V OLXXXII Both Trumps And Trumps Lead— f 1 Q ur j |ne D p me Shoes I jj A J ought to draw \ou to to the inspection of B j F | their merits Piices U ML have touched the bot- LOOK! At Our Prices. Men's Tan Shoes that sold at i ."o go at o. Men's Tail Shoes that s.iM .: "> go a; Men's Tan Sho s that s>>.d a: » '5 K° at Bov > Tan hi:-.. » that so'... at f. v "• ? Men's Calf Shots that sol«i a- *1.50 .u" a'. - v -.00. Men s Everv I>av 6'n< ts that 50... at <.1.25 go at 90c. Bov's Every Day Shoes that sola at ft.oo go at 75c. Grandest Htirpiins Ever Offered. Ladies' fine pa'ent t > -hoes at «.»x\ Ladies' flexible sole !a 'e and button at Jr.jo. Ladies ru>sett shoes hand turns at JJ.OO. Ladies' m-s rtt shoes ii-.-el or sp nig at > .00. Women's heavy tip shoes Si.oo. Women's heavy shoes button #'.oo. Missis heavy shoes in 'ace or button at 75c. Children's selioo! slio'.-s 50c to 75c. Owing to the material advance th -manu j 'tti- vs hav • ulvan - l 011 a!l tlieir goods—but as our la "-4 ■ ail and wir. > vv. "1 :s a 14 d :ly was bought before the adv.lll lam now prepared to siiow .h • -4 >t 1 -ic oi reliable Boots and Shoes evei «:o ii;'.n to 1! L'.!^-. . -IKI at sti hlem . ... i!v "o\\ p:. < thai you are sure to buv. Our - o 'ic la: ye ami eouip. I ~ oi Men and Boy s heavy Boots: of rubi>er goods; Complete stock of l-'e'.'. Boots and Shoes — Also line 01 warm !:u d Shot - ami Shop -Men'- Wum-u s ami Misses' heavy shoes in all material's ami all at the old LOW Ie H. When 111 Butler call and see me. Mail o:dc s receive prompt attention. JOHN BICKEL, lUJS IS \fciin Si reet, BUTLER, PA. Branch Store |2 5 N. riain st, 1/\DD :/.!.> in Mil- .11 aiMi I. flange t'liderv.' av at gre,.tl; * ' Reduced 1" . s. * AN<). Hi. l ; Cut tn MiUtnerv! Any flower in tlie house for 7ctj. Another table oi 9c ribbon—you will find this just as good as we sold last week. %% %% LL ot our LINhN and SILK GLOVES AT HALF-PRIC A* im M. I-. ct M. MAI IKS, 113 to 117 S. Main St. Have you SSO. We will give you for it, a nice top Buggy and a set of our own make Harness. Have You $96. We will give you for it, a .lice Canopy top Surry and a se' of our own surry Harness for one horse, and proportionately cheap for two ho r scs. These are bargains never seen before and not likely to be offered soon again; therefore come quick. Yours Etc., S. B. MARTINCOURT, J. M. LEIGHNER. s. B. MARTINCOURT ft CO., 128 E.Jefferson St., Butler Pa. BUTLER COUNTY Mutdil Fira Insurance Company, omce Cor.Main & Cunningham AI.K. WICK, Pre* GEO. KfcTTKlttft. »i.p Pres. L. S. IcJli-IKII, Sec'jr aud Trca«. DIREC i'OKS Aifre I Wick, Henderson Oliver, 1 r. W. Irvln, laint-s Stephenson, *•. \V. Blackmore, N. Weitzel. F. Bowman, H. J. Kllogler Geo. Ketterer, ( has. Kebliuo, G eo. Renno, .John Koeninij LOYAL S. McJTJNKIN. Agent. JOHN W. BROWS. V. A. ABRAMS. ABRAMS & BROWN, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance, HUSKLTON BL-ILDIJifI, NBARCOCRT HOUSE. BUTLER, P/. Insurance Companv of North Ain®rica. 102ilyear, A *9 363 000; Home •<"' N PW York, Amen SO. tflO.OOO; Hartford ot H*r:- fo'J, Assets $8,645,000; Phißnix ot Brook lyn, Assets J.V500.000. New Y< rk Uuder writers' Agency, - THE Bl I LKR CITIZEN. Seanor & Nace's Liveiy, Feed and Sale Stable, Kear of Wick Butler, Pa The best of horses and first class rigs always on hand and for hire. Best accommodations in town for permanent boarding and transient trade. Special care guaranteed. Stable room for sixty-five horse?-. A good clas3 of horses, both driv ers and draft horses always on hand end for sale under a full guarantee; and horses b Might upon proper noti ficati »n bv SLA NOR & NACE- All kinds ot live stock bought and sold Telephone at Wick House. A Good Appetite Indicates a healthy condition of the sys tem and the lack of it shows that the stomach and dij;estive organs are weak and debilitated. Hood's Sarsaparilta has wonderful power to tone and strengthen these organs and to create an appetite. By doiug this it restores the body to health and prevents attacks of disease. Hood's SarsapariSla Is the oi.ly true blood purifier prominent ly in the public eye today. fljslxforfo. u„_ ,1 »„ n; j I . nOOCI S Fills li. e. A drmtKlMi. . HEINEMAN & SON, 0 * | SUMMER J 9 ii> ftp!' L' » I 'IN ' FOU V WiiV I I keep fou - ' to go o ** * I I • t rtf 1 loinoniaii > *£ i 1 »nd f; V" ii" !-*-:• a ii re ■ £} I laiiiniock. tZ "5 * We bave -he !»-,-,t * PQ \ an<i fine-* {inn r V & z* llctniniocks f2i o V * ft, I :J-. f eve! biouuh; .. Bi< * ■" Wall I'aper Jfcl 2 J fr.r. t?\ < J . P... ; SI I'AL'KLIS. » = yf « ■ \Vh H- 1 I e '* - f __i 0 ce ebi « ed i? ~{ KA.mijij:!; J? J I;K'V( LI:. < r r $ € € jfHi * * / (I * { iW HEiNEMAN A SON. out f $ To Quit J Business.*; J Wall Paper at less Jone-half cost. £ 4 l ine papers at the pric •of common cheap ones. £ The largest stock of \Paper in the county to l;> ssold out either Wholesale < > • Retail, at — a JDOUGLASS' J j Near P. O.j £ a JN. B.—Wall Paper ha>J tale within two months. & l %■%■■%■-%■ %%%-%.'