VOL- xxx.vi HUSELTOIN'S! Showing of FALL and WINTER Footwear I 'Che biggest, most carefully selected stcck of BOOTS and SHOES we ever of fered is now assembled ready for the showing. Crowds are here all the time bec*i-»a the best shoes for the money are here all the time. We please everybxly, no one disappointed, ask the thousands of people whom we shoe and see. The newest styles from the WORLD'S BEST MANUFACTORIES. Women's Shoes. We show all the newest shapes and fashionable manish shoes, heavy soles in kid skin and box calf AA to Hat $2, 2.50, 3.00 and 3.50. These shoes are the most comfortable shoe a women ever wore. In McKay sewed 75 cts. to $1.50. Women's Heavy Shoes. Our celebrated calf kip and veal uii lined at 85c, 51.25 and 1 50, then the oil grain, kangaroo kip and grain at ?i, 1 25 and J. 50, you can't duplicate in Butler Children's School Shoes. We sell only the best unlined kip heavy Sole tip only one pair to buy dur ing the winter, no rubbers needed; then see the heavy veal oil grain, kangaroo kip; prices 75c, *I.OO and up to 1.40, sizes 13-2; sizes 9-12, 50c, 75, f at, d '-'S- We sell "Queen Quality" Shoes for Women and The Famous Mrs ienness Miller's Shoes. B. C. HUSELTON'S, •Sutler'* Leading Shoe House. Opposite Hotel Lowry. flAfefe pOOTWeAR I Our entire fall stock of BOOTS, SHOES and RUBBER -ooda are all in. We bought early and gave large orders there by enabling us to offer you the best of solid footwear at away down prices. No advance in price of leather goods, and felt goods cheaper than last season. We have an cxtremly large stock to select from. LEATHER r,nnr>s x Men's kip double sole ami tap box toe boots f 2 -5° Boy's " " " " " »»ooU '-So Men's high cut bo* toe shoes '*7s Boy's high cut double sole and tap shoes '*7s Youth's " " " " " " " Women's be«t kangaroo calf shoes 1-25 Women's best oil grain shoes '- 2 5 Misses' best kangaroo calf shoes Children's best Kangaroo calf shoes Children-'* fine dongo'a shoes RUBBER M«o ■ Storm Kins; robber tools fcS.K Women's regular height rubber $1.35 Moii'h regular hefirht rubber liootn. ... Men's bucklo arctlrs 'i.' Boy'ti height rubber Inx>U 1..V1 Ladles' Imckle arcti«*s.. .. i Youth's regular height rubber boot* 1 M'» ladles' Mlssex' and Children's rubbers. ..•» FELT GOODS." W n's lie*! while felt hoofs A; snaK overs 12.00 Men's (irey f.-lI boots anfl soeond overs ?l.. R io II :y'n " " " "■ Ist grade overs ISM lloy'-. " " " " ' ,M > i flWtk'« " " J.W Voutli's " " '•*» Fu " "ft* SOROSIS SHOES ™H° E In all the latest styles for fall wear. Full stock of the A. E. Nettle ton fine shoes for men. Indies and frents felt sli jci and warm lined shoes and slippers. Visitors to the Butler County Fair, wc welcome you to our store Make this your headquarters during your stay in Butler. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - - BUTLER, PA. STRIVING COR EFFECT! A J ************** 4 I C Men don't buy clothing for the I |J1 '•jy ~@r\ >olfe or spending money. They desire."J,/. / JLj J Sto get the possible results for expended. Not cheap good l '!jc /> I' j j&y joT.but goods as cheap as they can be„W. JBr ,! fjQsold for and made up properly. IfoU j ' T&you want the correct thing at the cor/?.' -- A jvi-'.'l price, call pnd examine ouri,'. - \ \ ll ] large stock of Heavy Weights, \ f'jJ J iO&Htia Winter Suitings and Overcoats \| VVB ,V' ( l -/ .W.the latest Styles, Shades and Colors \ 1 / !■« U j \ I j L Fits and Workmanship j/jl m Guaranteed. k&sW JSti 'v' g. P. Keen, 142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa |>ooooooooooo<^ooooo<>oo<>oo<x I That the dread house cleaning is over the next { ) and more important work is picking a new carpet < > To pick a carpet in our well stocked carpet rooms 4' > is a pleasure, so say the many who have done so. J l We have the famous Hartford Administer, Wilton , I. Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels and Ingrains I. in all the up-to-date patterns, only, and prices I that will astonish you. Then our China Mattings, | Floor and Table Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Rugs and Art Squares, deserve a passing notice. Ask to 1 see our O SI.OO Axminister Rugs, < ( Neatest thing for the money ever shown in Butler at '\' DUFFVS STORE f XJOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOO' PAPE'S, JEWELERS. Diamonds, Watches. Clocks, Jewelery, Silverware, Spectacles, etc. We have a large and well selected stock. We Repair all Kinds of Watches. If you have broken jewelery that you think beyond repaiis bring it to us and we will make it as good as new We take old gold and silver the same as cash allowing the highest market price. 1 22 S. Main St., Butler, I'a. Men's Fine Shoes Come here if you wau the b2st for your money, they are here in winter tans —box calf, cordovan, wax calf, English, grain, vici kid, htavy soles, all new shapts at $1.50, 2 00, 2.50, 3.00 and 3 50. Satin calf fi.oo and 1.25. Heavy Working Shoes In kip oil grain 2 soles anil tap, high cut box toe at $1.50, i.oo, 2.50 and 3.00. Heavy yeal and oil grain Creed more's at $1.00,' z.25 and 1.50. Heavy Boots a - 2.00 and 2.50. Boy's School Shoes "Strong, Dressy, Well Shaped Our Jamestown kip, high cut copper toe shoe; then Bengal calf, oil grain and crackproof calf, 2 soles and tap at fi.oo 1.25, 1.50 and 2.00, can't be duplicated in any store in Butler. