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. FRBEFORT, IGiU OP J. E. EORSYTHE, Agent. BOTLSH, PA. oay S jGreat Sacrifice Sale| D^vs Oar itemi-ftnnatl Sacrifice Sale Till take place Wednesday. Thursday Fri d»f sad Sstarday. Auga-tt tbo Ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4tb. Four days of genu ine slaughter of price* iu all oar different departments. Tbe people of Bat ier and ricioity know from put experience thm when tbis Btore advertises a sacrifice *»!• for four days we mean it. -Ve need a certain amount ot mon ey by a certain date. This is tbe method we take to get it. Therefore oar necessity is your opportunity to reap a rich harvest in values at little out lay. Here are a lew of tbe lonre.u prices ever »ff-»red 11 this clins of merchan dise: DHESB GOODB I DAMASKS 1* In. Black ■<««(« 75c. at this sale «o 40c. at till* sale 23c. •0 cent nlaclt llourlMlU 40c. SOc 36c. •100 •• •• .. 75c. 1 65C. • •• •• 43C. 125 - • - •• •• 85c. |sl2J at thH »ale soc. l '""*** W "* 3SC - M nc. CALICOES. 75 cent MAC* Burab at this tale 50c . ur entire stock of Bc. Calicoes £0 at ihls sale OINOHAMS f ° rßU lie. Zephyr for Sc. ' MUSLINS 13e •• 7c. . Good Unbleached Mnnltn at tc. per yard, (C. Lancaster* for sc. •• Wheeling •' . sc. LA. DIBS' VB9TS ' U^,t '• onßdale Muslia " c - " 7.d0, toe. sc. I MILLINERY. 30c. Veers go *t thU sale for 10c. I *3.00 trimmed Hat for ISO d<* IOC. Black Hone go at thin sale for sc. I 2.50 " ltodiz I sc. 10c. | 1.50 untilramed Hut for The*e are onl* a few of tbe wonderful bargains we are williog to n-m yoa *f oar foor day Sacrifice Sale. Remember tbe date and place. No. I'JO Main 't., Aug I, 2. 3 and 4. Jennie E. Zimmerman, Succesiior to Ritter k Ralntoa. W. F. HARTZELL. L. M. COCHRAN. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in —Excelsior Fire-Proof Slate Paint— For Shingle Rools.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 tbe shortest notice. Esti mates given on old or new work and the same promptly attended to. AI L WORK GUARANTEED. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, 320 SOUTH MCKEAN STREET, * * * BUTLER, PA. SPRING! SPRING! Are You interested In Low Prices? We offer a magnificent new stock ior Spring and Summer at PRICES THE LOWEST YET NAMED FOR STRICTLY FIRST CLASS GOODS. High Grades in all Departments. True merit in every Article. Hon est Quality Everywhere. An Immense Assortment. Nothing Missing. © o Everything the Best. The Quality will tell it. The Price will sell it. And that is tne reason you should come early to pet vour bargains from our splendid line of Shoes, Slippers and Oxfords We show all the latest novelties in great profusion. We keep the very finest selections in all standard styles. We make it a point to have every article in stock the best of its kind. Shoe Dealer. AL ROFF. s. Main St. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Weak and Weary Overcome by the heat or extraordinary exertion, the physical system, like a ma- Chine, needs to be renovated and repaired. The blood needs to be puritied and invigor- Hood's 1 1 ****** parilla ated and the nerves £ V g g and muscles strength- A U.l vu | ened by Hood'sSarsa- 1 parilla, which creates "WWWWW ! an appetite, removes that tired feeling and gives sweet, sound, refreshing sleep. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25c. MARTHA WASHINGTON COOK-BOOK 11* ~,| FREE! 320 PACES. f COO Kj?«x ILLUSTRATED. *1 One of the bert Cook ■;£l Books publi - tied. It coa -1 W tains recipes for all kind - of cooking. Also d -part •meats on Medicine, Lti- V j queue, and Toilet recipe:.. 8 Indexed for handy rcfer- I iu ence * MftlLtD FREE, In Exchiu-gre for 20 LARGE LION HEADS cut from Lion Coffeo wrappers and a 2-ceut Stamp- Write f<ir li-ref i nrottMr Hbo Pmhnna. V have muny valuable I'. :ur«s ;. linif e, 1 ' eu., 10 Kivc awe..*. A Ix-uutlful IMcture Card 1? i' every package v 0 I.IOJT ' op nil- WOOL SOU SPICE CO, 3^; A Scientist claims the Root of Diseases to be in the Clothes we Wear. The bo.st Spring remedv for theiblues, 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 lieving you instant- O J ly of that tired feel ing, and making you cheerful and active. The cost of this sure cure is very moderate TRY IT. JOHN KEMPER, Manufacturer of Hai •liesss, Collars, and Strap Work, and Fly Nets, and Dealer in Whips, Dusters, Trunks ant! Valises. My Goods are all new and strict first-c i i 1 work guaran teed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbell & Templeton's Furniture Store. 342 S. Main St., - Butler, Pa. All light suits at reduced prices at THE RACKET STORE. 88 Suits Reduced to S5 10 Suits Reduced to 8 12 Suits Reduced to 10 THE RACKET STORE «■£ Prescriptions H A Specialty. At Redick's Drug Store. tf- We do not handle anything but pare drugs, next time you are in need of medicine please give us a call. We are headquarters for pare SODA WATER aB we use only pare fruit juices, w»- also handle Paris Qreen, hellebore insect powder, London purple and other insecticides Respectfully, J. 0. REDICK, Main &t.,next toHotel Lowry BUTLER, PA. I * * GOSSER'S • .CREAM GLYCERINE * has no equal for chappc-d hands. li[>- • r m fact-, (ir aiiv ruughln-ss of th" aixl % is not eieeucu as a «ir<~. f«i tit • fa<" . after shaving. Sold b> d'l. n:. t fj ' iventy-five Cents a liotlie. • •••••••<»•«•• HTTTLKR. PA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 18i>4. THE LOVELY ROSE. I walk within the plot Where