YOLXXX I •BARGAINS' There was never a time when people were looking for bargains so much as at the present time and BICKEL'S bargains were never so attractive as they are now. Our entire stock of Fall and Winter goods have arrived and are open and ready for your inspection. Bargain seek ers will have the grandest opportunity the have ever had to select what they may wish from an immense stock of Boots, Shoes and Rubber Goods* * ' * -X --NOTE THE PRICES: 350 pair men's kip, D. S. and tap, box toe boots, hand made $3 50 400 " " " plain toe " " 3.00 290 " oak kip, guaranteed waterproof 2.50 300 " heavy kip, long leg boots 218 pair boy-' hand made kip boots , 2.50 674 " kip boots - - 1.25 to 2.00 465 pair men's every day shoes - yoc to 1.75 212 pair boys' " - - 75 c to 1 -4° 118 pair women's oil grain lace shoes - - 90 690 " " button " - - I.CO 175 " veal kip lace shoes 100 pair misses' " " • - - 75! 300 " oil grain shoes 150 pair ladie's fine dongola shoes, Rochester make, price 3.00 at 1.50 ' 460 " hand turn " " 4-00at2.00 300 " kid button shoes - 9O 190 pair misses' " - 85 500 " grain and calf school shoes 75 300 pair infant shoes - - - 10 Gilt Edge and Atrose fine oil dressing, per bottle - 25 "Bickel" fine shoe polish - - - 10 Russian cream dressing for tan shoes - l5 -W)nr Prices on Rubber Goods Sorprise Them All.#- Men's first quality rubber boots, light weight - s2.t>o " " heavy " - 2.50 Boy's " - 1 -75 Youth's " " - 125 Ladie's " " - 1.25 Men's heavy overs, first quality 500 pair men's fine specialty rubbers -- - 50 Men's self-acting or imitation sandals -- 50 Ladie's finest grade rubbers, eight styles 5O " Croquets or imitation sandals 25 Misses' finest grade rubbers --25 " croquets or imitation sandals -- 25 Our stock of rubber goods is larger than ever before,all styles, men's short, knee and hip boots. Same styles in boys' and youths' boots. All styles of men's and ladies Arctics and Alaskas.and child rens and misses storm rubbers. When in need of footwear give me a call. JOHN BICKEL. 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PENN'A. The New Shoe Store IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Close cash buyers can save money on footwear. Goods bought at panic prices—customers get the benefit. Are you open for a deal. GIVE US .A CALL. I have just returned from the Easten shoe market where I bought for cash a large line of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, and in order to introduce myself I am going to make very low prices. Profit no object— Your trade is all. Don t fail to call at THE NEW SHOE STORE. Remember the place, opposite Arlington Hotel, Butler, l'a. 0. E. MILLER. •--» " " ' BEST QUALITY BOOTS AND SHOES Cheaper than ever at AL. RUFF'S. We want your trade and will sell you Boots and Shoes cheaper than they can be bought else where. See our line of Men and boys' Kip Hoots. Our line of Women's Calf and Oil Grain Shoes. Our Children's Waterproof School Shoes. We will save you your c-r fare to Butler on a single pair of shoes. AL RUFF. 114 S. MAIN STREET. - BUTLKR, PA. The Fair is Coming. OUR SHOES ARE DOWN. 60 pair« of Ladies' fine Oxfards Kddyu fc Webster's muko were 2.75 now only 1.90. 200 pairs of Ladies' shoes Eddy & Webster's muke hand turned and welt were 4.50 and 5.00 now only 3.75. 1 lot of Ladies' Bhoes baud turned were 2.25 and 2.50 now only I.'JO. 1 lot of Oxford* ties only 60 cts. All children's Red sad tan shoes at 85 cts. were 1.00 and 1.25. 1 lot Men's Cordovan welt shoes Strong ti Carrell make were 5.50 now only 4.65. 1 lot Men's French calf shoes Strong & Carrell make were 4.75 now only 3.90. 1 lot Men's Dongola were 2.25 nov» 1.65. 1 lot Men's double ao'e and Up were 2.00 now 1.45. All Shoes Down to Rock Bottom Prices at ROBINS BROS., 8. K. corner of Diamond - - _ Butler, Pa. THE. BUTLER CITIZEN. W : ITKE KSfcD | I THAT CURES| I 1 44 ■ 23 N. Y- =j 1 Torturing Eczema, a ■INDIGESTION ANDI i LOSS OF APPETITE ■ CURED. m 5 Tff* 701XOW1:. .; sra >XG TCTTDIOKULL WAS = s'sm in J*Y TriK hr<;e MrstiiAvnuc norss= ■<if C. w. PAL* in * Co., ILlbumes, N. Y. ■ ! ™L>AXA SABS A PAELLA 0».: 1 ==* GEN'TIXMK;. r—D-jr:nsr the pc-t thrr- 1 yrtn ISS Hlhsr: mSerei 001 .ctermb'y with Eczema, all ==fimf a§o that IYM unul, to attei.d to rr.T uork. I=3 1 stiff«r»>d from I ion, and was hadiyMj j Gaining a-.y ro'i 1 I WT.t LuduC.-d tO try » DANA'S i SARSAPAIULLA I M|l hare taken only two ar.<! feel like ■jneiv man. l*lmpl * And l»lot< h«*» h«ve|? y «li*a »!»«•» Appetite flr»t = ■ rate; I>i ge»ta»n irooil. la fact I beiicre ifH I had not taken DANA'S I *ouMnot be alive ==now Your» truly, ZZE ■j IltrLujucr. K. Y. L. A. WQLLABUL ■ Dana Ssrapvllla Co., Beliut, Maine- g N e are pleased to inform those >\ ho appreciate clothes that are comfortable and tit correctly, that our selection of Fall patterns are here. They are handsome and mod erate priced. See them. A.lancl, Tailor. FRANK KEMPER, DBAL£K I: BLANK ETB, HARNESS, -A_nd every tiling in horse and buggy iur nishin# goods-H a r - ness, Collars, Whips. "Dusters, Saddles, etc. Also trunks and va lises. Repairing done on short notice. The largest assort ment of i)-A Horse blankets in town will he loiind at Kfjirmer's. NOTICK. 