VOL xxxviii I Half Price Sale| * Jackets tCapes # We now offer our entire stock of stylish Jackets and Capes at just lone-haif the former low prices. This is a great opportunity to save. Uk The assortment is still good. ALL GARMENTS NOW HALF PRICE. jK FIRST COME, FIRST Served. £ A GENUINE CLEARANCE SALE is beini: yl carried on with vigor and will b; continued unt-1 stocks are properly reduced ■ and all odd lots and broken assortments are closed out. JR We quote a few cleerance s*le prices: V 1b) Jli.?s and SI.OO Fancy Silks reduced to 68c t 85c ai:d 75c Fancy Silks reduced to 50c C Jfc 1 Vv Lot 50c Dress Goods reduced to 25c JjA / I V O 0 " lot $3 5° al I Wool Blankest reduced to #2.50 '%] 111 It One lot $4.50 all Wool Blankets reduced to #3 25 wit I 1 \ $l5O and $1.25 Wrappers reduced to SI.OO tIJ J I \ Reduced prices on Table Lines, ..rashes, { / J \ \ Flannelettes, Underwear, etc xk All gexxts are rot reduced in the same proportion """" " *— as those quoted. Some goods are not rctuced at all Uk but we give you enough bargains all through the stock to make it worth your while to come 4R L. Stein & Son, | 108 N. MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA £ Bickel's January Prices. One lot Ladies' Fine Dongola Shoes $J One lot Ladies' Kangaroo-Calf Shoes 1 One lot Ladies' Best Oil Grain Shoes One lot Ladies' Warm-Lined Shoes ''J One lot Ladies' Leather-Sole Felt Slippers ~2 One lot Misses' Kangaroo-Calf Shoes. ij? One lot Children's Kaugaroo-Calf Shoes One lot Men's Holiday Slippers > { } One lot Men's Fine Satin C'alf Shoes } 'Jv Gokey's Hand-Made Kip Box-Toe Boots, long leg, 4 soles ■'< 'J'' Gokey's Copper-Toe Shoes for Boys, sizes 10 to 2 1 'J- Gokey's Copper-Toe Shoes for Boys, sizes 3to 6 1 'jj Men's Donble-Sole and Top Lace Working Shoes.. 1 Boys' Double Sole and Top Lace Working Shoes Our Stock of Felt Boots and Rubber Goods to be Closed Out Cheap Men's Best Felt Boots and Duck Overs 22 Men's Best Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 ?•> Boys' Best Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 50 Youths' Beet Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 !•» Men's Storm King Rubber Boots Men's Short Rubber Boots - Boys' Rubber Boots J f * Youth's Rubber Boots 1 Child's Rubber Boots Men's Buckle Arctic* 1 } ' Men's Fine Self-Acting Rubbers High Iron Stands with Four Lasts Sole leather cut to any amount you wish to purchase. Cut half-soles and shoemakers' supplies of all kinds. Complete stock of Ladies' and Gents', Misses' and Children's Leggings and Over-Gaiters. It will pay yon to visit this great sale and secure some of the bargains being fifered. JOHN BICKEL, 128 SOUTH MAIN STREET. - - BUTLER, I'A 57 E. MILLER,SHAMAN To Make Things Lively For Thirty Days. GREATEST SALE EVER HELD IN BUTLER. «>ur holiday trade was large—unusually large—but we find we have too many Shoes and Rubbers. In order to reduce our stock we are going to cut the prices on all winter goods, such as Shoes, Slippers and Rubbers. If you've not bought your winter shoes or rubbers yet, come to us—we are in better shape to serve you than ever before. We mean just what we say. Butler's Progressive shoe House 19 Will sell shoes cheaper during the month of January than ever before. We haven't space nor time to quote prices, but come in and see us— see how wc have grown in seven years- and get a share of the bargains we are ofiering this month. We hope to make many new friends this year. TRY AN UP-TO-DATE SHOE HOUSE. C. E. MILLER. 1 11 l Men don't buy clothing for the 11 TT 1 wJmW)sl* T> purpose of spending money. They /[.[ UJy £1 desire to get the best possible re- Pj yyj'l suits for the money expended. Not /j\ [ MM cbeap goods but goods as cheap as they can be sold for rnd made up properly. If you want the correct — 1 . f~l thing at the correct price, call and / 1 \ MHBP mil I Vy examine our large stock of PALI. \ 111 . # AND WINTER WEIGHTS— ■ LATEST STYLES, SHADES WirHt II 1 AND COLORS. Fit and Workmanshio Guaranteed. G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 142 North Main Street, >: Butler, Pa J Panoc ? We want your W j'O-pCOjj Watch and Jewelers j Repairing. J Watchmake.