VOL. XXX OUR NEW -:-Carpet Department-:- Wil Soon Contain a Complete A ssortment ot Carpets, Curtains, Oil Cloths, &c. First and Second Shipments have arriyed and balance will follow soon as the Mauufac* turers can make the GOODS We have selected the best styles and * colorings to be found in tho market. Not a single old style will be found in our stock. FURNITURE. CARPETS, QUEENSWEAK, HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS CAMPBELL k TEMPLET!, Butler, - - Penn'a. 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. Nothing shoddy, bat stylish, well made shoes, from lowest prices to highest cost ones. Ladies Fine Shoes, Stylish, Nicely Made, Perfect Styles. We never advertise or offer a line of shoes that is not just as repre seated. We have selected the best line for the money you evo." saw in Ladies fine button shoes at sl, 1.25, 1 50 and 2 Hand tarns, Goodyear welts, at $2 50 to|3. In Piccodilla, Tuxedo, Opera and Common Sense la?t, bluchers aud b ut to Of Ladies Heavy Shoes "We Are • The leaders of them all at 85 cents, sl, 1.25 and 1.50. Bals and button in Veal calf, kip, oil grain aud glove grain. Thev are wearers and no wet feet. Have you Boys and Girls? Don't fail to get. them a pair of Huston's heavy achool shoes and keep their feet dry. Stop dociors bilis. We have high cut shoes, tap soles, wear resisters, boots for the boys aII at thelo.vest. prices. Girls shoes at 75 cents, sl, and 1 25, boys and youibs at sl, 125 and 1.50. MEN'S HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES, shoes at 75 cents, $1 and 1.26; boots $1 50, 2, 2.50 and 3. Keep low instep boots and can 6t any 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; boys at sl," 1 25, 1 50, and 2. Old ladies soft, easy shoes, wide low heels, warm shoes and slippsrs these are no ancient styles but the newest and I est styles. One lot ladies fine shoes were $2 now $1 .50; one lot were $3.50 now | $2.50; one IDt was $2.75 now $2, these are broken sizes, and several other lines io mens and boys at greatly reduced prices. Oxfords and slippers er duced Onr house full of bargains. Come and get them. B. C. HUSELTON. No. 102 North Main Street. - Butler. Pa. AL ' RUFF ' (f? & 114 s. MAIN STREET. 1 THE'SUTLF R CITIZEN. i iTHE KIND 8 I I THAI CURES | I fit ' , E m |f, K % ~ =55 7*l ' - " 1 1 *'■' ''•! «• *• m H • " « II '' !ps . m ; V ■ t" C -■? 5. 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' r z- llar.im .i tj Art . will (• pel. :t S'ud naud I'huto Par lors <•! |' >it>> lh<* Ul.mvry, tVr, Main Bin! Ji !lei»>i> Sis , Uullrr, I'a This wi : l be the «:.«! Studio ami !It-in t!.i; tin* c> u: ty. The work wiil be xtrii-ily !in-t tlas- »<■<! iiia«l<' ut.i'er new fonuula.t by the artist I ip.is. lf, v.bo ha-; larjre cities Portraits in Oil, Crayon, Sepia, Pastel, Ao. ill this line we have no rompetition, Our portraits are n ade by hand in our own Studio, from sittings or from photos. Oar work I:us reached the r.igln ft standard of excellence aid is not to be compared with the cheap m-- cbitie niade pictures fnrnislu'd l>v other . Wait for n«; pet j our pictures frou- i; and be happy. p 1 mi n i-i I I'lt ICES is ih« motto at our J, StOIH. if \vu far* s-ick itn M<d nn die n yon wftnt th« BESI Tbi i n always dvp-i.d open ttitiir fr.-n. UP, at> w use DMbit.jj !'Ut (strictly J'tite Drug? in <-ur Prr^t-tiption mout. \'<>u can tret the <>t evi ry ibine i r > the drui.' line frotn u . Uur stort- i.- ulso beadquuiter.-. for PAINTS OILS, VAiISHbS Kalsomine, Alabasline fic. Get our prices before yon i-uy aiutri, and see ivba' we ii.iv.-e o ofler. We cau save you dollars on your paint bill. RcgpClCtfalU J. C. REDICK, Mam i.. i<: i •1 < ! } HUT LE H- PA. C. & 1). ALWAYS Tokn into consideration that money eaved Is as pood as money enrued The best way to save money is to buy good goods at the tight price. The only reason that our trade is increasing constantly is the fact ihat we haudle only goods of first quality and sell them at very low prices We have taken uuu-uil care to provide everything new in ilats and Furnishing Goods for this season, and as \se have coutrjl of many especi»'ly good articles in both lines we can do you good if you come to as. We confidently i-ay that in justice to tfcerus Ives all purchu&ers should inspect our goods. Vit- it us COLBERT & DALE, 242 S Main street, Butler Pm FRANK KEMPER, DEALERJIN BLANKETS, HARNESS, .A.ncl everything in horse nnd buggy fur nishing goods—H ar - ness, Collars, Whips Dusters, Saddles, etc. -Also trunks and va lises. Repairing dojie on short notice. The largest assort ment of 5-A Horse blankets in town will be found at Kemner's. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. The Exciting Experience of an Am ateur Electrician. "Come out here, this is beauttfull You don't get half a view of it from in side the house." The time wa e'..-ven p. m. The scene was a summer boarding house on a mountain top in the lierkshires. The speaker was Mr. G , a gray-haired man who was seated on the broad piaz za, well sheltered from the wet, while a storm was in progress that had so terrified the whole population of the house as to keep all of them out of bed in spite of the late hour. The lightning came in flashes of blinding vividness, and the crashes of thunder that fol lowed almost split our ears. "Thank you," I called, in response. "I am very well satisfi.