VOL. XXXIII UnoflltAii'o FALL AND WINTER SHOES n UoCl lull 0 An La ~ fu ' WE SHOW YOU More Stylish, Servicable. Lower Priced Footwear Than Any Other Shoe House in Town Besides The Greatest Variety to Chose From. You can examine every particle that goes to make this line o. roI P T t * le bottom up. We show them in everv style of toe—Bui Dog. Razor Net-die an< L*jn don, Double Sole ami Extension Edge. They are up-to-date. Patent Leather, Enamel, Cordovan, Willow Tan Calf Besides this line our Men's Working and Dress Shoes at SI.OO, sl*2s, f r 50, J2.00 and (2.50 are great values and find ready sale. J Boys and Girls J Set 001 Shoes—Made strong, servicable, stylish, heel or spring. fi/ I They are water and cold resisters; they will V"-, carry a boy or girl a long road to school. St /-TV Y|. We have them in oil grain, kangaroo, box oj, and crack-proof calf, kip, unlined, veal calf, f V. in butto.i and lace, at 75c, ji.oo, f 1.25, $1.40, and 1.50. Ladies Fine Shoes in all the newest las*.s, i all widths,at 85c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, |2.00, , £ $2.50 *3 00. See our welts, heavy soles, at \\. \v r —■ J] 12.00, *'? 50 and 13.00. * ': W Led irs'Warm Shoes and Slippers, flannel ■ t 'j^Vl! line«l, at 45c, 50c, 75c, ft. oo and 11.25. \ —1 They ;re Crumbs of Comfort. \ M "** ~ >J_'/ Men's and Boys' Boots and Heavy Shoes, high or low instep, box toe or plain. Men's at 75-. SI.OO f 1.25, ?i.50, $2.00 and 12.50. Boys' at 75c, |i.oo, f 1.25 and $1.50. cTCc» ' If ycu war.t good, servicable Footwear ht one price and where your dollar will buy as much as your neighbor's dollar will, go to -Header's Leading Shoe Housed Opp. Hotel Lowry. B. C. HUSELTON. BICKEL'S 12S Sonth Main M. We Have Moved^ into oui new store-room with a large stock of all the latest styles in Fall and Winter Footwear, our large stock was never so large as at present. Ow ing to the large orders which we placed with the manufacturers, we bought our stock lower than ever before and can sell you good valuable footwear much lower than ever before offered. Oi.r large store offers many accomodations, seven experi enced salesmen in attendance A stock twice as large as before to select from, a stock of all new goods fr» sh from factory including all the latest and up to date styles. Full Stock of Rubber goods of all kinds. Full stock of Felt and Knit boots with either leather or rubber overs, warm lined shoes of all kinds, leggins in all sizes. Large stock of Ladies, Misses and Children's oil grain, Kangaroo Calf and Kin waterproof shoes. Mens' working shoes of all kinds and at low prices. Mens' hand made box toe boots and shoes. Boys' high cut kip shoes, warranted waterproof. Our winter tans. Pebble grains and Dongola, Cordovans, Porpoise and Patent calf shoes in all the new toes, no matter what style you may want we can suit you and at lower prices. We Have Included in our new building a special depart ment for making shoes to order and repairing shoes fitted up with all the latest machinery so as to do work rjuick, neat and substantial. Four experienced shoe makers ready to do your work while you wait. In This Big and Handsome Shoe Store, every day bringing us new customers who take advantage of our large assortment and the low prices we are offering, shows that the people appreciate a large stock to select trom and low prices to buy re'iable footwear. TEACHERS We welcome you to visit our new store, whether you wish to buy or not If you are neiding shoes we can show you a large stock to select from and special prices will be offered to teachers during Institute week. FOR THE LATEST STYLES IN FINE FOOT WEAR, CALL AND SEE US. JOHN BICKEL, BUTLER, PA Mrs. J E. Zimmerman Special Announcement. I' * ul ' entire stock of XJ> Fall and YV inter im /portations in Milli ? n ery (11 -ess goods Sladies and Misses /Jackets, Caps, Col tM f larettes and Fur ef j|| i | feets are now in. We have a most complete assortment of these, .ill depart ments filled to overflow with the most desirable and choicest styles we have ever shown at \ery attractive prices. We never affix our signat-ire to any statement that we are not positively sure is true, our old friends and patrons know this and to those who do not know us, we say j'ive us a trial We will not disappoint you. jVlrs. J. E. Zimmerman; i Successor to Ritter & Ralston. Anf Friday, Saturday, Monday, 15, 16, 18, SPECIAL SALE OF FINE MILLINERY! \ Bonnet* at $3.00, $4.00 and H5.00 Worth *5.00, f>.oo, and \ C Hati at *>>.oo *7.00 and $9.00 Worth 17 <«., and sl2 <«.. f / Child reus Hats * 1.50, $2.25 and $3,00 Worth *2.00, *2.75 and *3.75. / Ladies Natural Wool Underwear at 75c the kind you have been paying SI.OO for. M. F. cS I M. MARKS, 'ij.toj 17 South Main Street, Butler, I'a. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. No Gripe sTh*n you take Ilood's Pills. The big. old-fa*h loned, sugar-coated pilia, which tear you all to pieces, are not In it with Hood's. Easy U< take Hood's and easy to operate, is true of Hood's Pills, wh'ch are 'II _ tip to date in every respect- 111 Safe, eertain and sure. All ™ druggists. 