VOL XXXVIII {FALL CARPETS-! j s§| The newest, brightest and best fresh from the ss? manufacturer. Not a last year's pattern in the lot, Ingrains, Tapestry, Velvets, Axminsters and Body f®s *||j Brussels in Bed Room Dining Boom; Parlor: Library: jj| 3||f Hall and Stair patterns: are here in large varieties |g j for you to select from. jgjgf H INGRAIN CARPET jg The b<-»t all-wool extra super carpet made. Small set patterns or jgSg jSj large flora's, and all new this season. kgg sll PRICE 65c jgjj Best Tapestry Brussels jg IXj They are the best quality made. The patterns are superior £> any f3j§ otii r make ■>f tapestry. Some are light, others dark. Parlor, g] Library. Dining Boom or Bed Boom patterns. fegg §j , PRICE 90c 8 New Velour Couches jg jg* The springs are not tied with twine but are tirmly held erect by h VQ« fcteel wire running full length of coach and are guaranteed not to break down Your choice of red or green figured velour. {S Jg PRICE $16.00 fg itampkll ft Templctoni BICKELS Footwear.^ Sew Stock of Fall Styles that will start the new season off with a rush. Largest stock and moft handsome styles of fine footwear WP have ever shown. SOROSIS—The new shoe for women—Eighteen new fall styles —Dongola, Enamel, Patent-Kid. I'atent-Calf and Box-Calf made with full extension soles in mediom or high tops; also complete stock of Bakers & Bowman's fine shoes in Box-calf, Enamel and I atent-caif, heavy soles, extention edge, the very lat SOUTH MAIN STREET. - - BUTI.ER, PA HATS AT ,JSSfcjfeL SMALL PRICES, \ Our assortment of Outing Hats, Soft j * *\\ Hats, Sailor Hats, in fact every hat and j I tfg ' ' all Millinery must be cleared out at once. 11 TL Jr f We are making a great sacrifice to close \\ \ J* j out this line. Never before has there \\ .J I been such an opportunity to secure bar- \\ // gains and value a'. 90 little figures. Rockenstein's, MILLINERY EMPORIUM. 32M South Main Street, - - Butler,!Pa K E C K Spring Styles "Fi Have a nattiness about them that • fTV. V f\ , f \ \ marks the wearer, it won't do to />/ K (jC) /J lA* wear the last year's output. You IJ \f h j W El won't get the latest things at the y p A C 3 In stock clothiers either. The up-to- *•s X/ 'O'y [J U C, date tailor only (.an supply them, / , *] _Jll . if you want not only the latest t / / 1 1 // '/ J things in cut and fit and work- I II { / II I nunship, the finest in durability, I If 111 where else can you get combina- I I ill 11 f lions, you get them at '>/ ' II IjJ (i * KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed. Butler, Pa Removal Notice! - C. F. T. Pape, Jeweler 011 cl Watchmaker Will be found on and after April Ist at 121 East Jefferson street, opposite (i. Wil son Miller's Grocery Store, Butler, Pa. Subscribe for the CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. REGISTERS NOTICES. The Register hereby gives notice that the following :1 •••■ unts of executors. ad mini s truvirs and guardians have been fil" d In this office u'vordiii# to law, and will be pro ». nted to Court for confirmation and allow ance fill Saturday, the 7th day of September. igOI. at 9 A. M . of said dav: 1. First and final account of Mary .1. I'ark. administratrix of the estate of William K. Park, late of Middlesex township. First and Hnal account of A .ex. lorttr. trustee of C. M. Kit.tr. late of therry town '•('' i tnal account of Libby Welier. adminis tratrix of Nellie Melnlx late >f MHlers -4 final account of IL E. Boyd, admlnls trator of Harvey Boyd, late of ButTa. >town -s':»lPFirst and partial account of Andrew Karnos. executor of William K. Karnes, late of Allegheny township. » First and final account of tieo. . >a\ ij and Elizabeth McCall, of Sarah Davis, late of Clinton township. 