VOL- xxxiv j Christmas SALE 1 J©f JUDGING b . v lMt weeks v this Christmas sale will fegfc «r he the It rg<-st we have ever had. *3g t It should be. as the stock is larger t|U S ? than ever, aDd yon r dollar never , had such purchasing power aa jgaf *•'" now. Xo better time to buy than feag 3©l % 7 ; ' next week, as the stock is yet jp Jjc complete. Again we call yonr at tention to onr Decorated Din- ?Hf '/ ner Sets and Banquet |||s SStf Lamps. ?>?>>> Jet 'c*/ ■- In Rocking Chairs we show l®B s* + £ a eomplete assortment. £ There are so many useful things for yon to select from here .38 that yon will find it an easy matter to make yonr selection. ? m & X I ForSi - 50 8 g Rocking ft SBI antique fln.- rn aidc - 1 ii,he^ jSef tHalKj i in * c<ha ' r P§S §( A and one * |nE **Hg§P» £ For $3.50 fe? that 1 | <#€ ryZVj r J polMi finish, * antique or epr #sc^El. Jmahogany. fr* §[ will bs For $5.00 ® ||j appreciate. ]j? value"' jjS 3e?t _j ' . : j4Z-^3 : - ■;-., fj for the price KSS Jet j ! "~y mahogany. J§{ More than a hundred different kinds to select from. Have higher priced one $6, $7, SB, s9,'slo. m '■ ——r 7 gg S Bed Room Suits, ? Lace Curtains, |p I j | S slsA>a ) 7Sc - j|j I Parlor Cabinets, ( Parlor Suits ' 8 H•' ' Slo,o °' ) s2s '°°' || Blacking Cases, y Banquet Lamps, jg jg $2,50. ) $2.50, jg irampbcll ft TempletonJ f|j BUTLER, PA J U j 01 fffA Pleasing Prospectfff TO PIND THK COAT so satisfactory at / first triai. Tlii* is the universal testi ( •'F JC\ ./ \ mony of our patrons, who are all lovers of ' \ K Vv \ \ neat fittirg cloibef. Witl»< nt th«ni no man I \| *\ v * / / I-"-*', looks well dre»scd. \ \ A ! r • W A COAT WKI.L MADIi is made to fit and y-L""\ fi ' *"—\ r — 7 not to «*t-iust liU-w-miss; &;i urti'A well may Cri 'lr V take rlclight in Kceing « nert fittiiiv coat. 1 lit l\ /( Good material, good workmnnxhip mid >;'kkl 2[ljl I \ fa ~ „ fit» ate the pr<nf that have made our tailor JI J v 'l' | ing a succ» m. We guaiantec this and ask pu'j 1 wl" ~ you to look at our {>auerns. Our prices are 111 J\ 33 j cut down to the lowest notch. 'M 111 SinV G ' F ' KECK ' jS Boots ci i^jcl Shoes - To Suit A« Come ro us arid you II tine! our iiocW-so larjjc that you can find what you want —All varieties of shoes for sale at lowest prices—Our entire fall and winter stuck is open and ready fr-r your inspection Our stock was never larger than the present—Complete stock of Ladies' and Misses' fine Dongola, Box Calf, winter tans, Enamels in welt soiy, nude for winter wear. In Men s shoes our stock oilers many selections of winter tans, f lie enamels, cordovan-*, box calfs and many other. Have you seen our gen n'ne water-proof shoe? It is a dandy—the upper extends around the welt to the edge of the sole—this in connection with sheet rub ber and cork bottom filling makes a complete joint that cannot be secured in any other way—A shoe thus made is more nearly water tight than tan be made by any other process. Our stock of Men's and Boys heavy boi'.s and shoes is and prices away down— Full stock of Boy's hij»!i cut copper toed fhoes. Large and complete stock of rubber goods of all kind—Felt boots, Felt sho-s and warm lined shoes and slippers of all kinds at rock bottom' prices. F ill stock of sole leather and shoe findings—Sole leather cut to any amount you wish to purchase. High iron stands for repairing. Da you wear box < alf shoes? We have a polish put up for box calf shoes which keeps the leather soft and pliable. When in need of boots and shoes CALL AND SEE US. JOHN BICKEL. 128 S. MAIN St. BUTLER, PA. Advertise in the CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Hotel WiilardJ I Reopened a::d rea h' i for the aeconmuxia- I tion c f the traveling public. Everything First' Class/ m SATTir. RSim, Owner i Practical Horse Shoer WILL ROBINSON, !-'o! merly Horse Shoer at the | Wick House has opened busi ness in a shop in the rear of the Arlington Hotel, where he will do Horse-Shoeing in the most approved style. TRACK AND ROAD HORSES A SPECIALTY. Lsb > - • • . th? read; . hll whi has nwde it far lot J the put <ji;jrter of a ternary -contributions from the pen» of the great literary men and women o< ilie » world, illustrated by leaditi£ artists. A brief glance o»er iu prospectus announces suth reading as * # OUR PACIFIC PROSPECT 0 rsojfTs rnK a iirmurii ra*it Til lOMUCM UHIITJVI or a* ISTHMUS ( asal I 1 A B, H-m. DAVin TCWIK B, WORTBtX'ITOX C. ruBD 0 \ > easiTkbs waitaia on thk psetne TltDETiLorariT or or* r*nnc miiii $ V g, BTertir.y KOXBAL B, CHABLBB F:.IVMMIS J RODEN'S CORNER-THE NOVEL OF THE YEAR ? by HIN*V S«TOM M»ll«*K,author of "The Sowers " Striking novelties in short fiction will ' # be contributed by such authors as W. D. 