dp 0 \ / J / ' " TIIE BUTLER CITIZEN. VOL XXXI THE PHOENIX. Do you know why the PHOENIX bicycle is the most popular wheel in Pittsburg? Do you know why it won the Butler-Pittsbugh race, and the Wheeling.Pittsburg? Simply because bearing, chain, tire, frame—all the parts —are made of the best material. Because we build the lightest,easiest running wheel that is safe and reliable for the roads. We also make a specialty of an easy running and light lady's wheel, which is equally popular. A guarantee is a good thing in its way. The PHOENIX guarantee cov ers every point, but the best point of all is the fact that repairs or claims for de fective parts constitute an exceedingly small per centage of our cost of manu facture. For catalogue and other information © address, THE STOVER BICYCLE M'f'g. Co. FRBEPORTi ILILM or J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent. BUTLER. PA, ALL FOR FUN VX m ••• V f \ \Jr.\ v \ y "_W._ '2 • _ J. i ' Some people go one place and some another for a month during the summer. They lose their time and expense and its none of our business, but we have decided to stay at home and spend the time talk ing to our customers and giving them bar gains just for fun, to see how it goes. We are willing to spend our time for nothing only for July—not a day longer. That's all the time we can afford to spend for nothing. Some things we will sell below O o cost: Rawhide Whips 30c. Whalebone Whips joc. Leather Fly-nets sl. 4 boxes Axle Grease 25c. Bindei Whips, 10 feet, 50c. And Buggies, Wagons, Harness and everything belonging to a team or driving outfit in proportion. No difference what you want about a horse or team, come here. We pay no rent aod expect to be here all our life. The guessing on the horse is still going on. Try your luck—it costs nothing to try. Everybody over 16 years old allowed a guess. Women and men both guess. Over 1 100 guesses already. Counted July 20 at noon. S. B. Martincourt & Co., 128 East Jefferson Street, BUTLER, - - - PA. S. B. MARTINCOURT. J. M. LI ECU NEK. W. F. HARTZELL. L. M. COCHRAN. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in --Excelsior Fire-Proof Slate Paint— For Shingle Roots,and Ebonite Varnish for all Metal Roofs. Also, Agents for the Climax Wool and Asbestos Felt, the King of Roofing Felts. All kinds of roofs repaired and painted on the shortest notice. Estimates given on old or new work and the same promptly attended to. AI L WORK GUARANTEED. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, 320 SOUTH MCKEAN STREET, * * * BLTLKR, PA. C. R. ELLIOTT, 130 W. Jefferson Street, LEADING WALL PAPER HOUSE Will occupy this space next week. Carrie Orene King Save the Children By Purifying Their Blood Hood's Sarsaparllta Makes Pure < Blood, Cures Scrofula, Etc. "My experience with Howl's Sarsaparilla lias been very effective. My little girl, five years old, had for four years a bad skin disease. Her arms and limbs would break out in a mass of sores, discharjrini! yellow matter, she would ■cratch the eruptions as though it gave relief, and tear open tlie sores. Two Bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla caused the eruptions to heal and and the scabs pealed off, after which the skit, became soft and smooth. As a family medicine HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES we believe Hood's Sarsaparilla has no equal and I recommend it." W. 1.. King, Bluff Dale, Tex. Hood's Pills are th« best family cathartic, gentle and effective. Try a box. 25 cents. A Scientist cla ms flic- Root of Diseases to be in the Clothes we Weir. The host Spring remedy forthe*blues, etc., is to discard your uncomfort? ible old duds which irri tate tlie bodv:-leave vour measure at ALAND'S for a new suit which will Ht well, improve the appearance bv re -1 ie\ ill L>* YOU instant ly of that tired i'eel ill u, and ma kino; you O 7 O J cheerful and active. The cost of this sure euro is very moderate. TRY IT. C. " , D. A business that keeps »row- ; ing through a season ol de pression, such as tlie 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. r !AL L AW) SEE US. Colbert & Dale. Peremptions M A Specialty. At Redick's Drug Store. We do not handle but pure next time you are in need of medicine pleaf-e give UH B call. We are bcadqaartern for pure SODA WATER aa we use only pure fruit juicefi, we alno handle l'uriH Oreen, hellebore, inaect powder, London purple and other ineecticidea. Reppcctfully, J. C. HE DICK, Main tot.,next tollotel Lowr> BUTLEK, PA. JOHN KEMPER, Manufacturer of Harness, Collars, and Strap Work, and Fly Nets, and Dealer in Whips, Dusters, Trunks and Valises. My Goods are all new and strict first-c >. til work guaran teed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbell & Templeton's Furniture Store. 