VO xxxvil F"all Footwear. All our Fall Stock is now in and ready for your inspec tion New stock of Fall Styles that will start the new season off with a rush. t i- ' SOROSIS--The New Shoe for Women-All the new JLiclCllSS """" s ty| es in fine Dongola, Enamels, Patent, Calf and IV Box-Calf in medium and hjavy soles. 1116 DUTTENHOFFER'S line of Ladies' welt and turn sole O] . shoes in Dongola, Vici Patent Leather and Box-Calf are ver y handsonne. All sizes, AA to EE. We have a fuli line of tin* Celebrated Carter Comfort Shoes and especially recommend them for their comfort giving qualities. -m «-• • Complete-stock of R. T. WOOD & CO S. line of Misses IHISSOS an(l Children's fine shoes—made in light or welt soles— Dl ii Box-Calf and heavy Dongola. kjllOGk. Special bargains in Misses' and Children's .school shoes. tvj , . ' Fifteen to Twenty new styles in . Ci. 6ttIPl()Il S \j cn ' s rnedium and heavy sole welt Hr ' iv wi I shoes. Patent, Calf, Enamel, \ ici Men s r me bhoerf. Kid and bgx caif. Full and medium toes —Close Welt or Extension Sole. t> » IV *1 ' Made of same material -BO\ S fllKl Y Olltll S OllOf S. an( j j n same styles as the Men's Shoes. I 111 Al ave A torn l^ ete stock of Gokey's liand -01 \/ll i'len made box-toe boots and shoes; also a full A nrl Firm Wpar stock of Army Shoes, heavy uppers Aim J- It* * * tell. and hand sewed SOljs. Gokey s high cut copper toe Shoes for Boys. Gokey's high cut waterproof Shoes for Girls. See our Drillers Shoes —High-Cut—Beliis Tongue- - Box Toe—Double Sole and Tap. RUBBER AND FELT GOODS. Full stock of Rubber and Felt Goods. Full stock of The Mishawaka Snag-boots and Ball Band Knit Boots. When in need of anything in our line, give us a call. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET. - * - BUTLER, PA The New Fall Footwear Ready for your inspection in such large assortments as this store is known to carry. We placed our orders early and secured advantages which we pass to the buyer. Never before have we made such a generally good exhibit of eaily Fall and Winter footwear. There is every new style brought out for early Fall wear, embracing every popular style from the finest Patent Calf to the Heavy Working Man's Shoe. School Shoes for the little Boys and the li;tie Misses. The prices are modest. , AiiolSlv" They are made by artist shoemakers and yUvCII you'll need n" "specs" to see that the\ Cu„« u/ nm . n nn are fine s ' ,oes —the HANDSOMEST ever Shoe for Women &O.UU- made foi #3. Any size and any width vu I mm • 1 and a raft of different styles. U C? Mannish sl .oo, $1.25, $1.50. . u I [4/ Slfpppf Rnnt FORE-SIGHT is better than HINP LI . SIGHT. Before yo>. buy school shc 2 .» # Irl look at ours. It'll pay you. A Women's Fine Shoes. *1 \»v l Vou can buy #1.50 and #2 00 shoes / V. ///WW/yr anywhere, but there is not a store in But ler that will give you SO STYLISH A _U T RAot?SMARK SHOE or so lasting a one ss this store ,s BRANDED will at $1.50 and S2.CO. ON EVER/ MEN S SHOES u . . If your work requires shoes with no Heavy Sole. H pariicu'ar style, but a WHOLE LOT OF Hand Welt. WEAR, try us. They'll wear till the cows coine home and besides being good Handsome, well inpile and as easv as an looking shoej, they have soles wide old shoe—that's RFAT'TY. Of aU shoes enough so you can just stand in them all advertised ihis is the only one that has a day and not feel them. I'rice $1.25, five dollar style at a three dollar price. #'-5o and f ;.00. B. C HUSELTON, Sutler's Leudlrift Shoe (louse. O, Hotel l,owfv. "ll I if// ( I Men don't buy clothing for the \ SI fri, I fij T? purpose of spending money. They 7^ /j.i k| / / -t-j desire to get the best possible re- J4j H vtyjKrjL.l suits for the money expended. Not / j l»" cheap grods but goods as cheap as they can he sold for and made up properly. If you want the correct 1 \ 1£](!ll 1 /'I examine our large stack of FALL / t I \ Til > J ANI) WINTER WEIGHTS— (. \ | 1 LATEST STYLES, SHADES MW fl AND coLofis " lUl KECK Fit and Workmanshio Guaranteed. G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 142 North Main Street, Butler, Pa fill lavatory appliances hU | ! nowadays have to be of the .best = iLi L to receive any sort of cons.dor "TTTj ' El ation. Closed plumbing is a relic a c ' P as * open work only ie i '»Fk cdves attention. Reason? it's $/} [ ( sanitary, cltanly, looks better, re- < l u, * res attention and is better I cvcr >' res P ect . VVe make a • j s P ecialt y up-to date styles and Geo. \AI . \A/hiteHill, 318 South Main St , People's Phone. 28. PLUMBER, Butler, VH. g PAPES, JEWELERS. j| | J DIAMONDS, # > WATCHES, I o ®J CLOCKS, 7 S JEWELRY, J > g J SILVERWARE, J SILVER NOVELTIES, ETC. J We repair all kinds of * c/>i Broken Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc. * 20# Give our repair department a trial. ' m? We take old gold and silver the same as cash. I? PAPE'S, JI SJ 122 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. J g THE BUTLER CITIZEN. i i One Dose j , ! 5 TVHs the story. When your hrart 5 he«. and you feel bilious, con.-ti- J I W pated, and out of tune, with your £ m stomach sour and no appetite, just A bay a package of 0 \ Hood's Pills | S And take a dose, from 1 to 4 pills. J j ; J You will be surprised at how easily J 0 thev will Mo their work, cure your » ; • headache and blliousnes*. rouse the# 1 liver and make you feel happy aeain. f 2 2.5 cents. Sold t>>' all medii int dealers, AMFMIMKNT TO Til F CONSTITI"TIt>N | i'KOI'OSEr' TO THE CITIZENS Ol THIS COMMONWEALTH IOKTHETK AI - , •HOVAI. OK IIE.IKCTTON »V THE OF.N- , "l:\I. \~sf.MßLv OF THE COM.MON ,?FU.TII OF PENNSYLVANIA. PI Is - BY«>BDEKOI TilF. SECBETAKY J uF TH F COMMONWE\LTH. IN I'l - , • VNCF Ol A HTICLE Will OF THE CON- 1 ■ STITI'TION. 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION, i- Proposing an amendment to the Constitution | of tbe Commonwealtli. 