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. STANDS VERY HIGH Estimation of the Public Argues Well for It. Good Reports are Coming in From all Sections of the Country. There is not a medicine soM in Penn sylvania toriav that stands as high in the estimation r>f our home people as Mor row's Kid-ne-oids- Not only in this state are Morrow's Kid-ne-oids achieving success, but good reports come from all sections of the county, and these reports come because the people have been cured of kidney and urinary disorders just the same as hundreds in Pennsylvania have been cured. Arthur Harlan, Salesman in Laird s Shoe Store. Pittsburg, Pa., says: "I have been troubled with a dull and constant pain in my back and at times Would have a sharp shooting pair so I could not hardly lift anything. Ihe secretions of the kidnevs were :rregular and attended by* a burning sensation. When I heard about Morrow 's Kid-ne oids I decided to try them. Since I t'.ok them I have been entirely relieved ot all my troubles. I recommended them to others and they said that Kid-ne oids le lieved them of the same symptoms." Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a IK>X at all drug stores and at Redick & Grohman's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac tured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists. Springfield, Ohio. Butler Savings Bank Mil tier, IJo.l J o. Capital - |60,000.00 Surplus and Profits - - $170,000.00 JOS. L PURVIS President J. HENRY TP.OUTMAN Vice-President U'M. CAMPBELL, .Ir Cmhur LOUIS R. STEIN Teller l)HIE<TOIt!-. -Joseph 1.. urvls. .1. Heir Tro'-.trnan. W. I). Branlon. W. A. Htelu. J S. C&mDbetl. The Butler Savings Hank Is the Oiliest Flanking Institution: n Butler County. General banking business transacted. We solicit accounts of «il producers, mer chants. farmers and others. All business entrusved to us #lll receive prompt attention. Interest raid on time deposits. THE Butler County National Bank, 13 li tier 1 nn, Capital paid in - - f 1 J0, 000.00 Surplus and Profits - f 130,703.95 Jos. ilartman, .President; J. V. Kilts, Vice President; C. A. Bailey. Cashier; John G. McMarlin, Ass't Cashier. / general banking business transacted. Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on approved security. We invite you to open an account with tills bank. lllitECT >KS lion. Joseph Ilartman. Hon. W. S. Waldron, l>r. . M. Hoover. 11. Mc sweeney. E. K. Abrams, C. I'. Collins I. O Smith, Leslie I'. Ilazlett, M. Ilnegm. W. 11. Larkln, Harry Heasley, I»r. W. (.'. McCandiess. Ben .Vlasseth. I V. Illtt> Braun's Pharmacy. Cor. 6th St. and Duquesne Way, Pittsbuiy, Pa,, L, I). Telephone 2542. Wholesale and Retail. Importer andJobberof Drugs, Chemical?, Perfumes, Soaps, Htushes, lite The only house west of New York carrying- a full line ot Meyers' Grease, Paints and theatrical goods Physicians' Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night By "Registered Pharmacists" only. Wholesale and retail dealer in Lubricating and Illuminating 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. Rare Bargains! We want to ilisposc of our present >!t'H.k of 'og models, and in order to do it quickly lmve cnt the prices from <l3O, $35 and *4O to $22.50 and $25. These are s'.rictly high grade an 'l up-to-date l»icycles, and can't be matched lor price and quality. Don't miss this opportuni ty 10 procure a good wheel for little money. We sell sundries cheaper than and other house in town. WHITE, WALTER & CO., 303 S, Main Street. H.O.HAYS. L.H.HAYS. PUT YOUR RIG UP AT . j Livery and Sale Stable. Tied Accommodations in Town. West Jelerson Street, Butler, Pa People's Phone 109, Bell's Phone 59. {51.98 BUYS A 53.50 SUII I.IHHH M.EKHAIEI* MEfEKWIAMIH-f'DUI HLI HEAT A*III*EE, K»M LAH •».60 BUTV TWO vPIEtK k\EE PA MM HlllH AT $1.98. ]\A NEW SUIT fill FOR ANT OF THltt SUITI J WHICH DON T OIVC SATISFACTORY WEAR 1 SEND NO MONIY»«« «kl« ad. out am. 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Ma«l«< with IMM HI.E »kAI anil ENfcEM. lat»»t 1 11(H) aljle a« llluatralrd, made from « kprtlal kraty wrlght, «rir r*«Ulln*, all-noo l hlaiil'id < aa»lnifr«*, m at, huii'l • -1110 pattern fine Italian lining, Urajdon Inl rllntng, padding •lajln* and ralafwrrln*, allk and llnm «*-ninr. fin* tailor aad< throughout, u an It uni boy or purcnt w ould be proud of »OK EKEE t'LOTII MAHN>S nf Bbj** I lulkliK f«r b«j« 4 l« ID f K.AHH, write for Mampl* Itnolt la. tiSf, contain* faahloi 1* la ten tape measure and fulllnatructlona bow to order. \frn'« Suit* made to order from ♦5.0(1 up. Mam ple< *ent Irr.i on application. Addresa, SEARS, HOEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Chicago. IIL lltm, Ho»ti«lli * l«. u* UorwwHf r.lllblr. - Kdlfc/r. ( BUTLER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 189JJ THEY THAT JIT IN DARKNESS x) A3TORYOF THE AUSTRALIAN NEVER- NEVER. Wm&T! v By \ m Pry</OHK aackie AUTHOROF"THE DCVILS PLAYGROUND* AfJO'SINNER3 TWAIN." W I/ ( COP/fi/u/r/sxf. ttv rxfi/fM* />. J ronij company. On reaching Skeleton creek, which was a series of water holes in a deep, thickly wooded hollow, we pulled <>ff the track and pitched our camp. Just before sunset, when I was brushing the ashes off a damper, Mackenzie's party rattled up. Within a hundred yards of us they pitched their camp. I took a big dose of quinine and turned if soon after supper. Jack had insisted on this. On coming into camp he had produced a small put of extract of meat and made some of it ready for me. I did not know till long afterward that at Turn-off lagoon store he had come away without getting so"je much needed articles of clothing in order that he might pur chase several little luxuries for my ail ing condition. "You've got to fortify yourself, old chap, "he remarked. '"To morrow's Sunday, and as it's one of your bad days I think we'd better camp here. Apart from the Fourth Command ment, Dick, I'm Scot enough to know the value of one day's rest in seven. 