VOL XXXI
DON'T Want
A Wheel?
Just as good time now, as any,
to think of buying, to compare pri
ces and merits. We pin our best
faith to the CLEV ELAND and
the PHOENIX.
A wheel should be
Easy _
Running,
booking
Guarantecdi Ladies Phoenix.
We
will Have
ir\ tl\e SpriryS.
J. E. FORSYTH E.
GREAT SLAUGHTER SILE
OF
OVERCOATS, - SUITS,
Underwear, Shirts, Hats, Caps, Hosiery, Ties, Gloves,
Mittens, Cardigan Jackets, Sweaters, Irunks, Valises,
Telescopes, Watches, Chains, Charms, Rings, Pins,
Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Brushes, Purses, etc. This
is
NO CLEARANCE SALE
Of Summer Goods, but our regular stock of FALL
AND WINTER GOODS. We show you the lar
gest stock in Butler to select from and everything goes.
Don't miss this
•#Grand + Opportunity.#"
We are the pioneers of LOW PRICES. We never
were, never can and never will be UNDERSOLD.
Bear this in mind, and don't make your purchases un
til you see us. We feel satisfied we can do you good.
D. A. HE:CK,
121 N. Mail-). St., Duffy's Block, Butler, Pa.
FALL FOOTWEAR.
Cist yoor eyes in upon the fine dis
fTH P ' B J of the newest and most elegant
VJgA styles in Footwear you bare ever look
vfjSiYj ~ 'J ed upon in Butler that we are now of
life II ering to the public.
| A V-—ij We are now prepared to serve all
1 | buu'tf that want good, suitable Foot
wear at pricep never before offered in
I his tc WD, quality considered Tbe
tP-—Df*A people of Butler county know our
I f * [r-l wra ard guarantee is stifficient on any
xruC N"=- jf l »-L shoe we offer, as time baa proven.
T If yoo are lookii g for Ladies Shoes
see our 75 and 95c. $1.25 <-nd sl.so;Mop and look at 'ht $2, <j>2 50 and $3,
as fine an t-ilk, in Blurteretts end Button, Narrow and Square Toe, all
widths
IF YOU WANT MENS' SHOES
You lotve (rot to the riijht pl*ce at list, either in workiug shoes or fine
drens shoes Fine lin-?sat 85c, 90.:, $1,51.25 tnd $1 50; wait a moment and
see th-i $2 vi Is 250 -<h )-i ii L)id )n, GH) )\ Y.tlu and St. liouis toes
Nothing ltk-th»m in Uutler
Well if v M WANT SOHOU'J f>r v»ir VXD J 61R1.5,
see the great display tit 45c. 50c, 75:;, $1 and $1.25.
Boy's and Youth's High Cut School Shoes.
[f y m *r,i I hki i,'f>.* ia>n > thv. y>i: 1 >!l i* U v >■. i 101) 03a',-i* to
everv ma i. woinaa and child
If you aw lookiog f»r a h >me that ctr'ie4 t> * >:t in tbi h>u<» and
not in tbe in (act if vou want to tni- with i first
class Shoe House go at once to
HUBE LTON'S.
Where tbe majority >f th* best people of Burler couatv do there buy-
Dg in f,i i:W'ir 102 N Vlaiu St, Butler, Pa. opposite Hot"! Lowry.
Jig Good Looks Count.
A When vou turn out for a drive you want your
V/vO J \ J carriage to look as well as your neighbors. You'll
have no fear on that score if you have a
Fredonia Buggy.
Fredonia Vehicles are the best on the market in every way. If you'll
sxamine them at your dealers you'll agree with this statement.
Made by FREDONIA MFG. CO., Youiigstown, Ohio.
THE- BUTLER CITIZEN.
Weak All Over
Is the condition of thousands in hot
weather, especially if the bl«>od is thin
an«l impure ant the system poorly
nourished. By taking Hood s .Sarsaparilla,
Mood's
I Uvttv<.
your blood will l>e £ '| |
purified anil you •will S 1-4 X vD
pain strength of mind
nerve? and body. Ho
sure to get Hood's and only ITood's.
Hood's Pills : ' i.-.li -'- • sure.
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It is unnecessary |
to bore you with the
advertisement of our
largest stock, best
facilities, biggest
business, etc. You
know we have that.
The important an
nouncement is,
We will Positively save
you Money on your
Fall Clothes.
Our stock tables
are resplendent with
the new est patterns.
See them.
ALAND,
TAILOR.
C.7D.
A business that grow
ing through «i season 01 de
pression, such as the country
has experienced, is an evi
dence that people realize the)
save money by trading with
us. We know, and always
have known, the days of large
profits are past. Without
question we are giving more
for the money than last year.
Our stock is larger to select
from than last year.
'".ALL AND SEE US.
Colbert & Dale.
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Is a Dictionary! ' ,N
HERE IT IS!
One Webster Int. Dictionary,
sheep, with patent thumb index,
together with one Noye's patent, ad
justable dictionary bclti< r—ail com
pletefor 5i2.50.
