VOL XXXI HUMBUGGED! 1 DON'T BE HUMBUGGED. 1 Don't buy a vehicle'or 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 .viy 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 suit your purpose and we tell you just the kind of material it is made of. We guarantee what we tell }ou to be true and stand right over it. We buy evervthing 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 tome to us and get a dollar's worth for a dollar. Top Buggies $44.50; Buckwagons $33; Horse Collars, either buggy or team, si.oo; 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 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 arc 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, Hosiery, Laces, Trimmings, Notions, and a complete line of Domestic j. 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 750 85 " 46-inch Serge ..... 00 50 " Henrietta 40 25 Col. " 20 20 " " 12 36 Jamestown 10 50 " 35 50 India Silk* 2fl 85 Black Sorrah Silks GO 75 India Silks 50 100 " " <5 1 25 " " 1 00 I 00 Changable Silks *s"> 25 Sailor Hats 10 15 French Flowers 5 50 Milan Hats 25 10 Ladies' Vests 5 15 " '* 10 Call and see us and we will convince you that the place to get lat* eat 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 lio 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 service and the lowest j rices for the quality of work." Beware ot tramp artists and irresponsible parties and strangers. Have your work done by reliable and re sponsible parties that guarantee all work satislactory. Call and examine our work and samples and read our many tes timonials. THE HARDMAN ARr COMPANY. J. S. YOUNG. WM. COOPER YOUNG COOPER, I MERCHANT 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. DIftMOTTD IV) a* *T* f* C t GENTS'OOf.D. I.AD'H ' ft 1 V - ** ( liKNIS' s[|,VBR. LADIES' ('IIATLAIN. T lE* m T XT ' Gold Plus K\f Kin HI.. : lib Wciun X j <'tinlns, ltrarebts. Ktc. If* TWT a *>tTea Sets. < iistors. Butter Dishes and Everything 91 RJi V w¥ F%. 8L» *?.» ( tint can ts- found tn a llrst cla-s store. RODGER BROS. 1874 ) KNl\ ES, t (IKK SP ' M)^ u ß u , lk Ft(ATE EPPIPP the . vJtrvlCvD, jeweler. No 138, North Mam St., BUTL£B, PA., THET BUTLER CITIZEN. 10c Ladies' Black Hi>se 5c 15 Misses' " " 10 10 Embroideries 5 8 Ginghams 5 10 6 12 Dress Ginghams 8 15 " '• 10 8 Rluo Calico 5 8 Now Spring Calico Gi 10 Lonsdale Muslin 8 8 P.le«chfd •' 5 5 Unb!each«d " 4 7 " " 5 8 Red and B'ack Calico 5 35 'i♦: < 1 Dauoi.sk 25 35 Unbleached Damask 25 25 9-4 Sheeting 18 20 8 4 " 10 A Scientist claims the Root of Diseases to be ia the Ciotbes we Wear. The bf\st SpriDg remedy for the* 1 >lues, etc, is to discard your uncomfortable old duds which irri tate the body:-leavc I your measure at j ALAND'S for a suit which will fit well, imj)rove tin* appearance bv re lieving you instant lv of that tired feel inir, and making; yon t 7 ~ . cheerful and active. The cost of this sure cure is very moderate TRY IT. C.'-, D. A business that kcc[ s grow ing through a season of de pression, such as the country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize they save money by trading with us. We know, and always have known, the days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than last year. Our stock is larger to select from than last year. CALL AND SEE US. Colbert & Dale. SPECIAL SALE OF PANTS. Ifj.UO I'HOt* for $5 00. $5 50 Pants for $4 f>o. $5 00 Pants fo $4.00. ?4.50 Pa tits for $.'J 50. S4.HO Pan is tor $3 00. #3.00 Pants for $2.50. 52.5U P*nts for $1.75. $2.00 Punts for $1.25. W iir auifri Ji-un Pants sold ty nd» for Inns thin $1 00, %* for 89c. : : %* THE RACKET STORE 120 South 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. J/ain Si* NOTICE. XYT i :THK 11 I/\ i/l <4- rt !known Artist lly 111 ■ I Y a '" l Ph«to. ■ S fi ! i Mi irraphor;formerlj XX \J X \j Lt I'he head of the J Wertz-Hanlni a n Art Co., will open a Studio and Photo Par lors opposite the Hotel Lowry, Cor, Main and Jefferson Sts , Butler, Pa. Thin will be the best liehted 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 bud 15 years practical experience in large cities Portraits in Oil, Crayon Sepia, Pastel, Ac. In this lino we h»fe no competition, Our portraits are made by hand 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 tho cheap ma chine made pictures furnished by others Wait for «s; get your pictures from us ainl be happv. Hotel Butler, J. H. FAUBEL, Prop'r. This house has been thorough ly renovated, temodeled, and re fitted with new furniture and carpets; has electric bells and all other modern conveniences for guests, and is