VOX. 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 tiling in its way. The PHOENIX guarantee cov ers every point, but the best point of all is the fact that repairs or claims tor de fective parts constitute an exceedingly small per centage of our cost ot manu facture. For catalogue and other information address, THE STOVER BICYCLE Mf g. Co. PREEPORT, ILL., or J. E. FORSYTHE, -Agent. BUTLSa PA. Mrs. Jennie E. Zimmerman Wonderful Bargains For Fall and Winter. NO HIGH TARIFF RATES HERE! We rejoice with the people that the tariff question is at last settled, and we are pre- I pared to meet all demands for Fall and Winter Good, with than i ever and quality over and above anything we have ever shown. In DKESS GOODb, Ladiea and Children's Wraps, Millinery, and alao in Blankets Flannels. urns and Woolens of all kinds. Hosiery and Underwear for men. Women and Children; F-ne Iriminings, consisting of Jets, Lace, Braid, Ruttons, and Fnr Trimming*, all new and late designs. Note a few prices given below: 25c. 50e. 50e. Real value - ' 40c. Regular price - «sc. K»'al value - <ac. 50c. 75c. 60c 40-lncU Silk and wool Mixtures. Black Falle HI Ik pure silk. Fancy Silks for Wajtta.Trim new and novel designs, width, 20 inches. mlags, ncw , Regular price - 65c. Actual value - *I.OO Heal v alue - Tsc. Linens Blankets & Flannels- Ail-Wool Flannels. Bargains In Damask. Napkins, illver Giey BlaDkelg.COc per Beat Country AU-Wool Flan Towels, Crush. Stamped pair; real vatue. 7M. Beat All- netaln BuOerfor Linens. Wool Country Blankets, value, „5c jrer jard. (5.00, our price 13.n0. Oat Domestic Department is as usual full to overflowing, wit everything ncw, staple and novel. Our reputation is firmly established for best grades and lowest priced Domostics offered in the citv. Wo mean to maintain our good record in this and all olDer departments. Space lorbids a detailed price list in this as well as our Millinery and Wrap Departments. We respectfully ask you to call and see us, and we will convince you. The place to get the best values for the least money is at The Leading Dry Goods, Milliner] and Wrap House of Butler. MRS J E ZimMERMAW. FALL FOOTWEAR. jgJf. your eyes in opon the fine die ■ p ' a y , ' ie ueweßt nr, d most elegant styles in Footwear you have ever loob 'J ed upon in Butler tLat we are now of fering to the public, I * 1- —1 We are now prepared to terve all li buyers that want good, suitable Foot I town, quality considered Tbe - people of Butler county know our f" I 1 ] word and guarantee is sufficient on any _ j shoe we offer, as time li uh proven. ~lf you are looking for Ladies Shoes see our 15 ar d 95c $1.25 eDd $1 50;f" P "nd l'jofe at 'he $2, $2.50 and $3, as fine as silk, in Blucheretts and Button, Narrow and Square Toe, all widths IF YOU WANT MENS SHOES Yon have got to the right place at last, either in working shoes or fine dress shoes Fine lines at 85c, 903, $1,51.25 and $1 50; wait a moment and see tbe $2 and $2 50 shoe in London, Gl >b;>, Yale and St I.ouis toes Nothing like them in Butler Well if you want SCHOOL. 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MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owner. M. H. BROOKS, Clerk. lUTTLER, PA..THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 181)4. "It will be brought out in the court, this nice little ride and everything." ; chirped Mrs. Minny. "like the chops and tomato sauce in Dickens, and everybody will think me dreadful." "You are very thoughtless," he said, coldly. "Ntfw, please don't be cross," her pretty motith quivered and her eyes filled" "just as We were having such a lovely time. I can't help being jolly because I don't have to go back to him. ■You know I thought how sorry you'd ! £e when I died of a broken heart and : his meanness and you'd come to 6ee me , in my coffin. The Troublesome little j la<iy would be troublesome no more, [ but still and quiet as you'd like her to be. and old and sorrowful, for one day of my old life with him would take all the youtigness out of me. Perhaps your conscience would hurt you a little because you had driven me back, for I would not have come but for you. The thought that your kindness to me would injure, your good name made mo miserable. Dr. John wrote how your political prospects would be ruined— political prospects is right, is it not?