1 TTY . TJIK WBLL -IHf A i/\ 4- w~t known Arti t 1/1/ APi f# ail Photo f f fj j I /i KrapJiiir;fi>rii''ily XX V A tLi 11hi- hi-ml (.1 the J Wcrtz Ilunlm 11 n Art Co., will open a StaUiu and Photo Par lors opponite the Hotel Lowry, Cor, Mum and JefTer-on Ktn., Butler, Pa. Thin will be the bw-t lighted mil cqoippcd Studio and KHllerieA in the the county. The work will he Htriclly first clttrf* mid made under new formulas liy the artixt biiniH'lf, who han ht;d 15 yearn jiructieal expeiiuice in lar«e eitie* Portraits in Oil, Crayon, Sepia, I J a tel, <tc In this line we h;ue no competition, Our portraits are mude hy hard in our own Studio, from -ittitijr or from photoi. Our work has reached the highc l Ktandard of cxcelicncu a d is not to he compared with the cheap inn chine made pictures hy other.i. Wait for us; get your pictures from un and lie happy. Planing Mill —AND—J Lumber Yard }. L. fU KVt' <) H XVI: S.G.Purvis&Co. MANUFACTDITBLLK ANLJ UKAI.UIIH IN Rough and Planed Lumber Of KV8 1 y UKHCHirriOM, SHINGLES, LATH 6 SEWER PIPE. iiutl <i, n . SAW MII.LS, Imnroved Variablo Friction Fewd. aud special prtces. A. B. FARQUHAK CI)! XOIUC, r [Copyright. xßgj,byA. N. Kelk>fg: N«wspap«rCo CHAPTER I ACC< nr:::o TU TTIE CODE." I [E story will be H f an autobi- S * ography. I, Dorr Jewett, Jr U am the nar t ~-jr~/ g rator. lam a native of New rtY Hampshire; but the larger part of my life has MESw' been passed in '■BpF -r the La Fourche ~7 district of Lou is ian a . This should be said, 'y Vi A » order that my " lh * A worn and time-stained copy of the Yicksburg Daily Citizen of April 6, 1853, lies be fore me. After the occurrence of cer tain events with which future chapters will deal, I took the trouble to secure this paper, and have ever since pre served it. In its columns is a brief and rather unsatisfactory reference to an af fair which had excited large interest in that part of Mississippi. I was not a witness of it; and the description after ward given to me by or of the actors in it was so much more in detail than the newspaper account that I prefer to adopt tha former in setting this landmark at the outset of the story. If you follow the left bank of the fiver down to a point where the Vicks turg bluffs sink to the ordinary level of the river banks, you will come out Upon a beautiful grassy glade over looking the water. Some small elms and eottonwoods made a pleasant shade bordering the road; a wide strip of land, possibly thirty rods across, lay between the highway and the river liank. So early upon the morning of the 8d of that April that the sun had not yet shown his rim above the trees, three horsemen came at a brisk trot down the road, stopped at this grove, dismounted, and tied their horses. "The other people are not here yet," one of the men observed. "There's time enough. Ah! there they are." Three more horsemen approached from the opposite direction. They also halted here, and fastened their horses. All of the six were dressed in white duck suits, for the weather of that spring had come on hot. Two of them carried each one a case of mahogany wood, and these two, after saluting each other, came together in earnest conversation. Two of the others also approached and shook hands, and the prefix "doctor" was exchanged between them. "A disagreeable busircss," one ob served. "Indeed it is. I hope we shall neither of us be needed." "I hope so —but fear it <vill be other wise. They say both are good shots. You brought your instruments?" "Yes; I carry them in a large pocket in my saddle-flap." "All right; my darky is on the way with mine. Now what are Dorion and Basnet about?" These two, each with his mahogany case under his arm, had drawn off out of hearing. But as my account of the whole affair came from one of them, their conversation may be stated here. "lias this thing really got to goon?" "I suppose so—unless your man will withdraw his challenge." "He can't do that. To do it would be to confess that he never had any grounds for it." "And, do you know, Mr. Castex says that lie never did have any ground for the challenge. But Hostock put the affront on him in such a public man ner, and in his own house, too, that he swears he'll fight, unless the challenge is absolutely withdrawn, without ex planation." "Well, it's an absurd thing! Duels I have been concerned in, have fought three or four myself, but never before was I engaged in one where nobody but the principals knew what the prov ocation was; and one of them insists that there was none. It seems like boy s play." "Look atyourman; he acts as though he were too angry this minute to con tain himself." The principals to this meeting had bowed in the most distant manner upon reaching the ground. Then Mr. Castex fat down, propped his back apainst a tree, lit a cigar, and smoked it as lazily as though his spirits were perfectly unruffled by the prospect ol the coming encounter. Mr. liostock, on the contrary, walked nervously about, switching at tho grass with his cari'-, and occasionally turning upon his nonchalant antagonist a glanc< that was decidedly savage. The seconds resumed their consulta tlon. "Is it worth while to try to get ar explanation?" "Not in the temper your man is in, I should f.ay; not without a shot. Wq will stand them up once, and tho firs) exchange may lead to an arrange ment." "If it don't put one or both of