VO* xxxvii Look at Your Shoes! Dont You Need a New Pair? JOHN BiCKEL Has Just What You Want. If you are in need of SHOES or SLIPPERS of any kind, no matter what style you want, call around and see us and we vi 11 suit and please you. All our fa'l and winter goods are in. We can show a better and finer selection of Ladies' shoes than ever before. Full stock of SOROSIS SHOES in fine Dongola, Patent and Box Calf; also a full stock of Women's and Misses' Waterproof Oil Grain, Kangaroo and Calf Shoes. Hig assortment of Gents' fine shoes in the latest styles ranging in price from $1.50 to $5.00- Just received a large stock of the army shoes, heavy uppers and hand sewed soles, making a good shoe tor hard v.-. nr. Price $2.50 per pair. Gokey's handmade box toe boots and .-.hoes and high cut copper toe shoes for boys' and high cut waterproof shoes for girls. Largest and most complete stock ot fchot l shoes we ever had. RUBBER AND FELT GOODS. Full slock of Rubber antl Felt Goods. Full stock of the Mishawaka Snag-boots and Ball Band Knit Boots. We want ycur money and we are going to give you more than value for it. Notv is your time to buy. Grand bargains in season able footwear and from the immense assortment which we carry you can never fail to find what you want in footwear and what will suit you. An immense business enables us to name the very lowest prices for reliable footwear. When in need of any thing in our line. Give us a call. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET. - - BUTLER, PA MILLER'S JULY SHOE: A RECORD BREAKER! Now is your time SSOOO worth of Summer Shoes at your own price. We have too many shoes and not enough money, hence no 1 ,-asonable ofler will be refused. Good, seasonable footwear regard less of cost. Close cash buyers will be sure to take advantage of this great sale. Read Every item a Leader and a Money Saver For You. Men's Tan Shoes 98c [ Ladies" Serge Slippers ?8c Men's Buff Shoes OHc • Ladies' Gaiiers 48c Men's Working Shoes 98c Ladies' Kid Slippers 48c Men's Low Shoes 9Nc Ladies' Strap Sandals 48c Men's Patent Tip-Shoes $1.24 Ladies' Walking Shoes 48c Men's Tennis Oxfords 48c . Ladies' Tan Oxfords 69c Men's Canvas Shoes 98c Ladies' Kid Po) : sh 99c Many other bargains i : i shoes for you. Come in and see for yourself. July Sale A Hummer—Take It In. C- E- MILLER, Butler's Progressive Shoe Ho use, 21? South Main Street Out of Style, Out of the World! yjl f-" ur garments have a style that is ££ ~ Iff * 'I easily distinguished from the ordin- Jgk —— ary. They are the result of careful , v 7. study and practical application ofthe .c ideas gathered by frequent vis'ts to ji . the fashion centres, and by personal y§? contact with the leading tailors and nf> I}■ % as ' , '" n authorities uf the counry. « ' , They are made in our own work ili |l ~ shup by the highest paid journey men tailors in Butler, yet it is pos isble to (an.l 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 teasons 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. f\ \ • MAKER OF MEN'S Clothes Spring STYLES I £ L&f (m j Men don't buy clothing for the pur-'ft' -v J P/f I // .impose or spending money. They I Iff' 1 Jlk nzto get the best possible results for thefC* A ||* CJ m. j expended. Not cheap goads'®- /JU JMJM; A ft,; goods as cheap as they can be.W, JC, V 11"\ I' ! njsold for and made up properly. If?T; rH you want the correct thing at the cor- Jt '! price, call and examine our,W. \ \ II 4 n;' ar Ke stjck r,f SPRING WEIGHTS \ 1 illl/J I •y LATEST STYLES, SHADES \ ft &jf } Fits and Workmanship ' | ill Guaraneed. I—fir, / G F. K6CK, North! Main Street, Butler Pa 11 LAVATORY APPLIANCES nowadays have to be of the best Jj ij|| ;i to icc vt* any sort of consider-I 3 ! ation. Closet! plumbing is a relic °f the past —open work only re cc'ives attention. Reason? It's '! sanitary, cleanly, looks better, re yfijjkjf- .1 quires less attention and is better I in evt, >' res P cct . VVe make a s P cc,a 'ty of ui -to-date styles and Geo. \AI. \A/ h!tehill, 318 South Main St., People's Phone. 28. PLUMBER, Butler, Pa. Subscribe for the CITIZEN THE BUTLER CITEZEN. Tonight If your liver is out of order, causing Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart burn, or Constipation, take a dose of Hood's On retiring, and tomorrow your di gestive organs will be regulated and you will be bright, active and ready I for anv kind of work. This has been the experience of others; it will be yours. HOOD'S PILLS are sold by all medicine dealers. 25 cts. AMENDMENT TO THE T TIUN PROPOSE I* TO THE CITIZENS OK ; THIS COMMONWKAI TIL POLITHEIU AP PROVAL OR REJECTION BY THE GEN ERAL A.--I-.MIU.V OP THE C'OMMON ! WEALTH OI PENNSYLVANIA. PPH- I LISIIED BY OR DEB OP THE SECRETARY OE THE COMMONWEALTH IN ITRSP- I ANC'E OP ARTICLE WILL OF THE COX- J STITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION. ' Proposing an amendment to the Constitution Of the Common weal tli. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and II'IUM' of Representatives of the Common wealth in General Assembly met. That t!••• following is proposed as amendments to the Cona.itut'on of the Commonwealth of lVnn gy'ranla, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article thereof: Amendment One of Article Eight, Section One, Add at the end of the first paragraph of said section, after the words "shall be rII tit - led to vote at all elections," tiie words "sub ject however tj such laws requiring !