— tftad you couldn't be governor or any thing.'' "Minny, say no more," cried Olivej, | his voice trembling, "my dear little girl. It breaks my heart. Dr. John was cruel to write such nonsense; he was too eager to serve me. 1 don't want office; and I would face the slan- : der of the world to spare you a mo ment's pain." She trembled so at his words he j stopped in the midst of a sentence, re proaching himself for his lack of self control. They were silent a few n\o falents; then she said, with her old smile: "Now we've made up —haven't we? —and you are just as nice as you were ! that night, so please may my dog run j a little on the snow?" "Of course." he said, and set free the j small animal, who darted after birds, j barking joyously. Among- the dis- j comforts of having an erratic mistress wore long confinement in cold dark cart and surreptitious journeyings un der shawls and in baskets; so in these latter days of sudden journeys and im prisonment Skye had grown to prize his hours of freedom. Perhaps in his heart, though, he willingly endured nights in the baggage-car for the joy of being rid of that red-faced, black eyed something who slept so much and tvhom he must never waken with a happy bark or jump. How many times on account of that red-faced thing who cried had his darling's aunt scouted him out of doors with a broom, saying: "Scat, you dog! there, you've tvaked the baby again." Now his dear j3oi*tress was like her old self, and he, Skye, though he never would tell, had seen Miss Hannah and that baby slink fag away from the house in Maine like criminals, and he had never noticed their departure by one small bark, for fear they might return. "I am very hungry," said Mrs. Minny as the carriage turned back to the city, "and, as my dog is hungry too, it would be a good idea for you to take us to & private room in some restaurant, where we can feed Skye on the carpet when the waiter is out." There was nothing to do, of course, but to accede to this demand: the very fa<?t that she was hungry appealed to Oliver's generous heart. lie thought, however, as they went up the stairs to a cozy private supper-room, this would soutid unpleasantly to a jury. lie could even fancy the attorney for the prosecution's question: "Did you, Mr. Oliver, think this proceeding a proper one? Does society consider it discreet for an unmarried man to take a young married lady to such a place in the ab sence of her husband?" etc. Still, Mrs. Minny enjoyed everything so much, Oliver forgot his fears, and was merry enough in his way. The dog, gorged with food, showed off his most amus " 4- 4' " I THINK HE 18 HKAI.I.Y GETTING FOJTD OF YOU," SHE SAID, TENDERLY. Ing tricks, which Mrs. Minny admitted he never would do before when stran gers were present. "I think he is really getting fond of you," she said, tqnderly. Oliver, aware of the silliness of it, but pleased at that trustful glance, said he hoped so. He left Mrs. Minny at a hotel, regis tering her name and ordering a good room for her, then with almost a sense of relief walked to another hotel, a longdistance tuvay. He hoped the spy might be following; once or twice he looked behind, but there seemed no one. At his hotel a telegram awaited him. It was from a clerk in his office: "Dr Achorn telegraphed from Pueblo to you In Denver, 'Henri do Restaur died this morn ing at the Insane asylum. Funeral la Denver.' I telegraphed him you were in Chicago." A second telegram was brought Oli ver just as he was going to bed; it was from Dr. John: "Tell Mrs. de Restaud. They need not come on—too late for funeral. Was unconscious, left no message. Glad you are with them. "JOHN ACHORN." Death had released the suit for di vorce; it would never bo brought, and the vengeance of a crazed brain was over. With a quick beat of his heart Oliver realized Mrs. Minny was free at last; perhaps she could learn to care for him some day—with a swift repul sion as he thought of the dead far across the plains. Yet for once death had been kind to the living, and who j was there to mourn Henri de Restaud? j His mother died in his boyhood, his , father drove him from France, his wife hated and feared him, his child would never see his face, and his servants were only kept by lavish payments. So men may qiakc a mockery of living, a shame of days, may be blots on this fair earth, useless in a useful world, may cause but pain and sadness, and go into eternity more friendless, more wretched in their self-inflicted degra- , dation, than the outcast dog slinking through the alleys of a city. CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Minny was oddly pale and quiet when Oliver met her in the hotel par lor. She looked as if she had not slept: and at'the pain' he had caused her. Of course she had worried about her strange position and the trouble in Denver on account of it. He could tell her at least the fear of the divorce was over. Death had set tled the case. Yet it was hard to tell her of that death. He hesitated, and talked of the weather. "It is always horrid in Chicago," she said, mournfully. "I shall hate this hotel, too: they would not let me have Skye in my room; they put him in some cellar, and he was not like himself when I took him for a little walk be fore you came." Oliver had a bunch of roses he had bought for her on his way, but it seemed even heartless to offer them to such an afflicted being. However, he sat down beside her on the sofa and laid the flowers on her lap. "Thank you," she said, mournfully. "I don't think I ought to wear them. The chambermaid asked me if I was a skirt-dancer." The gloom settled on