-sLt^^^h We are headquarters for Diamond*, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Silver Novelties, Black Ebony Goods, etc. We have presents suitable for old and young, large and small, and at prices that will make you glad that you called at Pape's to buy, Everything as reppresented or money refunded. PAPE'S, wuth Main Street Butler, P Subscribe for the CITIZEN. TIIK BUTLER CITIZEN. /JOOD^, i W pILLSi Rouse r the tor liver, a. 1 < * r6 biliousness, sick 1 headache, 1 .uada-e, nausea, indices' ticn, etc. They '■ i ll * valuable to prevent a cold or bri-;>V: "p a fever. Mild, gentle, certain, they are :l>7 your confidence. Purely vegetnb! :>y can be taken by « hildren or .li li'-ai* y •: « Price. We. at oil MficbK dealers or by mail of C. I. HOOD A Co., Lowell. Mass. CATARRH LOCAL*'DISEASE and is ths result cl cc!-- ;"d J/ifs- 3 sudden climatic changes. Jkij'-,,j For your Protection FHAWrVEftffls we positively state that t ■■■■■> C/St-*A-H remedy does r. 't conta.n SB . mercury or any other iuj-r --ioas drug. p-~ v Ely's Cream oa!;iibbSS-2i is acknowledged to be the roost C.oronph cure for Nasal Catarrh, Co d in liesd and Hay levtr oi b:1 remedies. It opens and cleanses the na?al allays pain ana inflaxninHlio:!, he: ■* the s< ro-. |.ro tects the metnhrai •• from co ls, restores the set .- s of taste and smell. I*rire r.-V. at M-m:t!. ELY BBO'lilKliS, 66 Warren street, New York. VThe Cure thai Bares J p Coughs? '(•) \ Golds, I I) Grippe, fe V Whooping Coußh, Asthma, / Bronchitis and Incipient / Consumotlon, Is £T {j* & i 7 h The CrER/.'iAN RE/ViEuV |' P C\iv« -aYvi ivSTiSfc''-.. Butler Savings Baal L-iuttlei-, Capital - |60,000.00 Surplus and Profits - - 1215,000 co JOS. I, PURVIS Preside: J. HENRY TROUTMAN Vice-Pre»iIKECT3BB—Hon. Joseph Hart man. llni>. W. 8. Waldron, Hr. iS. M. Hoover. 11. M. - Sweeney, 0. I'. Collins I. G. Smith, Leslie P. Hazlett, M. l-'lneKin, 'V. H. Lark in. T. I'. >lllll ill. 1 >r. W. <•. Mi-Candles*. Iter s.-th. W.J. Marks. J. V. Ritts. A. 1.. Keibir THE Farmers' National Bank, BUTLER, PENN'A. CAPITAL PAID IN, $100,000.00. Foreign exchange lf oars' length from the shore. Ar fnorer. spike ail those culverins but one. break the pans and stocks from the arquebuses and cut the crossbow strings. Willie Trehalion. I leave yon here with four men to guard the bar rack door. Slew that culverin round pnd lire mumchance into the crowd of them if they gel restive, and if that does not silence them post your men on either side oi the door and baptize with your axes all those who try to come out. You understand?" "Aye. aye. sir," replied the boatswain grimly. "The rest of vou form fours and follow me as hard as you can run. Senor Commandant, after you! And, senor. no attempts at escape, If you value your life. I'm fleet of foot, and my sword blade will split you in the hack at the least sign of treachery." Out we weni at a good smart trot, the dou. In his shirt, leading, and, speeding along a muddy, well used path, bore toward the town. It was not a very large place, so far as we could see, and there \*ere no defenses, as the fort above could, from Its posi tion. have sunk any vessel that at tempted to enter the upper harbor. But the inhabitants had been thoroughly aroused by the firing and now flocked out of every alley, tinned anil resolute to defend their homes. A spattering fire greeted our approach, but it touch ed no one and only changed the more orderly advance into a mere race for precedence. Alee was among the first knot, while I was puffing and blowing full 2<> fath oms astern, and his rashness very near ly led blui into trouble, for one big fel low leaped 011 him from behind and bad him 011 the ground before he could shake off the embrace. However, Job Treliallon's lean, long legs brought him on to the scene In time, and Alec's cap tor rolled over with a head split to the chin. By the time our captain had got on his legs again the rest of us had come up. and together we drove the towns folk down their street in a body, shout ing that we'd fire the houses if they made us halt. The Spanish comman dant had contrived to bolt when Alec's hands were full during the first melee, and so we pushed on without a guide, trusting that instinct would lead us to where the jewels were stored, for in truth some of us had keen noses for plunder. As