as convenient, and desirable a home for strangers as can be found in Butler, Pa. Elegant sample room for use ot ommercial men <§oo M f: / " &L v•* a&wlf T isten x ears *fir° lj to-night since II[J \ NM I the occurrence X". ''h. ' rWV. °' that awful JssfZjffjsi event which ch a n (re d the Ti ' ' whole conrse of \ \ my career. My par.' had spared no expense in giving mo a first-class musical educa tion, and the tutors had teen very lav ish in their endeavors to develop me into what I thenwwans —*n instrumen talist of no mean skill or promise. For three years I toured around and about the provinces as a soloist; but I soon began to tire of traveling and longed to settle down in such an en gagement as would permit of my resid ing' at home. At the age of eighteen I succeeded in securing a leadership in an orchestra— in which I was the only lady member — of .. London theater. Possibly some of my readers will say that this v/ns not "comrae il faut'' for a girl of tender years. But I was perfectly happy and would not for the whole world have gone back to the excitement of the con cert stage. I had been there some time when our conductor vacated his post to a for eigner of some five or six and thirty summers. It was soon apparent that he was as undeniably clever a 6 he was handsome; yet. in spite of his talent and attrac tions, 1 fancy he was aware of the fact that he was no favorite with any one of us. About him there was that cold di»> tance and peculiar reserve which at once checked all kindly feeling and friendly advances. Somehow, instinct seemed to tell me that it was I whom he disliked and avoided most. He was wont to become unpleasantly ab rupt to mr and often very rude in com ing and f ng without even passing the eomplimi ts of the day. I would sometimes sit and muse upon hln behavior; for It seemed so strange that I should meet with nothing buk slights and rebuffs. I was always at tentive to business, and ever trying to the utmost to please and make friends instead of enemiea When Otto Zetch had been with us about six months I noticed a great change in his manner towards me. I did not like the looks which he fre quently cast in ray direction, and I felt a peculiar sense of fear and mistrust whenever I met the gleam of his dark fiery eyes, which were so powerfully mesmeric iu their influence. Being a girl of quick perceptions, it was not long ere I discovered bis secret. Otto Zetch loved me! Yes; in spite of his former indifference it was now quite evident that he had conceived a passion for the little violinist whose talent had been the means of bringing us together. As I gazed back upon those years I feel that I can speak unreservedly of my pretty face and recognized accom plishments; for now that ray features alas! have lost their charm aud beauty, any vanity for the past would avail me nothing. Night after night. Otto would follow me home, and persisted in dogging my footsteps wherever I went. To make matters worse, his passion was no longer unknown amongst the members of the orchestra, whose talk at joke it was. As my heart had long since been given to another man, his attentions HE BABRKD THE WAT. were repupnant to mo, and I avoided him in consequence. As a fueling of coming trouble grew upon rue, I bejran to loathe him, and I would willingly have left the theater had another engagement offered itself. One night he asked me to allow him to accompany me as far as my resi dence. Of course I did not wish to of fend or to make an enemy of him, as iny dismissal lay in hfs hands; thus it was that I reluctantly consented to his walking with me, which he did for »ome weeks. liow I longed for the time to come when Fred Hamilton would again be back at the theater; for then, I thought, he would protect me from this man's annoyances. My lover had been ordered away for the benefit of his health; but he was •xpected to resume bis post as stage manager iu the course of a fortnight The night before Fred was to return to the theater. Otto Zetch came to my room and usked me to be his wife. I think my refusal almost maddened him. Catching me roughly in his arras he rowed that nothing should prevent me being his. 1 struggled from him and rushed pantingly to the door, but alas! he barred tho way. Now that it was too late, I became aware of my terrible peril. With a mocking smile, he laid his (land upon my arm. "My darling!" he said, drawing me passionately to his breast; "mydarlingl *vhich shall it be—life or death with Us? S .'