vol. XXXI
HUMDUGGED!
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1 DONT BE HUMBUGGED. 1
Don't buy a harness of any kind from a dealer who
don't care what he tells you. Don't buy from a dealer who don't
know the quality of the article he is selling you.
"Never misrepresent nor try to get rich off one customer" has
been our motto for 12 years and in that time you have never heard
of us having any trouble with any person who has dealt with us. Our
experience in the business enables us to assist you in making selec
tions of what will s>iit your purpose and we tell you just the kind of
material it is made of. We guarantee what we tell you to be true and
stand right over it. We buy everything for cash. We pay no rent
We have more stock than any house in the State in the same line and
-SELL CHEAPER.
There is no doubt about this. Come and see. No difference what
you want about a team, buggy or horse come to us and get a d dlar's
worth for a dollar. Top Buggies $44.50; Buckwagons $33; Horse
Collars, either buggy or team, $1.00; Buggy Whips 10c; Rawhide
Buggy Whips 50c; Whalebone Whips, one-half length, 50c. Two
seat Spring Wagons S3B; Buggy Tops, good rubber, $9.50; Single
trees, Shafts, Wheels, Sweat Pads, Check Lines and everything be
longing to harness.
Our Own Make Team Harness $22 HI
complete, with breeching and collars. All kinds of harness and parts
of harness made to order. We employ the best workmen and use
the best leather.
Come and see us. We never advertised a lie in our life and are
not doing it now.
S. B. Martincourt & Co.
128 East Jefferson Street,
BUTLER, - PA.
P. S. Price reduced on Kramer Wagons, the best wagon on
earth and everybody knows it.
JENNIE E.ZIMMERMAN.
Grand Spring Opening,
%
Of Dress Goods, Millinery, Wraps, Silk Waists, Underwear, Hosier)-,
Laces, Trimmings, Notions, and a complete line of Domestics.
We quote below prices of a few of the many wonderful
bargains to be found here. § § § § §
Prices given below good until change of advertisement.
900 Black Henrietta 75c
85 •* 46-inch Serge CO
SO " Henrietta 40
25 Col. " 20
20 « " 12
35 Jam M town 19
80 " 35
50 India Silk* 29
S5 Black Surrah Silk* 60
75 India Bilks 50
1 00 •' " 75
1 25 " " 1 00
1 90 Chanfrable Silk* 65
25 Sailor Hats 10
15 French Flowern 5
50 Milan Bat* 25
10 Latiieg' Vests 5
15 •' " 10
Call and see us and we will convince you that the place to get latj
est styles, best qualities and lowest prices, is at the Leading Dry
Goods, Millinery and Wrap House of Butler.
JENNIE E. ZIMMERMAN,
(Successor to Ritter & Ralston.)
THE HARDHAN ART COHPANY.
We are located now at i;o South Main Street, adjoining
the Butler Savings Bank. Our rooms are large, fine and
commodious. Photographic enlargements and Life Size,
Hand Made Finished Portraits by the finest French artists
obtainable. In photographs we give you results and effects
that cannot be produced outside of our Studio. We use
only Standard Brand Collodion Paper and not Gelatine, a
cheep and inferior paper used by many. Picture and Por
trait frames; special prices to jobbers. Compare our work
with any Standard Work made or sold in the state. Our
victorious motto, "We harmonize the finest work with the
promptest setvice and the lowest prices for the quality of
work." Beware of tramp artists and irresponsible parties
and strangers. Have your work done by reliable and re
sponsible parties that guarantee all work satistactory. Call
and examine our work and samples and read our many tes
timonials.
THE HARDMAN ART COMPANY.
—i 1 i
J. S. YOJNG. WM. COOPER
YOUNG COOPER,
tMERCHANT TAILORS i
Have opened at S. E. corner of Main and Diamond Streets, Butler,
with all the latest styles in Spring Suitings. Fit and
Workmanship Guaranted. Prices as low as
the lowest. TRY US.
I -ifXJ-L ■ 11 11 11 - .
DIAMONDS J RINGS. EAR RINGS. 51< . ;ARK P JNS SXL RU S .
rw m nifi a c*«z I GENTS' GOLD, I.AIXKS- <K>M>.
WW Ai ir ll F GENTS' SILVER. LADIES' COATLAIN.
fPIVPT RV I Gold Tins. Ear Rings, Rlnes.
«f Mm WW JaiJUlii Jt / chains. Bracelets. Etc.
ttfV.WCIB HKF A ¥8 S*\™ Castors, Butter ntahea and Everythint.
Will W JE>JE% Wlf **. Xv *>/ that can be tonnd In a first class store.
HOMER BROS. 1874 ) «=""»■ ""»• """SPL. hI 4 TE.
Epnipp THE
. MKIE/D, JEWELER.
»o. lae, jfatb Bt,, Btmzxß, PA*
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
10c I.adies' Black Hose 5c
15 MIKMMX' " '• 10
10 Embroideries 5
8 Ginghams 5
10 •• 6
12 Dress Ginghams 8
15 " '• 10
8 Blue Calico 5
8 New Spring Calico 6$
10 Lonsdalx Muslin 8
8 Bleached " 5
5 Unbleached " 4
7 •• •' 5
8 Red and Black Calico 5
35 Red Damask 25
35 Unbleached Damask 25
25 9-4 Sheeting 18
20 8 4 " 16
A Scientist claims the
Root of Diseases to be
in the Clothes we Wear.