>ud regulating the registration of electors as t ae General Assembly may enact." so that the sa'd sectii 1 shall read as follows: Section L Qualifications of Electors F.vei v male citizen twenty-one years of age. possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such li-.ws requiring and regulat ing the reg st ration of electors as the Gen eral Assembly may enact: He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. He shall have resided in the State one year (or if. having previously been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and re tnrned. witiiin six months, immediately pre ceding the election). He shall have resided in the election dis trict where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall haye paid within two years a State or county tax.which shall have been assessed at least two months ana paid at least one month before the election. Amendment Eleven to Article Eight. Section Seven. Strike out from said section thu words "'but no elector shall be deprived of the priv ilege of voting by reason of his name not lie inc registered." and add to said section the following words, "but laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to citiesonly. provided that such laws be uniform for cities of the same class." so that the said section shall read as follows: Section 7. Uniformity of Eleefton Laws. All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State, but laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws be un"unn for cities of same class. A true copy of the Joinc Resolution. XV. W. GRIEST. Secretary of the Commonwealth. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION ™ PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OP THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP PROVAL OR REJECTION BY THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON WEALTH OL PENNSYLVANIA. PUB LISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OP THE COMMONWEALTH IN PURSU ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON STITUTION. A .JOIST RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsyiv: ira In General As sembly met. That the fo 1 lowing is pioposed us an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania accord ance with the p'ovlsioos of ine Eighteenth a: ttcle thereof. Amendment, strike out section four of ,■>. d e jit. and inse~t ia place vhereo" r-s Wows: Section 4. All elections ov t ie citizens shall be by ballot or bv sue J othe<- method as may be prcscrlbeu by law: Piovlded, That secrecy in voting be preserved. A true copy of the Joljt Resolut : on. W. XV. GR'ISST, Secretary Of the Commonwealth BUTLER BUSINESS COLLEGE. Fall term begins, Monday, Sept. 13, 1900 COURSES. I —Practical Book keepers. 2—Hxpe Account an Is. 3 —Amanuensis Shortbai d 4 —Reporter's Shorthand. s— Practicar Short Course in Book-keeping, for those who merely wish to understand the simpler methods of keeping books. 6 English. Oru TEACH'-.tts—We have 'our at f.esent always as manv as we neec 1 no more. POSITIONS— We expect to be ai»'e to place at least twice as many graduates ee where «ve place one if we only had more of the right kl.id mate : .ii to work on. Young man, you ig woir.ae, 1' you have a':'ir English educ;','oo. and i»ie industrious 1 -id persistent it win be to your interest «o take at lea it one of our cou .vs. and let i-s assist you to remunerative em ploymc it. The finest system of shorthand ever pub lished win be used In our school t'n* comi ig year. Ci'l' and examine it. Send Tor a copy o' our new catalogue and < irculars. A. F. REGAL, Prin., S. Main St.. Butler, Pa NEW HOUSE NEW KUHNITUIIE Central Hotel SIMF.ON N T XON, JR., ) , r J. BROWN N'XON, ) Ms ' " BUTLER. PA Opposite Court 11 r.use. Nexi, Door to Park Theatre. Sunday Dinners A Specially. Meals 25 cts. Rooms 50 els. Regular Rates $ 1. Loca' and Lonjj Distance Phones. Hotel Waverly South McKean Street J. W HAWORTH, Prop'r., BUTLER, PA Steam Heat and Elect. Ic Light The most commodious oifice in the city. Stabling in Connection. HOTEL ARANDALE, Bedford, Perm'a., Now open with Increased attractions. Ar rangements have been made w'tli tin- Springs Company for the famous n>>n«Tai water to be brought to the hotel Terms moderate. Write for l»ooHei A LSI I' & SMITH. I'rops. s Butler People I Should Patronize the I Hotel Ke 11 y | A. Kelly & Sons, Prop'rs., § I Cambridge Springs' Pa. A first-class hotel, just opened, £ in a charming country location, * In connection with the famous Mitchell Springs; everythlug, 5 new. modern and up-to-date; 3f further Information with rates. •§ etc., cheerfully furnished on X * application; free carriages to * and from all trains. jl-f* *4** BUTLER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1000 THIS WORLD IS ALL A FLEETING SHOW. Tim worM is ill a flcotinj iliow. For mi-i'a illusion given; The smiles of joy, tbe tears of woe, Deccitlul shine, ileseitful flow, Tlic ru's nothing true but heaven I AnJ false the light on glory's plume, As fading hues of even, Ami love and hope snd beauty's bloom I Are blossoms gathered for the tomb— There's nothing bright but heaven 1 Poor uanderers on a stormy day, From wave to wave we're driven. And fancy's flash and reason's ray t St rv e but to light the troubled way; There's nothing calm but heaven! —Thomas Moore. !TR E E G 018 T. I L The Story of a Phonograph. !j! Cecil Arthur Dovely could not under stand why lie made no progress with Mary Barclay. His position as the chief dispenser