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CaeuJ*. mnd Mtnc, ' ' / J ».nn»rtfc «ddreii M*RPER 4 BROTHERS, Pukllthart. New York Clt T 11.. J Subscribe for the "CITIZEN.") BUTLER PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER O, 1897 'Much in Little !Is especially true ol H<xxl - » Pills, for no medt ■ cine ev«»r contained so great curative power In | *o small space. They are a whole medicine Hood's chest, always ready, al- ■ I ■ ways efficient, always sat- | | | ; prevent a cold | 111 9 or fever, cure all liver Ills, jick headache. Jaundice, constipation, etc. 25«. TUe <-.niy puis to take with Hood's SarsapariUa. Tl>nusan<ts are Trying It. In order to prove tha great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most affective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre pared a generous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of yonr druggist or Bend 10 cents to ELY BKOS., 56 Warren St., N. V. City. . I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since a boy, and I never hoped for , cure, bat Ely's Cream Balin seems to do ( even that Many acquaintances have used | it with excellent results.— Oecar Ostruni, 45 Warren Ave., Chicago, 111. Ely's Cream Balm ia the acknowledged curi- for catarrh and contains no cocaine, mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 60 cents. At druggists or by mail. A LOST WORLf). I used to live In A h«tter world. A lons. lon* ways from here. Where the skies were blue and our hearts were true. And the days were filled with cheer. There song and shlae gave me and mine A marvelous round of Joys, For the moments brought their gifts un bought In that world that was mado for boys. • The long, long ds.ya were golden days. And our hearts beat warm and high. For eye and ear could see and hear The charm of earth and sky. We loitered long by the brook's sweet song. And we drank at the springs of Truth In that land of Joys that was made for bor* — The wonderful realms of youth. I long to dwell In that world once more. Where the happiest blessings fall; But I lost It when, for the world of men. I traded It, once for all. I long to stray through a grass-grown way To the boundless fields of Joy, And glre my gold and a world grown cold I For the heart of a careless boy. —Nixon Waterman, In L. A. W. Bulletin. mutiiiitnumitif 111111 fl fill ft f flit M f kllUtif , ■iiMvnMMravnvvvTivfVvVTvniinnTfniivififit , \ THE STORY OF v A STAMPEDE, jj BY J. B. CRANFILL COWBOY life 20 years ogo la Texts was very different from what it is , to-doy. Then the big ranches were : unknown and the cattle were raised in the open prairies, and the "maverick" i had not become extinct. It was in i the years juat preceding: the incident ! here related that I saw service ns u cow ; boy and su thoroughly familiar with j life on the trails. Of the incident it«elf : I waa not an eye-witness, but it w»i i told to me by my friend, Mr. M. B. ! Darin, an old Texas ranger and cow i boy, who 1* to the early life of Texas } what Joaquin Miller is to California. ; I give the story as nearly as I can re- I member it just as it came from his ' lips. It chronicles one of the most | desperate stampedes ever witnessed by : a Texas cowboy. In 1870 the Wilson brothers, of Kon- I sas City, having purchased over 15,000 j head of cattle in Hamilton, Comanche, ' Coryell and IWII counties, and having ' arranged to centralize the herd near Comanche Springs, in McLennan coun ty, drove to the Bennett liills and went ! into camp to await the carrying out of I their orders. Theae cattle were driven ! across the Leon at various suitable , forda and coairerged on that beautiful prairie, In tha center of which now stand* the town of McGregor. On the Fourth of July of that year the en tire herd was under way, headed for Towoah on the Brazos river. It was a magnificent army of steers, in su perb condition, k«pt together by a corps of 25 cowboya, mounted on bron cho*—men experienced in the business. The herd was not pressed, the object being to let the.m graze on the rich herbage, with a view to keeping them In good condition and renchlng the market in time to catch the beat price* In the fall of the year. At four o'clock in the afternoon there were signs of an electric storm. A black cloud abowed above the foothills, and fhe aun shining against It painted a rain bow which appeared to touch the earth at both ends. The entire herd became nervous and showed their fear by those low bellowing*, ominous to the experi enced cattleman us the muttering thun der. The cowboys were experienced men, and they kept the moving mas* well in hand, so that when the sun set. all waa well, and the cattle were bedded on the plains near the South Bosque, and night settled in with the promise of a safe crossing