7. Final account of A. A. lloeb. adminis trator of Sarah N. Hoob. late of Millerstowri. -. Final and distribution account of J. J Mrf andlessandJ.il. I>ufford. executors of Mary Ann Mi-Candl<-ss.late ofConnoqueness- ing township. , . ■X Final account o? li. L. Hockenberry guardian of John 1.. I'unlap, minor child of W. w. Dun lan. late of \%>st Sunbury. in. Finnal account of George Baldwin anfl E-i/a.'xth Keplar. adniinistralors of the estate of (ivor -e J. Keplar, late of 1 arker t "n."i"n*l account of John !.. Burton, ad ministrator of J. W. Burton, iate of Middle- SCX * ■• A ljahip. . 1-' I !rja! account of Warren Armstrong, adrniiiistrator of olive Armstrong, late of Marion township. . a 1"{. Final acoouut of Thos. H. e jy ar,f ' •; J. Taylor, exvc\iu>T& of Sau;ui*l Kelly. <»r Wor'to township. ~ „,. , li. Final account of Julia A. M<*Bride, ad ministratrix of Catharine Mcßride, late of Marion township. . . , 15. Final and distribution account of John McC'ollough. Clara Mcßride, Margaret Mc- Bride and Juila A. M«-Bride, executors of Patrick Mcßride, late of Marlon township. Wj. Fjnal account of George L. lioiTman, administrator of Ann Hoffman, late of Mar.-*. 17. First and final account of A. M. Christ ley, guardian of Minnie i'earl EHcnoergir, minor child of Thomas Iman, late of < unt of Ira L. C 1 eland, ad ministrator of W. J. C'leland, late of Muady creek township. Final account of Sarah Brown, admln istrlx of Jane Brown, late of township. .. 21. Fourth account of J. M. Mcßurnov. tmstee under the will of K«?v. Cieorge A. W«nzle, late of Zelienople. 22. Final and distribution account of Ada Armstrong, administratrix of Martin Arm strong. late of Fairview township. 'Si. Final siccout of Stella B Allen, execu trix of the estate of M 11. Brooks, late of Butler, Pa. . ZA. Final account of Anthony >haner and Nicholas Shaffer, execut-ors of the will of John Shaffer, late of Butler. Pa. 25. Final account of C H. Hartley .executor of Dixon Hartley, late of Parker township. t'6. Final account of James N. Moore.guard ian of Samuel C. Mct'lung, minor child of Belie J. McClung, late of Butler, Pa. 'S». Final account of W. A. Forquer. admin istrator of Morris Norris. late of Oakland t/lwnshlp. . . 2H. Final a/:coiint of Samuel A. Leslie, ad ministrator of William Snyder, late of Mid dlesex township. 'SU. Final account of Margaret I . Irwin, guardian of Sarah M. Irwin, minor child of Ceo. W. Irwin, late of Evans City. JT). Final account of J. W. Hutchison, guardian of John F. Campbell, minor child of Sila»» Campbell,late of Washington township. 31. Final account of F. P. Mcßride. execu tor of James Mcßride, late of Clearfield township. . :zl. Final account of Elmer Dlngman, ad ministrator of Clara J. Dlngman, late of Butler, Pa. Final account of William If. Christie, executor of Lyda A.Christie, late of Butler, VA. Final account of Elizabeth Felgel, ad ministratrix of John Feigel, late of Butler, Pa. :i*>. First and partial account of r. b. Coulter, administrator of Svlvanus Cooper, late of Slippery rock township. W. J. ADAMS. Register. BRIDGE REPORT. Notice Is hereby given that the following bridge has IjccncoiilirnwKl by the Court and will be presented on Saturday, the 7th day of September. 1801, and if no exceptions are filed they will lie confirmed absolutely: It. I). No. May sessions, IWI. In re. peti tion of the citizens of Adams township for a bridge over Breakneck creek, on the road leading from the Kvans City road to the Fnli.ii Church road. March oth, JW)I, vlevers were appointed by the Court, who, on May 20th. I'Ml. (ih-d tln-lr report in favor of a bridge as desired by the petitioners. Mav 25th. lbOl, approved. Notice to be given ac cording to rules of court and to be laid be fore the grand Jury at next term. Br tiik Cot.tiT. WILLIAM 11. CAMPBELL, Clerk Q. S. Court. WIDOWS APPRAISEMENTS. The following widow's appraisements of personal property and real estate Bet apart for the Ijeiiufit of the widows of decedents have been liled in the office Wm. Goehrlnir, " ■**' 00 W. 11. Weir, " 300 00 H. W. Stewart, " MO 00 •• John A. Irwin, " 300 00 I'eter Kennedy, " 300 00 " Samuel A. Campbell, " 300 00 It. y. Emery, " :«0 00 Joseph 1.. Cross. " 300 no " Sylvester Orlllln. money from sale of real estate 300 00 David Sohsntz, real&p'l pro'y3oo 00 Ed'il J. Kennedy, " " 300 00 Adner N. Bedell. real estate lUO 00 " Klmon Young, personal pro'ySOO 00 " Henry Adler. " 389 55 " Leonard Hall stein,real estaU'lKiO 00 " W. I). Kenlck, personal pro'y :iOO 00 I All persons Interested In the above ap praisements will take notice that they will Fie pcs»-uted for eonflrmatlon of the Orphans' Court of Butler county. Pa., on Saturday.the 7th day of Sept., 1!