of pills and postage stamps iu the biggest drug sto: e of a country town had given him an ex aggerated idea of his own importance. He was not a particularly bad looking young man, but was very conceited in his manner. His broad, high forehead was surmounted by his carrot colored hair brushed a la pompadour; his eyes, a light blue, were lacking in strength and expression, and his dress was just a trifle too flashy for the station in life he had been called upon to fill. To c-rowu all, he owned a horse and bug gy—that charmed possession which in rural communities so enhances one's prestige with the eligible young ladies. Cecil, who was not a bad fellow at heart, had kept the girls of Rossville and their anxious mothers guessing for a long time, and the news that he had be«m offered a partnership in his employers' store did not lessen femi nine interest in him. He used to ride around the circle of Rossvnle feminin ity and select whom he would to go "buggy riding" with him on a Sunday afternoon. There was one young lady in the town who resisted Dovely's wiles, or, rather, those of his horse and buggy, and the prospect of a part nership in a partnership, and she it was whom Cecil, with no other motive at flrst than perversity, determined to win. One day he decided on a grand attack upon the fortress of Mary's heart. He wrote for permission to call on a cer tain evening, and received it. Thus en couraged, he awaited the event which would mark him victor or vanquished. He scarcely hoped for the former; he dreaded the latter. He sought to em bellish his language with quotations from the poets and studied the most effective manner in which to exploit his many captivating qualities. It is, therefore, needless to say that when he called on her he talked prin cipally about himself. He was, how ever, quite puzzled at the sudden and energetic interest that Mary seemed to manifest in all that he said; but, encouraged by it, he soared into giddy heights of eloquent self exploitation. He wound up the whole monologue with a passionate avowal of his love for Mary and an almost tearful en treaty for her heart and hand in return. Mary was genuinely interested in Cecil, and, in consequence, he was the very last person in the world she would have suspect It. So she tried to sim ulate indifference by affecting a sort of platonic feeling for him. Such a re gard, however, did not come up to Dovely's requirements, and when he objected to being side tracked from the main line of love to the siding of sis terly affection and demanded a direct response to his appeal Mary showed an inclination to temporize. In brief, she asked him to call upon her a week later, and if, after mature consider ation, he were of the same mind, she might think the matter over seriously. Dovely protested that his present frame of mind was not the result of sudden impulse, but the full blown flower which she had planted in his bosom with the first glance of her eyes long ago. He vowed that the end of time would find his love unaltered and unalterable —all of which he had read in "How to Propose, or Every Man Ills Own Lovemaker." Mary, however, remained firm, and Dovely went back to his pills and plasters. It would be vain to describe the battles fought be tween hope and fear, exultation and despair, in the young drug clerk's brain during that week. He was sustained somewhat by his inordinate vanity, but beneath all lay the suspicion, ever so faint, i>erliaps, that Mary had been laughing at him. When" poor Dovely pulled the bell handle of the Barclay house on the appointed night, he was so full of nervous uncertainty that liis knees trembled and his heart seemed to smite his ribs in the very terror of •Joubt. The door was opened by Mary, who received him with such a pleased look and cordial pressure of her soft, warm hand that his conceit, coward that It was, as soon as it believed all danger to be passed, mounted again to the most conspicuous heights aud crowed luore lustily than before. The magic If her glance transformed him from the suppliant to the prince, and he strutted across the hall to the drawing room and seated himself In the best chair, prepared to receive homage from the girl. Mary expressed great Joy at his kind ness In calling and archly confessed that she had suffered not a little fear that something might detain him. These delicate compliments caused Cecil considerable chest expansion, anil when Mary humbly begged to be ex cused for a few minutes while she at tended her mother, who was ill, he granted her the brief respite with al most royal graclousness. When she had gone Cecil picked up a magazine and was complacently perusing Its prosy aud academic pages when he was startled by the sound of voices in the same room with himself. He looked about quickly aud, seeing no one, experienced a sensation of fear. As the sounds proceeded Dovely sat in mute amazement. For a moment he suspected that he was going mad. He was superstitious, but ghosts, accord ing to his way of thinking, always manifested themselves to the eyes rather than the cars aud with shrouds r:' than dialogues. There was » i un janny in the sounds, too, c. t ;t from a metal casket. Dovely \> ot.ld have attempted an iu .vestigation, but very fear held liim rooted to tlie chair. He could not escape, and he began to feel that he had been selected by some restless spirits as the custodian of their confi dences. The sound of the voices at first seemed like au