VOTL XXXI PONT Want A Wheel? Just as good time now, as any, to think of buying, to compare pri ces and merits. AN e pin our best faith to the CLE\ ELAND and the PIIOENIX. A wheel should be Gix aranteed. Ladies Phoenix. We tl\em r\ow ar\d will have ir\ tl\e Sprir^g. J. E. FORSYTH E. Mrs. Jennie E. Zimmerman Wonderful Bargains For Fall and Winter. NO HIGH TARIFF RATES HERE! Wm rejoice with the people that the tariff quet-tiou m at latt settled, and we are pre pared to meet all demands for Fall and Winter Good* with prices lower than ever and quality over and above anything we have ever shown, hi DRESS GOODS, Liilieit' and Childr«n'a Wraps, Millinery, and also io Blankets Flaunels, Yarns and Woolens of all kinds, Hosiery and Underwear for men, Women and Children; Fine Trimmings, consisting of Jets, Lace, Braid, Buttons, and Fur Trimmings, all new aud late designs. Note a few prices given below: 25c- 50c. 50c X In-h Novelty Ureas Goods 40-lnch AU-Wool Serue, lslack 4k-|d'!> New Noveltv Dress In all colors. and Navy. (ioods. all-wool and all colors. Ileal value - 40c. Kcgular price - «SC. Ileal value - 75c. 50c. 75e 60c 40-lnch mik and Wool Mixtures. ISlack Kalle Hllk. pure silk, Fancy 811kt tor Wa's'.s, Trim new and novel deslirns, width. 20 Inches. mlnyi, &c.; entire new patterns. KeKUlar price - «oc. Actual value - tI.OO Ileal value - 75c. Linens Blankets & Flannels All-Wool Flannels. Bargains In Damask. Nupklnn. Silver Grey Blankets, «oc per Beat Countrv All-Wool Flan Towels, Crush, siimped oalr; real vatue. 75c. Hest AH- nels In llutler for Linens. Wool Country Blankets, value, 25c per y aril. 15.00, our price $3.50. Our Domestic Department is as usual full to overflowing, wit everything new, staple and novel. Our reputation is firmly established for best tirades and lowest priced Domestics offered in the citv. We mean to maintain our good record in this and all other departments. Space forbid* a detailed price list in this as well as our Millinery and Wrap Dip »rtmunts We respectfully ask you to call and see us, and we will convince you The plase to get the best values for the least money is at The Leading Dry Goods, Millinery and Wrap Honse of Bntler. MRS J E ZIMMBiUHAnr. FALL FOOTWEAR. C«»Rt jour ejrg in upon the fine diH T\tV pl ft y °f 'be newpßt and roost ele^nnt \*L --7 styles in Footwear you hareever look ' 'J upon in Bntler that wc are now of -ifering to the public ) A r' *l[ We are now prepared to i-erve all i | buyers that want good, suitulile Foot I this town, quality considered The |p-—people of liuthr county know our I I" if ! '"=• I —-J~ 1 *4, shoe we offer, as time has proven. | vt If you are looki: g for Ladies Shoes gee our 75 aid 950. sl. 25 and sl.so;stop and look at »hes2, $2 50 and $:5, m fine as silk, in Blucheretts and| Button, Narrow and Square Toe, all widths. IF YOU WANT MENS' SHOES You ha»o got to the right place at Ust, oither in working shies or lino dress ahoes Fine sen the $2 and $2.50 show in London, (11 ibs, Yale and St. Louis toon Nothing like them in Butler Well if yoa want SCHOOL SHOES for your BOYS AND GIRLS, see the great display at 45c, 50c, 75n, $1 aud $1.25. oy's and Youth's High Cnt School Shoes. If you ar«» looking for a h»u*j thi'. y >ur d >llar is w >.-'.h 100 cants to every man, woman and child. If yoa are looking for a h >me that cirriei iti atoik in th<) home and not in the newspapers, la fact if you want to trade with a reliable, first class Shoe House go at once to HUSBLTON'S. Where the majority of the best people of Butler county do there buy ing in footwear 102 N. Main St, Butler, Pa, opposite Hote 1 Lowry. Buy a Buggy that's reliable when you x JV"Vl .og at 'em. Your dealer sells them. Made by FREDONIA MFG. CO., Voungstown, O. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. I. state LJOrary Heuuauiie, Dyspepsia, indigestion Are caused by bad blood, and by a run down, worn out condi tion of the body. Remember Wood's *• * par ilia Be sure to get Hood s Hood's Pills are fieaUe, iniM aud eCccti^ e. MARTHA WASHINGTON COOK-BOOK .TREE! 320 PACES. I CO«2 ; ILLUSTRATED. i ' ' (siifck ' One « f the best Cook k J ijfs f y 5 t-ins ; ■, for all kin ffe i oi AKo depar.- {' ment on M.--■> ** mmw - Hlotliers' I 1 Frienfl"-c I j Makes CHILD BIRTH tasu.Q Hi COLVIN, LA., Dec. 2, 1886.— |jj SMy wife used "MOTHERS'|S> §5 FRIEND" before her third con- |S jH'finement, and says she would not r~. 1 he without it for hundreds of dol- g Si j lars. —DOCK MILLS. Si Sent by express or mall, on receipt j fSZ g ol price. 