25c. C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell. Mass. Tim only Pill* to a. in Hood's sarsaparilla. | RAILROAD TIME TABLES. PENNSYLVANIA Ri s L. Westirn "ernsylvama Division. Schedule in Effect May 18, 1890. South, —« Wee* Days —— A. M. A. M A. M. P. M. P M' Bltlkr Leave 625 Sue 11 20 245 s#". Saxontrarg. Arrive 654 825 U43 310 82* duller Jc't... " 727 H v OK MM BH Builer.le t.. ..Leave 730 84* 12 12 335 553 Natrona Arriv iii Through trains for the east leave Hti tn~jf (Union Station) a:; lo'tous:— Atlantic Expr«si*tf, daily .3 10 A. .V. PennjyJvaiia Limited " .7 15 " Day Express, " 7 30 Muiu Line Express •' ... .8 00 ' biladelphin Exjjrßf " ... .4 30 P \ Eastern Express " .7 'is Fast Liue " 810 " For detailed infnrni&tiou adore s Tli F. Watt, Aft" WeM' .'li 10' n c /ittil Ave iit.ll Mill litil Id .-I , Pnvliu. * /a. S. .V, FKEVO.Vr, j K (tHj'jrai lt»nap«r l/or.'l !'*•<■ r A*»- pITTSHUKG & WhSTiiKN ■- Kailwaj. Allegheny Short Line. Schedule in eflect, July i'j, 1896. utler Time, Depart. Arrive Allegheny Aeconiinodaf ior. r. 2ft am >25 am Allegheny Flyer h \~, m lOUO'iri \ krofi Mitll « 15 am 7.; urn Newcastle Aecorn ' s <:> mui \) £, mi. Allegheny Aecoino U» »>5 mi t/. pm Allegheny Kxprens ' 256 pin; * r ».'i pm Chicago Express ... .i |'iu u pm Allegheny Mull « 0.1 pfli 7 .0 |l||| Kliwootl Aeeomo *; ■ pm 7 .> pm CMt'itgo Kxp/ess 6 0T» pin U •£* am Allegheny Kxpress , h no pm Kane ancl Hmdtord !«• 05 am :» 20 pn * larlon Accomo f» 1 im! 9.10*111 Poxburg Accomo ' in h as .»». SUNDAY THAINH. 1)*-Forest Jc t. 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In days bygone men held your ccming dear And deemed you children's spirits from the dead. Come back beloved-and lo*Tng year by year Unto the homes wfeonai first your souls had fled. knd as ye hovers A Fond «-ars did listen to your twittertng sweet— Earb that had yearned—ah. many a time—to catch The well known patter of departed feet. Besting upon his scythe, the toil worn swain Would pause awhile to mark your wheeling flight. And mem'ry's ear was quick to catch auain Your merry, mingling shouts of mad delight. The mother's eyes grew moist as round caoh spot Endeared by tender ties ye circling flew, [t soothed her grief to think ye ne'er forgot The once familiar scenes your childhood knew. M 'Twas there," she mused, 44 their tiny hands did weave The fragrant cowslip hall, the daisy chain. Twas there they wondering watched at silent eve The glowworm light his lantern in the lane." Each night they sought their rest, well pleased to know Their darlings 'naath the thatch were nes tling near. Fond love their lot did ease of half its woe. And sympathy aye sweetened sorrow's tear Then welcome, swallows, to my homely walLs! Tidings of comfort to our sires ye told, Aud still to ine your coming now recalls Like memories to those it brought of old. For many a well loved child my dreams have bred, Whom young ambition did of hope beget. And some are dying now. Some long since dead, With you, sweet birds, return and greet me yet. —Will Hill in Chambers' Journal. DUVAL'S ESCAPE. It was a red letter day in my life when I was first put in charge of a "passenger." I'd worked my way up by successive stages from the post of cleaner in the sheds, and, being always a steady going young fellow, had reach ed the topmost rung of the ladder sooner than most. There was perhaps an extra incentive in my case, as I was courting a little girl who was, she had told me, only waiting till I earned enough to make me the happiest of men. To be sure, I had a rival, Ernest Du val by name, who was "something in the city" and possessed the showy at tractiveness and the art of insidious flattery which sometimes iuro fickle minded women to forsake the true metal for the glittering dross. I must own he occasioned me some slight cause for jeal ousy. Still, secure in the knowledge of our mutual love and knowing Alice to be u sensible little girl, I was, on the whole, as happy as most chaps who seo their sweethearts but once or twieo a week. She had told him on more than one occasion wanted nothing to do with him, tint in spite of her obvious dislike he persisted in persecuting her with his attentions, and only tho day before tho incidents happened which I am about to relate I liad found it neces sary myself to display tho linger of Alice to him with my ring upon it, to his ill concealed chagrin aud evident mortification. On the next night I was, as usual, or dered to take out tho sleeping saloon ex premi to the north. My mate had won rod the couplings, the old engine was pant ing and snorting like a thing of life, as if eager for tho coming journey, and tho bustle on the platform had subsided. The signals were right, and I had my hand on tho throttlo, only waiting for the "Right away!" when, just as tho green light was displayed, a call rattled into the station, from which an excited man hastily jumped. Flinging some money to the driver, ho rushed along the platform anil sprang into tho first compartment of the train, the one next to tho engine, just as 1 pressed