1 i Section 1. Be ic resolved by tbe UfiMMtM House of Kepresi ntatlves of tlie Common wealtli in General Assembly met. Tliat the following i> proposeil as amendments to the . Constitution of the Commonwealth of I'enn sv'vanla. In accordance with the provisions l of the eighteenth article thereof: Amendment One of Article Eight. Section » One. Add at the end of the lirst paragraph of ' said swiion. after the words • shall ix'euii. - led lo vote at all elections.' the words "suo_ i iect howevtr t.> such laws requiring and the rpgistrsitloii of electors ;is trie ' l Genera! Assembly may enact," so that the said seciion shall read as follow-: 5 Suction 1 Qualifications of Electors. Every male citizen twenty-one years of age - I,(,messing ilie following qualification*, shail m- eii.it)ed to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regu'ac ing i lie resistrsitlon of electors as the Gen eral Assembly mil) enact: .... lie shall have been a citizen of the I mted States at least one mont li. He shall have resided in the State one year (or if. having previously lieen a qualified elector or native born eitiaen of toe State, he shall have removed therefrom and re turned. within six months, immediately pre ceding the election). He shall have resided in the election dis tinct where he shall offer to vote at least two » u out lis immediately preceding the election. I f twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax.which shall have been assessed at least Iwo months and paid at least one month before the election. Amendment Eleven to Article Eight. Section Seven. Strike out from said section the words "but no elector shall he deprived of t lie priv ilege of voting by reason of his name not l>e ing registered," and add to said section the following words, "but laws regulating and l requiring the registration of electors may tie enacted to apply to cities only, provided ili.it such laws be uniform for cities of tbe same class." so that the said section shall read as follows: Section 7. Uniformity of Election Laws.— All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of | electors shall lie uniform throughout tie state, but laws regulating and reqi'' 'ing the registration of electors may Im* enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws he uniform for cities of same class. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. VV. W. GRI EST. Secretary of the Commonwealth. AMENDMENT TO THE CONST'TfTION ** PROPOSED TO THE CIT'ZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THE t{ AP PROVAL OR REJECTION HY THfi I FN EIiAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. PI'R LIHHED BY ORDER OF TH E SECRET A I.' Y OF THE COMMONWEALTH IN Pl'RSl - an:;E of ARTICLE X\ ill OF THE CON STITUTION. A JOIST RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Section I. Be it resolved by the Senate and House o! Representatives o' the Com , monwealth oT Pennsylvania in General As- I serubly met. Thai the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the , Commonwealtli of Pennsylvania i.i accord ance with the provisions of the F.'gb«eenth ' arttcle thereof. Amendment. Strike out see. ion four of article eight, and Insert in place thereof, as follows: Section 4. AD elections by Hie cV.zens , shall oe by ha'lot or bv such other nie.uod ' us may be by law: Provided, That secrecy in voting be preserved. A true copy of the Joi.il liesolt'i on W. W. GRI EST. Secretary of the Common wealth YOU'I.L KNOW HOW GOOD WHEN YOU SEE THEM. Our 25c box papers » Our ioc and 15c fine writing „ paper tablets. 1 Blank books at the old price, j Albums bought before the ad vance. Kodaks with a special discount in January. Photograph supplies always fresh. Sporting goods. Late fiction. Bibles cheaper than ever. Everyday needs .it everyday prices. At DOUGLASS BOOK stohb:. , Eagle B'l'd. NEW HOUSTj. NEW FURN"ITIIEh Centra! Hotel SIMEON NIXON, JR., > J. BROWN NIXON, ; M S :s - BUTLER, PA Opposite Court House. Nest Door to I'arlt Theatre ' Sunday Dinners A Specialty. Meals 25 cts. Rooms 50 cts. Regular Rates si. Local and Long Distance Phones. - Hotel Waveri y South McKeau Street J. W HAWORTH Prop'r., BUTLER. PA Ste«im H-eatand Eleci. ic L'gHt r The nioit commcdious oJficc in the : 1 cit y- Stablir.g in Connection. HOTEL ARANDALE, Bedford, Penn'a., Now open with Increased attractions. Ar ranpements have bee a made wUli the P HprlDKs Company for •he famous n) : neral water to be brought uj t he lio«el d«»Mv. Terms moderate. Write fop »>ook'e< A LSI I* & HMITtJ, Props. I pP* *.|t *fl j Butler People Should Patronize the | | Hotel Kelly| £ A. Kelly & Sons, Prop'rs., % t; Cambridge Springs* Pa. ii- A flrst-cl ;iss hotel. Just opened, £ | |* in acharrniug country location. , J 3c. ' fl with tin; famous "5r J I to: Mitchell Springs; everythluif, $ j new. modern and up-to-date; * j J further information with rates, "J j §etc., cheerfully furnished on 3: j application; free carriages to $ i and frouj all rains. Ik * J 4- '■ -r-i B UTLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, U>OQ PRESSED FLOWERS. Flowers are pressed and dried In book 3 Cionc lucent colors, fresh and new; Gone sweetness, swaying, bloom and dew! And thoughts are mummied there in book*— No light of eye nor poise of head, The thought that's written is unsaid. And YET one touch of nature's there. And memory leads us true, From withered loaf to budding flower. From moldering dust to freshening shower. From musty page to odorous air. From words to thoughts anew. —F. S. Fclsura in Boston Transcript. i TRICKING THE j EGYPTIANS. BY M. atJAD. •♦♦• [Copyright, 1300, by C. B. Lewis.] When the firm of Haywood, Stone Ac Co. of London established an agency at Cairo, Egypt, I was placed iu charge. My business was the buying of rugs, vases, arms, cloths and whatever else might find sale in England. That was what I may call my general and legit imate business. As a side line I was to pick up bargains in mummies. Up to the founding of that agency in Cairo only a few museums in Europe or America had been ableito secure speci mens. To get hold of a mummy