VOL- xxxv Now Is Your Time To Buy Winter Footwear XXOMVXXXAVX We find we are overstocked- too many goods. Yes, entirely too many goods! and we must reduce our stock and reduce it quick'.y, we need mjnev and we are going to close out a great many goods in the next few weeks and they are going very cheap. It will pay you to come miles to attend this great Shoe Sale for here are the very low prices they will GO AT: Boy's Oil Grain Shoes 50c Ladies' Rubber Boots fl.oo Men's Heavy Kip Shoes. 50c Boy's Rubbtr Boots jr. 00 Youth's Oil Grain Shoes 50c Men's Rubber Boots v $1.50 Men's High Cut Box Toe Shoes $1.15 Men's Felt B:-ots and Overs <1.50 Women's Kangaroo Calf Shoes 75c Ladies' Fine Dongcla Flexible Sole Misses' Kangaroo Calf Shoes 50c Shoes 81.10 Boy's Kip Boots SI.OO Misses' Fine Dress Shoes 75c Children's Fine Dress Shoes 40c Complete stock of Rubber and Felt Goods of all kinds. Boots and Shoes made to order. At all times a fall stock of sole leather and shoe makers supplies.of all kinds. Iljl Repairing Promptly Done. JOHN BICKEL. BUTLER. PA. HUSELTON'S Short Talk About Advertising- Talking through the newspaper is a good way of talking to the people if it is not abused —if you tell the truth, A long list of prices does not amount to any thing unless you have confidence in the house that backs the prices in their hones ty and reputation they sustain. What Would Your Paper Dollar be worth to you if it was not backed by Uncle Sam. You have got to take the dealers word in buying Footwear. You are not a judge as to values in this case. It is wise to buy from the house you have confidence in. YOU CAN TRUST THIS STORE. We don't depend upon prices alone to* "cetch" customer*, it's the absolute safety of the goods, allied to low prices, that gives us the advantage. WE FIT THE FEET OF ALL MANKIND. MEN'S AND BOYS' WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S in veal, oil grain and kip,? soles and tap, fashioned on the swellest lasts, lace or high cut at—sl, $1.25 and $1.50. button, at 85c, #l, $1.25, $1.50, $ 2 , $2.20 Men's box calf, russets, enamels, cordo- and $3, in kid, box calf, kangaroo and vans, heavy soles on bull dog, city and crack-proof calf, oil grain, veal unlined, Cornell lasts -the Swogger styles—s2 kip, heavy soles, tip or plain toe, heel or and $2.50, $3 and 13.50. spring. OUR WOOL BOOTS and RUBBER GOODS are all fresh made to our order. No old goods in stock. No old jobs to sell. Good Boots und Rubbers at $1.50, $1.75, *2, $2.25 and #2.50. Warm Lined Shoes for Elderly Ladies at 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.25. Try this store—think you will like it. B. C. HUSELTON'S, Butler's Leading Shoe House. Opposite Uotel Lrfjwry. We Are Sole Agents for the Jenness Miller Shoes for Butler. _ c I HE IS A WISE HAN j —WHO SECURES HIS CLOTHING PROM— # J J. 5. YOUNG, j i THE MERCHANT TAILOR, # f The goods, style, tit and general make 4 ? up of his suits \ 5 TELL their own J FOR EFFECT. (r\ ! \ j) Men won't buy clothing for the purpose J L \ \! ! jj°* s P en( '' n ß money. They desire to get the I V \/y.. \ V V -/best oossible results for the money expend \\ V J f\ I sed. Not cheap goods but goods as cheap as V Vv [y 0, )""**V Whey can be sold and niadt up propel ly. If fcj . ' \ J / Jyon want the correct thing at the correct ]r-A 1V f W J call on us, we have reduced our spring II I IT/ v Zj =» jjand summer goods down to make room for V 111/ \\ v" goods. VI 2 IJ nj j | Fits Guaranteed. • • Pape JEWEkeRS. We Will Save You Money On C Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, > ; Silverware, 1847 k Rodger Bros, { S Plateware and Sterling Silver^ Our Repair Department takes in all kinds of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,'etc 122 S. Main St. Old gold and silver taken the same as cash. ■_ " : V-' ■ '"•".V ••"" -si*t ' *|Sg y l ' ' •'.>■ "'■> V " ' s : THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Liver Ills Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, Ration, sour stomach. Indigestion are promptly mred by JJoort's Pills. Tliey do their work Hood's lasily and thoroughly. • I I | Best after dinner pills. 111 125 cents. All druggists. ■ ■■ M 1 Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., I.owell, Mass. I -b« 0 -fc Pill to take with Hood s Sa*w>anlla. Thlfl Is Tour Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, ft generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon strate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St, New York City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize bis statement, "It is a posi tive cure for catarrh if used as directed." — Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged enre for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. Butler Business College. Butler, Pa. Several New Courses. New Management. Musical Department under the di rectoiship of Prof. E. Otto Davis, a graduate of the leading European and American Conservatories of Music, and a finished musician. One of the finest in the state. Piano, Voice, Violin, Orchestration, In strumentation, Composition, Piano Tuning, Etc. Everything under the head of music. Business Department. Reporter's Shorthand Course, giving the graduate an average speed of 175 words per minnte. Expert