%% -a. Hotel 18. Reopened and now ready for !>■ •)in u)l»tioi o r tao :ir ei'ug put. c. Everything in first-class My'e MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owae- M H BROOKS, Clerk. e. ; - D D." SUMMKR (}i>odw are in demand DO > iu V ord« r to get ,he be.-t ot'. ,'i S >! / r w'f provide everything need / > tul iu order to be cool and c ui £ . fortable. N Hats end Furnishings f. r ✓ / Men Boys and Children ui<- X \ onr specialties and we only $ ( an inspection of our good?. 1 C We know they are ealisfae ✓ Colbert & Dale. Hotel t> li 1 ler J. H. FAUBEL, l'rop'r. This house has been thorough ly renovated, iemodeled, and re fitted with new furniture and carpets; has electric bells and all other modern conveniences fit guests, and is as convenient, as d desirable a home for strangers ;.s csn be found in Butler, Pa. Elegant sample room for use o ommercial men Staple Groceries | ' j 1 1| Should be not only staple in name, biJ staple in quality, freshness and purity as well We never buy inferior qualities because tliey are cheap. The volume o our business conies from low prices that are made possible by selling quantities 011 close margins—etc. HENRY MILLER Opposite P. 0. HTTTLKH. PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1895. AFTER. Laugh ao<s sing when I am gone, Gayly deck my tomb; Well ye know I do not love Aught of blight or gloom. Laugh and img and drop no tear; Deep the sod below It would please me best to thtnlr. Tear* had ceaied to flow. Gathered round my tent of green. Tell your tales of mirth: Oh, be happy, as am I. Sleeping In the earth. And remember as you go Homeward through the grove. That the robin's, not the raven's, Is the voice of love. —Chicago Record. A MOUNTAIN HERO. BY W. J. LAMVTOX. . , T — IMBLATCH | MAN was a fc- moonshiner. Later ho be /BffM came a murder / er and swung / I II for it, but just JyS the same he was a hero of the unusual sort. Living in the mountains of the Cum berland as he had since his birth, it was not to be expected that he could be of the higher type of manhood which tradition assumes to be found mostly along the broader paths of civ ilization. yet Jim ltlatchman was not found wanting when the time came, albeit there was a strange jumble in his ignorant mind of what constituted heroism. At least it may be called heroism, though Jim didn't know it by that name. But to the story of it, Jim was a young mountaineer of twenty-five, tall, looselv coupled, sal low of face, slow of speech, devoid of grace, and still havirtg a heart in him which for a year or more had been wont to beat as a trip hammer when ever his eyes fell upon tlio pleasant face of old Z ke Munyon's daughter Martha. And it was noticed by the gossips of the Fork that Martha rather favored Jim, for he owned a little farm wijh a hewed log house on it, and Martha, be ing ambitious in her social nature, felt that a hewed log house was none too fine for her feather. True, she had not been accustomed to the luxury of hewed logs as house material, for her father's residence was only of logs in the rough, but this lack rather inflamed her ambition and made her wish the more for those things which she had not. Neither had it any appreciable effect upon her conscience that Jim made more money selling the "moonshine" that he made than he did selling the crops that he made. It was the end, not the means there to. which »ost interested this moun tain maid. To Jim, however, these slight dis crepancies of character did not appeal. He was iu love with Martha, and when a man is in that condition nothing else counts. So time trotted on, until the wedding day was almost in sight, and Martha went to the county town to spend a day and buy herself a calico gown and a few other "weddin' tixin's." Bad day for Jim. At the tavern where Martha put up 6ho met lne-looking fellow, notofthe mountaii , who was a deputy United States marshal by appointment, and a "revenoo" by mountain title. Usually the love of the mountaineer for a "revenoo" is not of the kind that passeth understanding, but Martha's ambition led her in advance of her peo ple, and she looked kindly on the offi cer and listened with many a blush to his pretty speeches. When she left for her home the officer told her he would come to see her, and Martha was so pleased that she forgot all about Jim. Whether the officer was in love with Martha or not may not be known, but it is known that he came to see her; that he came often; that the oftener he came the better pleased he seemed to be, and the upshot of it all was that Jim felt called upon to speak to her about the officer and his own relations to the then existing situation. '"Tain't that I don't like you, Jim, jist ez much ez I ever did," she said to "I'LL KILL THE HOUND!" him, "but you ain't like the captain." "But you wuz lovin' me afore you seen him," argued Jim. "No, I wuzn't, Jim," she admitted. "I wuz tryin' to, an' makin' you be lieve I wuz, but thar wuzn't no love thar. Leastways, not like this I've got fer the captain." Jim