it turned out we made two false searches, taking the trouble to overhaul a couple of stone buildings which were only food stores aud dwelling places. Indeed, wo were very nearly done out of the booty altogether, for the Span iards made a clever and desperate at tempt to carry off the pearls to a safer spot. In the event, however, this effort of theirs gave us the very information we needed. We spied n knot of fellows laden with leather pouches trying to slink away in the confusion, and, knowing that at a critical moment no man troubles himself with burdens un less they are of unusual value, we made after them. On being pursued they dropped their loads, which we promptly gathered up, every man slinging two of the pouches to his belt, aud then going to the build lug from which we had seen the fel lows come, we broke down the door and fought our way In. There was a strong defense, but It was carried at some cost—to the de fenders—and we helped ourselves to another score of the leather bags and came out agaiu. The fight was waxing furious outside, and re-enforcements wore coming up every minute. "We must get out of this," cried Alec, ns 11 furious rush drove us back against the wall of the treasure houses. "Hack and thrust, lads; clear a space and form fours again. Drop the pearls if they're too heavy to hold. We must reach the fort and relieve the boat swain." "The soldiers Is got out.'" bawled a voice. "It's them that's at us now!" "There's the commandant! 'Ware sword behind. Master Topp!" "Down the street to the right, lads," sung out Alec, "and make for the shore. The boats are coining to meet us." "Aye, an uncle's in 'em," added Job Trehnllon with a chuckle. "They Span lards in the barrack's b-jen too many for him." When they saw our object, the Span iards, led oti by their commandant, pressed us harder and harder, and, in cumbered as most of us were by the leather bags—for the men held grimly on to their precious pearls—we were very nearly overcome. But the narrow ness of the street was In our favor, and with Alec and Jan I'eugony and myself covering the retreat, we got slowly down to the beach. Even then our work was for.-the boats. having bad to make a long circuit to avoid a reef, were still a considerable distance away, and the Spaniards, uo longer fearing to hit friends, opened a gulling arquebus fire. Alec, however, was equal to the oc casion. Calling upon us to drop the pearl bags by the water's edge and follow him, he dashed back against the assailants with the whole crew of us at his heels, and before they quite knew what had happened we had tak en prisoners the commandant and three of the other leaders as well as about n dozen of the rabble. These formed a breastwork which sheltered us completely from their friends' Ore, and so no further attack was made un til the boats came round. There was some symptom of a final rush tft, after heaving the precious stones on to the floor boards, we pre pared to embark ourselves, but at the first forward movement we swore that we would slit the throats of our pris oners if we were molested. The threat was enough. They let us slip off In peace, and as soon as we were out of gun and bow shot range we tipped our hostages into the water nud let them swim back unmolested. Without further incident the boats towed down the harbor and steered up alongside the Scourge, which had drift ed in on the current and was lying scarcely a quarter of a mile off the land. We got under way at once and congratulated ourselves on our good luck. Powder for our cannon and pearls for our purses—it was a good night's work. CHAPTER XXV. "Well, boatswain." said Alec when the forestaysail sheet had been let draw and we were once more com fortably under way. "tell us how it was you let those Spaniards escape from the barrack." "Sneakin hounds!" growled Willie, who was not over well pleased with himself. "They put shame on an hon est seaman. You'd hardly left the building when the scoundrels came bel ter skelter at us. all fully armed, forc ing us to fire the cnlverlu an then to light for dear life. Where they got the aims from the Lord only knows, an I hadn't time to find out. An while one party o' tiie skunks was keeping us go ing In front another was grubbing away