. ear that you will bo my wife% or this very hour we die together. There i. no help for you now; wo are nlono in this building, and you are at my mercy, the limit of which depends upon your answer. If you will be iniue I will spare no pains in endeavor ing to make you happy. Oh! my dar ling, without you, existence would hold no charm for mo. No other man shall ever call you wife—shall ever rob me of that affection for which my heart pleads and pleads In vain. Now, Stella St. Clair, my life, my soul, my all! which shall it be? The workmen will bo here at five o'clock; as I have much to do before the dawn of that hour, you must decide at once. Comet sweetheart, tell me." As I felt his hot breath fan my burn ing cheek, I shuddered. Choking back my tears, I spoke with all tho hauteur that I could muster. No! even were I free to do so, I would never become the wife of one who had taUcu such un iniquitous advantage o! a woman's helplessness. ] told him this, adding: "I had rather face a thousand deaths, were it possible, than be your wife." Producing a revolver, ho leveled it at my hen 1. "Stella,reflect!" he cried, in the voice of a maniac. _ As iny cygs fell before hig, i fplt that HUTLKR, PA.. FRIDAY APRIL lSi>4. I was completely in the power of a god less scoundrel, and I offered a prayer for deliverance from the cruelty of this madman. Like a flash of lightning a bright thought presented itself. I would turn over the lamp which stood on a table close by. With one bound I had grasped and hurled it to the door. Great Heaven! shall I ever forget the agony of that moment when, with but I GRASPED THE I.AUP. tittle hope of escape, I rushed to the floor and ran down a passage which led to the property room? In my terror and excitement I de scended the wrong staircase; the one which 1 should have taken terminated it the stage door, where I should prob ibly have made a successful egress. My utter exhaustion was my only ex juse for making such an error. In the distance I heard the sound of footsteps. Otto Zetch was following me. I think the terrible idea of once again encountering him must have invigor ated me. It was the work of a moment to dash slong the corridor at the end of which I came to au cfißce, in which I gladly took refuge. Locking the door behind mo, I ran to the window. Alas! there was no hope for escape. I could not possibly jump from such a height. I stood considering what I should do. Presently I detected a stifling odor of sre and a deafening crackle of burning (parks. Oh, what a dreadful night that wa3- My only gratification was in the knowl edge that I had managed to avoid the villain whose folly was tho cause of ill that misery which I had experi mced in those early morning hours, when I was shut out from the world snd locked up in a building which was aow a mass of angry flames. Through the crevices of the door 1 jaw the ghastly reflection of that dead* ly fiend which wrecks so many happy homes —the destroyer of brave and val uable lives. Only those who have been grasped from out of the jaws of death will un derstand the awful feelings of being brought face to face with a cruel end and ruthlessly flung to a grave for which so many are unprepared. As a last resource I opened the win dow, out of which i screamed for help. Good heavens! would no one come to save me? Was 1 destined to die there was my life to be sacrificed and to meet the same fate as that of the man who was a v -uiir.-be assassin? Hark! What was tli...y The door was giving way —the flauies were rushing in upon me and F -orching the walls which seemed to whirl round me. Another moment and I should be an unrecognizable heap of ashes. Should 1 risk it and jump from the window, or should I face the suffocat ing conflagration and endeavor if pos sible to retrace my steps? I could not think) my brain waa burning and aching with excitement, and seemed to be losing its sense of un derstanding. With ono bitter scream I fell to the floor, where I lay in a state of semi helplessness. In my delirium I thought I felt a hand grasp my waist, and above the roar of splitting rafters I fancied that I heard a well-known voice cryi "Stellal found! thank heaven!" Then I fainted. Yes! it was no weak wandering of the mind. God had heard my prayer for mercy, and at a moment when I least expected rescue He had saved me from a fate terrible beyond conception. Three weeks had passed since the de struction of the theater. During this time I had lain on a bed of sickness and Insensibility. My life had been well-nigh despaired of, and I had had a very narrow escape of suc cumbing to a severe attack of brain fever. But thank