VOT.. XXX OUR N^W -:-Carpet Department-:- AVil Soon Contain a Complete Assortment ot Carpets, Curtains, Oil Cloths, &c. First ;*nd Second Shipments have arriyed r.rd balance will follow soon as the Manufac turers can make the GOODS We have selected the best styles and colorings to be found in the market. Not a single old style will be found in our stock. FURNITURE, CARPETS, QUEENSWEAR, HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS CAMPBELL & TEMPLETON, Butler, - - - Penna. Onr New Fall Stock of Footwear. Opening this Week LADIES FINE SHOES. A more varied assortment of Stylish Footwear can't be found. "Low est Prices" on best qualities and newest styles the rule. Nothiug • shoddy, but stylish, well made shoes, from Invest prices to highest cost ones. Ladies Fine Shoes, Stylish, Nicely Made, Perfect Styles. We never advertise or offer a lie.e of shoes that IS DO ju-t AS repre seated. We have selected thu best line for the money you ever sv>v ia Ladies fine buttou ai sl, 1.25, 1.50 and 2. Hand turns, Goodyear welts, at $2 50 to $3 In Piccodills, Tuxedo, Opera and Common Sense '.a-tt, bluchers and i»u to:i Of Ladies Heavy Shoes We Are The leaders of them all at 85 cents, sl, 1.25 and 1.50. Bala and button in veal calf, kip, oil grain and glov-i grain. They are wearers and no wet feet. Have you Boys and Girls? Don't fail to get them a pair or HuaeLon's heavy school Bhoes and keep their feet dry. Stop doctors bills. We hava high cut shoes, tap soles, wear resisters, boots for the boys all at the lowest prices, Girls shoes at 75 cents, sl, and 1.25, boys and vouih-t at $1 125 and 1.50. MEN'S HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES, fhoes at 75 cents, $1 and 1.25; boots $1 50, 2, 2.50 and 3. Keep low instep boots and can fit auy foot. Box toe boots and shoes. Mens, boys and youths fine shoes in endless variety, all styles, Picco dilla, Opera, Globe, ect at sl, 1.25, 1.50, 2in mens; bovs at sl*l 25, 1 50 and 2 Old ladies soft, easy shoes, wide low heels, warm shoe.s and slippers these are no ancient styles but the newest and best styles. One lot ladies fiue shoes were $2 now $1.50; one lot were $3.50 now $2.50; one ljt was $2 75 now $2, these are broken sizes, anil several other lines in mens and boys at greatly reduced prices. Oxfords ui.d slippers er duced Our house lull of bargains. Come and get them. B. C. HUSELTON. No. 102 North Main Street, - Eutler. Pa. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. ■ LEWIS M. KDMCXDS, ■ South Hartwlolc, N. Y. ■BOILS, CARBUNCLES* ■ 1 s . TORTURING ECZEMA. r m Completely Cured! B ■ DANA BARS WAHILI.A CO . ■ £== < f EJCTST wo }• wtßfM I had m IJ« = == which must hav«- luy &J 1 = IfUp m l_ - ■ Ml Li Urlnlh(irworrt(omi. It >k a larp<; = SjSaniountof Dr.'i medicines but thry ]• ft :ne v-ors*2| ■iarid n« -t able to work. |.l\irMLs liniw, hfi.l wlx ftt. 1 two r;ir*en ■ hunch-* n: one time. I tr:«fvs HliiLl. V, commenced it, and iht (liivdfll === bottle completely < ( ItEl) me. P S YOORF RCV-TFUJIR. =3 I.OVIS M lUJUU.VDS. PS South Hart*..N. Y mm The truth of the above is c rtif|e«l to bv __ ■ 11. K. IIOLBROOK,' P. ■ booth fi&rtwxk, N. Y. =2 (P Dana ssr«r.p2rii!a Co,, Beifas!, ne. S3 C. & D. ALWAYS Tufcf inf. <• tx'der '!••« that moor; ,-wv ii i- « . ' d as nn. iiey * »ri r«i The hot tut to sav« m-.ocj i.- 'u buv go. il j/i-ods at the 'igbt price The only r« «~< ri :t . our trade i« i .uii!v is tb." f .rt that huiidlt • r.lv gocds of (ir.-1 quality and yll them ai very low )•: ir» s. We hve taken n 'u-ual c*re to provile I-VT-r\: HIT>T; tie v. I;'. Mats and ds f.,r tfci~ season, c»d 'i- v.e h'ivt <•«;!;t r 1 nf many especi illy gM'.d ia b >th hue* we can do y u trood if you come to US We cotifn:< liUy tr.\ that in justice to'bents Ives nli j:uii Lin-tTH should iD.-p« et < nr LO<> ■- Yi: ii Ur, COLBERT 242 > Main ftieet, I>ur ! < PH. trrrl isr a r r Ic K ! IYT . Tin. w KijL- W npf 7 air" AX If 3 i I /I gra?her;lorn etly XX \J X LJ I'HE head OL the J \r frtz- FLARDIN a N Art Co , will n|>en a Studio and PHI. to Par lors opposite the Hotel Lowry, C'or, Main aiu! JT-ffersoD St« , Butler, Pa This wiii HE the best lighted :MOM of every thing in the drug line from us Uur store is nbo headqnarUTs for PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES Kalsomine, Alaba-stine Get our prices before you buv I'ainta, and see what we have to offer. We can save you doliars on your paiut bill Respectfully J. (J. REDICK, Mam ;• i .11 >i i(1 ](i(; 1 ("w i \ JbtpTLKK, PA. Hotels and Depots, W. S. Gregg is now running a iine of carriage:- between the betels and depots of the town. Charges reasonable. Telephone No, 17, or leave orders h Hotel Vogeley. Good Livery in Connection $ "TALL or mi (j .CMJWO flfiL §1 a poorly fur |yjinished room I U f\ over a small Cv_ l&/a. grocery store wS —on Clark street - there sat, on the evening of the 6th of October, 1971, a young man busily engaged with some complicated-looking machinery which he was constructing with the aid of his tools. The young man's face bore a thoughtful expression and there were hard lines round his mouth, tell ing a sad tale of the struggle for exist ence, which seemed quite consistent with the fortunes of an inventive gen ius, as the young man appeared to