342 S. Main St., - liutler, Pa.' I?, COPYBIOHT, 1864.1 CHAPTEIt XXXIL Calicot, looking very white and gaunt, mingled among the crowds in the arena. To anyone less absorbed in a purpose the scenes would have been fraught with an almost superhuman interest. The confusion was appalling and the noise deafening. Hut even his abstracted perception could distinguish in it all the effort of system and discip line forcing matters slowly into pur pose. Squads were forming and march ing through the corridor, towards the rotunda, choking the passages; officers were running and shouting; litters were passing and repassing with wounded; groans, curses, commands loaded the heavy air with satanic tu mult. and the cavernous surroundings and ghostly lights completed the infer nal hue of the picture. A man suddenly plunged into this subterranean scene, as. indeed*, many of the wounded captives were, might rudely imagine that he had died and been thrown into the traditional hell. Calicot was al>out to make a very doubtful experiment. He was going to determine if his estimate of Hen dricks' character was correct. While looking for him he came near the portal; it had occurred to him that in this confusion it might be possible for Stocking to get up the shaft unde tected. Hut he was quickly convinced of the f<»lly of that idea The exit was well guarded, and the men had a counter rrn which was changed every day. l.e saw several of the new detail turned back because they had for gotten it. While he stood there Hendricks came up and spoke to him. "There are two of your wounded friends there in Mr. Franklin's office," he said. "They need intelligent care. You might lend a hand. lam sending all the captured back to the surface as fast as possible where they can be re covered. We cannot do them justice." "I am at your service," replied Calicot. "But 1 wish to speak to you of another matter." "What is it?" asked Hendricks, brusquely, as he stepped aside. "Mr. Franklin spoke to you about removing his daughter?" "Yes; I told him to get her out as soon as possible. We move from here in three days." "I wanted to suggest to you," said Calicot, "to let the other girl go. She will die of nervous shock in this up roar." "You wish to escort her?" "No. Let Lieut. Stocking do it. The old man will need somebody to pilot him to Memphis. As you probably know,he is in love with Miss Franklin. The lieutenant will return here to me. I am a sufficient hostage." "Your friend is a vindicti /e man," said Hendricks. "But you have noticed that I haven't time to IKS' "I said to myself," replied Calicot, "that the execution of your plans no longer depended on our captivity or secrecy." "Ah. you have arrived at that conclu sion." "I acknowledge facts. So far as 1 can see you are in armed rebellion. It is no part of the magnanimity of war to entomb helpless women. From what I have seen of your character I believed that you would accede to my wishes." "But your friend did not think so." "No, but he, perhaps, does not under stand you." Hendricks' smiled rather grimly. "At nightfall," he said, "I will give your party an escort and pass them out of the bayou end. My own men are? in the woods between the bayou and Memphis, and the women would not be safe." Then Hendricks abruptly left him. Calicot"s anxiety now grew hourly. He had a sickening fear that Fcnning might arrive at any moment and frus trate the whole plan. The women spent the intervening time ill preparation, and Calicot, aft^r a hurried consultation with Stocking, repaired to Mr. Lajiort's quarters,and, finding the wounded men had been re moved, he sat down at the table, and for an hour gave himself to the writ ing of what seemed an interminable letter, which lie concealed on his per son when completed. He then wandered aimlessly through the long passages, waiting impatiently for the night to come. It was eight o'clock, as near as he could guess, when Stocking and the two young women got aboard one of the lxix-cars anil accompanied him tc the bayou entrance. Very little was said on tlie way. Calicot was appre hensive and not disposed to talk. His chief fear was that something would occur to interfere with their departure at the last moment. It seemed to him that the rotunda was full of men and he suspected that Hendricks had been getting fresh recruits at the bayon end during the fight at the Laran portal. When they arrived at tlicendof their journey, Stocking very nearly upset the project by suddenly refusing to go unless his friend accompanied them, and it required all the firmnessand per suasion that Calicot could command to induce him to proceed. "I)o not," he said, "imperil everything by giving up your faith in me now. On the day after to-morrow, when you have secured the safely of your companions, you arc to come back for me. The government will have some of its forces here then, and the issue will not be doubtful, be lieve me. ltut I must stay here to night and to-morrow to learn all I can of the plans at the conference. Mr. Franklin, I understand, has secured money enough to take care of himself and daughter. You are a free man. Do not hesitate." They parted at the eu trance to the lift. Stocking was sullen and uncer tain, but he came back and wrung his friend's band silently, and Calicot felt that the action was a pledge. A mo ment later he turned anil mounted the steps of the railway platform with a sense of desolation in his heart and an unmistakable moisture in his eyes. When they came to the rotunda he told the guard that he would get off and walk back later to the arena. He was left standing on the plat form when the car moved awav. The great dense shadows covered hiip from the army of men below. He walked alontf tiie ties to the great wooden doors of the magazine and stood there a moment. Then he descended the steps and was lost in the crowds of men below. lie had expected to meet Hendricki at his military headquarters, but one of the captains who knew him said that there was a meeting of some kind and Hendricks and all the other ehlefi had gone to the office in the arena where it was quiet. lie then