at the wall in the rear, so that before we rightly knew what the trou ble was they'd made a hole, an most o' them was through it an after you. An tiitu,captain, when the birds was flown, what could 'a' four like us do? We'd cut down a baker's dozen o' them, but we wasn't able to run after an bring back the rest. So. judging that they'd make for the town, we filled up the touch hole o' that last culverin an then, slipping down to the boats, row ed off to Ihe lower bench to meet you." "And well you did so," replied Alec, "for we have got off with none killed, which at one time I little thought we would do." "None killed," I added, "but several scratched pretty deep and three badly wounded. George lias got a crack on the sconce which I fear will stop his fighting forever. His helmet was slit through as though it had been a paper fool's cap." "Don't you bother about Garge, Mas ter Topp," sang out Jan I'engony from the fore scuttle. "Garge's skull's like a bullock's. Now that the old man's pulled the broken sword blade out on't an sewed up the slit Garge is cursing away as amiable as ever he did." "Is the old man surgeoning, then?" "Aye, au lacking a bettor we might have a worse. He's just chopped off Tinker Tom's leg at the knee joint an sewed up the stump as neat as can be. An Torn, he never uttered a groan nor a grunt the whole time, an there he is now a clamoring to have his leg salted down to take home with him for a keepsake. I'm thinking the old man bain't no bad surgeon." And so it proved, for with the excep tion of the loss of Tinker Tom's leg, every man of the crew was as sound ten days after the fight as he had been when the Scourge's powder room was empty. The taking of this store of powder and pearls at El Pueblo del Norte was In every way a lucky stroke, for, besides giving us the means for fu ture battles, it put all hands in conceit with their captain and their craft. Moreover, It was something prosperous to look back upon during the profitless time that followed. After clearing the reefs of the harbor we ran round to patrol the well used highway at the Ltnck of the Island lying behind the rocky shelter of Coche, which is separated from Marglierlta by a strait two leagues In width and dart ing out when a quarry appeared. Six times in six weeks we were engaged, but the prey was after Alec's heart, not mine. We grievously annoyed the subjects of his majesty of Spain, but all that we rifled from their pockets would not have melted down into a deep sea lead. The explanation is simple. Each craft we brought to and overhauled was westward bound, carrying a packed cargo of lank, lean dons from the old world to fill their pauper pockets from the wealth of the new. Quite one-half of each bark's sallow company was rotting with scurvy, a result of the long passage out; and as sick men who have no wealth but the ragged clothes on their baeks to defend will not fight des perately for the fortunes they have yet to gain, uone of these encounters cost one drop of English blood. Indeed five ships out of the six hove to at the first shot and surrendered without further resistance. Now, though I know that it goes against au English seaman's grain to resort to extreme measures In cold blood, still prudence Is a jade that needs attention as well as the more highly mettled steed chivalry, and so I and almost all the Scourge's crew with me saw fit to expostulate with our captain on his treatment of the prisoners. Their vessels, as he had no use for them, he scuttled, but their bodies he consigned to the boats and allowed them to make for the shore unmolested. Nor would he allow a hair of one of them to be injured. It was In vain that we warned him that some, escaping fevers and hun ger, wild beasts and heathen, must make their way to the Spanish settle ments and, giving news of our cruising ground, either bring the hawks down upon us or, what was just as bad, pre vent the herons from crossing our (light. It was equally In vain that we showed him how every Spaniard allow ed to go free —for that nation knows not gratitude—meant one more pair of bauds against tin or our countrymen at some future day. lie would listen to nothing. Ills duty, he said, was to war against Spain. Ills conscience was