The bost Spring
remedy for theiUues,
etc, is to discard
your uncomfortable
old duds which irri
tate the body .-leave
your measure at
ALAND'S for a
new suit which will
fit well, improve the
appearance by re
lie vino- you instant
© J
lv of that tired feel
ing, and making you
cheerful and active.
The cost of this
sure cure is very
moderate
TRY IT.
SPECIAL
SALE
OF
PANTS.
$6 00 Punts for $5 00.
$5 50 PaDtn for $4 50.
$5 00 Pants fo< $4.00.
#4.50 Punt* for $3 50.
$4.00 Pants for $3.00.
$3 00 Pant* for
si.sli Paotri for $1.75.
$2 00 Puntß for $1 25
Wsrrauted Jean Pants sold by
none for lest* than $1 00,
%* for 89c. :: %*
THE RACKET STORE!
120 South Main Street, Butler, P?.,
C. & D
ALWAYS
Take iDto consideration tbat moon
saved in as good as money earner!
The best wa> to pave money is «
i»ot good goods at the right price
The only reason tbat our trade i
iocreasing constantly is ihe fact tba
we handle only goods of first qualit
and sell tbem at very low prices
We have taken nnaxual car* •
urovide everything new in Hais a» ■
Furnishing Goods for this season
and as we have control of man*
especially good articles in both line*
we can do yoo good if you come t
as
We confidently sav that in juftic
iO 'bems-lves all purchasers shout
• nspect our goods.
Visit us.
COLBERT & DALE,
242 S Main street,
Butler. Pa
WALL PAPER.
SPRING
PATTERNS
HAVE
ARRIVED
Retail price lower
than ever.
Window Shades,etc.
AT
DOUGLASS',
Near P. 0. - - 241 S. I/an S •
NOT I OF.
ryr . the well-
W APT 7 & WD hC:
l| I* 1 I Mi erapher;foruierly
XX \J X VU I'be head ol the
J Weriz-Hard in a n
Art Co.. will open a Studio ami Photo Par
lors opposite the Hotel Lowry, Cor, Maui
nod Jefferson Sts , Butler, Pa This wil.
be the best lighted and equipped Studio
and galleries in the the county. The work
will be strictly first class and made under
new formulas by the artist, himself, who
has hod 15 years practical experience u>
large cities Portraits in Oil, Crayon
Sepia, Pastel, Ac. In this line we haie
no competition. Our portraits are made
by band in our own Studio, from sitting*
or from photos Our work has reached
the highest standard of excellence a d
is not to be compared with the cheap ma
chine made pictures furnished by others
Wait for us; get your pictures from us nnd
be happy
Hotels and Depots.
W. 8. Gregg is now n miug a in.
of carriage* between the bote's nr..
depots of the town.
Charon reasonable. Telepho.-
No, 17, or leave orders at Hot-
Vogeley.
Gwd iirerr la Cwwrectaaa
COrv TV "n> ' 1 ' : ' '
CHAPTER VII.
THE CONCLUSION
We had all been warned to appear
before the magistrates upon the Thurs
day; but when the Thursday came
there was no occasion for our testi
mony. A higher Judge had taken the
matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope
had been summoned before a tribunal
where strict justice would be meted
out to him. On the very night after
his capture the aneurism burst, and he
was found in the morning stretched
upon the floor of the cell, with a placid
smile upon his face, as though he had
been able in his dying moments to
look back upon a useful life and on
work well done.
"Gregson and Lestrade will be wild
alxuit his death." nolmes remarked, as
we chatted it over next evening.
"Where will their grand advertisement
be now?"
"I don't see that they had very much
to do with his capture," I answered.
"What you do in this world is a mat
ter of no consequence," returned my
companion, bitterly. "The question is.
what can you make people believe that
you have done? Never mind," he con
tinued, more brightly, after a pause,"l
would not have missed the investiga
tion for anything. There has been no
better case within my recollection.
Simple as it was, there were several
mo6t instructive points about it."
"Simple!" I ejaculated.
"Well, really, it can hardly be de
scribed as otherwise," said Sherlock
Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The
proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that
without any help, save a few very or
dinary deductions, I was able to lay
my hand upon the criminal within
three days."
"That is true." said I.
"1 have already explained to you
that what is out of the common is
usually a guide rather than a hin
drance. In solving a problem of this
sort, the grand thing is to be able to
reason backward. That is a very use
ful accomplishment and a very easy
one, but people do not practice it
much. In the everyday affairs of life
it is more useful to reason forward,
and so the other comes to be neglected.
There are fifty who can reason syn
thetically for one who can reason an
alytically."
"1 confess," said I, "that I do not
quite follow you."
"I hardly expected that you would.
Let me see if I can make it clear. Most
people, if you describe a train of events
to them, will tell you what the result
would be. They can put those events
together in their minds, and argue
from them that something will come
to pass. There are few people, how
ever, who, if you told them a result,
would be able to evolve from their own
inner consciousness what the steps
were which led up to that result. This
power is what I mean when I talk of
reasoning backward, or analytically."
"I understand," said I.
"Now, this was a case in which you
were given the result and had to find
everything else for yourself. Now, let
me endeavor to show you the different
steps in my reasoning. To begin at
the beginning: I approached the house,
as you know, on foot, and with my
mind entirely free from all impres
sions. I naturally began by examin
ing the roadway, and there, as I have
already explained to you, I saw clearly
the marks of a cab, which, I ascer
tained by inquiry, must have been
there during the night. I satisfied
myself that it was a cab and not a pri
vate carriage by the narrow gauge of
the wheels. The ordinary London
growler is considerably less wide than
a gentleman's brougham.
