VOL- xxxvii HUSELTON'S Spring Footwear The Very Finest Shoes Ever Shown in Butler for Men. Women and Children. Every New Idea That has merit in it as to style, comfort and service in footwear develops in this store. Women's Shoes made especially to our order; dainty in appearance, of sub stantia' ; ervice and full of style as to shape of heel and toe, $2, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 in Tan, kid and Russia calf, black kid skin and patent leather. Our Girls Shoes in tan and black, lace or but ton kid shoes sizes 11 A to 2, at 75c, sl, $1.2; and $1.50; B.i to 1 r, at 50*:, 75. $1 and $1.25; 6 to 8 at 40c, 50c. 75c and sr. Shoes for Boys, Including patent leather, vici kid, tan and Russia calf, sizes 2 .j to 5.J, at 90c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00. We are sole agents for the fi.mous "Queen Quality" Shoes for Women, of this city, B. C. HUSELTON'S, Uut'er's Leading Hhoe House. OußOsitc Hotel l.wry. BICKEL'S ♦SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES.^ The lime of the year is here when you want a nice pair of dress shoes for summer wear. Our stock is extremly large, showing all the latest styles in fine shoes and oxfords in all leathers. We are oficring some big values in foolwear and it will pay you to see us before buying your summer shoes. A FEW OF OUR PRICES Men's Fine Tan Shoes— & 1 Light shade, Lace or Congress at.. * vr • Boy'B Fine Dress Shoes — & 1 ()() Hox, Culf or Fine Vici Kid, lightor heavy soles.. ,r Youth's Fine Calf or Vici Kid Shoes— Q( i ( . Either Russett or Black at.. Ladies' Fine Dongola and Russett Shoes — & j _1 || Lace or Congress, latest styles lasts at.. ™ Misses' Fine Dongola and Russett Shoes-- f| *\p Spring heels at.. Children's Fine Shoes— Patent Tipped, si/.es five to eight at. . Men's and Boy's Lawn Tennis Shoes 4-Or* And Slippers at.. Your Choice of Men's Working Shoes— j Lace, Buckle or Congress, heavy soles and good uppers at Men's Fine Calf Dress Shoes— & | ()() Round toe, tipped at.. ' Ladies' F : nc Dongola Three Point Slippers— '3 fx r . At.. ' Jf,y We invite you to call and see our stock of SOROSIS SHOES and Oxfords,the latest styles for summer wear. They are very hand some You will like them. All size.;—2b to 8. All widths—AAA to E. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET, - - BUTLER, PA SprinrSTYLES f Men don't buy clothing for the pur-, r(&,( I J ijtpose or spending money. They I Z' jft) ji fTJto gei the best possible results for the' ; A • 10' Js I cvpe ided. Not cheap goods, 10 .* /< p 1 J$T £? 1 j goods as cheap as they can l>c" X/ 111 JKr 14.! ' f sold for ; .id made up properly. If; \ k you want tie correct thing at the cor-'W' \it A • jiffX I L-ct p ce, call ati'l examine our;#?. \ \ higßp i 1 I *t>cic of SPRING WEIGHTS—\IK k\mf \l J LA . EST STYLES, SHADES ASD&T \ [t gig ,\/f j fPr 1 IJIX, Fits and Workmanship , 5 ■ M M Guaranteed. g F. Keen, 42 Noiih Main Street, Butler, Pa Out of Style, Out of the World! bf ) P.*. Our garments have a style that ; s \ f 'I ' easily distinguished from the ordin• ary. They are the result of careful . stu ly and practical applicationjofthe ideas gathered by frequent visits to the fashion centres, and by personal contact with the leading tailors and w*] J X '-y 'V / fa hion authorities of the county. iS***' *W ' Tliey arc made in our own work ™ j[j j, ; *Jlb» shop by the highest paid journey w 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 < heapest and would be grateful for the opportunity to show you our handsome spring slock and give you prices to prove them. r\ io m f ~A maker ° f IYI dX 1 I Cl, MEN'S Clothes When You Paint. If you very the least expense you VI SNICK WIN' WILLIAMS' B Moat, Look- IJi st. W c.ir-i Longwt by REDICK & GROHMAN, 109 N. Main St., Butler, I'a. ■ Women's Fine Shoes, Lace or button at 85c, $1 ,$1.25 and $1.50 —up to the minute in style. Business Shoes. Stylish footwear for business men; tan box and Russia calf, fine vici kids, velour calf, pat -1 ent calf that have ease and comfort as well as wear in them at $2, $2.50. $3 and $3.50. Men's Patent Leather. Full dress affairs at $2.50, $3.50. $4 and ss, that you must have to be well dressed; shoes that go into the very best soci ety and feel at home there. Men's Working Shoes in oil grain and heavy veal, two sole and tap bellus tongue, atsi, $1.25 and $1.50; Box toe at $t 50, $2 and $2.50; in fine satins for dress at SI.OO, $1.25 and $1.50. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. f H pILLSI House r the tor W pici liver, and cure biliousness, sick M heartache, jaundice, i nausea, tion, etc. They are In valuable to prevent a cold or break up a fever. Mild, gentle, certain, they are worthy your confidence. Purely vegetable, they can be taken by children or delicate women. Price, 2.V. at all medicine dealers or by mail of C. I. HOOD ">K " US Allegheny Exyrm* '» <*> p.m 4 4"< pm Chicago Expreia. . '•» 10 j p.n Allegheny and New Cwttle Accom r > o0 " 7 tfl u Chicago Limited r / 50 44 907 A.M Kan* atri Bradford Mail 9:T»T> A m 2 50 P.M Clarion Accommodation 1 r > r > P.M 'I 40 A M Cleveland and C!hieat'o Kxpreaa... G 25 am HI Sit AY TRAINS. Allegheny Exjireaa 8 0"» A.M 9 rv» \..