echo of something 110 had heard before, aud this circum stance deepened his perplexity. The conversation seemed to be between U man and a woman. The man's tones were imperious, those of the woman half flattering, half conciliatory. "You know men are such deceivers," the voice was saying. "You play with a woman's heart as a child does with a toy. Then you look for another that is newer to you, though perhi|ps not to some otheni, and another fellow, who perhaps has thrown aside and bruised the heart that you pick up. comes alonij and picks up the very heart that you have thrown aside." A soft laugh of tolerant condescen sion followed tilts speech. "Oh, that's the old story with wom en," replied the man, '"you are all wrong; you don't understand man. Your feminine minds can't grasp the depth and breadth of his nature. I have tried often to make some women soar with me to loftier realms of thought, but I have neTer found one to sympathize with uiy poetic or ar tistic moods." Here a soft little sigh, like a zephyr touching the maple leaves, stole across the room, and then the imperious tones resumed: "I know women. I've seen a good deal of life. Didn't I liv# more than a year in New York?" The perspiration stood out in beads on Doveiv's forehead as he stared in the direction of the voices and clutched the arms of the chair in which tie sat. It seemed like a nightmare. The echo was getting clearer and clearer. He hated the dreadful sounds, but felt that lie must suffer the ordeal to the end. And memory told liiiu that the end was yet a long way off and tlie path there to full of thorns of humiliation and shame for him. He began to feel like a disembodied spirit that stands beside Its erstwhile prison and contemplates with horror the ravages that debauch ery Las wrought on its once beautiful form. Bui through the nightmare he was sustained by the sweet reflection that he was not irreclaimable and that tills scourging was at worst only a se vere lesson from which he would emerge a better man. The imperious tones of the man and the conciliatory, even pleading, tones of the woman went on. With deep humiliation he followed the mysterious dialogue to the crowning point of his own shame. He could hear the soft, solicitous tones of the woman leading the man on to make a fool of himself. And he heard the man following with braggadocio and bombast right up to the very pitfall that had been prepared for him. The grandiloquent and pre posterous phrases in which a proposal was next couched struck him as being so comically conventional that he would have laughed aloud had not the humiliating reflection of his own con duct covered him instead with shame. Then he heard a sweet voice asking liim to think It over and then come back in a week, if he were still of the same mind. Even then he did not realize the truth. He wondered if he were not asleep and this an awful dream. The volume that he had been holding fell from his knee and startled him. He put his hand to his forehead and brushed the beads of perspiration away and said: "Thank God. it was a dream." At that moment Mary entered the room and smilingly apologized for keeping him waiting. She drew a has sock over to him. and. seating herself, upon it and looking up in his eyes, said: "I'm awfully sorry I kept you waiting, Arthur; I know you must have been so lonely. But there"—she stop ped suddenly and knitted her brows— "l really believe you have been asleep and dreaming. You look it, quite." The poor young man took her hand in both his own and looked fixedly at her. "I don't know whether I've been asleep or not, but I certainly must have been dreaming—such a horrid dream" —and he passed his hand quickly over his eyes as if to wipe away the last traces of a nightmare. Then he took her hand again. "Mary," he said slow -13-, "you told me to come back tonight if I were still of the same mind as when I was here last. I have come to tell you that I am not of the same mind." Mary looked surprised and would have spoken, but Dovely broke in quickly: '"lt is not that I don't love you as much as ever—aye, n great deal more than ever before—hut I feel that , I have been a foci; that I'm not worthy of you, and that it was a presumption f for me to ask you to mary me. I be lieve that I can be a more modest and sensible man, and that 1 want you to J give me the opportunity to prove it before giving me your answer." Mary's answer was worthy of her brain and her heart: "Arthur," she said, "what you have said proves that you are all right, and I'll take you on faith." Next morning the phonograph was sent back to town, it having succeeded in eliminating for ever the capital "I" from the personal ity of Cecil Arthur Dovely, and the fun of it was that Cecil thought he did It himself.—Chicago Times-Herald. A Particular Point. "In a case of this kind," said the law yer. "there are many things to be in vestigated, and before I take the case there Is one thing in particular that must be looked into." "1 presume," said the client, "that you refer to my pocketbook."—lndian apolis Sun. Unwritten History. Giles—Columbus must have been the victim of a bunko game. Miles—Why do you think so? Giles—Because he was the first to conceive the idea that the world wasn't square.—Chicago I'ost. Muffs were first used by doctors to keep their fingers soft and were adopt ed by ladles about 1550. Men marry because they are weary of liberty, women because they desire It.