at the Brazos the next day. A detail of four cowboys waa made for the first watch, and these mounted sentinels took their places and rode silently tcround the sleeping aquadron of long-horns. The first watch ended at nine o'clock, and the second watch went on duty. It wa* during the second watch that the memorable Wilson atampede occurred. At ten o'clock the cattle appeared to be sleeping profoundly. The cowboys aay that cattle dream and see ghosts; : it Is certain that thia drove of 15,000 ; waa nervous, made no, perhaps, by the | thunderstorm of the previous afternoon ! and the rainbow which they had eyed i with auspiclon. It is likely that a great many cattle in that vast accumulation ' had never aeen such a rainbow. It was distinct throughout'tht arch and very brood; tha lightning, too, won very vivid, and the thunderclaps that fol lowed. wera like sharp artillery. The oowboya Insisted long afterward that It waa the thunderstorm and the rain bow of the afternoon that caused the atampede th«L night. Be that aa it may, H wu a atampede that the cattle men who witneesed it hove never for gotten, and are still telling of to pos terity. The stars were-al! shining, and there was no cwuse at all for the arousing of the herd. They appeared to get up all »t once, with a single purpose, and the roar that wm heard seemed to come from a single throat. The Wilson brother* arl their cowboys who were tleeping in their camp rushed to their ponies who were grazing with the sad dle* and bridles on, and as fast as the bits coukl be replaced In their mouths they mounted and galloped to the Banka of the now disappearing moos, headed in the direction of the Brazoa river. The cowboys on guard took the usual course iu such cases; they kept out of the way of the charging mass, and gal loped on the fisnka, moving toward the head of the column, hoping to "point them off," as they call it, and atart them moving In a circle. The boys who formed the gusrd. In gal loping along the front of the stam pede. saw the eyes of the terrified beeves emitting tire and their tongues protruding. They uttered (hose low notes of terror so familiar on the plains, and galloped madly along, Buf fering from a panic for which no real cause existed on earth. "What's the matter with the cattle?"' asked a tenderfoot, as lie galloped be aide an old cowboy. "They've seen the devil, I expect*" the cowboy replied; "nnd we will cu.Vt£ it before we get through with thiW thing." Aa the herd rushed on their- burnt rattled together, and all the horns oi IS,OOO head of cattle rut!ling togetliet sounded like an immense concert of castanets. Cattle are not able to sustain along run, and this the cowboys know. For Instance, a mud speed of five miles is anough to brruk down utmost any eteer; and the tattlsuien knew how the country lay beyond them, and In this respect they hail an advantage. The reenforcemant of the cowboys who w«r« off duty, and who had haatily I [mounted and joined those on watch at ! the time, gave them a strong advan- ' jtage In the efforts being made to atop J the stampede. The plan was to get ' the cattle to "milling," or running in j a circle. The elder of the Wilson broth- ' ers had been a cowboy from childhood. , [H« was riding a cream-colorad clal I lion, and as he passed me he liad his Colt's revolver In his band. One of the cowboys on a gray horse was able to ' keep up with him. These two distanced all the others. They rode across the ' front of the stampede, which is a feat ' attended with terrific danger; for w hen J J a rider Is in front of the rushing drove of mad cattle, if his horse should stum- j ble and fall, he may be put down as a thing of the past. The herd will "wipe , | him out." This Mr. Wilson knew, and | .the cowboy riding close to his crupper j | also knew; but they were going to ! take all the dangers and get that herd j running in a circle if it were possible to j ; do so. j Some cattle can outrun others, and i j in this case there was a bunch of about ' j 50 fully 20 yards in advance, and toward ' . this leading group the two rescuers rode. Of the leading group, also, some were faster than others, and this group ran in a diamond shape, with two im mense steers leading all. When Mr. Wilaon and his companion reached the two leading ateers they began shoot ing their revolver* close to them, and In that way the bunch was made to oblique, and as the leading bunch ol cattle obliqued the main stampede ob liqued, and the first step in "milling" had been token. By this tim« the cat tle were getting tired. Nearly five miles had been ccicred, aud the breath of the leaders was coming short and painfully; but they were rushing on, because the front cattle at this time knew as u matter of