1 venture to say we don't lose by it. < >ur cattle are always in better condition and get through more work in the long run than those who keep traveling right on." I a little later placed my bedding under a shady ironbark tree. The mor poke's chant and the croon of the pos sum blended with other strange sounds, and I fell asleep. Next morning, iifter breakfast, 1 heard th" jangling of bells and the drumming of hoofs as Mackenzie's black boy brought up the horse.-;. I allowed a few minnt' s to elapse before going over to fiij-l whether or not they had fetched up ours with them. On reach ing t : ; sjMit where tli lioys had round ed th-111 up I foTind Jac'c and Norah Mackenzie already there. Thr> latter had ju-t id something to my mate that had evidently startled him; for when he saw me lie left her and came toward me. "Our gray's not in the mob," he said: "I made sure he w.;s—most go and do a little horse hunting. I wonder where he could have strayed to any how '!" "Me see 'lll yaraman track go up along a creek," sang out Yarry. "That fellow bin lose 'lll one fellow shoe. " There is no sign or mark on the face of nature that the Australian black fel low will not read as if it were an open book. He must do it to live. But the practice throngh successive generations lias become an instinct- he takes to it as readily as a ki• t 11 takes to playing with a ball of worsted. "No, Dick, yen won't!" I was mov ing toward my horse. "You stop where yon are. I'm going." V..r-ih >1 ■■'■lf w lit r t.l Jifit oil" of tin horses, and Jack, taking the bridle out of my hand, walked off to catch the roan. Before doing so he said to me in an aside wh'ch I considered just a little too audible: "Look out for that girl, old chap. She lias either got the power of second sight or she is a gypsy in disguise. " I watched him ride off. Jack, as usual, was doing the lion's share of the work! Tin; sober expression on my fact? as I thonght of those things probably at tracted Norah Mackenzie's attention as she moved away; anyhow she stopped and spoke. "Are yon traveling today If" she queried. "No. I think not. Yon see, my mate and I are Scotch. " "That's to say, yon make a virtue of sound policy." "A woman is always at liberty to measure other people's corn by her own bushel," I rejoined politely. "Even if they come from Inverness!" she added thoughtfully and with a smile. "I* >w did you know I came from there?" I asked in some astonishment. "I su])|m >se it may be accounted f«>r by the gypsy in my composition, " she answered, laughing, as she saw the cha grin on my face that Jack's injudicious speech had called up. "But soberly speaking," she continued, "your ques tion shows that yon still have a certain amount of modesty left. Yon see, all sorts of people come out here, and so to study dialects there is no place like the colonies. In Inverness they speak the English language in its best and purest form. I've no intention of paying you a compliment; indeed it was more dilli cult forme to tell where you came from than for you to suppress that lecture on cruelty to animals simmering in yonr mind v/hen I killed the snake yes terday. '' "You can have it now. if you like," I hastened to say. "Some other time," she cried in alarm "Just now you'd better come over and talk to my father; he will lx> glad to soe some one. " 1 walked toward the camp with her, wondering not a little at the keenness of t> rceptiv faculties. What a pretty picture this daughter of the bush made, dressed, as she was now, in her simple but daintily made walking dress of some light material. There was the delicate bloom of health in her clear skin and its luster in her eyes. There was no question aliont her face being a striking one; it was calculated to rivet the attention of the beholder at first sight, for there was more in it than mere physical beauty there was that higher attractiveness which men call individuality or character—and yet, despite her many strange and uncon ventional ways, no one could say she lacked that great*-st charm of all wo manliness. Hut still, as yet, I £y»nkly confess, I could but imperfectly nndcr stand her. She was already interesting me in a way that I hardly cared to ad mit to myself. Just before we reached the squatter's camp she pointed out Savilo, the cook, wno was bnsylng himself erecting a bough shed. He was (I feet 4 inches in height, broad in proportion and had a round, good natured, sensible face. "I must tell you about Savile," she said. "He has been with us since I was a child, and 1 should like you to be on good terms with him. His heart is nearly as big as his liody you needn't laugh. He is one cook in a thousand and doesn't want for shrewdness, but he has a hobby or two —toys, for in stance" "Toys!" I stared at the son of Anak. "Yes, toys; he spends heaps of mon ey in sending to Melbourne and Sydney for all sorts of 'Yankee notions,' paper snakes that fly, talking dolls ami things. You mustn't laugh at him, you know." "Not if I can help it. Tell me of an other weakness." I had an nneasy im pression that she was making fun of me. "You mustn't call them weaknesses —mo manr of ns are bnilf that wav. Let's call them partialities. I've got ever so many. Well, Savile's second biggest one's his dog, Samson, and, of course, he thinks there's not another like it in Australia. I know myself there isn T t. You'll enjoy the poodle, however, when he tells yon how it kill ed the rat at Charters Towers. The place doesn't signify—it's always shift ing about, like the story. Hut you're bound to love Savile. I<l ever so much." I came to the conclusion that I also would take to Savile. Apart from rec ommendations of a like natnre, I al ways. upon principle, cultivate a friendly relationship with cooks. We found the squatter seated close to the wagon; one of the sides of the tar paulin had been lifted up and pitched like the roof of a veranda, so he sat in the shade. "I've brought