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.
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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.
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Hotel 18.
Reopened and now ready for !>■
•)in u)l»tioi o r tao :ir ei'ug put.
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Everything in first-class My'e
MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owae-
M H BROOKS, Clerk.
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ord« r to get ,he be.-t ot'. ,'i S >! /
r w'f provide everything need /
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N Hats end Furnishings f. r ✓
/ Men Boys and Children ui<- X
\ onr specialties and we only $
( an inspection of our good?. 1
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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
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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
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"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-