Accountant's Book-keeping Course, which prepares the graduate for any kind of book-keep ing and expert work, and deals especial ly with Joint Stock Company and Cor poration Accounting. Students can enter at any time Call 01 write for prospectus. Call on or address A. F. REGAL, Prin., 327 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. Peoples' Phone 271. Bell 17d. Braun's Pharmacy, Cor. 6th St. and J)uquesne Way, Pittsburg, Pa,, L, D. Telephone 2542. Wholesale and Retail. Importer andjobberof Drugs, Chemicals, Perfumes, Soaps, Brushes, Etc. The only house west of New York carrying- a full line of Meyers' Grease, Paints and theatrical goods. Physicians' Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night by "Keglstered marmacists" uuiy. Wholesale and retail dealer in Lubricating and lllumniating Oils, Capital Cylinder, Dynamo, Water White and Standard Gas Engine Oils, Gasolein, Ben zine, Paraffine Wax and Petrolatum. Address all mail orders to W. F. Braun. Pianos. The Chickering-Chase Bros. Co. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Manufacturers of Grand and Upright Pianos Have placed on exhibition at No. 317 S. Main St., Butler, Pa., a sample lot of their fine Upright Pianos. These Pianos, coming direct from the factory and sold to you by the manu facturer, means a large saving in the purchase of a piano. The celebrated Chase Brothers and Hackley Piancs are endorsed by all lead ing artists. These pianos can be bought on easy terms to suit the purchaser. Pianos and Organs taken as part payment in ex change. Come and see them and make a selection for Christmas. We Can Save You Money. W R NEWTON, Representative. Don't Shiver! Winter is here and you need Horse Blankets, Robes, Sleighs, Sleds, Bells or something about your Horse or Team—what is the use of your going around and paying twenty-five per cent, more for them than you can buy them here for. Remember we are the largest wholesale and retail dealers in our line in the state. We pay no rent, no interest on borrowed capital, Jook after our business ourselves and pay no high salaries, pay spot cash for everything, we buy all for your benefit which you get when you deal here. Call and see anyway. MARTINCOURT CO., No. 128 E. Jeflerson St., S. B. Martincourt, ) n J. M. Lieghner. J liuTLER ' P. S.—We also sell Trunks and Valises. Subscribe tor the CmzzN. man CHAPTER XXL HILTON. It was a dark, drizzling night wher I arrived at the litcle village of Hilton within a mile of the hall. I knew i respectable second-rate inn on the sid< next the Hall, to which the gardenei and other servants had been in th< habit of repairing of an evening; ano I thought I might there stumble upoi some information, especially as th« old-fashioned place had a large kltchet in which all sorts of guests met. Wher I reflected on the utter change whlci time, weather and a great scar rails: have made upon me. I feared no reo ognitiuu. But whtjt was my surprise when, by one of those coincidences which Itave so often happened to me I found in the hostler one of my owr troo«p at Waterloo! His countenance and salute convinced me that he rec ognized me. I said to him: "I know you perfectly. Wood: but you must not knew me. I will gc with you to (he stable." He led the way instantly. "Wood," I said, when we had reach ed the shelter of the stable. "I don't want to be known here, for reasons which I will explain to you anothei time." "Very well, sir. You may depend upon me. sir." "I know I may. and I shall. Do you know anybody about the Hall?" ''Yes, six. The ganlener comes hero sometimes, sir. I believe he's in the house now. Shall I ask him to step this way, sir?" "Xo. All 1 want is. to learn who If at the Hall now. Will you get ulnj talking? I shall be by, having some thing to drink." "Yes, sir. As soon as I have rub bed down the old horse, sir—bless him!" "You'll find me there." I went in, and. with my condition for an excuse, ordered something hot by the kitchen tire. Several country people were sitting about it. They made room for me, and I took my place ait a table 00 one side. I soon discovered the gardener, though time had done what he could to disguise him. Wood came in presently, and, loitering about, begun to talk to him. "What's tlie last news at the Hall, William?" he said. "X'ews!" answered the old man. somewhat querulously, "there's never nothing but news up there, and very new-fangled news, too. What do you think, now, .lohnT They lo talk of turning all them green nouses into hot houses; for, to be sure, there's noth ing the new missus cares aliout but Just the finest grapes in the country and the flowers, pnrtv creatures, may go to the devil for her. There's a lady for ye!" "But you'll bo glad to have her home and see what's she like, won't you? It's rather dull up there now, isn't ft?" "I don't know what you call dull," replied the old inun. as If half of fended at the suggestion. "I don't be lieve a soul missed his lordship when lie «Ued: aud there's alwavs Mrs. Blakesley and me. as is the best friends in the world, besides three maids and the stableman, who helps me in the garden, now there's no horses. And then there's Jacob and—" "But you don't mean," said Wood, interrupting him, "that there's none of the family at home