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 ot 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 o address, THE STOVER BICYCLE Mfg. Co. FREE PORT, ILL.OP J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent. BUTLER, PA, BUTLER FAIR. September 4, 5,6 and 7, 1894. Entries in Horse and Cattle Departments close August 27th. EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS- For Premium Lists Apply to W. P. ROESSING, Sec'y. BUTLER, PA. DECLINE. There has been a decline in the price of materials from which buggies and other vehicles are made, therefore a decline in the price of vehicles. Come quick and see before it advances again. S. B. MARTINCOURT & CO. BUTLER, - PA. • W. F. HARTZELL. L. M. COCHRAN. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in —Excelsior Fire-Proof Slate Paint— For Shingle Roofs,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. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. BUTLER ROOFING COMPANY, J2O SOUTH MCKEAN STREET, * * * BUTLER, PA. _W A Summer Drive Wjjjg&S, loses a measure of its pleasure if the carriage is less lux urious, easy running and handsome than it might be Fredonia Buggies have nothing but good points. They're the handsomest vehicles you can —arc as strong and secure as they're sightly. Ask and insist that you see them at your dealer's. Made by FREDONIA MFG. CO., Youngstown, Ohio. IN MID-SUMMER \ ! <%, npiKß Alt ADVERTISIX* <%. ■ BTIBULAST FOB BCSISEKB. X THE CITIZE* SELLS IT. - % THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Weak All Over Is the condition of thousands in hot weather, especially if the blood is thin ; and impure and the system poorly nourished. By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, 1-IOOd'S JH parilla ■ your blood w ill be £ f« purified and you trill fl UJL vu jr.»in strength of mind nerves and body. P.e * sure to get Hood's and only Hood's. Hood's Pills are sate, harmless, sure. MARTHA WASHINGTON COOK-BOOK ,g—FREE! 1 320 PACES. t C=£- h - - ILLUSTRATED. 3 ' One of the Cook ie STJ Books poblithed. Tt caa -1 M £1 tuin-> rrcijx s f<>r all kinds ti of ( Icing Id• , LTt meats oti Medicine. Lti > qaette, and Toilet recipes. 6 indexed for handy refcr -1 ence. 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My Goods are all new and strict - first-c ill work guaran teed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbell & Templeton's Furniture Store. 342 S. Main St., - Butler, I'a. All light suits at reduced prices at THE RACKET STORE. $8 Suits Reduced to $5 10 Suits Reduced to 8 12 Suits Reduced to 10 THE RACKET STORE BOOKS FOR 25 CENTS! ALTEMUR ED., CLOTH AND SILVER. STANDARD WORKS. NEW ISSUES. EXAMINE THEM AT DOUGLASS'. Near I'ostoffice. SONGS MOTHER USED TO SING. X had listened, but his sermon Failed to reach my hard old heart. , He must be a powerful preacher r Who can make my tear drops start. But. I toll you, I was softened. ' And tho tears began to fall, When his voice was raised in singing Songs I loved when I was small— When his old voice swelled in singing Til it made the old church ring With the melodies my mother Used to sing! 1 recalled, while he was singing Those old songs so dear to me. The dear time of life's bright morning, When I sat on mother's knee. Soon my tears were faster flowing Than in all my life before, For I heard poor mother singing As she sans to me of yore. Oh, the peace that filled my bosom: All my cares and pains took wing While he sang the songs my mother Fsed to sing! Oh. I care not how hard-hearted Or ungodly you become; Care not whither you may wander. Whither you may n."- :e your hnme; Until death has closed your eyelids. To your memory will cling Those sweet melodies your mother Used to sing! —James Rowe, In Good Housekeeping. Mm* UNT JAKE!" i Wj/P* ~ , JBR "Well?" /. U:alls of his name. "I'm ready to guess I know where he's gone, though, ma'am," said the housekeeper. "I saw him go out the side gate an' roun' the back of the barn just after I got up. So I reckoned in my own mind he'd gone to the fair. Possessed about that balloon he was, all yesterday. Just liko boys, you know, ma'am," with a-look which con veyed an appeal for mercy for the criminal. But Aunt Jane set her lips together, thinking within herself that for a lady who had never done such a foolish thing as get married it was really rather hard to be bothered by the boys of other people. But as the hours wore on Miss Jane's hardness relaxed a little. She was uneasy at the thought of the scatter brained boy being at the fair, with no one to look after him. The quiet of the place seemed op pressive. She hud learned, scarcely realizing to herself, to like the sound of the careless shout and rattling talk, not to speak of the bright eyes which were so like those of her brother who left