We are the only firm in the
county able to wtokvale *ehool t-up
plies in competition with large firms
from Chicago and other cities We
sell for less than other firms here pay
for things.
J. H. DOUGLASS,
(WHOLE«ALE"ANI> RETAIL)
241 S. Main Street,
Near Postoffice.
Ij. c- wick:
DBALKK IN
Rou|ti and Worked Lurabti
OF ALL STSDR
Oours, Sash, BUnds, Mouldings,
Shingles »nci Lam
Always in Stock.
UME, HAIR AND PL.AS •" ft.
Office opposite.P- <fc W • Depot.
BUTIiKK
BUTLER LUMBER COMPANY
Shippers and dealers in
Kuildin Materials
Rough and dressed Lum er of all
kinds. Doors and Windows, and
Mouldings ot all kinds.
H. E WICK, Manager.
Office and Y»rd».
East Cunnlnarbam nod Monroci»trecU.
Great Discovery, c "^ on .
nd disfiguring growths removed without
he knife and without pain.
Our specific medicines aet onlv on tie
dir<e&s<'d parts and permanently cure. Xo
fee until cured. I>K. TAYLOR,
No. 320 Libvrty Sliest, PlttsbTWg
' U r TLKR. P A., THURSDAY. NOX'EMHER 8, 1804.
FOREBODING.
1 should be so lonely without you, dear
Why, even now, if you bo not here
For the shortest day. there's a certain la.-ls
Which does not vanish till you come back.
And If you were gone forever, dear,
The aching throat anil the hot, swift tear
Were a feeble vent, and a futile, due
To the aching absence, dear, of you.
I should be so lonely without you, dear.
Kiss me apaiu. so I know you're near
If 1 should reach for the old embrace
And my arms should close on a formless
space.
In the midst of the world and Its hollow
cheer.
In the payest throng. I should tiirlll with fear,
The fear of the void which the world would be,
If you were gone from the earth and me
I should be so lonely without you, dear.
Though I still might heed the passing year.
Though I still might toll from <un to sun.
What would It be when the work was done
You would not see and you could not share.
And who. of the rest, would really care?
And if I were gone and 'twere you were left,
I know your breast were as much bereft;
And though God were good and seraphs near.
If I were away, while you were here,
I should be so lonely without you, dear.
—J. Edmund V. Cooke, In Chautauquan.
TWO WAYS OF SHOPPING,
And of Reforming a Parsimoni
ous Husband.
J* PHRAIM, can
V f-\J 3' ou s P are me
1 L> some money
J J this morning?"
——. s CJ\ Mr. Green-
I' *«* leaf looked up
like an animal
i&jgl dis t u rbed at
its meal by a
strangle noise.
• AW-A'jP "Money!" he
t ~ A exclaimed, in a
\ g*- voice between
» I m. v* a f? row l an <l a
'U ;]» , V J roar; he had
if J r ljit ffl] eaten heartily
kjjira I! r/:l of Mrs. Green
f < \ il leafs delicious
1 breakfast (es
pecially prepared, poor soul, in view
of the emerg-ency), and the word, with
its obnoxious emphasis, came from the
depths. "How much and what for?"
"I would like to do my fail shopping
to-day, and I thought 1 would try and
pinch along 1 on twenty-five dollars,
since the times are so hard."
"T-w-e-n-t-y-fi-v-e d-o-l-lars." Mr.
Greenleaf's eyes were popping:. "Do
you think I'm made of money, woman?"
"I am sure that is a very small sum
when you consider that there are five
of us to shop for," Mrs. Greenleaf re
plied.
She always felt like a criminal going
to the gallows when she was obliged
to ask her financial master for money.
There was always just such a hubbub,
whether she asked for much or little,
always the same routine of explana
tion, an d she usually felt small enough
to creep through the keyhole before it
was over.
"Mary an<l Hetty must have new
cloaks—"'
"1 thought they had new cloaks last
fall," interrupted Mr. Greenleaf.
"They did, but they have grown so
fast that those are quite outgrown.
One of them, with a little alteration,
will do nicely for Willie for an over
coat; the other just fits Myrtle. Then
there are school dresses and under
wear —indeed, Mr. Greenleaf, when I
think mt the actual needs I can see
that it is only by the most pinching
economy that I can make that amount
do—it should be fifty."
At this alarming conclusion Mr.
Greenleaf hurriedly drew out his
pocketbook and counted out the
money, turning every bill carefully to
make sure that no surplus was creep
ing in unawares before he handed it
to his wife.
"There, you must make that do you,
whatever the needs are. It's hard
times, Mrs. Greenleaf; everybody's
pinching and economizing, so you'll
be right on top of the style there."
With which parting witticism Mr.
Greenleaf lighted a ten-cent cigar, set
tled his hat jauntily on one side of his
head and went forth to bis day's
labor. Mrs. Greenleaf looked after
him with a bitter, scornful smile and
with tears in her eyes.