now?" -"~' ir 'No. Why should there be? Least ways, only the poor lady. And she hardly counts now—bless her sweet face." "Do you ever see her?" interposed one of the by-sitters. "Sometimes." "Is she quite cra*y?" "Altogether; but that quiet and gentle, you would think she was an angel Instead of a mad woman. But not a notion has she in her head, no more than the babe unborn." It was a dreadful shock to me. Was this to be the end of all? Were it not better she had <lied? For me, life was worthless now. And there were no wars, with the chance of losing 11 honestly. I rose and went to my own room. As I sat in dull misery by the fire, it struck me that it might not have been Lady Alice after all that the old man spoke about. That moment a tap came to my door and Wood entered. After a few word#, I asked him who was the lady the gardener had said was crazy. "Lady Alice," he answered, and ad ded; "A love story, that came to a bad end up at the Hall, years ago. A tutor was in It, they say. But I don't know the rights of it." When he left me, I sat in a cold stu por, lu which the thoughts—lf thoughts they could he called—came and went of themselves. Overcome by the ap pearance of things—as what man the strongest may not sometimes be?—l feit as If * had lost her utterly, as If there was no I-ady Alice anywhere, and a® If, to add to the vacant horror of tlie world wltJhowt her. a shadow ot her, a golden simulterum. soulless, un real, yet awfully like her, went wan dering about the plice which TTad onc« been glorified by tier presence—as to tlie eyes of seers the phantoms of events wliieh have happened years be fore are sitill visit ie, clinging to tlie room in which they have indeed taken place. But, in a little while, some thing warm began to throb aud flow in my being, and I thought thait if she were dead, 1 shoulc" love her still; that now she was not worse than dead: it was only that b »r soul was out of sight. Who could ell but it might Ik) wandering in worlds of too nobla shapes and of too high a speech to i>er mit of representati in in the language of the world in wfeieh her bodily pre sentation remained, and therefore her speech aud behavior seemed to men to be mad? Nay, was it not in some sense better for me that It should l>e so? To see once tLe pictured likenesa of her of whotn I liad no such memo rial, could I not give years of my pov erty-stricken life? And here was such a statue of her, ae that of his wife which the widowed king was bending before, whon he said: "Who/t fine chisel Could ever yot cut breath?" This statue I might see, "looking like an angel," as the gardener had said. And, while the bond of visibility re mtined, must not the soul lie. some how, nearer to the earth than If the form lay decaying beneath it? Was there not some possibility that the love for whose sake the reason had depart ed, might be able to recall that rea son once more to the windows of sense —make it look forth at those eyes, anil lie listening in the recesses of those ears? In her sonanibulic sleeps, the present body was the sign that the poul was within reach; so it might be still. Mra. Blakesley was still at the lodge: BUTLER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER H, 189H I would call upon her to-morrow. I wctut to bed. and dreamed all night tibat Alice was sitting so) lie wher. in a land "full of d.irk mountains." and that 1 was waiuK-rlHg above in tlie darkness, alternately i-alliug and list ening; sometimes fancying I heard a faint reply. whi< U might l«e her voice, or an echo of my own; but never liud ing her. I woke in an outburst of despairing tears, nnd my was not comforted by my waking. CHAPTER XXII. THE SI.EKPEB. It was a lovely morning in autumn. I walked to the Hail. I entered at the s;une gate by wliioh I had entered fir<»t. 90 many years before. But it was not Mrs. Blakeslcy tlmt opened it. I inquired after lier. and the woman told me that she lived at the Hall now, and took care of Lculy Alice. So far, this was hopeful news. I went up the same avenue, through the suine wide, grassy places, saw the same statue from whose base had aris en rhe lovely form which soon b vaiue a part of my existence. Then every thing looked rich, because I bad come fnftn a poor, grand country. In all my wanderings I bail seen nothing so rtcli, yet now it seemed poverty stricken. That it was autumn could not account for this; for I had always found tha/t the sadness of autumn vivi fied tlie poetic sense; and that the col ors of decay had a pathetic glory more beautiful than rtie glory of the most gorgeous summer with all its flowers. It was winter within me—that was the reason; and I could feel no autumn arouud nie, because I saw no spring beyond me. It had fared with my mind as with the garden in the Sen sitive riant, when the lady was dead. I was amazed and troubled at the stolidity with which I walked up to the door. and. having rung the bell, waited. Xo sweeit memories of the past arose in my mind: not one of the well known objects around looked at me as claiming a recognition. Yet, when Che door was opened, my heart beat so violently at the thought that I might see her. that I could hardly stammer out my Inquiry after Mrs. Blakesley. I was shown to t room. Xone of the sensations 1 bad had