the lever and my fireman had loosened the brake. Wo had hardly begun to move when another man, who had been waiting on the station, in the shadow of u pillar, and whom I knew as Detective Jobson of Scotland Yard, sprang to tho carriage, and ejaculating, "Thought I should nab you here, my beauty!" endeavored to enter. I was busy getting under way, but my mate told mo that the man in the carriage struck tho detective in the face and thrust him off the footboard. His hat flew off in the struggle and fell between the platform and tho moving train, but the officer, determined not to lose his quarry, was up again in an in stant, and, though tho carriages were flying past him, he had sprung upon the footboard of tho last coach, heeding not the cries of tho excited porters and ter rified onlookers, and just as tho train lleared the platform we saw the guard lean forward from the open door, and, grasping the man by tho arms, assist him into the van. Tho fugitive in the first coach saw the detective's disap pearance also, and his bloodless faco blanched u shade paler. "Great snakes!" exclaimed luy fire man, drawing in his breath with a sharp his* ' 'That was a narrow shave. Jobson means to have that chap some how, and have him he will. I wonder what he's wanted for. He'll never reach the landing stage this journey, that's a dead cert!" "No," said I. "They'llhove him at C'rewo right enough. Poor beggar! He mi*l" a desperate tight for it, anyhow I" The "sleeper," as we called it, was timed straight through to 'jji wn with out a stop, doing the 158 miles in 1) hours and 6 minutes. There we left it to atmt\er engine which would be waiting to take it 011, but we should re turn with the "up" express later in the morning. I knew t.. las soon as we reached Crewe ther< would be a crowd of policemen waiting to search the train from end to end. Jobsou was up to his work, and tho telegraph would bo click ing its warning message a moment or two after wo bad passed through the first station. it, was not the only capture by any means I had witnessed this astute officer make, and tin despairing faces of the men, rohi>'d • f the la 1 hope of escape, the shallow i.l tli" eriminal II already up'.n them. ' a;..e mi., my mind as we rushed p.i 1 Willesd. 11, and, looking backward lor a moitu nt through the fitful light, I saw the fateful piece of paper fiuttir from the del'-ctivo's hand. The officials would understand the vigu 1 licaiic.' of that scribbled message, and unless Providence miraculously in terposed the man was doomed. To leave the train as it. flew through the night at the rate of 50 miles an hour was impos sible. One man had done so once, but his lusly was found, mangled Isyond recognition, lying on the track in the morning. There was no cscapo, aud with such passing thoughts 1 dismissed the matter and concent rated my atten tion on the work in hand. Huddenly 1 was startled by an ejacu lation of horror from my mate. "Book, Ben," he shouted, his eyes starting from his head as he gaxcr] into tli- dim whu'b surrounded tho i- lik' a haze. "Tho fool will kill T turned, and, though I prided mys=elf on my steely nerves, the sight that met my eyes sent a cold thrill dewn my back and made me lean a "'n> \?he brake for support- The man had swung himself out of tho end carriage and was endeavoring to work his way in face of the terrible back draft toward ns. Every moment I expected to see him torn from his pre carious hold and dashed to pieces on the lines, but with the tenacity of a leech he clung to the handle of the door, while he leaned forward to grasp some new support. Suddenly a distant roar burst on our terrified ears. My mate turned, his face as white as milk and the per spiration standing on liis forehead. "Merciful powers," he screamed in a harsh, discordant voice, "the up mail! Heaven have mercy on him!" And he hid his face with his hands as with a deafening shriek we flew toward each other and crashed past in the darkness. But above the din I fancied I heard the wild scream of terror as the wretched man realized his horrible peril. It was a full minute before I could turn my throbbing head to look behind. With a feeling of sickness that was new to me I peered through the gloom. "Thank God!" I ejaculated fervently as the blood rushed through my veins once more. There, with his body pressed flat against the oscillating surface, still stood the man who had been so near to an awful death. Slowly he moved his head in our direction, and with an ex pression of grim resolution he pulled himself together. With bated breath we wondered what he would do next. As far as we could see his way was stopped, but, undeterred, he steadied himself, and reaching forward felt round the cor ner of the coach. Unexpectedly his hand encountered one of the steps by which the men mount to the roof, and, though we could not see his face distinctly, we fancied he set his lips in a terrible smile of accomplished purpose as he clutched it and with a despairing effort pulled himself to tho end of the footboard and round into comparative safety on to tho