heaven, I was at last out Of danger and well on the road to con valescence. As X reclined upon a couch I bads Fred tell me the story of my rescue. It was this: On tho night of the fire he went to the theater to meet mo. After waiting In vain for some time he concluded that he had missed me. On his ar rival at my home he learned that I had not yet come; thus It was that, in the hope of ascertaining the cause of my absence, he returned to our usual trysting place, which was at one of the back entrances. As he passed the office window he be held, from the opposite side, the reflec tion of flames, and was about to call assistance when my screams reached his ears. With as little delay as possible he procured a ladder and bravely saved me at the risk of his own dear life. "Ah, Fred, how can I ever repay you?" I cried. pressing the hands which lay locked in mine. "By trying to get well as quick as you can," ho gently replied, showering kisses upon the Hps which had never responded to the caresses of another man. "Come, darling, when will you be my wife?" "What, Fred, would you really marry a woman whoso face is forever disfig ured and rendered ugly?" How well I knew what his answer would bo. I think a negative would have broken my heart Folding me in his arms, he said: "My little Stella! To me those scars aro as proofs of virtue and love. When ever 1 gazo at your dearfaco lfecl that you suffered all for my sake; for had you not tho option of leaving that building as you entered it—a woman of beauty and attractions? Though the world may consider you somewhat dis figured, I shall ever think that those marks but tend to enhance the fascina tions of those sweet cheeks whoso roses I claim." "Aud Zetch—what is become of him?" f timidly inquired. Fred averted his face and was silent. After a pause 1 repeated my question. Taking my hand kindly in his, he fazed searchingly into my eyes and said: "Stella, are you strong enough— brave enough to learn the truth?" "Yes," I gasped. "You will never again be troubled with his attentions, for he is dead." There was a reverential compassion in his voice, as ho spoke of tho mis guided man who had tried so hard to wreck our happiness. "Deadl" I echoed, "Then he was "Buried among the ruins of the theater." "Did no ono try to savo him?" I in quired. I could not help feeling a pity foroue wuo had fluff eyed as [ I had done. "Yes!"' Fred responded, somewhat reproachfully I thought, "yes! the fire ncn were a brave lot of fellows, but all fflorts to rescue him proved useless. But failing their assistance, did you think that I would see a man die so iwful a death without exerting every endeavor to save him?" "Dear Fred, I know that you are the best, the bravest man in the whole world." The real cause of that fire was never tnown. But it is my opinion that in ny hurry to overturn the lamp, it must save ignited with something lnflam aibble. 1 cannot bring myself to think ;hat Zetch was so utterly heartless as to carry Into operation his cruel, un manly threat. Vet this is the belief of most people. Sometimes, as my thoughts wander back to that night, I cannot but feel grateful for the miraculous deliver ance from the hands of him from whom I should have met with little mercy. It seems, however, as though the conflagration which at first so ter rified me, had proved, in the end, to be the work of a kind and watchful Provi dence. That page of life'* history has entire ly changed my career; for after the events which I have just recorded, a peculiar dislike for performing in pub lic grew upon me. and, I have long since abandoned all idea of doing so. Sometl mes my husband gently remon strates with me for this, and says it is a pity that a clever musician should withhold her talent from the world; but 1 laughingly tell him that inv blemished features woulj be a pre ventive to my seaurin? an engage ment, an argument to which he play fully gives way and conforms to my superior •judgment. it would, indeed, be untrue to say that I mourn the alteration in my life, for as the wife of the man whom I love, I am happier now than I eould ever have been otherwise, and the sweet and peaceful solitude of our little home is dearer to me than all the deafening applauses to which I was once accus tomed. In our quiet chats about the days of our early courtship, Fred and I often refer to the startling events of that night when I was "Saved by Fire." A Funeral Accident. A funeral accident happened recently not a thousand miles from Haverhill. In preparation for attendance at the funeral of one