on first cross ing the threshold were revived. I re membered them all; I felt none of them. Mrs. Blakesley came. She did not recognize me. I told her who I was. She stared at me. for a moment, seemed to see th;> same face she had known still glimmering till rough all the changes that had cr crwded upon It. held out both her ham!s, and burst into tears. "Mr. Campbell." she said, "you are changed. But not like her. She's the same to look at; but oh. dear!" We were both silent for some time. At length she resumed: "Come to my room: I have been mis tress here for some time now." I followed her to the room .Mrs. Wil son used to occupy. She put wine on the table. I told her my story. My laliors. and my wounds, and my ill ness. slightly touched as I trust they were in the course of the tale, yet moved all her womanly sympathies. "What ca 11 I do for you, Mr. Cahp bell?" she said. "Let me see her," I replied. She hesitated for a moment. "I dare not, sir. I don't know what raving; and she is so quiet." "Has she ever raved?" "Not often since the first week or two. Now and thon, occasionally, for an hour or so, she would be wild, wanting to get out. But she gave that over, altogether; and she has had her lVberty now for a long time. But, heavi >n bless her. at the worst she was always a lady." "And am 1 to go away without even seeing her?' "I am very sorry for you, Mr. Camp bell." I felt hurt—foolishly. I confess-and r»»e. She put her hand on my afm. "I'll tell von what I'll do, sir. She always fsiils asleep in the afternoon; you may si'e her as.'ecp, if you like." "Thank you; tii.irk you," I answer ed. "Thai will Do ntiuoh better. When shall 1 conie?" 'Aliout, three o'clock." I went wandering about tlTe woods, and at three I was again in the house keeper's room. She came to me pres ently. looking rattier troubled. "It is very odd," she began, the mo ment sthe entered, "but for the first time 1 think, for y?ars, she's not for het afternoon sleep." "Does she sleep at night?" I asked. "Like a bairn. But she sleeps a great deal; and the doctor says that's what keeps her so quiet. She would go raving again, he says, if the sleep did not soothe her poor brain." "Could you not let me see her when she is asleep to-nigot?" Again she hesitated, but presently replied:— "I will, sir; but I trust you never to mention It." "Of course I will not." "Come at 10 o'clock, then. You will find tlie outer door on this side open. Go straight to my 100111." With renewed thanks 1 left her, ana once again betaking myself to the woods, wandered aliout till night, not withstanding signs of an approaching storm. I thus kept within the bounda ries of the demesne, and had no occa sion to request readmittauce at any of the gates. As ten struck on tlie tower clock, I entered Mrs. Blakesiey's room. Slu» was not there. 1 sat down. In a few minutes she came. "She is fast asleep," she said. "Come this way." I followed trembling. She led me to the same room Lady Alice used to oc cupy. The door was a little open. She pushed it gently, and I followed her in. The curtains toward the door were drawn. Mrs. Blakesley took me round to the other side. There lay the lovely head, so phantom-like for years, com ing only in my dreams; tilling now with a real presence the eyes that had longed for it, as in them dwelt an ap petite of sight. I calmed my heart at once, which had !>een almost choking me with the violence of its palpitation. "This is not the face of insanity," I said to myself. "It is clear as the morning light." As I stood gazing, I made no comparisons between tlie past aud the present, although I was aware of some difference—of some measure of the unknown fronting me. I was filled with tlie delight of beholding the face 1 loved —full, it seemed to me, of mind and womanhood; sleeping—noth ing more. I murmured a fervent "Thank God!" and was turning away with a feeling of great satisfaction for ail the future, and a strange great hope beginning to throb in my heart, wliea. after a little restless motion of her head on the pillow, her patient lips began to tremble. My soul rushed into my ears. "Mr. Campbell." she murmured, "I cannot spell; what am I to do to learn?" "You made her restless. You see, sir, she never was like other people, poor dear!" "Her face is not like out- insane," I rejoined. "1 often think slie looks more like herself when she's asleep," answered she. "And then 1 bare often seen her smile. She never Smiles when she's awake. But. gracious me, Mr. Camp bell! what shall I do?" This exclamation was caused by my suddenly falling back in my chair and closing my eyes. I had almost fainted. I had eaten nothing since breakfast: and had been wandering about in a state of excitement all day. I greedily swallowed the glass of wine she brought me, aud theu I became aware that the storm, which I had seen gath ering while I was in the woods, had now broken loose. "What a night in the old Hall!" thought I. The wind was dashing itself like a thousand eagles against the house, and the rain was trampling the r&ofs aud the court like troops of galloping steeds. I rose to go. But Mrs. Blakesley interfered. "You won't leave this house to-night. Mr. Campbell." she said. "1 won't have your death laid at my door." I laughed. "Dear