ttierq beyond the reach of arrangements,* muttered the other. "Well, come on." Messrs. Basnet ami Dorion crossed the road; the others followed them, The first rays of the sun glanced through the trees; the delicious liar mony of birds shook the air; the throb bing of the engines and splash of tha paddle-wheels of a boat ascending th« river were painfully distinct. Mr. Dorion thrust a small stick intq the turf and deliberately measured oil ten paces, marking the limit In the same way. "Will you toss for position, Mr. Bas net?" The other tossed up a coin. "Heads!" cried Dorion, and both bent over tho place. "You win, Mr. Castex. Please make your choice." The person addressed walked to one of the sticks; his adversary walked to the other. Contrasting them as they thus stood face to face, Bostock ap peared tall, broad shouldered and ruddy; Castex slighter in build, sallow of face and with a decidedly sinister expression on it. The pistols were taken from their cases; one was delivered to each com batant. The doctors retired to wherq the horses were tied. The seconds went to the road. "Please observe the conditions," Mr. Basnet said, in a loud voice. "Each man to hold his weapon perpendicular ly up or down— so! The word will be, 'Fire! One Two—Three.' There most be no : hot before the first word or after the la t. Do you understand?" "Yes." "I do." "Are you ready?" "Ready." IU T TLT';K, ;PJV., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1 "Fire!— One—" The last words were drowned by th« rrp rt of the Tim ttraw hat worn by Castex was seen to turn upon his head; he took it off, and exhibited a bullet hole through the crown. "Are you hurt, Mr. Bostock?" his friend eagerly asked, running for ward. "No. Give us another shot." "It is time now for me to say a word," said the friend of Mr. Castex, coming up. "He does not instruct me; I interfere because it seems something like murder to allow this difficulty to go any further. Mr. Bostock, my prin cipal has accepted your challenge be cause he comes of a race of fighting men; his father was killed at Water loo; he wants no imputation upon hia own courage. He has come here and has exchanged shots with you, declar ing to me that you have no just cause of offense against him. Whether you have or not. nobody but you two can know. The language which gave you offense was uttered in your own house, at your own table. What it was, no one heard but you. Both of you ought now to be satisfied; both of you have vindicated your honor. Let the affair end here." Mr. Bostock faced the speaker. "Does that man," he asked, while his voice trembled with passion, "does that man affirm that he has not given me just cause for offense?" "That is what I say," called out Mr. Castex from where he stood, with a strong French accent. "Then you lie. sir!" deliberately re torted Bostock. "Indeed! That is very good. You will observe new, messieurs, there is rea son to fight, if there has not been be fore." The seconds silently assented, and recharged the pistols. As they handed them back, they saw something in the •faces of the principals that predicted another »esult this time. The steamer THE DUEr.. had advanced to a point nearly oppo site where they stood, and the slow deep coughing of her pipes seemed to emphasize the scene. Again the word was given; both pis tols spoke together. As the smoke floated off, Bostock was seen standing upright. Castex lay his fnll length upon the ground. Both doctors were instantly kneeling by him. He never stirred. A small hole in the forehead showed where the bullet had traversed the brain. Mr. Bostock looked at the group. "Is lie dead?" he asked. nis friend came over to where he stood. "Yes," he said. Mr. llostock's face was getting white, and an expression of pain crossed it. His friend caught him as he was settling down to the ground. One of the doctors hurried over and laid the sufferer on the grass. "He hit rne the last time," said Bostock, faintly. "Look at the chest." The doctor tore open vest and shirt and found the bullet hole. He inserted the prol>e. Then he administered a stimulant. "How is it, doctor?" the wounded man asked. "I don't wish to alarm you, sir; but this is serious." Under the temporary influence of tho stimulant Mr. Bostock sat up. "I beg of you don't try to talk," the doctor said. "Your life may depend upon your keeping quiet." His remonstrance was not heeded. "I want you all to know," cried tho wounded man, "that I never wanted to kill him. You saw the chance I gave him. I could have put my first ball through his head just as easily as through his liiit, if I'd wanted. He had a chance then to take back the damna bly insulting words that lie whispered to me at my own table. I wanted him just to say: 'Mr. Bostock, I'm sorry that I said it, and It was not true, 1 and I would have taken his hand. Hut no, he must die, repeating the insult. The fool would rush on his fate." "Mr. Bostock," said the friend of the man who lay dead a few yards away, "what were those words that you claim were so insulting?" "Not another word!" the doctor cried. "Silence and quiet, at the peril of your life!" "I can't tell you," Bostock faintly replied. "You must not know what he said. Nobody must know. The fool! —what tempted him? Say, Dorian—• all