couplings between the tender and the coach. "By Jove!" Bill exclaimed when at last, the tension removed from his nerves, he could speak. "He's a good plucked 'un and no mistake. But what's his game, I wonder?" "The madman is comiug on to tho engine," I hurst out excitedly, divining his intention as I saw his head appear for a brief instant above the coal. "Anyhow, we can't see him commit suicide without raising a hand to stop him," he returned and began to scram ble over the coal, where I saw him presently stoop down and grasp tho man, dragging him with an almost su perhuman effort on to the tender, where he Sank down utterly exhausted. Coming forward, my mate threw open the stokehole, with the intention of re plenishing the fire, and the ruddy glow from the raging furnace within lit up tho tender from end to end. "Good heavens!" I ejaculated as my gaze met the haggard faco of the rescued delinquent. "Ernest Duval!" And my nerveless hand fell from the polished lover. "Ben!" he gasp.(l wonderingly, his wild eyes encountering mine as he struggled toward us. My lips refused to frame tho questions that tumuitunnsly arose to them, and my mate silently handed me his can. "Take a drink," he said curtly, "and pull yourself together." I complied readily. The cool draft brought me round somewhat, and I re sumed control of the engine. "NOW. Mr. Du'. 'tl," 1 "perhaps yoti will be g ->u' enough to explain the meaning of the little game j'ou'vo been playing tonight. But let me tell you, if you think you've furthered your chances of escape, you're wroug. " "Yes, mate," Bill sternly remarked, "you haven't done a lot for yourself by coming here." "Hen!" he at last jerked forth, gasp ing for breath, his bloodshot eyes wan dering round the cab and into tho dark ness as we flew along. "Ben—l've been a fool. You saw tho detective on my track—he's in the train now. I've been betting—and, you know—the books at the office—found out this morning—I've fled for my life—but you'll help nw to give them the slip, Ben?" And the shiv ering wretch fell down helplessly and cliisptd my knees. "Don't talk nonsonse, man," I an liwered roughly. "What you ask is an impossibility. My duty as a servant of tho company is to hand you over to the authorities, who will bo waiting for you at Crowe. Besides your own sense sin HI Id tell you there is no place to hide a child here." "Oh, yes," added my mate grimly, "you're every bit us bad oIT as if you was sitting on them comfortable cush ions in tho carriage there! I wouldn't give much for your chance." "But you can help mo if you like," hti screamed, his eager face upturned, and tho hunted expression of a wild animal at bay in his even. "Blow up the train a little. You can do it. I've money—l will give you £6O, £'1(10 anything you like!" And he pulled out iv handful of glittering golp "It can't be done, 1 tell you," I re plied, shaking myself free from his grasp. "Get up and be a man. You've made your bed and jou Will have to lie 011 it. No man nn this earth could get you out of this scrape. Ho make the best of it.'' Heeing that I was immovable, lie turned his attention to Bill, and 1 saw him proffer a handful of gold. My (Ire man turned Ms back and busied himself with ills duties. "Its no use, matey," I heard him say. "If Ben says it can't bo (lone, it oau't, and that's the end on it. I'm sorry for you, for you're a rattling goisl plucked un." The despairing creature detected the tone of commiseration in Bill's voice uml redoubled his wild entreaties. "If it could be done, I'd tlo it," Bill murmured. "I've got a wife and six kids to look after at home, aud that brass would crane in useful, but theerl" Ami he cast his eyes around the tender. Buddenly they lit up with a peculiar light, and, turning to me, he said apol ogetically: "Ben, I don't ask you to have any hand iu this at all. You knows nothing about it. If the worst comes to the worst, we forced you to silence, but all I says is this—will you five me a chance to g. t the beggar off? think I can do it without danger to you or me. All I asks you to do is to know nothing about it. What say now?" "Well, Bill," I remarked, "I bear the fellow no love, as you can see, but if by keeping silent 1 can do you a gnod turn to the tune of JL'SO you can depend on me, though I must say I don't see how you can possibly do the trick." "You put yotir money 011 me," In. returned smilingly as ho griped my hand and retired to the end of tho ten dor with Duval. Wo had left Stafford behind some time since, and, if nothing happened, should run into Crewe in another 26 minutes or so. Having lodo Bill's work as well as control tho engine, I hail my hands pretty full, and during the next ten minutes I was fully occupied. At the end of that time Mill rejoined mo and threw open the furnace doors once more. I looked round the engine. Duval had disappeared! Not a vestige or sign "* ' ' remained, but Bill's pocket bulged considerably ana his grimy race was expanded in a broad grin. A few minutes later we slowed up at our destination for tho night. There they were, just as I had