got up and walked the floor. "I'll kill the hound." he said, and Jim had some experience in that line, and knew what he was talking about. "You might ez well kill me, too, Jim," she replied to this threat, "fer what kills him kills me." Jim sat down sobbing with a grief greater than he could express. "Oh, Marthy, Marthy," he said, after a few minutes, "to think that you wuz more'n everything in the world to me, and that thar wuzn't nothin' else I keered fer ef it wuzn't you, and now you havfi giva it all up fer a stranger, aud him a revenoo." Perhaps it was not such a burst of emotional eloquence as the more civil ized man could have poured forth at such a time, but there was all of Jim's heart and soul in it, aud there can be no more than that in any human utter ance. After a long time Jim went away, and when the officer came on his next visit Martha talked to him of this old lover of hers, and the officer smiled softly to himself. He knew Jim Blatchman by reputa tion, and was anxious for a personal acquaintance. Martha could bring about a meeting, and Martha did. It took place near Jim's moonshine factory in the depths of the mountains. Notwithstanding the deputy was look ing for Jim, the meeting was a sur prise to him and to the one man with him. So surprising, in fact, that be fore the officers knew exactly what had happened Jim had them both covered with a Winchester and their hands were up in the air quite out of reach of the guns they carried for such emer gencies. "Who are you? What do you mean by this outrage?" stormed the deputy marshal, not, how r ever, taking down his hands to make gestures with, for Jim's Winchester seemed to forbid that. "I'm Jim Blatchman," replied the moonshiner, quietly, "and reckon you're the feller thftt Marthy loves," go added, gulpicg down a lump in hl« throat Whether the officer loved Martha did not appear to be taken into Jim's ac count. "That's none of your business," re torted the deputy, who bad plenty of nerve or he never would have held the position be did. "I reckon 't ain't." said Jim. meekly, thinking of Martha all the time. The deputy was restive. "Well!" he exclaimed, ''"when are you going to let up on this?" "And that's none o' your business," said Jim, with only the very faintest V\L fel - :, ' t JIM HAD THEM BOTH COVERED. ahadow of a smile on his sad and sal low face. "That's a on me," laughed the deputy, nervily. "I nope, how ever, you won't make it an 3* longer than you can help, for my arms are getting tired." Jim passed this sally in silence. "I reckon," he said, gloomily, "that you and yer pardner thar come pokin' 'round here fer me. didn't you?" "That's about the size of it," admit ted the deputy, frankly. "I reckon you know what a revenoo gits when he gits ketched in these parts, don't you?" The deputy lowered his hands just a hair's breadth. "Don't do that ag'in," warned Jim, "er you'll make me fergit my dooty. What will they do with me elf I kill both uv you'uns?" he went on. "Hang you as high as Hainan," promptly replied the deputy. "Ef it's only one of you, will it bo the same?" "Exactly." Jim smiled at this as if justice were somewhat of a joker. He stood as he had been standing since he had stopped the two officers, with his gun at his shoulder, then without a word of warning a sharp re port rang out and the man by the deputy marshal's side dropped dead in his tracks. The deputy was almost unnerved by the awful suddenness of it, but he never flinched. Jim threw his smoking Winchester at the deputy's feet. "I'm yer prisoner," he said hopeless ly, and then with a nod toward the dead man, "it wazn't him that Marthy loves." And thus Jim Blatchman vindicated his honor as a moonshiner, and re moved the obstacle in the path of Mar tha's happiness.—N. Y. Sun. Suicide of a Brave Oi<l Bait. China's fleet is now a thing of the past, and many gallant men have per ished with it, striving vainly to save their country's credit, with fate against them, and handicapped by cor ruption, treachery and incompetence on shore. Chief among those who have died for their country is Admiral Ting Ju Chang, a gallant soldier and true gentleman. Betrayed by his country men. fighting against odds, almost his last official act was to stipulate for tha lives of his officers and men. His own he scorned to save, well knowing that his ungrateful country would prove less merciful than his honorable foe. Bitter, indeed, must have been the re flections of the old wounded hero in that midnight hour, as he drank tho poisoned cup that was to give him rest. —Commander McGiffin, of the "Chen Yuen," in Century. —The Wesleyans were named from John Wesley. They were called Meth odists in derision because Wesley and his companions methodized their time in order to conserve it and do the more work. In England the Primitive Methodists are called "Ranters" from their habit of preaching on the streets or in public places or wherever they can get an audience. —lllinois is first in broom corn, with 15,932,30J