—Chicago News. A Swindling Ncln-nM'. For some years past the treasury de partment has received from time to time letters from all parts of the coun try asking for information regarding certain large sums of money which, it is alleged, are on deposit in the treas ury department awaiting distribution to heirs or persons of great wealth in Europe and America. Among these noted claims is one of the heirs of a man of the name of He Haven, who is alleged to have loaned the government of the United States large sums of money during the Revo lutionary war. Another well known case is that of the Robert Morris es tate, the heirs of which, it is said, are entitled to receive from the govern ment several millions of dollars. The Durkee claim also is well known in the department and involves several mil lions of dollars. The latest one is that of the heirs of Anneke Jans, who are saiil to be entitled to receive from the United States something like £00,000,- 000, which sum. it is said, has been re ceived from Holland and now awaits proof of relationship. It Is stated at the treasury depart ment that all of these claims are spuri ous and that they are made tbo basis of confidence games by agents who work upon tiie credulity of the unin formed. Agents, it is said, are selling bonds to raise money to prosecute these claims against the government, realizing something like $lO per SI,OOO promised in case of success. The treas ury department Is powerless to proceed agaiust these impostors.—Washington I'ost. f SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. She was a phantom of delight When first site gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes «a »tars of twilight fair, Lil* twilight's, too, her dusky hair. But all things else about her drawn From iL*. time an 1 the cheerful darro; A danci ug shape and image gay To haunt, to startle and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too! Her household notions light and free And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles And now I see with eyes serene The very pulse of the machine, A being breathing thoughtful breath, A trav'ler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will. Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned. To warn, to comfort and command. And yet a spirit still and bright With something of angelic light. —William Wordsworth. fl'l LLAMA'S I'iisj of Tibetan Magic. The waiter brought us drink and the change out of Tom Martin's half sov ereign. I pushed the latter over to ward him with my left hand, and with the right raised the water bottle to dilute my whisky. "Your change, Tom," said I. "Yes, of course," said Tom, who was absorbed in the story he was telling me. lie put out his hand as if to pick the money up, but seemed to remember something, for he drew his hand back suddenly. "Good heaven'." said he, "and I had forgotten that." He took out his handkerchief, wrap ped it around the forefinger of his right hand and then, with the fore finger so covered, gently scraped the money toward him, piece by piece, and earnestly looked at each coin. "Now, look here, Tom," said I, "this is a very pretty story that you have been telling me, but don't try and give it an air of reality by a performance like that." "You can believe it or not, just as you like," said Tom, "but I tell you, Fred, that piece of money is coming along this way some day. I have seen it once and—l left it on the table. You don't catch me touching any coin while I am certain that one is in cir culation. But let me conclude what I was telling you. "Urga is one of the most peculiar places you could think of. and one of our first duties was to present our selves to the grand llama. We had to get a palanquin, for it was only meet that Europeans of our Importance should go in state, and it was while en route that we suddenly came to the praying mill. This was a sort of 'roundabout,' with huge wooden posts sticking out at the side, which every Buddhist passing *as supposed to take hold of and push the mill round at least once. "What caused Phil to do what he did then I don't know, but something seemed to impel him to get out of the palanquin, make a run over to the mill, catch hold of one of the wooden posts and commence to push it around at its topmost pace. The square where the mill was erected was pretty well filled with people, and when some of those saw what had been done they came rushing toward us, shouting and ges ticulating. Phil had undoubtedly com mitted ft sacrilege, and I was fearful for his safety. These fanatical Mon golians, once their religion is assailed in any shape or form, would certainly have no mercy upon the assailant. "Phil came hurriedly back to me, Jumped into the palanquin and order ed the bearers to get on. But they were struck dumb with terror. The mob came for us. smashed in the doors of the palanquin, dragged us out, and for two minutes there was the liveliest fight on record going on. We got the worst of It and, bruised, bleeding and insensible, were carted off to prison. "We were taken before the grand llama, and then and there he ordered us to be sent across the Siberian fron tier with the utmost dispatch. The next day we were hurried along under an escort of soldiers, and it was not long before we arrived at the frontier, the town of Miamatshln, which really Is the Mongolian portion of Kiakta. We were taken along to the yellow posts which marked the actual frontier, and there the soldiers of the llama stopped. We