fact their only safety was in keeping up the run. "Those behind were coming, and they • were in the majority, and the leaders were compelled to run. There was real danger for the forward members of the stampede. In the Invoice of articles contained In the regulation "outfit," there is al ways some kind of stimulants; and but for the stimulants contained in Mr Wilson's outfit. It Is potanble that the stampede wouhd have been halted with out disaster. He had a Mexican along, one of the best cowboys in the south west. This Mexican and his horse al , ways reminded those w ho saw him ride of the fabled centaur. He rode far for ward and bent over, so that he and his 'horse appeared to be one animal. Nc horse, however, rugged, "wild and wool ly," had ever been able to unseat him This Aztec 'had been to the little brandy runlet too often, and had tilled and emptied his tin cup wiith surreptitious intoxicants, so that his usual excellent Judgment went awry, When he suc ceeded in getting mounted, after having fumbled with his bridle a good de-al he was far in the rear Mid the stampede had gone past him, so that when he overtook the rear end, he passed to the front on the other side, und rode on the wrong flank. When he reached the head of tihe herd he was just in time to defeat the maneuver then under execu-, tion of bending the moving muss from a straight line to a semicircle. Re volver in hand, dloregordlng the othei men, he began shooting in the faces ol the wild steers; and the effect of this was to straighten the run and bring the advance straight toward a precipice. This precipice was a wash in the prairie, forming a deep ravine fully 30 yard* wide; and In a shorter time than it takes to tell of this contretemps the head of the column was pouring over, a horrible cascade of beef, plunging madly into destruction while fleeing from an Imaginary danger. When Mr Wilson and his lieutenants saw that it was impossible to save their cattle they aaved themselves by dexterously turn liijf at right angle* at full speed nnd riding out of the way. They next re turned to the flank and held a council of war. A few seconds decided them, and all hunda commenced shooting intc the herd, the object now being to build a breast-work of carcasses and save the rear end from the destruction that had overtaken the front. The gulley wai nearly full of cattle by this time. Thej were snorting and bellowing, crashing and tearing, and still heaping up; and when the firing begun the wounded onew tumbled over on the others, and In a short time the gulley, like the sunken road at Waterloo, was bridged by car caaars. The herd surged up in billows like an ocean, and bent now, because it could not do otherwise. The semi circle was formed, and Wilson and lilt men crossed the gulley below and rode around the opposite side and recrossed.; and In a short time they liuil the rattle halted, forming an incomplete letter O, and thcra they stood, blowing, bellow ing, shivering. All hands remained on watch all night, and in the morning when a count was made It wus awr-er talned that 2,700 head were missing. There were oftenwurd 2,700 pairs of horns taken from that gulley. It wai called Stampede (Julley for mnny years afterward, aud perhaps will always, with aoine people, ibe remembered by that name.—X. V. Independent A. <taaatlaa of Calalae. When at barnstorming actors Tha ribald audience pegs otlaU ergs, say, are they serving A lot of horns with eggsT —Judge. Her Optaloa. "One of the greatest evlla iu life," aaid the elderly woman, "ia procrasti nation." "I -think mo, too," replied the young married woman. "I d»u't see the sense of putting off your golden wedding an nlveraary till you are 00 or 70 years old." —Washington Star. A Ralaad. The-Editor—l regret that your manu script, though good, is not available at the present time. Scribbler—«Ah, thenmaylpreoumeto hope ttuat your esteemed periodical will aome day improve to such a degree as to be worthy of my conrtributloM? — Yellow BmV. Uk«< tike Bsr Too Moefc. A boy who haul been up for an '•xemtnatiou iu Soriptur® had ut terly failed, and the relation* be tween him and the examlnw liiwl become somewl«at strained. The letter uskc.d him. If there were any Uit la the whole Bible ho coold <i%iotc. He |xaidered and tfien repented: "And Jndiut went out und hanged himself." "Is there any other verms yv>u know In fhe IMble?" the exmnlxier asked. "Ye*. '(Jo thou and do likewise.' " There wos a solemn pause uikl the pro lce»xlings termlnatadCatholic Stand •ard aiul Times. A Mplr I'rnwurnlliiii. "I understand you. pounded the man In the next flat?" "Pound him 1 ! I should think I did. I dearly killed the scoundrel." "What was the trooWe?" "He iwiultcd me-a«it«ially Iniailted