"This was the first point gained. I
then walked slowly down the garden
path, which happened to be composed
of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable for
taking' impressions. No doubt it ap
peared to you to be a mere trampled
line of slush, but to my trained eyes
every mark upon its surface bad a
meaning. There is no branch of de
tective science which is so important
and so much neglected as the art of
tracing footsteps. Happily, I have al
ways laid great stress upon it, and
much practice has made it second
nature to me. I saw the heavy foot
marks of the constables, but I saw
also the tracks of the two men who
had first passed through the garden.
It was easy to tell that they had been
before the others, because in places
their marks had been entirely obliter
ated by the others coming upon the
top of them. In this way my second
link was formed, which told me that
the nocturnal visitors were two in
number, one remarkable for his height
(as I calculated from the length of his
stride) and the other fashionably
dressed, to judge from the small and
elegant impression left by his boots.
"On entering the house this last in
ference was confirmed. My well-booted
man lay before ine. The tall one, then,
bad done the murder, if murder there
was. There was no wound upon the
dead man's person, but the agitated
expression upon his face assured me
that lie had foreseen his fate before it
came upon him. Men who die from
heart disease or any sudden natural
cause never by any chance exhibit agi-
tation upon their features. Having
sniffed the dead man's lips, I detected
a slightly sour smell, and I came to the
conclusion that he had had poison
forced upon him. Again I argued
that it had been forced upon him,
from the hatred and fear ex
pressed upon his face. By the
method of exclusion I had arrived at
this result, for no other hypothesis
would meet the facts. Do not imagine
that it was a very unheard-of idea.
The forcible administration of poison
is by no means anew thing in criminal
annals. The cases of Dolsky, in Odes
sa, and of Leturier, in Montpelier,
will occur at once to any toxicologist.
"And now came the great question
as to the reason why. Robbery had
not been the object of the murder, for
nothing was taken. Was it politics,
then, or was it a woman? That was
the question which confronted me. I
was inclined from the first to the lat
ter supposition. Political assassins
are only too glad to do their work and
to fly. This murder had, on the con
trary, been done most deliberately,
and the perpetrator had left his tracks
all over the room, showing that ho
had been there all the time. It must
have been a private wrong-, and not a
political one, which called for such a
methodical revenge. When the in
scriDtion was discovered upon the wall
I was more inclined than ever to my
opinion. The thing was too evidently
a blind. When the ring was found,
however, it settled the question.
Clearly the murderer had used it to
remind his victim of some dead or ab
sent woman. It was at this point that
I asked Gregson whether he had in
quired in his telegram to Cleveland as
to any particular point in Mr. Prebbcr's
former career, lie ana were 4, you re
awebcrriß tWugffWiye.
RUTLER, PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 13, 1894.
"X then proceeded to make a careful
' examination of the room, which con
firmed me in my opinion as to the mur
derer's hfitbt. and furnished nc with
the additional detail as to the Trichi
nopoly cigar and the length of his
nails. I had already eome to the con
clusion, since there were no signs of a
struggle, that the blood which covered
the floor had burst from the murderer's
nose in his excitement. I could per
ceive that the track of blood coincided
with the track of his feet. It is sel
dom that any man. unless he is very
full-blooded, breaks out in this way
through emotion, so I hazarded the
opinion that the criminal was probably
a robust and ruddy-faced man. Events
proved that I had judged correctly.
'•Having left the house, I proceeded
to do what Gregson had neglected. I
telegraphed t" the head of the police
at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to
the circumstances connected with the
marriage of Enoch Drebber. The an-
I Bwer was conclusive. It told me that
Drebber had already applied for the
A RAGGED YOCNGSTER ASKED IF THEIR
WAS A CABBY THERE CALLED JEFFER
SON HOPE.
protection of the law against an old
rival in love, named Jefferson Hope,
and that this same Hope was at present
i in Europe. I knew now that I held the
clew to the mystery in my hand, and
all that remained was to secure the
murderer.
"I had already determined in my
own mind that the man who had
walked into the house with Drebber
was none other than the man who had
driven the cab. The marks in the road
showed me that the horse had wan
dered on in a way which would have
been impossible had there been any
one in charge of it. Where, then,
oould the driver be, unless he were in
side the house? Again, it is absurd to
suppose that any sane man would car
ry out a deliberate crime under the
very eyes, as it were, of a third person,
w? > was sure to betray him. Lastly,
supposing one man wished to dog an
other through London, what better
i.ioans could he adopt than to turn cab
driver? All these considerations led
me to the irresistible conclusion that
Jefferson Hope was to be found among
the jarveys of the metropolis.
"If he had been one there was no
reason to believe that he had ceased to
be. On the contrary, from his point of
view, any sudden change would be
likely to draw attention to himself.
He would probably, for a time at least,
continue to perform his duties. There
was no reason to suppose that he was
going under an assumed name. Why
should he change his name in a coun
try where no one knew his original
one? I therefore organized my street-
Arab detective corps, and sent them
systematically to every cab proprietor
in London until they ferreted out the
man that I wanted. How well they
succeeded and how quickly I took ad
vantage of it are still fresh in your
recollection. The murder of Stanger
son was an incident which was entire
ly unexpected, but which could hardly
in auy case have been prevented
Through it, as you know, I came into
possession of the pills, the existence
of which I had already surmised. You
Bee the whole thing is a chain of log
ical sequences without a break or
flaw."