were removed from the palanquin in which we had been car ried and were commanded to sit down a few yards from the posts. Not 20 feet away were the black and white posts of the Russians, and it was in deed something to gladden our eyes to seo the brown coat and the astrakhan fez of the Russian Cossack who stood there on sentry. "Our guards spread themselves out, then there came forward a Buddhist priest, who began to talk to us in a largon which, of course, we could not understand. He finished at length and produced from his robe a wire on which were threaded some hundreds of brass 'cash,' which the Chinese al ways carry. lie took two of the 'cash' off the wire and laid them in front of us on the ground. "Then the priest began waving his arms about, and the Mongolians took out their hand prayer mills and began turning them for all they were worth. The voice of the priest then rose on the air. He said three or four words and spat deliberately at each of the coins which had been put on the ground before us. "That was all. The priest departed, the soldier escorted us to the posts, the Russian sentry presented his rifle and •we presented our passports. We pass ed over and breathed the comparative ly free air of Russia. Our first duty when we were in Kiakta was to go straight to the governor and lay our complaint before him. He was agitat ed when he heard of the ceremony at the frontier, and told us that the Bud dhist priest had put into circulation two coins which had received the sun god's course and that these coins would circulate throughout the world, harm less to everybody except the two tlicy were destined for. The instant pos session of either of these by the person cursed would mean immediate destruc tion. "Nor was this all, the coins might not Come to as as brass 'cash,' they might come to us as a kopeck piece, or as a ruble, as marks or pfennigs, as francs or centimes, as anything, wherever it might be. We should never know when they were coming; we should take them in the ordinary way; we should handle them, but only for one moment, the next moment we should be dead." One day Tom sent for me, and It was to tell me that he was going to be married. This struck me as sotrething peculiar, for 1 had though'. Ton Mor ton was one of the last men likely to fall in love. Tlfe wedding duly came ~ -5" THE PROPYL/EA. PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. * [ ~ 7 —a Copyright, IWXJ, 'by the Pan-American Exposition Co. The Propylsea at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901 will mark tin- northern boundary of the Plaza and the extreme northern liruit of the (.rand Court. This elaborate and beautiful architectural ornament will serve the purpose of a colossal screen, shutting out from the Exposition the noisy and smoky reminders of the toil and care of our everyday life. The Propylsea is a magnificent creation, treated with tine artistic skill. The combined work it 500 feet long, consisting of two massive arched entrances or gateways at the extreme eastern and west ern ends of a long, gracefully carved colonnade. Two open towers surmount the sides of each arch, and above the 20 tall lonic columns that form the colonnade is a pergola or arbor over which growing vines will wind their delicate tracery of green. The electric street railway cars as well as the steam roads will unload many of their passengers at the station opposite the Propylaea. which is reached from the tracks by a spacious subway. off. everybody was pleased, and Tom and his bride went away to the south of France. A few more weeks rolled by and Tom returned. There was to be a reception at their London house, and the Invitation which was sent me was one which I could not well refuse. In the evening I had the opportunity of a chat with Tom. We had gone out on the balcony, which overlooked the garden, and there I purposely made reference to tlie superstition which he had fur the llama's coin. "Perhaps." said I, "now that you have gone unscathed all these years, you are beginning to lose faith in the potency of that prophecy?" "Well, to tell you the truth," said Tom, "I am getting a little shaky about it, and when one begins to rea eon superstition on any subject Is like ly to get knocked out. It ha.i struck nie that, after all, it may be but mere foolery." We entered the room once more, but I was dying for a smoke, and, making some excuse, i slipped away to tht smoking room. I had been sitting there abont five minutes when Tom Morton came in. "What do you think?" he said. "My wife has got this Mongolian story into her head so much that she is perfectly ridiculous. She has been telling every body about it, and, of course, they are all laughing, and the worst of it all Is that she Is laughing with them at me. But come, come, old fellow. I want to 6how you something." I rose, threw my cigarette end away and followed him. We went along the corridor to tbe di awing room, which was crowded, and even as we entered I heard Mrs. Morton's voice. "I really do believe it will be such fun," nhe was saying. "Here comes Tom, and now we will try. A coin, if you please, from each of you. Let me see—how many are there here?