pounds. EXPENSIVE NONCHALANCE. Experience of an Innocent Xounjc Man with a Hungry GirL A certain young man living on the North side went out to call the other evening upon a young woman of his ac quaintance whom he especially de lighted to honor. He was quite a young man, says the Chicago Tribune, and his experience with florists had been neither deep nor varied. It oc curred to him, however, on this partic ular evening to stop at a flower mer chant's and choose some blossoms for the pretty girl towards whose home he was wending his way. "Give me a bunch of roses," he said, carelessly, to the man of nosegays. "Yes, sir; how many, please?" "0, a couple of dozen or so." In a-few moments they were ready, and the purchaser was feeling in hi 9 vest pocket for a two-dollar bill to pay for them. "How much?" he asked be fore the bill made its appearance. "Eighteen dollars, sir," replied the florist's assistant, with what his hear er said afterward seemed diabolical glibness. The young man felt giddy for a mo ment. lie had unwittingly selected roses that were seventy-five cents apiece. But, as has been said, he was very young, aud it seemed to him a very serious thing to go down before that flower clerk. So he paid his money aud took his bouquet, "and," he says, "I spent the next hour watching a pretty girl nibble and chew up eighteen dollars' worth of Happy. " I'm almost ready, dear!" she cried. With joy I walked the floor; I knew I'd only have to wait About one hour more. —K Y. Herald. A TERRIBLE REFLECTION. fi I _U ' IE4I "Yes, it's just too awful to think I've got to grow so old that gents won't make room for me in the cars!" —Life. PLAYED A LONE HAND. How a Western Conductor Col lected Fares from Cowboys. ... i, HOSE who /C**. I blame thetr fiTnrTL P failures to r . - * Providence or £gSRSB* t, "ir fate, or what ■ ,** ever they may V H ' choose to call -i®.: their Creator— those individuals, sir, are idlers or cow ards." The speaker %vas one of a group of men lounging on the deck of the Great Northwest, which a few hours earlier had commenced her slow, upward progress against the ictghtv current of the Yellowstoue. That he did not be long to either of the classes he con demned was written in the mingled resolution and complacency of his sun burned visage, his right to "teach as one having author ity" was established among his hearers bv their knowledge that he was a prosperous ranchman of county, Montana, returning from an eastern visit. Therefore, most of them, who were beginners on the path along which he had journeyed success full}-, bestowed upon his rather arbi trary assertions an attentive silence that offered flattery's subtlest incense to a talker who preferred monologue to conversation, and "story telling" to any form of speech. It was a prefer ence he had acquired during many a night watch beside camp tires, when, like a masculine Scheherazade, he had told his stories under the conviction that ultimate safety depended upon his power to amuse his companion s until the stress of suspense which tried their nerves should have passed. "We all get our chances," he re sumed, after a puff or two at hia pipe and a pleased glance around the ob servant circle. "It is our fault, not the Lord's, if we don't keep hold of them. That is a truth, youngsters, as solid as these everlasting bluffs"—with a wave of his hand toward the lofty walls of green which shut in the Yel lowstone from the prairie world be yond. "Chances that may look a« full of sting as a chestnut burr, but that hold sweet kernels of success for the man who has the pluck and the clever ness to grasp them! And I'll tell you a story with that text if you like—a story which shall be new, though the text is a chestnut." There was an acquiescent laugh, a drawing nearer of camp stools, and the ranchman cootinued: "It happened some years since, be fore the Northern Pacific had crossed the Rockies. The terminus that sea- son was at Zenith City, and the class of travel which demands luxury didn't come beyond Bismarck, where the company economically shunted the Pullmans before rushing away from civilization. So the train whichstarted from Zenith City one November morn ing was made up, as usual, of a pas senger car, a box car and the loco motive, while its quite unusual num ber of travelers was composed entirely of a party of twenty cowboys. They had just been paid off for their sum mer's work, and had begun their holi day on the previous evening with an all-night spree. Hut amusement in a prairie town was not varied enough for them. They meant to go east for such a length of time as their cash would endure; though it was burning in their pockets to get spent, they were resolved not to waste any of it in railway tickets—a resolve of which they informed the conductor when he came to them about half an hour out from Zenith City. He was a young fellow, as were the cowboys. Everything was young in Montana in those days except the sky and the prairie, which are eternal, or seeoj to be. The