with a history required a couple of years' diplomatic correspondence between governments, and the cost would run up as high as $30,000. Under the laws of Egypt it was death to disturb the dead without official permission, and death to any foreigner discovered try ing to ship a mummy out of the coun try without special license. In justice to the old aud respectable house 1 have named 1 must say that they had no knowledge of my side line. I had a partner in London who advanced the money and shared the profits. When I was ready to begin business, we had orders for 30 mummies. Let me tell you that I had a crafty part to play. In a way the branch was under the supervision of the Egyptian government. At the end of each week I had to submit a list of my purchases. All my shipments bad to pass the customs officials. My ware rooms must always be open to official inspection. I was not told In so many words that all this watchfulness was to prevent me from dealing in mum mies, but of course I knew that it was. My first step was to bribe every official who could obstruct me, and I had to move slowly in the matter and make no mistakes. Then an agent must be found to look up and ship me the specimens from points In the Interior, and he had to be a nervy as well as an honest man. He In turn would have to find faithful men, and taken all In all it was a bit of business to be handled with care. It was six months before I got It under way. and after once fairly in It there was not an hour la which I felt safe from discovery. In most cases the burial places in Egypt are easily to be got at. Most of our orders simply called for a speci men, and tt made no difference about the sex or whether there was a record attached. There were a few museums in want of particular bodies. They wanted kings, queens, generals or poets who had been dead from 3,000 to 5,000 years. It Is perhaps unneces sary to inform the reader that I always tilled these orders. After getting a mummy Into my warehouse 1 bad a way of making It fill the bill and give general satisfaction. My assistant, who was a native antiquary, a native doctor and a villain, was handy at un wrapping and rewrapplng and carving hieroglyphics and manufacturing rel ics. If there was fraud in It, Ido not seek to defend myself. I simply say that if there is a public demand for the mummy of Pharaoh it is the duty of some agent to supply it as near as possible and keep people good natured. In tlie course of two years I shipped DO mummies safely out of Cairo and landed them in London, and I am frank to say that my dividends were considerably larger than those paid last year by the Standard. Oil compa ny or the Carnegie Iron works. The mummy business was booming, and 1 was tilling orders for anything up to 10.000 years old on demand when a government official gave me a bint that uiy business had been tumbled to. He exchanged his information for my 520 goldpiece and went his way, and it was my business to put up a job on the khedive and square myself. I don't know that any one had given me away directly, but suspicion had somehow become aroused, and I was to be put under surveillance and caught red handed. My shipments suddenly ceas ed, and the mummy market became dull. After a couple of weeks my as sistant villain went up the Nile toward the ruins of Memphis to look for a pian. It was a live man and a particu lar sort of man he wanted, aad when he found him the sum of S3O changed hands. Then the man died. At least he was swathed in bandages which had come from the looms 2,000 years before, scented and spiced in A 1 style- and then put in a coffin which gave him away as having been dead al most 20 centuries. The hieroglyphics on that cotlin and on a manuscript in closed revealed the fact that the dead man was the celebrated fakir Sonadi Hassassan and that when he had slept his sleep he would awaken and begin another pilgrimage on earth. The mummy reached my warehouse one afternoon, and within an hour a government official backed by a file of soldiers had arrived to make a Search. There had been no conceal ment. The mummy occupied a con spicuous position. They had caught me red handed In a way, and yet they could not understand why 1 had been so open aliout it. "My dear sir," I ;?aid to the official, "I know the laws of Egypt. I am noi dealing in mummies. The law does not say 1 may not restore a dead man to life. At this present hour that thing there is a mummy. Tonight at t) o'clock it will be a living man." "What nonsense Is this?" exclaimed the man as he struck the coffin with big cane. "Do you tliiuk 1. am a child to believe such tales?" "I think you are a very smart man," I re.plied, "but there is yet something to learn. Read of Sonadi Ilassassan. lie was the greatest magician the world ever knew. He it was who made the .Vile flow backward for a day When, he had lived for 1,000 years, he became weary for the want of sleep. He fell into a trancfe which was not to be broken for 2.000 years. The time is up at 1) o'clock tonight." "Ami he will come back to life?" queried the tusin, with an Incredulous smile. "lie will. You and your friends will be here to see. I had read of him, and I was anxious to get Ills body. 1 paid a large price for it that I may see it re stored to life with my own eyes." The Egyptian's natural superstition and my earnestness staggered the man, and when I saw it I clinched the mat ter by eaylug: "It is only a few hours to wait. You shall dine with me at S o'clock. At 9 my assistant shall unwrap Hassassan and bring him to life. Let two of yout soldiers watch the cotfin meanwhile. If things don't turn ;as 1 say, you shall carry me off pr a net and have §IOO in gold as a present." "So be it," he said after a long look at me. "but do not attempt to trick me. I am no fool." Two soldiers were left to watch the coffin, and in my hearing he warned them that any remissness on their part would be followed by swift punish ment. My living rooms were ovaf