mallS his way as speedily a* he could through the coal corridors tti the arena,and was surprised to see how completely the chaos of a few hours ago had disappeared. Nearlyall the men had been gathered Into the fotunda, T*; T Tf,KI'. I' . \ i I{II )A Y . JULY 13, 18U4. ano save a few groups hen- and there and the workmen and officers scat tered about the place was deserted. Without a definite purpose he went immediately to the quarters where he and Stocking had lived together sc long. Something of a morbid desire to feel its loneliness now that his only companion was gone, actuated him. The door stood ajar and he walked in. The moment he was inside he heard voices. He listened. They came from the udjacent quarters that had been occupied by the women. He moved softly along the partition to the little corridor that connected the houses. It was dark, save for the light that came through an inch or two of open door at the other end. He looked through. To his amazement he saw that the room was filled with people, and he knew at once that this was the llnal consultation of the conspirators. Hen dricks wa. there, so also were Mrs. Hendricks and Penning. The others he did not know he was certain he hae prepared to tak« the field. "Everything depends upon Instant and accurate cooperation. If we are a unit in our work we are invinci ble, for it will take a month for the opposing elements to consolidate against us and then they will be to< late. Now let us see what our pro gramme is. On the morning after to morrow, Chicago will be in flames and the executive and his cabinet at Wash ington will be destroyed. Dynamite and the torch are the signals for the grand movement of our scattered forces to the two centers, and at the same time 1 appear in the field with a trained armj and invite the people to save them selves by coming to the people's ban ner. There is no doubt in your minds of the accomplishment of this. You hold the signal, Garvoux, for the wojk in Washington. I believe you have made failure impossible if you get back there. "My part of the work is certain," said (Sarvoux. "I have four agents in the white house." "And I," said a white-haired man, with vehemence, "will have one hun dred thousand men in Chicago, needing only a Every available force of the gdrernment will be in Ten nessee." "And I will be in Chicago on the night of that day virtually dictator," said Hendricks, "if you have paralyzed the executive arm at Washington, Oen tlemen, if you leavt here to-night pre pared to carry out our work we are masters of the situation in four days." Calicot leaned a moment against the wall of the corridor. He appeared to be faint. Then, as if making a desper ate effort, he thrust the pad into his pocket, and, turning, felt his way along the passage and came out into the arena. He cast a hurried look around. The railway platform was two hundred feet away, and a car was ready to start with a number of men. He ran across the open space, hailed the guard, ran up to the train and climbed aboard. "I might as well travel as do anything else to kill time," he said to the guard. The man looked at him. "Are vou sick?" he asked. "Yes," re plied Calicot. "The ride will do me good. Lot me off at the rotunda. I want to get a drink." Once there he slipped off in the shad ows, and the car went off. In five min utes it backed up and Calicot got on again. "Are you going straight back?" he asked. "Yes," replied the man, "last trip but one. I wait for the gover nors. Rome of them are going to the bayou to-night." it could not have been more than ten minutes when Calicot was back at his quarters, and had resumed his place in the corridor, and was listening. The consultation was still going on. Hendricks was speaking. "You have seen." he said, "how every event has justified my plans. Let us have no mistake now and we are masters of the situation. This is the stage of anarchy. We go through it to victory. I have, 1 think, calculated for every contingency." At that moment Calicot pushed the door open and stood white but calm before the assembled group. "You have overlooked one factor," he said, deliberately. The astonished circle started into at titudes of alarm. Hendricks and Pen ning alone preserved their coolness. "My prisoner," saiil the former. "You were listening." "Yes," replied Calicot, "it Is my duty to tell you that in your plans you for got one important clement." They looked at him with a suspicion of danger in their faces. He appeared in his almost ghastly ealinness to be some kind of incalculable force. "What do you mean?" asked Hen dricks Calicut put his hand upon his breast and bowed slightly. "You forgot me," he Haiti, "anil your work comes to nanght. It was just like you to un derestimate the qualities that would destroy you. 1 have never heard that in your diabolism there was any pro vision for self-sacrifice. Fortunately in my scheme there was. In three minutes we shall all die together." In the confusion that followed Hen dricks shouted: "He calm; the man has been crazed by his conlinement." "No," said falicot, "I am neither crazy nor desperate. I have lit the slow match to your magazine. The explosion will kill every human being in the I.aran You will l>e found here with your secrets divulged. I have saved the country. Providence, which is on the side of history, sent me to you, and you accepted the in strument of your own destruction " CHAPTER XXIV. Lieut. Stocking, the moment lie wai in the Wash bayou and felt the elation of freedom, met with a new blow. "I cannot go to Memphis with my father," she said. "There are reasons that I cannot tell you now. We must get a boat, cross the Mississippi and disap|>ear." It was in vain that Stocking pleaded and argued. "You do not know all," she said, "and I must save my father's life. There is a skiff in ti>» w.