VOL- xxxvil BICKEL'S BARGAINS Have you seen the pretty styles j SELLING GOODS REGARD in fine footwear at Bickel's. LESS OF COST. Our spring stock- is all in and Ladies' fine Dongola shoes is extremly largo. $1.50 values at SI.OO Grandest display of fine foot- Men's fine Calf shoes, leather wear ever shown. lined, $1.50 values at SI,OO. SOROSIS SHOES and Oxfords Men's fine Tan shoes, spring in all the new and pretty styles styles, $2.00 values at $1.25. for spring. Many styles to select Boys' fine Box Calf, extension from. Misses' and Children's sole shoes, $1.50 values at SI.OO. shoes and Oxfords in fine Dongola, Men's Heavy Sole, lace work- Tan and Patent Leather. ing shoes, $1.35 values at 90c. See our line of Men's and Boy's Girl's fine Dress shoes, patent fine shoes in Patent Leather, Vici tipped, SI.OO values at 50c. Kid and the different shades of Men's High-cut, heavy sole, Russett. box toe shoes, $2 values at $1.25. Also a complete stock of Gents' Ladies' fine Slippers, satin, fine Oxfords in the different velvet and leather, all sizes, SI.OO leathers —all sizes and widths values at 35c. The styles are the latest and Ladies' fine Jersey over-gaiters, the prices are the lowest. s oc values at 15c. Sample Counters Filled With Interesting Bargains JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - - BUTLER, PA HUSELTON'S Spring Footwear The Very Finest Shoes Ever Shown in Butler for Men. Women and Children. Every New Idea Women's Fine Shoes, That has merit in it as to style, Lace or button at 85c, $1 ,$ 1.25 comfort and service in footwear and $1.50 —up to the minute develops in this store. in style. Women's Shoes Business Shoes. made especially to our order; Stylish footwear for business dainty in appearance, of sub- men; tan box and Russia calf, stantial service and full of style fine vici kids, velour calf, pat as to shape of heel and toe, $2, ent calf that have ease and $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 in Tan, comfort as well as wear in them kid and Russia calf, black kid at $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50. skin and patent leather. Men's Patent Leather. Our Girls Shoes Full dress affairs at $2.50, in tan and black, lace or but- $3.50, $4 and ss, that you must ton kid shoes, sizes iii to 2, at have to be well dressed; shoes 75c, sl, $1.25 and $1.50; that go into the very best soci-- to 11, at 50c, 75, $1 and $1.25; ety and feel at home there. 6 to 8 at 40c, 50c, 75c and sl. Men's Working Shoes Shoes for Boys, in oil grain and heavy veal, Including patent leather, vici two sole and tap bellus tongue, kid, tan and Russia calf, sizes atsi, $1.25 and $1.50; Box 2.3 to SJ, at 90c, SI.OO, $1.25, toe at $l5O, $2 and $2.50; in $1.50 and $2.00. fine satins for dress at SI.OO, $1.25 and $ 1 .50. We are sole agents for the famous "Queen Quality" Shoe s for Women, of this city, B. C. HUSELTON S. Butler's Leading Shoe House. Opposite Hotel Lwry. Spring STYLES Z # U?7 (jj I Men don't buy clothing for the pur-vfc" -v / Jujr 1 \ II ■3|£pose or spending niouey. They desire.S&C /| U I- /Wl to get the best possible results for the??, A " V\Y Al3 expended. Not cheap goods?fc / J i"i / FIFTY ' goods as cheap as they can r\ II 8 fjisold for .nd made up properly. If£C 'p V®. you want the correct thing at the cor-Tf." Ifl price, call anil examine ouoic. ■ —' \ HGk iV/Jg \ ll 1 t large stick of SPRING WEIGHTS —|T \U \ 'IW I'l j / STYLES, SIIaDES AND®" M 1/ m'i A/I I J # c, "- olis - ' $ \ fH" I I • ra \l\iy. Fits and Workmanship I ' | ! Guaranteed. G F. KeCK, 42 North Main Street, Butler, Pa Out of Style, Out of the World! WV-i ur garments have a style that is /f x 1 ' easily distinguished from the ordin ; study and practical application of the [ \ ideas gathered by frequent visits to I .'