VOLXXXII We now have a larger, finer and better se lection of Surries, Buggies, Harness and everything pertaining to a driving or team outfit than ever before. Call and see us before buying. S. B. MARTINCOURT & Co., 128 E. Jefferson St., Butler Pa. P. S.--Prices will never be lower than just now. Kramer Wagons. READ and REFLECT. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY—With the dawn of prosperity just be fore UB and the improvement in business notwithstanding. We sometime ago decided to close out onr entire Btock of Men's Boys' and Childrens' Clothing, which we will continue to do at prices that will be to tbe advan tage of all desiring to purchase clothing No matter how little or how murh money you bave to invent, we know it will be hard on the Clothing business. but as we are determined to close out we cannot help it Onr Btock is the largest in the county. Men's fine black worsted pants all wool only $2.00 We have more pants than any two stores in town. Oar children's suits are marvels of beauty; all the late novelties, such as the Regent, Euclid, Neptune Columbia.Reefers, Jerseys, Kilts < ' say, no use. 1 'tended to that busi ness Silicate as I knowed how; but no use: a waterhaul, out an' out. He'll understand." fTo BE cmrnciD.) WOMEN IN BRICKYARDS. Many An Employed In CHLO age at Rough Labor. The statement made the other day at the Chicago trade and labor assembly that women and young children worked in Chicago's briokyards appears to have a touaaaiion in fact. A visit was 14- lo to various brick, yard and, although oa!/ one woman Was found at work, this was simply be cause the yards quit work at ten o'clock la the morning. No one connected with the In dustry denies that women work in the yards, but say their work Is mostly what la technically called "backing" brick. This consists of turning the brick* over and piling them up in rows. It does not sound like very hard work, but when it comes to either stacking 01 turning over thirty thousand bricks a day it will be seen that the task would tax the back of many a man. Most of the rough labor is done by Poles, and it is said that thia is mostly the race which allows its women to work in the yards. Contrary to expec tation, it is neither widows nor single women who do the work, but the wives and mothers of families, who labor In the yards right besido their husbanda. Not much can be learned from the employes themselves, but the police who have traveled around the yards tell bad tales. They say that it is no uncommon sight to see little girls turning bricks who are so tired that they crawl on all fours from one pile to another. Their backs are bowed and bent and they cry when they try to 6tand up straight. The women, for their work, are paid six dollars a week. The children get three dollars—or, rather, their parents get it. Owing to the hours in the yards tho sahool inspectors can do nothing because most of the children attend afternoon school. Work at the brick yards begins at half-past three or four o'clock in the morning and is over when the sun gets hot—about ten o'clock. Then the little children Can go to play or go to school and the mothers can go to their house work. They have earned a dollar and a half. Women and children have only been employed in the yards recently. There was a general strike among the brick makers a few weeks ago on account of the manufacturers not paying the union sc.ale of wages, and women and children have been employed to take the places of the strikers. SHE WAS DISCOVERED. When Mr*. B '• Cat Was Let Oat of the Baf It Old Some Scratching. 1 Mrs. B was summoned to the door one morning by an old-clothes man, says the Detroit Free Press, but she resolutely told him that she had noth ing for him until he took out an old chamoia-skin purse, and, 6n opening It, said: "Look, lady, 1 gif you gold for any old things what you got to sell." This was too much temptation and 600n she had the contents of her ward robe spread out for his inspection. Her heart misgave her, though, for her hus bana had positively forbidden her ever to sell any of her old clothes. She only hoped he would never find out, and with the money she could buy such fine new ones. There was one gown that she did hesitate to part with. It was a flowered with a big bow at the side and long aash ends of (fartreous ribbon, and Mr. B particularly lntea dress, because she had served afternoon tea in 1% for him often during their en gagement. However, the man offered a good price for it and it went with the rest. I When Mr. B came home in the evening his wife had a guilty look as li something lay on her conscience. But she ascribed it to a headache and the old-clothes deal remained a profound secret. A week or two later Mrs. B aslud her husband to do the marketing. Bne usually attended to thia herself, but was going to have company and could not spare the time. Mr. B accordingly took the market basket on his arm and went from stall to stall purchasing supplies, when sud denly he saw his wife standing near him, haggling over some vegetables. "Great Scott!" he said, under his breath. "And in that teagown, tool 1 'wonder what next?" He stepped up to her and gave her a vigorous rap on the back. The next moment he saw moons antj stars. Whack, whack, whack! came the blows from a castiron fist and a shrill voice screamed in his ear: "You impudent wretch, 111 teach yon to know