Oliver now. "She impudent," he said, cross ly. "You see how impossible it is for a young lady to go to hotels alone." "Well, .you didn't offer to come with me," she sighed; "you even went to another hotel. Oh, I know! I looked for you in the register." "You were down in the office?" "I had to go down for my dog and to tell them how mean they were," Mrs. Minny said, wearily. "And you don't know what an awful great ghostly room they gave mc, full of closets and SHE LOOKED AT HIM WICKEDLY. wardrobes and places for people to hide. I burned the gas all night and I had drSadful dreams." She bowed her head over the flowers and sighed again. "Roses make me think of funerals; do tljey you?" "I am sorry I troubled you with th«fh," Oliver said, stiffly. ''Now you are cross, and you've got that little wrinkle on 3'our forehead." She looked at him thoughtfully. ,r When you are smiling I think you are the kindest friend in the world. I guesS I am cross myself. Do you know, I dreamed Henri came into that room last night. The bathroom had a lit tle window looking into the room, and I dreamed he looked through this at me and made dreadful faces. He used to frighten me that way once"—she blushed and hung her head then, and J - as silent a moment —"when we were rst married, you know. He'd wake me up by staring at me —testing the power of the eye, he called it. I was afraid, anyway, because my mother had just died, and I had never seen a dead person before. I can see her yet m her coffin, so dreadfully waxen and strange. Henri swore once over the Bible that if he died first he would come back and haunt me. After that dream I couldn't sleep, but lay shiver ing with fear until daylight. I must go away from here to-day. Another night in that room would frighten me to death." She trembled so at the thought, Oli ver felt his task doubly difficult. "Don't you think," he asked, gently, "that those fears are very childish?" "Of course," she said, briefly,"l know I am not sensible; you, Aunt Hannah and Dr. John call me frivolous; yet I have tried to do right. I came here on my way to save your good name, and I get scolded. I tried to go home once, the time I was so sick; and even Aunt Han nah said I was brave then. When my horse ran away in Maine I held on, and that red-headed young man said I was game." She looked at him wickedly out of the corner of her eye. A little smile curved her pretty mouth as she saw the wrinkle on his forehead. "I wish that you could be serious for a little while," Oliver muttered. "I want to talk to you about something that concerns your future—something that has happened." OHver hesitated now; how could he tell her? She listened with her eyes on the carpet, a doleful expression on ' her face. He went off on a new tack. In an easy conversational tone he asked: "Would you not like to live in France?" "No," she said, promptly; "1 should hate it." "Why?" "Because—because," answered Mrs. Minny, picking viciously at one of her roses, scattering the petals on the floor: 'from Henri's descriptions his relations must be horrid. Then he or they think America queer and not nice: everything is France. I should be mad a hundred times a lay. The English up in the park used to say: 'This blarstcd country, you know,' un til 1 felt like saving: 'Why don't you go back to England and stay there?' To the De Itcstauds I should be the un pleasant foreigner our poor son mar ried; in my own country I am myself, an American. I think it is very mean of you to talk about my going to France; and if that is the serious thing you needn't talk any more. I f you are going to bo horrid I think I shall go out and take my dog for a walk." How sweet she was in her willful ness! Oliver f:.rgot his errand, looking at the lovely childish face with its pouting mouth and rebellious eyes. "I think you are cruel to my poor rose," he said, softly. "You are cruel to me." "Minny," ho drew nearer and took in his firm warm clasp her little hand, "I must tell you something—something that will shock and grieve you. Try and be brave." "Not the little baby?" she cried, pit eously. "He is not dead?" "No, no; but some one is dead —one that you feared, almost hated, and now must forgive and try to think kindly of—the man whose name you boar—" She gave a frightened cry and hid her face against his sleeve. He could feel her tremble and quiver, but she made no sound. What must he do? Would she faint? llow did women act, anyway? Ho put his arm around the cowering figure and tried to look into her face. She was ghastly pale, in her eyes a curious frightened look. "My dream, Mr. Oliver!" she cried, shuddering. "Oh, he will keep his word; he will haunt me always. ' I shall ffo mad from fear. Last uijrht that was him. He looked just as he used to when he woke me up making faces. I am all alone. What shall I do? Oh. if Aunt Hannah were only here! I could creep up to her in the night. She is so brave; she said she wouldn't be afraid of hira, living 1 or