chap Lloyd, how ever, was slim built, with a color that changed like a girl's—threatened with consumption then, though he has got the better of that as of other disad vantages —and very queer he looked HE STOOD, VERY PALE ASD STILL. among the big, brown, brawny roughs, who left their card-playing to swarm into the aisle, or lean over the seats nearest those of their comrades who had answered to his request for tick ets that they had none. " 'The company will take money for fares also,' said Lloyd, without glancing at the gathering crowd. " 'When the company can get it,' somebody chuckled. " 'lnvariably,' Lloyd asserted, 'or the passenger who refuses to pay it is put off the train.' " 'You don't say? Suppose you try. Here are Tim and me to begin with! And the whole earful after us, for not one cent of our earning is goirv? into the money-bags of your swindling company!' " 'That's so!' " 'You bet!' " 'Not a chip!' "Lloyd listened to these pxpressions of general determination until they came to an end. Then he was consid erably paler, but his eyes had grown uncommonly bright. " 'You will hurt me much more than the company,' he said, when he could get a hearing. 'I shall lose my place if I don't collect your fares—' " 'That is your lookout!* " 'We ain't going to tell your loss, if you keep quiet!' "Lloyd's shining eyes turned from one to another of the twenty tall fel lows lounging around him, so sure of the trumps they held that they were in no hurry to finish the game. "There Is a greed for tormenting animals which disfigures most human nature from Spanish bull-baiters to those rat-fighters down east. We are not without a touch of it here in Mon tana. And that the tormented animal belongs to our own kind adds a keener relish to the fun, when the party do ing the tormenting has swallowed as much bad whisky as the cowboys had that morning. So those bright eyes of Lloyd's didn't meet any more encour agement than did Father Noah's the first time he took a squint at tho flood through one of the portholes of the ark. "Without speaking, ho stood, very palo and still for a moment, looking at the open pocketbook in his hand, while they all stared at him, grinning and jeering. There was a firmness about his mouth that didn't suggest unconditional surrender to two or three who watched him closely and who were much surprised when sud denly the color rushed back over his face, and, shutting his book with a snap, he went out of the car. "lie was followed by roars of laugh ter and facetious yells. "Then the crowd retur&ed to poker playing, some of them just a bit dis' conteuted with their victory and uiut teriDtf that twenty to one wa* too odds for any chap, 'specially a slim little chap with fists which couldn't hold their own against a 'kid.' " The story teller interrupted himself with a chuckle. "They counted fista, you see, and forgot to take stock of brains. Ilow should they gruess that the man they had put to proof carried more brains inside his handsom# head than fur nished the twenty of them, though they were not fools, either? "A quarter of an hour later the train stopped, not gradually, but with a jerk which sent poker chips flying. There was a cowboy hali ..c.tof every window in the car quicker than you cor 11 have cocked a pistol, for stations were sel dom within a hundred miles of each other in those days, and they all knew that this stop wasn't regular. "Behind and before them the track 6tretched as far as they could see. while on both sides the prairie spread away to the low edge of the gray sky, . jj. -teHT * "TOU HAVE JUST FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE CP YOUR MINDS." which wasn't aay grayer than itself, lonely as the ocean, sir. and infinitely more silent. Not a sound or a move ment, except that of the locomotive whisking off at full speed. "In came the cowboj's' heads with a volley of hard swearing, and there stood Lloyd In the doorway, cooler than 1 am this instant, holding a six shooter. " 'You have just five minutes to make up your minds," he said, and his voice was as steady as his eyes. "Will you pay your fares like honest men or get out and tramp to the next settlement, forty miles from here? Our engineer is waiting within hail of us, and he will not come back uuless I give hiui the order. Oh, you may murder me if you choose!' he cried, stepping further into the car, as half a dozen pistols were grabbed. 'l!ut I can shoot as straight as any of you—l don't mean to die alone —and at the sound of the first shot our engineer will be off to Bismarck.' "For one long moment the prairie wasn't stiller than that carload of ex cited humanity. If Lloyd had even blinked! Thank God, he didn't! Ihen a big fellow broke into a laugh, took his pistols from his belt, and laying them on a seat walked toward Lloyd, holding out his empty fists. " 'Shake!' he said. 