expected—one policeman at the station gates and five or six stationed along the platform. Be fore we had quite stopped out jumps Jobson and rushes up to the train. As the sergeant threw open tho door of the compartment Duval had occupied we saw an expression of consternation cross the face of the bewildered detective, but, quickly regaining his composure, he superintended the examination with practiced eye. My mate had unfastened the couplings, and we were just off to the sheds, when Jobson approached tho engine. "Ben," he queried anxiously, "did you see anything extraordinary on the way down? I've been sold nicely and no mistake." "I don't have time to see anything except signals ahead when I'm in charge of an express," I returned unceremoni ously. "Did you see anything, Bill?" "Can't say as I did," Bill answered artlessly. "Have you lost your man, Mr. Jobson?" "I have so, replied tho officer. "I ex pect he dropped off somewhere." "If he did, he's agoucr. for certain," said Bill. "We were never under 60 since we left Willosden. " "I'll look along the track for him going back," I remarked. "Are you going on or back with the morning mail?" "I hardly know," he returned disap pointedly. "Well, thank you, anyhow. Goodnight, or rather good morning!" And he made his way to the telegraph office. We returned his salutation and steamed off to tho sheds. "What did I tell you?" said Bill joy ously. "We drop him outside and let him take his chance." "Then he is on tlio engine?" I asked as wo pulled up. For answer Bill got off and went to see if the coast was clear. Returning in five minutes, he proceeded to the rear of the tender and carefully lifted up n large piece of coal. Underneath was the head of Duval! Bill had artfully walled him in against the side, and in such a manner as to defy suspicion, little bits being scattered about In the niorft natu ral manner possible. Quickly he was rescued from his uncomfortable position and stood up as black as a sweep. Bill gave him a drink from his pannikin, and then conducted him off the engine and round the back of the sheds. Did I ever hear of him again? Oh, yes! About two years afterward a letter reached uin one morning from Colom bia, inclosing a Bank of England note for £IOO. It was from Duval, and in it he told how he had succeeded in dou bling on his tracks to Birmingham, and thence had worked down to Southamp ton in disguise and got cloar away. Ho expressed the hope that Alice and myself were happily wedded and begged us to keep the note and give it as a present to our firstborn child.—London Tit-Bits. COLORS IN'BATTLE. Why the SoldlerH In »h«. Kiigliuli Army Are Array«*fl In Scarlet. The scarlet uniform of the British in fantry has been greatly criticised in re cent years, chiefly on the ground that it exposes the men to needless danger by disclosing their whereabouts to the en emy. The objection taken to the scarlet, however, is groundless, and scientific leasons are given why the prevailing rolor is for all purposes the most suit ■tVrlu that couiil lit! HfU'CtCfl. In tho first place, scarlet affords the best attainable protection against tho extremes of heat and cold to which sol diers are liable to be exposed. The darker the color protecting a warm hotly the more rapidly radiation proceeds. White would be the best color to reduce radia tion to a minimum, but white is barred by other considerations, as are also all the grays. Scarlet or red comes midway between white and black or other dark colors, while with reference to protec tion from tho sun scarlet takes a far higher place thun any of tho blues, greens or drabs and other shades often used for military clothing. Yellow and orange are excluded be cause these colors are particularly con spicuous at a long distance. Although scarlet or red iB more conspicuous than gray, when the sun shines directly on ! the troops it blurs on the sight and is j consequently more difficult to hit. With existing rifles the actual result of a fight is usually decided at a dis , tanoo just outside tho effective range of i the weapons. This distance lies between j 600 and 800 yards. Nearer than that it | is impossible to close without replying to the enemy's fire, and as soon as tho return lire whistles about the defend ers' head#the possibility of uimiiig rap idly and accurately decreases. Therefore, from this point of view, it is unimportant whether tho object to be hit is conspicuous or not, but from a moral point of view it is a serious con sideration. Within 700 yards each sub sequent advance is conditioned by lire superiority already achieved, tho de fenders are shaken, tho tiino for count ing heads is past, and tho mental im -1 pression conveyed by tho sight of tho assuulting troops bdt-omcs tho muin j point. It is u distinct advantage that our I men should bulk largo in the decisive i stuges of an encounter, and there is no { color which enables them to do this so j effectively as scarlet. On tho whole, | therefore, every scientific consideration ' justifies the retention of scarlet as tho j best uniform for our troops.