be. The parching breath of the prairie wind surged through the open w;indow of the little room, intensifying the heat to an almost unbearable degree. It was hot in Chicago on that fateful day. For weeks and weeks there had been no rain to moisten the seeching „oards of which the sidewalks, and often the | houses and roadways, were composed; and these, being dry as tinder, waited but the accident whose shadow men aced, at this very hour, the doomed | city—the kick of the O'Leary cow, that unhappy triviality which was des- I tined to cost such a frightful total of i life and treasure! Finally the atmosphere became so I close in the small room that the patient worker rose from his bench, and, throw i ing aside his tools, picked up his hat ' and made his way down the rickety ! stairs to the street. It was observable that the young man possessed, in ad i dition to an intellectual face, a well ! knit figure, and a step which, even un j der the pressure of the weather, had :an athletic swing and bespoke a buoyant temperament. Allan Penton had inherited his fine physique from his father, one of the pioneer settlers of Illinois; and much of his individuality he owed also to his mother; for his pa rents had lived in stirring times, when it rarely happened that both men and women were not equally competent with the rifle, and almost as well used to all the fatigues and hardships of fron tier life. The young man turned his footsteps on this fateful evening in the direction of State street; a willing pilgrimage which he often made in the evening after his day's task was finished. On State street he took a car, rode south ward some distance, and at last stopped in front of a pleasant residence, to which he was promptly admitted by a young girl. The young man's face flushed as he took her hand and shook it respectfully. It was very plain that he was in love, from the admiring glances he bestowed upon her. It was his first experience, too—usually a seri ous matter —and Jessie Harmon was a superb creature. Besides mere personal beauty she possessed a sterling charac ter and was a very sensible and prac tical girL If momentou, issues hung upon the events of this night for the city, important ones a! so depended upon this call in Stale street. Aware of the fact that many suitors thronged to the side of Miss Harmon, Allan Penton had made a formal re quest for her hand, and had called this evening to learn how his proposition had been received by the young lady and her family. Finally, after futile efforts had been made to alleviate the suspense of the occasion by discussing other topics, the young man inquired, tremblingly, what had been decided in regard to his proposal. Jessie Harmon never looked prettier than when she answered her admirer's question. It was plain that she was not suffering from the embarrassment of such a serious affection as that of the yonng inventor; for her manner was gay and easy, whilst his betrayed the anxiety and excitement of a debu tant in the school of love. "Well," said the young lady, formally, very much as some young graduates deliver jljipi HE EMERGED FROM THE RUINS. a class oration, "it is decided that I may accept your offer when your in vention is a success." The lump in the young man's throat disappeared, and he said, bravely: "Then I shall consider you safely mine; for although it has taken me years to make my model, I am now at the point of perfecting it, and you will not have long to wait for your fate. May my ef forts be crowned with success!" So saying the young man rose, and bid ding his prospective fiancee adieu, stepped out into the night. During the time that Allan Penton had been engaged with his all-absorb ing mission a little spark had been kin dled which already gave evidence of the demoniacal fury of the power which it had created. De Koven street was wrapped in flames which seemed to spread with the rapidity of a forest fire, hurried on by the wind, which drove it impetuously forward, first on one side and then on the other. The young man hastened his steps in the direction of the conflagration. The fire engines were already busy, and a general alarm had been sent out; but the fire, which had been started in a a barn at the rear of a small house in De Koven street, had in this brief space of time attacked the entire block. The young inventor was soon busy, with others who had flocked to.the scene, en deavoring to stem the fiery tide of the onward-rolling flames. Shrieks and cries for assistance resounded on every side. Men, women and children, in all degrees of deshabille, were huddled in disconsolate groups in the streets. Panic shone from the eyes of these ter rified outcasts forlornly watching the firemen and police in their struggle with the remorseless flames. "Help!" "Help!" that pitiful cry of beleaguered victims, came from a hun dred lips at once. Twice already had Allan I'enton responded to that be seeching- call and fought his way through flame and smolce with a quiv ering bit of rescued humanity in his arms. Again he heard it and again in response dashed up a stairway from which wreaths of flanje darted like the tongue of serpents. This time he was gone longer than on the previous occa sions, and it was feared by the trem bling watchers that he would never reappear. A glad shout rose to their lips when he emerged from the srnok iug ruins, bearing in his arms the limp figure of a young girl. He had scarcely laid her down at a safe distance from Jhe facing febria, when, overcome by TVTTTI/F/R, I?