<01. and If no exceptions are filed, ih'-y will l>e confirmed absolutely. WILLIAM 11. CAMPBELL.CIerk O. C. OJILLER Wants More Room and has made another deep cut on all summer goods. Prices will do talking. One lot of Ladies' White Slippers 24c One lot of Ladies' Cloth lace Shoes, 3 and 4 24c All our Ladies's Tan Shoes summer goods 98c One lot Spring-heel Shoes were 4>2, 2 50 and 3.00 . $1.24 One lot of Ladies' Patent Leather Shoes $ 1 98 Ladies' Serge Slippers 25c Ladies' Serge Gaiters 48c Men's Slippers 48c Men's Slippers 48c Men's, Boys' and Youths' Tan and JUack Shoes 98c Men's Good Plow Shoes 98c One lot of Men's Button Pat Leather, were $5 $1.98 Bicycle Shoes about £ Price. Space will not permit us to go into details, but during August! all summer goods must go. Our fall goods are arriving daily and we must have room. Bring Your Girl to This Sale All our Misses' and Children's Slippers in red, black, tan, blue and white, reduced to 48c. If you want to buy footwear at your own price, come to this Great Clearance Sale, and come quick, too. C. E. HILLbR'S BUTLER, PA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 134. lfeJOl v SS) 1 fisfe Oure that Cure; | p Qoughs, V Golds, / p 3rippe P li Whooping Co-Jgh, Bronchitis and Incipient A ConsuniDtlon, Is f »- 'i > £ 10 \ V t V 4 Tue GERMAN remedy* £ f Cures IVt Vut\Q °/ a\\ 255^1 Some Reasons Why You Should Insist on Having EUREKA HARNESS OIL Unequaled by any other. Renders hard leather soft. Especially prepared. K'-eps out water. A heavy bodied oil. HARNESS excellent preservative. Reduces cost of your harness. P|ever burns the leather ; its Efficiency is increased. fecures best service. titches kept from breaking. OIL |s sold in all Localities Mannfhrtnred by Standard Oil Compnnr. AMENDMENT TO TIIK OONSTITI'TK»N " I'IfOPOSF.I* TO THE C ITIZEN- < >l' Til 1r- COMMONWEALTH lOh THE Ik Al'- I'UOVAL OK kEJECTION BY THE liKN EKAL ASSEMBLY' OK THE COM MO N WEA I.TH OK PENNSYLVANIA. PI H LHHED BY ORDER OK THE SECRETARY OK THE COMMONWEALTH. IN IM R.-r- ANi'i: OK A iiTICLE XVIII OK THE CON STITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Pr j>oslnK an amendment to the constitution of the Commonwealth. Section 1. H<- it resolved by the Senate and Houso of Representatives of the Common wealth In General Assembly met. That the foliiiwina Is proposed as amendments to tlie Constitution <>t the Commonwealth of Penn sy! vanln In ai-cordance with the provisions of the l ight" . nt li article thereof: Amendment One to Article Eight. Section One. Add at the end of the first paragraph of sale! section, after the words '•shall tie en titled to vote at all elections." the words •'subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Asset .hly may enact." so that the said section shall read as follows: Section I Qnaliecatlonsof Electors. Every male citizen itwenty-one years of age, pos sessing the following qualifications shall be entit led to vote at all elections, subject how ever to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly may enact: I. lie shall have been a cltl7.en of the United State it least one month. ■J. H" shall have resided in the State one year (or. havi A previously been a qualified elector or native liorn citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months,) Immediately preceding the election. lie shall I .ve resided in the election dis trict where le ,hall offer to vote at least two months lmm< lately preceding the election. 