member of the family, a second member purchased a new suit of black clothes and laid them in a room until the time of the funeral. Soon after the undertaker called at the house to prepare the body for burial, and, finding the suit of clothes, innocently robed tho corpse in them An hour or so before the appointed time for the fuueral the second member of the fam ily prepared to don his new clothes, only to find them missing. Inquiries located them as told above, and a quick change and slightly postponed funeral made everything right —Haverhill Ga zette. —Pannard. a noted French poet, made a reputation by writing drinking songs in the shape of bottles, glasses and other bacchanalian emblems. A num ber of his books were printed in these quaint shapes. QUEBEC'S HUNTING GROUNDS. Plenty of III; Game to B« n»d Close at Quebec is at the edge of a great wil derness of forests, rivers and lakes —a wilderness reaching all the way to the Dorth pole. Without doubt, says tho New York Sun, it is the nearest to big game of any city east of the Mississip pi and north of Mexico. Moose and caribou are so close at hand that men are willing to try for them within a few hours of the city, and to guarantee the getting of them in a day's journey or less. The moose roam all over the country south of the St. Lawrence, and are perhaps most plentiful east of the Maine border. The caribou field extends all the way into and across Labrador, there being two varieties — the wood caribou and the barren ground caribou, tho latter being the larger beast. Visitors to the recent carnival at Quebec were surprised at the great number of freshly slaugh tered moose aud caribou then in the city. They not only figured on the floats in the grand procession bnt they were to be found In the dwellings and offices of tho sportsmen and in the clubs. The trout that has been caught by fishing through the Ice were positively enormous. Some were more than a foot in length, and more thau an inch thick at the thick est part. They were not only speckled but their skins were suffused with a brilliant reddish tinge. These fish abound all around Quebec and are as little trouble to get as any game fish in the world. Two accompaniments of the ordinary wilderness country were very disappointing. They were the Indians and the Indian curiosities. The Indians were always in evidence, but they were more white than red, and more French than anything else. Ordinarily they looked and dressed like the rest of the habitants, but when they put on their aboriginal toggery for the great carnival parade part of it proved to be a most extraor dinary headdress of short feathers. They were turkey feathers apparent ly, although most of the American In dians despise the turkey as a cowardly bird unfit to eat and unworthy to be dealt with at all. Whatever the feath ers were, they were arranged like a mop, and on the heads of the Indians they looked like tho new faugled paper lamp shades which the women are making. These headdresses were the only Indian curios worth having. The beadwork sold as Huron work is such as the Long Island farm ers' wives sell at Fulton and Washing ton markets. Flowers were the princi pal designs, and flowers are things that the true Indian never works into a pattern in any tribe in any part of Conversal lonnl. Mrs. Brise (at the musical) —Oh, Mrs. Nuit, I had so much to say to you, and the pianist is through. Mrs. Nuit—l'm just dying to hear it. Let's encore him. —Puck. A Hnpeleas Chase. Painter —I have pursued art since my childhood. Critic— Mm-m-m. How has she man aged to elude you so long?— Town Topics. Qnlte ft Difference. The difference between a babe in arms and a woman trying to do her own housework is that one cries and fusses while the other fries and cusses. —Life. Better Still. Bessie —We had a new cook come to our house last week. Lottie—That's nothing, we had two. —Harper's Young People. Even I'p. Grocer—l can't take this dime; it's got a hole in it Customer—So lias the cheese I bought with it.—.Hallo. Mb«ral View*.* Willie Wilt—Do yon believe in the higher education of women? Miss Perte—Oh. yes—and even of men!