— 20. Good! Then I want 26 coins. Now, Tom," she said, "take off that wretched glove and let us demonstrate that you can touch money with your ungloved hand." Tom was pale, and I saw his brow shining with perspiration. He mutter ed something, but what it was was lost in the laughter and banter which went around the room. With a quick, impul sive movement, he drew off his right glove. "Well," he said, and I saw his lips wreathe Into a hard, unmirtliful smile, "I will take the coins just to show you that 1 am not afraid." Then, one by oue, his wife counted out the coins into his hand. Twenty were already there, when, unable to control the Impulse which came over me, I started up and cried: "Drop tt, Tom! Why challenge such a thing as that?" He looked at me, and I saw how pale and how stern was his face. He said nothing to me. but mcrcl.r turned to his wife with the whisper, "Go on!" "Twenty-one, 22, 23, 24, 25, 2G. 27" — "Twenty-seven," I cried, "what is that, there are only 20 people her, there is a mis"— But I could get 110 further. Torn had staggered back, his body shrunken in size. He fell to the floor. A deathlike silence fell over the as semblage. 1 strode over to my friend's prostrate form. Tom was dead and cold, and in bis right liauil there were 27 coins. I look ed at tlie top one; it was a German piece, value 20 marks. I took It to the light and gazed upon It. Across the profile of Emperor William II I saw a mark which described a true square, aud then I knew that the llama's curse at length had had effect.—Penny I'ic torial Magazine. Took No C hnnem. The passerby who happened to look through the open door of au up town fire engine house the other day might have wondered why one horse of the engine team was kept standing at the pole of the engine, hitched up, the horse belonging to the other being in his stall. The reason was extremely simple. Some men on electrical wires were occupied in front of the horse s stall, where in case of an alarm they would have offered more or less im pediment to his free movement from the stall to the engine. Of course the firemen took no chances on anything of this sort, so while the work was going on they hitched the horse tip in his place on the engine. This was not so comfortable for liim as standing per fectly free and clear of harness In his roomy stall would have been, but the horse apparently appreciated the situ ation fully. While he was the reverse of elated over It, yet as the men work ed on lie stood at the pole and held his place there with steadiness anil pa tience.—New York Sun. Nearly t:'. 1 n.OfH) wi.ith of articles are pawned in Loudon weekly. in e\v li nt Riirnnr»nlng. "Did that rich young Gtddbag pro pose to you last night?" "Not exactly, mamma, but he asked for an option on me for 150 days."- Cleveland Plain Dealer. CIGAR TOBACCO. Harvest tan and i urlu&s the Crop In tlie Xorth. The crop is planted in rows, usually j SVj to 4 feet apart and IS to *J4 inches*>part hi the row. It Is topped to 15 or 18 leaves and is frequently suckered during the season. It Is on the ground about 90 days, the season averaging from about the middle of May to the last of August. All the leaves on the plant do not ripen at the same time. L'uder the conditions pre vailing it Is therefore usually consider ed necessary to determine the average time of ripening and cut the plant when the middle leaves are ripe. The ground leaves will of course be over ripe, while the top leaves will have hardly matured. The stalk Is cut and laid on the ground for one and one-half to two hours to wilt. It is turned if necessary to prevent burning. It is important that rain should not fall upon the plant while lying on the j ground. After it is wilted sufficiently the stalk Is speared on a lath, about eight plants to the lath. It to then hung in a barn to dry. The tobacco barn is quite tight, but well provided with ventilators, which are opened on favorable days, as the barn must be well ventilated until the tobacco is thoroughly wilted. Artificial heat Is not used. The time and rapidity of curing depend entirely upon the weath er. It rarely exceeds two months, how ever. When thoroughly dried, the laths of tobacco are taken down during a warm, damp spell and piled In heaps with sacks or cloths spread over them to keep the pile In "order" for several days. "Order" or "case" in tobacco curing means a moist condition in which the tissue will not break. Fre quently when the piles begin to dry the butts are sprinkled with water. The stalks are taken from the laths and the leaves stripped off. The leaves are put by handfuls into a box lined with strong, tough paper. The paper is wrapped tightly over it and the bun dle securely tied. A large proportion of the tobacco is sold to the dealers In this shape. Some producers sort it, however, and get 3 cents a pound more for it, although the packers usually resort it before the fermentation. When properly sorted, the tobacco is graded into fillers, binders and long and short, bright and dark wrappers. These are made up into "hands" —I. e., bundles of leaves tied together at the base. The tobacco is frequently "blown"—that Is, lightly sprinkled with water to bring it Into proper order be fore casing or packing down, but this is never practiced by the best farmers. The fermentation or sweating is usu ally managed by the packers nnd ■»"* by the rarmers.