\i Allegheny Accommodation 5 50 P.M •*» <»:; P.M New Caatta Accommodation 8 05 A m 7 M Chicago Expreaa 3 40 P.M 5 o:j am Allegheny Accommodation T 03 pm Trail, arriving at 5.03 p.m. leave* B. A 0. depot I'ittaburg at 3.25 p.m and I*. A W., Allegheny at 3..'55 On Saturdaya a train, known a* the theatre train, wili leave Butler at s.v> p. m., arriving at Allegheny at 7.2"; re taming leave Allegheny at 11 .-10 p. rn. Pullman nleeping earn on Chicago Expreaa between Pittahurg and < 'hicago. For through ticketa to all polnta in the west, north went or southareHt and information regarding route*, time of train*, etc. apply to W. It. TPKNEIt, Ticket Agent, H. B. UKYNuLDP, Sop't, N D., Butler, Ha. Butler, I'a. C. W. BAftSKTT, (i. P. A.. Allegheny, Pa H.O MNKLK, Sup t. W. AL. I>iv.. Allegheny Pa. PENNSYLVANIA HL>. WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. Sciicpulb in Brrr/T Nov. 20, 1899. SOUTH. , WEEK DATS A. M A. M. A. M P. M P M BUTLER L'-HV»- f» 25 8 05 10 50 235 505 Max on burg Arriv* 0 f,l 8 30 11 1"» 00 528 Butler Junction.. " 727 a '»3 11 i<» 3 2-*. 553 Batler Junction.. .Leave' 7 31 M 53 II 52 •' 25 55M Natrona Arrive 7 40 9 01 12 01 :i M 6 Tar en turn 7 4 * 907 12 OK 3 4 J *1 07 Hpringdale 7 52 D 16 12 ID 3 52 ( larernont HI 30 12 38 100 ... Sharpaburg 8 11 9 30 12 18 1 12 0 l Allegheny 8 24 1# 48 1 02 4 25 ♦; 43 A. M A. M. P. M P. M. P. M. SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Batter for Alh-ghen> City and prinei|Mil intermediate atationa at 7:30 a m., ! and 5:00 p. m. NORTH. WEEK DAYS A M A. M A. 3T P. M. P. M Allegheny City. ..leave 7 00 M 55 10 4". 3 10 ♦» 10 Sharpaburg 7 \l 9 07 10 57 ... Claremont i II *J4| .... Springdale ... 11 1 M 0 37 larentnxa 7 ■',! 'i M 11 28 ; 3 4«; f» 4»i Natrona 7 41 'J 38 11 34 350 fi 51 Butler Junction.. .arrive 7 I- 947 II 4.1 ; 58, 7 00 Butler Junction... .leave 74« 9471- 1 K 4OC 7 '*» Saxonlmrg 8 I VlO wj U4l t35 724 BtTLKR arrive 8 40JO 32 I 10 5 05 7 50 A. M A.M. P. >1 P. fil P. M SUNDAY TRAINS.—Leave Allegheny City f.r But ler und print iptil Intermediate atationa at 7:16 a m. and 9-30 p. m. J'f»R THE EAST. Week a l»a>H. Suodaya A M \ M P M A M. V M BfTl.r.i lv f» 25 10 .»/ 235 7 500 Butler J'ct ar 7 27'tl 40 325 820 550 Butler J'ct Iv 7 4 11 4.t 3 5-t 821 805 Free Ik > tar 7 5111 40 402 8 25 807 Kiakitn netm J t " 75511 50 407 8 2'» 811 Paulton (Apol'«.) " 8 2'. 222 440 h&8 842 Saltal nrg " 8 f,l 12 "> 5 !i 23 900 BlairavilJe 922 I 2*l 541 '» 52 940 Blairnville Int " 930 \ ... 550 10 00 Altoona I' 3' 545 8 6*» 545 . Ilariiaburg ." :i 10! 10 00 1 10 00 Ph I lade I jili i a ' 0 2:; 4 2-» 4 25 4T* P. M A M.| A. M A. M. IV M. Through traiua for the eaat leave Pittsburg (Union Station), aa followa.— Atlantic Expreaa, daily 2:50 A.M Pen nay 1 van ia Limited " 7:15" Day Exprena, 44 7:30 M Main Line Expreea, 44 H:(Ht M Karriabtirg Mail, 44 12:46 P.M I'hilalelphia Expreaa, ' 4:50 14 Mall an A M, and 8 :u> P.M, daily. Foi detailed Information, add Tlioa. E. Watt, Paaa. Ak* Wedtern Diatri< t, Corner Fifth A venae and Smith fte| 1 Street, Pittaburg, Pa. J IS. HUTCHISON, J. R. WOOD. 'Jeneral Manager. dun'' r. Ancttc Buff Plymouth Rock Eggs From Prize Winning Stock. Stock as Good as the Best. J. W. BARCROFT, YORK CO DELROY PA. Now is The Time to Have lot hing CLEANED OR DYED. if you want and reliable cleaning or dyeing done, there is just one place In town where you c.iii pet it, and that is at The Butler Dye Works 216 Center avenue- Wc do fine work in out door Photographs. This is the time of year to have a picture ot your house. Give us a trial. for the Jatueßtown Sliding Blind Uo Sew York. R. FISHER &. SON Good Pit fid Work (in "/ntwl. Karl Schluchter, j Practical Tailor and Cutter 125 W. Jefferson, Butler, f'n. Busheling, Cleaning and 1 Repairing a Specialty. BUTLER, THURSDAY, XIA.V 31, l£)CO ft «fi*j¥:♦#;«*;*•*; 1 THE mm A „ | "y ■ rjj /)} OLTVTB it V-| r:Ji A SCIIILEIKEB. |?f fa S n A TALE OF LIFE IN THE I ?