— Truth. VI nay*. Wo cacti and all hare faulU, you know- Man Is to error prone; But other poop.e'» faults are so Much greater than our own. —Kuiuas City Juurasi. fjjg DAIRY SIMPLE MILK CARRIER. Cantrlvanrc for C'arrjing: Milk from Kirn to MUkhOiise. Our illustration shows an apparatus for conveying milk from the barn to the rnilkhouse. It resembles the well known hay curriers in principle, and all know what labor savers they are. This is "a sketch from life," made by the dairy editor on a recent visit to the milk-producingdlstrietof Illinois. The carrier runs on a half-inch wire cable. This cable is 270 feet long and is at tached to the barn at one end und to posts at the other as shown. Before constructing this apparatus it was hard work to tfet the milk front the barn to the milkliouse; now the men can milk tho entire herd and one of them leads the cans of milk to the milk house as he would lead a pet colt. The milk house —not shown in the cut —Is close beside tho taller post. By t|je way, it is supplied with rnnning water from a spring iRO rods distant. A hydraulic ram forces the water over a hill 60 feet high. The milk goes to Chicago, and A MILK CARRIER. water tanks are necessary to cool It and keep It sweet All creamery patrons should use these cooling tanks. They will also keep the milk from freezing in winter. Ordinarily the tank can be filled by a windmill or tread power, running the water for stock right through the milk lank. In this way there is no waste either of water or of labor. There are other cases in which a carrier would be a (jreat con venience. Such an apparatus could be used for carrying swill for hogs as the carrier can be placed high enough to pass over fences, if necessary. Other cases will suggest themselves. —Orange Judd Farmer. ABOUT MILK FEVER. A Month Itefore Calving Time Hegln ft Cooling Diet. At least a month before the calving time, says the American Cultivator, it is well to begin the cooling diet, which will keep the system open and un clogged by heating material. Grain aud other heating rations should be gradually reduced in quantity, not sud denly, so as to affect the animal's health, but slowly, dropping off a lit tle each day. Only a limited amount of meal and rich, blood-making foods should be given and the cows should be encouraged to eat food that will be cooling to tho blood. Slops, roots, good hay and mashes of bran are in clined to keep the bowels open. In milk fever tho bowels are always very constipated, and it is sometimes impos sible to obtain a passage from them. By preventing any such clogging of the bowels beforehand, the condition can not be mado possible after the calving. About ten days to two weeks before the period of dropping the calf, a purge pf epsom salts should be administered In sufficient doses to cause a good movement of the bowels. The bowels must be kept free und in good working order up to the time of delivering. If the animal approaches the critical period in this condition, the danger of milk fever is very slight, and not one case in a hundred will show any de cided isymptoms of the disease. The prevention invariably gives tho best results without calling in a doctor, while tho development of the disease itself entails the expense of a doctor, and very often endangers the loss of a valuable animal. Tho writer has had enough experience with the fatal dis ease to warn dairymen to be on the lookout for it before it has actually de veloped. DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. IF, by accident, you have a poor tub of butter, don't put your brand upon it, but send it off ami let it be sold on its merits. POOR help in the dairy is worse than po help at all. Milkers or butter maker* cannot be picked up at tho crossroads. The business requires experience, fidel ity and patience. A GOOD reputation is a good help in making butter, so when you get it don't for the world blast it by sending off a package of poor butter when there Is a chance of a good customer getting it IT is not wise to take any cream from milk that Is to bo made into cheese. There may be a small per cent gain by the operation, but it will be followed by a damaged reputation that it will take a long time to outgrow, so that in the end it will be a losing business.— Fanners' Voice. Some Folnt* Worth Considering In tho dairy a good animal is the one that will profitably convert feed into milk, butter or cheese. In this, quan tity is not the only consideration, neither is quality. Both are important, but the cost is rather more Important than all else. There must be a liberal quantity and the quality must be good. At the saiqo time both must be secured lit a cost tl.at will leave a fair per cent of profit If rightly managed. And there is more certainty of doing this with certain breeds than with others.— Rural World. A Sincere Apology* Miss Clara—Don't hang back in that awkward way, pet. Why don't yon ki»s the gentleman? Little I'et (apologetically)— Pease '■use me, Mr. Nicefello. I'm not so fond of tissingr gentlemens as sister Clara is.