11 50 per bottle. Book "'to £3 S/Mothebs" mailed free. Sold by all f£t £■ Druggists. fcs g: BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.. ||| § J Atlanta. Ga. A (uxvt Sale Now Goiiio* oil at —THH; NKW SHOE store. — L;noe wt Stock, Lowest Prices anc.Best- BOOTS, SHOES and RLBBERS C 5 7 Ever Shown in Bntler County. Don't Spend One Penny for Footwear Before Calling on Me. C. 353. ' Tm3£x. -T -Tarns* 215 ©• MAIN STREET, BUTLER. PA' C. A »„D. A business that keeps grow ing through a season ot de pression, such as the country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize ilt y save money by trading with us. We know, and always have known, IPC days of lary: profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than l.i.L year. Our stock is larger to select from than last^year. CALL AND SEE US. Colbert & Dale. ■ MND V : - ... . i I'v-l '••it . • » l<»r u't • lUTTLKR. FA.,T]IURSDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1894. ' O P A N D HryutS/ 1 ' er '" sahl lC man with the bulging pocketbook. "Tallantire, you always know everything, who's going to win the Derby this year? I want a fiver badly." Another man, who was stabbing the red stuifed seats with an umbrella, grinned. "Tallantire's tips! Fatal above the average, by Jove!" They were a group of journalists in a little Fleet street restaurant, and the newcomer —a young man with strong, rugged features and gray eyes—re turned the greeting with a nod. His clothes were seedy, and he looked de pressed—with reason, for Mr. Dick Carroll was a free lance in New Grub street, and things were very had with him, indeed. "Of course, you all know that the Mayfalr Mirror has sacked Inglcfield?" continued he of the pocketbook. "Yes, it's a fact. The rock they split upon was this American singing woman the public is making such a fuss about — Cynthia Charrington. She is eccen tric it seems —won't be interviewed, and because nobody else can get an interview the Mirror wants one— wants it badly—would give its ears for one. Well, Inglefield went after it —and failed. She tlatly refused to re ceive him. It wasn't his fault, of course, but the Mirror wouldn't see it. and intimated that he was a muff. They had words, and wished each other good morning. Whereupon it comes to pass that there is a vacancy on the staff of the Mayfair Mirror, and I guess if anybody could do that inter view. and supply 'the long-felt want,' he would stand a very good chance of filling it. Waiter, are you 'raising' that chop?" "Coming, sir." "Rawson of tho Mirror always had a beast of a temper," growled the man with the beard, "but, all the same, a post on his sixpenny rag isn't to be sneezed at. If I had the enterprise of my early youth I would run down to London-super-Mare—she's staying at the Colosseum till the new production on Monday —and try my luck. Yah! you rising generation haven't the nous to grasp your opportunities when you get 'em." T'ie speaker subsided into a corner, and the discussion of an entre-cote, and Dick Carroll collected every coin lie had about him and summed up the total. "Seven and tenpence," he reflected. "Just the price of a third return to Brighton, and fourpence over to play with. Shall I go or shall I have dinner? Shall I lose a chance of obtaining a jolly good post or dine off buns?" He weighed the idea and the silver dubiously, and he decided in favor of boldness and buns. "Yes, sir?" queried the waiter with a cordial grin—Dick was an old cus tomer. "I have just recollected an appoint ment," exclaimed the journalist, gen ially, for the benefit of his brothers in-arms; he would rather have died than confess the state of his exchequer. "I shall not tax the resources of your chef .o-day. I wish you good-morn ing, John." He went, humming, had a bun and a glass of milk at the A. B. C. next door, and walked to London Bridge station because he could not afford the 'bus fare. When he settled himself in the corner of a compartment, he had nothing in his pockets but three ha'- pence and a postage-stamp a trifle the worse for wear. " If," said Dick, "Miss Charrington is adamantine, I shall —what shall I do?" He shivered as he caught a glimpse of the Thames over the parapet of the bridge—the muddy water suggested unpleasant thoughts. It was just a quarter past two when he entered the hotel and asked at the enquiry oflice in the hall for Miss Char rington. The singer had a suite of rooms on the first floor, and a boy in buttons took his card to hir. Dick knew" that if he were to mention the word "in terview" she would probably refuse to see him; his only chance was to gain her presence in his private capacity and trust to Providence and her good nature for the upshot. "Say I should be glad of a few min