1. 1f i went* wo years of ago and upwards, be shall have .aid within two years a State or county ta* * hieb uhuli have tieen assessed at least two t onths and paid at least one month be fori ie election. Amendment .TO to Artlele Eight. Section Seven. St rlke out f > in said section the words "but no elector sh. I lie deprived of the privilege of voting by . ison of his name not being registered. . -I add to said section the fol lowing wordi- hut laws regulating and re quiring the r Juration of electors may be enacted to ap yto cities only, provided that such laws be tilforin for ritle.s of the same class," so tha' the said section shall read as follows: Section 7. I .formity of Election Laws. All laws regu tlrig the holding of elections by the cltlz for the registration of electors shall ■ uniform throughout the State, but law mutating and requiring the registration •• electors may lie enacted to apply tocitie .ily. provided that such laws be uniform fi ities of the same class. A true copj f the Joint Resolution. W. W GKIKST, Sc. tary of the Commonwealth. AMENDMEN TO TIIE CONSTITUTION PBO POSE 11 TO TIIF. CITIZENS OF THIS COM Mi {WEALTH l'Olt TIIKIK Al'- PIIOVAL OU U EJECT ION HY TIIK 1 ► When € i JOHNSTONS n i Corn « < Cure M ► Will i . Cure > I Them In a < Short \ ► Time. { * Price i> 25 cents. < I Put ► ► Up and < < Sold > ► Only < A At k fl Johnston s N Crystal ; h Pharmacy, ; It. M. LOGAN, Ph. 0., Y N. Main Bt. f Hutler, l'a Hot.h Thonct*. fA Everything in the drug-line. WA J "St 0 A WOMAN'S LOVE. A «ntinel «ngel, pitting high la glory. Heard thU wail rir.g cut trc-m purpttory: ••llavc m«rcy. niigrity »Rgei; he»r mi stx>ryl "I loved, and, blind with possl nate lovr, I fell. Lu\e brought use down to desth and doith tt hell. Kor God i. just, «xi death for sin la wall. "I do not rage agalnit this high decree Nor f. r myself do ask that grace shall be. But f t my love OD earth who mourns for ma. "Great Spirit, let me see my love again Arid c< n.lort him one hour, aad I were fain To pay a thousand years of Are and pain." Then eald the pitying angel: "Nay. repent That wild vowl Look! The dial fmgtr'a bent Down to the last hoar at thy puniahnisnU" Bet still she wailed: "I pray thee let me go. I cannot rWe to peace and love hira so. Oh, let me soothe him in his bitter woe!'* The brazen gates ground sullenly ajar, And upward, joyous, like a riling star, Si.e rose and vanished in the ether far. But soon adown the dying sunsf t sailinsr, And like a wounded bird her pinions trailing, She fluttered hack, with broken hearted w^iiing. £' ;e sobbed: "1 found him by the summer iea. Reclined his head upon a maiden's knee. She curled his hair and kissed him. Woe Is me!' She wept: "Now let my punishment begin! I have been fond and foolish, bet m# la To eapiate my sorrow and my Sin." The angel answered: "Nay, «ad soul, go higher! To be deceived In your true heart's desire Waa bitterer than a thousand years of Jire!" —John Hay. f # THE eare really thought there was nothing In a name he was grievously mistaken. A name Is either worse than nothing or everything. When the doctor does not know what alls me, he knows at least that he does not know. Let him 'ar rive' at the 'COIM IUI lon' that 1 am suf fering from something with a c-rtuJn double breasted l.utin name to It, and be will think he luis seized ll»e devil by his tall. Yet all lie has actually caught Is some big I.sfln word. That's all. 