yon some one to talk to, dad, " exclaimed the girl. "I must go and see Elsie. She went off toward her tent, which, with sides gathered up, was covered with long leafy boughs, so as to keep the occupants cool. "Good morning, Parker," said the squatter cheerily. "I'm glad you're not traveling today." He motioned me to sit down beside him. I talked with him about an hour and found him well informed. He was pre cise in his ways, but the innate kindli ness of the man robbed his speech of any suggestion of pedantry. He was in the middle of an argument when his daughter came out of her tent looking amused. "Ho, dad!" she cried. The squatter started and looked ap prehensive as if he had been caught in the act of exploiting some unortho dox doctrine. "Well, my dear?" ho stammered. "Whv didn't you put up a notice in the morning that you were going to lecture? Then we'd all have had a chance of attending. You are unkind, daddy, dear." "Really, my dear"— Bnt tho girl interrnpted him; she had heard a dog whining behind her. and, turning, cried sharply: "Now, then. Snowball, what for you coolah alonga that fellow puppy dog? Baal that fellow savey uo patter tum tnm, s'posin y< n leave nm alonga ground 1" The change from the talk of an edu cated English girl to the gibberish of a black tcin v. ::- complete and startling that I could hardly believe it was she who h:< i spoken. The black fellow, who had been punishing his dog for appro priating some food left on >lr- ground, desisted to do a black fellow justice lie seldom ill treats his dog—hiw went off to join his comrade, who wiw at some little distance beneath n shady ironbark tree. 11.. tried to look uncon cerned ; so does « dog when it has stol en something. The gray must have broken his hob bles and strayed a considerable distance from camp; it was a great pity that Jack had to go horse limiting while I \va.' enjoying congenial company. Sa- Vile had Ix'gun to clatter the jsits and |>ans about. I knew that soon the fever I walked toward the rump with her. would nKain be upon mo; 80 declining the repeated invitation of the squatter to stop and have some dinner I walked quickly away. It was my wish to be alone. In those attacks of delirium I did not care that any one should hear me talking nonsense. Oh, this curse of my life, this fever that hail got me in its grip! I hurried to my camp and seized a blanket. The ague was on me already, ami I was becoming cold as death even nnder that warm snn. It must have affected my head, for on taking the canvas water bag I walked down and along the creek bottom, then struck out from it into the bush again, taking no note of where I wandered and caring less. I threw myself down somewhere. Then lor some time I fancied myself alone in the arctic: regions, lying on a field of ice, witli nothing to cover me, and freezing to deal it CHAPTER IV. ODDKR KXPHKIENOEB. In the period of delirium which fol lowed I experienced some curious delu sions. Mo powerfully did they impress me at the time that even now I can re call them distinctly. When I became alive to the present, it was only to be conscious of suffering —of a sore, wearied body stretched on the rack of a fierce fever and consumed by a burning thirst. My canvas water bag was empty, but there was not strength enough left in me to go and fill it again. As for the blacks who prowled ahont in that dangerous country, they hardly gave me a thought. Hut tho snake that was forever poising Itself above me as if to strike filled me with a terror which in vain I struggled against. There was a mocking assumption of superior wisdom or cunning in its look. Would the end never come? In my hor ror to break the spell I cried aloud. Hut it was a human voice that an swered. "All right, Mr. I'arker. Why, don't you know met Yon look as if you'd seen a snake or a black fellow! What do you take mo for?" "I believe yon are —something un canny," I gasped. The glittering eyes of the serpent had changed into the calm, dark eyes of the squatter's daughter, and her soft, clear voice it was one of her gnat charms —came from the place where the snake had hissed. She looked fixedly at me through an opening in th«< trees with that wonder fully beautiful far. of her* There was a certain witchery in In r gaze that fas cinated I almost began to think that she was only the embodiment of some spirit of the wood, or some illusion of my poor fever stricken senses, <>r that, by some species of magic, the serpent hnd l>een transformed into the woman , for my gaze had never shifted, and the eyes had always been there. But she had divined the situation at a glance. She came quickly forward till she stood by my side. In a second her voice had undergone a change; her eyes had lost that quizzing, laughing light, and in stead there was a look of genuine anx iety and kindliness in them ; her voice was womanly, and full of a quiet, un obtrusive sympathy when she spoke. She had changed from the icirl into the woman. "Yon have had another attack of the fever." she said. "Now, I shan't trou ble yon ; because I know when one has the fever one is best left alone. And yo<t have no water —oh. too bad, too bad' I'll fetch some in half a minute." And. picking up the water bag. she disap peared in what I suppose was the direc tion of the creek. I noticed that under her right arm >he carried a light sport ing ri tie. !n a few minutes she was back again ; she held the liag up to my lips, and placed my hat upon my head I had not missed it. "Now you have had enough," she protested, when I had taken a fsw gr> edy mouthfnls. "Lie down for a lit tle longer, and you'll be able to go to the camp after a bit. I'll go away and come back again." And off she went. I dozed, and then my scattered senses