«wi, miles above the bavon. Take us to that, fret us across unci ltv»ve us to find our way in Texas to the coast. You must go back to your friend, and I will write you when we are all safe, if you (five me an address." Vainly Lieut. Stocking 1 pleade 1 with her. On this point she was firm. The guard took them two or three miles up the Mississippi and there the party crossed the river, the lieutenant ac companying them two or three miles into the interior, until he believed they were safe from pursuit, when he bade them farewell and returned. The journey had consumed a day. and when he reached the eastern shore of the Mississippi he encountered the pickets of a government force, was promptly arrested and taken to the camp about a mile from the Laran portal, where he found two regiments of troops. It was not difficult for him to establish his identity, as h<; found several acquaintances among the offi cers. and to them he told the whole story of his capture and iucarceration. It was an incredible and startling rev elation, and led the commanding otH cer at once to move his camp to a new elevation at some distance from the Laran and to take every precaution against an attack in the rear. On the morning of the third day Stocking set out with a picked guard and several of the officers to inspect the entrance of the cave. It was not difficult to find the por tal, for to their astonishment the whole of the iron lift was discovered lying on the ruins of the sanitarium adjacent to the uncovered shaft, from which issued a wavering thin blue smoke. Suspecting some kind of treachery Stocking proposed to go down alone, and after some delay in getting ropes he was lowered into the hole, l-'inding everything enveloped in darkness and ijilence at the bottom of the shaft, he had to come back for assistance and lanterns, and thus provided aud ac companied by an officer he re le scended with the growing conviction that Hendricks had withdrawn all his forces from the cave and abandoned it. The moment he arrived at the mouth of the arena passage and held, up the lantern he perceived that some thing extraordinary had taken place. On either side of the entrance to the shaft were the bodies of men—two of them had apparently been hurled against the wall of the arena with ter rific force, for their bodies were dislo cated and their skulls fractured, and they were covered with u blue mould that made their faces indi itin rui .li able. A few seconds later t'.ie condi tion of the arena disclo ed the destruc tion that had taken place. The resi dences on the western wall were sbat tered and in ruins. The machinery irf the great dynamo stood out gaunt and awry like the boues of a corpse from which the flesh had been suddenly torn away. Not a sound was heard. Here and there bodies lay exposed upon the floor of the arena with the clothes torn from them. Woid was Immediately sent above for men and lights, and a strong recon noitering force was with difficulty lowered into the cave. Then the full extent of the appalling disaster was investigated. Stocking forced his way with some difficulty into the rooms where he had spent so many hours, and there with the lanterns of the men held high and throwing a dis mal effulgence on the scene he saw in extricably mingled with the debris of the place the ineml>ers of the group to whom Calicot had communicated the last words. All wore the same hor rible mask of blue mold. Hendricks liims'lf was sitting in a chair, but his neck was dislocated and his head hung down upon the side of his body. Cali cot's body was in the corridor. It alone had escaped the blast of disfigur ing color; his face wore a grim smile and in his hand was a pad covered with writing. Stocking wrenched it from the dead fingers and held it to the lantern. In a distorted hand was written: "All particulars on mv person. 1 have saved you and the country. It was my duty. I am happy." Shocked beyond all power of speech. Stocking silently secured the papers, and went with the party through the coal passage to the mouth of the ro tunda and there the most stupendous feature of this unprecedented tragedy was revealed. The whole of that great space was cov ered with blue corpses, in every conceiv able attitude of sudden death, a blue stratum of smoke lying above thein and (.till depositing its sulphur and carbon upon their forms. Death reigned. It had come like a lightning stroke. It had spared noth ing. The end of the dismantled elec tric engine, hurled from the trestle, rested upon the floor of the rotunda with its tender hanging to the iron benches. Against the eastern wall hundreds of men had been hurled in a mass, uiul there commingled in a sick ening pulp, from which stared the blue and hideous faces and poked the (in wrought limbs. As Stocking slowly realized what his friend hud done a sense of his heroism overcame every!hing else lie opened the pajM-rs mid read the hastily written memorandum, from which this account has been compiled. "I got," it said, "the dynamite cartridge from Lsiport's workroom, and