Years before, when she had married
him, she had loved him, had given
herself to him in her fresh, young girl
"DO YOU THINK I AM MADE OF MONEY?"
hood, without a doubt of his worthi
ness of the trust. He had only shown
his amicable side to her then, and he
could be as kind and chivalrous as any
man. Indeed, he was so now—toward
other men's wives, and on rare occa
sions at home when some lucky stroke
of fortune, or other incentive to good
humor had occurred; but ordinarily
home was the spot in which to unload
all the vexatioas and worries of the
day; to say all the cutting words he
had been obliged, through policy, to
refrain from saying to those whom he
met in his business relations. It was
no wonder that Mrs. Greenleaf's love
had been smothered out; no fire can
thrive under a wet blanket, and in
stead of being one in the marriage re
lation, they were now ten—he was the
one and she was the cipher.
The feeling of bank bills in her hand,
small as the roll was, soon restored
Mrs. Greenleaf to comparatively good
spirits and she flew about industri
ously, getting her morning's work
done up surprisingly early as she
planned the economies of the day,
snipping off a yard of material hero
and pinching a quarter off the prob
able price of something else there.
Verily, her shopping promised to be
an exciting business, requiring firm
self-denial and strict calculation to
make one dollar do the work of two.
It is an easy matter for a woman,
who has a particle of taste or judgment,
to go into a store filled with beautiful
and useful things, and select the cheap
goods, well knowing that the better
quality is the best economy in the end;
but there was no other way for Mrs.
Greenleaf to-day, and she carefully
weighed the balances in color and style
at the cheap cloak counter, the rem
nant counter, and bought underwear
with a feeling of guilt, that being a
line of goods where economy is no vir
tue. Yet she came to the end of her
money before the actual necessities
were off her list, to say nothing of the
hair ribbon for which Hetty had
pleaded, and the little bottle of per
fumery which Mary had well earned
by many dutiful acts. The heart of
the mother swelled within her as she
reluctantly ordered the packages sent
home without these innocent luxuries.
If there had been any dire need of
such pinching economy she could have
submitted with the best of grace, but
there was not. Mr. Greenleaf, while
not a rich man, was amply able to sup
port his family in comfort. The sac
rifice of one day's smoking on his part
woyld hstye pajd {of Utfla* otusr
which the girls would be so disap
pointed, she reflected, as she turned
homeward, walking the half mile be
cause her last penny was spent, even
to street-car fare. It did not make her
feel any happier to see Mr Greenleaf
passing out his cigar case to a friend
as she turned a corner, and she no
ticed that the friend generously helped
himself to two.
"Seventy cents gone for cigars to
day, that I know of, for Epliraim nev
er smokes less than five," she said to
herself bitterly as she hurried along.
She did not wish to attract his notice
—indeed, she felt too hard just then to
speak to Him if he should give her the
opportnnity.
"Come on and lunch with me," she
heard him say ju_t as she passed out
of hearing, and 3 tr lip curled con
temptuously. Whole-hearted, generous
fellow, a prince abroad, a miser at
home; yet there are others of Mr.
Greenleaf's type.
"Sewing, eh? I don't see how you
women can contrive to be forever sew
ing." Mr. Greenleaf said, airily, as his
wife drew out her work basket after
the warm supper had been served.
Mary and Hetty were doing up the
dishes in the kitchen, so that mother
could commence work on the new
school dresses.
"Perhaps if you had the contriving
to do for five you would find out," she
replied, with more spirit than she
usuallj- displayed.
"Oh, yes, I suppose you must get the
new fallals, the ruffles and puckers in
place," he replied, in a facetious vein.
He had felt really liberal and great
hearted all day in the serene con
sciousness of having done the square
thing by his family—handing out
money—good, commercial money—his
money, in faet, and with an unusually
small amount of friction, not even
docking the sum asked, as he often did
"RufHes and fallals, indeed," Mrs.
Greenleaf's temper was all which could
afford ruffling in that house under
present conditions, and she wondered
grimly if he had any conception of the
extra stitches his penuriousness en
tailed upon her—the ripping and mak
ing over, the interminable mending
which, if her time was worth any
thing, cost more than new material.
The sewing for her family, however
plainly she could do it, was a serious
task without all this extra trouble of
robbing Peter to pay Paul through an
endless variety of makeshifts; but Mr.
Greenleaf read his evening paper in
serene unconsciousness of her perplex
ities as she turned her patterns this
way and that, trying to get the dresses
out from a piece of goods a half-yard
short.
Mr. Greenleaf had occasion to do
some shopping a few days later. He
didn't consult his wife or inquire how
many patches would be required to re
fit his wardrobe for the winter. Oh,
no, that was not his style of architec
ture. With the first November blast
he stepped into a furnishing store and
asked for underwear.
"This is the best line of goods we
have in the house," said the clerk,
displaying a splendid value of all-wool
goods, fine, warm and well made.
"The best price, too, doubtless," Mr.
Greenleaf replied, playfully.
"Oh! yes, though the best is always
the cheapest, we calculate. Three
dollars the suit, now, isn't dear, when
you consider the wear and the
warmth."