home so long ago as the result of a trifling quarrel, never to come back. "I believe I'll drive over to the fair grounds myself," she observed early in the afternoon. "I really wanted to get hold of a few of those premium Hubbard squash seeds. And this being the last day, I could likely get them." Jim was having a glorious time at the fair. He whipped a boy who was abusing a smaller boy, dashed in among a lot of horses to catch hold of one which was getting beyond the con trol of the woman who drove it, found a lost little girl and walked around with her for an hour in search of her friends, drank too much lemonade and ate too many peanuts, quarreled with some boys at a merry-go-round and got knocked off one of the wooden horses, rode a donkey in a race, and, after having been lavishly dined by the mamma of the found little girl, was fully ready to enjoy the balloon as cension. The crowd was oollecting around it, with the usual Inside fringe of boys; the very inside fringe being composed of those happy boys who (rtianced to have no one looking after them. Prominent among these was, of course, Jim. He balanced on the very edge of the hole in the ground in which was built a fire over which the balloon, in pro- Cess of being filled with hot air, bobbed and swayed ip a manner most exciting and aggravating to boys who could not get inside the more afid more closely-packed crowd. He conversed with the balloon man, offering to go up with him on that, or—remembering that he was now to look out for his own living—any other day. "Think you'd like it, do you?" said the man. "Yes, I know I should." "But I go on the trapeze, till I get clear up. Then I climb into the basket." "I'd do that," agreed Jim. "You let me try it." "I guess you'd better wai* a bit," This was disappointing; 'out Jim, re solved to learn all the ins and outs of balloon travel, continued to mix him self with matters in a way which brought upon him more than one rat ing from those engagedictlie inflation of the big toy. "All ready." "Hurrah! hurrah!" Cheers rang up from a thousand voices as at length the aeronaut threw off his outide clothing and ap peared in p suit of gayly colored tights. "Out of the way!" shouted a man, in a voice of dismay. The shout was for Jim. As the tra peze ropes which had been lying slack straightened out with the loosening of the huge ball from the confining cords, Jim felt a rasping along his neck, caused by a swiftly moving rope. Then it tightened, and. with a gasp, lie laid desperate hold of it above his head, as a half-noose cut cruelly into his neck. Cries of idnrm filled the air, but just now ringing with cheers. A dozen arms were reached out in attempt to help, but the boy had in one instant been jerked out of reach above tho heads of the crowd. "Hold on! hold tight!' - Frantic shrieks followed him. "Don't let go. or you'll be dashed to pieces. "Good fellow! Brave boy! Hold on!" The aeronaut had just time to let go his hold on the trapeze, his quick eyo at once perceiving l that his weight I i ■: b§ - « I />i 'Jmm HE CONVERSED WITH TUE BAI.I.CON MAN. on the rope would take away the last chance for the boy's life. At that moment there fell upon Jim's ear a familiar voice, raised to a pierc ing cry. "It's my boy! Mine—mine! Let him down! Give him to me!" And for one moment his terror stricken glance fell upon Aunt Jane's face—not cold and forbidding, but strained in an agony of tender fear. With a scream» of fright his eyes met hers in a frantic appeal for help—the help he knew she could not give. The chorus of excited voices mingled in a hollow roar, then died in silence as Jim went, up—up—still struggling with that cruel rope. At last he got it around one arm, then another, loosening that choking pressure about his throat. Another passing of the rope about liis arms, each one attended with fearful effort. The blood rushed to his head. There was a blackness before his eyes and a roaring in his ears. Another violent struggle for the lif* which s«emed so sweet no\v that It might be going from him. He gained another twist on the rope, and conld now draw a free breath. A frlance below turned him sick and giddy. As through a mist he got a glimpse of the distant landscape. He was moving on and up, a helpless speck between heaven and earth. Where was he going? When should he stop—and where? Would it be hours in which he must be held in this wise? Would darkness find him still drifting at the mercy of the wind? Then another thought came. Thts was being his own master—starting out to have his own way! What a wild longing seized him to be back among the quiet farm scenes which he had fiometimes found irksome! Even Aunt Jane's peculiarities could be borne. Bat how about that look caught from Aunt Jane's eyes? No coldness or