utes' conversation with her on a mat ter of business," said Dick, and then he waited with his heart in his throat till the "buttons" reappeared with the information that Miss Charrington would see him, and forthwith escorted him up the broad staircase to her pri vate sitting-room. Dick was not of a bashful disposi tion, but the nature of his errand killed his aplomb. He felt his color rise as she turned from the open win dow and advanced towards him hold ing his card in her hand—a tall, ele gant woman, with a well-poised head, a somewhat languid manner, and the regular, delicate features which her portraits in the windows of the West End photographers had made familiar to him. "Miss Charrington?" he said. She bowed and motioned to a chair; but she did not seat herself, so ho re mained standing. He saw that she was looking inquiringly at him, and that it devolved upon him to make the plunge. He made it—with misgivings. "I am afraid," he began, "that 1 misled you somewhat when I request ed to see you oi< a matter of business. The truth is that I am a journalist, and, as the public is always interested in the lives of its favorites, I hoped voti would be so kind as to grant mc a brief interview for publication in the Mayfair Mirror." As he spoke the word "journalist" he saw her brows contract sharply. Now she flashed an inimitable glance of In dignation at liiin. "I wish you good morning, sir," she said, curtly. Dick caught his breath, and his head went up with a jerk. "If I have annoyed you, I beg your pardon." "'lf!' I object to being persecuted in this way by the press. I won't have it! The public pays for my profession al services, but my private life Is my own and concerns nobody but myself, and I refuse to have every detail of it hauled out to satisfy impertinent curi osity. My opinion on this subject Is well known, I believe; you showed that you knew it when you gained my presence by such an ambiguoun phrase." "In that case, of course there is noth ing for me to do but relieve you of my presence," said Dick. They bowed stiffly. He turned away with a queer look on his face. He was wondering how long a postage stamp and three ha'pence would keep a man from starvation. She caught the look out of the cor ner of her eye, ami stayed him, brusquely, as sho ha longer, and lie tramped to Kensington one Sunday afternoon. "What have you been doing with yourself?" she demanded. "I have missed you." "It is very good of you to say so," ho said, gloomily. While he was there a man he knew called, and, bv and-by, they left to gether. "Do you go there much?" asked liis companion, aft.-r they had turned the corner and lighted up. "Pretty often," replied Dick, puffing at his cigarette and staring at nothing particular. "Hum!" said the man. "I thought so." He smiled. Dick scowled. "What the deuce are you grinning at?" "Dicky, you're a hasa! You don't do serve your luck. That woman's fond of you, and you're eating your heart out because you can't see it." "Rot!" said Dick, gruffly. But ho caught his breath and his eyes glowed. "You have the ball at your feet anil you won't kick it. It doesn't come to every man to have a Cynthia Charring ton in love with him." "I tell you she doesn't care a hang forme in that way. You mistake what is merely a platonic interest for —the other thing. I don't. And I value her friendship too much to let her think me cad enough to sell my self-respect anil sink my identity in 'Miss Cliar rington's husband' for the sake of the fleshpots of Egypt You can drop the subject, Amyot." "I won't go near her for a month," said poor, proud Dick to himself as he walked home. "I must accustom my self to doing without her." A week passed —a week of over strung nerves, of cold dejection, of feverish desire. Then he had a shock. She was ill, she had been ill for sev eral days, and he r understudy had taken her place in the opera. Tliere was something wrong with her throat, reported the Comet, in the most flowery and grandiloquent of journalism- She would never sing tilT; Fft® Silt I \, iJi J \ 3 HE WATCHII) IT BI BS .