—Strand Magazine. The CitUßo of Italnfull, Kain is, as we all know, the moisture of the atmosphere condensed into drops large enough to fall with perceptiblo velocity to tho earth. Tho variation in tho sizes of the drops is dependent upon the difference in the height, from which they have fallen and to the umouut of atmospheric disturbance present at the time. If they fall from great heights, the drops suffer gradual division into smaller and smaller parts until they are at last converted into mists. In calm wcuther, with t ho clouds near the earth's surface, tho drops am apt to be large and heavy. The formation of rain is in general a continuation or an enlarge ment of tho processes by which clouds and fogs are formed. Tho deposition of moisture depends upon tho cooling of tho atmosphere, but concerning tho pre cise process by which the cooling is ef fected various opinions are entertained oven among those who have made me teorology u life study. In considering the mutter wo have deduced our reck onings from wiiat is considered the best authority on tho subject. From (his it appears that the temperature of a given mass of warm air is lowered HI tho or dinary course of atmospheric ph. noun uu by one or tho other of tho processes mentioned hi tin; following: ISy radia tion lo the cold sky, by radiation to Iho neighboring masses of clouds or tho cold ground, by mixture with cool air or by the absorption of heat in tho ex pansion of ascending columns of air. Whatever the process may be, one thing is sun—the cooling must take place he fore the moisture will collect into drops of sufficient si/., to - -in so I hem to fall from the ma i of vapor m which tho constituent . have t>ecu floating.— | Loni" * A LITTLE DUTCH GARDEN. I passed by a gardt-n. a little Dutch tardea, Whero useful and pretty things srew Heartsease and tomatoes. And pinks and potatoes. And lilies and onions and mo. I &aw in that garden, that little Dutch garden, A chubby Dutch man with a spade. And a rosy Dutch frau With a shoe like a scow, Ai vl - " ~«n haired little Dutch maid. There grt.c in ... r . that little Dutch i garden. Blue flag flower®, lovely And early blush roses And little pink posies— But Oretchen was fairer than all. My heart's in that garden, that little Dutch i garden. It tumbled right in as I passed, 'Mid 'wildering mazes Of spinach and daisies, ; And Oretchen is holding it fast. —Hattio Whitney in Boston Budget. < BIG CALIFORNIA FORTUNES. llalf of Thixw Who luhrt in this country in 1616. A Wnll Lighted Htrnrt. Fifth avenue is probably now the best lighted long street in the world. The magnificent new lamps are now in j»o --sition and add to the beauty of the thor oughfare. The lauips are a foot square, of bronze and gold, while the face is of white ground glass, with the street names in letters eight inches high in a deep reil or maroon.—New York Letter. Missed It. "Hands up!" said the footpads as they closed in on Jerkins. "Ha, ha!" shrieked tho victim. "What do you expect to find? My wife ri'paiis iny clothes every night after 1 retire." And he laughed so fiendishly that tho footpads fled.—Detroit Free Press. Edward I of England was Long shanks on account of his extraordinary height. He is said to have Iseu nearly seven feet in stature. Philippe Vof France bore the snni" title. In Kansas thrashing an acre of wheat ia estimated to cost. #l.lß, while the housing, after the thrashing is com pleted, costs :io cents. A DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE. He Trlla Why lie Wm Induced to Aban don Hi* ProffMlon. A well known business man from Teisv was in Washington not long ago, on his way to New York, when a re porter met him and had a long talk with him. Instead of being either judge or major he was a doctor, and the re- ! porter asked him how he happened 011 that title, "I used to be a physician," was the j reply. "What did yoa quit it for, if that's a , fair question?" The gentleman from Texas hesitated, j and the hotel clerk joined the reporter in coaxing him to tell the story of his life. "I suppose I might as well," conced ed the gentleman, "and here goes. When I was 22 years old, I left Ken tucky for a town in Arkansas, and there I hung out my shingle and continued the practice of medicine. I had such good luck that I became quit« confident of my ability, and I felt quite able to tackle any sort of a case that came my way. I had been practicing about three years, and had saved up nearly $1,500, when one day a young fellow led his father into iny office, and the old gen tleman wanted me to remove his eye, as it pained him so he couldn't stand it." "I had never had much experience with eyes, and of course I shouldn't have undertaken his ease, but I thought I was equal to anything, and at once began making my prepartions for the operation. I understood from what the son said that the pain from the bad eye affected the other, and as it had been blind for ten years the family thought the best thing to do was to remove it In a very short time I had my patient under the influence of ether, and without call ing in any assistance