'That was a lone hand! And pluekily you played it!' "From Lloyd's side he faced the lot of them. " 'Boys,' he cried, 'a chap who can look straight down the muzzles of so many cowboy shooters for the sa"ke of doing his duty, that chap will make the kind of partner most of us want to yoke with, if he will let us, eh?' "Lloyd smiled, slipped his pistol into his pocket and gave his slim fingers to the other's brawny grasp. "Well, sir, all crowds are alike, whether cattle or men —they follow a leader. There was a cheering pres ently which astonished the waiting engineer. Then the fares were paid as fast as Lloyd could tako them. And that is the end of this story." The ranchman paused, and began carefully to relight his pipe, which had died out. "Where is Lloyd now? In Helena, state senator from county," he answered an eager questioner when the pipe was again in working order. "Where is the fellow who stood by him?" he laughed jovially. "Neither he nor his whereabouts point the moral of this tale. But, when Lloyd runs for governor, as he will next year, he shall have ray vote, for he runs to win in any race he enters. And that is my creed of life, boys—'the Lord helps those who help themselves' —l've seen it, and 1 believe it!" —N. Y. Tribune. "OLE DAN." He Had a Close Call, Bot He Wasn't Quite Licked. There is an old raftsman on the Sus quehanna river whose proud boast it is that he has never been whipped in a fight. This means a good deal, for the sturdy rattsmen are all splendid speci mens. Fights over the most trivial matters are of daily occurrence. "Ole Dan," as he is called, says the New York Journal, has now grown very feeble and rheumatic, but he is never tired of recounting his exploits as a fighter when he was a young man. The old fellow always stoutly affirms that he has never been licked, but after a good deal of pressing he can sorae l times remember that he once came i very near being soundly thrashed. "Yes. sir, the nearest I came to be ing whipped was over twenty years ago. I was carting a load of logs up to ! the mill one powerful hot day in Au gust. The sun was a-sliining fit to j sizzle your brains. As I was goin' along side'of a wood which threw a shadow just half way across tho road I met a man in a buggy coming straight at me. " 'Turn out,' sez he. " 'Turn out into the sun yourself,' sea L "Well, after that we came to words, : Bimeby we came to blows. "We fit till the sun went down and j then I turned out." "Oh, you did turn out for him then, Dan?" "Yes, when the sun went down the shadow was all over the road. I didn't eare then. That was tho nearest I ever came to being whipped." How to Acquire a Bass Voice. Ferrari, the celebrated composer, re | lates the following anecdote in his i memoirs: On a cold December night a j man in a little village in the Tyrol ! opened the window and stood in front of it, with hardly any clothing to his I back. "Peter!" shouted a neighbor, who was passing, "what are you doing ' there?" "I'm catching a cold." "What for?" "So I can sing bass to-morrow at church." —Baseler Naclirichten. Financial Statistic ■». Jeremy Diddler You called me a ; dead beat. You must take it back, sir, j or suffer the consequences. Col. Percy Yerger-rl never take any ! thing back. "You don't?" "Never, str, do I take anything back!" "All right! You are tlie man I've been looking for. Lend nie half a dol -1 lar." —Texas Siftings. Out of It. I have a little maiden friend Who never, never playat She's most sedate and prim, and has Such quaint old-fashioned ways; She never dreams of romping round. Or playing torn-boy trlcka, She's such a quiet little nifcld. And her age la fifty-six. —Puck. THE BICYCLE FACE. Its S«-\«*n*l llornbl«* Detail* Carefully Auntjznl and Kliplalned. 11l these i lavs of athletes every form of sp« >rt seems to develop some variety of disease, liaseb&ll t-'avers become afllieted with that nsyiitrious mr»«.linw ailineut known as "charley horse."* Devotee* of tennis acquire "tennis elbow." an undesirable species of mus cle stiffening. Bowling makes the practicers arm-bound, and even writing, which isn't so much sport a-s it might be. occasionally is followed by writer's cramp. Of course, the latest mania must have its little ill to bear it com pany. says the New York Sun. and here It is fully portrayed. It is the bicycle face. The bicycle face is the discovery of a doctor who rides the bicycle with his face, as well as his feet, lie discovered it first on other people, then on him self, and finally ca;::e to the conclusion that everybody who goes forth on two wheels acquires the expression in which the new term is applied. This expression may be divided into three parts: 1. A wide and wildly-expectant ex pression of the eyes. 2. Strained lines about tlwj mouth. S. A general focusing of all the fea tures toward the center. Scientists took hold of the matter and advanced theories about it. One learned man said that the bicycle face was the result of a constant strain to preserve equilibrium. l"p popped an other scientist, who stated tha* the pre serving of equilibrium was purely an instinct, involving no strain, and that if the first man knew a