-»nort in tne Uloom of her youth, ine nightingale would be dumb for ever. Then the Comet, waking sapient, painted a "realistic' picture of her probable future. Public performers were notoriously improvident, and anyhow, she was too young to have saved much. In all likelihood she would sink into insignificant poverty —drag 1 out her days as a snubbed gov erness or "companion." That, with embellishments, was the gist of the paragraph. Dick's face went white. He called a hansom and drove to Palace Man sions. She received him in her boudoir and a tea-gown, and hin over-anxious eyes magnified a slight pallor and ad ditional languor into heaven knows what. "Is it true that your throat's bad?" he asked her. "I've just read it in The Comet." "Quite true," she said. He gulped. "Cynthia, you're a woman all alone. If you would let me take care of you I wouldn't have asked before, but now that your pros pects have changed so disastrous ly Hang it! what shall I say to you? I hardly know. When a fellow's poor, and no better than other fellows, he hasn't much to offer to a woman. It just amounts to this, dear: I'm earning a deceut salarj thanks to you—and I could make things smooth for you. Cynthia, could you, would you—?" She held out licr hands to him with a charming gesture of surrender. "If you want me, Dick—!" "My darling, you are so good to me." "But I think you are laboring under a little mistake." she said, demurely. "There is nothing seriously wrong with my voice. I've only had a bad cold." "Then the Comet's information was incorrect?" he gasped. "Quite so." "And —and yon do not need me at all?" "I need you very much," she said; "that's why I worked that paragraph. You see I knew, if I didn't do some thing, that your horrid pride would spoil our lives. Don't 1»" mad with me. Dick, or I shall cry." But she blushed instead for a reason. —I'lack and White. BISMARCKS HUMOR. He IteftiKetl a f'urrfon. Hut raid the Amount of tl»« Fine. The following as an illustration of Prinee Bismarck's good humor: After he had accepted the ministry of com merce the prince was struck by the in significance of many matters he had to decide. If. for instance, anybody had been caught illicitly hawking goods and had been sentenced to a fine, but had to be pardoned on the score of poverty, it was necessary, for the re mission of the fine, to obtain the con sent of two ministers—the minister of finance and the minister of commerce. Bismarck had taken special note of ' a ease of this kind. A peddler had | been sentenced to a fine of twenty | marks (about a sovereign), and the un j der secretary of state reported to the ' new minister of commerce that he was a poor devil, who had to maintain a wife and child, and would sink into i still deeper misery if the tine were converted into imprisonment. He therefore begged Bismarck to sign an immediate report, advising the king to pardon the peddler. The prince cm- I phatically refused to do so, for, said he, if the king had to be advised to use his rightof pardon in all such cases, justice would become a dead letter. ! The peddler has simply not to pay the fine, and must escape imprisonment in ■ order to save himself and family from 1 absolute ruin. The under secretary of state then referred to the traditional practice, and appealed to the heart of his chief, who answered: j "All right. I'll give the poor devil j the twenty marks out of my own poek j et, but shall not have my signature for the thing."—Deutsche Itevu \ Mr. Ciitfcy nix! Ills Ground*. Perhaps the best specimen of wit ; that has enlivened a Hamilton county i court in many a day was that emitted like a flash from John Coffey, the at torney, who had been guilty of a good many things that had disturbed the serenity of bench and bar. Mr. Coffey was counsel in a case which hud already been postponed some two or three times at his request. It was before Judge Ontcalt. Again Mr. Coffey asked for postponement. The court remind | ed him that it had already been post poned several times at his request. "Have you good grounds for wishing another postponement?" asked the cours. "Yes, sir; I have," replied Coffey. "What are they?" asked the court. "Coffey grounds, your honor." "Coffee grounds?" repeated the judge. "Yes sir," said John. Then the judge got 011 his dignity, and reminded the lawyer that he was trffling with the court. "Your honor," said Mr. Coffey, "there was a small addition to my family last night, und I submit, your honor, that this is good grounds for asking for a postponement." Did John get it? Well, rather.—Cin cinnati Times-Star. It Wasu't IIIH lt»>iir. The king was sore distraught. There was auger in his royal heart. "What, ho," he roared. "Why failed the keen edge of my battle ax in to day's conflict?" The kuight of the kitchen table bowed him low. "Your majesty," he rejoined, "it is reported that her highness princess royal complained much of her corns upon yestcrc'en, and doc« not to-day." The monarch swallowed his rcsent j ment, contenting himself with once more placing himself upon record aa J touching the subject of the intcrfer • nce of women in affairs of state.