thfl warerooms. When the dinner I crar ar rived. I had the official and two of his friends to sit down with me. All three of tbe men had made up their uiin.ls that I was playing a game of bluff, and they had a curiosity to know how I was going to carry It through. Fifty dollars would have bribed any of them to shut his eyes for a year, but in this case they had received their orders di rect from the minister and dared not trifle with him. They drank sparingly of the wine that they might keep their heads el>*ar. but grew sufficiently good natured to hope that I might get out of the trouble without serious loss. "There will be no trouble." I replied, with cnlni assurance "Sonadi Hassas san has had his sleep and will return to life and the government will prob ably reward me for restoring such a celebrated n:a:i to earth Come, gen tlemen. it is time." The •<li':;rrs had been sitting before the co 1 ' f r nuiirs My assistant was oti hand ii"i! "»ady and we lost iu> tinii in an- to '-.iirk Th eortin was I. .ted r.p •■ml the body dfted forward so thar it I '"■ siot at. and tbe wiaps w. re soon ..<v. d 1 knew that the niumun was a live man. but never had ! looked upi.n the face of a subject showi:".' death and the passage of time more plainly Tbe face would have deceived the wisest professor in Eun.pe There were the sunken eyes and cheeks, the loss of teeth and the seal brown color and 1 /found myself wondering if some mistake hadn't been made The official and his friend quiet ly chuckled as the business proceeded, and my assistant villain was the only one who was perfectly placid lie did not hurry his work. He was a full half hour getting down to the last wrapping, which was a sort of union garment made for the occasion Then he stepped back with a nourish, picked up a stick and. striking three blows on the cotfin. he called out: "It is time, Souadi Hassassan; it is time!" The chest of the mummy began to heave and its eyes to flutter. Then came a long breath and its eyes unclos ed. Tbe soldiers bolted from the ware bouse in affright, and tbe three men re treated several paces iu consternation. Very slowly aud without a false mo tion the mummy gasped and stretched and looked about. A hand went up to rub sleep from its eyes. Then it moved uneasily and presently stepped from the coflin. straightened up anil passed out of the door into the night with slow and dignified steps. "Well?" I queried as I turned to tbe dumfounded trio. They stood staring with open mouths, and 1 had to put hands on them before they came back to earth. "Did I not tell you so? Did I not say that after a sleep of 2,000 years the great magician would return to life?" They did not answer, hut with pale faces and chattering teeth they totter ed out into the darkness with a mighty fear upon them. I had the agency for two years longer, and there was a con tinuous boom in the mummy market, but after that incident there was never an official inspection of my stock. The officials could not have been hired for money to poke about in the dark cor ners. Pooling In Wedding Present*. "What shall we give her?" That is a question which desolates Innumera ble breakfast tables when the morning post brings the announcement of an approaching marriage. A most valua ble precedent has been set by a batch of Lady Itandolpb Churchill's friends, who clubbed together and presented her with a beautiful gewgaw In the shape of a pearl and diamond tiara. The example should be followed wide ly. Individual effort is apt to fritter Itself away in superfluous salt spoons and unnecessary photograph frames. Given a bride, it is pretty certain that many of her friends will be friends of one another. And how much more pleasant for the bride and how much simpler for her friends Is the pooling of affection in a really valuable gift! The perennial difficulty of the wedding present is in a fair way toward solu tion.—London Chronicle. They Swapped. A little boy In Bangor, Me., was suf fering from a severe cold, and his mother gave him a bottle of cough mixture to take while at school. On his return she asked If he had taken his medicine. "No." he candidly re plied, "but Bobby Jones did. lie liked It, so I swapped It with him for a hand ful of peanuts." It is Imprudent to keep an oil or gas stove burning in a sleeping room. They consume the oxygen and thus vitiate the air. VEGETABLES. Why Are Some Vulgar and Other* Ariitocratict Why do we respect some vegetables anil despise others? The bean Is a graceful, confiding, engaging vine, but you never can put beans iuto poetry or Into the highest kind of prose. There Is no dignity in the bean. Corn—which in my garden grows alongside the bean, and, so far as I can see, with no affectation of superiority— Is, however, the child of song. It waves in all literature, ftut it with beans, and its high tone is gone. Suc cotash is vulgar; it is the bean In It. The bean Is a vulgar vegetable, with out culture or any flavor of high socie ty among vegetables. Then there Is the cucumber, like so many people, good for nothing when It Is ripe, and the wildness has gone out of it. llow inferior to the melon, which grows upon a similar vine! The cu cumber is a sort of low comedian In a company where the melon is a minor gentlemen. The lettuce Is to me a most Interest ing study. Lettuce Is like conversation; It must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling tliat you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Lettuce, like most talkers, though, Is apt to run rapidly to seed. Blessed !s that sort which comes to a head, and so remains—like a few pee ls*- 1 krtow growing more solid and satisfactory and tender and whiter at tin: center. Lettuce, like conversation, requires a good tleal of oil, to avoid friction and keep tlie company smooth; a pinch of Attic salt, u dash of pepper, mustard and vinegar, but so mixed that you will notice no sharp contrasts, and a trifle of sugar. I feel that I am in the best society when I am with lettuce. It Is in the most select vegetable circle.