! v 'ashion centres, and by personal contact with the leading tailors and i£l ; '• " k 7 fashion authorities of the county, v* . ■ 'j... F j| v-v w They are trade in our own work lij lij shop by the highest paid journey— , Hi men tailors in Butler, yet it is pos- , sible to (and we do) give our patrons these first-class clothes at the price you would pay for the other sort. We believe we have given good reasons why our tailoring is the best and cheapest and would be grateful for the opportunity to show you our handsome spring stock and give you prices to prove them. A t 1-1 H MAKER OF rilCll MENS Clothes, FITTING TRUSSES 'S not Buess Wc arc not * ij approximates the sl/.r of tlie > us -4 toruer. for wo want the tru-.s wo 1 ITJ 1 ! W sell to (In the work I hoy are oy- XSJEI J pccted to do and to be comfortable HJI if at tin- ihm time. Sometimes a ( ■H ■ little Intelligent landing of the , RH j ■ truss band Is needed. Wc do It. ' and we promptly order special ( REDICK & GROHMAN'S. ! 109 N. Main St., PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS, Butler, L'a < -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Thonftantl* aro Trying It. Tn ordsr to prove Mie great merit of Ely's Cream Halm, the most effective euro for Catarrh and Cold iu Haad, we have pre : pared a generous trial size for 10 cents, j Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to ELY BROS., SG Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since a boy. and I never h f, j I tor cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems It do I even that Many acquaintances h*v -j., t it with excellent results. —Oscar Ostrum, 43 Warren Ave., Chicago, 111. ! Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged i euro for catarrh and contains no cocaine, ! mercury nor any injurious drag. Price, 6C cents. At druggists or by mail. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. B' UFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURG RY. The new trunk line between Pittsburg. Butler, Bradford, Rochester and Buffr.lo. On and after -Tan. 1, 1900. passenger trains will leave Butler, P. & W. Sta tion as follows, Eastern Standard Time: 10:12 a.m. Vestibnled Limited, daily, for Dayton, Punxsntawney. Du- Bois. Ridgway, Bradford, Buffalo and Rochester. 5:22 p.m. Accommodation, week days only, Craigsville, Dayton. Punxsn tawney, Dußios, Falls Creek, Curwensville. Clearfield and inter mediate stations 0:45 a.m. Week days only: mixed traiu for Craigsville, Dayton, Punxsn tawney and intermediate points. This train leaves Pnnxsutawney at 1:00 p.m. arriving at Bntler at 5:45 p.m , stopping at all intermediate stations Thousand mile tickets good for pas sage between all stations on the B. K. & PR'y and N. Y. C. R R. (Penn'a. division) at 2 cents per mile. For tickets, time tables and fnrthei information call on or address, W. R. TURNER, Agt. Bntler, Pa., or EDWARD C. LAPEY. Gen'l Pass. Agent, Rochester, N. Y. P... Bessemer & L E. Trait.B depart: No 14, at 9:15 A. M; No. 2, at 4 50 P. M. Butler time. Trains arrive :No. 1, 9:50 A. M; No. 11, 2:55 P. M. Butler time. No. 14 runs through to Erie and con nects with W. N. Y. & P. at Huston Junction for Franklin and. Oil City, and with Erie Railroad at Shenan go for all points east. No. 2 runs through to Greenville and connects with W N. Y. & P. for Franklin and Oil City, and at Shenango with Erie R. R. for points east and west. W. R. TURNER, Ticket Agent. piTTSBURG & WESTERN Railway. Schedule of Pas senger Trains in effect Nov. 19, 1899. BUTLER TIME. Depart. Arrive. Allegheny Accommodation 6 •«£."> A.m 9 07 A.m Allegheny Express 8 u r » " 930 " Newcastle Accommodation 1 805 u 9 07 " Akron Mail 8 A.M 7 03. P.M Allegheny Fast Express 9 58 " 12 18 " Allegheny Express 3 00 P.M I 1 4"i pm Chicago Express 3 4o pm 12 Is am Allegheny Mail 5 f»0 '• 7 4"> ]»m Allegheny and New Caatle Accom 5 50 44 • 7 03 44 Chicago Limited 550 44 907 A.M Kane and Bradford Mail 9:55 A.M 2 "»<) P.M Clarion Accommodation 4 0"» P.M 9 •!