Mrs. Blakesley," I said, seeing her determined. "I won't hear a word." she interrupt ed. "I wouldn't let a horse out in such a tem|»est. No, no; you shall just sleep in your old quarters, across the pas sage there." I did not care for any storm. It hardly even interested me. That beau tiful face tilled my whole being. But I yielded to Mrs. Blakesley. aud not uu w/llingly. CHAPTER XXIII »ir oi.d room. Once more I was left alone In that room of dark oak. looking out on the little ivy mantled court, of which I was now reminded by the howling of the storm within its high walls. Mrs. Blakesley had extemporized a lied for me on rhe old sofa; and the fire was already blazing away splen didly. I sat down beside it. and the somber-hued past rolled back upon me. I was sitting in my own room, wait ing for Lady Alice. And, as I sat waiting, and wishing she would come, by slow degrees my wishes intensi fied themselves, till I found myself, with all my gathered might, willing that she should come. The minutes passed, but tlie will remained. How shall I tell what followed? The door of the closet opened—slowly, gently—and in walked Eady Alice, pale as death, her eyes closed, her whole person asleep. With a gliding motion as in a dream, where the voli tion that produce# motion is unfelt, she seemed to me to dream herself across the floor to my couch, on which she laid herself down as gracefully, as simply, as in the old beautiful time. Her appearance did not startle me, fot my whole condition was in harmony with the phenomenon. I rose noise lessly, covered her lightly from head to foot, and sat down, as of old, to watch. How beautiful she was! She was wak ing. My love with t'he unknown face was at hand. The re viving flush came, grew, deepened. She opened her eyes. God be praised' They were lovelier than ever. And the smile that broke over her face wag the very sunlight of the soul. gently, as she stretched her beautiful arms toward me. I could not speak. I could only sub mit to her embrace, and hold myself with all my might, lest I should burst Into helpless weeping. But a sob 01 two broke their prison, and she fell the emotion she had not seen. lte laxing her hold, she pushed me gently from her, aud looked at me with con cern that grew as she looked. "You are dreafully changed, my Duncan! What is the matter? Has Lord Hilton been rude to you? You look so much older, somehow. What can it be?" I understood at once how it was. The whole of those dreary twelve years was gone. The thread of her consciousness had been cut. those years dropped out, and the ends re united. She thought this was one oi her old visits to me, when, as now, she had walked in her sleep. I an swered: "I will tell you all another time. 1 don't want to waste the moments with you. my Alice, in speaking :ilH>ut it Lord Hilton has l»ehaved very badly to me; but never mind." She half rose in anger; and her eyes looked insane for the first time. "How dares he?" she said, and then checked herself with a sigh at her own helplessness. "But it will all come all right. Alice,'' I went on in terror lest I should dis turb her present conception of her cir cumstances. "Alice," I said, "it is nearly morn ing. You were late to-night. Don't you think you had hotter go—for feai you know?" "Ah," she said with a smite, in which there was 110 doubt or fear, "you are tired of me already! But 1 will go at once —to dream about you." "Go, my darling," I said; "and mind you get some rijfbt sleep. Shall I pro with you?" "No, no; please not. I can go alone as usual. When a ghost meets me, 1 just walk through him, and then he's nowhere; and I laugb." One kiss, one backward lingering look, and the door closed behind her. I heard the who of the great hall. I was alone. Yet, at the moment, by a sudden im pulse, I opened the window gently, stepped into the little grassy court, and then retreated into my own room, where I i>aeed altout till the house hold was astir. CHAPTER XXTV. PKISOV»ItEAKISG. It was with considerable anxiety that 1 repaired to Mrs. Blakesley's room. There I found the old lady at the breakfast-table, so thoroughly composed, that I was at once reas sured as to her ignorance of what had occurred while she slept. Arrived at my inn. I kept my room, my dim-seen plans rendering it de sirable that I should attract as little attention in the neighborhood as might be. 1 had now to concentrate these plans and make them definite to myself. My cogitations concluded in the re solve to use the means in my hands for the rescue of Lady Alice. Mid night found me in the alley of the kitchen-garden. The door of the little court o|>ened easily. Nor had I with drawn its belts without knowing that I could manage to open the window of my old room from the outside. I secured the door of the room, struck a light, lighted a rem mint of taper which I found on the table, threw my self on the couch, and said to my Alice: "Come." And she came. I rose. She laid herself down. I pulled off my coat it was all I could tind —and laid it over her. The night was chilly. She re vived with the same sweet smile, but, irlvini: a little shiver- -aid: "Why have you no Are. Duncan? I must give orders about It. That's some trirk of old Clankshoe." "Tes. that Is ft. Alice." "I had a strange dream