dead." "Mlnny, you are talking foolishly," said Oliver, sternly. "No dead person comes back. I am ashamed of ybu. And to be so silly, so heartless, when that poor soul is lying dead!" "You don't know anything about the dead; no one does," she gasped. "My grandfather was drowned at sea. and that night he came and knocked at grandmother's door —his old knock — three times. Even Aunt Hannah says that story's true. I can't be sorry— truly, I can't. I was afraid all the time; and he was so dreadful. I gave him all mamma's money, and he took her jewels, everything of value. lam not a hypocrite, Mr. Oliver; I can't make up sorrow just to please you." "1 don't want you to," he whispered, close to her ear. They were alone in a corner of the big room, and no one could see. "I spoke hastily because I hated to think of that dream and how you would make yourself believe he came back." She drew away from him Indig nantly. "I am not a child, Mr. Oliver, and you must not treat me as ohe. In some things, in suffering and worry, I am older than you are; and few women could come out unscathed from the horrors of that ranch. I did. I kept my reason because I was frivolous and had mv little dog to love, and a bright sunshiny day would chase all my night terrors away. I'd say, 'Min ny, it's good just to be alive.' But al ways I have been afraid in the dark; when I was a child queer faces used to peer at me, faces circled in yellow light. As I grew older. I was more afraid of them, and slept in a lighted room. At the ranch Henri used to cfrawl up tbe porch and peer in the window* with a mask on, until I shot one night; then it was not so funny. It amused him to torture me. I won't tell you any more, because you can't understand. But I shall not go to Den ver. It would be a mockery." "Dr. John telegraphed you need not —you must not come. Shall I tell you any more?" "No." She rose and scattered the petals of one of her flowers on the car pet, brushing her dress with a tremb ling hand. "Nor will I put on black. I shall go home. What is my home, Mr. Oliver?" she cried, accusingly. "Yon have brought me here: I was do ing your bidding. My-aunt has left me; she has taken my baby. The man I married is dead: he has no interest in me but to haunt me. Everybody is gone. I who have made all the trouble am left to bear it alone. If she comes back she will know of this —my being here; she will distrust me; even Dr. John will. I seem to have grown old and wise, and, oh! so tired of the world!" "Come here, Minny," he said, in a strange tone. She started and looked Into his face. It had a different ex pression somehow, yet the gray eyes were very kind, and there was a tender smile about his mouth. She hesitated, then she- returned to the sofa, sitting gingerly at the extreme end. He turned so as to face her, but sat no nearer. "Minny, we are both culprits—inno cent ones. We have been punished long enough. If I thought—but lam twice your age, you have not been happy in bondage, and it would be bondage still, though a loving one. No red-haired young men in it, no wild journeys alone, no drawing back when once entered in. If I dared to dream, I would hope that you cared for me. I would say, Minny, I love you; let us go away from our troubles and have a long vacation. It is dreadful to talk this way In tbe shadow of death, but I cannot let you go back to Maine alone or to the terrors there in that lonely house. I do not know where your aunt Is, or when she will return; and it people should talk of this time, I could silence them If you were my frife." She was strangely quiet, but he saw the roses tremble on her breast. "You talk, CraijJ," she said, sadly, "as If this were part of your sacrifice for helping me once, for being a kind friend." "How cruel women can be—even the sweetest of them! How can I be dif ferent, when I must remember the dead in Denver? Yet, Minny, I could talk love to you: other women have said I did that thing well, and I did nr care for them; your little finger is more precious to me than all the wom en I have ever known." She sighed and moved a little nearer, a blush on her fair cheek. "Even to touch you, to take your hand, seems dreadful," he cried, hasti ly. "What a coward custom makes of us all! If it were a year, now, instead of a day. Let the worst come." He took her cold little hand in his and drew her to- his side. "Shall we go forth on our holiday, Minny, leaving no address, forgetting the past, and be as if the world were new and we but just created?" "You talk nicely now," she said, slowly, holding herself erect and state ly In spite of his restraining hand, "but you said, bondage, and that has frightened me. I have been scolded so much and driven about; I want to be loved and made a friend of. If you would be as sweet as on that ride, if you—" He drew her close and pressed his lips against that soft round cheek, blushing so prettily now. "Try me, Minny. I swear to you those dear eyes shall never shed tears from-any