Flora's beauties grow— Lily, forget-me-not. And all that gardens showi Not one bat what is sweet With memories divine. But best of all I greet The lovely rote as mine! The rose, the lovely rose. The poets always praise; Its petals fair enclose Bright thoughts of other daysi As messenger of love- It evermore will shine; As tender as the dove- Is this sweet flower of mine! When w 111 the story cease Tha rose delights to tell? When will its worth decrease. And other flowers excel? To It romance and song Forever must Incline, And queenship must belong To this pure flower of mint! Long centuries it stood For youth's eelestlal dream. While man and maidenhood Walked by life's winding stream; Eaah uttered word a rose. Like poet's golden line. Wherein their hopes repose— O beauteous flower of mine .' So while the stars are bright. And sentiment Is curs. While summer sheds her light. Creating Eden bowers— We shall esteem as best The rose as red as wine. All passion well confest In this sweet flower of mine! —William Brunton. in Good Housekeeping IT FAILED TO WORK. Mr. Nelthorpe's Theory About the Treatment of Wontan. That man is only mortal and liable to error is a well-established rule, and there are in the world a certain num ber of men, each of whom considers himself the exception that we all know is necessarv to prove a rule of this kind. Charlie Xelthorpe was one of the number. Fie was a prig of the first water. He looked at all things and discussed all things from a supremely priggish point of view, but no subject displayed his priggishness to such ad vantage—or shall 1 say disadvantage— as the subject of women. On that sub ject he held himself an indisputable authority. There was no reason why he should, for he was young as yet, and had really had no very special experi ence of the opposite sex; but your full blown typical prig generally rises su perior to such a secondary considera tion as reason. Charlie rose superior to it, and would expound his views and theories at as great length and with as much assurance as if he had devoted a Ipiig life and highly-cultured intellect to the study of that particular hiero glyphic which is called woman. He was a great believer in what he called "systematic training." That is to say, he considered that women ought to be treated according to a cer tain system that he had evolved from his inner consciousness. The beauty of the system in his eyes was the fact that it required no modifications, but might with safety be rigorously en forced in every case. It could not fail. Charlie was the lucky possessor of an unencumbered estate with a very considerable rent roll, and he intended to find a woman who loved him for what he was, without a thought for what he had, and who would have shared a mud hut or a garret with him just as gladly as she would share his fine old place in Yorkshire. When he had found her, he meant to train her on his infallible system. That was his programme, and it never occurred to him to distrust his powers of carry ing it out. His belief in himself was absolute, and the infallibility of his reasoning and judgment a thing that to his mind did not admit of the slightest shadow of a doubt. When he became engaged, his male friends were quite excited in their anxiety to see the woman whom he had deigned to honor with his ap proval, and when they had seen her there was but one opinion among the lot of them. "An uncommon nice girl, and any amount too good for that prig Nel thorpe. Well, well, fools for luck!" That was tho unanimous verdict. Lord Dolly Dashwood, one of Charlie's closest friends—by that I mean one of a certain selectcircle who frequently borrowed fivers of him, which they forgot to repay —waxed eloquent upon the subject. "Sensible little girl, don't you know. Knows how to talk to a fellow, don't you know. Knows how to listen to a fellow, too. Thrown away on a chap like Nelthorpe. Beastly conceited cad, without two ideas. Any sort of wom an good enough for him, don't you know." The favored few who were privi leged to listen to this flight of elo quence received it with the reverence that it deserved. No one spoke. No one could speak. Astonishment held them all silent. His lordship was not, as a rule, a brilliant orator, and the fact that he was capable of such a sus tained and remarkable effort as the one recorded above came upon lji6 audi ence with quite a shock. It was noth ing short of a revelation. Eva Carrington, the bride-elect, was a beauty. A softly-tinted skin,satin smooth and veined like the petal of a rose; fair, fluffy hair that shone golden bright In the sunlight; clear, smiling eyes of heaven's own blue, and innocent, rosy lips that looked just made for the first kiss of love, were all blended together in a dainty and moat fascinating whole. Iler manner was childishly fresh and simple, and men found her altogether delightfQl. Women had their doubts of her—doubts that were principally due to the childlike manner aforesaid, and to a certain pretty trick of look ing up quickly and then down with those great innocent eyes of hers—but women, of course, are invariably spite ful and unfair towards their own sex. Men, as we all know, have the monopo ly of just and generous judgment. "Well, Eva's soft blue eyes cn-l bright little ways wrought dire de- •traction in the ranks of the stronger sex, but she appeared quite uncon scious of her power, or Indifferent to it. To a'l intents and purposes, she was completely wrapped up in the man she had promised to marry. Ills will was l\er law, and to please him tho chief object of her life. In short, his Her total submission delighted him, and lie took every advantage of it. It was not in him to show generosity to a woman, or, indeed, to anything that he thought weaker than himself. Ho was the sort of man who is brutal to his dogs and horses, and overbearing to his servants, who. In short, tyrannizes whenever he can do so without fear of retaliation. His nature asserted itself in his dealings with the woman he loved, and ho took the keenest possible pleasure in trading on her forbearance, taxing her endurance to the utmost and showing off her pliant will and obe dient temper to the world at large. It was all a part of the system that could not fail. Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have torn the system to shreds and seattered it to the four winds of heaven. Eva Carrington was the hun dredth woman. She submitted to everything with the most remarkable patience, and no word or complaint or reproach ever passed her lips. Hut after a time she grew quieter, and her bright spirits seemed to llag. Her merry, girlish laughter was not nearly so ready as it had been six MTC. cojnerg of Jiejr pretty mouth began to droop with a wistful expression that was pathetic enough to touch the hardest of mascu line hearts. Charlie's friends a}l noticed the change and commented - upon it among themselves, and applied to him a -aried selection of opprobrious epi thets. Lord Dolly Dashwood displayed a surprising amount of fluency on the subject. "Beastly cad. No idea how to treat a woman Ought to be horse whipped, don't you know. Shall have to cut him, by Jove! Wouldn't take a fiver from him now if he offered it. Can't stand this sort of thing, you know. Beyond a joke." Thus his lordship, and a good deal more that would not look well on pa per. Charley went on giving his petty ar rogance full play, until, as was only to be reasonably expected, things came to a crisis. The wonder was they had not done so long before. On the occasion of Ludy Brown- Jones' ball he went the length of for bidding bis fiancee to dance round dances with anyone but himself, and, though she recived his commands with out a murmur, her soul rose in pas sionate revolt against his tyranny. This last test that he had devised seemed to her the worst of all. As a matter of fact, she had submitted pa tiently to far harder ones: but we all know the feminine capacity for swal lowing a camel and straining at a gnat, and Eva was no less inconsequent than the rest of her sex. The gnat stuck in her throat and obstinately refused to be dislodged. There always must be a last straw, and this was it. When the bail was half over Lord Dolly put in au appearance, and at that moment Eva happened to be sit ting quite alone. Charlie had left her for a minute or two to speak to a friend, and she was looking wistfully at the maze of couples that revolved before her. Lord Dolly made straight for her. "Not dancing, Miss Carrington! Luck for me, by Jove! Sipping waltz, this. Have a turn?" He stuck out his elbow invitingly, but Eva turned av. ay, biting her lip. "No, thank you!" she answered, in a low tone, "1 can't dance with you. Lord Dolly." "Can't?" echoed his lordship. "How's that? What's up? Not ill, are you? Not cross with me—eh?" Eva shook her head. "No, I am not ill or cross, but —but I have promised Charlie only to waltz with him. He doesn't like to see mo waltzing with other men." Lord Dolly choked down a forcible, but inelegant remark, cleared his throat violently, and ran his fingers through his hair. The two latter pro ceedings were signs of severe mental disburbance. There was a slight pause. "And he dances so awfully badly," Eva went on, with a queer little catch In her breath. "He can't waltz a bit— not a little wee bit. He—he holds you all wrong." Her voice quivered and broke on the last word, and she looked up at the man by her side with great tearful eyes, like forget-me-nots drowned in dew. That look finished it. Lord Dolly was only a man. "Beastly shame!" he said, hurriedly. "Come with me. Nice and quiet out on the veranda. A fellow can talk there, don't you know? Come along!" And Eva went. Charlie Nelthorpe was bristling with outraged pride and wounded self esteem when ;he went to pay his cus tomary visit to Eva on the day follow ing Lady Brown-Jones' ball. The fact that Eva could forget herself and the respect that was due to him so far as to sit on the veranda with Lord Dolly for half an hour had been a severe blow to him, and he had not yet recov ered from the shock. He had refrained from commenting upon her conduct at the time, but now he meant to take it out of her, and reduce her to the state of abject penitence that he considered befitting the occasion. She was reading when he went into the room, but she laid her book aside at once. "Oh! Charlie, is that you?" Charlie frowned. "How often have I told you, my dear Eva, that a self-evident fact re quires no asserting?" he asked, in lira most dogmatic tone. She shrugged her shoulders. "How often? Oh! I don't know. A hundred times, I dare say. You look cross, Charlie." Charlie frowned again. There was an intangible something in Eva's tone and manner that was not wont to be there. Something that he could neither do fine nor understand, though he felt it instinctively. "I am not cross, Eva, but I am grieved—grieved beyond measure. Your conduct last night caused mo acute pain, the more so as you ex pressed no regret for it But I hope yon nie in a better frame of mind to day, and ready to say you are sorry for what you did. L'ntil yon have dono so, 1 really don't feel that I can kisa you." Charlie fully expected that this stu pendous threat would reduce va to the lowest depths of despair, a. bring her, figuratively speaking, to her knees; but for once he was out in his calculations. She drew up her slender figure and pursed up h-.