<» A.M Cleveland and iniicago Express... 6 26 am SUNDAY TRAINS. Allegheny Express .... 805 A.M 9 30A.M Allegheny Accommodation 5 50 P.M 5 (i 3 P.M New Cn«tle Accommodation 8 05 A.M 7 03 44 Chicago Expre&s lit Aecomuiodation 7 03 pm Train arriving at 5.03 p.m. leaves B. & O. depot Pittsburg at 3.25 p.m and P. A W., Allegheny at 3.35 p. m. On Satuidays a train, known a* the theatre train, will leave Bntler at 5.50 p. m., arriving at Allegheny at 7.20; returning leave Allegheny at 11.30 p. m. Pullman sleeping cars on Chicago Express between Pittsburg and Chicago. For through tickets to all points in the west, north west or southwest and information regarding routes, time of traius, etc. apply to \Y\ R. TURNER, Ticket Agent, It. B. REYNOLDS, Sup't, N. I>., Butler, Pa. Butler, Pa. 0. W. BASSETT, G. P. A.. Allegheny. Pn II O DUNKLE, Sup't. \V A L.Div.. Allegheny Pa. PENNSYLVANIA % L A , WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. SctISDULE IN Ekfiht Nor. 20, 1899. SOUTH WEEK DAYS , A.M A.M. A.M. P. M. P. M. BUTLER Leave G 25 H 05 10 50 2 :i5 5 05 Saxonburg Arrive 54 8 :i<> 11 1"» 3 5 28 Butler Junction.. 41 7 27 8 53 11 4o 3 25 5 53 Butler Junction. ..Leave' 7 31 8 5:5 11 52 3 25 5 53 Natrona Arrive 7 40 9 01 12 01 3 :i4 6 02 Tarentum j 7 44 9 07 12 08' 3 42 f» u7 Springdale 7 52 9 16 12 19 3 52 Claremout f9 30 12 38 4 ot'» Sharpsburg 8 11 9 'M 12 48 1 12 632 Allegheny 8 24 9 48 1 02 4 25 6 4 5 |A. M. A.M. P. M. P. M. P. M. SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Butler for Allegheny City aud principal intermediate stations at 7:30 a ui., and 5:00 p. m. NORTH. WEEK DAYS A.M. A.M. A.M. P. M. P. M Allegheny City. ..leave 7 00 8 55 10 45j 3 10 0 10 Sharpsburg... 7 121 9 07 10 57 (iaremont .... 11 04 Springdale 11 18; »; :t7 Tarentum 7 :»7j 9 :54 11 2B> 3 4<> fi 40 Natrona 7 41 j 9 :{>» II 31 3 50! 6 51 Butler Junction. ..arrive 7 1> 947 11 43j 3 5. v 700 Butler Junction....leave 7 4>, «j 47 12 1> 4 0< 700 Saxonburg 8 15 10 OJ 12 41 4 35 7 24 BUTLER arrive » 4«» 10 32 1 lo 5 06 7 50 A.M.|A.M. P. M P. M. P. M SUNDAY TRAINS.— Leave Allegheny City fur But ler and princiixil intermediate stations at 7:15 a m. and 9*30 p. m. FOR THE EAST. Weeks Days. Sundays A.M. A.M. P. M. A. M. P M Birruca IT 025 10 50! 2 3;. 730 5 (JO 1 Butler J'ct ar 7 27i1l 40 325 820 550 Butler J'ct lv 71* 11 4.i 3 5.s 821 805 Freeport ar 751 11 4<; 102 825 807 Kiskiminetas J't 44 755 11 50, 407 8 29, 811 Leechburg 44 8 07,12 oj 4 19 841 823 Paul ton (Apollo) " 8 2». 12 2J 440 858 H42 Saltslurg 44 j 8 51! 12 4!» 508 923 909 Blairsville „ 922 120, 541 952 9 4«» Blairsville Int " , 9 30 1 :;:t 5 50 10 00 .. Altooua 44 11 35' 545 j 850 545 . .. Hanisburg ' 4 310 10 o«t 100 lo 00 Philadelphia 44 6 231 425 425 125 P. M.j A. 31.| A. M. A.M. P.M. Through trains for the east leave Pitu>burg (Union Station), as follows: Atlantic Express, daily 2:50 A.M Pennsylvania Limited 44 7:15 " Day Express, " 7:30 " Main Line Express, " 8:00 M Ilanisburg Mail. M ...12:45 P.M PhilaJelphia Express, f ... 4:50 44 Mail and Express daily. For New York only! Through buffet sleeper, no coaches 7:00 44 Eastern Express, 4 ' . 7:lo " Fast Line, « .'.U M) u Pittsburg Limited, daily, with through o-aches to New York, and sleeping cam to New York, Baltimore and Washington only. No extra fare on this train 10:00 44 Philad'a Mail, on.y 8:40 A.M For Atlantic City (via Delaware River Bridge, all rail route), 8:00 A.M, and 8:30 P.M, daily. For detailed information, adilrtss Thos. E. Watt, Pans, Ajjt. Western District, Corner Fifth A venae an,l Smith field Street, Pittsburg, Pa. J B. HUTCHISON, J. R. WOOD, General Mauaeer. Gen'l Paaitr. Auetc Practical Horse Shoers W „L ROBINSON, the Arlington Hotel, where he will .doj Horse-Shoeing in the most approved style. TRACK AND ROAD HOSRES A SPECIALTY. | West Winfidd Hotel, §W.G. LUSK, Prop'r. First Class Table and Lodgings. Gas and Spring Water all through house. TO Good Stabling. Formerly Horse Shoer at the Wick House has opened busi ness in a shop in 'the rear of BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 19QO »u; ,w . ; ; »>J I+G • .»»; ; . »»_5 . »•_' . »»/ . »•;. ; **f *,v! #«'*'? ;tt\' • f,» • r«'« • ;«<: i*«* r ;*»•« r * • ;V» • ftVsii* * • ;»• • •,v • V'^ IpEWOH ... „ | ' S £F M (II OLIVB fe £ •>V. ff ..