"It is wonderful!" I csied. "Your
merits should be publicly recognized.
You should publish an account of the
case. If you won't, I will for you."
"You may do what you like, doctor,"
he answered. "See here!" he con
tinued, handing a paper over to me;
"look at this! look at this!"
It was the Echo for the day, and the
paragraph to which he pointed was de
voted to the case in question.
"The public," it said, "have lost q
sensational treat through the sudden
death of the man Hope, who was sus
pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch
Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
The details of the case will probably
never be known now, though we are
informed upon good authority that the
crime was the result of an old-stand
ing and romantic feud, in which love
and Mormonism bore a part. It seems
| that both the victims belonged, in
i their younger days, to the Latter-Day
j Saints, and Hope, the deceased pris
! oner, hails also from Salt Lake City,
i If the ease has had no other effect,it at
: least brings out in the most striking
i manner the efficiency of our de
| tective police force, and will serve
i as a lesson to all foreigners that they
j will do wisely to settle their feuds at
j home and not to carry them on to
I British soil. It is an open secret that
! the credit of this smart capture be
j longs entirely to the well-known Scot
| land Yard officials, Messrs. Lestradq
I and Gregson. The man was appre-
I hended, it appears, in the rooms of acer
i tain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has him
self, as an amateur, shown some talent
; in the detective line, and who, with
; such instructors, may hope in time to
attain to some degree of their skill.
' It is expected that a testimonial of
■ some sort will be presented to the two
| officers as a fitting recognition of their
i services."
"Didn't I tell you so when we
started? 1 ' cried Sherlock Holmes, with
! a laugh. "That's the result of all our
j study in scarlet; to get them a testi
: monial!"
"Never mind," I answered; "I have
\ all the facts in my journal and tfce
public shall know them. In the mean
time you must make yourself content
ed by the consciousness of success, lik<»
| the Roman miser—
" 'Popu'.us ine sibilat, at miht pl»udo
Ipse domi simul ac cumm&.s contoiaplar la
area."'
[THE KJiD.]
What Ailed !h« Horse-
Osier—Sure, sor, jer brown horse
hasn't eat any oats for three days.
Mr. Uppercrust—ls he sick?
Osier—l think not. sor; but the man
at the feed store refuses to sell any
more oats on credit.—Texas Sittings.
The Kl-riit Age.
Sarah—She's worth a million, and
just the right age for you.
Jerry—Any girl worth a million is
the right age for me.—Detroit Free
Frees.
MONKEYS' THUMBS.
A Simian Pidrrfwikl Could J ver TITO
Octave*.
The hands, the fingers, and above all
the thumbs belonging to Chico at
tracted my particular attention. Now
you must know that it is because man
has a thumb, and for the reason that his
thumb is so beautifully jointed, supple
and adjustable, that he has been able
to overcome all difficulties, says a
writer in Harper's. The other fingers
are all very well in their way. but it is
the thumb that controls the real move
ment of the hand. Without a thumb
you never could wield a heavy sledge
hammer or the most delicate of watch
makers' tools. It is not out of the way
to say that man is the master, holding
every other living thinfr "under his
thumb."
Here is a little bit of natural history
which must be remembered about
monkeys. All the monkeys of the old
world hare some kind of a thumb. As
St. George Mivart, a great zoologist,
writes: "Any old-world monkey with
a rudimentary thumb (that is, a thumb,
even if imperfect) is superior in that
respect to an American monkey." In
fact, the American monkey has no
thumb at all. Nature compensates in
a measure in our new-world monkey
by giving him a wonderful tail. This
American monkey tail is prehensile.
It answers almost the purpose of a fifth
limb. A South American monkey prices
his tail a hitch around the limb of a
tree, and there he hang's quite com
fortably, independent of hands or feet.
Chico's thumbs are superb, being' ful
ly four and one-quarter inches long.
The ordinary length of the human
thumb is about two and one-half
inches. Chico's middle finger is a trifle
over five inches long. Man's is three
and one-half inches. The onrang
outang's hand was narrow, apparently,
but it seemed about the width of that
of a human being's, only the sense of
proportion was lost, owing to the ex
treme length of the fingers. The
knuckles were small and perfectly in
line. The stretch of such a hand as
Chico's would be enormous, fully
thirteen inches. The octave on the
piano measures seven inches. It Chico
were a pianist he could with little ef
fort cover two octaves and would leave
Paderewski quite in the shade. If
Chico had a taste for the double bass,
once that those long fingers of his were
wound around the neck of a big fid
dle, what a wonderful performer he
would be, providing the instrument
would stand the strain.
TWO PRETTY APOLOGIES.
One Mada by John Burns, and the Other
by a College Student.
The man who writes a letter de
manding an apology must put up with
the kind of apology he gets. Harry Fur
niss, the caricaturist of Punch, it will
bo remembered, was attacked by a
member of parliament, and an eye
witness was reported to have said:
I saw Mr. MacN'cUl take Mr. Furniss by the
lapel of the coat and shake him llko a dog. then
I saw him take him by the ear and shake him
by that.
Mr. Furniss, who declared that the
assault was a merely technical and not
a serious one, wrote to the eyewitness,
asking if he been correctly reported,
and he got the following answer,
which is quite as funny as anything
that Mr. Furniss himself ever provided
for Punch:
SIB; I understand that the statement at
tributed to me and referred to by you was due to
a misapprehension of some chaffing remarks of
mine In the lobby Friday last, and I regret to
say that I did not see you shaken like a dog,
and am sorry to say that I did not witness the
pulling of your ear. Yours truly,
JOHN Bt-RNS.