-d in here. \ou are welcome to the nearer and more perfect view." And I continued to hug my chimney corner and endeavored to bury my attention in a book. "What's the matter? It is dry where I am sitting." "I dare say. You are an electrician and don't mind such things. To tell you the truth, I have no fancy for be ing struck by lightning— that's all" The old man laughed. "You couldn't find a safer place than right here be side me," said he. "Why?" "Because lightning neve.r strikes twice in the same place, and I've been struck once." This was too much of a temptation to resist. Upon his promise to tell mo the story I went out and shared his so ciety for the rest of the storm. "It was when I was about twenty-five years old," he began, "and telegraphy, as we know it, was in its infancy. There was no great Western Cnion system spanning the continent, but dozens of little lines were in use here, there an d everywhere. I wanted to learn the art, having a taste for elec tricity, and being at the time engaged in experiments to perfect a system of insulation more adapted to the needs of the telegraph than any then known. I was poor; my collegiate course had eaten up what little money my father had left me, and the experiments I was making were too costly for my purse; but I felt that if I could only keep in food, clothing and shelter long enough to carry through the work I was engaged in there was a competency in store for me. To get employment in connection with the telegraph, where I could make applications of my discov eries in a small way, was the height of my desire for the present "One day I learned that a number of New York business men, chiefly bank ers and brokers, had resolved to run a line from the city to New Roclielle, so as to conuect their dwellings in that suburb with their offices in town, and enable them, if at home, to be advised instanter of any information of im portance. The cost of putting up the wires was considerable, however, and they were looking for some one to take care of the New Roclielle office who would not charge very much for his services. I saw my chance at once, and volunteered to take the place at a modest salary if they would hire some experienced telegrapher to instruct me in the alphabet and The bar gain was struck; I ol- .iu. tl my rudi mentary lessons for no; ling, and in the course of a month was duly in stalled at the key. "All went well until one hot summer afternoon — such a one as this was a few hours ago —when heavy clouds gathered in the sky and a greenish hue pervaded the atmosphere. In those days so little was known of insulating processes that no operator ever at tempted to stay at his key when a thunderstorm came up. This one ap proached slowly, and 1 was warned of it also by a hasty dispatch from the New York man: 'Storm coming. Shall close till it is over.' I therefore gath ered up some of my papers aud started to go into another room in the build ing till the storm had spent itself. As I was about locking my office door I was addressed by one of the most beau tiful women I ever saw. She was ap parently about twenty years of age. Her large lustrous eyes were full of teai#;, and her voice was broken as she spoke. " 'Oh, sir,' she cried, 'you are not go ing away? I want to send a message.' "'I am sorry, madam,' I answered, 'but there is a storm approaching and I am compelled to leave my instru ment.' " 'But this is a matter of life aud death. I must get word to New York at once.' " 'That will be impossible, for the New York operator has left his end of the line, too.' " 'ls there not some signal by which you can call him back?' " 'He would not respond if I tried it. He would be afraid to sit with his hand on the key while* the lightning played so close.' " 'But the storm may be over in New Y'ork before this. Won't you make the effort to call him — for my sake?' " 'And then she poured forth her story. Her brother was dying, and she was alone with him and the serv ants at their home in the village. Un less she could get word to their father, who was in the city, neither he nor their mother would be able to see the young man alive. "I tried to explain to her what a risk it meant for me, — but — well, I was younger then than now! A look into those pleading, tear-filled eyes was too much, and I broke down in the midst of my argument. I believe I would have gone to the stake for her if she had asked me in that way. Back I went. The storm had broken mean while, and the thunder crashed as it does now, while the lightniug seemed almost to dance in at the window. I called New York. Iu a moment I re ceived my return signal. The trouble there was over, and the operator was no longer fearful of sitting at his place. 1 got off my message. Just as I made the last stroke of the signature the whole room turned a brilliant blue. I felt nothing. 1 had no time to think. I was simply blotted out of existence with this last impression on my senses af the intensity of the color all around me. "I have no idea how long a time elapsed before I began to notice any thing again. When I did, I found my self on the floor of my office, my head in a woman's lap, and two or three men and a neighboring physician standing over me. I looked up to see who was holding me and applying a wet handkerchief to my temples. It was the lovely stranger. I concluded I must in a dream, and closed my eyes again so as not to dispel it. Then I learned from the conversation what had happened, and in order to reassure everybody I opened my eyes unce more and spoke, The girl's tears had all gone. She was full of pitying interest in my case. As soon as I could com mand my memory of events sufficiently, I bade her leave me and return to her brother's side. She stayed till I rose voluntarily and proved that, though bewildered. I was out of danger. Then she