£ ★ BOER REPUBLIC. • iff *4 ;)irr w* - w w: «> rjwjwtwi-t wtfvii' t She lifted her beautiful eyes to his face. "Power: Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It Is born lu them. You may dam up the fountain of water and make It a stagnant marsh, or you may let It run free and do Its work, but you cannot say whether It shall be there. It Is there. And it will act. If not openly for good, then covertly for evil, but it will act. If Goethe had been stolen away a child and reared in a robber horde in the depths of a Ger man forest, do you think the world would have had 'Faust' and 'lphe gcnieV' But he would have been Goethe still, stronger, wiser than his fellows. At night round their watch fire he would have chanted wild songs of rapine arid murder till the dark faces about him were moved and trembled. His songs would have echoed on from father to son and nerved the heart and arm—for evil. "Do you think If Napoleon had been born a woman that he would have been contented to give small tea parties and talk small scandal? He would have risen. But the world would uot have heard of him as it hears of him now— a man great and kingly, with all his sins, lie would have left one of those names that stain the leaf of every history, the names of women who, hav ing power, but being denied the right to exercise 't openly, rule in the dark, covertly c. by stealth, through the men whose passions they feed on and by whom they climb. "rower!" *he said suddenly, smiting her lilt ' hand upon the rail. "Yes, v.e have power, and. since we are uot to expend it in tunneling mountains nor healing diseases nor making laws nor money nor on any extraneous objeet. we expend It on you. You are our goods, our merehandi.se. our material for operating on. We buy you, we sell you. we miiLt* fools of you, we act the wily old Jew with you, we keep six of you crawling to our little feet aud praying only for a touch of our little huii 1. ui.d they say truly there was never an ache or a pain or a broken heart but a woman was at the bottom of It. We are not to study law nor science nor art. so we study you. There Is never a nerve or fiber in your man's nature but we know it. We keep six of you dancing In the palm of one lit tle hand," she said, balancing her out stretched arm gracefully, as though tiny beings disported themselves in i;s palm. "There- we throw you away, and you sink to the devil," she said, folding her arms composedly. "There was never a man who said one word for woman but he said two f'-* man aud three for the whole human race." She watched the bird peeking up the last yellow grains, but Waldo look ed only at her. When she spoke again, it was very measuredly. "They bring weighty arguments against us when we ask for the per feet freedom of women," she said, "but when yon come to the objection-! they are like pumpkin devils with can dles Inside, hollow, and can't bite. They say that women do not wish for the sphere and freedom we ask for them and would not use It. "If the bird does like its cage and does like its sugar and will not leave It, why keep the door so very carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break Its wings against the bars, but would Uy If the doors were open?" She knit her forehead nnd lean ed farther over the bars. "Tlu n they say, 'lf the women have the liberty you ask for, they will be found In positions for which they are not fitted!' If two men climb one lad der, did you ever see the weakest any where but at. the foot? The surest sign of fitness is success. The weakest never wins but wl»*rc there Is handi capping. Nature left to herself will as beautifully apportion a man's work to his capacities as long ages ago she graduated the colors on the bird's breast. It' we are not lit, you give us to no purpose the right to labor. The work will full out of our hands Into those that are wiser." She talked more rapidly as she went on, as one talks of that over which one has brooded long and which lies near one's heart. Waldo watched her Intently. "They say women have one great nnd noble work left them, and they do it ill That Is true. They do it execra bly. It is the work that demands the broadest culture, and they have not even the narrowest. The lawyiT may see no deeper than his lawbooks and the chemist see no farther than the windows of Ids laboratory, and they may do their work well. But the wo man who does woman's work needs s many sided, multiform culture. The heights and depths of humun life must not be beyond the reach of her vision. She must have knowledge of men and things In many states, a wide catholic lty of sympathy, the strength that springs from knowledge and the mag nanimity that springs from strength. We bear the world, and we make it. The souls of little children are mar velously delicate Rial tender things and keep forever the shadow that first falls on them, and that Is the mother's, or, at lx-st, a woman's. There was never a great man who had not a great moth er. It Is hardly an exaggeration. The first six years of our lift; make us. All that Is added later Is veneer. And yet some say If a woman can cook a din net or dress herself well she lias cul ture enough. "The mightiest find noblest of human work Is given to us, and we do It 111. Send a navvy to work Into an artist's studio and see what you will find there! And yet, thank God, we have this work," she added quickly. "It Is the one window through which we see Info the great world of earnest labor. The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It Is the only education we have and which • he* cannot take from us." 8h«; HII. il lightly. "Tlioy nay that we foinpiu.u uf woman's helm? com pel led to look upon marriage an a pro fi'HNlnu, but that Klin Ik frc«- to enter upon It or Ion man Is an active organ In an other. but all things are In all men, and one soul Is the model of all. We shall find nothing new In human na ture after we have ouce carefully dis sected and analyzed the oue being we ever shall truly know—ourself. "The Kaffir girl threw some coffee on my arm In bed this morning. 