further than the sou I went to work and soon had the eye out. Then as I began to put it in shape I noticed, to my horror, that I had tak en out the wrong eye. The thought of what I had done startled and frightened me so that I at once hurried through my work and sent the old man home in a carriage. "Then I drow out what money I had in the bank, packed up my belongings, and, after settling all my bills quietly, I took a night train and left the town for Mexico. Deing extremely sensitive anyway, the thought of the terrible in jury I had*inflicted upon this man so wrought upon my feelings that I could not stay in one placv, and I wandered about Mexico for three months. At the same time I was afraid that I might be identified by some person and be arrest ed and carried back for the punishment I so richly deserved. Af ton four months I came over to Texas, and in a remote town I opened an office again aud changed my name. I managed to make a living aud staid there for five years, worrying so over the man that I had made blind and perhaps had loft to dio that I became gray and wrinkled. "I presume I would have died there, but one day I happened into San An tonio and met a man I had known in tho Arkansas town. At first I thought of trying to get away, but I concluded I tliat the time had come for mo to tako 1 my punishment, for I couldn't stand it ; any longer, and I went up to him aud 1 asked him if ho drtn't oomo from Blankvillc and did ho know Mr. X. and the doctor who had got out of town so disgracefully. I was relieved to find that ho didn't know mo at all, and he at once proceeded to tell mo that the disappear \A the dooio* itw still iui unsettled mystery, and that Mr. X. was in good health. I told him 1 had hoard that the doctor had takeu out tho wrong I eye and that tho old man had becomo stone blind in consequence. Ho assured mo that the old man had not suffered any inconvenience at all, because he was blind, anyway, in both eyes and had been for years, and another physician had finished tho job quito satisfactorily, and tho patient's general health had greatly improved. "You have no idea," concluded tho gentleman from Texas, "how this news relieved me, and in my enthusiasm I gave up the practice of medicine forever and put my money into a manufactur ing establishment that lias almost made j ino rich in the past BO years. I nover went back to the remote Texas town again; neither did I over go to tho Arkansas town, nor toll my informant who 1 was. As it happened I was all right, but the suffering I had endured was euougli to cause me to put that part of my past clear behind mo and keep it there."—Washington Star. Historic I'owderhorns. Between the years 1755 and 17(10 about 1,800 uriny powderhorus were used in the Knglish and American ar mies engaged with the Fronoh, and probably the samo number existed in the American army during the Revolu tion. Each horn used in the continental army was marked with the initials or name of tho soldier who carried it. Tho spirit tho times is shown by the s"ii timents engraved on the horns, and daily read by tho owner and his com panions, such as theso: I .tlx-rty or death - 111 d"fonou of liberty. My liberty I'll bavo or my death. Liberty no slavsry Death before dishonor. Now Is the ttin«\ ye hoartH of oak, To klvii our fripfc x No, 44 A RUSSIAN BEDEOOMf THE TRAVELER FINOS IT HAS 80MQ UNFAMILIAR FEATURES. In the Find Flare the lied Is Daniel* ously Narrow—Carets, Eve* at the B«t Hotel*. Must Furnish Their Own Bad? clothes —There Is >0 Privacy. Much has been written about the Ger man bed. But how much might not be written about the Russian bed? Nay,' how much has not been written already? Even in decent country booses in Rus sia the sleeping place is often merely a i couch or the top of a chest of drawere covered with a rug. But in the towns there are bods, and such beds! The Ger man bed, as most people are aware, U not from personal experience from Me Jerome K. Jerome's description of it, is placed in a deep box, into which yoa climb and then pull the bed on top of you. Tho whole contrivanoe is so de . .«ned as to keep one half of the body perspiringly hot and the other half shiv ering cold aud to suffocate yon if yoo are not constantly on the ale:!-. Its grand redeeming feature is t* .t you cannot tumble out of it how we much you toss about. The Russian bed, . 