of you -remember! —I have made no will—but my child, Cornlle, will " riO.N'T THY TO TALK," THK DOCTOB SAID. have it all-—tho plantations here and in Louisiana —all- all—" The blood gushed from his mouth and lie fell back in a faint. CHAPTER IL AHOSt'J THE URACTTC IIILLS. As hus been said, the scenes do scribed in my first chapter were not witnessed by inc. But I had seen and known one of the chief actors long be fore that memorable morning. I had seen and known him under circum stances that make it necessary to a due comprehension of the narrative to state where, when aud how. It was five years before. To be ex act, it was the spring of IHIV. I was planting corn with my father, oooneoi the almost sterile hillsides of the New Hampshire farm. The humble roof under which I was born was risible down near the river. The Merrimac wound along two sides of our little homoetead. furnishing- the only cheer ful feature of the scene. Hills—ster ile hills—encompassed us. Twenty miles away I could see the granite top of Mount Kearsarge soaring to the clouds. I was a boy of eleven,' rather preco cious for my years. I attended the public school four months in the year, and labored with my father the bal ance of the time among these rockß. I went to "meeting" on Sundays in tha old edifice on top of a high hill, on the steeple of which a veering- wooden codfish denoted the direction of the wind, and saved the people from the profanation which a cross in that place wonld have caused. I listened to the choir, elevated to a fearful height in the rear gallery, as they thundered forth resounding anthems and fugues. I heard thedoleful-visaged and drawling-voiced minister pray forty minutes at a stretch, and preach ninety, frequently devoting nine tenths of the whole race to exquisite and eternal torment. I had a thirst for knowledge that the public school could not supply. A stray copy of the Boston Daily Journal, coming like an enchanter from the outside world, sometimes stimulated this thirst. I was generally regarded as "a green boy," "an odd stick," etc.; and I once heard of Deacon Halleck telling my father that a boy with such out landish notions as Dorr ought to be whipped regularly twice a week. Doubtless I should have been, had the deacon been given the ordering of me earlier than he was; but my father, al though reared in all the vigor of Puri tanism. was by nature kind and ten der-hearted, and religious fanaticism could not change him. To my own puzzled youthful mind, it often seemed as though a grave mistake had been made in my allotment. I seemed to have been set down in the wrong oor ner of the world, among a people with whom I had no affinity. I was still a mere boy. I learned as I grew older, and long before I bade farewell to my northern home, to re spect the intelligence, the force, the sturdy honesty of this people, whose very "failings leaned to virtue's side." Still, I thought then, as I think now, that I should always have been dwarfed and cramped among them. Returning to the bleak hill-side where my father and I were striving to plant corn on that afternoon, I record how I suddenly stopped work, leaned on my hoe, and contemplated my father. He was in his shirt-sleeves; his graying 1 hair and refined but wrinkled face were turned to me as he bent over his toil. A sudden inspira tion seized me. "Father! Do you suppose that when I get to be as old as you are, I shall be planting corn in these rocks?" ne stopped and looked up in sur prise. "1 hope not, Dorr —I hope you won't! But what put such a question into your head just now?" "It's in my head all the time. The way things are going on here, there don't socm to be anything coming to me but the same poverty and the same labor that you have always had." He looked at me —a serious, pitying glance it was—and sat down on a gran ite bowlder. He leanod his head on his hand and sighed. "My boy, I've often thought of this. Your poor mother and I have laid awake n-'phts talking about it; but I never thought it had troubled you any. What do you want?" "To go to the academy—maybe to college—and by and by to get out into the world, try to make a man of my self, like the men I read of, and to see something besides these hills and these people. I'd like to get rich, and come back and build a big house for you and mother over on the lake. Yes, I'd like to do anything rather than live here all my life." He smiled at my youthful enthusiasm; but his look of painful reflection quick ly returned. "Dorr, A had just such dreams my self, when I was young, and 1 presume that my father before me had them. I wanted an education, and couldn't have it. Poverty, hard toil and em barrassment seem to be the lot of tßose who cleave to this soil. God knows, I wish things might be shaped as you wish them; but how to contrive it I do not know." His hoe dropped from his hand, and, his eyes sought the ground. I chanced to look down toward the river road and I saw a man in a buggy stop at our gate. A woman, my mother, of course, as there was none other about the house, came to the door. There was a brief parley; then the man got out, hitched the horse, climbed the fence and strode over the upland to ward us. Perhaps my frame of mind just then inclined me toward a presentiment. Perhaps