1 felt dis pleased, but sr.ld nothing. Tant' San nie would have thrown the saucer at her aud sworn for an hour, but the feeling would be the same irritated displeasure. IT a huge animated stom ach like Bonaparte were put under a glass by a skillful mental mlcroscoplst, even he would be found to have an em bryonic doubling somewhere Indica tive of a heart and rudimentary bud dings that might have become con science and sincerity. Let me take your arm, Waldo. How full yon are of mealle dust! No; never mind. It will brush off. And sometimes what is more amusing still than tracing the likeness between man and man Is to trace the analogy there always Is be tween the progress aud development of one Individual and of a whole nation or, again, between a single nation nnd the entire human race. It is pleasant when It dawns on you that the one is Just the other written out In large let ters and very odd to find all the little follies and virtues and developments and retrogressions written out In the big world's book that you find in your little Internal self. It Is the most amusing thing I know of, but of course, being a woman, I have not often time for such amusements. Professional duties always first, you know. It takes a great deal of time and thought al ways to look perfectly exquisite, even for a pretty woman. Is the old buggy Btlll In existence, Waldo?" "Yes, but the harness Is broken." "Well, I wish you would mend It, You must teach me to drive. I must learn something while I am here. 1 got the Hottentot girl to show me how to make 'sarsarties' this morning and Tant' Bannle Is going to teach me to make 'kapjes.' 1 will come and sit with you Uils afternoon while you mend the harness." "Thank you." "No; don't thank me. I come Tor my own pleasure. I never find any one I can talk to. Women bore me, and men I talk so to —'Going to the ball this evening? Nice little dog that of yours, l'retty little ears. So fond of pointer upsf And they think me fascinating. Charming! Men are like the earth, and we are the moon. We turn always one side to them, anil they think there Is no other because they don't see It, but there Is." They had reached the house now. "Tell me when you set to work," she said and walked toward the door. Waldo stood to look after her, and l>oss stood at his side, a look of pain ful uncertainty depicted on ids small countenance ami one little foot poised in the air. Slrtuld he stay with his master or go? He looked at the iigure with the wide straw hat moving to ward the house, and he looked up at his master. Then he put down the lit tle paw and went. Waldo watched them both in at the door and then walked away alone. He was satisfied that at least his dog was with her. CHAPTER XVIII. TANT" HANKIE HOLDS AN UI*SXTTII*O, ANI> OHEOORY WHITES A J.KTTKII. It was Just, after sunset and Lyndall hail not yet returned from her first driving lessou when the lean colored woman, standing at the corner of the house to enjoy the evening breeze, HIIW coming along the run*! a strange horse man. Very narrowly she surveyed him as he slowly njiproncbed. He wns attired In the deopest mourning, the black crape round Ids tall lint totally concealing the black f!Ht and nothing but a dazzling shirt fr*>ut relieving tho funereal tone of his attire. He rode much forward In hi* saddle, with his chin resting on the uppermost of Ids shirt studs, and tl*-re was an air of meek subjection to)the will of heaven and to what might be in store for him that l>espoke Itself even in the way In which he gently urged his steed. lie was evidently in no hurry to reach his destination, for the nearer he ap proached to it the slacker did his bri dle hang. The colored woman, having duly Inspected him, dashed Into the dwelling. "Here Is another one,'- she cried, "a widower. I see It by his hat." "Good Lord:" said Tant' Saimie. "It's the seventh I've had this month. But the men know where sheep and good looks and money In the bank are to be found," she added, winking knowing ly. "How does he look?" "Nineteen, weak eyes, white hair, lit tle round nose," said the maid. "Then It's he, then It's he," said