satisfied that by destroying her shipping he wounded her mortally, but his conscience would never consent to killing men other than in fair light. On deck I was loyml to rny captain, tis was my duty, but In tlie cabin 1 spoke my thoughts freely, as was a sworn shipmate's privilege. "The crew Is getting surly." I told liim one day. "with this long continued .'II success nr.d it will take little to make their uiullled grumblings break tut into open mutiny." "What will they have?" he answered impatiently. "But sailors are the same oil the world over. I make not the slightest doubt that Shem, llam and Japhetb growled among themselves on deck whenever Captain Noah was in his state cabin. But let our lads say what they want, and I am ready to listen. It is not as if they were hired for a set trading voyage to a certain port and back again, with thumb marks and crosses duly set against an agreement and bounty money pocketed and guzzled before the anchor was tripped. I am their captain only by election and hence to a certain degree their servant." "How if they depose you?" "Then I shall serve uuder the new rapiain. Who is it to be—yourself?" "Y«u know me better than to think that." said I warmly. "Yes. Jack, I do. But who else is there?" "Willie Trehalion." "Willie Trehalion would never take the cross staff from my hands. Be sides. he does not know how to use it. But what about the old man? He has the ear of many of the crew, and from what I hear was a shipmaster before he fell into the hands of the Span iards." "1 can well believe that." said I. "It was only the other day he took the cross staff in those twisted fingers of his, shot the s-tn, ciphered out his reck oning on the slate and, turning round, "Oh, ho, 011. Master Topp!' he chuckled, 'lie's a lubberly navigator who cannot find his position to a matter of three minutes.' And then when I had gone over the work afresh and found that he seemed to be right, 'Ah, ha, lia, Master Topp. you're a better scholar with cudgel than with pencil! More weight in the forearm than in the head, eh? Stick to the sea long enough and you'll blunder a stout ship ashore yet before you're hanged.' And he would have added more in the same strain, but I didn't wait to hear It." "Ah." laughed Alec, "the old man's infirmities protect his skin from the trouncing of John Topp's fist, and the old man's wit is too sharp pointed to take P. trouncing from John Topp's tongue." "Maybe," said I silkily, "but I have no fancy to be taught by a daft man." "Why not, If he knows something which you don't? Put your pride in the powder room. Jack, along with the oth er touchy explosives, and remember that every man on this earth has some thing to teach. At least, so I have found. The mummer chap from Strat ford says that there are sermons In stocks and stones and good In every thing." "Where's the good in a Spaniard?" I asked slyly. "To till land and build towns for her majesty's lieges some time to occupy and for the present to gather gold for you to plunder." "Right!" said L "Then let us bet übout the plundering. I tell you this profitless cruise must cease or there'll be powder burning within the walls of the fortress. The men's sulks will come to a head shortly if you don't give them a sop to their greed." Alexander Ireland got up and paced the cabin, plucking at his short red beard In Irritation. "The devil seize you all for a set of unhung robbers!" he cried passionately. "Not one of you has spark of true pa triotism iu him. From this spot I have destroyed vessel after vessel of the en emy, and without losing a single man. And why? Because their crews have nothing to fight for. But intercept 8 rich plate ship and In one fight we may lose half our ship's company, and then it will be 'ilurrah for England, while yet the Scourge has men enough to sail her there.' Well, so be it As my hounds wili not hunt dry scented any longer 1 must flesh them." "You speak confidently," said I, half scared at his vehemence, "as though you could point out the course of a fat prizo without further search." "And so I can," he answered quietly, and, unrolling a chart of the main, he skewered it on to the table. "See here! The vessels coming empty from the east touch no laud before reaching here