'Mysterious look,' indited! Phrases of tills kind are invented by story writers to bamboozle their readers, and I in vent i-d mine to bamboozle my own self. All 1 did know wus that I was In love with the young countess in love llko n ninny, like an Idiot." The countess brought with her some money, but her father w<-nt through It In less than six months, lie was a good notured, pompous old s[H-ndthrlft and when lie was not boasting of his ancestry he was lamenting the defunct glory of Poland, or else lie would bore tin- lovelorn young officer with verse in liis native tongue. "Pardon me. sir," the other would plead, "but I have not the honior of an acquaintance with the Polish lan guage." "Ah, bnt the musVe of the words, sir!" the old man would return. "Mu sic Is tin' language of the angels, as one of our writers says, and the angels ought to be able to make themselves understood to a good man like yourself. Tell mo, «lr, Uaro you ever heard any thing sweater than"— And the old pa triot would go on reciting his ode with more ecstasy thaii ever. Once he broke Into sobs over the fate of the country which had produced this melodious language. "Herr Schmidt" was at once touched and amused, and the upshot of it was that the Pole bor rowed a few hundred thalers of him. Here my Second avenue friend has tened to explain that the old fellow was anything but a schemer or an ad venturer. "He was simply a weak man —too weak to hold money or his tongue." he said. 'I f he had not been so simple hearted and honest, he would not have disclosed the real nature of his title to me. It appeared that he was one of the so called Roman or papal counts, you know, his father having received the distinction from the Vati can for service in the holy army or something of that kind. lit insisted, however, that in the early history of Poland his ancestors W.TC iue:aV ers of the highest aristocracy, n:. 1 he traced his p 'digree to a sister or i <-n:si:i of Bouioliody who waa «•::!'' i< ■ I to the throne, he said. The *.v r-t 'it was that the title of t!:e coi ' ;:•! h:::*. l and was of a si:.«':l:ir « •.•::: of course the old fojl tf id me all abort it. How the tld tu.< .-tors «*an: to lose their old po. "*n "f atraiuing plunk-, ttw an;ip of atayf, | Tlit ■ lu-<-rinir of a irowt: "Hh» niovcil She'i off!" And with « (mitten runli and «pta*h the |mt ship Leaves the wharf A itortii RWi'pt, loam tossed ~ a, u howling gale, A •Up I ill led in * Mf "f mil, Tlir tolling of a hell, now lout, now dear— "in,- shore! The siiore!'' fche strikes lu ira»h lag tVsv»-s to dissp|icar. A tuaainer'l eve, a ralro anil walling tide, A dfeMl ffTrtl li i t ,riml tint Mm t'> hldo The i • •• feat »• «■'. |"ow on high. Out i m.M li.. sun luer cent or more short of ft* average Is among the latest esti mates for the corn crop. THINNING FRUIT. Dour Aft*r lli«- "Jtiuo Drop." Tills operation Is much n-<>ommend fd. Is favored by many of the growers, tmt as a matter of fact Is not generally practiced, though It Is dono more in Btnne Koetioiis than In others. A peach tree under normal conditions will assimilate a certain quantity of food material during the time It Is dc w4oplng a crop of fruit. Peach trees ure inclined to overbear —•♦ hat Is, set -more fruit than they con properly mature with the amount of food material It Is possible for them to (VSklmllate. Hence It Is that the fruit all remains small, not reaching the size will bring satisfactory prices In the markets. Thinning the fruit will reduce the wtraln upon the tree. There will be, so to speiUt, a smaller number of mouths ti» feed, and the remaining fruit will be Obrrcspoudlngly larger. AM f1 W severest strain upon the tree Is on*isloi»ed by the development of the need the thinning should be done before the seed IM KIIIH to harden. This will be while tiie fruit is till quite small. Il will lie to begin as soon as the "■bine drop" is passed. The objection that many hold to thinning is the expanse of the opera tion. Hut unless there are severe storms very lit tie of the fruit which re mains (in the tr«H? after the "June drop" will tail off. It then follows that ft is only a question between picking the fruit off In June and throwing it on the ground and picking It off a little later ami putting it In a basket. it the frult»ls thinned to from four to six inches apart, it will be better than If it Is closer. It Is a common experi ence that