exchanged a few words to the physician in a low tone and disap peared. "The next morning I received by mail a cheek for one hundred dollars from a gentleman bearing the same surname as herself, who said that 1 had shown a degree of heroism, in be xriecdimr his daughter in her necessity, which was out of the common; he hoped I would allow him to pay the fee for the telegraph message, which lit) }U T TLEK, 1-* A.. FRIDAY. SEPTEM MKU 22. begged to inclose, as his daughter, in her anxiety, had omitted to settle the bill. This made me pretty indignant, and I wrote him a somewhat curt let ter. deducting the amount which was the regular charge for the message and inclosing him a receipt for that and bank notes and silver for the balance of the amount covered by the check. I carried the? letter around fa my pocket for two days and then '' •**> .1 to mail it just as it was. I heard nothing from the affair again for nearly a week. Meanwhile, there was a funeral in the village, which I ascertained to be that of the young man who had been so des perately ill. Then I felt sorry that I liad been eo severe with the father, who probably had meant well, and who must have been so overwhelmed with sorrow at the time he received my note thai, iu. tone would seem doubly liarsh. So down I sat again and jotted off an other note, in which I expressed regret for ihe style of my first, saying that I had written it in forgetfulnoss of the sorrow overhanging the family, and explaining that I could not accept a gift for a voluntary act of duty. •'Two days later I received a call from my divinity. She seemed just a little embarrassed at first, but after a few minutes' conversation drew from her pocket my two notes. The seal of neither had been broken. 'Father has been away ever since my brother's j funeral.' said she, 'and these letters ■ have lain unopened, awaiting his re turn. This morning it occurred to me that they might be about some matter of pressing importance, and that I had better see if you wanted us to forward them.' "'I am much obliged for your thoughtfulness,' I answered, 'but how did you know they were from me?' The next moment I would have given the world to recall that question. The quick rush of blood to lier face was painful to witness. " 'I had seen a scrap of your hand- | writing,' she replied, simply, 'aud thought I recognized it on the envel- j opes.' " 'You were right,' said I, 'I wrote both letters. As the second was writ ten to make amends for the first, there is no need of sending either of them to i your father, if you are willing that I ! should open them.' I tore away the j envelope of my first letter, and the j money dropped into my lap. 'Your ■ father, I explained, 'was kind enough j to send me a check for one hundred j dollars, to compensate me for trifling assistance I was able to render j you a few days ago. Acting on my first ' impulse, f deducted the cost of your message and wrote him a rather snap pish note inclosing the balance.' "She had listened with evident in terest There was a strange expres sion in her face as she inquired, after a brief pause: 'And your second letter was to say that you had reconsidered —?' " 'Oh, heavens! No!' I cried, perceiv ing for the first time what an interpre tation my words might fairly be given. '1 simply could not bear to pain your father by the sharpness of my words when I came to realize fully that he had acted from kindly motives, and to remember the load of sorrow he was laboring 1 under.' I tore off the second envelope uiul handed her the note. She took it and ran her eyes over the few lines it contained. She did not hand it back, but retained it as if unconscious ly ■ her hand. " 'You are very considerate,' said she, 'and I thank you. My father meant velL lie did not understand, as I did, thai, the debt we owed you was one which no gift could repay. I will re turn the money, if you wish, or per haps it would be better for you to keep i* till you can give it to him in person. I will pave the way for your interview by telling him how you feel about it.' "Another fortnight elapsed without event. Then one day the door of my office was opened by a tall, tine-looking gentleman who called me by name and introduced himself. It was the father of my lovely visitor. I remembered his face, now that I saw it, and for the first time, associating name and per sonality, recognized him as one of the leading stockholders in our little tele graph line. He was a banker of some prominence in Wall street. "'I owe you an apology,' said he, coming to the point at once, 'for doing in an hour of suffering what, if I had my mind completely at command, 1 should not have thought of doing. My daughter has told me how you feel, and I respect your delicacy. I am now on my way to the city, and shall stay there over night to attend a meeting of one of the corporations in which I am in terested; otherwise I should like to set you at the house this evening to talli over your work here and what it holds for your future. As to-night won't do. we must say Sunday. Come up in the afternoon. You must let me discuss your plans frankly with me. As an older man, and one who has made his own way up in the world, I can doubt less give you some advice that will be worth your consideration.' "I thanked him warmly, and, though much astonished and delighted, did not forget to hand him back his money. He glanced it over to see whether the amount agreed with what I had stated, and put it carefully away in his purse without any further words. On Sun day I kept my engagement. I found the banker alone in his library, and