—Oood News. A Gentle Hint. Charlie —I don't believe a fish diet is good for the brain, as the papers used to say, for I've eaten fish now for ths past three mouths. Alice—lt isn't, except where it has brains to work upon.—Raymond's Monthly. No f'lagi»ri»t. King—You may say what you like of Mrs. Lease, but she has some decidedly original ideas. Wing—For instance? King—She has alluded to Chicago a* • "conservative town."—Puck. Kraßonablf Ksplitimtlon. Oedney—Do you know. I think Van Guzzler must have been bitten by ft mad dog in his early youth. Marlboro—Why so? Gedney—He has such a horror of water. —N. Y. World. fS ttorbentA. The partitions are S feet 8 Inches apart 8 feet 6 inches from point A horizontally, and 4 feet high. The feed trough is 10 inches wide In clear and raised from floor by two Bxß scant ling with a 7-inch board fronting the cow, which allows her to lie down and get ap without discomfort Ths long studding on partition are 2x4 oak, and reach from platform to ceiling, while tho front onas arc Bxß Inches and 4 fset 8 inches in height from bottom of feed trough to top The top board is 10 Inches wide and surfaced, with each cow's name plainly chalked on in front while tho others arc only 3>f inches and nailed just close enough to allow the cow to get at her hay readily but run down on the post within about 14 or 15 inches of bottom of feed trough. This partition standing in front of the cow is what compels her to live a de cent cleanly existence. In two cases, where two cows were some shorter than the rest the partition was nailed to the opposite side of tho post facing the cow, which can be done to suit the size and length of any cow at wIU. The width of hay manger at B is 10 inches, and 8 feet deep, with no divi sion except one foot from bottom of feed trough. lloth feed trough and manger were bliapod for either hay In the rough or cut, or for tho feeding of ensilage. I am sure anyone who desires a success ful plau for a cow stable cannot do bet ter than to study the illustration and put to practical use the main feature in it, that of forcing the animal to stand where wanted. It is par excellenoe above the stanchion, both in comfort and for absolute cleanlinesa —Oeorge E. Scott, in Ohio Farmer. Stopping tbfl Flow of UUk. Don't dry off a milch cow too sud denly. And when endeavoring to stop the flow of milk feed as little wet and milk-making food as you can get on with. Ignorant or inhuman owners of good milkers frequently leave them without milkiug entirely until the bag becomes so distended as to bo painful A little milk is then drawn and the condition of affairs allowed to repeat itself The results are effectual as a rule, but unquestionably damage the cow materially in frequent instancea Irregular, partial milking will dry even a fresh cow, and naturally and painless ly.— Farm Journal. TRASII of all kinds in tho garden or orchard furnishes a hiding place for In* uect pests. Gather it up and burn It -A soft An»wer," Eto. Young Wife (pettishly)— You always seemed to have plenty of money before we were married. Loving Husband —It was only seem ing, my dear. I had very little. "And you told me you expected to be rich." "So I am rich, darling; I've got you." She could not help kissing him.— London Ti rtwr ' u - fron Prtm NO 18 FOOD FOR THI DAIRY. I Why IVa«n (an not ABmr* to TMI Bay to Cow*. M.wt of the hay substitutes in «tb> atitiitr* in furnishing the nqctnd bulk rather than in furnishing Mi Mjuitalent in nutrition, and the tical question is how to use then is order to obtain increased Amity prod ucts. Tho beat feed is the one which accomplishes most economically the ob ject in ricw, and the beet use of a feed for dairy purj> «es ia that which m«-eta the need of the animaL Coarse fodder, hay and hay substitutes are daftoient to the nutriments best calculated to pro. dnce a large milk flow. To Insure iMt, these fodders must be combined with feeds richer in protein and fat to main a well-balanced ration. There ia suob an abundance of cornstalks and store* produced on moat of our farina that there is no necesaity for oar giving much attention to the lean valuable coarse products till these are better utilized. Of the crops ordinarily grown, the corn plant will doubleea furnish the larger part of the hay substitutes. It wonld be of advantage it our farmer* (rot more into the way of growing oth er crops for winter feeding. The legumes (clover, peas, etc.) deserve to. take a more important plaoe in dairy foods. Not