bicycle fram a bucksaw he'd realize it. Thereupon the first scientist said that the ssconW had a bicycle brain, and hundreds took sides in the discussion. A prominent bicycle academy instructor here is posi tive that he has solved the seeret. The three component partsof the expression he ascribes to the following causes: The phenomenon of the wild eyes is acquired while learning the art. It is caused by a painful uncertainty wheth er to look for the arrival of the floor in front, behind, or one side, and, once fixed upon the countenance, can never be re moved. The strained lines about the mouth are due to anxiety lest the tire should explode. Variations in these lines are traceable to the general use of chewing gum. The general focus of the features is indicative of extreme attention direct ed to a spot about two yards ahead of the front wheel. This attention arises from a suspicion that there Is probably a stone, bit of glass, upturned tack, barrel hoop, or other dangerous article lying in wait there. It is temporarily lost when the obstacle is struck and the bicyclist's face makes furrows in the ground, but reappears with in creased intensity after every such ex perience. A UNIQUE REVENGE. The Trick a Pauenger Plared Cpon a Grouty Railroad Official. At a station on one of our great rail road lines there is a gate-man noted for his gruffness. One (lay there came a man who lived on the line and had an annual ticket. The gate man always passed this passenger without troubling him to show the ticket; but one day, beinp more than usually he ordered him to produce it, adding, in a severe tone: "Miud, I want to see this every time you take a train." A weOV later, at two o'clock in tlie morn ing. the gate-man was aroused from a sound slumber by a ring at the door bell. Looking out of the window, ho saw a man in a great state of excite ment. "Come down, quickl'' he cried. "Railroad business!" The official hur ried on his clothes and came down to the door. "I want you to look at this ticket," said the visitor. "I'm going on the three a. in. train, and 3*ou said you wanted to see the ticket every time." The gate-man uttered an ex clamation of rape, and slammed the door, without even glancing at the ticket; jfbd, furthermore, he never afterward asked to see it at the gate. An Egyptian Wonder. One of the greatest wonders of an cient Egypt was the artificial body of water called Lake Moeris. According to Herodotus "the measure of its circumference was thirty-three hun dred furlongs, which is equal to the en tire length of Egypt along the sea coast." The excavation, which was made in the time of King Moeris \the Memnon of the Greeks and Romans), was of varying depths, and its center was occupied by two pyramids, the apexes of which were three hundred feet hipher than the surface of the water. The water for this gigantic artificial reservoir was obtained from the Nile through a canal, which Six months of the year had an inflow and the other six an outtlow, corresponding to high and low water in the river. The canal gradually filled with sand and the lake has long since evaporated, but the bottom is still one of the most fertile tracts in Egypt. Drunk In • Coffin. An incorrigible drunkard was being treated in the Tenon hospital, Faris, for hallucinations. One evening one of the nurses was passing through the dis secting-room where there were lying two or three empty coffins, and, walking close to one of them, a hand was thrust out from under the lid and caught the girl by her dress, and a voice from within called out: "I say, where are you going to bury me?" The girl screamed with terror, and fled through the passage, calling for help. Half the house came down around her, and when they heard her story they laughed and chlded her; but she maintained tho truth of it so persistently that they re paired in a body to the chamber of hor rors. 'When they opened the door they saw to their great amazement a ma ft sitting up in a coffin. It was the drunk ard, who by some means had made his way to this room and conceived the idea of getting into his cofiin before his time. The girl was made seriously 111 by the fright. A DECEPTIVE SIGN. Farmer Woodbine Now. liuldah, that man told us 200 was down about here; there's that sign over the door that says there ain't no 220.