tho reader will say that it is always easy to predict after the fact. No matter; the fact remains the same that a sudden and decided conviction was forced npon me that this stranger was to have a positive Influence upon my life, and that his presence here at this time was of itself a promise of great results for me. He walked rapidly, removing his wide-brimmed palm-leaf hat and wip ing his brow with a large red handker chief as he came. He was tall, power ful of frame and florid c of face; and I Observed uthat there was something about this color, hardly a tan, that I at once attributed to the sun of another latitude than this. Every detail of his person and dress I took in at oncet my attention was certainly sharpened by tho presentiment I have mentioned. I Judged him to be at least fifty years old, though his face was plump and unwrlnkled. Ilis features were bold and handsome; there was a twinkle to his eyo and an ever-recurring smile upon his face that made him seem the most charming of men. Short curls of chestnut hair ran all over his head. Ills dress was rich in material and fashionable in cut; diamonds were In his shirt-front, and an immense soli taire sparkled on one of his little fin gers. He came up within a few feet of me, and paused. My father had thus far not seen him at all; hn was absorbed in his rcvory. The stranger looked from me to him, and spoke in a round, hearty voice: "Well, here we are. My lad, what's your name?" "Dorr Jewett, sir." "Is that yonr father?" "Yes, sir." He walked over to my abstracted sire and bestowed such a hearty thwack " WHAT'S YOUR NAMK?" " DORR JJCWKTT, NIB. upon his shoulders that he jumped to hi» f««t. "Well, Amofc, how are you, any way?" My father looked at the laughing face* before him, and wa* disarmed of all anger. But his memory was not re inforced. • ReaUy. sir." ho said, "you have the advantage of me." "I am Pierce Bostock." fTO BB COSTtSrCTO.J NOT ALL PLEASURE. Even the Sport of Yachting Haa ltd Drawbacks. There It No Flara So Hot as a Ship'* Deck and Nothing So Exasper ating as an Inexpe rienced Crew. One commonly thinks of yachting as the most delightful of summer pas times, says the Boston Transcript, and the very word calls up visions of a "wet shoet, and a flowing sea, and a wind that follows fast," smells of salt things, and whistlings through the rigging, blue iky, white caps, driving cloujls and all that sort of thing, to say nothing of the possibilities of delight ful companionship and the delicious unconvcntionality of meeting one's fellow men and women with all the formality and restraints of on-shore life thrown off; no making talk or any thing of that kind, butknocking about carelessly and easily in flannel suits and having "'a real good time." Or, again, racing, with all its excitements, and cruising, with all of its poaslbili ties of adventure, to Bar Harbor. Such is the popular and accepted view of yachting, but there is another and gloomy stde to the picture which the writer, who is sometimes inclined to growl, can set forth clearly in three distinct statements, with an open chal lenge to contradiction —first, that to "go and take a sail" in a small boat belonging to some one else and to sail aimlessly about on the open s*a is "an awful bore;" secondly, that to go as "amateur crew" on a rowing yacht under sixty feet long is not only a bore, but a hardship, and on yachts over sixty feet in length it is not cus tomary to have an "amateur crew," unless an occasional and almost always useless passenger can be considered such; and, lastly, that cruising is a lottery absolutely dependent on the weather. Fogs, calms, storms and head winds are quite as usual as free winds and stinsbine. Observe that nothing has boon said about seasickness, which makes yacht ing impossible to so many. There is no place on earth where the sun can strike down out of the sky and bleach and blister and sizzle as It can upon a yacht's deck. There Is no place that can be hotter or more stuffy or more uncomfortable than a yacht's cabin on a hot day, when there is no wind or when the wind is dead aft, and when it is rough, and the water is driv ing across the yacht's deck in a sheet of white foam, and the crew arc all hud dled behind the shrouds, into.which old oil skins have been stuffed to make a screen and the man at the wheel has life lines running from the main sheet to the main shrouds on either side of him to keep him fiom being washed overboard, and the oil bags are hung to windward to keep the water from breaking, and the flre is out in the galley, and the cook has been scalded by the soup stock jumping out of the boiler, and the barometer is dropping like mad, and tho skylight leaks so that every wave which comes aboard sends bucketfuls of swash down into the cabin, and when every now and then a wave comes aboard and pounds down on her deok like a load of pig iron, and those below are shaken about like corn in a popper, and those on deck simply hold on and duck their heads—when such is the condition of affairs yachting wonld not be consid ered a pastime. The delights of being "amateur crew" can be briefly summed up. They consist in lying flat on your face either in a hot sun or a pouring rain, and If you turn over having the ownor shout at you: "Keep