This reminds us of the apology made
to the faculty of Amherst college by a
student who ended his life as a foreign
missionary. An apology for an offense
having been required of all the class
he wrote as follows:
I acknowledge that I attended the class meet
ing and voted to go and meet the South Had
ley girls at Mount Hol/oKe, but owing to tbe
scarcity of teams I was unable to go, for which
1 am very sorry.
—lndependent.
PRECIOUS BUGS.
flow They Saved tbe Orange Tree* of
Bouth«rn California.
Orange growers in the San Gabriel
and San Bernardino valley tell an in
teresting story of how they destroyed
a pest which threatened the destruc
tion of the industry In this country.
A few years ago the trees were attacked
by an insect known as scale. So rap
idly did the pest propagate that within
a few weeks the bark of the trees was
white with them. Drastic remedies
were applied, but without avail. So
serious was the outlook that many of
the growers were on the point of cut
ting down their immense groves. One
day a young man suggested a novel
plan for the speedy extermination of
the pest. He said that there existed in
Australia a species of lady bug which
existed on insects that cliug to tr*es.
Ho received a consignment of thirty
eight of these bugs by the next steam
er. One grower who had ten thousand
trees and probably one hundred thou
sand million scale on all of them
bought eight of the precious bugs and
placed them to the best advantage in
his orchard. lie tells this storv:
"Three days after I made the experi
' ment I went into the grove. The trees
; were as white as ever with the pest. I
: told my friend that 1 thought his lady
i bugs a failure. He advised me to be
patient, for, he said, it was likely that
j the bugs were breeding before making
' their onslaught on the scale. Three
days later 1 again visited the orchard
j and found the trees as clean as a
whistle. Not one of the insects was
visible. Neither were the lady bugs.
Having finished their work they flew
away and I have not seen them since.
More bugs were released in other
orchards and in the course of a mouth
there was not an orange tree in the
valley afflicted by the pest. We now
keep a stock of the bugs in hand so
' that in ease the scale returns we'll be
ready to fight it again. The bugs sell
j for twenty-five dollars apiece. But
i they are worth that money and more,
too, for they have saved every orange
tree in the country."
A NEW WHITE METAL.
It I* Much Lighter Than Aluminum and
Is lieildfi This Transparent.
A man who has been chopping wood
for a number of years in Pine Nut dis
trict lately found a new metal, says a
| San Francisco dispatch to the New
York Journal. His stone oven having
been burned out ho took some clay
from a large deposit he knew of near
by and, mixing it with a little water,
i made a back, built a fire in his stove
u.-l paid no more attention to it until
next morning, when he noticed that
his stove-back was gone and in the
ashes lie found a white, clear metal
with scarcely any weight to it.
j It would not break, so lie put it on
an old anvil outside the cabin and hit
it with a heavy hammer. It would
draw out, but neither crack nor break,
lie has since exp> rimented with it in
various ways. Ihe clay will melt like
lead, but the metal produced will stand
a heat like iron or steel and is very
flexible.
He beat out a piece four inches thick,
six inches wide and eleven inches long.
The block is transpareLH and weighs
only nine ounces. He says there is no
limit to the clay, as he has seen the
ame kind in several parts of this and
other state* He will melt out a block
two feet square and have it at the Mid
winter fair /or people to wse.
LONDON AND PARIS BEGGARS.
l'rofrtilucal Mendicant* Have for Genera
tion* Made a Good Urine.
The professional beggarisnot a mod
ern innovation, by any means, says the
North American Review. A specimen
case was ''Scarecrow." the famous
London beggar, who. having disabled
himself in his right leg. asked alms all
day In order to get a warm supper at
night. According to John Timbs, the
"Ruftlers," whom we often find men
tioned in the literature of the seven
teenth century, were troops of idle
vagrants vho infested Lincoln's Inn
Fields. London. They assumed the
character of maimed soldiers who had
suffered in the great rebellion and
found a ready prey in the people of
fashion and quality who drove by. In
deed, it is made clear by contemporary
allusion in comedies that this square
was the regular haunt of bogus crip
ples who lived by mendicancy, which
they carried on in the most barefaced
and even intimidating manner. It is
related that George IV., when prince
of Wales, once attended a beggars'
carnival in London, incognito. He
had not been there very long when the
chairman, addressing the company and
pointing to the prince, said: "I call
upon that 'ere gemman with a shirt
for a song." The prince, as well as he
could, got excused upon a friend who
accompanied hira promising to sing in
stead, which the latter did amid great
applause. The health of the prince
and bis friend having been drunk and
duly responded to. they departed in
order to afford the company an oppor
tunity to fix their different routes for
the ensuing day's business, for at that
time the professional beggars of Lon
don used to have a general meeting
several times duriug the year at which
they were divided into companies, each
company having its particular walk.
In those days their earnings varied
much, some getting as high as five shil
lings a day. Most of the professional
beggars in London to-day—and their
name is legion—emanate from two or
three common lodging-houses. The
most populous of these, which is known
as "The Dispensary," supports an in
dividual known as a "scriver," who
earns a living by manufacturing the
pathetic signboards which the sham
cripples and the bogus blind men carry
round their necks. In Paris, as is well
known, the professional beggars hold
regular weekly meetings at which the
routes to be followed by the members
of the guild are mapped out by a
standing committee. They have an
organ of their own called the Journal
des Mendicants, which appears twice a
week. From a recent issue the follow
ing curious advertisement is taken:
"Wanted—To engage a cripple for a
seaside resort. Good references and a
small deposit required.'" Thisqueer an
nouncement is explained by the fact
that the proprietors of hotels and
boarding-houses at fashionable French
watering places assume that visitors
would be disposed to give alms if an
opportunity were afforded them, and,
as they cannot very well do the beg
ging themselves, they engage profes
sional beggars, to whom they grant
permission to solicit alms on their
premises, and the beggars in return
pay them one-half of their daily re
ceipts.