-A-., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1893. nis exertions, the young man fell ex hausted beside her in "the street Ef forts to revive him proving fruitless, he was taken to the hospital in one of the ambulances which were busy carry ing off the victims of the holocaust The remainder of the history of that night's fire is told In the loss of over two hundred lives and many thousand homes. To the rest of its horrors the young inventor was for the time ob livioua When, sometime during the next day, he became conscious, it was to see a devastation unparalleled before in the history of the country. It was to find himself, like thousands of his fellow-citizens, a ruined man, and his happy prospects of the day before blasted. His machine, the dream of his ambition, the key to his happiness, had been consumed by the all-devour inff monster of flame which had devas tated the possessions of rich and poor alike. On a heap of ashes which marked the spot formerly occupied by the house in which he had lived, he sat down and wept like a child. The newspapers had already told him the course which the fire had taken, and he knew that Jessie Harmon had not suffered from tha effects of the conflagration. Fortunately we are not permitted to 6ee far ahead of us in this world, and he, sitting by the ashes of his hopes, was spared the knowledge of all the misery, ingratitude and neglect that he was doomed to suffer. Wrecked pli3 r sically and financially, he was unable to battle along with the daunt less spirit others showed who had only their possessions taken from them. From the day ol the tire he was a changed person. The doctors decided that the nervous shock incident to his experience at the fire and the loss of his invention, over which he had toiled so many years, had caused a sort of paralysis which might possibly be cured by time. People who had known him as the strong, hopeful and ener getic young inventor, now regarded him with ill-concealed disdain and sus picion. Like a hopeless wreck •he drifted aimlessly along, apparently in capable of an effort to regain his former energy and hope. It was little wonder that this change in him should lead Miss Harmon, who was a practical young- woman, to dis courage liis attentions, and ultimately to marry some one else. J Drifting along with the tide of "down-at-the-heel" humanity, Allan Penton was soon for gotten, even by his old acquaintances. His time was spent idling by the lake shore, and around the busy scenes of rehabilitation where the trowel and the derrick were eternally busy, and where he managed by transient labor to earn sufficient to secure him the small amount upon which he seemed satisfied to exist Once, when he heard that the demand for labor was brisk there, he went out to the stockyards and requested em ployment; but his blank looks and lack of spirit brought him only a refusal. Almost two years went by in this way; and no one thought that Allan Penton would ever bestir himself again in this world of activity and aggressiveness. On a certain evening when he was do ing some trifling work in one of the new buildings which were going up with such marvelous rapidity throughout the " burnt district," an accident happened to the young man. Some falling debris struck him, felling him to the ground, a'. ', he was once more taken to the hos pital. His wound was a serious one, and his life despaired of; but, unex pectedly, after a long period of col lapse he rallied, rapidly regained his strength, and once more stood up to face the world. Those who saw him beheld something akin to what the watchers at Bethesda were wont to see when the angel had troubled the pool; for the Allan Penton who stepped forth from the hospital was, strange to say. again the sanguine, ambitious self of former days. Something had been lifted away, certainly, for his eyes were bright and clear with hope, and the old light of mastery kindled within them. What had effected the change no one knew or cared. He felt the fire of new life burning in his veins and again heard ambition whispering her fairy tales in his ear. Events move rapidly towards the central point of this short life drama. Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come singly. Allan Penton no sooner felt the new life quickened in him than an incident occurred which it seemed that destiny must have with held until the proper moment In making his way down Wabash avenue through the busy crowd which throngs its sidewalks during the shop ping hours, revolving in his mind plans for the future, his attention was sud denly attracted by a woman's cry. Looking up, he saw alighting from a cairiage a stylishly dressed yo-.'rfig woman. Several of the bystanders stared at Penton, who was evidently the cause of the young lady's excited behavior, and who stood as if rooted to the spot. What the matter was did not seem at all evident, and must have been subsequently inexplicable to those who were watching the proceedings. The bewildered young man saw an exceed ingly charming young lady drag an elderly gentleman from the carriage and towards himself. But it took him only a few moments to solve the mys tery, and the trio were soon smiling and chatting, to the surprise of the on lookers. At a suggestion froia elderly gen tleman Penton entered tl>« carriage, and they drove off together, to uv>id the attention they had attracted. Th* young lady's conduct was very explained. She was the person who had been the unconscious cause of all the young inventor's misfortunes—the brand which he had plucked from the burning in De Koven street. Judging from the way in which her soft brown eyes were fixed upon the handsome features of the young man, she was not unlikely to cause him yet more trouble. During the drive, Penton learned that the young lady, in saving whom he had almost lost his own life, was the daugh- BOOTED TO THE BPOT. ter of one of Chicago's most prominent citizens, a Mr. Cayler. After the young man had given a brief account of his own history, an offer of assistance was promptly made him by tha millionaire. "If you can secure me some position which will provide one a living, and leave the rest to me, I shall not remain poor long; for my spare moments will be devoted to perfecting my invention, which had already been indorsed by practical men before it was destroyed," replied the self-reliant younp inventor. The young lady, who was a quiet listener to the conversation, could not refrain from casting an admiring glance at the speaker, who disdained any recompense, even for his losses, which ho might have legitimately accepted without any qualms. She said nothing, howjsjvy, for currents of women'l thoughts often run in deep and un dreamed-of channel*. One may almost close the interesting chapters of a man's life with the ter mination of Ris misfortunes and stran gles. From the day he left the hospital Allan Penton's star was in the ascend ant. He obtained through Mr. Caylef a lucrative and easy position, which left him leisure to work rapidly upon his invention, and in due course it wai perfected, patented and put npon the market A company was formed to manufac ture it, for which Mr. Cavler, mainly, furnished the capital. One of the great Trunk railway lines, which had tested the invention before the formation of the company, gave an order sufficient to keep the factory going for montha, and their example was promptly fol lowed by others, until three-fourths of the English and American railway sys tems had adopted it. Every one almost knows the story of the great patent to day, and many have been enriched by It; whilst the traveling public have to thank its inventor for the additional safety they enjoy owing to its intro duction. The poor, aimless vagrant of a few years ago is president of a compauy worth many millions of dollars, with sumptuous offices in one of the great sky-scrapers which are Chicago's espe cial pride and glory. He has not rested on the laurels won by his great invention, but has patented many more devices of a similarly useful character, and his name has become world famous. After his success was assured he built a handsome residence on Michigan ave nue; and having sought and won the heart of Lucille Cayler, whom he had already linked to himself so strongiy by his heroic deed of the fatal October night, there was a grand wedding one day which made quite a stir in the so cial atmosphere of the Lake Shore drive. Engrossed as Allan Penton is in in numerable schemes of personal and public interest, in the great lake city, his handsome home is nevertheless a scene of busy hospitality; and the gra cious woman who presides over it looks as young and lovely as she did before the night when, in wild terror, she fell into the arms of the husband she will always consider in the light of a hero. Among the guests selected on account of their social prominence to meet the royal visitors from Europe, recently, were the famous inventor and his wife, whose lives are as fuU of usefulness as of the pleasures that accrue therefrom. They are a typical example of the class who, sharing the misfortunes ol the city, have in later days grown with its prosperity to affluence and renown. Sometimes, as Allan Penton's car riage rolls by, a tired-looking woman, who seems dissatisfied with her lot, and has to work hard to help along a shift less husband, looks out of a window on State street, and sends her memory back nearly a quarter of a century, to the time when she dropped the ac quaintance of a j-oung man because he had lost his grip for a little while; but no one knows what she feels, or how she envies the other one who stepped into her place. But, then, who could have foretold the success that was in store for an unknown inventor? —Leslie Kane, in Demorest's Magazine. DECEIVED BY HIS CAUTION. A Counterfeit Package MUtakrn by IU Owner for One That Contalae4 Money. I arrived here just before the first bank suspension, says a Denver cor respondent of the St Louis Globe-Dem ocrat, and one of the first calls I made was on a merchant whose nervousness made it painful to do business with him, no matter how large a bill could be sold to him. On this