we had a candid chat, in which I told him of my love of electrical experimenta tion, and of the way I had contrived to get my present position for the sake of the practice and the opportunity it would give me to study out a few prob lems which were vexing the minds of practical electricians. He heard me through, asked me a good many ques tions, and wound up with: " 'Then you think the greatest need of telegraphy to-day is a better method of insulation?' " 'That is it,' said I. " 'And you think you are on llie track of a discovery in that line which may amount to something'?' "'I think the discovery is already made. It simply needs perfecting.' " 'And you are sure that .there is money in it? You see you have stirred up all the financier in me,' he added, laughing. " 'lt will make somebody's fortune.' " 'How lon# will it take to devolop?' " 'That depends on the obstacles in the way. It costs money to carry such things through.' "Soon a maid-servant stopped at the door to announce tea. I was invited to stay, and accepted gladly. It gave me a chance to see the divinity again. In cidentally, I had a chance to meet her mother, and make a general estimate of what kind of a woman the girl would grow into. "'I am going into a fresh venture,' the banker announced at the table af ter a little while. 'Mr. G has inter ested me so much in his plans for de veloping a new method of insulation that I am resolved to organize a stock compitiy to supply the means for per fecting his discoveries —ami pocketing the profits. lie is going to be the su perintendent, 1 am to be treasurer, and you, my dear, had better prepare to ac cept the presidency.' lie looked across the table at his daughter as he spoke. *1 have always believed in bringing women up to some knowledge of busi ness. In what manner could you be broken in more agreeably than presi dent of the O Electric Insulator company?' *"I supposed he was jesting, but ho was not. Early in the week he came into my ofiico and went over the ground of my discovery again with ma The company was formed and I was appointed superintendent at a good salary, which would enable me to re siffn niy place as operator and devote aiy entire attention to petting' out my patents. I had many visit.-, to make to the treasurer's home ami usually met the president there. The fact of her 6ex was not revealed to the world, even in the company's published reports, as we used simply her initials. When wo came to get out a corporate seal, the president insisted upon a picture of a lightning llasli and u man falling under it. " 'lt's uut a pleas ant tiling to look liacli upon," said she, 'but that adven ture of yours was what brought us all together and gave birth to the com pany; and it was for the purpose of in suring other operators against such a risk as you ran for my sake that father became interested in your investiga tions. I don't believe you realize yet what a narrow escape you had that day.' " 'lndeed I do,' I replied. 'lsut how could anyone with a man's heart in him refuse such a request a* you made of me then, even though he knew that the lightning would strike him the next momen'?' " 'At any rate,' she went . not seeming to heed my remark. have no idea what I suffered until > .>ur eyes open and heard you sp.\. It seemed hours before I could make anyone answer iiw cries after I saw you fall from your chair. I felt as if I had murdered you, and every thought fled from my mind except the one horror of having caused your death. "Well, to make a long story short, the company succeeded beyond all our expectations. My patent insulat. r did not itself prove perfection as we had hoped, but it secured priority for a principle which everybody who ma.'.o insulators was compelled to employ, and the company earned a large aunual revenue from many years from royal ties, without the necessity of manu facturing a dollar's worth of material for the market. My researches into the matter of insulation led to other dis coveries, all of which I turned to ae- count for the company. The thunder had become very faint, the roar of the storm had been lulled into the soft patter of a gentle rain, "and the lightning made only faint flashes so low against the horizon as to look rather like reflections from some dis turbance of the elements behind the mountain crest than any original show got up for our benefit A woman's head was put out of the window back of where we' sat. It was gray haired, like my companion's. A sweet voice said: "Don't you think, dear, it is time to come in? Every one either has gone to bed or is going, and I am sure ycu have kept Mr. Allen up too long already. What protracted tale has he been tell ing you, Mr. Allen?" "tie has been giving me the history of how he was struck by lightning," I answered; "and it is not ofteu one has the privilege of meeting a man who has been through such an experi ence —" "And lived to tell the tale? True. But you ought to label me also among your curiosities; for I don't believe you have often met a woman who was pres ident of an electric insulator company at twenty-one, have you?" — Charles K. Allen, in Kate Field's Washington. JUST THE POOR MAN'S LUCK. ITsiuilly the I'erson Who Can't Afford It Needs Artificial Limbs. "There are perhaps eight hundred thousand men in this country who need artificial legs or arms, and not more than one hundred thousand of these are supplied." It was a well known maker of wooden legs who said this to a New York Sun man. He was ward ing off an appeal to his charity in behalf of a locomotive fireman who had slipped under his eDgine and been