"I'll take two suits,", Mr. Greenleaf
promptly replied. "I believe in buying
a good article when I buy."
He called for shirts next. He had
more shirts than Mrs. Greenleaf had
dresses, but he had lost a collar button
from an enlarged buttonhole in one of
them last week, and hence fancied
that he was out of wearable shirts.
"Custom made, of course?"
"Oh! yes. None of these patent ad
justable slop-shop goods for me."
Shirts at two dollars each were cheap
enough when Mr. Greenleaf wanted
them for himself, and four were added
to his already full stock. A new felt
derby at three dollars, a pair of gloves
at two, half-dozen pairs of socks and a
few neckties, and Mr. Greenleaf paid
his little bill of twenty-four dollars
and walked out, feeling that he had
done a very good stroke of business.
He looked a little sheepish when his
■wife unrolled the package, with an
amused smile, thinking that some gen
erous impulse had moved him to bring
a surprise package for the family. Iler
face fell.
"Why, Ephraim! Your underwear is
all right with a little mending, and
you have half a dozen good shirts."
"Oh, well, you can cut over the flan
nels for Willie, and t!ir- slrrts will
keep."
'■* l thought you said it was hard
times," she said slowly, her up
per lip curling sarcastically. "Would
you mind telling me how much this
outfit cost you?"
"Yes, I would," snapped Mr. Green
leaf, taking refuge in temper. "I earn
the money; I shall spend it as I
choose."
"You do not need to tell me." The
wife pulled out a slip of paper from
beneath the socks—the telltale bill—
and read it. "You can spend twenty
four dollars on yourself without a
murmur of hard times, and begrudge
me twenty-five to make five of us com
fortable for winter."
Worms will turn, and Mrs. Green
leaf freed her mind as she had not done
in ten years, and Mr. Greenleaf lis
tened with such appreciation that he
handed out ten dollars before the per
oration was over —it was the very
least lie could do and have any con
science left.
Mrs. Greenlenf lay awake half the
nipht, thinuing deeply. That sen
tence of her husband's buzzed in her
ears like an angry bee—"l earn my
money." Didn't she earn the money
too? Was all her work, saving the
expense of a girl—a seamstress —of no
value? Not a servant girl in the town
but was more independent and better
dressed than she. A plan flashed into
her mind and she sprung it in Mr.
Greenleaf's astonished ear in the
morning, but he rejected ii with
scorn.
"Pay you a girl's wages, indeed—
hire my own wife to do her own work!
Why, a lively girl would do the little
work there is to do and have half her
time to go visiting in."
It happened some weeks later that
Mr. Greenleaf came home sick—
an unusual event which had hap
pened but twice before during their
married life. He had a wide area of
surface for pain to operate on, and a
capacity for bearing it about equal to
that of a babe in arms, so it was a
weary day for Mrs. Greenleaf, who
ran to and fro with mustard, hot
water and cordials until she was
ready to drop with weariness.
Next day he was better, but still
weak ana exacting, as he lay on the
sitting-room lounge and watched his
wife plod through a day's work. The
patter of her footsteps annoyed him at
first, as he heard them going from
dining-room to kitchen, from thence
to the woodshed, upstairs and down,
and when at last she sat down the
busy whirr of the sewing machine re
vealed that she was not yet idle. From
anuoyance he passed on to thouglitful
ness, and when she drew her chair up
to the light in the evening and began
making buttonholes, he said:
"You have had an unusually hard
day, haven't you, Mary?"
His voice was kind, even tender, and
the wife looked up in surprise.
"Oh, no; rather easier than usual in
fact"
"WOULD YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT
THIS OUTFIT COST VOU?"
"Mary—ahem—er-a-h-e-m—how this
confounded phlegm does stick in my
throat —I've been thinking about that
plan you proposed. How much, now,
does a girl get for doing common
housework?"
"Three dollars a week and found;
seamstresses a dollar a day."
"Suppose, now, I pay you four dol
lars a week and put the washing out;
do you suppose you could clothe your
self and the children on that?"
"I should suppose so, Ephraim, since
I hare never had the half of that
since we have lived together."
"I've been a teetotal eurmudtreon,
Mary, but if you'll forgive me we'll
start out on a new basis this coming
year. Your wages began yesterday,
and I pay my help every Saturday
night."
It was the happiest, most comforta
ble year of Mrs. Greenleaf's married
life. Relieved from the galling neces
sity of begging for every dollar she
needed, like a pauper, she gx-ew young
er and more light hearted, and with
a regular income to plan with she was
spared much of the sewing which had
been so burdensome —buying ready
made goods of lasting material, thus
giving herself more time for reading
and going out than she had ever had
before. She could even buy a new
book occasionally and subscribe for a
standard magazine, a luxury she had
long coveted.