still! Do you think that you're a wild elephant? You jarred her all over that time." Further more, all yachts are not rigged alike, and if the amateur crew is told at a critical point In the race—say just be fore rounding the leeward mark—to let go the spinnaker halyards and let the balloon jib halyards go instead, so that the whole sail goes over to lee ward, the remarks which will be made to him will be "unfit for publication." Journalism In Slana. Siamese journalism deserves a gold medal, says the Journalist. In July a French fleet practically invested the capital, Bangkok, and a military force took possession of a valuable island, defeating the Siamese garrison with heavy loss. Ten -days afterward the leading Bangkok newspaper an nounced: "We are informed that several French warships have been seen in the neighborhood, and that on account of the unhealthfulness of Blanketty Blank island it is feared that none of the troops stationed there will ever re turn with their lives." Such a country ought to be gobbled by the first European power that comes along. Mourning Ktlquett* In Knglanri. In Kngland the period of mourning for a father-in-law is twelve months ten months black, two months half mourning. Crape is seldom worn, al though the crape period was formerly six months. For a parent the period is tho sumo as above. The longest period for a brother is six months— five months black, one month half mourning. The crape period WHS for merly three months. It is now almost discarded. The shortest period is four mouths black, no half mourning. The period of mourning for a father-in-law is often shortened to six months when relatives reside at a considerable dis tance from each other. A l.lve Toad In a Hallstoae. A hailstorm visited I'awtucket, S, 1., the other evening, such as lias not vis ited this vicinity for years, if within the memory of man. One woman picked up a largo hailstone and allowed it to melt in her hand. She thouglif something was insido the little piece of frozen rain, but was surprised to find when all had melted a little live toad or frog in her hand. There is a quite general belief that a great many pebbles eamn down with the hall. Th» Chines* Tea Trade. Alarmed by the rapid extension of the use of Indian teas in Europe and tbu consequent deoline of the demand for the Chinese leaf, the authori ties have just issued a proclamation against the manufacture of "what is significantly styled In the docionettt as "lie" tea. The proclamation points out that this scandalous practice has contributed more than anything «;l»e to bring about tho wane of the Cliiis'W tea trade, and it declares that the au~ thorities are determined to put a stop to it. People aro warned not to make any tea excepting of the genuine tea leaves, and if any person is dlsoovcred infringing this order he will be pun ished by transportation for life— a pen alty which will be extended also to the seller and to the buyer, as well as to all others who have taken any part in tho placing of adulterated tea upon tbo*markct. GUITEAU'S BONES. Tno Baal Burial Place of President Garfield's Not In a Medical Mutt-um flat Ilcneatl the Floor of the l'rlion iff Which the Murderer TVai ConUne-1. Deputy Warden Ilyss of the distric jail made a statement that the skelc 'ton of Guiteau. the assassin eft lYesi dent Garfield, is not on exhibition a* the medical museum, as has been pen erally supposed. It will be remembered that for a long time prior to the execution strenuous ef 1 forts were made to ascertain where Gui teau was to be buried. Persons actin fl in the interest of resurrectionists, botl those who wanted the body for dissec tion and several enterprising- proprie tors who much desired to secure it foi exhibition purposes, industriously ques tioned every one whom they thought possessed the slightest knowledge. ! Great precautions were taken to pre vent the grave from being robbed The following mode of procedure wa» agreed upon to prevent the body fron being stolen. In ordor toobviate what ever legal difficulties might arise anc to forestall any claim the sister oi brother of the murderer might make, it was decided that he should make a will bequeathing his body to Dr. llicks and it will probably be remembered that the will when published created some curiosity by its wording, giving as it did the body to be disposed of a; the beneficiary saw fit. "After ?oing over the whole mat ter," said Warden Russ, "and realizinp that it would be Impossible to properlj protect the corpse, it was dceided tc bury i-t in the jail the night of the hanging After the autopsy the body remained in a cheap coffin In the chapel of the jail. Upon my arrival at the jail early on Saturday morning fol lowing the execution, I secured a couple of trusties and taking them with me proceeded to the laundry room. It is a little room just to the east of the engine-room, dimly lighted by a small barred grating, and it made almost an ideal tomb. "Two amateur grave diggers went to work, and, qufckly removing the flooring, dug a grave sufficiently ileep by the time the bodv was brought down from the chapel. "There was only a small party that stood about that open grave and lis tened to the solemn reading of the burial service. Gen. Crocker, who was the warden, was