word or act of mine. I have loved you since you came out in the light that dismal night and I thought you a little girl." "And I loved you," she whispered, lifting her tousled head from his arm, "when you looked so disgustedly amazed at things in that ranch that I told you, and all of a sudden smiled on me as you are smiling now. Craig, I mean to try and be grown-up and good always." "No, no; just be yourself. And, now, dear, go smooth your hair and get your things on. We will be married in the quietest way. I know a couple of fel lows I can get for witnesses; we can pick them up on the road." She jumped up, all rosy and smiling. At the door she looked back. "May I take the dog, Craig?" she said, hesitat ingly- He smiled. "Of course," he said, re signedlj'. "You don't have to ask 'may I?' we are comrades, you know. By the way, tell the chambermaid to pack your trunk. Pay licr. We will go away in the early afternoon. I want to be free from ajl memories." [TO BE CONTINUED.J The Perils of Parentage. Young Wife —Oh, George! there's smallpox |n town, they say. What In the world would we do If baby should catch It? Young Husband —By Jove! I hadn't thought of that. Let's go and both be vaccinated right away.—Life. The People Stared. Mrs. Spendcash (Ilie possessor of a new Worth costume) —Did you notice how people stared at us last evening? nusband (meekly)—Y-e-s; I made a mistake and had mended my old dress coat with white thread. —N. Y. Weeklv. CAUTIOUSNESS OF ELEPHANTS. The Anliu.l'a Acutcnew la Hid den D»ugrr*. One elephant, which the officer com manding' six-eleven Imttery of the Itoyal artillery lent to assist in extricating some camels which were being engulfed in the quicksands, showed an amount of sagacity which was positively mar velous. It was with the utmost diffi culty, says a foreign exchange, that we Could get him to go near enough to at tach a drag rope to one camel I wanted to rescue. In spite of our Wing about fifty yards from the bank of the river, he evinced the greatest anxiety, while, his movements were made with ex treme caution. Despite coaxing, persuasive remon strance, and, at last, a shower of heavy blows dealt upon his head by the exas perated muhout, this elephant stub bornly refused to go where he was wanted, but, with his trunk shoved <snt' in front of him, kept feeling his way with his ponderous feet, placing them before him slowly, deliberately and methodically, treading all tho while with the velvety softness of a cat and taking only one step at a time. Then suddenly he would break out into a, Suppressed kind of shriek and retreat backward in great haste. When the animal had nearly com pleted a circuit of the groynd with the Aame caution and deliberation, he ad- 1 vanced to within ten yards of the poor camel, but not another inch would he move, though several men were walk ing between him and the camel with out any signs of the ground giving way. THE CAMEL MARKET. One of the Qae«r Scene* Witnessed tn T*rt»ry. I had occasion to visit Tartary some years ago, said a New Haven man re cently, and while there nothing Inter ested me more than watching the na tives trade in camels. The camel mar;, ket la a large square in the center of the town. Here the animals are ar ranged in long rowi, their front feet raised on a mud elevation constructed l for the purpose, the object being td show off the sire and height of the. creatures. The uproar and confusion iof this market is tremendous, with the' Incessant howling of the buyers and pellers as they dispute, their chatter ing after they have agreed and the horrible shrieking of the animals at having their noses pulled for the pur l pose of making them show their agility in kneeling and rising. In order to test the strength of the camel and the burden it is capable of bearing they make it kneel and then pile one thing after another upon its back, causing it to rise under each addition until it est} rise no longer. Another expedient used to test the strength of the animal Is this: While the animal is kneeling a man gets upon his hind legs ana holds on by the long hair of its hump. If a camel can rise then it is consid ered an animal of superior strength. An Appropriate Motto. Upon the Temple clock in London is a singular inscription, the origin of which is said so have been a lueky ac cident. About two hundred years ago a master workman was employed to repair and put a new face upon the clock. When his work was nearly done he asked the benchers for an ap propriate motto to carve upon the base. They promised to think of on 6. Week after week he came for their de cision, but was pnt off. One day he found them at dinner in commons. "What motto shall I put on the clock, your lordship?" he asked of a learned judge. "Oh, go about your business!" nis honor cried, angrily. "And very suitable for a lazy, dawdling gang! the clockmaker is said to have mut tered as he retreated. It is certain that he carved: "Go about your busi ness" on the