-r rosy lips with au air that made him feel vaguely un easy. Was it possible, he wondered, that she intended to defy him? Yes. Her next words proved that it was so. "I ain not sorry,' she said, "not a bit. I ain glad I would do it again." Charlie gasped. The situation was so unlooked fur that he could not ris« to it all at once. "As for kissing me," Eva went on, with a little disdain .'til moue, "well, you will never have the chaoce of do ing that again, so you need not excite yourself." Charlie found his voice then. "You are talking at random now, Eva." he said, severely, "a bad habit against which I have always warned you. Will you be kind enough to ex plain yourself?" Eva tilted her small niVto in the air, and a horrible doubt assailed hiin. Was there—could there be a hitch in the infallible system, after all? The thought appalled him. "Oh, certainly," Eva answered, "I can do it in a very few words. Lord Dolly proposed to me last night and I accepted him." Charlie gasped ajrain. "But you are engaged to me," he ejaculated. "You must be mad. You can't seriously contemplate throwing me over for Dolly Dashwood. Tho thing's impossible.'' She looked at him and smiled. "Incredible as it may seem to you, I do contemplate it." "But —but—but," stammered Char lie, "this is very er —extraordinary be havior on your part, Eva. Are you aware that you propose to treat me in a most dishonorable way, and—and— er —in short, very badly?" Her face grew grave. "I should be soFry to do that," she said, more gently, "I—l don't want to be dishonorable, or to treat you badly, Charlie. But lam only human, ajid no one but myself knows what I have gone through 111 the last few months. You have tried me too hard. I waa very fond of you at one time, and if you had treated me fairly I should iiave been very fond of you still. But you would wear out a saint—and I am only a woman. 1 don't think Lord Dolly will be hard on me. He may not be very brilliant, but at all events li« is a man —the sort of a man we call a gentleman—and kuo*jrs how to be gen erous even to such an altogether in ferior creature as a mere woman." She paused and looked critically at Jier rejected lover, who now presented a truly pitiable appearance, with all the starch taken out of him. and a gen eral air of limp depression pervading his being. "That is all," she went on present ly. "Hut before you go there is one thing that I should like to impress up on vou for future guidance: It is al ways worth a man's while to be just and fair —even to a woman." She paused again and contemplated him with her big blue eyes, but he said nothing. He was too bewildered to speak. It seemed to him that all the laws of creation were reversed, and the whole scheme of the universe turned upside down. There was a hitch in the system somewhere. It had failed.—London Truth. On Turning Cp Trousers. I am asked to explain why some men think it fashionable to turn up the bot toms of their trousers, and how such a fashion originated. Men may turn up their trousers in wet weather without reproach, because the doing so is neat and thrifty; but to turn up trousers in dry weather was first thought of b\ a lot of London bank clerks, who sit on the razor-back tops of the Oxford street omnibuses, and are apt to rub the bottoms of their trousers against the hardware of tlie seats. To keep them turned up through the day prob ably struck them as economical. IJut I have never seen men of fashion in London turn Up theirs trousers under any circumstances. In wot weather they take cabs, but for one of them to appear on Rotten How in the season with his trousers turned up would be justly considered as a serious breach of decorum. lam aware that a noble earl at a wedding recently in this city appeared at the altar with his trousers turned up. Hut lam forced to con clude he intended that as a cynical practical joke on the anglo-xnaiiiacs and weak imitators he had met at the New York clubs, who think it is Eng lish to wear trousers turned up an inch at the bottom.—X. Y. Press. An Vnusual Wedding. "The funniest church wedding I every saw," said a confirmed victim to the wedding habit, "was one in a Protestant Episcopal church in this city the other day. The bride's father was ructor of the c-liureh; her brother was ulso a clergyman. The bride wanted her father to marry her. When the bridal party i-.tu.rted up the aisle two flower girls came first: then the bride, walking alone; a few feet back of her the maid of honor, next two bridesmaids, then the mother of the bride unattended, and lastly two more bridesmaids and the ushers. The mother gave her daughter away, the father married the Hi, the bride's broth er assisted in the ceremony. Alto> jfether it was entirely different from any wedding 1 had seen before, though very decorous for all." —Philadelphil Hulletin. HIS HEARING WAS RESTORED. Bat After llela| Cured He Couldn't Even Bear the Ticking