Mr. Greenleaf found the exercise of
justice good for his own soul likewise,
and the pair came nearer to being in
love with one another than they had
been before since the honeymoon. In
every way the change was a house
hold blessing. There was but one im
provement to be made upon it, and
that came later as a natural sequence
—the wage payment was changed to
an allowance, and a stout, matronly
housekeeper took Mrs. Greenleaf's
place in the kitchen, and Mr. Green
leaf became in time, not a model, but
an endurable husbaud, an evolution of
justice.—Mrs. F. M. Howard, in Good
Housekeeping.
—He—"Higbee would have run
through his fortune in a month if it
hadn't been for his wife." She—"How
did she prevent it?" lie —"She spent
it herself."—Brooklyn Life.
—Santa Fe was originally named
La Cindad de la Santa Fe de Kan Fran
eisoo.
A Limited Supply.
GilVisoly—So you are going to marry
another one of those Jones girls?
Henderson—Yes
"You have been manied to two of
them, haven't you?"
"Yes."
"And there are onl3' two unmarried
sisters left?"
"Yes; that's p. 11."
"Well, then, you ought to be careful,
with those Jones girls and not waste
any more of them or they will not hold
out." —Texas Siftings.
Polly's Guilt.
It is not always easy to be generous,
try as one may
"I was mean toGeorgy this morning
when you gave me the bread and but
ter," confessed eight-year-old Polly to
her mother at bedtime.
"Why, Polly," said Mrs Jenks, "I
thought you were quite generous}
didn't you give Georgy the larger
piece?"
"Yes'm," sighed Polly, "but I kept
the butterest piece myself!" —Youth's
Companion.**
Judge Not.
Downton —De Broker must be losing
money.
Upton—Guess not.
Downton—He used to have a luxu
rious third-floor flat, and now I find
that he has moved up to the tenth
story.
Upton —It isn't safe to judge by ap
pearances. Perhaps the folks on the
second floor have a baby.—N. Y.
Weekly.
"COMING TIIRO' THE RYE."
mm
Wmm
Miss Taller—Oh! do look at the beau
tiful view from here, Mr. Shorty.—
Judge.
Great Luck.
Wiggleton (meditatively)—lt is mar
velous the luck some men have.
Hobbs—Any particular instance?
Wiggleton—l just happened to think
of Naudgerly.
Hobbs —Why, he died last night.
Wiggleton—Yes, just twentj--four
hours before his life insurance ex
pired.—Boston Home Journal.
Contrary to Custom.
Chennick—A very mysterious case of
the accidental shooting of a boy by an
other boy with a pistol occurred yester
day.
Dudley—l heard about it. But what
is there mysterious connected with it?
Chennick—Why, the boy that had
the pistol knew that it was loaded. —
N. Y. World.
Establishing a Theory.
"Do you think," said the intellectual
young woman, "that there is any truth
in the theory that big creatures are
better natured than small ones?"
"Yes," answered the young man, "I
do. Look at the difference between
the Jersey mosquito and the Jersey
cow." —Life.
Awful.
Mrs. Catchings (weeping)— Didn't you
hear about it? Mary has run off with
that young Gillington. It's awful,
awful, awful!
Mrs Gadders (a social rival)— Well, I
should say so. Have his parents of
fered a reward for him yet?— Puck.
The Last Resource.
When lbvely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late, she's getting gray.
What charm can then her worst fears Jolly f
What art can wash the sign away?
Tho only way her years to cover,
And hide her age from every eye,
And bring back to her feet her lover.
And ring her Anger, Is—to dye I
—N. Y. World.
BABY WAS WELL BAPTIZED.
Stolen for the ritrpo*e by HOM But Pil
fering (iuatrraala Domestic.
A San Franciscan, traveling through
Central America with his wife and
young babe, rented furnished apart
ments in Guatemala and engaged a serv
ant to act as nurse and general house
maid, says the San Francisco Argonaut
She had been in their service less than
a week when she inquired of the father
if the babe was baptized. He replied
in the negative, whereupon she Insisted
that the child, a girl, would be forever
lost. Within six weeks he had tried
four consecutive servants, but fonnd
that each one would pilfer small arti
cles, and finally determined to get
along without any help. One after
noon, while sauntering lazily through
the plaza, he was accosted by servant
No. 1, who asked if the babe was yet
baptized. "No," replied the father.
"Still unbaptized." "Well," she an
swered, "it is all right, as I stole her
away one Sunday, and the good padre
baptized her, calling her Maria, so her
soul will be saved." "As it cannot
hurt her. and may help her, I am satis
fied," thought the parent, and so dis
missed the subject from his mind. The
next day servant No. 2, with a new
charge bundled in the linen swath on
her back, approached him at the mar
ket place with the oft-repeated query:
"Did you have the baby baptized?"
and to his reply of "Xo" she consoled
him by explaining that she had taken
the little one to the cathedral and had
it named Catarina, so her soul was
saved a second time. Somewhat
amused, the father hunted up and in
terviewed the succeeding servants, and
discovered that the babe had been
stolen to the church by each of them
and quietly baptized. Consequently
the name ran Maria Catarina Margarita
Cruz Eloisa Refugio, besides that of
Emily given by the parents.
LONG MATRIMONIAL CAREER.