base. Russian Marriage Laws. A newly issued blue-book on mar riage and divorce abroad, contains one fact amongst many others not general ly known in this country. By the laws of Russia a man or woman must marry before eighty years of age or not marry at all, and they are also prohibited from marrying more than four times. *The blue-book is naturally full of in formation as regards the "prohibited" degrees. The Brazilian law permits the marriage of uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, first cousins and of brothers in-law with sisters-ln-law. In Italy the uncle and niece alliance is valla, and In France it is open to the presi dent to remove the prohibition against marriages between the deceased wife's lister and her brother-in-law, and be tween uncle and niece and aunt and nephew. lie Never Came Back. A London lawyer, now prominent in his profession, in his yauth was a mid shipman. In this capacity he was left in charge of the ship, as she lay off a Spanish port, all his superiors being on shore. Some of the sailors begged to go ashore, and he let them, oh the bromlse that they would bring him back some oranges. One of them dis appeared, and the midshipman suffered consequently for it. More than twenty years afterward the ex-midshipman was looking in a shop window in the Strand, when he seemed to know the face of a weather-beaten man, who was doing the same thing. Suddenly he remembered, and put his hand on the other's shoulder. "My man," he said, "you have been a long time aftpf those oranges!" The sailor recognized tim, in turn, grew white and took to is heels. She Put It Onto Illm. A doctor related the following to a friend after visiting a widowed neigh bor: "While we were conversing I pnt toy hand on a cushion and said: ow, this is the nicest, softest place I fever had my hand on in .11 my life! Looking benevolently at me, and at the same time flushing up a little said, in melting and winning tones: 'Doctor, give me your hand, and I'll put it on i much softer place.' In a moment 0i rapture, I consented, and taking my hand, she gently, very gently, Tim. and quietly, laid It on my head, and burst into a langh that's ringing In my ears yet." Glvln g Tommy the Better Part. The Teacher—lt is better, far better to give than receive. Now, Johnny, you may tell me what you mean to dp toward following out this beautiful rule. Johnny —I'll let brother Tommy do all the givin' when either of us has somethln' good.—Chicago Record. Kindly Consideration. Miss Verdant —What is the object of that board fastened over the cote's head, Mr. Flippe? Mr. iriippe— That, Miss Verdant, is to Jiide the poor thing's blushes when the ?.ilkman works the pump handle.— own Topics. Encoaraglnsr Progress. Edith —How is Mr. Briefless getting on in his profession, Charlie? Charlie —Pretty well, J fancy. He's g<jt so he can borrow five dollars at one time, now.—Town Topics. Very Likely. Se —I know what. I'd do if I had a lion dollars. She—What? He—Spend it.—Detroit Free Press. Witty as Well as Pretty. May —Next to a man, what's the jol llest thing you know of? Ethel—Myself, li" he's nice.—Brook lyn Life. Few Indeed. Few of us need a lantern In order to i .find fault.—Milwaukee Journal. IMPROVEMENT. ROADS IN NEW JERSEt. Good Work l>one by a Man Who I aOor >t*nd> ills ItuolncM. In Morris county, which is in the hilly part of New Jersey, the road overseers supervise sections ranging from one-fourth of a mile to three miles. They are appointed by the fown committees, and a portion <M the road taxes appropriated to each sec tion. In order to give a good idea of Che different methods and results, X will describe the actual way the werk Is done under several overseers. An overseer who has been on his section for several years, adopted the plan of plowing up the top W the higher points and hauled the ground, which is first-class material, being sandy and soft stone, to the lower points. The result is first-class Im provement. The hills are lowered, the soft, low pljoes become smooth and solid, and both dust and mud are done away with. lie allowed one of the neighbors to haul the accumulation A GOOD COUNTRY ROAD. [The mute appeal made by this picture should be a convincing argument to all ob '■tnnrtlonists 1 of sod that forms along the side of the road onto his fields to cover up a stump, to fill a low place, or to cover clayey ground. The poorest of all possible material for makincr roads is the accumulation of sod alongside of the road formed from the dust of former years. But it is the best material to put in the fieU, Nevertheless, another overseer adopted this plan. He plows up the old dust sod and puts it in the road helter skelter, more particularly he endeav ors to make the ridgres or "turn water" a little higher, and is sure to haul any sand that may have accummulated at the foot of some of the hills to the top, thereby keeping the hill as high as ever. He works out the taxes. Other overseers work In various ways. Some have a machine that is drawn by four powerful horses to scrape all the stuff from both sides of the road and deposit it in the middle, making either dust or mud, to be con tinued as long aa this system is con tinued, as it is generally impossi ble to make such material pack firm ly.