—De troit Tribune. A I>h.mlvuntMgr. Teacher —Now do you see the differ ence between animal instinct and liu ! man reason? Bright Boy—Yes'in. If we had iu j fctinct we'd know everything we needed | to without learning it; but we've got j reason, and have to study ourselves j mos' blind or be a fool. —Good News. III m«<*. "Do you believe in the novel with a purpose?" sail I Squildig to an author ; friend. "Certainly," the latter replied. "All! I the novels I ever wrote have the same 1 purpose." "What is it?" "To improve my bank account."--An- J swers. THE MODERN DRAMA. It In a I>rc#»-t"<»»t Affair and Larks lh« iiorlncft* of Yore. The other night a man went to the theater who had not been for years, and he couldn't make it out. says Pear son's Weekly. First of ail ho misst-d the simple village youth, the virtuous hero r li'• was v/ont to take the first prize at the horticultural society, or else win the guerdon at quoits, or some thing or other in the rustic revels. But worst of all he missed the dear old fashioned villain, and although this play had a tremendous villain in it our friend was not impressed with him a bit. He sighs thus: "I came away again, sadly disap pointed. The play was not what I ex pected. I shall go no more to the play house. The palmy days of the drama arc over. The theater has fallen into the sear and yellow fifth act. and there is no health in it! The theater has fol lowed the path of literature and the good old things are changed. I beheld a lot of swell people in evening dress on the stage. They spoke quietly to one another, very much as people do off the stage, and in very much the same sort of language. This is not what I want when I go to the theater. "What is the theatrical villain of to day? Is he a real, good, old-fashioned rufllao? Does he ever drag a helpless maiden from the domiciliary roof of her ancestors by the hair? No. sir. Does he ever say to the hero: 'Say one word aud thou art food for the wolves'." Does he ever grab the heroine by the wrist, drag her down the stage in three strides, slam her down in a big chair, bend over her and whisper fiendishly: "S death, maiden, but, by my soul, I love thee! Thou shalt be mine! Yield or by heaven I'll —' "That's all I know of that speech, because 'By heaven I'll" is the cue for the maiden to spring up, and, throw ing the villain half way across the stage, to say: 'Unhand me, ruffian! And know, that rather than mate with such as thou, I'd cast myself from yonder battlement into the foaming flood beneath!' "And does the villian then say: 'Sow, by heavens, I like thy spirit! I love thee all the more for it?' "And does the muiden say: 'Merciful powers, protect me?' "And does the door open and the hero rush in, armed with a (food, blunt broadsword? And then do he and the villain fence up and down the stage, sixes, eights, shoulder blows, cut ana thrust? Oh, no. These things have given way to swallow-tailed coats and high collars, and the villain is now as big a swell as any fellow in the show. Oh, for the good old palmy days of the drama, when the broadsword ruled and there was gore! The modern drama is too much like ice cream after a heavy dinner—cold and unsatisfy ing" SERVANTS ON INSTALMENTS. It Tikti Sl* In Guatemala to Do the Work of One Girl Here. The American woman, when she grumbles at the generality of servants, doesn't know when she is well off. If she could spend a year at housekeeping in Guatemala she would come back to the United States and pass the rest of her life in peace and contentment, says the New York Journal. In Guatemala the servants are either Indians or half-breeds. They will live on black beans and tortillas, and as to wages, they are content for a month with what a servant girl receives here. But no American housekeeper would feel inclined to charge a servant board. You hire a Guatemala woman, for in stance, as a cook. Then you must hire a man to keep the fire poinff. If he is away, the cook will let her fire go out sooner than debase her dignity by put ting on more fuel. A third servant must be furnished to put the crude articles of food into shape for handling by the cook. A fourth is needed to do all the carrying. Still another must do the dish washing. Altogether, a half-dozen servants are needed to get an ordinary breakfast for three or four persons. A bright, in telligent, sturdy servant in this coun try would accomplish the same feat all by herself in an hour or less. It is comparatively inexpensive to maintain a household of twelvo or fifteen ser vants in Guatemala, but they arc a ter rible trial to an American woman. Youngest Sou* Favored. "If one looks about him almost any where in Maine," says an