—Texas Siftings. Mary's Lamb. And everywhere thai Mary went That lamb was at her heel; It couldn't do It now. you know— For Mary ride* a wheel —Louisville Courier-Journal. TSTo 33 CIGAR-CASE BEARER". Danger ta the Orchard* of the Country from a New Peat. A comparatively new pest of fruit tree* is the insect called the cigar-case bearer, which last year probably ranked next to the bud-moth in Xew York in desiructiveness. Owing to its small size and peculiar habits, the in sect in any stage will be rarely noticed by a fru"!t-grower, and yet the second one of the curious suits or cases wjfich the little caterpillar wears is conspicu ous enough to reveal its presence to the casual observer. It appears as a moth from about the middle of June until about th« middle of July, and lays its eggs on »hi» leaves of fruit trees. After a couple ef weeks these hatch to mi ante caterpillars, which at once cat through the skin of the leaf and mine in the tissue, leaving a tiny trans parent line behind them. Aftfcr a couple of weeks or more they cut small bits out of the leaves and roll them into minute tubes or cases within rtOAB-CASE BEARER. which they pass the winter. They cease to- feed about the middle of Sep tember and do not begin again until about the middle of April, having passed the winter attached to the twigs of the tree. After feeding awhile they mal:e a second and larger case, shaped like a diminutive cigar, and from which they can stretch forth the forward part of the body and, eatin.ir ft circular hole large enough to admit the body, commence to eat out the sub stance of the leaves, leaving the lower and upper skins Intact It still retainn Us cigar-shaped home and retires int it when at rest or disturbed. In June they cease to feed, fasten themselvc . to'the leaf in a short time ente. tho chrrsslls stage, from which thv moths issne. These cfgar-like objects can be sc.- i moving over the leaf of a plant, al though scarcely more tlyin one-fifth <> an Inch in length, and when disturb 1 the little creatures retreat Into the : The first indication of the insect", presence occurs on the swelling bud of apple, pear or plum trees. Two or three have often been seen on a sin -1 bud busily at work eating holes i:. them no larger than a pin. The work on the expanded foliage is seen in si:e ' etouized dead areas, which have no; • their center a clear cut round ho' • through one skin, usually on Hi under side of the leaf. The cater.)!: ■ lars also often attack the growing frr.i The Cornell station says that the i - sect can probably be kept in check 1 two or threo thorough sprayings i paris green, if used at the rate of o, pound to two hundred gallons of wat The first application which may be e - festively combined with the Border.:: . mixture for the apple scab fungi: should be made as soon as the lilt' • cases are seen on the opening buds. second and perhaps a third applicatii . may be necessary*at Intervals of fr< . four to seven' days on badly infest . trees. Tliese.sprayings will also che«. . the bud moth. It has also been foui. . in Canada that a kerosene emuL>i< ; spray applied'at the same time as . • rected for paris green is a still Kit. , effective «heck upon the case-bear; and will probably be so on the b • moth In" pear orchards this inse : a the psylla can be checked by . spray of the same emulsion when t - leSves opening. It should be i - b*wa4 tiat a fruit tree ou;; ta"in'-aprayed when in bios- -i >mt-_in any case will < - mMf WJiftSHßtirely upon the the - Vh Ich the work is do:.. ORCHAR'D AND GARDEN THE ski* of the banana MALIC beautiful fiber from which fine cl< . may be manufactured and the juieo the banana makes (rood vinegar. llow MANY bushels per acre v.. : blackberries yield, we are asked. Th can be murte to yield 100 bushels nnO favorable circumstances; as we reec. ly stated. THE fruit growing possibilities of I country are immense, and it may : most be said that no section ha. \ ; fully readied itslimitof fruit grow! possibilities. THE healthy, vigorous plant is in R;> free from insect depredation an i <1 case than a weak plant Hence i .<• wisdom of feeding and caring fcr plant so as to insure vigor. MANT of the tree claims of the w. ' look like a burst boot, all o.:t o." shape. Growing trees as a sped::! y is not advisable under any prit. . As a part of farm industries t growing may often be done with p; it PEon.E sometimes write us t' spraying for apple scab has not l>. > effective, and in some instances have ascertained, upon investiguU that the spraying was not thorou . enough. The tree should be thorou ly drenched with the Bordeaux ni . turc. —Farmer's Voice. Desperate. "Why was I born a queen?" .-lie waHed. Amid all these trappings of state mourned. "Why was I born a queen?" With an.energy sprung from desp tion she seized again her crown,: I tried onee more to bend it into ar proximatlon of the prevailing sliap Detroit Tribune. An Arromuodatluc Domciti". "Why didn't you come when! ra haW a Texas lady to her servant. ."Because I aidn't heah de bell. '■ " plied Matilda Snowball. "Hereafter when you don't h< ;ir .o you must come and tell me so.' "Yes'm."—Texas Siftings. Uow HP Gets FTPU. Nuwed —Yes. My wife always In sists upon giving me a box of c'.gai i my birthday. Dick—Great Scott! I don't see I • >\v you can stand that. N'uwed— That's all right, old ! give them to her father and broth- : - Brooklyn Life. Scrloua CAM* "WhyT" asked Dismal Dawson, ! itig over the fence, "why do you 1. > on diggin' when the boss ain't K: ou H • "Because 1 really like the j ' the new farm hand. "Got a real likin' fer work?" »'l»uref" "You'd orter take treatment."-In-
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