—J. Flomerfelt, in American Agri culturist. PLEA FOR VADE TIRES. Trjr Th«m First and"* Good Roads Will D 4 Easily Attained. In those parts of the country where stone doea not abound and the most available road material is prairie mud, the first, best and cheapest sellef is to use wide tires. Next, jut in un der drains and keep the road well shaped up. Such a road properly looked after Comes very near being right for sparsely settled prairie coun try, and during 4 large part of the year is good enough for anybody, but it is absolutely necessary to use wide tires, and, what is more, it is profita ble to the user in that he can haul double the corn out of the field that; he could have hauled with narrow tires and he can get to town with a very much larger load, even when he is the only user of wide tires over that road, and as soon as the fiat-footed wagons become general it is not neces sary to spend one-half the amount in keeping up even a common dirt road. With proper drainage and wide tires a lonp step is taken in the direction of foing to town in the spring and fell. ew localities are so low that drainage is not practical, and even in the lowest "bottoms" a road properly raised,with suitable side ditches and cross tiles, will be in good shape most of the time, but no tfutfh foad can stand narroif tires. Get proper highways as soon as pos sible, but gqt wide tires IUMC. The meanest road is made better; a fair road is much improved; a soft road is kept smooth; a good road is left so; a hard road is made harder; a smooth road is made smoother; a rough road is leveled; and all roads last longer; larger loads can be hauled; larger bank accounts may be maintained; bet* ter profits for the farmer; better prices for the consumer; better nature will prevail, and better citizens are made by the use of wide tire*. Therefore get wide tires first and good roads will be easier of attain ment.—Good Roads. Blfgeit Tax Paid by Farmers. Certain statisticians with ample timo and patience for figures have found that it costs one billion dollars each year to transport the goods that are carried in wagons. Of this sum it is estimated that sijc hundred and twen ty-five million dollars is duo directly to bad roads. If all the roads in the country were as smooth and as hard as a driving park or race track, that vast sum of money would be saved each year to those who drive horses—most ly farmers. The total value of farm products is estimated at two-and-a halt billion dollars, so that bad roads are responsible for the loss of nearly one-fourth the total home value. No business on earth can thrive with such a drain on it. Talk about the farmer' 4 loss from tariff taxes—it isn't a touch to the bad road tax!— Rural New Yorker. Facrtloua. Professor—What Ore you laughing at? Student Excuso me, sir, I waa laughing at your remark. Professor (angrily)—Bali! who wpuld laugh at such a foolish thing as that? —Truth. A Good Authority, Jollicus —I sec that a new "Twenty Years in Congress" is going to be is sued. Politicus Who has been twenty yCftrs Jn Congress? Milieus—Fariff IHll.—N. Y. World. 80 Fond of £tch Other. "Just think, Ella, Dr. Knowit pro posed to me last night." "Did he? How absent-minded brainy people generally are." —Truth. ~ A Warning". With a careless gesture he brushed the long hair away from his brow, and gazed abstractedly across the sunlit ocean. "What are the wild waves saying," he murmured, "sister, the whole day long?" The tall girl at his side started vio lently, ajid darted a quick glance Into ma face. "Mr. CVxJliver," she said abruptly, j after a moment's thought; "have you £Vsr asked me to be your wife?" He shook his head. "That was my impression," she ob served; "but tlje way you spoke m»de jyc lafctiflt."— No. 38 THINNING THE FRUIT. It I* Mot a Popular Practice, Bat a Very I'roQtabls One. Thinning the fruit is not a popular practice with farmers. But it pays. As Dr. Fisher, the fruit expert, used to aay, when speaking of thinning ap ples: •■The fruit all be picked, anyway, either in June or October. It is no more work to pick part of it in June, then what remains in October will be worth something'." Dr. Fish er's large, handsome apples sometimes sell at three times the price of the com mon fruit. One cause of the short life of many peach orchards is found in the neglect of the grower to thin out the fruit The trees are allowed to mature a big crop, and to become weakened by the strain. It is more exhausting for a tree to ripen two small peaches and two stones than to mature one peach as large as both together, and one stone. That is, the worthless stone la a greater tax on the life of the free' than is the pulp. After