11 tho contrary, is an affair out of whkh, or rather off which, you ca.inot pi isibly help tumbling however still you lie. It is an iron or wooden frame, perfectly destitute of rails aud about the width of an ordinary coffin. Upon this is placed a mattress, and the entire arrangement is deposited in the middle of the room. To get on to it is easy enough, for it is quito low. But to fail asleep on it is in evitably to fall on the floor. It is too narrow to turn in, and there is nobody who docs not turn in his sleep unless he is a Russian, who, one may assume, has been weaned from the habit by countless flops in the days of his youth, when ho didn't mind that sort of thing. He has brought himself into harmony with his environment, as the evolution ists say, aud is comfortable. The stran ger has not, aud suffers accordingly. Most people before they enter the land of Nod are apt to dream that they have fallen over a precipice and are going down, down, down. Just as they are about to touch the bottom they wako with a start and heave a sigh of relief as they realize that they aro on nothing harder than feathers. In Russia thai dream lias a terribly actual termination. Tho visionary wakes with a start to find that ho lias "gone over" in a very liter al sense aud is wallowing among his trunks. A cunning man will shift his bed from tho center of the room to the wall. That saves him on one side. But ho is still open to disaster on the other, nnd a companion of mine at Moscow used to fall out of bed three times regularly every night, and after the third tinio lio talking in his sleep until daylight, dreaming, I fancy, that ho was about to break tho record by fall ing out again. The narrow bed is gen eral whew beds are employed at aIL Even the imperial rosidenoea are fur nished with them, and the oouch upon which the murdered Alexander breathed 1 his last, still shown to visitors to tho j Winter palace, is of the same type. The Russians, like their Teutonic have u good deal to learn about Bed -1 fcrdshire. "But what about tho bedclothes?" it will be asked. Well, they aro muoh more easily described than tho bed, tho /act being that they aro invariably oon k'picuous by their absenoe. It is not tho xtwaia, to supply bodolotning, oven in tho best hotels. Th« traveler is expected to bring his sheets and blankets witii him if ho requires them, and the same is the case in private houses. A Russian would no moro think of offer ing you secondhand bedclothes than J'ou would of offering him a second laiul toothbrush. Tho railway officials now supply ono pillow, ono shoot and ouo blanket to each lirst class passenger. Elsewhere, however, as stated, tho stranger, lot him bo invited guost or paying lodger, is understood to provido his own bedding. Th ro arc considera tions which render this system highly desirable. But it is not without its drawbacks, and when we remomber that the moan annual temperature of northern Russia is below freezing pointy it will be admitted that 110 one should bo left in ignorance of tho custom. It» discovery created no small consterna tion among the Knglish tourists, who Were quito unprepared for it and who arrived at Moscow at midnight, tired to death, and found themselves with nothing to sloop in and with next to nothing to sleep upon. How did thoy manage? Ono slept for eight days in his topcoat, another wrapped hitnsolf up in his dignity aud his dressing gown, whilo a third reposod in a borrowed railway rug. Guests at a Russian hotel, or in a pri vate house, for that matter, ought, if they aro particular, to fasten their bod room doors before engaging in serious ablutions. Russian servants and waiters, malo and female, give no warning of their approach. It is 110 moro tho cua tom to knock at a door than it is to sup ply bedclothes, and a boots or u cham bermaid will invariably enter a room without any intimation, "bb if," as one writer has expressed it, "intentionally ignoring such obstacles to movement as doors." The fact that the room is a bed room makes no difference whatevor. This free aud easy stylo may not annoy a Slav, but it is apt to provoke embar rassing situations among Englishmen, whose morning toilet is a very oxtensive affair, embracing every part of tho man from the crown of his head to tho soles of Itis foot.—Cor. Newcastle (England) Chronicle. Reprisals. The following is told of an English army officer long since dead. Mooting a lady who much disliked him, ho saidt "Good evening, Miss ——. Yon are looking very handsome tonight." "I wish I could saytliesamo, major." "Oh, but yon could if yon were to toll 11 lie, as I did," was his quickTO tort. The Ilorlng of (iltn. Strong glass plates aro bored through by means of rotating brass tubes of the necessary diameter, which aro filled with water during boring. To tho water there is added finely pulverized emery. It is said that thinner glass can bo per forated with holes in an easier manner by pressing a disk of wet clay upon tho glass and making a hole through tho clay of the width desired, so that at that spot tli* 1 glass is laid bare. Then molten lead is poured into the hole, and load ami glass drop down at ouoe. This method is based upon the quick local heating of (he glass, whereby it obtains a circular crack, the outline of which corresponds to tho outline of tho holo made iu the clay. The cutting of glass tubes, cylinders, etc., in factories is based upon tho samo principle.—Now York Ledger. Horry 110 lie—l'd like to know what enjoy ment yoti can find in going from store to store, looking at things yon haven't the least idea of buying. She—l know I can't buy thom, bnt there is a sort of melancholy pleasure in thinking that I could havo bought tin-in if I had married George Scads when 1 had tho chance. instead of tak ing you.—Cincinnati Cttqqltm