But the obji*t for which the food is supplied must be considered in deter mining- the ration to ba iriven. Some materials are best adapted to growth and others are fattening 1 . One is best to secure a good growth and develop ment of bone and muscle while another is best to finish for market. One will help to increase the quantity of milk while another will add to the quality. • Corn is acknowledged to he one of the very best rations for fattening- stock of any kind while oats is one of the very best single rations to feed for muscle alone. ( A knowledge of the nutritive value of differe.it materials is valuable in .feeding, as iu ihc majority of cases the work can be done more economically. To secure the best results, a variety should combine the elements of animal nutritions in the right proportions. This will be found in a mixed ration of the cereal gTains and grasses. Corn is a heating food and can nearly always IMJ used to a go->d advantage in the winter ration, but less is needed iu summer except with fattening stock. Hogs can be fattened very rapidly now if they can have the run of clover and are given all the corn they will eat. Cows that are to give the largest flow of milk can be given bran with ground oats and corn m»al during the summer even when on good pasturage. Oats can be made the principal ration of the work teams because oats supply the elements needed for bone and muscle. Yet a bran mash once a week with a change of other materials, will help ma terially in keeping up good condition. No set rules should be followed as the materials growp on the farm mnst in a measure determine what the rations shall be. They will vary with locality. —Prairie Farmer. BARN FOR HORSES. An Excellent Pi»n Dnilgitnl by a Nebraska Farmer. Mr. C. Ernest Brown, Antelope coun ty, Neb., sends to the Prairie Farmer a most excellent barn plan which we have had engraved to pretty much tell its own story. Mr. llrown in his note says: It will stable twelve horses; mow capacity, about twenty-five tons; corn, about 1,800 bushels ears; threshed grain, about 5,000 bushels. This plan can be reduced to 38x40 feet if smaller capac ity is wanted, but should be 16-feet ELEVATION OF BAITX. posts. Elevator dump is under floor, and holds about sixty bushels of grain. A in elevation and in lower parts of ground plan is power tumbling rod under floor; power outside; band wheel under floor. B, grain chute iu driveway; C, movable window for throwing in ear corn from outside; D, fjrain elevator; F, doors for ventilation; G, slanting floor of grain bins. The interior of corn crib should be made of Ix 4 inch strips perpendicular. "4 • * ' * * l HOMO iTALU. Bct« umtiM AMujtffc ■*A»o* -f**" "" Urtl ** tilt CH'MIMT I *At«I4Q I I I «««!» in. CMdjuilt 1 uw«l >LW >X-A (I rf- GROUND PLAN. Driveway may be covered all over and large hay doors made in each gable to receive the hay; or, partly cover, and put liaj' up from inside. Should be about three windows back of Cost of barn will depend upon legation and size. LIVE STOCK NOTES, THE same feed that makes beef in one cow makes butter in another. WHETHER you feed two or three times a day, see that the animal has all it wants. IT is claimed that the feed that will make a pound of beef will make a pound of butter. TnE difference between the gain on a scrub animal and full blood will often pay for the feed. LACK of water or a supply of bad wa ter is oftener the cause of sickness among stock than is supposed Risks from Corn Feeding-. Exclusive corn feeding is the cause of more losses of hogs than any other thing. It is because corn is perhaps one of the hardest grains to digest un less ground and cooked. Even then it is too rich, and liable to bo overeaten, thus causing indigestion. It is better to feed growing pigs milk with a mix ture of oats and fine wheat middlings until they are ready to fatten. The best p6rk is made in this way. —Rural World. Sure to lie Found. Policeman—Well, my little dear, if you can't tell mo your mother's name, or where she lives, how are we to find her? Little Girl (lost while out shopping)— Jes' put me in a store window, an' matnma'll bo sure to see me. —Good News. Hope '' *""* A Fleaeant Reminder. Mabel—That was such a funny story you told mo yesterday about a donkey, Mr. Sharp. Sharp —Do vou think so? Mabel—Yes, Indeed. Alter this, whoncver I see a donkey, It will re mind mo of youV—Des Moines Argo i naut __ A Test of Merit. A pretty young girl was corrected <®e day For tapping tier tool on tbe floor While uu orchestra played—and the pretty girl looked At the speaker and thought him a bore " I can't understand why peoplo object. •Tls Justified sure on the whole, I-'or what oarthly good In tho muslo 1 bear Unless It appeals to my sole?" —Boston Uudget. Merely an Experiment. "I got tired of riding home in crr>wded cars, so I bought a bicycle." "So you are going to ride homo on that, hereafter?" "Well, I dou't know. 1 got it only I yesterday and last night I rod/b homo In a n . MONEY IN GEESE. Wbh Proper Accommodations They Can Ilr Made Very Profitable. Apparently the majority of fanners either know little about geese, or else are prejudiced against them. At all events, we seldom see a good-sized flock of these grand water fowl upon our farms nowadays. With proper ac commodations. geese can be made very profitable stock, and little trouble or expense to the owner. Geese are graz