bearing an exhaustive crop the peach easily win terkills. Plum trees are especially liable to be injured where the fruit is not tinned. The black knot picks out the trfeea that are weakened from over bearing. Resides, the plums are borne in clus ters, which if not thinned, rapidly de eay from contact between the fruit. Pruning the grape vine is really j thinning the fruit, and the result is to 1 give fewer clusters, but about the aame : weight of fruit. Comparing a pruned vine with one which was left un pruned, it was noticed that many times as many clusters of fruit as were necessary were formed on this un penned vine. In early summer it looked as though the crop would be marvelous. On counting the number of clusters it was found that there were many times the number found on the pruned vines of the same age, but the size of these cluster# was so far in ferior as to give the actual increase of weight or fruit in favor of the pruned fruit Aside from this, tbe market value of the fruit of the vine thinned by pruning was far superior to those on the unthinned vine, which. In fact, was not marketable at aIL Besides pruning the vine, many growers cut out some of the clusters In spring. The result is fine fruit, and no vinea killed by over cropping.—Massachu- setts Ploughman. GATHERING FRUITS. One of These Quadruple Stepladders Will Save Many Steps. Designs for fruit ladders are legion, some good, some bad and some indif ferent. The quadruple stepladder here illustrated must be classed amon£ the good designs, for obvious reason*. Placed under low, branching trees Ita use permits one to move about within reach of a large portion of the whole side of a tree, because of ita four sides, about which one can freely step. Moreover, when not occupied as "atand ing ground," the top afforda an excel lent resting place for the basket tt will be found exceedingly convenient QUADRUPLE STKPLADBKB. for the home orchard, where one may, desire to pick but a basket or two of fruit at a time, and wishes to make • selection of those in the best condition for picking. It should be made strong but light, so as to be readily moved about.—American Agriculturist. GARDEN AND ORCHARD. CULTIVATE all fruits often, but shal low. GROUND bone is excellent for small fruits. PLENTY of manure is the key to suc cessful gardening. ASHES and bones furnish the ele ments most useful to tree*. PLENTY of well-rotted atable manure is a good fertilizer for the stfawberrv. PLANTS that have but a smail area w grow upon are best treated with liquid manure. MANT consider land that has been )a cultivation two years the bist foi strawberries. To ESTABLISH a reputation the grow er must give the packing oi tne fruit his personal attention. Wood ashes can be applied as » tOP dressing at almost any time, by raid ing or stirring into tbe su'rfaoe Of thi soil. BECAUSE moisture 1b necessary to root and seed growth, d 6 not fall inw the error of tlitnkipg tta£ excessive wetness would be stUl bitter. ORCHARDS of peaches, plums, dwarj !pears and quinces should hare cietd cultivation year after neoessary to stir deep, but to keep surface In good tilth. —St LOuls Re public. Internal Temperature of Tree*. Tbe Internal temperature oi trees bas been observed for some tiihe past by M- Prinz, of Uocle, in Belgium, who £nds their mean annual temperature at the heart of tbe trunk tbe same fw (hat of the air, but the mean monthly temperature of tbe trees sometimes differ from the latter by two or three degrees centigrade. On certain days tbe difference in question may be M much as ten degrees centigrades. In very cold weather the internal tem perature falls to a few tenths of a dqj gree below the freezing point and then remains stationary. In very hot weather the temperature of the tree should be fifteen degrees centigrade or thereabout A large tree is, therefore, cooler in hot weather and warmer in coji weather than the air. Trustworthy, Qid Gravely—lf you do not care to be toy wife, perhaps {he prospects of be- Jcg a rich young widO'w might tempt you, Minnie (eegerlyV—Oh, Mr, Gravely I W I were only aura I could trust you I Spare Moments. Enlightened. Tommy—Mamma, the little boy nest door thought that cows gave butter tnflk. Mamma —Did you explain it to him?. Tommy—Yes'm i I told him goats gave but-termllk, course.—Art in Ad vertising. Wanted Information. Officer —Here is the man wbo nrnt through your house the other y hllo youfr family was asleep. Would you like to question him? Mr, Outlait —If you pleaae. Prisoner,, Vhat did you wear oi your feet.-* Puck. . Preferable. Jirsi Messer —Jtfow, T<jmmy, go and, kisa yout auntie or mamma will whip rati hard. Tommy (after a l<?ng look auntie)— Whip me, ifta.—Chicago B6S* l.ike Some ftasebaUSWs. "Well, Johnnie, are you able to keep, i-our place In the olass?" Johnnie—Yes, sir; I began at tbf foot, and there's not a single boy Wffl to talre it' from "mfc. fi -FoT^t-il&«
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