of a Watch. A well-known physician recently told the following story to an Indian&poli# Sentinel reporter: "A prominent Marion county farmer discovered that he was gradually get ting deaf. He couldn't hear the hired man blast stumps with giant powder. He came to my office and made signs that he wanteft his ears examined. I examined them, and in an instant, al most, found that his defective hearing was caused by the gathering of a waxy substance in the ears. When I re moved that obstruction of the hearing I was surprised at the re mlt. The old gentleman jumped from the chair where he had been seated and both hands to his ears. He couldn t stand the noise from the street and the least sound startled him. He was one of the most pleased men I ever saw. He went away and it was several weeks before I saw him again. He called at the office with his wife and she did all the talk ing. She hardly raised her void* above a whisper and every now and then she looked at her husband in a timid way. She said that for several days he would not allow the least bit of noise in the house, and that he butchered some pigs before their time because of being affected by their squeal. His daughter and her husband had lived with them for two years and they had to leave on account of the crying of their six months-old baby. There were two clocks in the house, one In the dining room and one in the bedroom. These ho stopped on account of the ticking. Ihe clock in the bedroom was an alarm clock. It went off one night. He jumped from bed and nearly broke his neck by falllug head (ir.-.t on the floor. The woman sai 1 that she h.i l to keep the house as quiet sis a country grave yard for more than two weeks, for it "was that long l>ef-re her hu band be came accustomed to hearing. His daughter, however, has gone back to the farm with her buby, and the clocks have been started a;?ain. HOW TO KILL CROCODILES. Shoot Them or CutrlyThcm on a l.lne ami Take an Ax. There are two ways of killing croco diles, writes an ex-resident of India. One is by shooting with a rifle, but the most satisfactory way of dealing with them, besides being far the most sport ing, is to bait a good large hook with a bird or small anlma? and fasten it by a chain to a good long rope, the end of which is firmly picketed, the rope be ing colled and the bait lain in shallow water. There must be lots of slack line, as the crocodile does not swallow anything at once, but seizes it and takes it into deep water to gorge. A number of lines may be laid and looked up in the morning or cool of the even ing. When hooked it will take a good many men to haul a crocodile out, and as lie resents the operation and can use his tail as well as Ills jaws, one or two sportsmen will find considerable enter tainment in dispatching him with spears. Some crocodiles grow to engrmoui sizw, and their mawl always contain round white stones and often trinktto, the relics of inside passengers. Tb4 writer assisted at the death of u hot extraordinarily largo "snubnose" whl«h ha<l six women's rings in her. On the HvJ« Hide. A well-known lawyer 011 clroult I 4) the north of England, curious to know how a certain juryman arrived at hit verdict, meeting him one day, ventured to ask. "Well," replied he, "I'm • plain man, and I like to be fair t< everyone. I don't go by what the wit nesses say, aud I don't go by what lawyers say, and I don't go by what the Judge says; but I looks at the ma* In the dock, aud I says: 'lie must hav< done something or ho wouldn't b« there,' so I brings 'em all In guilty." Hme to the Purpose. "Your husband seems to have the ar tistic temperament," said a lady who was calling on a recently-married yountf woman. "l)o you think so?" was the response, with a happy little smile. • Yes. I should think he might have made a good painter. "I never saw him try to paint," re plied the little wife. "Hut he can whitewash beautifully."—HostonGlobe. §pp NEAT WIRE TRELLIS. Two That Are llrall) Attractive ami Very Easily Made at Home. Attractive trellises add much to the pleasure of growing plants and vines. The ordinary wooden affairs that are commonly seen are usually heavy in appearance, and not particularly at tractive iu design. The illustrations show a couple made largely of wire, that are neat in shape and easily con structed. One has a central support of wood Inches square, with cross-picces at the top, and at the surface of tho gTound if desired. From the extremU ties of these cross-pieces four wires are stretched from top to bottom, and around these wires is wound, in spiral fbrm, a strip of 6-inch wire netting, such as is used for yarding poultry. Small piecesof wire tie it firmly to the upright wires. The central support o| wood should extend down into the ground 18 or "JO inches. The only explanation needed in re gard to the other treUis is that the central support of wood has small Hi WIRE TREIXISK9. holes through it at regular intervals, and through these are drawn fairly stout galvanized wire according to the design that is suggested, or ac cording to any other regular design that the maker may elect. It is singular that greater use is not made about the garden and lawn of this galvabized wire that is now so low in price. It may be used, in con nection with light frame-works of wood as supports for large numbers of garden plants—peas, beans, tomatoes, berry bushes, etc., while it can be woven into almost any shape for the artistic