also the fuse. I let it down the ventilating tube to the floor of the maga/.ine. It burned twenty minutes. I have made notes of all the disclosed plans. Let the government act quick, i'hc brains and the organization are destroyed. "The great Laran rebellion is at an end." THE RND An-i'ptril till I' or t rlnr. Little Frances* parents have been discussing reincarnation and the small maiden has acquired some of its phrase ology. "Mamma," she said one day, "my kitty must have been a pin in a pre vious state of existence, for I can feel 'em in her claws yet." —Judge. Momnthli'ic llntur. Mistress—Habctta, when I was driv ing in the park the other day, I saw a nurse allow a policeman to kiss a child. I hope you never al'ow such a thing. Ilabetta—Non, madatne; no polize mau vould think of keesing ze child ven 1 vas zere. —Puck. s»tuil)-tl the Hi»rl>er - « Cariosity. "Wonder how those old-time barbers used to pull teeth?" ventured the man who was shaving. "They probably did it with a razor like the one you have on my face."— ItufYalo Express. A Familiar (iiiuin. Lit lie Dot Let us play keep house. Little Ethel —All wight. You petend you are a —a lady and lam callln' on you. Little Dot—That'll be fun. Now sit down and ask me how I like my new u-irl. —tiood News. I'arls A l'aris boulevard paper .publishes the following diali iguc bet ween a mem ber of the cabinet oi ministers and a newspaper man who is paid by thft former under the condition that lie must keep up the appearance of oppos ing the minister Nays the journalist! "Can I call you 'canaille' or 'dirty hog? Of course," answers the min ister, "but make a change :>nce in awhile In your epithets; put ine dowu as a'bandit.* for instance. Hut never venture to denominate me as a 'che quart' (bribb taker); that is the only epithet that makes a bad impression upon the public." MILKING IN THE STABLE. A Practice Which Ha* Many Points In It* Favor. We are asked if we would milk in the stable in summer. The objection is often mad.* to milking in the stable that it is close, hot and dirty, and that the open yard is preferable, even with its annoyances of running cows and flying milking stools. To all thU we think these valid answers: First, cows need some kind of an extra f.sed, of either a soiling crop or a little grain, daily, for there are not thirty days in the year when a feed of some kind will not pay. anu the stable is the place In which to feed it Then the stable wants lots of windows, and a cheap screen over them does not stop the cir culation of air and one is not smothered by any means The Practical Farmer has hit on sev eral things that help—not new and are of value. The cows are let in the yard for five minutes each time before {join# to the stable, and that saves about all the summer filth objected to. The cows are fed their dish of oats just as soon as milking begins. As fast as a cow is milked she is loosened and sent out of the barn; then one does not have a hot cow with swinging tail at her back. In the yard is a large tank of water, and the cows, in addition to what they drink in the pasture, take two more drinks from this long box, and are ready to go to the night or day pasture as the case may be; and in this way by having each cow have her own place in the stable, and seeing that she goes there every time, she quickly learns to go there, and a dairyman soon finds that the place to milk a cow is In the stable, and if there is more discom fort there than in the open yard it Is his own fault, and can be remedied by a little work, and the result will be a substantial gain all around and dairy work will become one of the pleas antest things of the duy, instead of a task that repels instead of invites.— Farmers' Voice. GOOD WELL PLATFORM. .in lD(«nl»wi Idea Which D«Hr>M Prac tical Application. A stone platform over wells or cis terns is better thau one of wood, but fluffs of sufficient size cannot always be obtained easily, and a pieced one can be made in this way: Take an old wagon tire and lay it down in a smooth place. Get flat stones four or six inches thick; chip them to a triangular form with a stone hammer; roundoff the end to fit the tire, and put them in uutil | the tire is fulL Smaller stones may be put in the next tire now and then if you like. Now put the tire In place, spread cement on the wall, and bed each stone into its place Take an old BTO.VK PLATFOHM roll WELL. dragtooth or the like, drive it into the seams and pound in chips of stone or bits of iron until every stone is fast in its place. Now force cement into all crevices and it is done. The closer the stones fit the better, but you need not be very particular. Stones can be wedged into the holes both between the ti«-e and the stones and into the seams, and the cement completes it all. If a wooden casing is to be fastened to it, put bolts up through the seams with blocks or cleats screwed fast to them. —E. 8. Gilbert, in N. Y. Tribune. GREAT COMBINATION. How t r<« Acres (an He Mad* to Pa/ a Satisfactory Profit. Villagers or persons who have but a small acreage will find the following plan a good one if they desire to econo ' mize their space, which it is very often I necessary to do.and always a good prac ! tice. I propose to planta piece of ground' ■ fourteen by six rods to peur and plum trees, setting them about one rod apart ! each way, which will give six rows with fourteen trees in each, or eighty j four trees in all. Around