—Charles Dudley Warner in "My Summer In a Garden." DOES HONESTY PAY'? A SUBJECT OISCUSSED BY THE JER ICHO DEBATING SOCIETY. Pap Perklna. the Postmaster. Tell* How the Orxnnliatlon Was Sturtid and Hov. It (nine to an Untimely and Initlorluoa End. (Copyright, 1300, by C. B. Lcwis.l The Jericho Debatin society was Squar Joslyn's idea. It dawned on him one afternoon as he was hoein in | his garden, and that eveuin he come : over to the postoffice and made a . speech and started the ball roilin. A week later the society had its first ' nieetin. There was a hot time fur about an hour. Of the 40 men present I 3o wanted to be president, but after , awhile, and by puttin in two votes fur j himself, the squar was duly elected. 1 Deacon Spooner was made referee, and i the other offices w ; asn't struggled after to any extent. There wasn't any de batin at the first meetin, but Squar Joslyn made a speech of acceptance which raised the price of butter in Jericho 10 cents a pound. After sayin that he wouldn't exchange places with the president of the United States he began with the year 750 B. C.. and the way he come whirlin along down to the year 1900 made the glass in the windows rattle. He excited the crowd as be hit Nero, brought applause as he touched on t'olumbus. and when he got through with Washington there wasn't no holdin Knos Williams, and Jonas Bebee and Aaron Bradshaw was in tears. After the speech was over Elder Spooner figgered it up and de clared that the squar had made 27 dif ferent p'iuts in his oration, which was four p'ints more than Demosthenes or Cicero had ever made. The subject fur debate at the next meetin was "Does Honesty I'ay?" The "POI.LKB MR HACK TO THE LAYS OF JULIUS C.ESAB." number on the affirmative and negative side was about even, and Ebenezer White was appointed to lead off and tell how honesty paid him. Each speaker was to be Limited to ten min its. Ebenezer had been thinkiu it over fur three or four days, and when he got up he began with: "Foller me back to the days of Julius Caesar. When Ca.-sar v&s a young man of 22, he hadn't a dollar to his name and no show to strike a job. He had about made up his mind to commit suicide when he found a five dollar goldpiece in the road. Ills first thought was to use the money to start in busi ness, but it was only a temptation. His honesty wouldn't permit such a thing. He went around Inijuirin who had lost $5. and at length found the owner, and the owner took a likin to him aud pushed bim along until he was finally made a king." "That's one tally mark fur the affirm ative side," said tbe deacon as the speaker sat down, "aud I decide that Ebenezer has made five p'ints. We will now hear from Jonas Bebee on the negative side." "Foller me back to the days of Julius Cn;sar," began Jonas as he rose up. "I object!" protested Ebenezer. "Hav in follered me back, the meetin can't foller Jonas. I appeal to the referee." "I shall have to overrule the objec tion," said the deacon. "We follered Ebenezer back, and we must give Jo nas jest as good a show. If he's got anything new about Julius Caesar, we'd like to hear it." "When Caesar was a young man of 22, he hadn't a dollar to bis name," continued Jonas, "and, though he of fered to dig out stumps fur 15 cents a day, he couldn't hit a Job. He had made up his mind to hang himself when he found a stray mewl In the woods. He knew he ought to advertise the mewl and restore him to bis owner, but dishonesty carried the day. ne sold the critter to the first man who would buy, and with the sl2 he re ceived he went into polities aud pushed along until he finally became one of the greatest men of his time. He lived fur 30 years after stealin that mewl, and he was honored and respected and had a good time aud died lamented by all." "That's a tally mark on the negative side," said the deacon, "and tbe p'ints eeem to be about even." "But whar did Jonas git his facts?" asks Ebenezer. "Whar did you git yours?" asked Jo nas In reply. The deacon said the spealcin had best continue, and he called upon Aaron Bradshaw, who was on the affirmative side, fur his argyment. "Foller me back to the days of Julius Caesar," began Aaron, with a wave of his hand, but when lie bad got that fur both Ebenezer and Jonas tried to yell him down and appeal to the referee. "I've got to give Aaron a fair show," replied the deacon. "If he wants to be follered back to the days of Julius Caesar, this society has got to tag along behind him. It's rather a cur'us coin cidence that the three of you want to be follered back to tbe same man, but that's none of my business. Go on, Aaron." AarJß went on. lie had It that Ca>- ear was poor and out of a Job and dis couraged when ho happened to find a diamond ring in a mud hole. lie could have got an advance of SSO on It at a pawnbroker's, but he actually went hungry fur three days while liuntiu up the loser. Struck by such a display of unselfish honesty, the owner presented him with $75, took him under his wing and in time made him king." "That's another tally fur the affirma tive," said the deacon, "and I guess I'll give Aaron the same number of p'luts as the rest. Alvln Bidwell, of the negatives. Is hltchln around in an anxious way, and we'll hear what he's got to say in favor of dishonesty." "Foller me back to the days of Julius Cx-sar," began Alvln In his ramblin voice, but thar was yells and whoops and protests from Ebenezer, Jonas aud Aaron. "It's a cur'us coincidence, I'll admit," said the deacon when he could he hford, "but I don't see how we kin help but fuller Alvin back if In l Insists upon it. Kverviiody must haw n fair show. Alvin. hadn't you as lief he ful lered back to the garden of liden or Dan'l lu the lions' den?" Ah in stuck fur Julius Caesar atul j went ahead. He found Julius poor and j discouraged and llvin on turnips, and lie related how the youns: man sat town and thought it all over and then lecldeil