particular oc casion he seemed afflicted with an ex cessively severe attack of his chronic complaint, and he told me he was too much worried about finance to talk about giving orders. After awhile he became communica tive and told me he had succeeded in withdrawing from the bank that day rather over four thousand dollars, which he had put away In a strong box in an actually burglar-proof vault, into which thieves could not possibly break through and steal. He proceeded to tell me in addition that he had made up a dummy package representing, and Indeed counterfeiting, the pack age of currency, which he had careful ly labeled with the actual contents of the valuable roll. The dummy pack age, he explained, was in £he back of his ordinary cash drawer, which he showed me. His explanation of this peculiar precaution was that as he had been seen by several people who had helped start the run on the bank he was afraid his place might be burglar ized, and that if it was the dummy package would undoubtedly be taken without being opened aud examined, and the thief would hurry away with out searching for further booty. 1 smoked a good cigar with the mer chant and tried to convince him that his bank was all right and that he had taken a great deal of unnecessary trouble. Late in the same day, how ever, the bank had to suspend, and when I saw my customer the next day he chuckled over the success of his precautionary measures. When I got him down to talking business he sud denly remembered he owed our house a few hundred dollars, and said if I would wait he would go to the vault and get the money. He came back in about ten minutes looking as though lightning had struck him. He carried in his hand what I presumed was his roll of bills, and whsn he threw it on the counter ana rushed headlong to his cash drawer I began to doubt his san ity. But in a minute his peace of mind was restored and the explanation was obvious. He had made up the real and dummy packages so much alike tfiat he had deceived himself and had placed a roll of brown paper In the vault, while the package containing over four thou sand dollars had been lying loose in his cash drawer without any protec tion against fire or thieves. His re marks on his own blunder were abus ive in the extreme. A LOCOMOTIVE EXPERIENCE. How ■ Rejected Flyer Tnriod Up M a Prize Macblae. Strange things happen when men make up their minds that they can't help happening. It is now over twenty years, says a writer in the Locomotive Engineering, since Superintendent Healy, of the Rhode Island locomotive works, built a passenger engine for the Old Colony. This engine had seventeen and one half by twenty-two inch cylinders, with a five-foot wheel, and the only Innovation on the standard ongines of the day was the trial of two and one quarter inch tubes instead of two inch, there being about one hundred and sixty of them. Before the engine ever made a turn the general superinten dent heard of the big flues and openly announced that the engine would never make the time with the Fall River boat train for which it was built The master mechanic admitted that he didn't believe it would ever 6tcam, and one by one the engineers shook their heads and allowed that it couldn't make it—because it couldn't. Then the firemen announced that tio man could keep it hot, and no one ought to expect that it could be done. The en gine was doubted from the start Everybody said it couldn't make the run—and it didn't. It went ou the road and was a failure from the start, and after eighteen months' service it was rebuilt. The general superinten dent paid the Rhode Island locomotive works SI,OOO extra for a new boiler (re turning the old one) like the old one except that it had two-inch tubes. He said he knew that the new boiler would steam and the engine make the time. The master mechanic said he knew so, too, and the engineers and firemen agreed with them that now it waa all right. It was all right, steamed well and made the time —because everybody said it could and would. Some months afterward John Thomp son, general maatar mechanic of the Eastern raiiway. wanted a seventeen inch passenger engine, and wanted it as cheap as poasibie. He was induced to take the boiler discarded by the Old Colony (after being thoroughly re paired). None of the engineers knew the engine had an old boiler or flues I larger than the ordinary. Mr. Thomp son said she was a fine engine and would just play with their fastest and heaviest express. The men all counted on her as a good steamer, and a good steamer she was. This engine never lacked for steam, did her work well and as economically as the best engine on the road, and is in the service yet— j running in sight of the scene of her ( former failure. lDMrt Brlfaodi. Wasps have become so much of a ; pest in England this year as to be a national nuisance. They swarm in ; houses and in bed-charnbers, they rob orchards more effectively than a whole school of boys, and they destroy the finest peaches on the wall and the juiciest plums in the garden. "If you pick up a ripe pear under your favorite tree,'' says a London journal, "the chances are that half a dozen of these hot-tempered thieves will sally out of it, and you may hold yourself