Tant' Sannie. triumphantly, "Little riot Vander Walt, whose wife died last month—two farms, 12,000 sheep. I've not seen him. but my sister-in-law told me about him, aud I dreamed about him last night." Here I'iet's black hat appeared In the doorway, aud the Boer woman drew herself up In dignified silence, extend ed the tips of her lingers ami motioned solemnly to a chair. The young man seated himself, sticking his feet as far under It as they would go, and said mildly: "I am Little Plet Vander Walt, and ray father is Big Plet Vander Walt." Tant' Sannie said solemnly, "Yes." "Aunt," said the young man, start ing up spasmodically, "can I off sad dle?" "Yes." lie seized his hat and disappeared with a rush through the door. "I told you so! I knew It!" said Tant' Sannie. "The dear Lord doesn't send dreams for nothing. Didn't 1 tell you this morning that I dreamed of a great beast like a sheep, with red eyes, and 1 killed It? Wasu't the white wool his hair, and the red eyes his weak ryes, and my killing him meant mar riage? Get supper ready quickly. The sheep's Inside and roaster cakes. We shall sit up tonight." To young Plet Vander Walt that sup per was n period of Intense torture. There was something overawing In that assembly of English people, with their incomprehensible speech and, moreover. It was his first courtship. Ills first wife had courted him, and ten months of severe domestic rule had not raised his spirit or courage. He ate little and when he raised a morsel to his lips glanced guiltily round to see If he were not observed. He had put three rings on his little finger, with the Intention of sticking It out stiffly when he raised a coffee cup. Now the little finger was curled miserably among Its fellows. It was small relief when the nienl was over and Tant' Sannie and he repaired to the front room. Once seated there, he set Ills knees close to gether, stood his black hat upon them and wretchedly turned the brim up and down. But supper had cheered Taut' Sannie, who found It Impossible longer to maintain that decorous silence aud whose heart yearned over the youth. "I was related to your Aunt Selena who died," said Tant' Sannie. "My mother's stepbrother's child was mar ried to her father's brother's step nephew's niece." "Yes, aunt," said the young man. "1 knew we were related." "It was her cousin," said Taut' San nie. now fairly on the flow, "who bad the cancer cut out of her breast by the other doctor, who was not the right doctor tliey sent for, but who did It quite as well." "Yes, uunt," said the young man. "I've heard about It often," said Tant" Sannie. "And he was the sou of the old doctor that they say died on Christinns day, but I don't know if that's true. People do tell such awful lies. Why should lie die on Christmas day more than any other day?" "Yes, aunt, why?" said the young man meekly. "Did you ever have the toothache?" asked Tant' Saunie. "No, aunt" "Well, they say that doctor—not the son of the old doctor that (lied on Christmas day, the other that didn't come when ho was sent for —he gave such good stuff for the toothache that If you opened the bottle In the room where any one was bad they got bet ter directly. You could see It was good stuff," said Tant' Xanule. "It tasted horrid. That was a real doctorl lie used to give a bottle so high," salil tho Boer woman, raising her hand a fisit from the table. "You could drink at It for a month and It wouldn't get done, and the same medicine was good for all sorts of sicknesses—croup, mea sles, Jaundice, dropsy. Now you have to buy a new kind for each sickness. The doctors aren't so good as they used to be." "No, aunt," said tho young man, who was trying to gain couruge to stick out his legs and clink his spurs together. He did so at last. Tant' Sannle had noticed the spurs before, but she thought It showed a nice, manly spirit, and her heart warm ed yet more to the youth. "T>ld you ever have convulsions when you were a baby?" asked Tant' San nle. "Yes," suld the young man. "Strange!" said Tant' Sannle. "I had convulsions too. Wonderful that we should be so much alike!" "Aunt," said the young man explo sively, "can we sit up tonight?" Tant' Sannle hung her head and half closed her eyes; but, finding that her little wiles were thrown awny, the young man staring fixedly at his hat, she simpered, "Yes," and went away to fetch candles. In the dining room Km worked at her machine, and Oregory sat close be side her, his great blue eyes turned to the window where Lyndall leaned out talking to Waldo. Tant' Sannle took two candles out of the cupboard and held them up tri umphantly, winking all round tho room. "He's asked for them," she said. "I>oos lie want them for his horse's rubbed back?" asked Gregory, new to tip country life. "No," said Tant' Sannle Indignantly; "we're going to nit up!" nnd she walked off