to steal a hog. lie stole one. -iil.l him for $3. doubled his money on a hi ss race and thially made a place aud name for himself. Had be con tinued to be honest he would have starved to death and been buried at the expense of the towu. His dishonesty enabled him to become king and to do good to millions. "The tallies are even so fur," said the deacon as Alvin sat down, "and we'll in w hear from Philetus Johnson on the affirmative side." Foller me back to the days of Julius Caesar." began Philetus as he rose up, and then thar was a row. It was a full teu minits before order was re stored. and durin that time most ev erybody got his head punched at least once aud his coat torn up the back. I'.y aud by Deacon Spooner said: ' It's a shauie and a disgrace to the town of Jericho to carry on in this way. 1 notice that Lish Billings, who don't beloug on either side, has Jest come in. I.ish. do you want to say anything'.-" "Not very much," replied Lish as he looked around. "I'd simply like to ask if anybody here has lost this half dol lar." lie held up the coin in his fingers. There was 47 men in the room, and every single one of 'em, includin the deacon and the squar, replied that It was his. "As to the Debatin society, it may be a good thing." said Lish as a grin spread over his face; "but, as to the subject of discussion tonight, I guess you'd better drop it and let It stqy dropped. This half dollar has bin in my pocket fur two weeks, and every one of you was willin to lie to git hold of it." * Then Lish moved softly down stairs and went home, and after the rest of the crowd had sat and looked at each other fur two or three minits in an uncomfortable way the president put on his hat and said: "Instead of follerin anybody else back to the days of Julius Ca;snr, I guess we'd better foller Lish Billings down stairs and call the thing bust " M. QUAD. FOLDED TRANSFERS. They Increase a Conductor's Work nnd Are Trying to Hl» Temper. "Some people have no sympathy for street car conductors," said one of their number after he had had a peculiarly lively time in making change and giv ing and collecting transfers, says the New York Times. "Now." continued the conductor, "there Is one little matter that would save us lots of trouble If the people would onlv bear It in mind, and that is the way they hand in their transfers. "Some men aud a few women know enough to hand us the little strips of paper just as they receive them—that is, spread out In such a way that we can glance at them, see that they are all right and then place them with the package already collected. The ma jority of people don't do this, and as a rule the women are the worst of the lot. "When a woman gets a transfer, she folds It up into as small a space as possible and then stows It away in her purse. When the time comes to collect this from her, she fishes the wad of pa per out of the purse, hands it to the conductor and sits back in her seat content with what she has done. "The conductor has to unfold this piece of paper to see if it is really the proper transfer. This takes time, and when there are a dozen women on the car all doing the same thing the poor conductor has more than he can do to keep his temper. Men as a rule don't fold their transfers, but content them selves with shoving the slips Into their pockets and then producing a cmmpled piece of paper when it Is called for, tossing it to the conductor, who has to smooth it into shape. "The same people would never think of handing in a railroad or theater tick et In the same way." Stowaway Bride*. Stowaway brides are not as rnre at the barge office as one would believe. It Is quite easy for a girl to slip aboard an outgoing steamer and stow herself In one of the bunks below decks, lying quietly there until well at sea. A case happened a little while ago, the girl coming to meet her fiance here. As both were poor, the former resorted to this perilous expedient to accomplish the desired end. One would think that such a heroic endeavor would de serve a better reception. But on arriv ing, having been worked very hard on shipboard for passage, worn and wor ried almost to distraction, the maiden was so changed by her ordeal of love that when her betrothed met her he refused to marry her. A few days later, while being taken back to the ship for deportation, she leaped into the bay. Rescued gallautly, she linger ed a prisoner In the charity hospital, but died some weeks later, literally of a broken heart.—Ainslee's Magazine. Strength In Aluminium. In reply to the question which, it Is said, metal workers frequently ask, "What Is the strength of aluminium?" The Aluminium World says that cast aluminium is about equal In strength to cast Iron in tension, while In resist ing compression it Is comparatively weak. Under transverse strain alu minium is not very rigid, but it will bend nearly double before breaking. The tensile strength of aluminium is greatly improved by forging and press ing at a temperature of GOO degrees P., and aluminium alloyed with nickel is much stronger tfcan the pure metal. Two True Stories. The Piscatorial asso ciation was In session. "I was fishing for cod off the Banks one day some years ago," said one, "when I dropped my watch overboard, l'he next year 1 went fishing at the same place. I caught a whopping big fellow and found my watch inside of blui. It was running steadily, the ac tion of the fish's liver having kept it wound up. But It was five hours fast. The only way that I can account for It Is that the lish crossed the Atlantic, Itaid on the other side long enough to get the time over there, aud that I caught him too soon after lie got back to allow the watch to regulate itself." "I was fishing for trout In Pennsyl vania last fall," said another member, "in company with my nephew, who la RII Inveterate cigarette smoker. We lauded a ten pounder and allowed hiiu to flounder around In the bottom of the boat while we cast again, because they were biting