the other night. L thought I was sitting on a stone In the dark. Aud I heard your voice calling me. And it went all around me. and came nearer and went further off. but I could not move to go to y*u. I tried to answer you. but I could only make a queer sound, not like my own voice at aIL" "I dreamed it too. Alice." "The same dream?" "Yes, the very same." "I am so glad. But I didn't like the dream. Duncan, my head feels so strange sometimes. Aud lam so sleepy. Duncan, dearest—am I dream ing now? Oh. tell me that 1 am awake and that I hold you; for to morrow. when 1 wake, I shall fancy that I have lost you. They've spoiled my poor brain, somehow. I am all right 1 know, but I cannot get at it The red ia withered, some how." "You are wide awake, my Alice. I know all about it. I will help you to understand it all. only you must do exactly as I tell you." "Yes, yes." "Then go to bed now and sleep as much as you can: else I will not let you come to me at night" "That would be too cruel, when It is all I have." "Then go. dearest, and sleep." "I wllL" She rose and wyot I, too, went making all dose behind me. The moon was going down. Her light look«d to me strange, almost malig nant. Next morning I called again upon Mrs. Blakesley, to Inquire after Lady Alice, anxious to know how yesterday had jwissed. "Just the same." answered the old lady. "You need not look for any change. Yesterday I did see her smile once, though." tlie usual facts of nature—(l say facts, not laws I—the dreams of most people are more or less insane; those of Lady Alice were sound; thus, with her, re storing the balance of sane life. That smile was the sign of the dream life liegiuning to leaves the waking and false life. "Have you heard of young Lord And was that nothing? In her case there was a reversal of Hilton's marriage?" asked Mrs. Blakesley. "I have only heard sotoe rumors about it." I answered. "Who is the new countess?" "The daughter of a rich merchant somewhere. They say she isn't the liest of tempers. They're coming here in al>out a mouth. I am just terrified to think how it may fare with my lamb now. They won't let her go wandering about wherever she pleases, 1 And If they shut her up, she will die." 1 vowed inwardly that she should be free, if I carried her off, madness and aIL Pro NAVAL DEFINITIONS. Z a Fathom —A measure of six feet. Turret —A tower for the protection of the gunners. A mapaK fn» 1/wvlr. out at the masthead. Armament—A term expressing col lectively all the guns of a ship. Jacob's Ladder —A short ladder with wood rungs and rope sides. Capstan—A machine used on board ship for lifting heavy weights. Bow Chaser —A gun- mounted in the bow to fire on retreating vessels. Bulkhead —A partition separating compartments on the same deck. Cable —A long, heavy chain used to retain a ship in place at anchor. Binnacle—The compass box of a ship, with a light to show it at night. Gangway—The aperture in a ship's side where persons enter and depart. Displacement—The weight in tons of the volume of water 'displaced by a ship's hull. Barbette —A fixed circular belt of armor for protecting the guns in a re volving turret. Knot —A nautical mile of 2,025 yards, equal to about one and one-eighth statute miles. Monitor —A low, nearly fiat-bottom ed armored vessel, with one or two turrets, each carrying two guns. Bridge—A platform above the rail extending across the deck for the con venience of the ship's officers. Conning Tower—An armored tower where the wheel, engine, telegraphs, etc., are located and from which the captain is supposed to direct his men during a battle. KITCHEN HINTS. Sharpen all kinds of fish sauce with lemon juice. A dash of black pepper greatly im proves vanilla ice cream. When using vanilla for flavoring add half a teaspoonful of peach extract. Put sugar in water used for basting meats of all kinds; it adds flavor, espe cially to veal. Add a cup of good date vinegar to the water in which you boil fish, espe cially if it is salt fish. When baking fish place on the top thin slices of salt pork; it tastes the fish and improves the flavor. To give an appetizing flavor to a broil ed beefsteak rub a cut onion over the hot platter with the butter. Three tablespoons of freshly made tea, with a pinch of nutmeg, imparts an indescribable flavor to applie pie. Chocolate is greatly improved by adding a teaspoonful of strong coffee just before serving; a teaspoonful of sherry also helps. To improve sweetbreads and give them a fine flavor soak them in mild lemon juice water an hour, and then broil 20 minutes in beef stock. HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY. After people pass thirty-five they never make as fine appearance at any thing as when engaged in work. Talk as men shoot; make everything that you say hit the mark or don't waste your ammunition. No man is an interesting talker when members of his family are present, for the reason that kin pin each other down to facts. You will find as you grow older that a good many who claim to have their coats off working for you have them rolled up for pillows and are sleeping on them In the shade. After all there isn't any better friend than the one who never "throws things up to you." A fortunate man Is one who Isn't re minded every time his wife smiles of dentists' bills. We are annoyed until we are thirty by the "example" we should follow, and annoyed after that time till death gets us at the "example" we are setting others. When a man fails in business his thoughts turn at once to securing a public office. Every man thinks it is easy to get one. No one is Jumped on so quickly when he does wrong as the man who made himself a self-appointed guide for others. ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE. Third-class railway fares in India are less than a farthing a mile. Great Britain spends on tobacco and pipes about £14.000.000 every year. The first envelope ever made is in the possession of the British museum. Country roads In China are never bounded by fences, but are entirely un defined. Hamburg's improved apparatus for burning garbage does the work for about 9 cents per 1.000 pounds. Great Britain's marine steam ton nage is to-day 6,720,703 —about as much as that of all other nations added to gether. In the hotels built in China for the use of foreigners, the highest stories are the most expensive, because the breeziest. The longest canal in the world is in Russia. It extends from 9t. Petersburg to the frontier of China, and measures nearly 4,500 miles. Queen Victoria, somebody has fig ured out, is sovereign over one con tinent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promon tories, 1,000 lakes, 8,000 rivers and 10,- 000 islands. If a pair of herrings could be left to breed and multiply undisturbed for a period of 20 years "'iey would yield an amount of fish equal in bulk to the globe on which «e live. Knew Hit (*tittle Touch "Ah, go lang now. Pat, Oi know it's you by th' physkersl" Well Worth y. There's nothin' too good fur Uncle Sam, From gold in the arctic frost To truit that grows on the stately pa'm Where the snow-cloud never crossed. From the tropic plant with fantastic bloom To the pine which has sternly stood An' conquered in spite of cold an gloom. There's nothin' at all too good. There's nothin' too good fur Uncle Sam, When he said "Are ye ready, men?" From a million hearts come the words, "I am," Till the echoes shook again. An' the rich an' poor an" the high an' Prepared at the country's call to go— Fur there's nothin' at all too good. MUCH IN LITTLE. Ja Lucifer matches were first made nearly 70 years ago. The castle of Heidetburg Is the largest In Germany. Britain makes $20,000,000 a year profit out of its postoffices. Employment bureaus in Buffalo are limited in their charges by an ordi nance. The state dress of a trumpeter of the Royal House guard!, "the Blues," costs over SSOO. The people of Norway are greatly alarmed at the spread of liquor-drink ing among them. Temperance is the rule, it appears, all along the line in connection with the Soudan expedition. A correspondent estimates that the population of London in 1901 will be 6,140,000, and 7,600,000 in 1921. The city debt of Boston has increased $14,500,136 in two and a third years, ind now amounts to $80,166,910. The origin of the American navy dates from October 13, 1775, when con gress authorized the equipment of two cruisers. The Liverpool docks, one of the won iers of modern commerce, extend along the Mersey a distance of six and a half miles. Andrew Lang, who probably knows what he is talking about, states there ire 100,000 novelists in England whose works never get into print. Dr. Nansen's profits from his book, 'Farthest North," are said to amount :o $190,000. The profits of his lectures nave added largely to this sum. THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA. The Atlantic Ocean is crossed month ly by 1,000 ships. A person walking at the rate of four miles an hour consumes 2,300 cubic Inches of air per minute. The populaton of Palestine is in creasing rapidly. Ten years ago there were only 16,000 residents in Jaffa; to 3ay there are nearly 60,000. The beautiful colors seen In the soap cubbies arise from the fact that the bub ble, being very thin, reflects light from both the outer and inner surface."* of the film. A process has been recently perfect ed by which thin sheets of absolutely transparent celluloid are silvered by a similar process to that formerly used on glass. In the streets and suburbs of London there are now not only 712 fountains for human beings, but 286 large troughs for horses and cattle and 4io small troughs for sheep and dogs. Burglar-proof glass has been invent ed by a smart manufacturer. It is made by pouring molten glass over a network of steel wire. It is especially adapted for skylights and jewelers' windows. HOW THEY DO THINGS IN MEXICO The bridegroom always furnishes thq trousseau of his bride. Mines are generally worked as mines, ind not for the stock market. In every city free night schools are maintained for the working classes. Church processions are prohibited. Even a priest cannot legally walk the streets in his churchly garments. There is no hanging in Mexico, and, >utside what concerns the army and the brigands, no capital punishment. In a Mexican home the sofa is the seat of honor, and the guest does not take a seat upon it until requested to do so. Theatrical companies that do not present the attraction they have billed No. 48 are subject to fine. A fine is also