In triumph with the candles. Nevertheless, when all the rest of the house had retired, when the long can dle was lighted, when the coffee kettle was tilled, when she sat In the elbow chair, with her lover on a chair close beside her, and when the vigil of the night was fairly begun, she began to find It wearisome. The young man looked chilly and said nothing. "Won't you put your feet on my Hove?" said Tant' Sannle. "No, thank you, aunt," said the young man, and both lapsed into si lence. At last Tant' Sannle, afraid of going to sleep, tapped a strong cup of cofTee for herself and handed another to her lover. Tills visibly revived both. "How long were you married, cons In V" "Ten months, aunt." "How old was your baby?" "Three days when It died." "It's very hard when wo must give cur husbands and wives to the 1.0 rd," said Tant' Hannlc. "Very," said the young man, "but It's tlic Lord's wIlL" sal«l Tant' Saunie and sighed. "She was snob a good wife, auut. I've known »or break a churn stick Over a maid's head for only lotting dust come ou a milk cloth." Taut" Sannle felt a twinge of Jeal ousy. She had never broken a churn stick on a maid's head. "I hope your wife made a good end," she said. "Oh. beautiful, aunt! She said up a psalm and two hymns aud a half be fore she died." "Did she leave any messages'/" asked Tunt' Saunie. "No," said the 3-oung man; "but the night liefore she died I was lying at the foot of her bed. 1 felt her foot kick me. " 'Piet,' she said. " 'Annie, my heart,' said I. " 'Sly little baby that died yesterday has been here, and It stood over the wagon box,' she said. " 'What did It say 7* 1 asked. " 'lt said that If I died you must mar ry a fat woman.' " 'I will,' I said, and I went to sleep again. Presently she woke me. " The baby |kus been here again, and It says you must marry a woman over 30 aud who's liad two husbands.' "I dUln'i go to sleep after that for a long time, aunt; Isut when I did she woke me. " 'The baby has been here again,' she said, 'and it says you mustn't marry a woman with a mole." I told her I wouldn't, and the next day she died." "That was a vlsiou from the Re deemer," said Taut' Saunie. The young man nodded his head mournfully, lie thought of a younger sister of his wife's who was not fat and who had a mole and of whom his wife had always been Jealous, and he wished the little baby had liked better staying In heaven than coming aud standing over the wagon chest. "I supiHise that's why you came to me?" said Tant' Sannle. "Yes, aunt Aud pa said I ought to get married In-fore shearing time. It is bad if there's uo one to see after things then, and the maids waste such a lot of fat." "When do you want to get married?" "Next mouth, auut," said the young mau In a tone of hopeless resignation. "May 1 kiss you, aunt?" "Fy, fyl" said Tant* Sannle and then gave liini a resounding kiss. "Come, draw your chair a little closer," she said, and, their elbows now touching, they sat on through the night. The next morning at dawn, as Em passed through Tant' Saunle's bed room, she found the Boer woman pull lug off her boots preparatory to climb ing into bod. "Where Is Plet Vander Walt?" "Just gone," said Tant' Sannle, "and I am going to marry him this day four weeks. I am dead sleepy," she added. "The stupid thing doesn't kuow how to talk love talk at all." And she climbed Into the four poster, clothes and all, aud drew the quilt up to her chin. On the day preceding Tant'. Sannle s wedding Gregory Hose sat In the blaz ing suu on the stone wall behind his dau!) and wattle house. It was warm, but he was Intently watching a small buggy that was being recklessly driven over the bushes In the direction of the farmhouse. Gregory never stirred till It had vanished. Then, finding the stones hot, he slipped down and walk ed Into the house. He kicked the little pall flint lay In the doorway aud sent It Into one corner. That did him good. Then ho sat down on the box and be gan cutting letters out of a piece of newspaper. Finding that the ship pings littered the floor, he picked them up and began scribbling on his blotting pnper. He tried the effect of different Initials before the name Rose —G. Hose, E. Hose, L. Hose, L. Hose, L. IJ. IJ. L. Rose. When ho had covered the sheet, he looked at It discontentedly a little while, then suddenly began to write a letter: Ileloved Sister—lt is a long while since I lust wrote to you, hut I hav* hod no time. This is the Ilrst morning I biw been at home sine* I don't know when. Km glwayf expect* mo to go down to the fsrnihouse In the morning, but I didn't feel is though I could stand the ride to day. I have much news for you. Tant' Sannle, Kin's Boer stepmother, It to b« married tomorrow. She Is cone to town today, and the wedding feast Is to l>« at her brother's farm. Em and I are going to ride over on horse back, but her cousin Is going to ride In the buguy with that German I don't think I've written to you since she came l»ack from school. 