began to gather themselves together iigain into some semblance of rational ity. I mast have been asleep some con siderable time, for when I awoke the sun was low in the heavens, and the atmosphere was pleasanter. I was think ing that it was a curious thing to dream about some one coming and filling my water bag, and to wake up and find that there was indeed water in the bag, when, looking round, I saw Norah Mackenzie sitting on a fallen tree, with her back to me, a few paces distant. I had not moved nor uttered a word, but she turned the instant I looked at her. and, coming toward me, said: "You are all rijiht now. I can see yon are. Do you think yon can come to the camp? You really shouldn't wan der from it when you feel the fever coming on. It's not safe. Just think of what occurred the other day. Come"— the frank impulsive nature of the girl was reasserting itself—"give me your hands." She stretched out both of hers and pulled me to my feet. The attack of fever had passed. 1 was beginning to feel myself again. "Don't tell me that you've been sit ting here all this time waiting for me!" I exclaimed, conscience stricken. She laughed lightly. "Remember the tlil saying, 'Ask no questions and you'll suffer from 110 perversion of the truth.' Do you know, Mr. Parker, that there's a little of the quack about me. I believe I can produce a cure for this fever. It's one the blacks used up on the Burdekin." "I'm skeptical about fever cures, but I'll try yonrs," I said. "But, by th" way, you must have thought me awfully stupid a few minutes ago. *The fact is, I had a curious dream about a «naVe, nnd the law of imsociatlori's a queer thing." "You are complimentary"—this with 1 show of dignity—"so much so that ,t suggests a good deal of highland su perstition. Of course you're hinting at ..lie highland myth about the princess who was turned into a snake. I hope you don't thin> that I'm a snake turn ed into a prince®??" "Why press a man so hard?" I pro tested, with a miserable attempt to say something cheerful. "In the present case circumstantial evidence seems to prove that the woman grow out of the snake. Anyhow, if I were certain of it. I'd never kill another one as long as I lived." She laughed as if she rather enjoyed the dubious compliment. "And they say a Scotsman seldom makes pretty speeches," she axclaimod. "But wait a minute. Here ts Mother Nature's cure for the fever. Strange, isn't it, that there is never without a docken growing alongside?" We were passing a small, shmblike tree on which grew a round, yellow berry, a little larger than a cjjerry. She stopped and pulled some, putting them into a small bag she carried by her side. I bit the rind of one. She watched me taste it, bnt of all the bit ter tastes I ever experienced that was the quintessence. mustn't judge of my medicine by that berry," she insisted, sn.iling at my wry /ace. "I'll prepare them to night and give you a drink tomorrow morning. That will be something to l<x>k forward to." And all this time I was thinking of something to say to her, to thank her for the trouble she had token with me, but felt that if I did anything of the kind it would simply be the means of silencing her cheerful talk and driving her away. This, of course, I did not want to do. We walked slowly throngh the bush, and from time to time she would stop and look at something or other in a way that for all the world although the association was incongru ous put me in mind of tho movements of a black fellow. Once she stooped, and, pointing to the ground, showed me some tracks. "Somebody must have been here with bullocks within tho last three days," she remarked. "Look, they have gone in pairs—their neck yokes have never been off." Then she showed me the marks on a tree where on the previous evening a possum had stuck his sharp claws. She named the red passion flower and the yellow ij>om<Ka that climbed tho trunks of trees, the pink and scarlet epacris, and, |K>iuting to a casuarina, remarked it was diffi cult to believe that that tree was tho survival of a still more remarkable typo of Australian flora. She showed me a tiny nest glued to tho underside of an insignificant leaf and some other things which I thought only a black fellow coold have noticed. I must have expressed some surprise at her powers of observation, for she re marked carelessly: "Oh, 1 don't see that any credit attaches to noticing such things. When one is brought up in the bush, one learns to read from nature's liook. It scums to me they miss all the interesting things out of the other ones. I've learned more from an old black fellow about this wonder ful world in half af< hour than ever I did from all the books my father has in sisted on my reading. Of course I'm not such a silly as to ignore liooks, though 1 am very ignorant." It did not dawn upon my dulled fac ulties until I lay on my blanket think ing that night that she simply stopped and showed me these things so that I might take my time and rest myself go ing to the camp without her considera tion being apparent. Let a woman alone for managing such things with a subtle delicacy, and let a man alone for ac cepting them with a sublime complai sance. At length we reached the camp, whu b lay in q ite a different direction from that which I hod imagined Tim faculty called 'locality' is one of my strong points, but I suppose it must have some what dulled by the fever. There we found Savile. the cook, and Jack, who was just in the act of mounting the gray as if to go out again. "Hello, old chap!" he exclaimed the minute he saw me. "I thought yon were lost; was just going to hunt you up." Then ho caught sight of the girl. He took the pipe out of his month, and I could see his face light up with « pleased and awakened interest It was evident I had lieen ill. aud he could guess the rest; there were few sliarjier than Jack at interpreting rightly a -it nation. He went toward the squatter's daughter, and. taking tli-• empty water bag from her hand, said something to her in a voice so low that I knew it was not intended for my ears. What ever it may have been, she showed by her manner that she was interested. And I had allowed her to carry a ritle and my water ban to the camp! I dare say my face just then must have borne a look of horror and self reproach, for the girl laughed and said: "You needn't blame yourself: my rifle only weighs a few pounds, and you didn't see it. As for the bag. I emptied and hid it, so after all you're not so very much to blame. But I must go back to my own camp. I'm so glad you're all right again. Goodby in the meantime." And lief ore I could stam mer out a word <>f thanks she hail hon ored us with one of her comprehensive little bows and hurried away. Jack and I sat nnder the trees, and the night came quickly down; again we heard the quaint notes of the unseen morixike in the dim forest glades. Nei ther of us spoke, but as we rested and felt the peucefulness of the scene steal ing over 11s we suddenly heard some thing that made us hold our breaths and stare at each other. It was a sweet burst of melody; it held us as I could imagine those who for the first time heard the divine pow ers of music were held Some one was playing <>n the violin with consummate skill—only a musician could produce such sounds; it was one of Mendels sohn's songs without words that glo rious "Spring Song." I ceased to specu late as to the creator of the music, lost in the beauty of the music itself. "It 's that witch, the squatter's girl, " exclaimed Jack, who had let his pipe go out listening. Without exchanging further words we went over to the squatter's camp. "Glad to see you," was the squatter's greeting. "Mit down, Parker. Glad that you've recovered so quickly. Do you sing, Mr. Farquharson? Tut. tut, I mean Tyndall. I've jnst been think ing about that i>oor, unfortunate fel low. '' Jack had started so violently and turned such a ghastly face uihui the squatter when In- was addre- sed as Farquharson that I saw Norah Mac kenzie give him a strange glance with her qnick. observant eyes. Jack recov ered himself in another instant. "Once upon a time I used to do a little singing," he answered, "but there's more of the raven than the ca nary in mv composition now." "That's your modesty. I'iu sure." insisted the squatter. "Sometimes of a ■Sunday night in the v.y go in for a little music. Savile here sings a capi tal 1 >ass. He was a chorister In an old country cathedral once. Let's have a song that we all know and can join in. Hero is one. Pass round these* copies, Gordon, and i»>ke up tin- tire into a big blaze so that we can see." I remember the tune was "St. Hel ens." Norah Mackenzie played the ac companiment, and Jack surprised me with a-remarkably good tenor voice. In fact, there was no one there who could not sing well, saving myself, and I was a good listener. It was a strange thing to Is* listening to those well known hymns under the dusky aisles of the Australian forest. It is safe to say I never enjoyed an open air concert so much as this one. I closed my eyes and lo! I sat in a sleepy old fashioned church, watching the waning sunlight Hn am through a stained glass window which dyed the sunbeams with the friuison and golden lines from garments of saints and martyrs and deei>oning the shadows that, like the dust on the moldy mar bles overhead, lay close anil thick. Through other windows, ivy drajx-d and partially open, came the sweet breath of spring, for the snow white hawthorn was gleaming in the green lanes, and the song of tho birds never ceased. How instinct was that sacred spot with the associations of the past how eloquent every dingy stone and well worn pew I But, oh, the dear familiar faces, where wore they? Was there nothing in this world save farewells ? Then, breathing of an infinite tenderness and trust, the notes of an anthem rose, tho fresh, sweet voices of youth and lieauty, and the deeper and fuller ones of inaturer age blending with the rich chords of the organ until harmony was more of heaven than of earth. The world, the Hesh and the devil were no more, and a sense of rescind jieaco possessed me such as I have never before known. Surely, the spirits of those whoso memory had "Hello, old ehupf" he ejrcUilmeil. become as a sacred dream were with me then, and there was no such thing in this world as care, But the music ceased, and the sweet notes rolled away - waves of sound on the sands of eter nity. Then I heard the quaint refrains and dirges of tin- sad voiced Australian for est, and, looking up toward the fretted roof of the old church, I saw the South t'rn Ci'f H gleaming in the illimitable vault of the eternal heavens , ✓ ITO BK CONTINUED. I ScrklMM ItrptlßC. "I'm goln to dig out an go to de city," Hald Meandering Mike. "Hut don't you want to hear de birds *lllK ail feel de cool breezes 111 de slllllly groves?" Inquired I'lodillng I'ete. "Yep. Mut I'm goln to <|illt au goln to town, where dere ain't nobody goln up and down de t'oroughfares tryln to hire harvest baud*." Wislilngtou War I.:%<«•«( >"nrla l-'nulilort. Judge What evidence have you to show of the prisoner's guilt? Witness What evidence? Sacr r-r-re! lJldn'l you hear me aay Just now that I dreamed last night lie was guilty? Clilrtivfi Trlhnnw A FARM CONVENIENCE. Sialionnr> nnd Portable Holders For (•rain A writer in Farm and Fireside ex tend* ftie ol<l proverb, "Make your liea«l s;ive your heel- to include tin kers whyre train bag* are still held by