HOW TO HANDLE CAMELS.
The Obstinate Animal* Must Be Humored
or Humbugged
Camels are not like horses, says the
Ash ton Reporter. If a horse does not
want to do anything we make him. If
a camel does not want to do anything
he leaves it undone. No amount of
coaxing, no amount of cruelty will
make him budge. He has the deter
mination of a mule combined with the
strength of an elephant. A camel is
one of those aggravating brutes
which will drive a hot-tempered man
to distraction. Nothing will persuade
him to listen to reason. He will op
pose your will with a passive resist
ance that is absolutely unconquerable.
The only way to treat a camel is to
humor if you cannot humbug him.
They will often lie down if you load
them with the proverbial last straw,
and you might beat them to death or
offer up all the pleasures of Paradise
before they would get up. They are
pig-headed beasts. Sometimes when
they have quite a light load they
turn nasty and throw themselves
to the ground. But, although
they are obstinate, they are not
cute, and an Arab, by pretending to
submit, can generally get the better of
the stubborn beasts. The drivers will
ostentatiously remove three or four
packages from the load, and the ani
mal, with an inward chuckle of satis
faction, rises at once, without perceiv
ing that the parcels have meanwhile
been returned to their former place.
As he flatters himself he has shirked
some of his duty he swings away with
a light heart, gratified beyond meas
ure. like a spoiled child, at having its
own way. The camel is an unsociablo
beast. He is also habitually dull, ex
cept when he is sniffing the salt air of
the desert. When he is treading the
sands, with the burning sun on his
back and the boundless waste before
him, ho feels himself at home. Th«
immense heat makes him bubble over
with pleasure and fills his frame with
sublime intoxication. It has been
stated on the best authority that he
can go nine days without water. And
if you had ever seen a camel drink
water when he does get a chance of
quenching his thirst you would not be
surprised at this. They have been
known to put away seven gallons and
a half at a time.
Millions of Brain Pictures.
It is computed by leading physiolo*
gists that since one-third of a second
suffices to produce an impression on
the brain, a man who has lived to be
one hundred years old must have col
lected upon the folds of his brain mat
ter at least 9,4G7,280.000 impressions.
Or, again take off one-third for sleep,
and we still find not less than 6,311,-
620,000 indentations—memory's finger
marks —on and in the brain. This
would give 8,155,760,000 separate wak
ing impressions to the man who live#
to be but fifty years old.
She Stuck to llor Statement.
Vexed Wife—There is no calamity I
that can befall a wgman that I have
not suffered.
Amiable Husband—Wrong, my dear;
now, you have never been a widow.
Vexed Wife —I said calamity, sir.—
Brooklyn Life.
A Problem.
Tommy—Oh. papa. I'ido is asleep on
the morning paper out on the stoop.
Papa—That is because paper is very
warm. Tommy.
Tommy—Then, papa, why doesn't he
pull some of it over him?— Harper's
Young People.
Her Sise.
Shoe Merchant (measuring her foot)
—Size two will just about fit you, 1
think, little girl.
Little Girl (doing her own shopping)
—O, dear, no! That's too large. 1 can
wear half-past one. —Chicago Tribune.
And the Bin'; Is Bought.
He—Y..u seem to be thinking hard.
She—l was.
He—Of me?
She —Why, Mr. Timmid! I just
couldn't think hard of you. —Indian
apolis Journal.
Anxious for IMlmutcs.
He—And you refuse me?
She —I do.
He—Panion the seeming curiosity, ;
but how many times do you usually re
fuse a e tLajr U uji'.'—N, i
X. Weekly.
NO WHISTLING IN BERLIN.
One of the Many Jfoltf Nalurcra Fo»bld
* deu In the (*«rmaii City's KIrMU.
The Berlin police arc permanently
under instructions to repress whit
tling. whether recreative or utilitar
ian, with the utmixit rigor. and dis
play un relaxing enerfry in carrying oat
their orders to the letter. Whistling
in public Is not only repugnant to the
German apprehensions of "di hohere
Tiildung'," or "hig'her culture." says a
writer in the London Telegraph, but
actually constitutes a minor misde
meanor, and us such is punishable by
fine, with the inevitable alternative of
imprisonment. The former penalty
was recently incurred by a hall porter
of a fashionable hotel, L'nter den Lin
den, who persisted in sounding his
whistle to summon a cab for a client
of the establishment after having been
forbidden to do so by an agent of the
law. Appealing from the sentence of
the police authorities to the judgment
of a civil court, the porter pleaded that
from time immemorial it had been the
custom in Berlin to whistle for drosch
kies. once, twice, thrice, or four times,
according to the relative quality or
capacity of the vehicle required. This
plea, however, the judge rejected as
irrelevant to the point at issue—to-wit,
Vhe illegality of whistling in a public
thoroughfare—and further mulcted the
appellant in the sum of three marks
"for making a noise that disturbed the
repose of the public."