badly crippled. "The fact is," he con tinued, "it is always the poor man who loses a leg or an arm, now that the war is over. Excepting the crippled veter ans who are kept supplied with legs by the government, nearly every man who loses a limb has to have help to get a new one." But while the number of pensioners on account of the war continues to in crease with each increase in years since that time of carnage, there is little likelihood that the number of makers of artificial legs will fall off much in number. There are nearly two hun dred of them now, large and small, many of whom, having worked in one of the larger factories, set up for them selves and whittle out "timber toes" for unfortunates who cannot afford to buy one of the improved legs. The science of making wooden leg's and arms has in recent j-ears almost supplied the place of the natural mem bers that have been lost. There is al most no occupation now that is closed to a man on account of his crippled condition, and by the use of a rubber heel and toe it is made possible for a man to walk almost wfthout percepti ble impediment or limp in his gait. In fact, a man with both legs gone can now preserve his equilibrium and walk about almost as well as any other man. The wood employed—wood being lighter and stronger for this purpose than any other material discovered— is willow or bass wood, and after it lias been seasoned and carved into the proper form it is covered with rawhide and enamel to strengthen and finish it. With artificial arms and hands a man may hold a fork, drive a horse, extend the arm at will and even write a fair hand. There is a ease of a man who lost both hands apd one foot, who now walks perfectly well and is able with his artificial hands to grasp light articles, open doors and feed himself. A man with two artificial legs rides horseback and can mount and dis mount wudily, and another man has even walked a mile in sixteen minutes and fifty seconds, to beat the wooden-leg record. Skating and bicy cle riding are other accomplishments and enjoyments from which some 'men with artificial limbs are not de barred. It is is curious to note that, according to the tobies of percentages, farmers are the greatest sufferers, 17 per cent, of the cases of leg amplia tions being' found in their number, while workers at the bench number 13 percent., laborers 3 1-2 percent, and railroad men but 7 per cent. Two Forms of Death. There are two forms of physical death constantly going on in the world; says the Vegetarian —molecular death and somatic death. The first is expressed in other words by saying that the whole of the body is constant ly being worn out and being renewed. Every action that we perform, every breath we draw, and every thought we think, is each accompanied by the death of a certain amount of muscu-lar or nervous tissue, so that molecular death is a necessary part of daily life. Somatic death is the death of the en tire individual, and is generally con s' lered to take place at the moment of cessation of circulation and respira tion. This is not an absolute test, however, as several well-known cases prove. Col. Townsend was a peculiar case of a man who could by the effect of his will voluntarily suspend these functions for a considerable time, while the continuation of the circulation is sometimes so difficult to determine that eveu the eminent anatomist Ve salius once opened an apparently dead body and found the heart still beating, j A French author, Itruhier, in 174'J, col lected reecrrdsof fifty-four persons who i had been wrongfully supposed to have | been dead. ARTIFICIAL PEARLS. *i'h Higlilt Ingenious » liit.-.c .Method of Producing l.rmi to Suit. Tl.e pr<>ee*-scs by which the Chinese produce artificial pearls are as remark able as they are ingenious, says the V hir •on Star This business con stitu. . unite an Important industry. It is contined to two villages in the north 'rn province of Chihkiaug, which iin a Mlk-produeinjr region. In "he months of May and June large quin titii "f mu- brought in lia.-kets fr. ui a lake thirty utiles distant, and the biggest of the mollusits are se iaetcd for the operation that is to be performed. " Into the shell of each mussel is in troduce d a number of small objects which it is intended that the bivalve shall coat wfth the pearly substance it secretes. Sometimes little pills of i.rt fi arc i:-ed Su.-h pellets are made of mud. taken from the bottom of wat r onirics, dried and powdered with the juL-t of camphor-tree seeds. In the .-ame way an. employed dimin utive images, usually of Buddha, but oft 'ii of fishes. They are made of lead, cast very thin by [touring the molten metal upon a board which is carved with the impressions. To place these nuclei inside of the niusselsisa process of no little deli cacy The iholl is usually opened with a small instrument of mot he r-of-pearl, and the mantle of the animal if gently lilted. At the same time the images or pills are laid in two rows beneath the uuuitlc The shell is then pc-mit ted to close. Finally the luollnsks are deposited in canals < r pools five or six inches apart, at depths of from two to five feet in lots of 5,000 to 50,000. .n November the mussels are col lected and opened. The animals are removed from the shells anfl the pel leis or images are detached by a sharp knife. By this time they are fastened tightly to the inner surface of the shells and have become covered with a coating of nacre. The next process is to cut away the matrices of earth or lead about which the artificial pearls have formed. Into the cavity thus made in each one