observing res ident of that state, "he will find that in the matter of desceut of property wo have unconsciously put in force or have effected Just the opposite of the Eng lish rule of primogeniture. Whero there are a number of children in a family it is almost always the young est son that stays with the old folks and inherits the homestead. Where I live I can point out dozens of such in stances in the families I know, and I cannot now recall a single instance where any other than the youngest was preferred. Of course this results from the disposition of the older boys to seek their fortunes away from the parental roof tree as soon as they are old enough, while the younger, with the others gone, finds room enough for his activities at home, and stays there. As distinguished from the old world method this may be called ultimogeni ture." Origin of Visiting Curds. Wo owe the invention of visiting cards to the Chinese. So long ago aa the period of the Toug dynasty (818- 907) visiting cards were known to be in Common use In China, and that is also the date of tho Introduction of the "red silken cords" which figure si conspicuously on the engagement cards of that country. Cat'*«7«(. Ancient and Modern. ' The cat'seyo stone, now prized as an ornament, is a very different thing iron} the ancient cat's eye, or eye&tone oi India, an agate cut so as to show the •o-callcd eye or eyes. It is supposed bi> some that this latter was used as mod' ey in many parts of India four centu ries ago. and specimens found to-day have an interest of numismatists A Strange Case. "J baw a very curious thing to-day." "What was it?" "A woman driving a nail with q hammer instead at with tho back of her best hair brush." —N. Y. Tress. A Familiar Quotation, tttaylate—l must go; It Is getting lat«, Ethel Knox —Well, better late than never.—N. Y. World. Kitnk Favoritism. "O, no! there's no favorite hi viij family," said Jenny to her bosofo friend, Norah. "O, no! if I bile mj* finder nails I catch it over the lcnuckJ les; but the baby can cat his whole foot, and they think it clever!" —For- , get-Me-Not. IIU Field. Symiit—l see that they have a boarding bouse keepers' trust in Phil adelphia. Smyles—Tbut's what I've been look ing for. You can't #et trusted hery I nowadays. —Brooklyn Life. A Point of Similarity. llicks —Your milk is like what we have on the coast of England. Milkman —How is that? Hicks — cliailt deposits. —N. Y. World. Auk ThHr Wlvrs. llrralhei th«*ro a wan with soul so dead Who never to himself hath haul. As homo his footsteps ho has turned: ( "1 clean forgot that, I'll be domed." bitr. TH£ NEWFOUNDLAND DOO. lie In the Not-l«»*t KpiriAn of th* Whole Canine Kmoe. The Newfoundland dog takes hi* muiie from the island whore he Is sup posed to have originated. Mnny, how ever. ltelievo that tho Norsemen, who discovered America in tlie }ear 1000, in troduced this dog in Newfoundland He is by some classified among the wolf-dogs, while others, on account of his large pendulous ears, say that he should not lielong to this family, but that he and the St. ISernards should occupy a place by themselves. The Newfoundland, says Harper's Young People, since his introduction in Epgland, has improved in appear ance. and is now larger and heavier. In New-foundland and Labrador these dogs are used as beasts of burden, drawing considerable loads of wood and provisions on sledges. Their feet are partially webbed, and thereforo they are most excellent water dogs. The scent is not strong, and as the dog is slow and clumsy, he is not valuable to the hunter, except as a retriever when speed is not required. In the island of Newfoundland this dog is almost totally black, but the English varieties are usually black and white. As u watch-dog the Newfound land is only second to the mastiff. He is amiable to children and small dogs. Kept in confinement he often gets cross and 111-tempered, and flies at those for whom he has previously shown the greatest regard. Where a dog cannot be allowed to run, and must be chained up. the New foundland should not be kept. This dog is a great life-saver, and by in stinct will jump into the water to save even an enemy from drowning. THE VAMPIRE BAT. A I)md Creature That Is Common in India. I have always despised bats, said a Cleveland man recently, end it always Bends a shudder over me whenever one of the hideous creatures approaches me. The bats of this country, how- Jiver, are not to be dreaded in compar son to those of the vampire species which abound In India. Just imagine p big mouse with a horn on his head like a rhinocerous, furnish him wlCh a pair of demon-like wings, and