a lady when you see one! Take that and that and that!" He escaped with his life and hurried home for repairs. The cat was out of the bag and it had scratched him se verely, but never, never again will Mrs. B sell any of her old clothes. F«»tratlon of Ballet* In Snow. Some curious tests have been made lately of the penetration of projectiles in snow. According to the report In Cosmos (Paris) the Lebel rifle was the weapon used, and some snow heaps, from one to two yards thick, were placed on the firing range, situated near Aurillac and fired at from a dis tance of fifty yards. It was found that the bullet had stopped at a depth of about five feet. It is believed that the great velocity of the projectile and its rotation (2,600 turnsi attracts to it par ticles of frost and minute icicles, which end by forming a ball and practically annihilates its penetration. Corinth Canal Not a Great Saceee*. Owing to the insufficient width of the Corinth canal, the steepness of its sides and the current, which at times be comes exceedingly strong, none of the great steamship lines of the Mediter ranean sea have yet adopted this route, although it would result in the saving of much time, and, consequently, ex pense. Under the circumstances, it looks very muoh as if this enterprise, begun abovt the time of Nero and brought to a termination only about two years ago, is destined to result in • financial failure. Too Muoh Curloalty. First Colored Gent—Dat's a mity fine pa'r ob pants you has on. Whar did yer get 'em, and what dey cost yer? "Huh, dey mout cost me two years in de plenopotenshiary ef I tole yer," re plied colored gent No. 2.—Tammany Times. Hid Already Been Cleaned Oat- Chappie —The funniest thing hap pened to me last night. I was held up by a highwayman. Chollle —I don't see anything funny in that. Chappie—But I had just been to the churcn bazar before he did it. —Judge. Moat Take Their Chance*. "What do you think of these eggs?" whispered the lean man. "These eggs," responded the fat boarder, whose occupation was that of advertising clerk in a newspaper office, "are too late to classify."— Chicago Tribune. satiifled. Father—You must know, sir, that my daughter will get nothing from me un til my death. Suitor (pleasantly) —Oh, that s all right, sir; that's all right! lhaveenougb to live on fof 91;, threeyears.—^Puck. AMERICAN lIONKEY3. Some Varieties Pound in the Bra zilian Fore eta. HablU and rarnllarltlaa of th« lal#rNt ins Little Crwlnru That AaoN the Visitor* at Our MOM ana Monkeys that are seen in museum and menageries in this country art chiefly from South America, although Africa is fairly well represented. Euro pean naturalists who hare seen and studied the American monkeys only in captivity in the countries of thewriteij invariably refer to them as less intelli gent and less playful than other mem bers of the great family. These writers appear to forget that Judah cannot 6ing the songs of Israel in a strange land. These children of the wild woods of the American tropics never fully re cover from the pains and terrors of an ocean voyage, and they are shocked out of all gayety by the and damp ait of Europe. He who has seen them rollicking, leaping, riotously playing, chattering, and grinning in their native wilds, and who has observed the acute nesa. intelligence, astuteness and se cretiveness with which they make a raid upon plantations and orohards is ready to swear they are the most mis chievous, playful and sagacious crea tures in all the earth. Their resem blance to man is absolutely startling, the baby chimpanzee, not the adult, alone of all the old world group offering anything to compare with them. This resemblance becomes more striking when, as consumption advances, the face grows pensive and melancholy and seems to have the agony of a soul written upon the wrinkles and lines of the countenance. The writer shot one only, a coaita (atelep paniscus), in a big forest a few miles distant from Para, in Brazil, and the memory of the deed still broods as an avenging Xemesia. These creatures, says the Chicago Tribune, are found in greatest numbers along the upper waters of the Amazon, but they range nearly or quite to the Atlantic seacoast. They have long, coarse, glossy black hair, while their faces are a reddish flesh color. They are thumbless, like the African colobos, and exceedingly agile. The most curious of all the American family is the genus of howlers (mycetes). These creatures correspond in a meas ure to certain of the gibbons, which appear to sing in a sort of unison, while the howlers really do so sing l . They make a chorus whose swell runs oul! three or four miles In every direction and causes an imaginative person to think that every beast of the forest Is engaged in a deadly contest and putting forth his most tireless effort to frighten away his adversary byresounding cries. The lagothryxes offer a species, the caparro, whose features are startlingly like those of a negro, the head being round and large, while the face is ebon in its blackness and entirely naked. It is scarcely more than half the length of the howler, but it is said, unlike all other South American monkeys, to fre quently stand upon its hind legs, and when it does its resemblance to the negro is complete. Indians hunt and kill it with a blowpipe, out of which they shoot little poisoned arrows. The caparros travel about a great