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
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We also make a specialty of an easy running and light
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A guarantee is a good thing in its
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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.
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All kinds of roofs repaired and painted on tbe shortest notice.
Esti mates given on old or new work and the same promptly attended
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THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Weak and Weary
Overcome by the heat or extraordinary
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The blood needs to be puritied and invigor-
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O J
ly of that tired feel
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The cost of this
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TRY IT.
JOHN KEMPER,
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and Dealer in
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Valises.
My Goods are all new and strict
first-c i i 1 work guaran
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:o: :o:
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at reduced
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88 Suits Reduced to S5
10 Suits Reduced to 8
12 Suits Reduced to 10
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aB we use only pare fruit juices, w»-
also handle Paris Qreen, hellebore
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BUTLER, PA.
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m fact-, (ir aiiv ruughln-ss of th" aixl %
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. after shaving. Sold b> d'l. n:. t fj
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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.
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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