band, as they very generally are. and he presents some simple designs for has; holders, all variations of one prin ciple, that will save many tired linger* and hands. The stationary one illustrated in Figs. 1 anil "2 is made as follows: Take a piece of Hat iron rod altout six feet long, one inch . t f, wide and one- g fonrth of an inch C- thick, with some spring to it. lb-nd it till it takes the If form shown in |f Tit I 11 Fig. 1, with the \\. JJ short end A be- U sy low the long one and spr nu g | downward from it. ho as to leave \Lift a hand's breadth . . .. . IRON BAU HOLDER. between the two parts that would otherwise touch. Cut several notches half an inch deep and slightly more than a quarter of an inch wide on the lower side of the short end so that they will tit down over the long end. Then at a point B. sis or eight inches front where the two ends crocs, give the long end a twist aud a bend downward, as shown in l-'ig. 2. In the long end bore some holes for screws, and fasten the now complete bag holder to a post, the side of the granary or to any other convenient object where the grain is to be handled. When a bag is to be tilled, klip the mouth around the iron circle previous ly held by the last notch from the end A. Kngage the cloth with the four short, blunt spikes C, C. C, C, that should be added to prevent slipping. Loosen the end A, and let another notch engage with the end B. It takes but a moment to put on or take off the bag, which is held firmly. The same holder may he made porta ble in two ways; first, by the use of brackets such as shown in Fig. X These may be screwed to any conven ient object In any place desired, the end B being slipped In and taken out at will. The second may l>e made of a piece of gas or other irou pipe securely screwed to a plank, as shown in Fig. 4. the end piece B being slipfted in the a «■!& A u» ! I fig i O HKAcKKT* ASI> STAKD. top. The advantage of this latter ar rangeiiieut is that the bag holder may be taken anywhere upon the farm, even to the field when necessary. One tiling that must l>e borne In mind In making these bag holders Is that they must not be so high above the ground that the bag will be sus pended. The bottom of the sack must rest upon the ground, else the weight and the jar will tear the screws loose in a short time. The holder Is for keep ing the mouth of the sack open, not for lifting It alsi>. Tip Barn or Scald. This disease of potato leaves occur* In many jiarts of the country and Is of ten confused with early blight. Tho and edges of the leaves turu brown, and these discolored areas soon become hard and brittle. The burning or scalding may occur at any time, and as a rule Is the result of unfavorable conditions surrounding the plaut. I-ong continued cloudy and damp weather followed by several hot and bright days is very apt to result in the burning of the foliage. Tilts Is es pecially the case on soils carrying n comparatively small percentage of moisture. When the weather Is cloudy and damp, the tissues of the potato become gorged with water, and this lias a tendency to weaken them. If the stin appears bright and hot when the leaves are In this couditlou, there is a rapid evaporation of the moisture stored up lu their cells. The evapora tion may tie faster than the supply furnished by the roots, and If this con tinues for any length of time the weak er and more tender parts first collaps*-, then die and finally turn brown and dry up. Tip burn may also occur as the result of protracted dry weather Every effort should lie made to k<-ep the plants In good growing condition, for if they become checked through lack of proper food or cultivation or both they are more apt to burn. It is a fact that where the mix ture is used for other diseases burn is less apt to occur. CULTIVATING TURNIPS. A Defltrr Mil)- Than (ironlig Them hr n I ntcli Crop In rum, Kti*. So many farmers sow tnrulps as a catch crop lu corn and potatoes that they forget there Is any other method of growing them. The American Culti vator points out what It considers the better way: As a rule catch crops do not pay. They always Interfere with the late cultivation of hoed crops, which Is al ways im|Mirtant and sometimes neces sary if there Is a dry time late Iti sum liicr. Now that tuost farmers cultivate hoed crops very shallow late lu the summer, merely scratching the surface to kill weeds while they are small, there Is l>'*s objection to late cuitlva tioll than used to be the case Iti the old days, w lien a plow was used at the last cultivation to pile the soil up against the hills of corn or potatoes, the result was always Injury and often ruin to the crop, iu such case, too. there was little chance for turnips to grow, as the soil piled up against the hills turned the water Into the middle of the rows, or, rather, the corn leaves themselves did so, us they Iw-nd over to the middle of the rows by July aud often In June, turning the slightest shower luto the middle of the row, where most of the corn roots are. I'n der the hill the soil Is almost always dry until the corn Is cut. The (Mitato top does not lop over so much, but It, too, throws a good deal of the mols tur<- that falls on It Into the space l>e tWeen the hills. 111 either n «Iry or wet waion turnips are In-tter If iirown wh«re tU«»y can !»