and so make for this strait In happy Ignorance of our presence. Not so those that are full of treasure and homeward bound. Every port on the coast has been advertised of the pestilential Eng lishman's whereabouts, so they steer a point or two to the northward of the regular course and pass by the other side of Margherita, near that same El I'ueblo del Norte which we harried three months ago. Now, If we creep round the eastern end of the Island I warrant we'll be within gunshot of some hulking gold wagon before we're u couple of Sundays older." "Then," said I, "In the name of all that's sensible do It!" The captain laughed shortly. "No, I'll leave the matter in your hands, "The crew it yetting surly," I told him one day. Jack. If you and the other rascals are So greedy for. gold, you can put the Scourge about whenever you please. Ami I— IU light her for you down to the last plank when the time comes." Without another word I spi'ang up the ladder. The men were Idling about the hot decks In surly knots of threes and fours, but the news brightened up their sullen faces as rain does n parched prairie. They jumped to their sta tions like a parcel of holiday school boys. Up went the stowed foresail, the headsalls sprang aloft like larks, and driven by eager arms the wind lass heaved us up to the stream anchor at which we were riding. "Flatten In the starboard Jib sheet there and rant her head olT! Hand somely. now! There she comes round, the beauty! Forrard there, let draw and sheet home! Now, helmsman, set her head north northeast and by north and keep her so till we are clear of tho island!" A good whole sail breeze was coming from the east by south, which temper ed the sun's brazen rays to a pleasant warmth and sent us sweeping along through the smooth Caribbean sea on one of our best points of sailing. The hands were in high good humor at the thought of a ftdl fleshed prize. A cask » r rich nllcaute had been brought on deck and broached, and thus with most cheerful augury we began our new quest. Patriotism might wait. It waa plun der's turn now. W [TO HI CONTINUES.] m A RUMMAGE SALE. One Man Who In WPII Aware Wkti He linn I'.noußh. "Thoro," exclaimed the big north side resident as be threw himself Into his favorite clulr, "we're home, and wt-'re groins to stay right here! No more skirmishil g from pillar to post by me or mine. I've had a bountiful sufficiency aud am not a bit like the man who does not kuow wheu he has bail enough. All this traveling for health or pleasure is sentimentality aud doesn't pay 10 eents on the dollar." "Must have reached that conclusion on your Inst trip." volunteered the practical neighbor who had dropped In. "You used to be awful keen for get ting away from the city and enjoying relaxation, as you put it." "Ever attend a rummage sale?" with apparent Irrelevancy. "No? Well, I'll tell you. It's a church institution. They ask everybody to donate things. There's no limit. Anything from lace handkerchiefs to stone crushers. Then they go out and collect these things, lis up a sort of a department store, and a lot of pretty, persuasive women but tonhole the visitors Inveigled in and make them buy. "I've been down to my old home, you know, and they had a rummage sale. It opened the nigbt I was to leave, so I went down with my wife and little daughter, prepared to go from there to the train. There was no checkroom, so we stored our traps and calamities in different booths. I bought liberally, for a fellow likes to make a good showing when among the people with whom he grew up. "When it came time to leave, what do you think? They had sold my over coat and hat, my wife's cloak and fur collar, the little girl's Jacket and all the smaller bundles. I made a gallant attempt to laugh it off, with a hope that they would make good for the loot, but not a cent; not an attempt to recover the plunder. They thought It a good joke. I remained over and stocked up, but from this on I'm stay ing right here at home."