in difference there, surelv. Along with a cry for help went a fer vent resolution to make better use of his life if the blessed opportunity should come. "He' 6 drifting over the lake." "Then that'll be the last of him." "No—not if he gets down before •lark." Excitement had run wild on the fair ground. Women cried and fainted, and men turned white, as the boy was carried beyond reach of possible help. Throats were hoarse with shout ing after him directions which could not be heard. Aunt Jane, beside herself with ex cited alarm, was taken in kindly hands, and conveyed home against her vigorous protest. "We'll bring you the news the first moment," she was assured. "We'll follow hitn up alid keep constant watch." Numbers of the country neighbors followed the slowly-moving balloon, which at no time rose beyond easy ob servation. Boats were had in readi aess as at length it hung over the lake. "It's coming down!" "What makes me feel so funny, tvhen I ain't hurt a bit?" Jim asked it when near the end of liis quick ride home, sitting on the bottom of a light buggy with his head an the seat. He was glad to lay it flown again after a look around. "No wonder you feel funny, mv lit tle chap." said his kindly caretaker. "No —you're not hurt, but it will take i few days of your aunt's nursing to jet you back where you were." And there she was —-Aun't Jane rush ing to meet him, witii a cry of thank fulness. As she clasped him in her &rms it might have occurred to both that they had found something which Ihey hail before been missing. If Aunt Jane had, she never said so. But in later years of his happy boy hood. Jiin sometimes said to himself: 'I had to go up iu a balloon to find out some things."—Christian Work. —ln Big Luck. —Otis De Smith—"You seem to be in high feather, Snobberly." Bnobberlv —"Ah, yaas, I am in high spirits! I've bad tremendous luck—al nost found a four-leafed clovah. don't per know. I found one with three leaves, bah Jove!" —Texas Siftings. She Will Die an Old Maid. Richard —By the way, how do you »nd Miss Smart get along? William —Oh! that affair Is all over. Richard—You don't mean it? William—You see, I'd made up my mind about a week ago to bring mat ters to a crisis. So I began by saying that I had a question I wanted to ask her. Richard—Yes. William —She tossed her head and said any fool could ask questions. Richard—And you? William —I merely told her perhaps it would be just as well, then, to let some fool ask my question.—Boston Transcript. Hardly Salted to the Occasion. Editor (looking over reporter's copy) —What's this! "Our esteemed fellow 1 citizen, Col. Jones, is believed to be at death's door?" Didn't we print a sketch of Col. Jones' career some time back? Look it up. and bring it up to date in case he should die to-night. Reporter (after an inspection of the flies) —Here it is, sir, but I'm afraid it won't do for an obituary. It was writ ten when wo were opposing Col. Jones for the legislature.—Life. An Important Post. Store Boy—Can't get off to-day. We're takin' an inventory of stock. Awful bus}*. Chum—Wot good are you in taking inventories? Store Roy—Good? I'm more impor tant than the head bookkeeper. I wash the flyspecks off last year's goods.— Good News. INTELLIGENCE OF FISH. Tourist —You told me the lake was full of fish, but I couldn't get a bite all day. Landlord—Well, you see. they have no faith in your bait. They Uiink that if you had anything de- .-ut to eat you would feed yourself. —Fliegende lilact ter. An Exception. "Was you at de weddln' ob Matilda Snowball?" "Yes, indeedy, I was dar. I enj'yed de ceremony werry much. I usually enj'ys it werry much, but dar is one young lady I wish I had nebber seed married." "Who kin she be?" "My wife; but don't tole her I said so."—Alex Sweet, in Texas Siftings. The Newest School. Patron —Can you tell what ails my wife? Doctor—She does not take enough outdoor exercise. "She does not feel like it." "True. She needs toning up." "What have you prescribed?" "A new bonnet."—N. Y. Weekly. An Obstacle. Little Bessie (the only child of her mother, who is a widow) —Don't you like me? C'astleton —Why, yes, my dear; what made you think I didn't? Bessie—Mamma said she didn't know but you would object to me. —N. Y. Herald. Those Endlcn* Questions. "Whose funeral is that?" "Gashwiler's." "What! Is Gashwiler dead?" "Not that I know of. He is probably riding around in the hearse ft>r the fun of the thing."—Truth. Naturally Follow*. "Higgamore can put all his house hold goods into one truck watgon." "Higga'norc is a sensitive soul, isn't he?" "Eh?" "So easily moved. See?"»