present, and I believe Charley Rypd, the lawyer who assisted In Guiteau's defense, besides several guards and the two prisoners who dug the grave. It was a weird scene, and one I shall never forget. The burial in such a somber place was particular ly nerve-trying, and I think we all felt relieved when Dr. Hicks concluded and the darkles began to cover up the cof fin. This did not consume much time, and it was not long before the grave •was filled up and the flooring restored to its normal position. "There was no particular compact as to secrecy among rs, but it seemed to be generally understood that we would maintain silence, especially as there was considerable excitement at the time. The story that the body had been secretly removed to the medical museum was permitted to go uncon tradicted. just as I state, because wo did not believe it concerned anyone. "What became of the brainH and other organs of the assassin which were removed at the autopsy held im mediately after the execution* I do not know, except the spleen, which is on exhibition at the museum. Whatever else was left of the man who murdered President (Jarfleld lies beneath -the floor of the laundry-room of the jail." BETTER THAN A CLUB. Nsw York I'ollceinrn Have Adopted a Novel I'laa for Aruuilut Drunki. Ever since the New York police com missioners issued the edict against members of "the finest" carrying their locusts during the day the patrolmen In the downtown precincts have been trying to find something to tnko the place of the club when it was found necessary to recall sleeping "drunks" from the land of dreams to the stern realities of existence. Formerly, says the Evening World, a free application of the club to the soles of a sleeper's feet had the desired ef fect. Denied that method of arousing the dormant powers of locomotion in the sodden gentry it was often neces sary to spend the greater part of no hour persuading an individual to hie himself away. Hut it was not long be fore the inventive genius of an Oak street station patrolman made the way all smooth und beautiful once more. Now a five-cent rubber ball has taken the place of the eighteen-inch otick. Apparently harmless as this little toy looks to the uninitiated, its efficacy as a "bum" accelerator far exceeds a whole bundle of night sticks. It isn't the rubber ball, but its contents that does the business. Every patrolman in the fourth ward now fills a rubber ball with household ammonia when he starts out in the morning. A gentle pressure of the thumb and fin ger projects a fine stream of fluid lightning from the small hole in the hollow sphere a distance of several feet. This tiny stream brought to l>enr upon a "sleeper's" mustache has never yet faik-d to briuff about an immediate revivifying of tho subject, no matter how inert the bundle of "bum" ap peared to be a moment previous. —I Th* t'(M of a Haw. "Brery well-regulated family," said Mrs. Hilltops, "ought to have a saw. We've had a hammer as long as I can remember, and why WV haven't had a saw I don't know. They are so handy to have in the house; to saw off curtain poles with; to saw off the legs of chairs If you want to shorten them; to make things out of boxes, window seats and things like that; to saw old l>oxes Into kindling wood, if one is economical, and for lots o/ other things. I must get Mr. Billtops to buy a saw to-mor row." NEWSPAPERS APPRECIATED. A New Hampshire Man Who HellrtM la the I'erlodlral for the Library. There Is a man in New Hampshire named William C. Todd, who holds to the theory that he is benefiting his fel low creatures when he puts abundant oupplies of newspapers within their reach, lie lately provided foranjexpend lture of two thousand dollars a year for newspapers for the lt»>ston public li brary, says Harper's Weekly, and It has since been discovered that he re cently made a similar provision for the public library of Newburyport. lie Wives in the value of newspapers, mid yet it seems that he is not a pat ent-medicine, man as one might sup pose, but a retired schoolmaster, who haa been a great traveler, and now pursues u life of studious retirement in a village. In extenuation of his ac tion he da-dares that the press has be come the great agency by which in formation ks diffused and the |>enple arc educated, and that free reading rooms are likely to be more in demand in tho future Oh ail free libraries. It is In teresting to notice that he seems not to have suffered from the newspa|>er pub licity about which there is so much com plaint. and that even his neighlsirs in Atkinson, wheje he lives, were found to posses# scarcely any reliable infor mation about his past career or the sire of his fortune. They knew him to bo frugal in his personal hal>its and . generous In hi# benefactions, but that feaaaU. MO 47 m HQEN. CORN HOUSE PLAN. A Itulldlng That Save* ihc Crop front Damaging Effects. The accompanying illustrations from sketches by C K. Hen ton, of Massachu setts. show a I.l'vol and useful plan for a com house. l«y which not only more corn is sheltered in proportion to the size and expense of the building, but, what is of vastly more importance, the corn is saved from the damaging effects of driving rain and snow, which in moist climates so seriously affect the value of the