this I shall ; construct a fence of wire netting six feet high. Just on the outside of this fence I build a chicken house large enough to accommodate about two | hundred hens (Plymouth Rock and 1 Huff Leghorns), having the north side on the line with and forming part of the fence, and the south or front side : freely exposed to the sun. The hens are allowed free range of this orchard— chicken park and I expect the chick ens and trees to be of mutual advan tage to each other. The liens furnish nearly or quite all the fertilizers the , trees require, while the trees will pro j vide stiude for the chickens. We are thus making good use of the ground while the trees are small. After they once come into beariug, with fairly good care, you have a right to expect largely increased profits. I'ears and plums are seldom if ever a drug on the market The chickens are also of great benefit in preventing the depredations of the curculio. We also keep bees, and thus add another element of profit and mutual benefit—F.W. Brooke, in Amer ican Gardening. Maklnic Sugar from Carrots. It is quite ]>ossible to make sugar from carrots, and, Indeed, carrot juice contains more than ninety per cent of saccharine matter. As carrots are ex pensive abroad, foreign sugar manufac turers prefer beet roots. Very few peo ple know that cows' milk contains about five per cent, of sugar. The Hcst C ow Hay. I Clover is by far the best hay for a cow. Timothy is a quite inferior hay for making milk. Cornmeal is the best tingle grain food for a cow. It will be cheaper to buy a hay cutter, which may | L-ost only five dollars for a small one, | than try to make one. .nUI of iiir tm»«»•*• •• Fair Girl—l am sure papa would not ' object to you, but I am afraid mamma will. She says your family hare de praved tastes. Rich Grocer's Son—Good gracious' Where did she get that idea? • Fair Girl I think she judges by the butter your father used to recommend as good.—Good News. Ills Aim All ltl*ht. "You ought to have seen Bagley out shooting with his revolver the other ! day. He couldn't hit a barn door." "llow did that happen? I thought | Hagley was a good shot." "Well, so he is; but, you see, there i wasn't a barn door to hit."—Judge. l'unlahiaiont to Fit tlir Crime* "I'll send you to jail for contempt of ( Sourt, sir," said the irate ludge to the j insolent attorney. "Don't do it, your honor," pleaded the lawyer. "I don't want a life sen- j tence." —Detroit Free Press. Am It l'robably Will He. The Heiress (returned from abroad) —My husband is a nobleman. Her Friend —Hush, dear girl! It won't make a bit of difference with those who are your true friends.—Chi l cago Record. Two Question*. Old McGrumpps—-Do you suppose l that 1 am going to allow iny daughter j to marry a man as |MMir its you are? Young Me<»all —Do you suppose that j 1 any rich man would marry a girl as homely as t>be U?—N. Y. Weekly. COROUROY ROADS They Art Kulljr lnn«iructcd nod l>« Not Com Very Much. We are asknl ln»w to construct a corduroy road. In marsh or bog" lands, first lay all small poles or brush trans versely and across the roud; next, take long trees—the smaller ewU tieing at least of teu inches diameter—and lay them longitudinally uloag on these poles aiid brush, in two rows, eight feet apart from eenter to center, mal<- lug the ends at the junction of each piece lap each other, at least three i feet, breaking Joint on either side and j placing under these ends large logs of sufficient length to extend across the road, and two feet on each side of • these stringers. Cover these stringers j with transverse logs, twelve feet long from scarf to scarf, and at lest ten inches in diameter at the smallest end, fitted close together, on tho straight portions; the logs alternated with a large and small end; and ou the outer side of curves all the large etuis, which will assist in the curvature of the road and the gravity of the vehicles. Next adze ofF the center ridges of these logs i to a face of about five iuehes for the width of nine feet in the center of the roadway, and cover this nine feet with gravel to fill iu between the logs and give a smooth surface.— Farmers' Voice. ; STREET IMPROVEMENT. Haw the Good-Roads Problem lias Been Solved at Wlnfleld, Kan. We have very little rain or snow dar ing the winter season, and with our sandy soil, when our streets are well graded and proper attention given to drainage, there is little need of metal covering, except upon the main thor- I oughfares, or where there is heavy traffic. Such streets we have Improved to the extent of about four miles; add ing a few squares, where it seems most needed, each year, in the manner fol lowing: The street is graded to a width of thirty feet, with a crown of (about twelve inches; then a course of broken limestone is laid along the center, twenty feet wide and six inches thick. ' The broken stone 1s then covered with six inches of gravel, allowing the same to lap over tho stone about two feet on each side. Strange as it may appear to you who are floundering in the mud half the year whenever you get off your paved streets, this makes a very economical and durable Improvement for the streets of our western cities where the traffic is not too heavy.