—Chicago TVihnn.. THE ART OF SALTING Some tioo*l Advice for l'urmem Who Rot Small l>*lrlr». If those of our readers- who are making store butter or any cheap grade could follow it to the consumer they would be able to see things from another standpoint. And as it is a fact that most of the butter is still made on the farm and also that it is In ferior in quality as determined by the price received, the matter is surely worth locking into. Let us consider that portion of common dairy butter which is not classed as snap grease, but is clean and sweet and would have sold at creamery quotations but for defects which might have been reme died. The topic this time will be the salting. Of prime importance is the quality of the salt. Ordinary barrel salt is unfit for but ter. It is coarse, harsh, hard to dis solve and impure. This should be suf ficient to banish it entirely from the dairy, but it does not, and thereby a great loss is sustained. When the wholesaler gets a load of this butter he shaves it up thin and shokes out the salt. lie doesn't do this for noth ing. He then rechurns it in some skim milk to impart a flavor, for the water which took out the salt left it flat fla vored. Then he salts with good dairy salt, works and packs it and puts it on the market. All this is expensive, and even then the product is not as good as it would have been had this extra treatment been unnecessary. Under no circumstances use common salt Get the best dairy salt. The Gen essee is all right every time, and sev eral other kinds are also good. Some experts have a preference for one kind, some for another, but in the private dairy a salt which is not only pure and soft (so it will not tear the grain), but dissolves quickly, is desirable. This is because the temperature of the com mon farm dairy room is not under con trol, and the butter may be injured by simply standing for the "slow" salt to dissolve. On this account, the writer advises the farm butter-maker to learn to salt in the churn. It saves time, saves work, saves exposure frnd keeps the churn sweet, for salt is a germ killer with a power to keep sub stances from decomposition. Salt the butter as soon as washed. Sprinkle the salt over it, then slowly revolve the churn a few times and the salt and butter will be mixed. The moisture in the butter will speedily dissolve the salt, and then the surplus brine can be pressed out, and the but ter "is finished." Salting in the churn eaves working, for there will be no streaks to get rid of. But be sure the butter is in granular form when the salt is put in. If it is all in a lump then do as you please with it and be responsible for the result. It can b© made good butter, perhaps, but it is a ticklish job. a job calling for hard work, and few there be that succeed. There is no sense in taking these risks, for it always means unnecessary work, and generally cheap butter. In churn salting, use more salt, because the butter is very moist, and a given amount of salt will be in a more diluted solution than it would with less water. About ounces to the pound will give the same quantity of salt in the finished; butter as one ounce to the pound when salted on a worker. —Orange Judd Farmer. FOR COOLING MILK. A Bfoch Through WhU-li th© Air ( an Cir culate Freely. Cooling the milk as soon as possible after it has been taken from the cow is essential to successful dairying. In well-equipped dairies this is done by means of aerators, or by setting the milk in vessels containing fresh cold water. Where none of these means are at hand the same effect may be pro duced, although to a less degree, by using a bench such as is shown in the illustration. It can be of any conven ient length, and it will be handiest to BENCH FOB COOLING MILK, have it just wide enough to hold two rows of cans, pails or whatever vessels are used for cooling the milk. Make it as you would the frame of an ordi nary home-made bench, putting in one support running lengthwise, half way between the two long pieces which connect the legs. Crosswise over this frame stretch heavy strong wires about an inch apart and staple them t'> the side pieces and also to the center piece. Light, narrow strips of iron placed at regular intervals will also answer the purpose. The two rows of vessels will then be placed up on metal having no chance to touch the wooden frame and the air will come in contact with all sides of them. The bench must be kept in a cool place.