1 don't think you would like her at all, Je mima; there's something so proud about her. She thinks Just because rfie's handsome there's nobody good enough to talk to her and just as If there had nobofly else but her been to boarding ■chool before. They are going to have a grand affuir tomor* row. All the Doers about are coming, and they are going to dance all night, hut I don't think I ahull danoe at all, for, a* Em's cousin say», theae Boer dance* are low things. I am sure I only danced at the last to please Km. I don't know why she Is fund of dancing. Km talked of our being married on the aame day as Tant' San* nle, but I said It would be nicer for her If she waited till the shearing was over and I took her down to see you. I suppose she will have to live with us—Em'i cousin, I mean—as she haa not any thing in the world but a poor £SO. I don't like her at all, Jemima, and I don't think you would. She's got such queer wayi. She's always driving about In a gig with that low German, and I don't think It's at sll the thing for a woman to be going about with a man she's not engaged to, do you? If it wss me, now, of course, who am a kind of connection, it would lie different. The way she trests me, considering that I am so soon to be her cousin, Is not at all nice. I took down my album the other day with your likenesses in it, and 1 told her she could look at it and put it tfown close to her, but she Just aald, "Thank you," and never even touched it, as much as to say. What are your relatives to me? She gets the wildest horses in that buggy and a horrid snappish little cur belonging to the German sitting In front, and then she drives out alone. I don't think it's at sll proper for u woman to drive out alone. I wouldn't allow It If site was my ulster. The other morning—l don't know how It happened—l was going In the way from which she wss coming, and that little beast—they call him Dos*--began to bark when he anw me he always does, tha little wretch and the horses began to spring and kicked the splash board all to pieces. It was a sight to ser, Jemima 1 She has got the littlest hands I ever saw. I could hold them both in one of mine and not know that I'd got anything, except that they were so soft, but she held those horses In us though they were mode of Iron. When I wanted to help her, she said: "No, thank you; I tan manatee them myself. I've got a pair of bits that would break their jaws If 1 used them well," •nd she laughed and drove away. It's so un womanly. Tell father my hire ol tin- ground will not lie •nt for al* months, arul before that Kin end I will 1,.- married. My pair at birda la breeding now, but 1 hitrn'l been down to rr<- them for three (live 1 don't aeem to care about anything any more. I don't know what It la; I'm not well If Igo Into town on .Saturday, I will let the doctor examine nw llut prrhape she'll g" In hcraclf. lt'i ft very etrsnge tlilnn. Jemima, but •lie never will send her letter* to poet by me. If 1 ask her, (be li»i now, end Ihe very ne«t day ■lie goea In and |ioeU them hcraclf. V'ou mustn't HV anything about It, Jemima, but twice I've brought bet letter* from the post In a grntle nian'a hand, and I'm aure they were both from the same |« rwm, becauae I noticed every little murk, even Ihe dotting of the l'a. Of course H'a nothing to me, but for Km'a sake I can't help feeling an Interest In her, however much I uiay dislike her myaelf, and 1 hope ahe'a up to noth ing. I pity the man who marrlea her. 1 wouldn't Ik l him for anything. *lf 1 had a wife with pride, I'd .nako her give It up. aliarp. I don't believe til a man who can't make a woman obey him. Now Km I'm very fond of her, ai you know but If I tell her to put .in a certain dreaa, that dress ahe puta on; and If I tell her to ait on a certain neat, on tliat i ah* alia; and If I tell h* r not to apeak to a iritaln Individual alio doea not apeak lo him. If a man leta a woman do what he doean't like, he'a a muff. (ilve my lore lo mother and the children. The "veld" here la looking pretty good, and the aheep are lietter alnce we waahrd them. Tell father the dip he recommended la very good. Km aenda her love to you She l« making mo a»me woolen aliirla. but they don't lit me ao nicely ni those mother made me. Write Boon to your loving brother, OMooav. p. H fi|,e drove pant Juat now. I wa« aitting on the kraal wall right before her eyes, anil ahe never even bowed. ti. N. H. | [TO ■■ OOXTIXCKD.) N0.22 jistllKl SEED FOTATOE3': Run Out and True S'lork—Selection Ilcfore Taliera llijien. Thousands of planters use the small ful>ers in the pit or bins after having used the choice tutters for sale or oa the table. These small tubers will t* used year after year until