« • ••; • ••; • • ■A> • e •f»• '• • ;.-• ;'.t • ;7, • rS» • ;'« r« CHAPTER XII. IIE BITES. Bonaparte Blenkias was riding home on the gray mare. He bad ridden out that afternoon partly for the benefit of i his health, partly to maintain his char i aeter as overseer of the farm. As he ! rode on slowly he thoughtfully touched the ears of the gray mare with his whip. "No, Bon, my boy," he addressed himself, "don't propose. You can't marry for four years, on account of the will. Then why propose? Wheedle her, tweedle her, teedle her, but don't let her make sure of you. When a wo man," said Bonaparte, sagely resting his finger against the side of his nose —"when a woman is sure of you, she does what she likes with you, but when she isn't you do what you like with her And I" said Bonaparte. Hero he drew the horse up suddenly and looked. He was now close to the house, and leaning over the pigsty wall, in company with Em, who was showing her the pigs, was a strange female figure. It was the first visitor thai had appeared on the farm since liis arrival, and he looked at her with interest. She was a tall, pudgy girl of 15. weighing 150 pounds, with bag gy, pendulous cheeks and upturned nose. She strikingly resembled Tant' Sannie in form and feature, but her Sleepy good eyes lacked the twinkle that dwelt in the Boer woman's small orbs. She was attired in a bright green print, wore brass rings in her ears and glass beads round her neck and was sucking the tip of her large finger n# she looked at the pigs. "Who is it that has come?" asked Bonaparte when he stood drinking his coffee in the front room. "Why, my niece, to be sure," said '/ant' Sannie, the Hottentot maid translating. "She's tlie only daughter of my only brother I'aul, and she's come to visit me. She'll be a nice mouthful to the man that can get her," added Tant' Sannie. "Her fa ther's got £2,000 in the green wagon box under his bed and a farm and 5,000 sheep and God Almighty knows how many goats and horses. They milk ten cows in midwinter, and the young men are after her like flies about a bowl of milk. She says she means to get married in four months, but she doesn't yet know to whom. It was so with me when 1 was young," said Tant' Sannie. "I've sat up with the young men four and five nights a week, and they will come ridiuf." again as soon as ever they know that the time's up that the Englishman made me agree not to marry in." The Boer woman smirked compla cently. "Where are you coins? t 'j..iist' Sannie presently, seeing that Bo naparte rose. "Ha! I'm just going to the kraals. I'll be ill to supper," said Bonaparte. Nevertheless when he reached his own door he stopped and turned in there. Soon after he stood before the little glass arrayed in his best white shirt with the little tucks and shaving himself. He had on his very best trou sers and had heavily oiled the little fringe at the back of his head, which, however, refused to become darker. But what distressed him most was his nose. It was very red. He rubbed his linger and thumb on the wall and put a little whitewash on it; but, finding it I rather made matters worse, he rubbed It off again. Then he looked carefully into ids owr. eyes. They certainly were a little pulled down at the outer cor ners, which gave them the appearance