me with dellberutlou ai»d malice uifore thought; and It was Ti<» trifling insult, either." "What did he say*7" "He naked me if I wsis'tlin mau who played the cornet every' night." "Why dfcla't you kill J Mm?" '—Chicago Post. R»r Kroi vn. I ktaaad hsr on the r>» aehy cheek; t «he frowned, hj> 1 coi ild see; | I *Oh. maiden," said I. * "prithee, speak And eay you pardon me!" Hhe turned her pretty face away And bit her finger tit at | And then I heard her iwetlysay; i "What's the matter s'lt'fc lay HpsT" .If j4"l.Uk»*o News. ! •••••••••••••••••••«••••«• | KICKING IN SINNEMAHONE.: .s | I • KOTKIHG LIKE THAT FEVER EITHER • 9 BEFORE OR SIHCE. • • • " T WONDER if any of you on this side I the mountain remember the ' strange ailment, that visited us folks on 1 the other side when I was a young man?" said the man from over Sinne j mahoning way. "A strange ailment it ' was indeed. Sort of an uncontrollable | i>erangement of the muscular tissues of the leg, the doctors called it, but it j was known as the kicking fever of the Sinnemahone. I wonder if any of you remember it?" "Xaturly, it ain't likely that any body does," said the man in the red, blue, green, pink, yellow and purple Mackinaw jacket, "but any fever that ever got mixed up with folks on the Sinnemahone an' didn't kiek must a been of setch a mild an' forgivin' a dis position as to make it a sham# to feed quinine to it." "Thanks, Mackinaw," said the man from over Sinnemahoning way. "Your gentle humor goes far toward dissipat ing a certain sadness and tendency to abstraction and a tit of the blues that always assail me when I think of that kicking fever of the Sinnemahone. and I thank you! When I sec the fertile acres of the Jepheniah BifTkins estate spreading along the Sinnemahoning's classic bottom and think how they would now all be mine but for that kicking fever I am prone to sadness. But you've knocked 'em silly this time, Mackinaw. "Yes, yes. Those rich Jepheniah BifTkins acres would now be mine but for that kicking fever that came to the Sinnemahone country. These acres then belonged to Deacon Judd Peeler, and the deacon's daughter Nancy had promised to be my wife, and Nancy was heir to all the wide Peeler estate. So when I think —but let that pas*. It Is all over now. "Wherever that most singular ail ment could- have come from no one ever knew, but it certainly cut a wide swath along the Sinnemahone. I was off down the river when it began its attack, and consequently I didta't know onything about it until I got back home a couple of weeks later. The first person it struck was Uncle Billy Tope. Uncle Billy was n mild nnd easy-going citizen that no one would have thought had any life In him at air, and he wns a strict tee totaler. Consequently you may Imagine tho astonishment of Squire Bunker, who owned the sawmill where Uncle Billy worked, to see the old nun com ing up the road one day, giving a tre mendous klek every two or three steps he took.sometices to the rieht and some times to the left, us if he might have started out. to kick all creation into the middle of next week. Squire Bunker was scared, ond he edged nfP to one side of the road as Uncle Billy came along, kicking and scuffing and looking as wild as an Indian. The squire ventured to say as the old man was cavorting by: "'What's up, William?' "Uncle Billy only shook his head, and giving a kick that (Mdu't miss, the •quire's jaw by more than half an inch, went on his way toward home, kicking as he went. " 'Astounding!' exclaimed the squire. 'I never thought I'd live long enough to aee Uncle Billy Tope turn out to be a drinker!' "Then, the squire started for home. Tie hadn't gone a hundred yards before he began to feel a little mulish himself, ( and the first thing he knew he -was kicking away as unreaaonably as Uncle Billy. He couldn't «top It any more ithan he could have stopped his mill race with a three-Inch plug. The squire didn't have for to go, and before he pould reach out ond open his door he hod kicked it open with a bang, and his wife came running outof the kitchen to ace what was the matter. " 'Clear the way, mother!' the squire hollered. 