support of flowers, sweet peas and host of other climbers. In fact the various widths of poultry netting, and this smooth galvanized wire ought to be regarded as two of the most val uable assistants which the cultivator of fruits, vegetables and flowers has at his command in giving nature a chance to do its best —and prettiest— in the growth of the plants under his care. —Country Gentleman. THE FARMER'S GARDEN. It Should Consist of at I.eaiit One Vrr® al the Host Soil. The farmer's garden should consist of not leas than one acre of tlie best soil, eight by ten rods, and if it runs over a knoll so as to get north and south slope it will prolong the fruiting Season. Fence it lu from the chickens and have no shade trees in or about the garden; everything needs sunlight and culture. The ground should have ten or twenty loads of the best manurq to the acre every year. All rows should run the entire length and be cultivated with the horse. If you don't want nineteen rods of anv one vegetable fill it out with something else, and the same with fruit. But you do want a whole row of grapes on the sunny side, for you can buy two-year-old Con cord vines at one dollar per dozen, and if you have more than you can eat they are worth more to give away than to sell, but your grocer will give you four or five cents a pound for them, and after four years planted ought to bear twenty to forty pounds. Eight feet from the grapes set a row of currants, gooseberry and pieplants, so you can drive over this row to mulch, then eight feet from this a row of black berries, then a row of red raspberries, next blackberries; now have two rows of strawberries tho entire length of the garden, one row of pistillates, on« row of perfect flowered varieties side by side, the rows four feet apart and the plants two to three feet. —G. J. Kelr logg, in Homestead. Caxe for Your Own UarUen. No man gets the full measure of en joyment which his yard or grounds can yield unless he takes care of them him* C;lf. lie who hires another to push Is lawn mower voluntarily gives uj> the best pleasure that a lawn can giT«, Be who hires a hireling to turn th( hose upon his grass and flowers lose* the best of that calm but subtlo pleas ure that the training of gr&ss and flowers can impart. Every man k> a farmer at heart. His primal kinship with the soil reasserts Itself every spring, and hence the sanest and best enjoyment vouchsafed to a man con sists in the management of a garden, a lawn or a little plat of ground. It i$ the old Eden instinct as eternal as th# race. So a man who surrenders up this right to another voluntarily cuts himself off from one of the healthiest and most natural of pleasures. —Boston Olobe. Fitted for It. Pipkin —What are you going to do with your son -when he gets out of col lege? Potts—l think some of sending him to school.—Puck. A Candid Opinion. Algy (striking a new theme)— What do you think of this new monkey lan guage, Miss Ethel? Ethel (yawning)—l think it's very tiresome. —Judge. An Awful Plight. It puts a young man's head In a whirl, And makes him no end of bother, When he Is engaged to marry a girl And falls In love wtlh another. —N. Y. Press. lie Forgot. Mrs. A.—Didn't your wife's hair stand on end when she found there was a burglar in the room? Mr. B.—l don't know. I forgot to look over on the.dresser to see. —Arkan- saw Traveler. ilia Exact Words. Jess—What did papa say when you asked him? Jack—Not uiuch. Jess—But what was it? Jack—Just that: "Not much."—N. Y. World. IIIn Want. Tramp (entering taxidermist's)— Do you stuff ail kinds of animals here? Taxidermist- Why. ye . Tramp— Well, I wish you'd htuff m<> with a good dinner. —Harper's Bazar. THE GAME OF GOLF. A Favorite Old Pastime of the Scotch People. It Is Now Very I'opalar with American* Who Have the Time and Mean* to Play It—How the (lame Is Played. Golf is fast becoming popular. Among society people it has got to be quite the thing. This favorite Scotch game can be traced so far back that the exact date of its origin is lost. While its adoption in this country has been slow, it is now firmly rooted, says the Cincin nati Enquirer, and this season promises to be its greatest. I n their search for something new the society folk have seized upon it, and many are learning the game. Golf is not limited to any particular, •lass of individuals. Ladies and chil dren can play the game as well as men, and in nearly all the srolf clubs which have recently been organized the wom en show as keen an interest as the men themselves. Its devotees claim there is no game under the sun like golf, and as a thoroughly health-giving exercise it possesses all of the necessary quali ties. The first regular club organized in this country was the St. Andrew's Qolf club, whose grounds are now situated at Gray Oaks, a short distance above Yonkers, but within the corporation limits. This club was organized in 1988, and for the first few years the members played on various fields around Yonk ers. This year, however, new grounds have been secured at Gray Oaks, where the game can be played on a more sys tematic basis. A furm of about 430 acres has been secured, and the old fashioned farmhouse has been con verted into a comfortable and cozy clubhouse. The grounds, or links, cover a space of about two miles, and there are la this circuit nine holes. The holes are about four and one-fourth inches in di ameter, and are placed in what are ealled putting