is poured melted yellow resin, and the orifice is artfully covered over by a piece of mother-of pearl. The pearls formed about the earth en pellets are flat on the bottom and in shape are somewhat more than hemi spheres. They have mueh of the luster and beauty of the real gems, and are sold at a rate so cheap as to be procur able by all who care to possess them. They are employed to a considerable extent by jewelers, who set them in tiaras and. various ornaments of female attire. Those made from images are employed as ornaments and amulets on the caps of children. A few shells are sent to market with the pearls ad hering. for sale to the curious or super stitious. DOGS GET BORED. Hon- Mull'* Ilxample lias Demoralized the l'a>n<ful Aulmal. Some domestic animals can be very much bored indeed, says the London Times. This capacity seems to vary fr< in the intelligence of the victim and with the closeness of his relations to mankind. We may well blush, for in stance, when we think how man has demoralized the dog. We have taught the dog to be bored. We have cor rupted him so much by our society that he can no longer depend upon himself, or even on other dogs for entertain ment. A cow, it may be boldly said, never thinks of being bored. Give her plenty of grass and the company of another cow by way of gossip, give her a stream to stand in, and that cow is happy, as happy as the Buddha him self. Xo murmur escapes her lips, no glance of discontent shows in her placid eyes. The dog, on the other hand, is always craving for society. A dog has been know to leave its master's house and betake itself to that of a richer neigh bor, who saw more company and enter tained the great. To please a dog something must always be going on. To him the whirl of gayety means life. He is notoriously incapable of even taking a walk by himself. He detests solitude, lie very seldom even takes a walk with another dog; never, per haps, except where there is a neighbor ing wood with rabbits in it. The dog lives for society and sport, the sure proof of an idle and ill-occupied mind. Nature, landscape, in spite of the Duke of Argyll, is nothing to the dog. Within doors he is always asking to be let into a room and then asking to be let out of it if he thinks there is better — that is, more dissipated and frivolous — company elsewhere. The dog who is accidentally shut out of his master's house at night howls till he is let in again, usually next morning- with the milk. lie keeps all the parish awake, but never manages to waken his owner. The cause of all this disturbance is simply ennui and a sense of social neg lect. The dog 1 could be quite comfort able in the garden, but he feels that he is "out of it," and gives as much trouble as a person who is asking to be asked to a party. In a state of natui e it is most im probable that the dog had these offen sive instincts. A fox, a wolf is never bored when not in confineihent; he hunts, lie sleeps, he plays with his cubs. Probably savages are never bored; at a corroboree you do not note men leaning against doors, or, rather, tree trunks, with an air of unspeakable tedium. They waltz in and enjoy themselves. It is clearly civilization which produces ennui, not only in men, women and children, but even in dogs. Hen s KKS Oil- Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of a nev. oil which is easily made from the yolk of hens' eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, and the yolks are then removed, crushed and placed over a fire, wb#e tl;cy are carefully stirred until the sub stance is on the point of catching (ire, when the oil separates and the oil may be poured off. One yolk will yield nearly two of oil. It is in general use among the colonists of south Russia as a means of curing cuts, bruises, etc. Go to the Head. Inspector—What do you see above your head when you are in the open air? Scholar—The sky. Inspector—And what do you see when the sky is covered with clouds! Scholar —My umbrella. Boston Globe. Not in Cavendish or Iloylc. Old by—When I play whist with a girl I can always tell when she holds the ace of trumps. Newman —How? Oldby—l tell her that when she holds it her lover is thinking of her, and then I watch to see if she blushes as she picks up her cards.—Truth. Money in Gardening;. Thistles—Johnson is getting to be quite a farmer since he moved over to Jersey. Figs—So? Thistles—Yep; he made a garden and sold the truck for enough to pay for the seeds, all but fifteen dollars. I^ife. riitn* for the Future. "My daughter now attends the girls' college; it is so difficult to find hus bands now that we have conclude J to let her study law." "And you" son?" "0: he* declares that no girl is profi cient in cookery nowadays, and, epi cure that he is, he has decided to quali fy as a professional cook!" —Deutsche Wcspen. THE DAIRY. . ;r> DAIRY CONVENIENCES. f.lt tie Tiiii j: Which Save ( rtbl«> Worry uu«l Wark. Time is money, and an hour saved in testing a herd of cuv.