'Give me room! Don't get in my way or I'll make a widower of my se.lf at one swoop!' "The squire's wife, scared almost to death, locked herself up In a closet, and the squire kicked his way out of the backdoor and brought up in the gar«an, where he jelled for some one to come and tie hirn down, or else turn him into a tcn-ocre lot where he could have room. "And that's the wny that most unac countable kicking fever started along the Sinnemahone. In less than a week It had taken a whack at almost every man, woman and child la that baili wick. The kicking was only the pre monitory symptom of the fever. After tbe victim hud kicked high and kicked low, and' to the windward und to the leeward, for half an hour or so, the fit would pass away, but It would come back again after awhile. The kicking stage of the epidemic lasted two days, and then the second stage cauie on. This was a scorching fever. Sam when lie got over his attack, declared that his fever wus so hot that his wife had to keep the .sheets wet to prevent their catching fire, but Sam wasn't a native of the Slmiemahonlng country. He was from this side of the- mountain aotnewhere, and folks didn't believe him. The fever lasted a day, and lei! behind it a consuming longing for something to drink —not water not coffee nor tea nor milk, but rum, rye, apple juice, anything that had tooth and edge toll. This strange symptom of the malady wns discovered in astart llng way. Dominie nibble waa the first victim that it developed In. One even ing while half u dozen <>f hl« fl<x-k wert mingling thrlr sorrow with the domin ie's over his affliction he suddenly shouted: " '("live me rum! Fetch me somi scorching rye or biting' gin!' "The brethren n d sisters wen shocked, but Dominie Dibble kept or hollering for rum. No one made a niovi to get him any, nnd at lost he sprang out of his choir, rushed out of the house ami mode straight for the tavern like n man running to a lire. By aud by he came back singing: " 'Home attain, home again, Krom a foreign nhor*.' "lie had a bottle of rum under his urni, and the brethren and sisters hur 'ricd home, feeling that, the end of oil things couldn't be far away. When it jfot out, though, that the dominie was simply suffering from the third stage of it lie kicking fever, they excused him and rejoiced. But the dominie nlways de clared that he never hudsucli a pleasing antidote for pit In. Then II began to be tliot this lust peculiar stage of the ailment seemed to have no regular period of existence, and It Is noted as u f-uct that the afflicted district wasn't, entirely able to be out and around as usual until the tavern kc|M*r gate notice that there wasn't a drop of any thing left that the last, stage of the kicking fever culled for. "During the time the fever lusted three leading cltlaena of the Hlnnemu hone were csrrieil off In their bloom by it, not one of whom even hod the con notation of enjoying the treatment for the last stage. First, there was Abirntn Hlnkle. When the kicking fever first •track Ihe district, the doctor said that the barter the victims had ty kick the better it would be for them, for It they couldn't kick hard It would strike in j and that would be the end of 'em. The kicking- always came in the right leg. Now Abiram llii.kle didn't have any j right leg. it having been taken oil clean I in the saw mill. When the attack seised | him he couldn't kick. Itatruck in and | away he went. I "Next was Simon Shelly. Pimon swore by Elijah Pink, the horse doctor, ' who could cure anything, according to Simon's belief. Elijah hadicured a kick -1 ing horse for Simon one time by rigging him to some 6ort of a contrivance i that threw him every time the horse kicked. Simon made up his mind that i he was just as apt to have the kicking fever as his neighbors were, ao he sent 1 for Elijah to rovide against it. Re had Elijah fit him with a rigging some thing like the one that cured the kick ing horse. The very next day the ail-- ment seized him. Simon was standing by a window in hla house. He gave one tremendous kick. The rigging worked. It threw Simon. It threw him out of the window and head first into a barrel of rain water that stood beneath It. They didn't discover Simon in time, and that made two fellow citizens the epidemic carried away. "Its third victim was Ersstus Sleeper. Ernstus went out to milk hla cow one evening, and just aa he began the kick ing fever took hold of him. He shot out n kick. It hit the cow in the shin. The disease was so very contaglousthst Just that one kick gave It to the cow. The cow kicked, ner kick landed In Eraatus' stomach, and knocked the wind out of him so far they couldn't get it back. Eraatus' widow married Jeff Roner,the sheep-pelt buyer. "Well, this bring* mo round to my own deep disappointment. Jephenlafh BifTkln* had been paying more atten tion to Deacon Peeler's daughter Nan cy than seemed to me safe, and when I came back home that time I made Aip my mind I'd settle the matter right then and there and kiu w whether Nan cy was destined to be a Blffkins or a Pettibone. I went straight to the dea con's that very evening, before I had been home half an-hour. Thla waa Just at the time the kicking fever waa get ting In its best licks, but I didn't know a thing about it. Nancy waa home, and I hadu't been there long before she'had promised