of looking crosswise, but then they were a nice blue. So he put on his best coat, took up his stick and went out to supper, feeling on the whole well satis fied. "Auut," said Trana to Tant' Sannie when that night they lay together in the great wooden bed, "why does the Englishman sigh so when he looks at me 7" ' "Ha!" said Taut' Sannie, who was half asleep, but suddenly started, wide awake. "It's because he thinks you look like me. I tell you, Trana," said Tant' Sannie, "the man is mad with love of me. I told him the other night I couldn't marry till Em was 1(! or I'd lose all the sheep her father left me. And lie talked about' Jacob work ing seven years and seven years again for his wife, and of course he meant me," said Tant' Sannie pompously. "But he won't get me so easily as ho thinks. He'll have to ask more than once." "Oh!" said Trana, who was a lump ish girl and not much given to talking, but presently she added, "Auut, why does the Englishman always knock against a person when he passes them "That's because you are always in the way," said Tant' Sannie. "But, auut," said Trana presently, "I tbiuk he is very ugly." "Phugli!" said Tant' Sannie. "It's only because we're not accustomed to such noses in this country. In his coun try, he says, all the people have such noses, and the redder your nose is the higher you are. He's of the family of the Queen Victoria, you know," said Tant' Sannie, wakening up with her subject, "and he doesn't think any thing of governors and church elders and such people. They are nothing to him. When his aunt with the dropsy dies, he'll have money enough to buy all the farms in this district!" "Oh!" "said Trana. That certaiuly made a difference. "Yes," said Tant' Sannie, "and he's only 41, though you'd take him to be CO, and he told me last night the real reason of his baldness." Tant' Sannie then proceeded to relate how, at 18 years of sige, Bbnapaite had courted a fair young lady; how a deadly rival, jealous of his verdant locks, his golden flowing hair, had, with a damnable and insinuating de ception, made him a present of a pot of pomatum; how, applying it In the evening, on rising in the morning he found his pillow strewn with the gold en locks and. looking into the glass, beheld the shining and smooth expanse which henceforth he must bear. The few remaining hairs were turned to a silvery whiteness, and the young lady married his rival. "And," said Tant' Sannie solemnly, "if it had uot been for the grace of God and reading of the Psalms, ho says, he would have killed himself. He says he could kill himself quite easily if lie wants to marry a woman and she won't." "A le wereld," said Trana, and then I thc3' went to sleep. « Every one was lost in sleep soon, but from the window of the cabin the , light streamed forth. It came from a t dung tire over which Waldo sat brood ■ ing. Hour after hour he sat there, now [ and again throwing a fresh lump of , i fuel on to the tire, which burned up [ bravely and then sank into a great bed , j of red coals, which reflected tbem j selves In the boy's eyes as he sat there I brooding, brooding, brooding. At last, . j when the fire was blazing at its bright > est, he rose suddenly and walked slow ly to a beam from which an ox "riem" . hung. Loosening it, ho ran a noose in one end and then doubled it round his „ arm. ! "Mine, mine! I have a right," he muttered, and then something louder, t "If I fall and am killed, so much the . better!" He opened the door and went out • into the starlight. . He walked with his eyes bent upon ■ the ground, but overhead It was one i of those brilliant southern nights when every space so small that your hand might cover It shows 50 cold white points, and the Milky Way is a belt of sharp frosted silver. He passed the 1 door wiiere Bonaparte lay dreaming if Trana and her