trees so thinned will actually produce a greater bulk yf fruit than un thinncd trees, and the fruit from such trees Is practically all first grade. Even if the bulk of fruit Is somewhat less than from uathinned trees the amount of high grade fruit is sufficient to com mend the operation. The fruit may be thinned considera bly by keeping the tops properly prun ed, but much of It must be done by hand. In this way the imperfect fruit can be removed, leaving only that which Is likely to develop Into the best specimens. This method will greatly lessen the work of grading the fruit when It Is marketed. As a rule growers experience consid erable difficulty In getting their men to thin their fruit sufficiently, but it is im portant that the matter be followed up closely.—H. P. Gould, Maryland. The Tinff Dreod». The buff fowls of various breeds seem to be one of the poultry fashions of the present. Huff Plymouth Hocks are a compara tively new variety, but one which has come rapidly to the front on its own merits. Beauty and utility combine to BUFF FLTHOrTH ROCK. make these a fine general purpose fowl for farmers. Weights and points are the same as for Barred Plymouth Rocks, but the plumage should be an even shade of golden buff. Golden Wyandottes are newcomers and very popular, not In such numbers yet as the whites or silver laced. Their characteristics are much the same as those of the other Wyandottes and standard weights the same. The buffs are probably the most nu merous and best liked of the Cochin family. Buff Leghorns, u comparatively new but very popular variety, have taken a foremost position solely on their mer its. The eggs of the hens are large and white; chickens are quick growers. Staking? Tomatoes. Borne growers keep tomato plants tied to stakes from the start, tying them three or four times or more, as necessary. Others let them lie on the ground till the #rwlt U nearly grown and then lift and tie them, claiming that besides saving labor the lifting and disturbing of the vines tends to make the fruits ripen faster. On clay soils this staking and ty ing Is qulto necessary, as In rainy sea sons much of the fruit will rot before ripening where It touches the ground. On sandy land there is much less trou ble from this rot from contact with the soil, and it Is quite permissible to save the expense of staking and tying and let the plants sprawl on the ground. Aarrlenltnrnl Brevities. In orchards badly Infested with can- Jverworm late spraying with some form ©f arsenic, which Is most safely used In bordeaux mixture, may do good If the worm Is still feeding. Bone Is the thing to use on peach trees every time, says one grower. A great deal depends upon how water Is put on. If you begin your Irrigation before It is very dry, you don't need bo much water, but If you let your ground get very dry and then put on your wa ter you need n great deal more of It. For field culture for tlie canneries good strong tomato plants should be ready for the Held from the middle to the latter part of June, the time which they are usually set in New Jersey find Maryland. Dig out the peach treo borers and Jar the curcullo. HE COWED THE LION. THE DARKY BELTED ALL THE FIGHT OUT OF MONARCH. Lanithftblf Manner In Which the Biff anil t'iclr Clrcn» Animal Wn« lie turned to th© Mhowninu After a Railroad Smaah Dp. "It's queer how animals will act In a railroad wreck," said the boss canvas man. "Now there wus tli' Saberlee wreck. Six cars wus In th' ditch an half o' th' show's dens wus under 'em. There wus one cage o' monkeys mash ed flat that wo knowed of, an a lot o' lb' oilier animals had took t' th' woods, little animals, zebras an wolves an deer an such like. Nothln t' do any harm exceptln tli' big lion, Monarch. Ill# den Wus bottom up In a little puddle o' ditch water, with a hole stove In It big enough t' let out a cow, an Monarch himself wus gone with the little ani mals. "Well, It wus all off with makln