• cultivate*! ami boed. If tlie »«-e<l Is ■own 111 «lrllln two feet n|»art. n horse cnn <lrn»{ i» narrow cultivator tlirotiirh this spare, m-rntchlng the tlry noil ami not only killing small ncoln, but tliroivluK a little <lu*t over the tin nip Mo. :*<> plauts. This villi kill the fly that tTS - the tender leaves. A better way is to s< utter dry lime or gypsum In the line of the rows, thus enabling the cultivator to keep hi* horse be tween without stepping on the young plants. If this is done two or three times, the tuml|M will only need hoe inn in the line of the rows. Turnips grown thus will yield possibly ten times a-, n.ueh as they would If sown as a catch "crop. A t'sxl deal of the work which the cultivation r< ;aires is offset In the catch crop by the extra labor required to hunt over a large field to gather the turnips that If cultivated could be grown on a quarter of an acre. He side* this the plan of cultivating tur nips d< ans the land of weeds. Grow ing them as a catch crop leaves all the weeds to grow as long as the turnips are growing. Many weeds will seed in that time, and all those that are biennial will rout themselves under shelter of the catch crop ready to grow an 1 s*-«d uext season. A farmer may sow turnips among growing corn or potatoes if he has no other place for them. Hut It Is not an economical practice, and usually the coin or potatoes are injured by lack of cultivation more than the turnips are worth, even if they could be harvested for nothing Salt or Alkali Qrut. A grass abundant throughout the eastern Itocky mountain region in ■tiopirly aikailne soils, but of little vat lie o i pt in times «f scarcity of fop age. is the common salt or alkali graaik Although often producing a great deal of 'eafa/e. it is harsh and unpalatable and is refused by stock as lone as oth er grasses are to be obtained. Sheep e..t it more readily than other stock. It is abundant In the Had Lamia regions, and as better grasses are usually scarce there it ia sometimes cat for hay. In localities when* the land la be coming "alkalied" through improper Irrigation this grass is spreading rapid ly and often becomes quite a peat, ac cording to Agroatologist T. A. Wil liam*. How to lirm Mm* Will a • fcata A correspondent sends the Obi* Farmer a sketch showing how he drags stone with a chain: I»raw the PKAOOISO HOCK*, chain liack over the stone well up to the doubletree, then paaa the chain once around the stone, over the chain at the doubletree and hook It behind. It will never come off. \ H rkallaral IrvtlllM It has l>een noted by the IVnnsylva nia atation that some of the Herman varieties of potatoes, especially the Professor l>r. Maercker, showed great resistance to the action of the blight, very much more than any of the Amer ican varieties. Hay Is fre«|uently l>aled tn the Ml along the Hudson river, says Country tientleiuan. and sent to market for im mediate use. The buyer geta It for less than old hay. and the farmer sella more weight. Itegular hay buyers in sist on at h ast six weeks* curing In mow or stack. orange Judd Farmer's reports from correspondents make It appear that the corn acreage is unprecedented, the total breadth l»elug the greatest In ow history. The area now reported as growing reaches the enormous aggre gate of N3.«77.00U acres, a royal empire In Itself. It cxrceils the acreage of 180T by a little less than l.'S)o.«*a) acre* The Increase la general, every state promlucnt in the production of corn sharing in It. HIS BEST RECOLLECTION. A l.lltle Srrae Tkat Mlatt MaeiM-a la Aar fssri Attorney For the Itefcnae 1 wish you now, sir. lo tell me the exact lan gunge used by my client when the plaintiff asked him where he thought tlie line fence ought to br located. Attorney For the Plaintiff - Hold on: 1 object I Attorney For the Ivfense (rising* We wish to show, your honor, that this <]uarrel was entirely of the plaintiff's seeking. The witness lias stated what the plaintirTs question was. but he seems unwilling to give the reply. We want this whole thing to tw ma«le a matter of record. your honor, to the end that equal and exact Jos tlcc as lietwi-eii man and man may !«• attained in this trial , The Court State yoilt objection to the question. Attorney For the Prosecution (risingi - It is ucedlcssly consuming time, your honor. The mcuil>cra of the Jury are tired of the tactics by which the other side Is dragging this cnae along. IH what i>ossibU' use can It lie to give the exact languoge of the defeutlant In re ply to a trivial question If he statu!* ready lo give the sul stance of what the defendant said? Who cares to know, your honor? Certainly the Jury doesn't. I repeat It, your hondT. 1 ob ject to the question. Attorney For the Hefeuse (rising agnltii A How me to say, yotir honor, that we regard It as of the highest Im portauce. We want to know all that is to IN 1 known In this case, your bojor We have nothing to conceal. If Ihere la any delay lu this case, your honor, we ar«> not res|ion#lble for It. but I Insist upon a categorical answer to the question. The Court Tin- witness may answer. Witness Well, air, be used the Kng llsli language, but I disrememlier what he said. Chicago Tribune. Tbr Moonahlnrr'a Vk »e. "This here government wants the earili," said the old moonshiner 'The revenue men caught lue in the a< t an hauled me up before the Jedge. Tlie Jedge looked like a reasonable man. an I told hltu that I only run a "still" to buy slus-s for my family. That's whar 1 made a break, for he says rig' • off says he, 'Well. I'm g.>'ng to give i chance to make states for the g. mciit, an I'll see to It that yer fa.. Iv gits a pair o' 'em every six tin lbs Then be sent me up for two yea: Atlanta Constitution. ).<>« X« latllallM. Tramp Please, mum. me feet's . i th' ground. :iu if ye could -[sire t .. Ole pair o' shoes. I'd— Mrs. Spinks There's a wedd - g.. Ing ou in Hint big lioiise acr*> tlw Street. Just JoU go over the' ittd wait. When Site couple WW ei t the family will throw a lot of the i.rble's old shoes after her "Hut. muni, they'd l>e too small " "Hub! Walt till you ms her feet." New York Weekly.
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