lucky if you do not get well stung." NAMES ARE NOT KNOWN. A BASEBALL player in Independence, Kan., can throw a ball 290 feet. HICCOUGHS too freely indulged in proved the death of an old man in Massachusetts. AN industrious little colored boy in Atlanta, Ga., aged seven years, was lately induced to set fire to a house for a reward of five cents. A MONKEY that died in Butte City, Mont., was such a pet that his owner induced an irreverent wretch to preach a sermon over the animal's re mains. Two YOUNG men were injured similarly in Brooklyn a few days ago by accidentally falling from windows about the same hour, in the same street and within a block of each other. Both were picked up unconscious and removed to the same hospital. AN east side New York junk dealer purchased at a farm sale on Long Island the other day a fine old crown topped bronze bell. It bears a cross, the pious initials "I. H. 5.," the date 1779, and this inscription in Spanish: "Conmi boz. Alabo a Dios." It looks like a relic with a history, and it may have been the bell of a wrecked Span ish vessel. GATHERED ODDITIES. A THR££-LI6GED chicken attracts many visitors to the farm of John Owens, in Bucora, Wash. A SHINGLE was removed last October from the roof of the Congregational church at Farmington, Conn., where it had been since 1771. A DUCK in Calloway county, Mo., has Initiated a new fashion in the line of eggs. All of the eggs it has laid this month have had shells that are perfect ly black. A GOVERNMENT check for one cent, given during the war to correct an error, is still in the possession of a New York man. It could be cashed at any time if the owner so desired. A WHALE of the hump-back species, that is believed to have been struck by some passing vessel, was washed ashore at Long Beach, Wash., one day lately. The whale measured nearly fifty-two feet in length. Tnr. "rocking stone," in Sullivan county, N. Y., weighs forty tons, and is so evenly balanced on a table of rock that it can be easily set in mo tion by the pressure of a finger, yet so solidly laid the combined strength ol one hundred men without artificial ap pliances could not displace it NEW AND NOVEL. A NEW thing in the surgical world is a curious brass button recently de signed by a surgeon for the purpose of joining together two ends of an in testine that has been cut. AN English watchmaker exhibits an engine of one hundred and twenty-two distinct pieces (not including thirWT three bolts and screws) which could be hidden in a lady's thimble. THE spinning of wood pulp iuto yarn is the invention of a Hungarian. It is stated that fabric may be woven from this material which equals the best cotton goods in the principal features. AN auger \hat bores a square hole consists of a screw auger in a square tube, the corners of wnich are sharp ened from within. As the auger ad vances, pressure on the tube cuts square the round hole. A WATCH in the form of a shirt stud has been made by an English artisan. Its dial is three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and is to be worn with two other studs. By turning the upper stud you wind the watch, while by turning the lower one the hands are adjusted. _____ FUNNY FACTS. "Do you call your wife your better half, Mr. Henpeck?" "Better half? H'm! My friend, she is more than three-quarters."—N. Y. Press. IT very frequently happens that a man gets on a bust aud loses his bal ance; but just now it is the bank that gets on a bust and the man loses his balance. —Boston Post. A SUMMEH hotel youngster was talk ing with a lady on the piazza, and her father appearing the lady said face tiously: "Who is that gentleman?" "That's not a gentleman," replied the youngster, "that's papa."—Boston Journal. DOWSER—"There goes Jud&e Wurd leigli. In addition to his being a fine jurist he has the reputation of being a master of the English lan guage." Bowser —"That may be, but I don't like his sentences; they're too long; it took me six months to get to the end of one of them." —Vonkcrs Gazette. A LITTLE SCIENCE. A QUARTER of each generation is ■aid to die before reaching the age of seventeen. WHENEVER there is friction there is heat Hammering a nail rod until it Is red hot or forging a nail without fire are feats of the blacksmith. A SCIENTIST who has been listening to the voice of the house ttv through the microphone says it sounds very much like the neighing of a horse. A FROG cannot breathe with its mouth open. Its breathing apparatus is so arranged that when its mouth is open its nostrils are closed. To suffocate a frog it is necessary only to prop its jaws so that they cannot shut LTTTLE LIGHTS. A HUNGRY man never calls tor cake. What he is bread. POLISHING a rascal's head never uaakct his heart any whiter. A FOOL can ask questions, but only the wise can apswer them. WHEN truth flghta it is always under a flair that means something. v.*'' ' -v -?Kv * THE FENCED GARDEN. How It Can l>e Calllv:itf4 With K.l s; ami Thorous tineas. The ideal eoudlth n. no doubt. '■• to have the garden utifcneid, permit ng approach from all si.i• c. i i h ami cultivator to assist in the eultivat'.'»n of the growhit, crops and in s..bdui.;;r of weeds. Hut a fenced garden is some times made imperative by cireutu*tan-.