you have R very good picture of this latter kind. The natives oread the vampire bat on Recount of his blood-sucking propensi ty. In the sultry nights he fans the heated sleeper with his wings while his needle-like teeth are being in serted into the veins of his victim, quenching his thirst for blood with fench gentleness that it is only by some fortunate chance that he is discovered before the mischief is done. It is a ■well-authenticated fact that If an indi vidual is once bled by a vampire hi is Invariably chosen, in preference to all others equally exposed for a subseqent attack, and even if he were to move ten or twenty miles away, no im munity is gained thereby, as the bat is sure to follow him and keep up his blood-thirsty attack until his victim succumbs or the animal is discovered and killed. Cattle and horses, from being more exposed, are more frequent ly chosen as the subjects of attack Dy these loathsome creatures. UNAPPRECIATED BANANAS. Some Superstition* About Haddock* and Fern Bbot*. The banana possesses wonderful sus taining properties, ana yet years ago, In the wtinA countries where it flour ishes. the banana was thought of so lightly that It was allowed tA waste if not eaten by the cattle. The plant Itself was valued simply as a shade for coffee trees, feetwwh rows of which It was planted. Somebody once told me> bays a writer in the Gentlewoman, that tne Span iards used to regard the banana as a forbidden fruit, because they detected in its heart the transverse section of the cross. I remember, too, how one of my early governesses used to delight tne by showing me tne cross and tne apostles in the center of the passion flower; and the other day a friend told me of some curious symbolical marks to be found at the hack of the neck of the haddock, Indentations similar to those that might be caused by the Anger and thumb, the supposition l>elng that the haddock was one of the fishes picked ! out of the net on the occasion of the miraculous draft of fishes. — CHAMPIONS IN THEIR LINE. Ab»ent-Mlndeeds empty stairs, Katrina? Katrina—Four, Hans. Hans—Veil, empty some tacks quick on the street out. I dinks inq I sec five picyclo riders comin' dl# way all rctty, on dem wheels vat dey blow# wit air up.—Judge. Where Wrltln* tsho—Blxby appears to be u bright young man. I hear he acquire* enough money by writing to pky tot his education at college. He—Yes; writing home to his pa« rents.—Arl^nsaw ISTo 4rO A TERRIBLE HAWK. Aa Enemy That Strikes Terror to Feath' •red Demtbrn* of the Bmh. The author of "The Naturalist in La Plata" gives an impressivo description of the terror produced by tho appear ance of a rather small hawk, of a spe cies unknown to him, although he has seen it a hundred times, it is a marsh hawk. That is to say it seeks its prey iu marshes. I have frequently seen all the inhabi tants of a marsh struck with panic, act ing as if demented and suddenly grown careless to all other dangers. On such occasions I have looked up, confident of seeing this particular hawk suspended above them in the sky. All birds that happen to be on the wing drop into the reeds or water as if shot. Ducks away from the shore stretch out their necks horizontally and drag their bodies, as if wounded, into closer cover. Not one bird is found bold enough to rise and wheel about the marauder—a usual proceeding in the case of other hawks; while at every sudden stoop of the falcon a low cry of terror rises from the birds underneath —a sound expressive of an emotion so: contagious that it quickly runs like a' murmur all over the marsh, as if a gust of wind had swept moaning through the rushes. As long as the falcon hangs overhead, always at a height of about forty v&rds, threatening at intervals to dash down, this murmuring sound, made up of many hundreds of individual cries, is heard swelling and dying away, ana occasionally, when he drops lower than usual, it rises to a sharp scream of ter ror. Sometimes, when I have been riding over marshy ground, one of these hawks has placed himself directly over my head, within fifteen or twenty yards. It has perhaps acquired thS habit of following horsemen in this way, in order to strike at any birds driven up. Once my horse almost trod on a couple of snipe squatting, terrified, ii" the short grass. The instant they rose the hawk struck at one of them, the end of his wing smiting my cheek vio lently ns he stooped. The snipe escaped by diving under the bridle, and im mediately dropped on the other side of me; and the hawk, rising, flew away. STORY OF A CAT. Carried So Much Electricity That > Cw Is §et on Fire. The efticacy of a