The Prussian police authorities —to
their credit and praise be it admitted
—are inflexible in prohibiting the per
formance of street bands: they only
grant organ grinding licenses to a few
infirm old soldiers, who, moreover, are
not permitted to work their instru
ments of torture in roadways or side
walks. but only in certain prescribed
open places, or in the court yards of
private houses at the special request of
their inmates. On the other hand, they
are overtolerant with regard to all
manner of street cries and to the dis
tracting clamor raised by the children
on their way to and from school at oer
tain hours of the day. Prussia is con
spicuously a music loving and a music
making country. As the inhabitants of
its cities, however, for the most part
live in flats, they are not allowed fo
play or sing- in their appartments after
ten o'clock p. m . unless with the ex
press consent of the persons residing
Immediately above or below them,
whose innate right to enjoy unbroken
rest "o° nights" they are bound to re
spect. Nor may they keep on their
premises any furred or feathered ani
mals addicted to the nocturnal utter
ance of sounds that "murder sleep"
and give rise to irritation of temper.
The conscientious dog prompted by a
sense of duty to bark all night, if
notoriously vociferous, has to be severe
ly eliminated from the precincts of a
Prussian townhouse.
EVIL OMENS OF THE SEA.
Some Thine* Which a Sillor Dreads to
Sea While on a Voyage.
A sailor always regards the pres
ence of a shark about a ship as a
most fatal omen to the sick on board.
The highest exultation ever witnessed
on a man-of-war, according to the Bos
ton Transcript, was occasioned by
harpooning a shark that was hanging
about while a favorite was sick; but
the appearance of a shark is often
fatal to the life of a bather m the
ocean as well as a sailor upon it, and
it is quite as much to be dreaded,
lihosts of all sorts and kinds prefer
traveling by water to almost any other
mode, and our own Cotton Mather
tells tis of a specter that visited a
colonial ship, carrying off in a ghostly
canoe seven of a crew at a time. lie
also says: "Many persons who have
died at sea have been seen within a
day of their death by friends at home."
As late as the seventeenth century
they tell a story of h ship about to sail
for England that had as passengers a
strange man and a girl of great beauty.
So mysterious were their actions that
they were supposed to be demons, and
many feared to sail in the ship. The
vessel sailed on Friday and never
reached its destination, but appeared
as narrated, after a storm that lasted
three days:
Nearer and nearer the ship came on
With all her broad satis spread;
The night grew tujck, but a phantom light
Around her path was shed.
And the water* shuddered as on she came.
For against the wind she sped.
Longfellow also tells a similar story
in his "Phantom Ship," while all lovers
of pood music will remember the story
of the opera "The Flying Dutchman."
There is a superstition that a ship no
longer seaworthy, just before breaking
up between the strains of wind and
wave, has been known to give forth
wailing sounds like moaning. The
Fiiilor cannot account for this, bnt he
knows too well its import and loses
heart at the melancholy sound. This
is also noticed by Cooper in his "Red
Rover," where one of the characters is
made to say: "A ship which is about to
sink makes her lamentations jest like
any other human being."
Rich Peasant*.
The richest peasants in Europe are
found in a province in Schleswig-Hol
stein. These Vierlanders raise early
vegetables for the great cities of north
ern Europe. They supply flowers to
the courts of St. Petersburg and Berlin.
Their costumes are one of the sacred
traditions of the country and not to be
modified, come what may. The women
wear little caps with stiffly starched
bews of silk, over this a straw hat
which looks as if it were upside down.
Their skirts arc short, the aprons full
plaited. The bodice is white with a
sort of Zouave jacket of bright eolors.
The silver jewelry is the pride of their
lives. The men wear small clothes,
long waistcoats trimmed with silver
buttons, a long jacket and a quite ordi
nary looking cap.
Queer Notion. Bat Good.
Those in search of novel luncheon
dainties should try the peanut sand
wich, which had ,its origin in Boston.
Be sure the peanuts are freshly roasted.
Chop tine and spread between slices of
buttered bread cut very thin.
Their Superiority.
At the dog show:
lie—You remember the saying: "The
more I see of men the better I like
dogs?"
She —Yes. dogs are so different: they
improve on acquaintance, you know. —
Chicago Record.
Sometimes Runs Smoothly.
We're told that true love never
Rms titnnoiuly In lu courso.
'.Ye know » case, however.
Which bruais the proverb's force.
A pair lived In Chicago
Six months withov.l divorce
—Kansas City Journal
Why she Di-ridM.
Maud—Which will you accept, Frank
Waitc or Charley Pruyn?
May—Well, I prefer Charley, but I
think I shall accept Frank.
Maud—For his money?
May—No; for his asking.—Truth.
An Abnormal Squint.
The other day T saw a friend of
his sitting at a lunch in a restaurant
and reading his paper at the same time.
"Why, how on earth can you manage
to eat and read at the same time?"
"Pooh! I read with one eye and I eat
with the other."—L'Escaut
Sared the Trouble.
First Domestic—l never have to wash
dishes at our house.
Second Domestic—How do you gel
out of it?
First DomestTTp—lfaoy are brokoa
bcidfo XilfSy
NO 17
PROFITS IN SPRAYING.
lammirT of Result* Obtained at the Okie
■experiment station.
W. J. Green. horticulturist of tha
Ohio experiment station, in bulletin
forty-eight iTiVi'3 the following sum
mary of results of spraying:
1. The prulit to be derived from
spraying nn-hards often exoeeds 130 per
acre, and for vineyards much more.
The fruit crop of the Mate would be
enhanced in value several million dol
lars annually if the practice were gen
erally followed.