—J. 8. Boynton, in Municipal Engineering. AID FROM THE STATE. It Is Necessary to Make the Good Koads Crusade a Muccew. State aid to localities for any pur pose Is of course open to grave ob jections. Is should be seldom vouch safed, and never, except In exigent cases; but after years of agitation, good roads in New York have slim prospects, save as the state assists them. Massachusetts has found that state aid and supervision are the only feasible methods. Now York will find the same, unless present signs are de fective. Certainly if time be a factor In the problem—lf good roads are soon to be begun—state aid must be given. While the press has been almost a unit In their behalf, the highest economlo authorities have approved them, and the splendid highways of the old world have been constant object-lessons to the new, comparatively little has here been accomplished. There has been much agitation with small results. The argument is concluded. Action should ensue; and under the circum stances—the need of prompt, compre hensive and intelligent action—the proposition for state aid is entitled to consideration. —Harper's Weekly. Advantages of Broad Tires. Some of the Massachusetts towns are giving a practical support to improv ing the country ronds by ordering that all town garbage wagons, watering carts should use the broad tires on the wheels Nothing cuts up a road so badly as the narrow tire on the vehi cle that is sustaining a big load; this occasions the horrible ruts which de stroy often the beat roads during cer tain season aof tho year. The use of broad tires by the farmers is to be urged everywhere. When the farmer does this it will be a big advance to wards the solution of the good road problem. It will be a saving to every farmer if he would make it a rule that the next time his heavy wagon goes to the smiths he will have a wide tire replace the present narrow one. The result would be a great saving in wear and tear to horse, w agon and harness. —Albany Argus The Oatlet to Under drains. The most Important part of an un derdrain is tho outlet, and just as soon as tho snow melts this should be ex amined and all sediment and other ac cumulations cleared away. If the out let be located where stock Is allowed to run, the chances are that some of the stones or tiles have become misplaced by the trampling of stock in search of water. These should be replaced even if several feet of the outlet must be re moved for that purpose. A flat stone or piece of plank or slab should be placed over the drain and the whole covered with soil a foot deep. If the open ditch or creek into ,which the drain discharges lias become filled up, it should be cleaned out that the water may not back up Into the drain; and this work is very important and should not be neglected.—American Agri culturist. The Truth About Good Roads. A good deal *of missionary work is still needed among farmers to persuade them to a knowledge of the truth con cerning good Too many of them fail to realize the heavy taxes they are now ludirectly paying tor bad roads, from which good roads would relieve then. —N. Y. Examiner. Nfw York Mhoul«t Take the Lm«L As citizens of the richest and most powerful state in the union we cannot afford to be backward In the national movement for better roads —Uon. Itos well I*. Flower, Governorof New York. An L'nueeessarr NUtuU. "In the old Puritan days a man wasn't allowed to kiss his wife on Sun day." "Why, what mau ever wanted to?" V.M.U. Her Right. "Orandnlece," said the old lady fee bly, in a tone which Indicated mental anxiety as well as bodily suffering. "Yes, aunt. What Is It?" "When Dr. Sllmpset comes I suspect he will try to give me an anodyne, and 1 want you to promise not to let him do It. It won't cure my disease, and If I have a pain I want to know it."— Judge. A Case of Every Man's Sorrow. "There are holes th»t I am sjws.ys sorry not to find in my shirt," said ' Jokus, as he drew a clean garment from a laundry package. "Holes!" said his friand. "What do | you mean?" "I mean button-holes," said Jokns, as he pointed to a rlpped-up neckband, , apd laughed in his feeble, miotic way. j —Chicago Record. What lie Rested Oa. Willie (Just home from school and ! very much excited) What do you think, pa? .Johnny Stfiith, one of the j big boys, had an argument with the teacher about a question in grammar His Father—What position did he take? 1 Willie—liis last position was aoross the chair, f§;c [Jr^yi. No *2B THE "WOODEN NAVY." Llfo on the Early Warships of the United States. An Admlrml Who l.ook»ii More Like m Fanner Than a Commander of a Gunboat—A Ocw That Ob jected to ithsTinf. Early In August, 1881, the United States 44-gun frigate Potomac. Capt. , John Downes, lay in New York har bor tugging away at her anchor in a half-restless, half-indolent mood, as If anxious to get to sea, but was deterred from making the necessary exertion by the enervating heat of the sun. President Jackson, writes Edgar Stan ton Maclay In Harper's Magazine, had recently appointed Martin Van Buren minister to England, and the frigate was waiting to convey the future pres ident of the United States to the ■ "Tight Little Island." Conscious of the honor of having a distinguished passenger (with political influence), [ the younger officers of the ship spent more time than usual before the mir ror. endeavoring to give a martial part to their hair. They even got out their uniforms, as if they expected to wear them every day in the week, instead of only once or twice in the cruise, when some special ceremony re -1 quired it. The scale of pay established at the time of the war of 1814 allowed our captains