greens. These putting greens are well-leveled plots of ground from forty-five to sixty feet square, end the object is to drive the ball into the holes with the fewest number of strokes. The circuit leads over hills, sometimes across streams, ditches, rail foad tracks, as the case may be, and e.e skill of the player is shown In /ting his ball over these difficult places or hazards, as they are called, to & position where he can get a good stroke to send it down to the next hole- Each time the ball Is "holed" It Is S ken out and placed on what is termed e "teeing" ground, a short distance from the holes. The player. In start ing his ball again in play, may, if be desires, take a little soft earth, and, making a mound about half an inch to an inch in height, place his ball on top qt this, which is the "tee," and then drive it as far as he can toward the next hole. While in play the ball must not be touched or moved from the spot where It falls. Should the ball land on one of the hazards, as In the bottom oi a ditch or close to a railroad track or a stone wall. It may require several strokes to place It in a more favorable poeition. ft will be seen that such a State of affairs may count seriously against a player, since It is desirable to make as few strikes as possible. The balls are made of gutta peroha. very hard, and about one and one-half inches in diameter. They are struck with clubs, with long, slender shafts, %t one end of wbloh are projecting heads of hardwood, backed with lead or malleable Iron. There are several different shapes of the striking ends, adapted to the varieties of play, as long drives, raising the ball In the air to clear an obstruction and others. When these various features are un derstood, together with the fact that before finishing a game the player walks fully two miles and sometimes more, and that, too, over hills and many rough places, there Is no question about the exercise afforded by golf, then, as there is no time limit, the flayers can rest as much as they lease In going the rounds of the links. ONLY THE REFLECTION. Horrible Thought Produced by the Focus of a Window Pane. Thev sat on the sofa. They had just Oome to a mutual understanding, and he had measured her finger for the en gagement ring, and they were In the nrst throes of teftc}® r reminiscence. "Do you remember," he said, in a trembling voice—"you do not remem ber when you first saw me?" "Yes, I do." "Did any thrill or throb tell your heart this happy moment would c6me? No, that could not bo expected." "Yes, something did seem to whls« per that we might become man and *vife." "My darling!" ho said, and he kissed her fondly. "Yes, I remember I saw you from the window, leaving the house, and I thought how awful It would be to mar ry a bandy-legged man; but it was only the glass In the window that was uneven and made ycu ldok so." The Seller Sold. A good story is told about a transac tion In pigeons in which a crafty dealer overreached himself. A Philadelphia man went to a dealer to purchase (t dozen homing pigeons, and was both eurprised and delighted at the ex tremely low price asked for the birds, ■The bargain was finally conoluded, and the pigeons delivered. Two weeks later the gentleman happened to be passing, when the dealer stopped him and naked how the birds were getting on. "I don't know," replied the gen tleman. "I havo not yet heard from my friend." "Your friend?" "Yesj I bought them for a man In San Fran cisco." The dealer's jaw fell In dlschay, and then, with a rueful laugh, he ad mitted that ho had sold the birds cheaply because he knew that on be ing released they would immediately return to their old home. But frurn San Francisco! It was a clear case of the biter being bit. Conditional Willingness. Frances and her papa had a few squares to go, and the latter asked: "Frances, shall we walk or take the street car?" "Well, papa," replied the little girl, "I'll walk if you'll carry me."—Harper's Bazar. Afraid of IS. Dick Singleton—l congratulate you, piy boy. I bear that it's twins this time. How did that happen? Mr. Muehbhlest—Well, you see, we had twelve already. And my wife is fearfully superstitious. —N. Y. World. For Neither. He —I'd Just as lief be hung for a sheep as a lamb. She—Well, you'll be hung for neither; you'll be hung for a calf or nothing.— Yonkers Statesman. # No Trouble Then. All night, with many an Inward pan*. I watched the shadows creep. But when the bell for breakfast rang, Oh. then, how I could sleep! —Truth. Poetic lleauly. She—What kind of poetry do you love best? Poet (rapturously)»-The kind the editor accepts.—Detroit Free Press. Always Eloqoeat. Uncle—l.s your little dog intelligent? Smull Nephew—Well, he hasn't pot no very much fiense in his head, but his tail Aet»(DH to know a lot. —Good News. N o. 31 REPAIRING ROADS. CiptrlrnM of One of the OrrrnMrt •* T»tn County. N. Y. We have a great many different idea* ol working roads hero In Yates coun ty, N. V. Each town has a road com missioner. and l:e appoints an overseer for each district, and the appointed man must lay his plans and pick out his .shade trees for the men to «i( under and work out their road tax, and the man that can tell the best story gets the most praise. That ia one way. Then, in some districts we hare road machines. Then the overseer frets two or three teams hitched to one and starts out with four or five men follow ing after to throw out stones and sticks and turn sods