placed an bull-fighters who give a poor per formance or who do not begin on tima. The term of a prisoner in a peniten tiary is divided into three periods. The first is occupied with penal labor. The tecond is labor in the training school, with little play. The third, "prepara tory freedom." includes plain work and many privileges. IRONICAL IF& *- • If yoA would succeed In life, learn to know what you can't do. If paying one's debts is a virtue, very few men are strictly virtuous. If volunteers were called for to pay the bill war would never be declared. If marriage is a mistake, it is at least one a man doesn't make every day. If a man is his own worst enemy he has a natural-born fool to take care ofc If a man rises in tbe world at the end of a rope be Is sure of an early downfall. If handsome is as handsome does some good-looking girls are anything but handsome. If people didn't have to work they would have more time to get tired of doing nothing. If it were literally true that whisky fills our jails lots of men would break into them. If you carve your name on the hearts of your friends it will be more lasting than if carved on a marble slab. SIX SHORT SAYINGS. What a wonderful being Is man! He admits it himself. We don't want the earth; If we had the whole earth, we should not need a navy to defend it. A woman considers herself happy when she lives two years in one and grows six months older the while. Man is the architect of his own for tune, which accounts for some of these Venetian facades on human woodshed*. Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to le wise; If a man isn't a judge of good whiskey his drinks don't cost hiai so nucb. No man, generally speaking, has too treat a future to be held in the little •.ands of a woman. Holding Out. "Don't vou think it would be well for us to surrender?" inquired the Spanish officer at Havana. "Surrender!" echoed his superior. "I wouldn't think of such a thing— not until we have gotten what there Is to be made by speculation in food supplies." Good and evil are magnets. Good ia the more powerful, but evil acts at less distance. Reason brings our vices into court. Self-love examines them —and dis ?harges them. FACTS AND FANCIES. The meaner a man is the more agreeable he tries to be. A chainless wheel is far more de sirable than a chainless dog. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take what comes. A poet says that hunger acts U a stimulant to original thought IULIIU LIT* man economize as the lack of money. It takes a clever woman to obtain in formation without asking questioni. Some girls sing like nightingales, and some others like gales in the night. It's a pity that a man can never see himself in a poker game as others "see" him. The first thing a widow does af ter making up her mind to appoint her late husband's successor is to make up her face. It is harder for a photographer to make a baby look pleasant than it is for the baby to make the photographer look unpleasant. OUT OF THE VEST POCKET. Neither camels nor elephants car jump. Tea plantations In India cover 25,000 acres. There are always 6,000 British ves sels at sea. Field rats are considered good eat ing in Cuba. Klephants can exert the strength of 31 horses. Savages, on the whole, live longer than civilized people. A carrier pigeon service was estab lished by the Turks A. D. 667. Sicilian laborers are glad to get ten pence a day for 14 hours' work. Germans weigh nearly ten pounds each man more than Frenchmen. The heat of comets is said to be 2,000 times greater than redhot Iron. A church in Seidlitz, in Bohemia, contains a chandelier made of human bones. It is claimed that at present the Eng lish language is spoken by 115,000,000 people. , ALL SORTS IN A NUTSHELL. The American navy has practically all been built since 1883. More than 75 per cent, of the trad* or Egypt is with British possessions. The state of Texas is about 76,000 square miles larger In area than Spain. In Berlin nearly all the repairs of the principal streets are carried on at night. It is proposed to lntrodpce bats and toads into New Zealand to combat in sect pests. In the United States there are no less than 13 different varieties of the Presbyterian church family. The entire collection of coins and medals in the British museum consists of nearly 250,000 specimens. Under the laws of China the man who loses bis temper in a discussion la sent to jail for five days to cool down. Gray horses are the longest-lived and cream-colored ones are the most delicate, being unable to stand very warm weather. OF REAL INTEREST. Sugar alone will apparently sustain life for a considerable time. On an average every woman carries 40 to 60 miles of hair upon her head. The polar currents are said to con tain less salt than those from the equa tor. The huge guns of modern navies can he fired only about 75 timee. After that thej become worn out. Spain has more sunshine than any other country in Europe, the yearly average being 3,000 hours. Under British rule the cotton crop of Egypt has doubled, and now amounts to over 500,000,000 pounds a year. In Abyssinia not so very long ago salt was the principal medium of ex change, being practically used M money.
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