A Couple In Hungary Olehrat* Their
Hundredth AnnUemary.
We have all heard of tin weddings,
celebrated after ten years of marriage;
of crystal weddings, after fifteen years;
of china weddings, after twenty; of sil
ver weddings, after twenty-five; of
gold, after fifty, and of diamond, after
seventy-five, or, as some folks celebrate
it, after sixty years, says the Philadel
phia Press. But the scale of celebra
tion does not seem to extend any fur
ther, and one wonders what precious
thing would be selected to give its
name to a wedding recently celebrated
in Hungary—the one hundredth anni
versary of the marriage of Szarthmary
and his wife.
This appears to be a circumstance
which is entirely impossible. But the
marriage of this aged pair is duly and
officially recorded as having taken
place in May, 1794, at which time, ac
cording to the record, they were of mar
riageable age. As in Hungary, at that
time, a bridegroom must have reached
the age of twenty and the bride that of
fifteen, the pair must now be at least
one hundred and twenty and one hun
dred and fifteen years respectively.
The one hundredth anniversary was
celebrated at the town of Zsombolyl in
the town of Banat, which has for a
long time allowed the venerable couple
a pension in recognition of their great
age and fidelity to each other.
Even the oldest residents of Zsom
bolyi have no other recollection of
Jean Szarthmary and his wife than as
old people. No one relation of either
survives Their century of wedded
life is so well and officially attested
that many notables and Hungarian of
ficials attended the anniversary cele
bration and gave them many presents.
SAVING TIMBER IN MISSISSIPPI.
Stringent Mate Laws for the Preservation
of Forest, from Extinction.
Timber depredations, according to
the New York Evening Post, have been
stopped practically in Mississippi by a
law which punishes offenders severely.
There are large areas of forest land
there belonging either to the United
States government or to the state, and
the temptation to settlers in remote
regions to enter upon them and
help themselves to wood was often too
strong to be resisted. When driven
from federal land by deputy United
States marshals, the timber
found refuge in the state forests,
which were not so well policed, and by
moving from the one territory to the
other they contrived to escape arrest.
The federal officers finally became so
vigilant that timber stealing proved a
dangerous business, and the thieves
transferred all their operations to the
state lands. The legislature thereupon
passed the law referred to, and it has
improved the morals of the people so
much that some districts which former
ly were the scene of wholesale depre
dations are now almost free from the
raids of poaching woodmen. The stat
ute imposes a fine of two dollars per
acre for each acre in every forty-acre
sub-division of land upon which any
trespass is committed. For the pro
tection of private owners it also pro
vides that for every tree cut down
without their consent a fine of five dol
lars shall be paid
Odd Phase of Sanstroks.
"A peculiar phase of sunstroke,"
said one of Philadelphia's most emi
nent physicians the other day, accord
ing to the Record, "is that a subject
does not succumb to the attack until
some hours after it occurs. The only
explanation that medical science cap
give is that a sunstroke consists in a
disintegration of the blood corpuscles,
and considerable time elapses befora
the disintegrated blood reaches the
nerve center in the brain which
acto as a governor on the heat
system of the body. The flow o$
the blood finally paralyzes the
heat centers, and the heat runs riot,
raising the temperature of the body
to a fearful height within a few min
utes. As an instance of heat prostra
tion the doctor cited the statistics of
the British army in India, where thq
great majority of sunstrokes take ef
fect between seven and nine o'clock ia
the evening.
An Kxplanatton.
Visitor—You are not looking as stout
as when I saw you last.
Miss Birdie McGinnis —Well, you see,
I've fallen off a great deal of late. I
am learning to ride a bicycle.—Alex
Sweet, in Texas Siftings.
No Regard for the File*.
Fond Parent —It is very cruel of you,
Bobby, to catch flies and put them on
spiders' webs.
Bobby—What for? Does the spider
eat too much and get sick? —Brooklyn
Life.
Bis Preference.
••Which son£ would you rather hear
Miss Warble sing?"
" 'Mariner Bold.' "
"But she doesn't sing that at all."
"I know. That's why I prefer it." —
Judge.
Not to Their Taste.
Wool—Why is it, that flies always
pick out a bald-headed man?
Vau Pelt—Probably they don't relish
Oair restorer. —N. Y. World.
Paid For In Cash-
She (sweetly)— What beautiful rosesl
10 fresh! Is that dew on them?
He (haughtily)— There is nothing due
jn them. —Life.
lla Breaks LOOM' Again.
The Optimist—Now as to woman,
generally speaking—
The Disagreeable Man—Yes, she's
feaerally speaking.—Cycago Tribu««.
REARING QUEENS.
Aa Important Quntiun Amwrrrd by •
Weil-Knowu Apiarist.