freely. My nephew had Just thrown a lighted cigarette in the boat, and In some way this trout got it, put It lu ids gills and smoked it. The cigarette seemed to have & sooth ing effect on him. I brought ft* trout home, taught him to smoke a pipe, and when we killed him Christmas 1 served up to my guests something that I be lieve has never been served tip before —self smoked trout. It was great too." >-New York Journal. FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER. Marhlne For Sfaltrrln* Fertiliser Hapitlly anil With lunilufl. Having experienced the trials of sow ing fertilizers, a Rural New Yorker correspondent lias devised a machine for facilitating the business both as to time and personal comfort He tells how It is used either in drills or broad casting: It is a machine 1 got up myself. I now have a good machine to let to my neighbors and also the satisfaction of feeling that I have overcome a difficul ty and am now able to do rapidly and with comfort a Job which formerly was very difficult, slow and extremely unpleasant. The fertilizer is put into the hopper, from the bottom of which it drops into a central opening in the spreading disk. This disk is very ob tusely conical and has chambers run ning from the central opening ti> outer edge. It Is given a rapid, rotary mo- A FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER. tlon. which makes it in effect a blower, a strong current of air passing in at the central opening and l>eing discharg ed at edge. This current of air blows the fertilizer with considerable force in all directions, scattering it with the greatest evenness over the surface of the ground, sowing a strip about CVi feet wide. Over the bottom of the hopper an agitating arm rotates slowly, keeping the material In the hopper thoroughly stirred, and as the bottom of the hop per is conical the material always moves toward the central opening in bottom. To regulate the flow, or feed, thirf opening Is controlled by a conical shaped valve, or stopper, having a vertical motion. The conical valve lias a base Just large euough to fill the opening in bottom of hopper when it is raised so Its base Is in the opening. When it is lowered, an annular opening Is left for the fertilizer to pass through, and this annular opening is greater or less according as the valve Is lowered much or little. This valve has also a rapid rotary motion and two pins projecting up through the outlet of hopper. The rapid rotary motion of the valve, with pins attached, makes it impossible for the outlet of hopper to get choked, and the feed is very uni form. Corn Haaklng Horse. The husking horse shown in the cut from Ohio Farmer Is made of liglit ma terial. The rung should be I*4 inch stuff, pu£ in with shoulders out down to one inch where it goes through the legs. The rung is put down so the IIUSKIXQ HOUSE. ears of corn will not catch when pulled forward. Corn husking makes lame hacks and sore hands. The horse will help the back, and the following recipe will help the hands: Take white wax, one-fourth ounce; spermaceti, one fourth ounce; almond oil, one ounce; glycerin, two ounces. Melt the wax and stir in the oil and glycerin. The Honey Se««on For I<>oo. Commenting upon tfce not very flat tering prospect for the honey crop this season. Cleanings in Bee Culture say a among other things: "The season in California will he bet ter than was at first expected, and es pecially is this true for the northern and central portions of the state. "Black brood has got such a start in certain portions of New York that many of the beekeepers ara dlscour* aged. "It would seem that Indications for that state (Colorado) are exceptionally good. As the beekeepers there do not have to depend upon rains, but on ir rigation, in all probability they will have another heavy houoy flow, and I would say to the beekeepers of that state do not be In a hurry to sell your honey, for if there should be little or 110 honey in the east you of Colorado will have things largely your own way." Think* a Halter Needed. "We don't wish to interfere with any honest fad or any legitimate fun," remarks Itural New Yorker, "but we must say that the Angora goat craze now sweeping over the country needs a halter. Hundreds, yes, thousands, of people seem to believe that the Angora goat will turn some brush ridden old pasture into gold. The Angora does well on the western slopes of the Ilock ics and in the great southwest. Deal ers tell us that the trade in mohair la limited and will not stand any great increase. The price of good Angoras has been boomed far out of proportion to their practical value. On most east ern farms well bred sheep will prove Just as profitable as these goats." GRASS CULTURE. Point* In the Clark Method of Mftk lUK Five Ton* Per Aere. Ueorge M. Clark's notable plan for growing grass is again reviewed In Itural New Yorkei, such great interest has it excited. It is summed up as "perfect preparation, heavy seeding and full feeding." The object of the preparation is by repeated workings to make the soil so, loose und mellow that the ling seeds will surely sprout and grow. As to seeding. The Rural says: Having given this perfect fitting of the ground, the next point of Mr. Clark's system Is to seed heavily to grass alone. The old Idea was that grass re quired a nurse crop, such as rye or wheat. When grain and grass are eown together, a year is lost In getting a crop of hay, while the yield is cut flown ut least one-half of what It might have been if the grass had been seeded alone. Mr. Clark sent us the grass cut from one square foot of ground. There were 1141 separate plants. This means 14,853,900 plants on an acre. Take a field seeded with grain, and after the grain has been cut you will find where every grain plant stood u bare upot as J largo as your hand or_ lurgWP. Every No. one of tin'*-' spots ought to contain 23 or run Ft- grass plants if you are to have tb« a verao found 1n Mr. Clark's field. Such a yield Is