tU' stand that day, bo we put up th* runs, got th' cookhouse outtlt down on th' ground, had breakfast an started In t' dig th' stuff out o' th' ditch. Th* rail road company's wreckln crew come along t' help us, an we'd got purty well under way when a tall, black buck darky come out o' th' woods an stood round rubberln. "Nobody paid any attention t' him fer awhile, but by'n'by Mack, th' chande lier man, spoke t' him, kind o' kidded him about belli lian'some, er some such guff. It wus Missouri, an he wus a real black buck. Didn't have anything t' say back didn't say anything at all, in fact, fer awhile. Jes' shuffled round In his cowhide boots from one foot t' th' other an grinned bashfulllke. By'n'by when he saw we didn't roast him hard he kind o' took courage. " 'Did any o' you getnmcn losed a gi raffe?' he says. " 'Giraffe? Mack says. 'No; we nev er owned 110 such thing with this trick. Why V "•Well, boss, Ah done fottii' ioine thln up In inali 'tato patch this mawn ln, au Ah 'lowed as maybe hit 'longed t' you all.' "Mack got interested. 'Wot does it look like?' " 'Lawdy, boss, hit's 1110s' monstrous. Ncvali did see no sech ole thing befob, sah. lilg cat vahmint, with yallereyes. an hit done come ii snahlln an a splttln No 39. at me soon as Ah got out tf bald.' " 'Where Is it?' says Mack. " 'Oh, Ah cawt hit all rlghty. Done put a rope roun' hits neck an tied lilt t' mab cabin.' " 'Go an git it an fetch it down here.' says Mack. Then th' wreckin erwt.£ot a tackle roira' another den, an we fof got all about th' darky. V "Maybe it wus 20 minutes, an maybe^ - It wus half an hour when we heard a noise over on th' road amongst th' trees —a noise kinder like a nigger drlvln a mule or like soinethin bein driven. It come nearer an louder an louder an nearer. Everybody stopped work an listened, an th' ole man himself come out o' his car with his napkin hangin roun' his neck. "'What Is that?' he pipes up In his snappy way. 'Who Is that out there? (Jo an see what that racket Is, some o* you boys. Hurry up. now.' "Nobody paid any attention t* him, an th' noise got nearer an nearer. In a couple o' minutes a cloud o' dust sailed out from behind th' trees. When it got within a hundred yards o' th* track, it cleared up a bit, an there wus that big, black nigger with a rope In one mlt an a piece o' fence rail In th' other. On th' other end o' tli' rope wus Monarch. "Of all tli' mean, sneakln, under handed cat animals that ever traveled with a circus Monarch wus th' worst an a powerful fighter when he had any f 6ort o' show. Sometimes we'd put out hands on th' canvas cover o' his cage when lie had t' run over th' train, an there never wus a time, day or night, that he hadn't a slap ready fer.you. "Well, that darky wus a-lammln him with his chunk o' fence an talkln mule talk t' him wuss than anything you ever saw in th' south. " 'Cm on 'long heah, you yaller eyed devil,' he wus eayln. "Ah don' know what you Is, but you aln' go in snahl uer spit at me, nohow. C'm on 'long theh, you big sassy vahmint,' an with that he'd la-rn him with his piece o' fence an let drive with his cowhide boots. "An you kin bet your life Monarch wus a-comin. I never saw a critter so rowed as he wus. Why, when that nig ger brought him right in amongst us there wus nobody that took th' trouble t' open up a gangway, an I reckon any young one could 'a' took him by th' scruff o' th' neck an turned him over o» his back. He wus jest a great, over grown pet tomcat, with all th' fight an meanuess walloped out o' him. "We'd yanked his den up on to th' road bed with th' hole In th' end butted against a wagon. Th' door wus open, an when Monarch saw his happy little home waitin there fer him he Jerked th' rope out o* th' darky's hand »n' bolted Inside It Ho couldn't get fur enough inside, either—went away up in th' fur corner an tried f hide. Saberlee shut th* door an spoke to him, but Monarch wus th' worst whipped cat animal you ever saw."