over now and then: and when they pet through there is a in the center of the track! Of course a team can be driven with one horse each side of the ridge, but with a single horse one wheel will will be in the ditch and the other on the ridge which has been left by the road grader—that is, by the man's lack ■of judgment in running the grader. If this is the only way a wheel scraper is to be used they had better stop the manufacture of them, as every person riding over such a road needs a bolster under one side of him to level him up I was talking with an overseer in the first part of April who had just been putting his district in the shape jnst mentioned, and when I remon strated with him and told him it was too early to put fresh earth in the road he said it was all right, as you could not work roads too early in the spring. I thought at the time it would be work thrown away. In what con dition would the highway be after the spring rains? As the soil ia clay, there was no earth to grade up with when the weather became settled. That is the way the work goes on the different districts; and the bicycle rider comes along and wishes to mak£ war on the farmer, and I do not blame him in some respects, for a great many do not care whether the roads ari worked or not. As I have been overseer in the past, and there are about 150 days in our district and one-half of that paid 111 eash. 1 have managed in the following manner with good results: Hie first thing after the frost U ous in the spring, I hire a man with % good team and plow furrows on thai aide of the road where it is necessary, and then, after the plowing iB done; clean out all sluice ways and the last furrow; then, when the road is dry enough to scrape, we go over it with the old log -scraper, which is a saw blade bolted to a log. This will smooth off the ruts. One man with a team can do it. And this is all that should be done early in the spring; if it gets Bough again, go over it again, and ke*p on doing so until it is time to use the wheel-grader. When 1 start with that I manage to have three teams, and that Hakes a power that will keep the wheels turning. I set the grader blade to take furrows that were plowed early in the spring, and move the earth nearly to the center of the road, and go twice around this way. Then adjust the blade to move it to the center; then go to the ditch again and take all uneven places down, so that the water can run freely; when this is finished, move all loose earth to the center of the track; then adjust the blade again so as to move this ridge, and have teams driven so as to move it from high to low places. When this is all done, I clean out by aluice-ways where we cannot go with the grader. Then, with a wagon, draw off all loose stones, and do not throw them back to the side, to be scraped up in the road again next year. Now, if gravel is wanted on the road, hare two teams for three wagons and men enough to load as fast as the teams can draw. In this way we have built our roads, and they have given good satisfaction, and no one gets credit for labor when sitting under shade trees. —Cor. Coun try Gentleman. PRACTICAL EVIDENCE. Why the Good {loads Movement Should lie Popular In the Mouth. The southern road congress, which met lately tn Atlanta, brought out the fact of the value of good roads, and the pecuniary advantage of them was fully recognized. Among the cases oitod was the experiment made in building good roads by the people of Union and Essex counties, N. J. The pecuniary benefits resulting from this work are summed up in a report from the board of freeholders of the former county, which states that the total outlay has been nearly 8350,000, and there are now nearly forty miles of telford and macadam road in the country. The beneficial effect of the roads is seen in the fact that property in Union county alone has appreciated in value' far more than the cost of the roads, as the assessment shows. The county is*, sued 8350,000 worth of road bonds, the interest on which must be met annual ly, yet there lias been no increase In the county tax rate, because the in» creased assessment easily produce* enough revenue to meet this eharge. Very few of these roads have been built more than a year and most of them only a few months, but already the people appreciate the advantages flowing from them. Such practical evidence as this will certainly encourage roadbuilding In the south. The movement so far hat made little practical advance here and lias been confined mainly to conven tions, etc., but this Is a step In the right direction. It Is true that con ventions in themselves do notaocoOW plish much in the way of roadbuilding, but they 6how how the work can beW be done; they arouse the interest ol the people In the matter; they prof# the value of good highways, and th«T will, In the course of time, the south to the necessity of building them.-—N. O. 'l'lines-Democrat. Not Much In It. "And you don't admire that new hat young De Noodle has on?" "No; there's so little In It to admire." — N. Y. Advertiser. RUSTIC SYMPATHY. , Uncle Hiram—Say, Mlrandy, the darned fool won't have a drop left when he gets home. Look at It leak!-~- Truth. No (>UH tor Alarm. Wife—What effect will these pow ders have? Doctor—Ho will seem rather dull and stupid, but don't feel alarmed. wife—Oh. no; he's that way when ha's perfectly veil, you topw.—JftlßWl
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