—Orange Judd Farmer. DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. A LOSS of appetite and a drooping head are among the first indications of illness in the cow. REMEMIIKK, it is the very best butter that brings the highest price, not that which is only average in quality. WHILE wheat bran is a good feed lor milk cows, it should always be fed with stronger grain to secure the best results. IT is a point in handling cream not to allow it to become 100 sour, for the butter takes and keeps the flavor of the cream. To SECURE the best development with a young heifer she should not be bred for a second calf until her first calf is at least lour months old. THE temperature for churning, ac cording to the standard rule, is from 58 to 03 degrees, but different cream often requires a different temperature. Cows THAT are imperfectly milked from whatever cause, either careless or imperfect milking from the fault of the milker, or from the difficult task by reason of the anatomical construc tion of the udder, soon degenerate into worthless animals. —Farmers Voice. Cheaper. Nodd—l thought you were going tg> get up a fair to pay off your church debt. Todd—We were. Hut the congrega tion heard of it and made up the amount at once.—N. Y. Herald. Correct. Little Orpheus—Say, pa, what Is a banquet? Pater —A banquet, my boy, is a place where bodies are stuffed and brains are starved.—Arkausaw Traveler. Resigned to the Depression. Smythe—Do the hard times affect your business? Landlady (theatrical boarding-house) —Not at all; my boarders wouldn't pay anyhow. —Raymond's Monthly. A U>MOD In Manner*. Little Boy—How long have you had that doll? Little Miss—This is a girl doll, an' you ouglin't to ask her age. —(rood News. Her View of It. She —I don't see how anybody can like caviare. It's a depraved taste, He —No, it's a cultivated taste. She —Well, that's the same thing.— Life. Iler Children. Justice O'Halloran—Have you any children. Mrs. Kelly? Mrs. Kelly—l hov two livin' an' wan married. —Boston Home Journal. A NEW INSECTICIDE. Thought to He More effective and Desir able Than Pari* Green. A new and important discovery in the domain of pomology has been made by F. C. Moulton, of the gypsy moth commission. Maiden. Mass. Arsenate of lead was the substance used which was prepared by dissolving 11 ounces of acetate of lead and 4 ounces of arsen ate of soda in 150 gallons of water. These substances quickly dissolve and form arsenate of lead, a fine white powder which is lighter than paris green and while being fully as effective in its operation in destroying insect life is far preferable for several reasons. If by any means the mixture happens to be used stronger than necessary to destroy insect life, even three or four times the necessary strength, it in no wise injures the foli age of the plants upon which it is sprayed. This is a great thing in its favor, for frequently in using pari* green for potato beetle larvro and for the cotilin worms, as much injury re sults from the poison burning the foli age as would result from the insect if let alone. This Is a better insecticide than paris green under all circumstances and for all insects, says Prof. Fernald. It has the advantage of being readily seen on the leaves, so that one can tell at a glance which have and have not been sprayed, which is often of great con venience. Being lighter than paris green, It does not settle so quickly, and, as a result, can be distributed more evenly over the foliage. A great objection to the use of paris greec. is the liability of using an overdoae, and thereby injuring the foliage of the {ilants sprayed. With the arsenate of ead, it can be used, If necessary, In the proportion of 25 pounds to 150 gal lons of water without injury to the foliage. Prof. Fernald advises the ad dition of 2 quarts of glucose, or if that cannot be obtained 2 quarts of molas ses to each 150 gallons of water, used for the purpose of causing the Insecti cide to adhere to the leaves. He says the experiments last season show that the Insecticide will remain on the trees for a long time, even after quite heavy rains, and we Infer, prove effective. The cost of these chemicals is given at 8 cents per pound for arsenate of soda and 14 cents for acetate of lead, at wholesale. It should be borne in mind that these substances are all poison ous, and should be used with as great care as paris green. THE ART OF GRAFTING. Bark and Rind Grafting and the Cleft Method Explained. There is occasion for grafting, now and then, on almost any place, small as well as large. We like to test fruits; but we do not like to continue raising poor varieties year after year. The poor varieties, just as soon as their in ferior character becomes known, must ?'ive way to good ones, or to others for rial. We have hundreds of varieties of tree fruits. As they come into bear ing and are found to be worthless, cions are to be inserted the very next spring. Consequently there will be need of this operation almost every year for years to come. With grape vines it is only different In so far as we already know what we want to keep, and what varieties we desire to ex change for better ones. We can do all our grape grafting In the spring and have done with it almost forever. Grafting, of course, Is the quickest