> amounts to con siderable in a A ft*v. a Idilion •to the apparatus_furnUhed with the l!ab cock tester will save this time. In the eut I show some additions to our tester. A is a glass tu"be. with a class stop cock. called a burette. It is graduated in tenths of a c. c., but the marks shown in tliedrawing areforthe proper amount of acid to be used. 15 is a funnel; C is a reservoii Isittle hoVting two quart-.. When ready to test. fiW the bottle with and then nui the burette full. The- testing Masks can then be supplied with the required JL I' tH" n A'" fa ft 0 HELPS FOB THE Jf>Ay«YMAX amount of acid from this, in one quar ter of the time ntfcessary to accomplish the fcame with the measure fur nished with the' machine. In adding the hot water, we have another method which is quite handy, shown at the same figure. It is a can with a flat back, to which is attached a sm&ll rub ber tube four feet long. This hose has attached to it a glass tube with the joint drawn down. Just above the class joint is a pinch cock. The can Is hung on the wall above the tester. When ready to add the hot water to the test, fill the can, and from this add the needed amount to the flnslcs. I find that these articles save me imieli valu able time. As to cost, the burette oost (1:90, the bottle 91.? C, the funnel ten cents and the can and rubber tube about fifty cents. —Rural New Yorker. DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. IT will pay to give cows corn until clover aftermath grows up. l)o NOT allow dairy cows to fall.ofT in quantity of milk fmra short pastures. A LARGE quantity of the butter pro duced in this country is spoiled by too much churning and working. Do SOT hurry cows to and frnm the pasture. Dairy cows are sensible and are much disturbed by harsh treat ment. IT probably costs about as much to feed a cow which produces 150 pounds of butter as one which makes i'-OO pounds. FIRST class butter sells for a good price almost universally. It is only the inferior grades which bring low prices. THE progressive dairyman cannot af ford to use anything poorer than a first class bull. The future of his li'eril de pends upon him. ONE of the principal points in making a success of dairying is that of produo inp a uniformly rirst-class product dur ing all seasons of the year. IN selling dairy products the mini mum quantity of fertilizing elements leave the farm. Dairymen usually build up the fertility of their land. BE careful to have good ventilation in the dairy room during warm weath er. It can best be kept open or this purpose at night when the air is coolest. IT pays to have careful milkers who will be gentle with the cows and who always milk clean. A man may easily lose more than his wages by careless milking. CAREFULLY avoid foul odors and dirt about the place of milking. Dur ing very dry weather light pusts of wind are apt to send dirt into the pail while milking. Goon individual animals are needed in building up a dairy herd. Test the cows often to see what they are doing. If some herds were cut down in num bers they would be more profitable. — Orange Judd Farmer. Feeding Fat Into Milk. The possibility of increasing the but ter fat in milk by the food fed is being much discussed in agricultural papers. Many seein to think that this can be accomplished by feeding fat, or foods rich in fat. This is a mistake. Excess of fat fed tends to decrease the percen tage of the butter fat of milk. When acowis receivinga ration in which digestible protein predominates in such proportion as to exactly suit her individual requirements, she is then in a fair way to make the larg est possible return in butter fat. Any excess in her foodof fat over her actual requirement is a hindrance, not a help. In most cases 2 percent of fat in her ration is sufficient Dairymen gener ally do not realize how large a percent age of fat they ure feeding when in addition to corn ensilage, cornfodder. cornmeal, bran or oats, they also feed old process linseed meal, cottonseed meal or gluten meal.—Ohio Farmer. I'roflt in Young Beef ' It will cost less to raise young beel than to attempt the task of crowding ing more weight on an animal that lia.- eeased growth, while the prices foi young beef will make a large difference in the profit I)rertMe<l to Kill. Clara —Now I'm all ready for the ball. How do I look, Jack? Jack —You remind ine of a Sioux in his war paint. "Oh, you nasty thing! I—1—" "Don't cry, darling. I simply meant you were dressed to kill." —Chips. On Financial Business. Seedy Caller—Are you the financial editor of this paper? Man at the Desk—Yes, sir. What ean I do for you? Seedy Caller —Couldn't you lend a pore man fifty cents? —Chicago Trib une. The I.raven. Artist (to class of young women)— Now. I think the composite picture of this clfiss would be artistically beauti ful. Pretty Student (aside)— Strange that one face could so bring up the average! —Puck Sure to Uc Profits ''if "When I grow up," said Bob. "I'm going to be an architect and draw pic tures of big houses, and make other people build 'em and pay me for lettiuir 'em do it." —Harper's Young People Ai a Fashionable Watering I'lace. Mr. liillydoo—Surely you have not come here for the cure, Miss Hopeless? Miss Hopeless— It depends on how you look at it- I have really come to find my mother a son-in-law.—Judge. 3MO 42 WORK F®R TH6 IDLE. HL/ NO* I'tlllw tnem ployed Labor In the OiMrnrtlan of Itoarfs? Th ■ pr-->. Nt business depression has clo*<--I many industrial establishments, has causrd hundreds tj Ih> run on re duced time, *hile others are being op erated without profit in order that em ployes may bo pi veil work; as a conse- H' 1 -•«<* a 'a»"£c number of men, many of whoa) bare families dependent upon thorn, have bean thrown out of employ ment. Thi.-t Ls a subject of grave con cern to all the [*■ »ple of this country. Tw alleviate the present distress and t>> provide ag«rinst worthy workmen 5i.l tiieir families becoming objects of charity. 