that her name should be Pettibone. I was happy, I tell you, and just before I got ready to go Deacon | Peeler himself came in. We had a very cheering talk for a .minute or two, and I started to go. Just as I opened the door 1 felt a tremendous shock, and at the same time I rose in the air more than three feet. When I landed I waa stand ing out in the yard. Before I hod come entirely to I felt the shock again. Again I was lifted and swept Mweral feet further out In the yard. Then I looked back. Nancy's father waa Just behind mc with a queer look on his face. His right foot rose up and shot out, and the shock oame a third time. Deacon Peeler was as strong aa an ox. and hla foot was Rhod with a No. 12 eowMde boot, i This time the shock lifted me over the j gate and sftmc down la the ruad. Nan cy hod come running from the house, and she cried out: "'Father ain't kicking you. Proxy! It's only the fever that's workin' on him! He nin't kickingyoul' "Well! If he wasnt kicking me I didn't know what they called kicking along the Slnnemahone, and I think I made a mm ark to that effect as I hur ried home in sorrow and went to bed. Next day I lieurd about the klcklrg fever for the first, agd then I know what Nancy had meant when she de clared that her fatl»er wasn't kicking me. I wvnt right back with a heart lighter than a fwither, but Nancy made It heavy as lead in less than half a min ute. "'Praxiteles Pettibone!" she aald, •you went and ran away from father last night when he was sick and suffer ing! You're too heartless for me!' "Tluat ended it all beiween Nancy Peeler and me. The kicking fever had done it—although, aa I remember it now, I saw Deacon Peeler out in his garden hoeing potutoea that -morning, ns quiet and steady as evnr he was. Ilut Nancy married Jephenlah, and the broad acres of old Deacon Peeler to this day spread themselves out over yonder along the Slnnemahone as the Blffkins estate, actually <>alm and peaceful and smiling, as if they hadn't missed the opportunity of being Mils day on the tax list In the name of Praxiteles Petti bone." —N. Y. Sun. Convenience* of L*b(M(*. The Count —I haf been told, madam, your (laughtaire haf ic bud lempalre. The Mamma—Ah, yes, count, but you know she loses her temper «oeasily. "Ah. how loafly!" Detroit Free Press. "Too Mood «• D» Tr»«." She's beautiful—that's rood to know, Hhe's good—that's beautiful to see; 8h« Is MO good, whil* I'm not so. Hhe's "too «ood to b* true" to m*. —J udg*. A NATURAL. HIITAKK. Ilntchcr-<I hare soma nice canvas buck ducks this morning. Mrs. Ncwblrd—How lovely! How much nre they a yard?— Chicago Inter Ocean. Rrugs K»o«fk. •Twlxt madhouse walls he sits alone; Ills foolish thought* In chaos rov*. The cause for hissed fate Is known- He helped his wife l>urup the stov*. —N. Y. Journal. Ho t'haasra In View. "lvitly thinks Harry doesn't Intend to propose." "Una he quit visiting her?" "No; but he gave her a sliver name plate for her wheel."—-Chicago Hecord. A Unman* Woman. The Cabman Olmme your bag. lady, and I'll put it on top of the cab. Mrs. Oatcake (as she gets In) •—No; that poor horse of yours has got enough to pull. I'll carry It on my lap.—Judge. One of Ike Hired Hands. "That man with lb* red hair acta ai though he was ona of the proprietors." "Do you think so? I thought lila ail wm altogether too haughty and over bearing."—Chicago Journal. Diplomacy. I linn k What! You voluntarily of fered to lend him a dollar? DttJiti— Yea; you aee, 1 waa afraid he hud come to borrow five. —Ul>-to-Date. N0.40 AN INTEREST ING FAMILY. The Jlsiaou \\ crj aril lt« Nnmerdta and Impnrtni.l ll« intlvea. "There n> uuc iniiig iiiatinmiaboom this year in St. Lou:, and-that is the jimson weed," said u disgusted real es tate agent, who had just cut down the weeds on his vacant lota in the West End. "I have cut them down a dozen times and still they grew." "It is uu interesting family to which they belong," remarked his neighbor, i who doesn't own any vacant lots. "Prolific family certainly, but I can't say that I find it interesting," was the reply. And yet these weeds belong to a family not only interesting, but of great importance from an economic point ot view . The Jamestown weed is only an other species of the plant from which the priests of Apollo made a decoction to induce that .state of ecstasy in keep ing with the prophetic character of their revelations. Tonga is a drink made from the seeds which the Indians of Darien give to their children tfcat they may discover the location of gold. Klondikers might take a baby along nnd a few jimson weed seeds to make tea, nnd when the baby has its "dope" and falls down, there daddy could dig, sure of a find. ) Of course you eat potatoes, which are icousins of the jimson