method of getting a good tree or vine In place of a worthless one. At the end of May for instanoe it is rather late for the operation, yet we can succeed well enough provided we have the cions, and these should not have started far into growth. The grape oions, indeed, must be perfectly dor mant. Good cions, however, often do better when inserted into wood afCer growth is started than at any other period. The trees to be operated on might have been head down in autumn or during early winter. We have usu ally employed the ordinary graft meth od. The accompanying illustration (reduced from Garden work) repre sents at the left a grafted limb, tied and waxed. The wax or clay is spread on the amputated part (A) of the stock, on the wound (E) at the junc tion of the cion with the stock, and on top of the cut cion (0). The terminal bud (U) is not covered, nor the embed ded bud (Y) in the incision. Bark or rind grafting, as shown at the right of illustration, is usually as successful as cleft grafting and often more convenient, and perhaps better for the future health of the tree. If the stock is large, a number of cions cut to resemble the specimen shown at the extreme right may be Inserted. To avoid irregular splits in the bark, a longitudinal incision (D) may be made in the bark. This will not only facilitate the sliding of the cion (0), but also permit the others to be at case. After tying the crown of the stock, top of cions and front and back on the bark of the stock, may bo waxed or clayed. Clay and fresh cow mauure. well mixed together and made soft like putty, is often used in Europe in place of wax for covering- grafts.— American Gardening. SAWDUST IS not A bad mulching ma terial for fruit treeu and small fruits, especially after it has been used for bedding horses. NEVER weary of welldoing und spray* Ing, at least not until the fruit is out of danger from insects and disease. A Wlic Scarecrow. "I say," said the tramp to the scare crow, '"let's swap clothes." "Not I," said the scarecrow. "Fact is, it would never do." "Why not?" said the tramp. "Well, the crows, seeing me, are scared. They think I'll run after 'em. Hut if they thought I was like you they'd know I'd rather fall asleep. I tell you, old man, crows know a thiug or two. They judge by appearances." —Harper's Young People. Helping rap*. A minister's wife was starting out for a walk and invited her little daugh ter to go with her. "Xo, mamma, 1 can't," was the very positive reply. "Why not?" '"I have to help papa." "Help papa! In what way?" "Why, he told me to sit here in this corner and keep quiet while he wrote his sermon, and 1 don't believe he is half done yet."—Washington Star. Wauted Uli Name Chanced. "Well, John," said the judge to a pigtail celestial, "what can I do for you?" "Want to gette name changed." "What's your name now?" "Sing Sing. No goodee. Gette changed to Walbee Twice." "To 'Warble Twice?'" "Yey. All same Sing Sing."—Te*aa No. 33. A BENEVOLENT BARON. lit* Big Winning* on the Turf Distribute* Among the Poor. Rather more than a year since, says the London Telegraph, we gave a list of the charitable donations bestowed by Baron de Hirsch in 1893 upon the hospitals. homes and benevolent instl* tutions which he had selected as recip ients of the large sums of money won by him upon the turf in public stakes in 1891 and 1803. In the first of these years the baron won about £85,000 and in the second year about $175,000, in cluding such small items as moneys paid to the secoud In selling races and the prizes attaching to second and third places in general races. Altogether the sum amounted to about $210,000. and this munificent gift represented the baron's gross winnings in public stakes, from which no deduction was made for theexpenseof training a large stud of horses, for traveling charges, forfeits, stakes, jockey's fees and other items comprised in the large and swollen bills with which owners of race horses are but too familiar. It was universally admitted that the for tunate owner of the famous mnre La Fleche. by whom the greater portion of the above named large sum was won, had displayed great generosity in friving away all his winnings for charitable purposes without subtract ing his expenses. What is to be said, however, when, as in the present in stance, the example set by the baron in 1893 is not only followed but dupli cated in 1894? During the racing sea son which close in November last Baron de Dlrsch's horses won in public stakes about 837,500. This seemed to him, and to the kindly almoner through whom In both cases the baron's bounty has flowed, to be but a small sum for distribu tion in comparison with the no ble contribution to London charities made in the previous year. Under these circumstances the baron re marked