—Detroit Fre« Press. >'o Gratitude to Waite, "Take my seat, madam." She took It. About ten minutes later she remark ed: "Thank you, sir. I would have said it sooner, but the last man I thanked for giving me his seat In a crowded car had only got up because he wanted to get off the car, and I felt that he had won my gratitude under false pre tenses. I made up my mind I wasn't going to let It happen again." "Don't mention It, ma'am," respond ed the man clinging to the strap. "I merely got up because I was tired of sitting." And nothing more was said until the conductor hoarsely bawled out: "Division street!"— Chicago Tribune. Grateful. "My dear," said Mr. Sirlus Barker, "that box of cigars you bought me has resulted In great benefit 1 want to thank you for them more earnestly than I did at first." "Did you enjoy them?" "No, but I'm better off. They made me realize what a terrible habit smok ing can become." —Washington Star. The Wrong Sort. Mrs. Subbub—Out of work? Non sense! You could easily get work If you wanted It Hungry Hlggins—Well, ter tell yer the truth, ma'am, what I'm looking fur Is a snap. Mrs. Subbub—A snap, eh? Here, Rover, Rover. Sic Mm.—Philadelphia Press. Glvlns the Tired Do* Hli Dae. "I notice that one of the Boston pa pers laments that 'pants' are still ad vertised In that city." "1 suppose that the old saying holds good that 'pants' are a characteristic of 'gents.' " "Yes, and of tired dogs."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. lu lioston. Minerva —Yes, be and I had a de lightful conversation last night and the theme was love! Diana—lndeed? Minerva—Yes. We were discussing whether love Is subjective or ob jective.—Puck. Either Way. "There Is no doubt" remarked the humorist, "that Washington is a capi tal city to go to." "And equally there Is no doubt," re marked the other man, "that It Is a capital city to leave." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nad Workings of a Good Scheme. "My man, tell mo how you came to be a tramp." "Oh. bless yer, (hey got me t' jlne one o' these don't worry clubs, an I got so I didn't keer when I lost m' Job."— Detroit Free Press. Too Late. A.Q --i iHs^ "Are you willing to share honest poverty with me. darling?" "I'm sorry, Mr. Nocash. but I have already promised to share Mr. Mll yun's wealth and no questions asked." —New York Journal. Kate—l wouldn't marry him If he were the last man on earth. Jane—l would. Kate—What for I'd like to know? Jane—Oh, Just to spite all the other women.—Detroit Free Press. Wild Life In the lloaif. "Have you ever had any trilling ad ventures, Penelope?" "Yes. Once I stood on the arm of a couch to tlx a window curtain, and the couch shot across the room with me."-Chicago Record. A Positive. Funnyblz—Blffer Is a fugitive from justice. Eezyma rk—No! Funnyblz—Yes. The gas collector's been after him for two weeks. —Ohio State Journal. llrllllnot llrnry. Economical Wife-Henry, we must rut down our expenses this month. Can you think of anything we can do without? Henry Well, there's your mother, (or lustauce.— Pittsburg Dlapuwh. No. 3 OR* THE UNDERGROUND WATER. Straight Through to Eartk'l Center It la the Landowner's. Referring to the decision of the court of appeals by which the city of Brook lyn Is restrained from the use of Its driven wells on the ground of their withdrawing water from the surround ing districts operated as market gar dens. a decision that will cause satis faction to many whose interests as cul tivators always have been in danger of being jeopardized by the building up of residential districts, American Gar dening comments as follows: The process referred to has been go ing on for years in the neighborhood of Brooklyn with perhaps greater Intensity than in any other city. The situation of I.ong Island and its formation have rendered It peculiarly susceptible. The proximity to a large city has made It nn area of dense population for peo ple who wish to retire after the day's work Is accomplished, and the fertile character of Its land, together with the level surface, has made it a very con venient spot for the location of vege table .growers and truckers who came to supply the wants of the first named class. The conditions for carse and effect to be quickly operative were ex cellent. A condition that has been known and realized for years, so far as the fanner class is concerned, came to such a pass that action was brought in the courts by Benjamin F. Forbell against the city of New York, and a historic rendering is the result