deal, chiefly from tree to tree, and on these journeys the mothers carry their young upon their backs—not in their arms, as is the ordinary practice of monkey mothers. Probably the most intelligent and certainly the most tractable of all the American monkeys is the chameck, a native of Brazil. It soon learns to recognise and lore its master and is capable of superior training. The creature is striking and, indeed, very pretty for a monkey, the fur being long and falling down gracefully over the body and limbs and being nearly uni formly black in color. Like all the new world monkeys thus far named its tail is its fifth hand, and, indeed, is far more useful than any on e of the other four. Representatives of the large families of spider and capuchin monkeys are what one sees most in collections in the United States. They offer great va riety in coloring and size, but are by no means the handsomest or most in telligent types. The capuchins are red faced, round-headed, small, active, graceful and long-tailed. They con clude the prehensile tailed grouping, and are followed by the dainty and exceedingly pretty squirrel monkeys, the highest type of which is the golden haired (chrysothrix). The night mon keys are those queer-looking creatures, the marmosetos, and the list, the latter always a favorite among monkey fan ciers because of their winning, gentle and affectionate ways. Monkeys are—well, monkeys. They look like men, often act like men, ana some of them behave better than cer tain members of human society. Un* less one have a deep-seated fellow feeling for all the creatures of God he had better be content with occasional visits to the monkeys in the gardenq and museums. Too constant association ■with them is rather trying to one's p*- tience and the amuslngness of their tricks, which are usually repetitions, does not repay one for the mischief they do or the petulance they exhibit. Take them all in all, man has no special reason for showing pride in trying to trace a family relationship with them. The monkey opinion of this matter is yet to be expressed, however. Blfh PrlcM for BUSH- Very high prices, in some cases the highest on record, were obtained for postage stamps at a recent London sale. A Ceylon four-pence rose, un used, brought $050; a Mauritius post paid two pence blue, $460; a Cape of Good Hope one-penny blue, error, SBSS; four-pence red, error, 1280; a reunion 15 centimes, first issue, $230. Two hun dred dollars each were paid for a New Brunswick violet 1-shilling stamp and a British Guiana yellow four-cent stamp; nineteen other stamps were sold for SIOO or over each, and eleven for SSO or more. Ftoilnln* Saftdty. M IV» a great mistake," aaid a phlloao pher, "for a poor man to go into politics unT.m he is sure he can make a living at it" "That's very true," replied the phil osopher's wife, "but it seems tome that a man who could make a living at politics oould get rich doing most any thing else."—Detroit Free Press. Bt Hid Not Forgottan H#r. "Before passing upon you the ex* trcme penalty of the law," said the Judge to the miserable wretch who stood in the dock, "I wish to see if you Lave a spark of feeling left in your hardened breast. Do you remember your mother?" "I should say I did, your honor," re- Elied the prisoner, a shade of an oyance creeping over his face. "I once slept in a nightshirt that she made me."-c Truth. Uk«d it. "Say," said the deputy, "I put No. 711 on the treadmill eight hours ago as a punishment, and 111 be dingea if he ain't goln' on jist as chipper and happy as can be." "Why, of course," said the prison warden In tones of disgust. "Didn't you know that the feller was sent boffl for bioycle stealing?" lndianapolis Journal. Kvldtolai Strlfs. This maddening strife Mikei many arms aoke; The duller thfl knife m\ hnV ' ]STo2S PLAN OF DAIRY BARN. CoßTenivnt Structure for Farmers Who Have Xo Money to Bora. The plan of a barn shown here will accommodate 10 to 25 cows, a few horses, tools and machinery. No one barn can be just what will meet the needs of different farmers, differently situated, but this plan has been found very convenient after several years' use. The plan presented is one em ployed in the dairy region of lows j and will apply elsewhere. The strong points in its favor are convenience, Comfort, economy of labor in filling, j feeding', cleaning out, easy access to j to the different kinds of forajje and | cheap construction. First, make the main part, or hay barn, long enough to hold all the hay —clover, timothy, millet, sheaf oats, Corn fodder or other similar food. The frame is spiked together, the posts and braces being of 2xß inc'r stuff and -the rafters 2xo inch. T1 ts are 0 feet and the rafters 3 The braces are 12 feet r.pnrt ai. .t --ened to every second post and fourth rafter. The roof will not sag and the walls will not spread, lastened to gether in this way. A hay fork runs the whole length and there are no crossbeams in the way. The braces, or ties, partially divide the whole hay mow into twelve-foot sections. These sections are easily filled in any desired order and fed out lu any order just as easily. For convenience in feeding, this plan is unsurpassed, as the forage from each section can be thrown direct into the feeding alley. Hang a steel track for hay fork in the roof peak. Another feature of this plan is that only so much of the barn need be built |~ STOC*