ing animals, as truly as horses, cattle or sheep; and plenty of pasture is need ed to cause them to thrive well at little cost. Indeed an abundance of grass is far more necessary than pond or lake; for, although geese delight to sport in a good-sized stream of water, they will grow finely and .thrive first-rate if sim ply water for drinking purposes be alone available. The goslings are not especially diffi cult to rear, although they are some what tender in the early part of their existence. Dampness must be guarded against. If found in a damp, wet loca tion, or allowed to remain out in a shower, it will very likely prove fatal to the goslings. Hens are preferable to geese for incubating purposes, since the latter are very clumsy in their move ments and very apt to step upon and in jure the little gosiings. For the first three or four weeks I would keep the goslings in confinement near the house; they can be tended and leaked after much better, and they will not be harmed by rains or dews. Feed often and liberally upon oatmeal, bran, and corn meal moistened, milk, chopped clover, etc., and do not neglect to place bits of tender sod in the pen with the goslings, as the latter will delight to pick at both roots and blades. As soon as the permanent feathers have been grown, the goslings may be set at lib erty and allowed to roam at pleasure, for then rains or dews will have no ef fect upon them, and they have become the most hardy of farm stock and the least liable to disease. From this time on the most of the growth will be made upon clover and grass pasturage. Little or no grain is required until time comes for "finishing off" for market. Then corn for two or three weeks will put these fowls in grand shape, so that they will bring good prices, a consider able portion of which is profit. We have two improved breeds of geese that are most excellent for the purposes of the farmer. They are the Toulouse and Embden; the former came from France, and the latter from Hol land. Individuals of these breeds at tain the noble weight of twenty pounds apiece at maturity. As long as a fine gander can be bought for five dollars or a good pair of geese for eight or ten dollars, let no one breed common mon grel stock. Just estimate what an in creased profit even two or three pounds extra per head upon a flock of young geese will give the breeder, and yet a large, vigorous, pure-bred gander should make much more than this difference, when crossed upon ordinary, mixed goose stock. Only breed the best.—M. Sumner Perkins, in Ohio Farmer. GOOD PIGEON LOFT. A Useful Structure That Can Be Built for Thirty-Fire Dollars. Before talyng up the subject of dis eases affecting pigeons, we will describe a pigeon loft. A good size for such a structure is a cage 10 feet high and 18 feet square at tached to breeding room 8 feet wide and 10 feet long, making the whole building (see cut) cover an area 16x24 feet. The cage is on the south front of the breeding room and is entered by a door at the corner, the steps to which are removed when not in use. The building being set on posts 2 feet from the ground and tin shields being placed on these, mice and rats cannot enter to disturb the birds. The rear or north wall of the breed ing room is 8 feet high. Against it the nest boxes, about 200 in number, are placed. These should be of dressed white pine boards, painted white, with perches for the old birds to alight on. A board slanting downward should be placed under each perch to prevent the birds soiling those beneath them. Grocery store boxes can be added when additional nests are needed. The floor of cage and house and the side walls may be of hemlock, made to fit cldsely, the skies being stripped to keep out wind. The roof should be rain tight If the birds get wet they are li able to take cold which will develop canker and other diseases. The cage should be boarded 3 feet from the floor, and the netting bo mesh Such a house can be built for about |35. — Farm Journal Gritty Material. Poultry cannot procure gritty ma terial while the ground is covered with snow. It should be supplied in the shape of coarsely-ground bone or by pounding the broken china, crockery or glass. Oyster shells are excellent if they can be had, and even coal ashes will be of assistance if nothing better can be obtained Grit is very important to laying hens —Farm and Fireside. Cholera and Indlffestloa. Cholera is not a winter disease. In digestion, due to overfeeding, and mak ing the hens too fat, is a disease usually mistaken for cholera. The cholera spreads rapidly and kills its victims in a short time, often in a few hours, but indigestion may result for weeks. The remedy for indigestion is to remove the cause, which is to give less food and compel the hens to exercise. In the Vermont legislature, the house has reported a bill, enacting that a dozen hen eggs must weigh IX pounds. He Didn't Like It. Miss Coo pah—Oh, His to Johnsing, I yer yo' is from Boston. Is yo' fond of Browning? Mis to Johnson —No, indeed. NebDer fool wif dat; I only does blacldn'.— Truth. __________ Backer* of Nature. Physician—Doctors, yon know, mere ly assist nature. Layman—Especially when one en deavors to escape the debt of nature. —Judge. Courage. Teacher —Define courage. Bad Boy—Not be in' 'frald of th' teacher.—Good News. TRUST THICM NOt. ,i -J* •'So he was only fooling me alter alll" ~Life. ... . - N0.28