I have decided that every colonj
that is intended to be run for com)
honey next year must contain a queel
of this year's rearing I desire goo*f
queens, that my stock may not deterl
orate. In view of the foregoing, what
plan can I follow in order to produce
the best results for a series of years'
The above question was asked G. M
Doolittlc, and he answered as foilowt
through Gleanings in Bee Culture:
I cannot conceive what line of argu
ment could have been used to bring
the questioner to a decision that h«
would not allow a queen over a yeaj
old in his apiary, which was to be rut
for comb honey, and cannot helj
thinking that, when his exp*rlenc«
accumulates, he will find that his de
cision is not well founded; for queeni
which are in their second year do fullj
as good work as younger ones, when
the colony is worked for comb honey,
and often are equally good the third
and fourth yeur. Besides, I find, as a
rule, that the bees will supersede theii
own queens as soon as they begin U
fail to any appreciable extent; and
when the bees undertake this work it
is done much more satisfactorily, all
things considered, than it was when
the apiarist attempts to say: "Tliii
shall be," or "This shall not be."
But if you think you must have youi
own way you can rear pretty good
queens in this way: Kill the old queen
and let each colony rear one from hei
brood. In five days from the time yotj
killed the old queeu, open the hives
and look for queen-cells. In doing
this it is well to shake the bees off th<
combs so that the cell can be easily
discovered. If any are found capped
at this time they should be destroyed,
as they will contain larvae that are too
old to make good queens.
ROOSTS AND NESTS.
Hints Retarding the Interior Arrange
ment of Poultry House*.
The design is to show where toplac«
the roosts and nests, with the view ol
having them away from the windows,
and keeping the hens warm and com
fortable. The roosts and nesta may
also be moved in summer to any other
place on the floor. The space taken
by the "cut-in" portion of the house,
as shown at the window, may be used
outside as a covered shed. The plan
is from Mr. E. A. Hutchins, New York,
who does not favor too much window
INTERIOR OF POULTHT
HOUSE.
space, and who states that the win
dows should be double for winter. For
very cold climates windows should be
close and not radiate the heat The
nests are shown under the platforms,
►the roosts being orer them. The house
may be of any preferred size, and a
number of them may be together,
divided with partitions. The object
here is not so much to give a plan of
a poultry house as to present a snug
and comfortable location for the
roosts.—Farm and Fireside.
The Removing of Coney.
When hive sections are full the work
of removing them is made less hazard
ous by the aid of the smoker that is in
such common use, but too free smok
ing is barbarous and unprofitable.
The cone-shaped bee escape is a device
every modem bee man ought to have.
It is merely a cone made of fine wire
net 8 inches in diameter at one end
and open at the apex, so that only one
bee at a time can pass through it.
This is fastened to a hole in a board
the size of the hive, the -base of the
cone level with the top of the board.
When sections are to be removed, this
bee escape is placed between them and
the body of the hive. The bees pour
into the open mouth of the cone and
descend through its apex into the hive,
soon leaving the desired case clear.
They rarely find their way back
through the escape. It can be put in
place instantly, is effective, and so
6imple that anybody can construct
one. —Farm and Home.
Fowls on the Farm.
It is impossible to get the best re
sults from fowls kept cooped in a
Den, especially during hot weather.
TMsease and vermin get a foothold
among them unless they have ample
range to sun and dust themselves by
contact with fresh earth. A yard, no
matter how small, that can be plowed
or cultivated once a week during the
summer will make a vol ling place for
them. It will be all the better if their
grain feed is given on this plowed
surface, and the fowls obliged to
scratch for it They may lose a little
grain, but most of it will turn up
at the next cultivation, or if it
germinates its green sprout will be
eaten. On farms the better plan is to
let the fowls range everywhere, pro
tecting the garden by a fence, and re
serving that tor hens with small chick
ens.
Killing Lite with Sad*.
Refuse suds from the wash tub will
drive lice from the poultry house.
Make them stronger by adding a
pound of lye to the tub and apply
while hot with a watering pot or spray
pump, everywhere about the coop, es
pecially on and around the roosts. If
boiling hot, the soapsuds can be used
to make a kerosene emulsion by add
ing three quarts of oil to the tub and
running the mixture rapidly several
times through a garden or force
pump. The emulsion is a good lice de
stroyer.
To SET a hen when the weather 1s
hot and dry, a good plan is to put an
inverted sod in the bottom of the nest
Hi* Point of View.
Bilkins—Do you think it is true that
"the love of money is the root of all
evil?"
Noteley—That depends upon whether
she will marry you or not. —Truth.
A*ked Bat Not Wanted.
lie (who has just proposed)— And can
you give me no reply?
And she gave him a "No" reply.—N.
Y. World.
No Doubt.
Nodd —I have been so worried and
run down that I think I shall have to
take a sea voyage.
Todd—lt will probably relieve you
of a great deal. —Brooklyn Life.
Self Torture.
lie—Yes, I admit, I frequently talk
to myselt
She—llow bored you must be. —Alex
Sweet, in Texas Sifting*.
A Georgia Item.
"How's real estate in your neighbor
hood?"
"First class! Six candidates to the
troat foot!" Atlanta CcmatiUition.
.t ouidn't C*e False Key*.