wealth, and he mounted the ladder steps. From those • lie clambered with some difficulty on • to the roof of the house. It was of old ! rotton thatch with a ridge of white [ plaster, and it crumbled away under his feet at every step. He trod as heav • Ily as lie could. So much the better if he fell. He knelt down when he got to the far gable and began to fasten his "riem" to the crumbling bricks. Re low was the little window of the loft. With one end of the "riem" tied round the gable, the other end round his waist, how easy to slide down to it, and to open it through one of the broken panes, and to go in, an£ to fill his arms with books, and to etamber up again! They had burned one book. He would have 20. Every man's hand was against his. His should be against every man's. Xo one would help him. He would help himself. He lifted the black, damp hair from his knit forehead and looked round to cool liis hot face. Then he saw what a regal night it was. lie knelt silently and looked up. A thousand eyes were looking down at him, bright and so cold. There was a laughing irony in them. "So hot, so bitter, so angry! Poor little mortal!" He was ashamed. He folded his arms and sat on the ridge of the roof looking up at them. "So hot, so bitter, so angry!" It was as though a cold hand had tic-e" laid upon his throbbing and slowly they began to fadt and grow dim. Taut' Sannie and tiie burn ed book, Bonaparte and the broken machine, the box in the loft, he him self sitting there—how small they all became, even the grave over yonder! Those stars that shone on up above so quietly, they had seen a thousand such little existences, a thousand such little existences fight just so fiercely, flare up just so brightly and go out, and they, the old, old stars, shone on for ever. "So hot. so angry, poor little soul!" they said. The "riem" slipped from his fingers. He sat with his arms folded looking up. "We," said the stars, "have seen the earth .when it was young. We have seen small tilings creep out upon its surface —small things tliat prayed and loved and cried very loudly and then crept under It again. But we," said the stars, "are as old as the unknown." He leaned his chin against the palm of his hand and looked up at them. So long he sat there that bright stars set and new ones rose, and yet he sat on. Then at last he stood _up and began to loosen the "riem" from the gable. What did it matter about the books? The lust and the desire for them had died out. If they pleased to keep them from him, they might. What matter? It was a very little thing. Why hate and struggle and fight? Let it be as it would. He twisted the "riem" round his arm and walked back along the ridge of the house. By this time Bonaparte Blenkins had finished liis dream of Trana, and as he turned himself round for a fresh doze he heard the steps descending the lad der. His first impulse was to draw the blanket over liis head and liis legs under him and to shout; but, recollect ing that the door was locked and xlio window carefully bolted, he allowed his head slowly to crop out among the blankets and listened intently. Who soever it might be, there was no danger of their getting at him, so he clumbered out of bed and, going on tiptoe to the door, applied his eye to the keyhole. There was nothing to be seen; so, walking to the window, he brought his face as close to the glass as his nose would allow. There was a figure just discernible. The lad was not trying to walk softly, and the heavy shuttling of the well known "vel-sehioens" could be clearly heard through the closed window as they crossed the stones in the yard. Bonaparte listened till they had died away round the corner of the wagon house, and, feeling that his bare legs were getting cold, he jumped back Into bed again. ******* "What do you keep up in your loft?" inquired Bona[