-es over which the owner has no control, the "circumstances" being in the nature of his neighbors' cow. p' -s. f-.wis or other animals that ar. liable on occa sions to be al large, t>. t'. • injury o; trar dens and other eultiv ,t> d places. The owner's own anini Is, even when excel lent care is taken, may sometimes escape from their allotted limits, and in an hour nearly ruin a garden It is for In i ttrlT i ntriTi iTu iji nijliiijiiii iili li Hiiiii i i|i ! HI • ili H i li liiil 1 ill ii ' ill! i' l! Hi! u id!mil 111 II !ii|! 'I I i:!* ! * l ' I CCI.TIVATIXO A KKXCEI) GARDK-V. such reasons that some people feel obliged to fence in their gardens, and deprive themselves, and the gardens also, of the great advantage of the full and frequent use of the cultivator. A plan is given herewith by which a fenced garden may be cultivated with a good deal of ease and thoroughness. The ground used should, if possible, be much longer than wide, with every thing planted in rows, and the rows running lengthwise. The end fences are'made up entirely of gates, as shown in the diagram. These being set wide open, and the rows having been arranged so that a row occurs in exact line with each fence post at the ends, opportunity i> afforded to cultivat • every row in the garden, and that, too, completely to the ends, with no turn ing of the horse within the limitaof the garden, the advantages of which are too apparent to need dwelling upon. Webb D ninell, in American Gardening. TIME FOR PRUNING. Close Trimming Whoa the Tree In I>or lUMUt Induces (i:o«t!». The time to prune deciduous trees is when the sup is down an J leaves oif the tree. Plum-, are generally the first ready and are followed by pears, Apri cots, peaches and lastly apples. Close pruning when the tree is dor mant induces tree growth, ller.ee if a 'tree is feeble, or has not grown as could be wished, it should be closely trimmed in the winter season, always cutting just above a healthy buiL A severe shock to the tree, while the sap is flow ing freely, causes the tree to throw out fruit buds and spurs for the next sea son, and pruning while the tree i i:i blossom will cause that crop to set. When tree growth is desired, prune while the tree is dormant; but if fruit is desired, prune either root or top while the sap is flowing. For plums, prunes and apricots, leave all the small spurs growing along the branches, no matter whether the tree is young or old, for on them the bulk of. the fruit is grown. Head in well from the outside, which tends to develop these spurs, aud also strengthens the tree, and the fruit will grow where the tree is best able to bear it. Apples, peaches and pears are inclined to bear nearer the tips, and young trees should be well headed in during the win ter season, both to give the tree symmetry and strength, and also to in duce a more vigorous wood growth, and prevent a premature bearing of fruit, a fault that fruit growers do not seem to appreciate, but which is nevertheless, a very serious one. —Farm and Home. I'rnflt In Hnrtlett rears. It is said with a great deal of empha sis that dwarf Bartlett pears are the most profitable crop of a permanent character that can be grown. As much as $750 have been realized from one acre of these trees. It is also asserted that they can be made to bear in this manner year atter year, without fail ure. Of course sueh an orchard must have care, fertilization, cultivation, just as any other crop should have. It would be a miracle if s">o could be taken from an acre of ground for sue cessivc years without attention and liberal feeding on the part of the farmer. It is impossible to get some thing for nothing, and all must learn this fact aud act accordingly.—Col man's Rural World. Our Indebtedness to l'ompell. The American Druggist says that we are indebted to Pompeii for the great industry of canned fruit- Years ago, when the excavations were just begin ning, a party of Cincinnatian» found in what had been the pantry of the house many jars of preserved figs. One was opened and they w ere found to be fresh and good. Investigation showed that the iigs had been put into jars in a heated state, an aperture left for the steam to escape and then sealed w ill, wax. The hint was taken,- and the next year fruit canning was introduced into the United States, the process be ing identical with that in vogue ir Pompeii twenty centuries ago. Spinacu and kale should be covereu with a light mulch when the grounc freezes in our northern clim?.te. Wouldst Ue Content ? Conceal all thou canst of things unsightly. Compare thy own lot with those who havf less: Thlok of thyself seldom, and lightly; Live that thy life some others may bless. Margaret May, In N. Y. Observer. The rortralts. Kftch has Ills angel guardian- Mine, I know. Looks on me from that pictured face He boid, How clear, between those seeming cloud* of gold. The heavenly brow I It Is the morning glow Of Innocence, ere yet the heart let go The leadfcig strings of Heaven Upon tlia eyes No shadow: like the restful noonday skies They sanctify the teeming world below Why bows my soul before It? None but tliou, O tender child, hast known the ilf< 1 estranged From thee and all that made thy days <-f joy The measure of my own. Heboid mr now. The man that begs the blessing of the !