—New York Snn. Suppressing Cruelty. Many a man who would be ashamed to strike a brute beast with a bludgeon has no shame In making a bludgeon of his tongue to strike human beings in the tender places of their being— their social sensibilities nnd their self es teem. Cruelty In its gross nnd outward forms we have in good measure sup pressed. but the refU-ed cruelty of the bitter wrrrd, the unloving censure, the abusive harangue, is not yet eitinct: Let us be as careful of men's Inner Bklu ns of their outer.—Exchange. ( QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FAULTS She Wa» Very Vain and Inordinately I'onil of Fine Dreai. Yet Elizabeth was never really suc cessful with her wardrobe as a more feminine woman might have been. Her dresses were never beautiful, only lu dicrously and most inappropriately, magnificent—laden with Jewels, weight* ed down with cloth of gold, stiff with silver embroidery and so heavy that even her big, powerful frame must, without supporting vanity, have felt the fatigue of carrying them about. Elizabeth was certainly vain, but she cannot claim femininity merely on that account, for vanity Is by no means an exclusively feminine characteristic There are perhaps more vain women than vain men because women have more leisure nnd their costumes afford greater opportunities for vanity than the strangely hideous clothing Whlcfe custom has arranged for men, but no thoughtful (feminine) observer can doubt that a vain man is vainer than a vain woman. EHznbeth's hands were her especial pride, and, Judging from her portraits, they were certainly beautiful. They, were laden with Jewels, and it was her habit In public to pull her rings off with absent artlessness and push them on again, moving those white hands about In the most obvious way. Once, during the grave consideration of a state paper, wherein her cold sagacity, never took second placo, she interrupt ed the discussion to ask whether the Due d'AnJou, who was at ono time one of her suitors, had been told what a pretty foot she had and how white and well rounded was her arm? This in the woman who financed tho armada with hard headed economy, who dared tho superstitious terrors of her own conscience in her high handed and Im pudent treatment of the whoso interest In methods of torture for state prisoners was most mechanical and In telligent, entirely unhampered by any. squeamish feminine hesitation as to blood or pain, is most curious. In connection with this last charac teristic of cruelty vanity is not at all unprecedented. Indeed, if one observe closely one will notice that excessively vain persons have almost always a strange inclination toward cruelty, The accounts of what Queen Elizabeth permitted and indeed commanded lu this respect will hardly bear reading by us sensitive folk today.—Margaret Dcland In Harper's llazar. Slavery Protected the Neffro, If the negro had been forced to com pete for existence in America, he would have been crushed out by the civilized power, as the Indian has been, say* Albert Phelps in The Atlantic, but thp peculiar Institution of slavery protect ed him not only from this competition, but also, by artificial means, from those great forces of nature which Inevitably weed out the weaker organisms and which operate most unrestrainedly up» on the Ignorant savage. For the first time, perhaps, in the history of tho world human beings had been bred and regulated like valuablo stock, with us much care as Is put upon the bost horses and cattle. As u natural conse quence tho sanitary condition of tho negro during slavery was remarkable, especially by contrast with his present condition, nnd his growth was the aU normal growth of a plant abnormally raised In a hothouse. W>en, therefore, this mass of helpless beings was thrown upon its own resources by U*e act of emancipation and when the pro tection of slavery hud been withdrawn, the direst wretchedness and Buffering followed. _ .