only one hundred dollars a month, with which to maintain the honor of the flag abroad, and insident ally support a family. The lieutenants got fifty dollars a month, and the mid shipmen struggled along on consider ably less, so that it was not to be ex pected that they could afford the lux ury of a uniform every day in the weela In the cruise In which he captured the Macedonian, Capt. Stephen Decatnr is described as "wearing an old straw hat and a plain suit of clothes, which made him look more like a farmer than a naval hero." If the handsome yonng officers of the Potomac could not make as noble a dis play as they might have desired in the matter of padding, epaulets and gold lace, they at all events could devote more than usual attention to their em bryo beards. The regulations in force compelled them to shave their faces smooth at least once in so many days, no matter how luxuriantly inclined some of them might have been toward whiskers. The officers who were espe cially prone to run to hair found the regulation a stumbling biock to their pride, and no small amount of temper was expended In consequence. But in view of the fact that their distinguished passenger "had a pull," which might* land them in a choice position some day, the officers lathered and scraped away at their chins with more good grace than could have been expected. Moreover, the hearts of these officers wanned toward "Martin," because in the war over Peggy O'Neal, "the pret ty, witty, saucy, active tavern keeper's daughter," which nearly wrecked President Jackson's cabinet, he sided with Peggy—and Peggy was the widow of a naval officer. The same bustta and air of expect ancy was noticealye among the sailors of the Potomac. They were busily en gaged in togging themselves out in their best rig, polishing their neat morocco pumps, and going through the most approved and latest nau tical prinking. Some of the real old salts in the frigate, however, who af fected to d« pise the "innovation of uuiforms," and whose sigh for the good old days when men-o'-wars-men had their inalienable rights to dress "their own exclusive persons in their own exclusive tastes," were not so par ticular in washing and pressing out their neat nankeen uniforms. They were satisfied with greasing their lon£ hair, and then braiding it down their backs, with just enough wax In the end to make It curl up like a fish hook. These were the men who had made the American navy famous. They had taken a hand in flogging the Parley vous In 1708-1801, and had downed the yataghan-armed Turks in the fierce hand to hand encounters off Tripoli, and had exterminated hordes of pi rates along the Spanish main. But their greatest glory was in having been through the "late war," In which the pride of the mistress of the ocean was taken down a peg or two. That the distresses of an Atlantic voyage might be made as endurable as possible for their passenger "with a pull" and his "land-lubberly" retinue, a supply of hideous-looking easy chairs, such as never before had dese crated the decks of the frigate, and heathenish-looking trunks, pre posterous bundles, and outlandish packages, were piled around in just the places where an out-and-out good seaman would be most likely to crack hU shins against them. The stewards, also, began to assume a pompous and condescending air that w»s entirely beyond their station, while the master at-arms and quartermasters were busy hoisting squealing pigs (tied in bunches by their feet), coops filled with cackling hen*, and many other delicacies that might tempt the weak stomachs of the guests. New Tannins Process. One of the most Important reoent ap plications of chemistry has resulted Uj great improvement of the processes or a long-established and widely extend ed industry—tho tanning of leatnef. The many beautiful exhibits of "mlA eral-tanned leather" at the world S fair attracted the attention of all in terested in that industry and of many others as well. The chemical prluci file Involved in this mineral les in the conversion of the fiber of the skin into an insoluble, and non-ptttrescible compound by com bining it with chromic oxide. It U well known that in the common leath er the fiber is combined with tannty acid. It may then be said that the new proce&a differs from the old by the »UD stitutlon of ehromio oxide—or tannic acid. A Terrible Kuoounter. They had had a falling out, the two young men in the loud clothes, and this was the way the trouble termi nated, while a number of horrified persons looked on. "You're a chump!" "Did you say I was a chump?" "That's what I said." "Oh, you did, did you?" "That's what I did.*' "Well, you better not say it again, that's all." "I guess I'll say it again if I feel like it." "Oh, you will, will you?" "You bet I will." "Well, you better not. that's aU." "Why liadn't I better?" "That's all right, you'll find out quick enough." Bight here friends intervened and both young men received congratula tions on having survived the encounter without injury.—Chicago BecotyL Discouraged l'edagocns. "How many hours are there 'n a day?" asked a Harlem teacher. "I reckon there must be more than twenty-four hours a day now," was the reply. "Haven't 1 told you more than forty times that there were only twenty-four hours in a day?" "Yes; and yesterday I heard yon say that the days were getting longer. I supposed that there must be about twenty-five hours a day now."—Tam many Xipw .... '