crop in the old fashioned cribs, while it is waiting to be ground or fed. The ordinary crib has slatted sides, and the ventila tion is horizontal, hence the driving rain and snow finds easy access to every ear of corn. Hut by this method the ventilation, while even more per fect. is from the bottom upwards, which entirely protects the corn from direct exposure to the elements. The building, which may be of any conven ient size or proportion, is placed upon ehestnut or oak posts two feet high, g 11 ■ 1 a e '\ ■ ■ 1 —=\ , &=- H. A FIO. I. —FLOOR PLAN OF COKS HOUSE. which are at proper intervals and are firmly set in the ground. A building of suitable size for a small farm is eight by twelve feet, and six feet from sill to plate. A partition, as shown in Fig. 1, leaves an alleyway four by eight feet at one end, with an outside door, a, as well as a doorway, t>, which gives ac cess to the crib. For convenience there should also be a window at e. This makes a convenient place in which a eorn-shellcr may be stored and used, and in which, also, the bags may be tilled when a grist is being put up for the mill. The arrangement leaves 3 crib eight feet square for the corn, and, as it could be tilled considerably above the plates, it would store about four hundred bushels of ears, or suffi cient to make two hundred bushels shelled. The bottom of the crib is floored with narrow boards, leaving a space of three-fourths of an inch be tween the boards, thus making a slat bottom to the crib instead of slat sides. The sides should be boarded tight like any other building. To secure perfect ventilation, rough doors are hung from the sills of the building, against the posts on which it rests, and care is taken while the corn is curing to keep All these ventilating doors closed, except on the side towards the wind. Thus a current of air will be continu ally forced up through the corn, and escape through the ventilator in the roof. Pig. - shows the ventilation ris. a.— PERSPECTIVE view OF conN HOUSE. door open at the end of the building and held up by a hook. An upper door is provided through which to till the crib, and if it desired to fill it to the very roof this may be accomplished by carrying the last few bushels up a step ladder in the alleyway.—American Agriculturist. AROUND THE FARM. FROST makes turnips milder and im proves them. Tine man who sells land, if he has a good deal of it, is wiser than the man who keeps on buying land that he does not need. IT is a good time to buy real estate if you are one of those people who are said to have gold dollars and eagles stuffed away in old stockings. BEFORE winter comes and the house is shut up, treat the cellar to a good coat of whitewash. It will greatly help to preserve the health of the house hold. AN Illinois man declares his belief that uiulerdraining causes drought. We think he is wrong, but if he is right wo might as well be choked to death as to drown. I UPHOVE the buildings, fences and general surroundings of the farm as rapidly as possible. Keep things get ting better just as the herds and flocks should be made better all the time. SAWDUST is a great absorber of liquids when used as bedding, but it is not desirable to place much of it on the ground as a fertilizer. Some will do no harm, and saturated with liquid manure will do good.—Farmers' Voice. suirar llcotM In America. One <>f the agricultural experiment stations reports that beets raised from improved home-grown seed contain twenty-five per cent more sugar than beets raised from Imported seed. Con sidering that the Imported seed is the best seed from foreign countries, where the beet-sugar industry has been a long established success, this is a remark able showing. The home-grown seed gave results from ten to twenty per cent. better this year than last. Such rapid improvement on the best that Germany has produced in long years oi patient work Indicates advantages of soil and climate and the probability that this country will surpass foreign countries in the production of beet • ' Fsxm and Fireside. A Krform wt ory Kiamplr. There Is a story of a benevolent gen tleman who visited a certain reforma tory institution near Boston, ami while going over the place engaged one and another of the Inmates in conversa tion. The good man was quite un mindful of the fact, all who have seen much of that phase of life, that people in such places do not enjoy being questioned us to their personal history. At last he eaine to a very de mure-looking youngster, and his heart went out toward the unfortunate waif. •'Well, mv little man," he said, "and what, are you in here for?" "Please, sir." said the little fellow, instantly, "I'm here to set the other boys a good example." TRY AI.i.SI'ICE berries for moths. CI.EASI.NO undressed kid gloves with naphtha. A M-:w, soft paint Iwush to clean carved furniture. Oi: fifteen grains acetate of potash to one piut of rosemary. A Krxo of platinum around the lump In a room where much smoking is go ing on. REMOVING ink stains from marble with lemon juice. Ruth Hall, in Good Housekeeping. CM INISO marble with a mixture of two parts of soda, one part of pum ice stone and one part of line ehalit mixed with water and washed off with iufe
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