black cat as a light ning rod has been too frequently the subject of discussion and assertion to be treated at length at the present time, the drift of which is to show the apt muuner in which an illustration of this popular belief can be deduced from an Incident that occurred on the evening of the Fourth of July to the wife of a well-known business man of Washington. On the evening in question the matron had been expending ooriside£ tble time and attention upon a hand some black cat, which she continued to stroke, notwithstanding the assertion of her family that by so doing she wad charging herself with electricity. Finally ufter dark the young matrOli decided that a pleasant way of wlna« Ing up the evening would be to go for a ride on the electric car to Betpesda. Accordingly, inviting two Of her friends to accompany her, she set out for the ride In high spirits. The trio found places together near the middle of the car, and had gone k short distance beyond the powef house when their conversation was inter rupted by the conductor hurriedly bending over them as though to avert some catastrophe beneath and telling them to leave the ear with all speed} as It was on fire. Scarcely tad they left their seats before a sheet of flame burst through the floor just beneath the very spot over which the young matron had been sitting, the electrical apparatus beneath having ignited at that very point. ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. The Queer Effect of Photographing Cpon Rome Siberians. "I have witnessed tt good many amusing incidents iq the course of mv career," said a New York photographer, the other day, "but 1 thluk the ond that struck me as the most ludiorouij occurred while I was in Siberia a fevfr years ago. I had my camera with me. and spent considerable time in taking pictures of the people and surrounding country. I had engaged the servlcM of two native servants, and one day* having nothing better to do, 1 induced one of them to sit for his photograph. The fellow had never seen a mii Tor In his life, and I dare toy had no ooncetH tlon of the degree of ugliness upon his countenance. At any rate h$ manifested no delight at seeing hui picture, though his companion ap peared very much elated, and could Hot rest until I had taken bis picture pl&o. When tl» latter saw his picture) he njso seemed depressed. Thd portraits appeared to have brought Id the minds of both strango revelations, and they retired to their tent in a thoughtful mood, each trying to smooth down the bushy locks which crowned their heads. Presently one of them came to mo and borrowed a pair of scissors, and shortly after they re turned with scarcely a vestige of hatj remaining on their heads and Implored Die to take their pictures agalp. fruit of the camera was to them like the fruit of the tree of knowledge." Wbat n« Wanted. At the hospital the other morning, says Life, one of the patients was lust recovering from an attack of delirium tremens, and, as is usual in such cases, desired to dress and go home more thaf) anything else. It happened that one of the young ladies connected with the flower mission saw him, and, approach ing, said: "I have some beautiful rosea here. Wouldn't you like some?" N$ response. Again she said: "Wouldn't vcni like to have some oi these rosea?" Slowly his head turned, and, slightly opening his bleary eyes, he said, much to the embarrassment of the young Woman; "I'd a blamed sight rathei h?yp m.Y pantav" . Lore'l Silent Il»trrch*nf •• Friend—How did the count propose to yon, and you aocept, If he could not understand your language nor you his? American Heiress-It was very pimple. lie ahowea me his family trc«j and I showed him mv banKbook.-* 5. Y. Wee My. "rolled Again. "Whore mo you going, my pretty maldf" "pigging for clams, kind sir," she said. "Coo I go with you, mf pretty maid!" "But you're already dug," she Said. - -Pnck. A Happy Death. A negro living on Onion creek cam* to Austin recently, und the following conversation occurred between him ana a city friend: "How is Pete Jackson',"" "He la done dead." "Yer don't tolo mo so. How did hit eomc about?" "Ho died wid digestion ob de lungs, but surroundod wid do bes' wishes ob de huU neighborhood." —Alex. Sweet, in Texas Siftings. At the Hoard lug Mouse. "Pass me th* Sandow," remarked the boarder on the for side of the ta ble to the boarder on the near side- Tbo landlady glanced up sharply, uad the boarder on tho near side never let on. Then tho landlady's attention was called to something else, and the boarder on tho near side parsed the butter to the boarder on the far side.— DctroitlfHgJQEHk. ~