the entire crop will all be good seed (?), and yet these very same people will argue that these small ttiln-rs are "Just as good as Kl'N OUT STOCK AND TIiCE STOCK. any." However. I would not always choose the very largest tubers, as these may be rough, coarse or unshapely, but always those true to a type. A great deal of advantage may be gained by selection In the Held before the crop Is rli>c and while It is yet growing. Selection should be made at this time with respect to growth of vine, health, size and height of vine, appearance, number, color aud manner of growth in the liill, whether compact or scattering, as the tubers being not mature will show their characteristics most forcibly at tills time. This should be done Just before the vine l»eglns to ripen. The writer very much prefers mature jKitatoes for seed as compared with Immature seed, notwithstanding the geat cry for second crop seed to the contrary, provided this mature Beed can be stored in a cool enough place to keep them from starting the least par ticle of gro . th and at the same time not freeze. However, as so very few are prepared to keep mature tubers thus, we must either rely on second I crop or Immature ilrst crop seed, and here comes in our selection and digging; before the crop Is ripe. We must take Into consideration that the extra early varieties will be more difficult to keep than the late ones If we are to use Im mature ilrst crop seed, aud as we can not grow second crop In the north tills Is the best we can do. Potatoes will run out under certain conditions, the same as other vegeta bles or fruits, consequently we must be ou the lookout for the tuber that has the "run out" marks. A potato that has begun to decline will show It In a difference !n the shape and depth of eye, eyes will be more numerous, and the skin will have changed Its appear ance, as shown In the out where the upper ilgure Is a. tuber from run out stock and the lower is from true stock of the same variety. The foregoing Is the advice of a writer In American Gardening. Apple Canker. Good culture, proper fertilization and prevention of other diseases aud insect injuries are important aids in keeping down apple canker. The smooth, shin lng bark of a vigorous, well sprayed tree Is a discouraging seed bed for the fungus spore, but the cracks of the hidebound tree, the decayed spots about the home of a borer, the scrag gly, upturned bark upon a sun scald, the abrasions caused by a careless picker's or primer's hobnailed boots or by a sharp edged prop hastily Jammed Into place under an overloaded brauch and the frayed edges of the stub of au Improperly pruned Umb arc only too good places for lodging and germina tion of the spores. Great care should be used to prevent such injuries, and when produced they should be care fully smoothed with a knife and paint ed thickly or covered with wax.—Wen dell Paddock. Am Aid to F.arllne-»». One way In which u gardener may gain a little advance in earllness of Vegetables, especially of heat lovers like beans, cucumbers and that class, K MIT 11 KIIXLTKH KOH TKN'DKK TnilWM. is to build a soil shelter, as shown In the accompanying cut from Vlck. Thii consists merely of drawing up a rldgt of earth to the north or windward side of the row as protection ou the oni hand from raw winds and on the othei to catch the sun heat. The row can be thrown up with a small plow, care be lng taken not to have tin? soli fall ovei and cover the seed too deeply. The I'aefnl Toad. "A single toad may destroy over 2,(XX worms during the months of May, .Tune and July, and one of these liarmlcsi 'creatures may well do a gardener serv ice to the amount of If lU.HB each season Farmers In England buy them, paying as high ns a thousand, for use Ic their flower beds aud gardens." Thii Is the Interesting estimate which Pro fessor Hodge of Massachusetts put* upon the services of the humble toad. How School !• Hciinrdrd. "I'm not going to school today!" she cried Jubilantly. "Oh, I'm sorry for you girls who'll have to sit at your desks and study." "Why aren't you going?" they asked. "liecause," she replied, "I have to go to the dentist's." Thus we learn the place that educa tion takes In the list of childhood's evil*—Chicago Post. A Hetter Way. "Remember that the darkest hour Is Just before the dawn." "Yes; 1 wish it were two or three hours after dawn. Then a fellow would have a chance to get that much more sleep."—Chicago Times Herald. I'iirtly to Illume. "Are you the best man at Hilly Brown's wedding?" "No; I attend as guilty bystander." "What tlo you mean?" "I Introduced Itrown to the girl last Hummer."— Chicago Koeord. ( linrtl) Lrfl Home. "Uncharitable!" cried Hewson. "M> uncle was the most uncharitable man who ever lived. Why, he passed me over ami left every cent of his for tune to charity!"- Philadelphia North