that, without establishing a precedent, he had made up his mind to double the sum that his gross winnings amounted to in 1893, and accordingly he drew a check for 875,000, which he handed to his friend for distribution. It was his wish that this sum should be divided among London hospitals and charitable institutions, and 866,500 was thus disposed of, the balanoe remain ing having been reserved for sundry smaller calls. ST. PAUL'S INSURANCE. Nearly Half a Million In Money-Many Precautions Taken Agalnit Lightning. St. Paul's cathedral is insured, says "Spare Moments." Out of the total proceeds of the fabric fund, for keep ing the building in repairs, about 86,000 a year—Bl,2so is expended on a policy of insurance against fire. The church is insured to the extent of 8495,000. 80 far as human precautions are of avail, the cathedral Is secure against light ning on a scientific plan which was suggested by the Royal society, as far back as 1769. The seven iron scrolls which support the ball and cross, are connected with other rods, used as conductors, whioh unite them with several large iron bars descending obliquely to the stone work of the lantern, and connected bv an iron ring, with four other iron bars to the leaden covering of the great uipola. a distance of fifty feet. Thenoe ttie communication is continued down ward by the rainwater pipes to the lead-covered roof, and thence again by leaden water pipes which pass down into the earth, partly through iron, and partly through lead. On the clock tower, looking down Ludgate Hill, a bar of iron connects the pineapple or namentation at the top with the iron staircase which leads up to it inside, and thence to the lead on the roof oi ths church. The bell tower at the northwest an gle is similarly protected. By thesA lueens the metal used In the building is made available for the work of con ductors, the metal itself being em ployed merely for that purpose, being exceedingly small in quantity when compared with the bulk of the fabric which it serves to secure. AN ARMLESS NIMROD. Bag* More Game Than Any Other Hunter in the Same County. An armless Nlmrod is the wonder of the people and the envy of the sports men of Bucks county, says the Phlla? delphia Record. He Is John Simon, of Zion Hill, and his prowess is some thing marvelous. Simon's arms were ground off above the elbows in ma chinery a few years ago, but his lovG of hunting spurred his ingenuity, and he overcame his seeming insurmounta ble obstacle. He straps his single-bar rel, breech-loading hammerless gun io nis right arm, and when he sights game he swings the piece over ths stump of his left arm, takes quick aini and fires, generally with telling effect. His mode of loading is as uniae as his shooting. He carries the shells in his hat, and when he wants one bows low, drops his hat on the ground, pulls ou{ the ampty shell with his teeth and in & similar manner loads, then pushing his head into his hat to re-cover hfl head. Despite his affliction, Simon has done some of £he best shooting in Bucks county the past year, his record Standing: Sixteen opossums, flvs pheasants, five dozen blackbirds, thirty- Seven rabbits and twenty-one quail. Tramping (or • Purpose. An amusing story is told of the late Prof. Henry Morley. Some years ag6 when the "slumming" boom was occu pying general attention he was ftC cos ted one day by a peculiarly emaciat ed and ragged Individual, who solicited Aid in moving terms. Prof. Mor lev, who was proof against such pe titions, responded with a silver collL "Thank you, Prof. Morleyi I'm inuOQ obliged," su!d the man. "You know pie, eh?" 4 'Yes, I attended your leC- Sures at King's College in 1860." "Pea#, oar, I'm sorry to see you in this state," "Not at all, my dear professor, I am doing some articles for my paper, and the editor insists on my making my ffy* searches in character, will you dine with me to-night?" and he handed a card bearing a well-known name. Collecting; Statistics. A northern gentleman asked an old negro, who was the driver of a cart to ■which was attached a venerable mule: "How old is the mule, my colored friend?" "He am like yersef, boss, pretty well on in life." "But how many years?" "Same as you, boss, only two."— Alex Sweet, in Texas Siftings. And He Had Nothing to Say. Husband—Now, I think this is going too far. You promised me you would countermand your order for that dress. Wife—l wrote that very day. "But here Is the dress and the bill for it—enough to bankrupt me, almost. How do you explain that?" "I gave you the letter, and suppose you forgot to post it, as usual."—An swers. A Thorough Confession. "Herbert," she said, "tell me one, thing, and tell mo truthfully. Were you ever Intoxicate* 4 ''" "Well," replied the young man, "I •was air-tight once." "What