>•>} His very self—but from himself bow cha-.igi- II —John U Tabb, In Youth's Companion A Song of a Heart. Dear heart—l lovn you I all the day I v. oni'.ei If skies are rich with blue. Or IM-ndlng black with temjiest and with ihutt tier. Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you' Dear heart—l love j»u! when pole stars »re gleaming— » sow. One rose to meet the dew— I'd kt»s it, climbing to your restful bo-.on. And wear its thorns for you: —Atlanta Constitution. MO '4 1 p rr» T "2? iiv THE MAKING OF ROADS. Importance of Easy Uniiri It, Nut I'ndur ktoof! Generally. Mr. F. A. Dr.nham, who was the en pitu-cr in charge of road improvements in I n ion county', N. J., and other popu lar suburbs of New York, the results of which have lx\n in a high degree sat isfactory. in a communication to Good K- i-i> gives his general plan of opera tions - All the roads were carefully located and mapped, aad accurate levels were taken and pivtiles made for establish ing the grades, particular care being taken with this part of the work, as it was considered of the greatest im portance. Oa the earlier roads some quite heavy earthwork was done both in excavation and embankment in order to reduce steep grades as much as pos sible. (in later work, however, it was considered advisable to reduce the eost of the earthwork, and in order to do this grade- were established which necessarily followed more nearly the general surface of the old roads. Satli cient grading was always done, how ever, to secure adequate inclination for drainage. The benefits to be secured by expend ing even a moderate amount of money in improving the grade of roads about to be paved are not appreciate 1 as they should be. Hills and hollows which might have been improved at a very slight expense are often left in the ro:.d to bo a continual detriment to its use fulness. 11 should be remembered that it is not expected nor desired to make a level road, but that often only a small amount of earth need be taken from fche top of a hill and added to the hol low at its fc >t to convert a bad, hilly road into a good tine with easy grades. We should also bear in mind that this expense of grading, onee incurred, is forever done with, while if the need of grading should be realized after the completion- of the pavement all Ihe work done upon the latter would have to be sacrificed. Sometimes the road is too level, al lowing the water to s ittle at slight de pressions and saturate the subgrade. IwtMi TKLFORD BEFORE It is then imperative to cut or Jill, or both, as may be found most expedient, in order to give a sufficient fall in the gutters to carry the water to the near est stream. Undcrdrains are also re quired in such places to relieve the subsoil of water. This matter of secur ing a dry foundation for the pave ment is really the most imp rt;.r>-. end to be gained by grading, as the pavement ma3 T be constructed and permanently maintained on grades of very inconvenient steepness, bnt if the drainage is neglected the existence of the pavement itself is imperiled. The total depth of pavement was generally twelve inches. (>n some of the roads the telford foundation was not laid under the entire width of the pavement, but a strip two feet wide on each side consisted of macadam stone only. Undcrdrains were laid wherever required to relieve the subgrade of water and to fit it for rolling and con solidation. The telford foundation consisted of truj) rock on most of the roads, a hard granulite or similar stone being used on the others. The stones were of the general wedge shape shown in the il lustration, set on their bases and placed side by side with their longest dimensions transverse to the line of the road. The stones were at least eight inches deep, the base being from eight to twelve inches in length and not less than four inches in width. After a sufficient length of this foundation had been laid all projecting points of stone were broken off with hammers, and smaller stones, spalls and chips were wedged and hammered into every open ing until the whole was made a rigid mass of stone. Thus process of knap ping was continued until all points above grade were broken off, the low places filled with stone, and the telford presented a sufficiently even surface at the proper grade. The foundation was then rolled thor oughly, the roller used weighing at least live tons. In the construction of the latter roads a thin layer of clay was spread over the telford previous to tbe rolling to prevent the screenings (which were to be applied later) from sifting through the foundation, and also to form a cushion for the macadam stone. Uoore is a moment in which all of these drums are silent the dragon begins to move uneasily and there is an earthquake. The first tremor is, therefore, instantly followed by a universal drumming such as is never heard in t hina on any other occasion, and the pandemonium continues until the dragon b> eomei quiet. Ik a woman is ever merciless it L» when she gets a mouse in a trap. TIIEIIE is such a thing as trying tc live on blessings nnd starving todcatli. PEOPLE who blow their own horn; seldom furnish good music for otliei 1 folks. Born.