—Milton Whitney. Three Plow Attachment*. When plowing down corn stubble, green crops, tail weeds, manure or straw, a number of devices are used to draw the stalks and litter Into the furrow and distribute along so as to be covered by the plow, the most ATTACHMENTS TOH THE PLOW. common of which is the chain arrange ment shown in the figure. The chain usually Is about five feet in length, one end fastened to evener and the oth er to plow beam at the place where the coulter Is attached, allowing the chain to drag along the bottom of fur row and over portion of the unplowed ground. Some prefer to fasten the chain farther back on the plow beam or at the standard. In turning under very heavy corn stubble the chain Is sometimes found too light to do Its work well, and an extra device (cen ter of the figure) is added. This Is a round stick of wood one foot long and two inches In diameter, one end pointed and the other flattened, and wired to chain at point chain leaves furrow to fasten to plow beam. The earth as It leaves the moldboard falls on the stick and causes it to hold the chain always In the right position, drawing to the bottom of the furrow the heaviest cornstalks or weeds. A device used In place of a chain is shown below this. It Is a round stick of heavy wood about 4 Inches in diam eter and lMi to 2 feet long long, which Is attached with a rope swivel to plow beam aiiout two feet in front of the standard, where it rolls along on edgo of furrow nutt nc»« irto ftia /»*«•*»• ~s Mo. 33 •• n a Rural New Yorker correspondent Agricultural Brevities The value of eggs exported from Canada In 1899 amounted to $1,267,063; In 1898, $1,255,304; In 1897, $1,978,479. The general condition of the tobacco crop for the first week of July was fa vorable. A recently enacted law makes It Il legal to ship from one state to another animals or birds which have been kill ed or captured In violation of local laws and requires all packages con- talnlng animals or birds to be plainly marked so that the name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents may be ascertained by inspec tion of the outside of such packages. The average condition of sweet pota toes on July 1 was highly favorable, Texas being the only Important produ cer that reports a condition even slight ly below Its ten year average. A Joke on Offenbach. Offenbach, the famous opera bouffe composer, bad an insatiable thirst for success and fame combined with a vanity that occasionally played him *— 6orry trick. Once he was going down the Rhine on a steamer, among whose passengers was the Duke of Nassau, a fact of which the composer was In blissful Ig norance. As the steamer approached Its last stopping place the bank of the river was seen to be covered by a donse throng of people who were shouting and waving their hats. A band on tbo pier wns playing a march from one of Offenbach's operas. As the boat touched the pier Offen bach stepped to the rail and bowed and waved his hat to the people In ac knowledgment of this flattering ova tion. "It Is glorious to be received In a foreign land like thlsl" he remarked to his companions. But his self complacency received a rude shock the next Instant when the duke's adjutant appeared and said, In a rough and unfeeling manner: "Get out of the way, will you, and let his highness show himself!" Beauty and Education. Why is It that woman has always been more beautiful than man? In human beings the attractive qualities have always been on the side of the female. Why Is it? Without wishing to cast any aspersion on the members of the superior sex, we may fairly an swer that it Is because they have hith erto been the less educated. But wom an's Ideas are changing. She has lis tened to the voice of the tempter, whis pering In her ear all sor*® fal lacies ttoout equality of the sexes. In- I tellectual development and Its neces sity, and the like, and she has yielded to the temptation. And the result of this will be that she will lose her beauty. She will suffer in appearance as man has done and Is doing, and In the course of time the extremely civ ilized races of mankind will be ugly— Irretrievably and lamentably Uglfc— Pearson's Magazine. A Famous Pearl. The beautiful peart known as the Great Southern Cross was found in Western Australia in the year 1884. It consists of nine pearls Joined together In the form of a cross, in which shape it was found by a man named Clarke. It Is said that the finder and the first purchaser of It buried It for some time, superstitiously regarding It as a heav enly miracle. It was, however, ulti mately taken up from its burial placo and sold for SI,OOO, since which time It has frequently changed bands and is now valued at $50,000. At the Colonial and Indian exhibition In England it at trocted a good deal of notice and is probably the ouly natural cross ever found. Cannibals nnd Pork* In the New Hebrides human life has been made safe by the introduction of pigs Into the island. Tho cannibals are said to prefer roast pork to roast man, and us the porcine tribe increases among the natives they may give up their feasts on human flesh altogether excepting when something unusual happens, such as entertaining a klug of some other cannibal Island or on state occasions of rare ceremony. Toukli on the Joker. The contributor wrote a Joke about a plumber whose bills were always normal. "That," said the editor, re jecting It. "is not a Joke; It's a Ue." The contributor tried again with a story of the plumber whose clinrgeß left nothing to be desired on the score of size. "That," said the editor, who had suffered, "Is not a U«. Neither Is It a Joke."— Scraps. More Iloneat. "flave you noticed any difference in your wife since she became converted and Joined the church?" "Yes; she asks me to wait an hour for her now instead of a minute."— Harper's Bazar.