only possible when ev ery square inch of the surface of the n.t adow has its stand of grass. In wr iter to obtain this thick seeding Mr. Clark i!»es 1-1 quarts each of redtap ami timothy aiul four quarts of led clover per Here. This seeding is done in what many farmers wouM call a slow and tedious way. Only one kind of .seed Is sown at a time, ami in order to obtain a greater accuracy Mr. Clark sows the field twice over to each kind of seed. He uses two lines, which are pulled across the field, so that narrow strips of accurate site are seeded one at a time. For ex ample. seven quarts of timothy seed are divided accurately into (50 parts. The lines are drawn across the field di vided Into spaces of two square rods. One part of the timothy seed will be scattered evenly over each space, the fertilizer being applied in the same way, and also the redtop seed. When the field has been once gone over in this way. the lines are changed so as to run the op|H>site way of the field, and the same process is carried out with the remainder of the seed. The field Is then worked over eight times with a specially designed tine tooth harrow. This Is worked right and left diagonal ly across the field until the seed Is all perfectly harrowed in, and then a roll er follows to complete the job. If pos sible. this s<.i>ding is dune on a damp, still day or before a shower. Mr. Clark wants to sow the seed close to Sept 1 if possible. He says that grass seed in his latitude matures in August and would l>e sown by nature at or near the time it is perfectly mature. When land is se»-ded iu this way. It may run for years without resecding provided It is well fed and Cared for. The redtop seed adds over a ton of hay per acre above what any seeding to timothy alone could produce. Mr. Clark does not consider that sta ble manure Is suited to the grass crop. He thinks that the clumps of manure are sure to kill out more or less of the grass. Every fall the field Is clipped and the waste grass raked off so as to leave no harbor for mice. Fine and soluble fertilizers are used. The fol lowing mixture will about duplicate the special brand used by Mr. Clark: Four hundred pounds of nitrate of so da, 400 pounds of muriate of potash and 1,200 pounds of fine ground bone. Mr. Clark uses about SOO of this mixture per acre. It is applied at seeding time, being spread with the seed and harrowed thoroughly In. About the same quantity Is used each following year—spread on the sod part after cutting and part the follow ing spring. Circumventing the Hessian Fly. J. Troop of the Indiana station gives advice for circumventing the Hessian fly in that state which is suggestive also for other sections: The active pe riod of the fall brood in the northern counties extends approximately from the last of August to about the last of September, gradually getting later as they go south, so that in the southern jwrtion they will be found at work jW)bably as late as the middle of Octo ber. It is evident, then, that in order to avoid the fall brood of the fly the proper time to sow wheat In the north ern counties is between Sept. 20 and 30 and in the southern counties from the first to the middle of October. The sta- v tion will not sow earlier than the first week in October this year, as the flies were active throughout September In 18!>t>. Decoy strips should be sown In the north the last week In August and iu the south the first ten days of Sep tember. plowing these under deeply be fore sowing the main crop. A New Early Potato. Despite the fact that some growers do not favor early Ohio potato the va riety is regarded by many as the best of the early varieties, according to American Gardening, which adds that WHITE EARLY OHIO POTATO. » white form of the variety Is being Introduced. It originated with a west ern grower, who, having used northern seed, found three years ago a plant producing pure white potatoes, Identi cal in every way with the best of tho old Ohio except in color, whlah Is a fine white. An (Incoßielou Dlaolple. Trotter—lt's a favorite amusement among the eastern fakirs to twist them selves into some muscle straining, uerve racking, bone cracking posture, #nd— Miss Rivalton—lsn't It funny how those odd oriental Ideas find disciples here? Trotter—What do you mean? Miss Rivalton—Really, haven't yoo ever seen Maud Wayuppe play golf*— Harper's Bazar. Thinking of Her. In the "Recollections of a New Eng land Town" is tile story of Mr. Bush, an inventor and a very 6tudlous man, who sometimes became so absorbed In thought as to forget both place and people. His wife was a notable housekeeper, but she did not always go to church. One Sunday she accompanied her hus band thither, and glad and proud was he. But when the service was over he walked away home, leaving her be hind. Mrs. Bush was grieved. "My dear," she said when she reach ed the house, "I don't know what peo ple will think. You came away with out me. It was plain to be seen that I was entirely forgotten." Mr. Bush looked at her In comical dismay. "Forgotten, my dear?" said he. "Oh, no; 1 don't think that's possi ble. Why," a brilliant idea striking him, "now I remember. 1 was think ing of you all the way home. I was thinking what a good dinner you'd give me!" Dangers of Boating. Clara—When George and I are mar ried, I am to have my own way in ev erything. Dora—Guess you won't Clara— lndeed I will. That'B the bar gain. Don't you remember I told you he proposed to me In a rowboat and asked If I'd float through life with him Just that way? "Yes." "Well, he was rowing, but I was steering."—New York Weekly. A Misleading Analogy. "When you eat. be careful to leave off hungry," is advice often given at the dinner table, but seldom received in an obedient spirit The caution was repeated not long since to a young man of vigorous ap petite. "Pshaw," said he, "you might as well fell me to wash my face and be careful to leave off dirty."
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