The notion that alcohol may do go*"*]
because for a moment. It *emi to t.o
food WHS well answered by a phy
sician's response to a man who mu
somewhat too much given to the pleas
ures of the table. This man had said
to the doctor:
"W hat do yon think of the influence
of alcohol on the digestion, doctor?"
"I think that its influence is bad,"
said the physician.
"But a little whisky taken just be
fore a meal is the only key that will
open my appetite, doctor."
"I don't believe in opening things
with false keys, sir!" answered the
other.
This response was particularly ap
plicable, for a falsely stimulated appe
tite is a sure prelude to indigestion.—
Youth's Companion.
Killed ,ln*t In Time.
A husband who had been out shoot
ing, but who had not been successful,
rather than return home empty-handed
stepped into a shop and purchased a
hare. "There, my ducky," he said to
his wife on returning home, "you see I
am not so awkward with the gun aftef
all."
"Let me see."
"Isn't he a fine fellow?"
"My dear," said the wife, as she car
ried the animal to her nostrils, and put
it down with a grimace, "you wers
quite right in killing him to-day; to
morrow it would have been too late."—
French Exchange.
Too Free for Him.
"You want to be a candidate?"
"I do."
"Favor of free government?"
"I am."
"Free schools?"
"Of course."
"Free railroads?"
"I guess so."
"Free money?"
"Oh, yes!"
"Free speech at home an' abroad?"
"Look here, my friend! You don't
know my family. Lend me a quartet
an' I'll git out o' the race!"' —Atlanta
Constitution.
None In Stock.
The beggar faltered at the door.
"Have you the heart to refuse me!"
he pleaded.
"No "
As the butcher spoke tho dull expres
sion of despair that had settled upoq
the countenance of the mendicant waj
lightened.
"We ran cut of heart more than an
hour ago."
When he had finished, the dull ex
pression of despair was doing busi
ness at the same old stand. —Detroit
Tribune.
Wlfoy's Opinion of Poker.
The Husband—l was pretty lucky at
poker last night
The Wife—Oh, George, have you been
gamblingagain? You know It is a ter
rible sin.
The H.—H'm —l raked in seventy
two dollars.
The W. —Oh, darling, then I can have
that new hat! —Boston Courier.
Woman'* Way.
"When a man's wife tells a funny
story I'd like to know how he's going
to know when she's got to the point"
"Easy enough. The point's the part
she tells half an hour after she's finished
tho story."—Chicago Tribune.
A Competent Witness.
Mr. Lakeside —Old man, congratulate
me! I'm engaged to that charming
widow, Mrs. Van Wabasherl
Mr. Dearborn Street —With all my
heart! I never had a better wife than
she was.—Chicago Record.
Not the Fattest.
It's not the one who strives the moat
Who cometh out the winner;
The fattest boarder's not the one
Who eats the biggest dinner.
—lndianapolis Journal.
THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST.
|| I!
Sudden Apparition (to Edward, who
has just been accepted)—ls this tho
way to the cemetery? Pall Mall
Budget
Ai Pnsat is factory Liege.
He—l'm not half as bad a husband as
you thought I'd be, am I?
She—No; you've been disappointing
in everything.—Truth.
Wonders Will Never Cease.
A deaf and dumb mute recently went
into a Broadway bicycle shop and
picked up a hub and spoke.—Life.
Not Beyond the Reach of Selene*.
"0 doctor! doctor! I've swallowed a
Albert"
"Swallow a nutcracker, madam. Fife
dollars." —Chicago Tribune.
Anxloo* to Know.
Tommy—Pa, what's ma crying for?
Father —She can't find her teeth.
"Is that the reasen the baby cries
to much?" —Life.
An Unsettled Relationship.
Marie —Is that Chollie's sister?
Louise—No. He hasn't proposed yet.
—Kate Field's Washington.
The Csual Way.
"How did Oldenrich start in life, any
way?"
"He was born." —Life.
Indicative.
"What makes you think Jack Young
ley is going to propose to you?"
"Why, we were dancing the other
night and I complimented him upon
the easy way in which he held me. 'Oh,
yes,' he said, 4t's always easy for me
to hold my own.' "—Brooklyn Life.
A Mitigating Circumstance.
Brown—Did you hear that young
Benedict suddenly became deaf on the
very day on which he was married?
Robinson—You don't say so. That
shows that there is a silver lining to
every cloud, no matter how dark it
may be for a time.—Tammany Times.
A Few Vears Ilence.
"Ah, Maud Weatherwax," exclaimed
the young man, weeping bitterly, "yon
never would have dared to talk to me
in the manner you have if I had a sis
ter to defend me! Coward!"—lndianapo
lis Journal.
Out of His Lite.
Ada—Flo was just going down for
the third time when Dr. Watson ftived
off a yacht and caught her.
Grace —And saved her lilel Wasn't
that wonderful!
Ada—Yes, for a doctor.—Life.
Musical Item.
A.—So your dog has gone away ag*in (
h£ts he?
B. —Yes, since my daughter has been
taking singing lessors there is no such
thing as keeping him on the premises,
—Alex SwnVULXßttLe&lPfffc