weed, but you 'very likely eat them with or without !their jackets, in salad, prepared as Sara toga chips or in other ways too numer ous to mention, but It Is safe to say that - you never eat them preserved, and yet 'that is the way Parkinson, writing In 11640, recommended that they be oooked. JlTe suggested that the tubers be roasted, isrteeped in sugar or baked with marrow ■and spices. Here is an opportunity for some enterprising chef or housekeeper striving for origimnlity to win distinc tion in the way of serving pommes de terre. You probably eat tomatoes,too, which you probably eat with tugur anil call tomahtoes, while, your plebeian friend eats his with suit ar<! calls them plain tomaytoes. If you are partial to vege tables the egg-plant, also a night ahade, Is found upon your Uu>l«, possibly sea soned with cayenne pepper, another of the same family. The great sweet smelling mnases of white and magenta petunias which are so familiar, growing seeminglv from the crevice® of the rocks af the suburban gardens and at the Cottage in Forest park, ore alsoot this enterprising family. Bitter sweet* the Jerusalem cherry, apple of Pern, henbane and the ugly horse nettle are a few other-* more c le. • familiar. The loi.jr-corolled i cot.ina nieoti tlora. which opens, as its name suggests, In the evening. is a favorite garden flower, as Is the ""-onimbergla, named for the gentle scholar-priest of Buenos Ayres, who flr«t collected It. Another old-faxhioned r of this family is Ihe matrimony vim, which is not a vine, but a idirub with decumbent brondhet. I Belladonna, also known as atiopa, is a night sliurte. The ladies tired it to mnken wash for freckles, hence its name "belladonna," beautiful ludy. poi sonous properties got. for [♦ the name pf the cruel fate, Atropos, who cut the thread of human life as fast as it was drawn out by Lachcsls. Last, but not least, comes king to bacco, product of our own soil, the royal weed against which popca have issued bulls and kings mandates, and ■till vlve le rol! And irony of fate! Our own blessed pope orders his own par ticular brand of snuff made especially for him at Baltimore. But even a mod est Missouri man as he rests after din ner in slippered feet, sans waistcoat, sans necktie, watching the blue smoke curling above his head and dreaming such dreams as only nlcotlna tobacum can produce, takes as much comfort as his holiness and can echo the remark; "It is a very- interesting family."—St. 'Louis Globe-Democrat. A Rslakow on the Groand. Will you allcxw me through your paper to ask if other people have ob served a rainbow "on the ground," in stead of, a* usual, in the air; and, if so, would they be so kind ns to give the scientific reason for such an appear ance? I have never before to-day w-atched such a curious sight as that of which I speak. While taking n long country walk I was overtaken by a heavy shower, nnd while taking refuge from the rain I watched the llglita and ahadows moving along the valley below me, being myself on theerest of o down like hill. I waa strurldby the unusual glow ond brightness of thecolorstn the valley, and as I wutched they formed a most brilliant rainbow, perfect In shape and color, but lying "ll»»t on it« sJde," ao to wpeak, on the pasture land below; the top of the aro nearii g the opposite hills, and the two ends towards the down I was on. Tills «trnnge and beau tiful effect was also -witnessed by a friend who was with me. I should be mtvh Interested to ki w if others hare at, any time seen the like, nnd could ex* plain the cause. —Letter in London Post. Man and the Hesiles*. Oceans. A question now Lcing discussed among ethnologists is: To whstextent did the great ocean currents influence the migration of mankind from con tinent to continent In prehistoric times? The fact that a current, starting near the Malay penlnauln, nnd passing the sens of I'hinu nnd Japan, crosses the Pacific to the western coast of the United Staler. • - rernt -VI by f( ijh- ns sir 'flcitnt ■ .-iici-ri -lit possibility of Asiatics having ren- he 1 Amulcu by way of the Pac <'.• o. Other vast movements of ' ' < f the sea, to which ntter* !. - recently been called in connection with this subject, are the '• tie current, which flows from 1 toward the Polyn< tii't- Islands; the M •.••IcA lan tic cum nt, which, starting ncur Spu in ucd the northern con t ' Airica. reaches Bouth America ni'l ,v • st, Indies; and the No: th Atlaiitlcuurrent, which sweeps nlong our eastern seaboard ftjd; then crosses over to the coast* of BnJ rope.—YonithV Companion. COMFORTING. "Haw's ycr mother gettin' on, Marv?" "Oh, she's better; doctor don't think ehe'll die alore Friday now I" St Paul's.
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