2. Combined fungicides and insecti
cides are rccommcndet} whenever ap
plicable, because of a saving of time; a
less liability of injuring -foliage; great
er eili-. iency in some cases, and as a
precautionary measure in others.
8. Dilu;c Bordeaux- mixture, copper
arsenlc s 'laii .n and auimoniacal solu
tionoor. r cop., r carbonate are the most
us >ful for tho treatment of
the diseases heroin mentioned, and the
first has the widest range of usefulness
of aIL
4. Early spraying is the key to suc
cess in the use of fungicides.
5. For th- plum-curculio and shot
holc fuuga, as Bordeaux mixture and
Paris green combined, making three or
four applications.
It is not known that this areatment
will prevent the black-knot, but cuU
tin? away and burning diseased branch
es will accomplish the result.
6. Seabby apples rot much earlier
than those free from seab. and spray
ing with fungicides will save at least
fifty per cent of this loss.
7. Spraying with fungicides in the
season of 1892 prevented much of the
early dropping of apples, which is
usually attributed to wet weather.
S. For apples, two applications of
Bordeaux mixture before blooming' are
advisod, and two of the same mixture
after blooming, with Paris groeu added.
9. The same treatment Is recom
mended for the pear as for the apple
before blooming, butthecopper-arsenlo
solution is advised after blooming.
10. The Bordeaux mixture, if used
too late, causes a russet appearance oa
both pears and apples.
11. The quince may be treated the
same as apples, or with Bordeaux mix
ture alone.
13. The treatment advised for the
cherry consists in making two or three
applications of paris green—two ounces
to fifty gallons of water.
13. Peach trees and American varie
ties of plums have very tender foliage
and must be treated with weak mix
tures if at all
14. Raspberries may be treated with
Bordeaux mixture alone. Grapes with
the same until the fruit sets, after
which use copper carbonate. Potatoes
should be sprayed at least five times
with Bordeaux mixture and paris
preen.
USEFUL IMPLEMENT.
How to Construct a (rood Marker for
Onion Ground.
The home garden is supposed to be in
a high state of cultivation. The regu
lar annual allow; nee of manure will in
all probability be fully sufficient even
for this crop, which is known to thrive
best on plenty and rich food. If you
have the manure, however, a light top
dressing on the plowed ground will
be sure to give good results. Deep
plowing is not necessary, but the sur
face should bo well fined and kept well
stirred during the entire season of
MARK Eli FOB ONION OROUXD.
growth. A small bed can be marked
out with a garden line, or a rake or
hoe handle. For larger operations we
need a marker that will indicate the
rows without leaving regular furrows
such as we need for seed sowing. I
have used various styles of markers,
but have s<-en nothing that in my esti
mation will surpass the device here re
produced from Practical Farmer. The
Illustration explains itself. The teeth
are twelve inches apart, and their
points run just far enough below the
surface of .he wheel to leave light
marks. The onion plants are then
"dibbled" in, three inches apart in the
row. At this rate it will take about
one thousand plants to set a square rod
of ground.
Fact* About Celery Seed.
Celery seed always takes consider
able time to germinate, old seed taking
longer than new seed, hence one should
be careful to procure it where one i*
confident of its being fresh In the hot
bed or greenhouse, where the soil is
warm and kept permanently moist, it
will start sooner than in the open
ground, since there it is sown early in
the spring and before the soil is thor
oughly warmed; but even in a hotbed
or forcing house it takes about two
weeks to start When the young plants
are about two inches high they should
be transplanted into a well enriched
bed and kept carefully watered and
tended, under which conditions they
will make a vigorous growth and be
ready in good time for the final set
ting.
Orchards SMI! Manuring.
Before we decide why It is that thi
apple trees do not bear as they used to,
something must be said about the ma
nure question. It is true that in early
times apple orchards bore without ma
nure, but it was while the toil was rich
in unexhausted mineral fertility and
when the apple orchard was heavily
stocked with herds that were liberally
fed and made a good deal of very rich
manure. t>omo of the orchards thus
managed bear large crops yet The
profit from these early small orchards
led farmers to set out orchards five, ten
and even twenty acres in extent It Is
impossible to manure such large or
chards by pasturing hogs in them. The
orchard now needs more manure thac
it used to do and gets less. —Colman's
Rural World.
Koaw Her Falltn*.
Mrs. Newhouse—Katie, Mr. New
house says cook must boil the drinking
water after this. Tell her to have somo
boiled for dinner to-day.
Katie —Yes, ma'am.
Mrs. Newhouse —And. Katie, tell her
to be sure not to burn it.—Judge.
A Choice of Term*.
"I'm sure w<» shall be on good
terms," said the man who had just
moved into the neighborhood to the
corner grocer.
"No doubt of it, bir. Especially," he
added as an afterthought, "if the
terms are cash." —Washington Star.
She Had Heard of Them.
Mr. Jason—l wonder which one ol
them heathen goddesses that there gil*
flgger represents?
Mrs. Jason —Pallas, I guess. Iv«
read so often in tho papers of gilded
palaces, and I allow this is one ol
them.—lndianapolis Journal,.
Aiklof an I mponibUlty.
He had eaten at a help-yourself
lunehery. As he stepped up to the
cashier he remarked:
"I see you have a sign which says:
•Tell what you ate.'"
"Yes, sir."'
"Well, I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"It's impossible."
"Why? Is your memory bad?"
••No; tint I ate b»4U. v W*iWaJwg&