1 suggest that the state legis latures and city and town authorities take immediate iepi to furnish em ployment in the construction of public w rks, and in no way can this labor be more wisely employed than in the bet terment of the highways. To illustrate the value of the work that might be done: It Ls stated in the report of (he Mas sachusetts highway commission that the loss from bad roads in the stat£ amounts to between five and ten mil lion dollars per annum, probably a larger sum than would be needed to put the roads in good condition. It has been estimated that Illinois loses SIOO.- 000.t)00 per J?ar from bad roads. States, cities and towns ean borrow the money needed, and labor and ma tcrials can be obtained cheaper at pres ent than in times of prosperity. Phil anthropy, economy and wise statesman ship dictate that the idle should be given employment, as that employment means a direct gain to the entire com munity, and will promote health, hap piness and prosperity, and prevent pov erty, degradation and crime. During the present session of con gress, as soon as the silver question is fcettled, why should not a bill be passed making a llljeral appropriation for the irrigation of arid lands, thus giving omployment to the miners of Colorado, Montana and other western states, and opeutng up vast tracks for agricultural purposes. This would add greatly to the value of public lands, and would ultimately prove to be a profitable in vestment to the government. The amount of gold might be largely increased if congress were to pass a bill making appropriation for the construc tion of suitable barriers in the districts where hydraulic mining is prohibited by tew because of the damage done to rivers and farm lands by the debris. These internal .improvements could be made on the same principle that har bors and rivers are improved. Ft is es timated that there is sufficient gold in districts in California, that might be obtained by hydraulic mining processes, to pay off the snm of the national debt several times over. Congress should feel the solemn re sponsibility- that now rests upon it and should beor in mind that its present duty lies in alleviating the evils of the business depression and promoting the welfare of the laboring classes. A great industrial and social emergency has arisen within the past few months, and the peace and prosperity of the country ore threatened. Wise legislation can avert the pending disasters. Public works might now be undertaken which would be of incalculable advantage as a means of providing immediate relief and securing great future benefit, Al bert A. Pope GOOD ROAD SCFTAPER. One That I* Hard to Match (or Cheap ness and Effectiveness. A homemade road scraper that will <b<; hard to match for cheapness and effectiveness is made of. heavy boards cleated together 2}*' feet by 5 feet long, and edged with an old crosscut saw. SUong handles are bolted 16 it and crooked irons, as shown in the cut. Draw it by reaching from a clamp and two heavy staples on the back just be low its middle and near the handles. The doubletree and draft-chains fasten to these irons. When not in use the luindles are allowed to fall over toward the team, and it is drawn backward. This scraper docs more rapid work than the old-time narrow road shovel, and is not so heavy for the men.—L J. Simpson, in N. El Homestead. lX>n't For(«t the Drainage. It is essential that the roadway sh'ould be properly constructed with reference to grading and ditching or drainage. This is accomplished by ex cavating deep ditches at each side of the roadway (where the road passes through level land) and the construc tion at intervals of wooden or stone culverts or sluiceways, in order that the surplus water may be turned aside or conducted away from the roadbed. When broken stone or cobblestone is used as a foundation, an excavation is made in the center of the roadway be tween the two ditches to the depth of several inches and as wide as may be required to build the road. This ex cavation is filled with broken stone or cobblestone, with the addition of sand and gravel, and when the roadbed is completed it shows gradually sloping sides from the center each way to the ditches on the margin of the road.—St. Louis Republic. systematic Agitation Needed. If %ve would have better roads, we must have a better system of road mak ing and repairing. We must submit to bo taxed to procure them and keep them in an efficient state, and no mon ey could be better spent- If we keep tins very important matter before the public and urge its necessity upon our legislators, something must be done. I.ut a spasmodic effort to-day which will be forgotten to-morrow will leave our last condition as bad, if not worse, than our first. —Chicago Ilerald Very Different. Smith—You must have a wonderful memory to keep all those things in your head. Jones—Yes, never forget anything when it is once there (pointing to his forehead). Smith—Well, old man. how about the twenty dollars I lent yon some time ago? Jones —Ah. you see. that's different. I put that in my pocket.—Brooklyn Life. No Head for Business. Mose Schaumburg, Jr.—Yader. a sherrtlemans vants to know if dot un shrinkable undershirt don't shrink a leedle, anyvay. Mo e Sehaumburg. Sr.—Does dot shirt tit him? • No, it vas choost a leedle too pig." "< >f course it vill shrink. Vy don't you have some heads for pishness." — Texas Sittings. Very Su^pleiouH. Friend Why Elvira, what's the mat ter? Klvira—Oh, 1 don't know, only I'm worried to death. I've had the same girl six weeks, and she doesn't talk about leaving yet. "She doesn't?" "No, not a word. She must bo in love with my husband."—N. Y. Weekly- Didn't W.-.ut Him to Starve. Doctor—You mustn't eat too much Patient— Why, I board. "Do you? Then eat all yon can."— '
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