one of sixteen rations ex amined contained clover hay or har of, ensilage of the legume*. Some of th«i reasons why some of the legumea arv especially valuable may be coociasly stated as follows; Their large percentages of protein compounds—which serve to form blood, muscle, bone and milk—and their con-' sequent feeding value, which exceed* that of the grasses, corn fodder, coil stover, or straws. They may be used to supplement these fodder* in plaoeof the concentrated nitrogenous feeds, such as bran, cottonseed, linseed and gluten meals, etc. Ilay from the le gumes is twice or more than twice aa rich in protein as that from grasses. Their power of fathering large quan tities of plant food from natural sources. Many, if not all of our com mon legumes acquire considerable quantities of nitrogen from the air. Their roots penetrate deeply Into the subsoil, and they thus obtain plant food from depths beyond the reach of plants with smaller root development. Their manurial value. When the crop is fed, most of the nitrogen, phos phoric acid, potash and other fertilis ing ingredients go into excrement, liquid anJ solid, and if preserved make s rich manure. The large amounts of plant food left behind in roots and stubble after removal of the crop fur nish a cheap and valuable store of plant food tbr following crop®.—Farm and Home. FRESH DAIRY NOTES. IF your dairy has no pedigree, start one at once. THE cow with a ruffled TEMPER will yield poor milk. Atx straw and no hsy will turn a bright heifer Into a dull oow. A GOOD way to choke a valuable cow Is to feed her uncut vegetables. A DIRTY strainer reflects as badly on the milker as on her who washes it Too MUCH carbonaceous food in the dairy will make fat beef faster than butter fat A oow THAT begins to lose flesh be fore the winter is gone will be "spring poor" by the month of May. Do HOT let the milk get oold before U 1s carried from the milking stable to the dairy house to be strained. Uiv* the animal* plenty of room in the stable in whloh to lie down, if yon would make them comfortable. SAWDCST In the manure heap repre sents so much inert matter] land plaster Is an absorbent that Is also a fertiliser. To FBED economically, and yet suf ficiently, give the cows only what they wildest up dean. Trying to stuff them beyond this limit will result In loss and not gain. Do HOT feed the hay down to the bare boards la the mow over the stable: for if yon do the Ingress of oold air from this source will result la a veritable exposure to your dairy. THIKK twice before you go Into the business of raising veal calves by let ting them suokle their dams. Tbe system will have a demoralising effect on tbe dairy, offsetting the temporary gain.— American Agriculturist MILKING MACHINE. Flctars sad Description of a few x»k* lUh Inveotlea. At a recent dairy show in England a milking machine was shown at work of which the appended figure is aa illustration. Tbe method of drawing the milk from the cow by the machtnt Is to place the India rubber tubes ceealty. The best machine, so far aa we knew, is the hands of an expert milker. 7i*t or six minutes cleans a cow, and this the essence. One does not know If the milking machine so far milks clean, and. If trial must be made with eadb cow, why not milk by hand and done with itt—Prairie Farmer. IponaM Means Wests. A want of understanding and system has resulted In a nearly useless ex penditure of enough labor and money to have furnished the settled portion* of our country with good, substantial roada —Ex-PresidentHarrison. The Poor MOM. Staggs—l surely would hate to be the moon. Takes it two weeks to get J aggers—And that isn't the worst of it, either. After it is full it needs two more weeks to get over it—lndianapo lis Journal. ___ Not Likely. Mrs. Whaokburton—ls your mother at home, Clifford? Clifford—l don't think she la She was looking out of the front window when you came down the street- Brooklyn Life. Couldn't Look at It Tb»l Way. Tramers—l regard my wife's piano playing fad as a Joke. You ought to do the same with your wife's. Prames—Tramers, you have never beard my wife play.—Chicago Record. Tho Real Estate of ASalrs. Hcbbs—That fellow Dalton seems to be gaining ground in his affair with Miss Clay. Nobbe—Then be must have a mora gage on her name.—Judga. la tho Zoo. •' I do not tbtak jrou beautiful," TDo bstKK>n rudely cried: " The comrtl»rrnt, e!r. la roturned." Tho courtly *j*> replied. - H*rp»r•* Youn* People. Mean, Hatrfnl Thins "Fred is In an aful fix. He proposed to ma last night you know, and—" h9EI. —stia. T ■ iM