Judge Smith in the original trial took the stand that the act of pumping water from another man's land, and which was the actual foundation of his business and living, was to be regarded as a trespass, and the precedent now established by the upholding of that decision on appeal by Judge Landon strengthens the general position of the agriculturist In a re markable degree. He is no longer to be the easy, Impotent victim of the suc cess of other enterprises. The water which flows under his soil cannot in future be taken from him with Im punity. It is just as much his as the crop which grows on the surface by means of the water which it draws up. The case in question awards the plain tiff damages to the sum of $6,000, with costs. The case is briefly this: Forbell was the lessee of certain farming lands near Spring Creek and used a portion of his lands for growing celery and water cress for the New York market. This part of his farm was on low lying land near Jamaica bay. The growing of cel ery requires an extraordinarily large supply of surface water, and on For bell's land the dip of the underground water shedding stratum was only about a foot below the surface. It was the claim of the plaintiff that the effect of the pumping at the Spring Creek station was to lower the underground water table on his land and to render it useless for the growth of celery. The facts In the case were not long In dispute, as Forbell was able to produce numerous witnesses who upheld him In his assertion in regard to the unfitness of his land. lie likewise summoned the engineers of the water department, who testified that the pumping station sucked its water from all the land within a radius of at least five miles. The decision then practically rested on the question of the right of landown ers to the product of their land to the center of the earth, a well established principle of the old English common law which had never been gainsaid. At the original trial in the special term of the supreme court on March 0, 1889, the plaintiff's attorney called attention to a previous decision of Judge Hatch in which a distinction was drawn be tween the right to intercept running or percolating water on or below the sur face and that to use artificial means to draw by suction from beneath adjacent land the water to which it was natu rally entitled. On this distinction the presiding Justice, Wilmot M. Smith, awarded the decision to Forbell, grant ing the injunction, to become operative as soon as the case should be fully set tled. The appellate division affirmed the decision, and the court of appeal® has now established a distinction which cannot fall to be of the utmost consequence in all future questions In volving water rights. The Sweet Potato Crop. In the south Atlantic states the sweet potato crop, according to government statistics, suffered from lack of mois ture and, except in Georgia, the yield per acre In those states is below the ten year average. The yield in Tennessee corresponds exactly with the average of the last ten years, and In all the oth er states in which sweet potatoes are grown on a commercial scale condi tions have been favorable and large yields are reported, Texas reporting 08 bushels per acre, as compared with a ten year average of 79 bushels, and New Jersey 135 bushels per acre as compared with a ten year average of 103 bushels. Sugar Beets In Ohio. The Ohio station reports that on the whole the sugar beets of the 1900 sea son are below those of last year In sug ar content and purity, few counties that supplied a number of samples giv ing the factory requirement Farmers in the middle and southern sections of the state are not advised to pursue the growing of sugar beets. The northern sections arc considered more promis ing. and there is now a factory in Fre mont county. The station at Wooster, 0., is ready to receive applications for beet seed to be sent out in March, 1901. The amount sent to any pereon will be limited to 12 pounds. The Latest. Softlelgh—When I want to be slallgy, I alwqys say I feel like 30 cents. Uptosnuff—lf you want to be up to date, say you feel as if you were, marked down from 30 cents. —Ohid' State Journal. Wheels. 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