VOL XXXVIII BICKEL'S Fall and Winter Footwear- For the past three months we have been making preparations for our extensive fall and winter stock of Hoots and Snoes. Great care has been taken in selecting a line of good solid water proof j hoc for country tr,->de, for well we know how people appreci- J ate good water-proof footwear. It is gratifying to say that prices this fill wii- be cheaper than last season as prices on stock is lower and consequently will be able , 10 give much belter values for the money. It h aKv.-tv- been our aim to have a large assortment of fine | footwear m i l. by the leading manufacturers and you will agree with us that the orosis', Barker & Bowman Co's , Duttenhoffer & Son's. A. E. i\\uiet'-n's, Schwab Bro's and P. Cogan & Son's line of Ladies' and Gent s. H. y's a d Youth's, Misses' and children's fine shoes in Patent Leathers, D.ngolas, Enamels, Box-Caifs, and Cordovans in medium i.r heavy soles, extension edges are more handsome and up to-ii te ih ti' ever. FOR OIL MEN AND FARM WEAR. W't- 1 ave ?. c< mpleU* sb.ek of Gokey's hand-made, whole stock, box-toe Boots and Shoes. Gokej high cut ccpper-toe shoes for Boy's and high-cut water-proof shoes for ffrßubber and Felt Goods^f Cur stoek of Rubber and Felt Goods is extremely large, and owini, to the large orders which we placed we were aole to get very close pric.v. nd am in a position to ofk-r y»u the lowest prices for best g:ailes of Felts and Rubber Goods. An immense business enables us to name the very lowest prices for reliable footwear. When in need of anything in our line give us a call JOHN BICKEL, 12b i OUTH MAIN STREET. - - SUTLER, PA | IN CONNECTION WITH OUR * £ 3rd Annual Shirt Waist Sale \ s < < WHICH IS NOW ON, WE HAVE A > I > I General Clearance Sale ? / OF OUE ENTIRE STOCK OF SUMMER GOODS. \ v There are just a few left, so do not delay < C if you want a genuine bargain. } / We have four tables, that have made ( j records for themselves the last few days. \ sc. 10c. 25c and 50c Tables. \ ( The bargains to be found on these, have I never been equaled and never will be \ ? beaten in Butler county. Simitiar bargains L all over the store. \ I Duffy's Store. S I HATS AT SMALL PRICES. //^CgbaMFN Our assortment of Outing Hats, Soft I II lints, Sailor Hats, in fact every hat and 1 j Ngg " / j all Millinery must be cleaned out at once. :\l tL I We are making a great sacrifice-to close \\ out this line. Never before has there \A j] beta such an opportunity to secure bar- \\ . ijlv // gains and value at so little figures. Rockenstein's, MILLINERY EMPORIUM. i*> Sautb Main Street, - .. Brtler iPa ■ ] K E C Iv Spring Styles Have a nattiness about thein that • yL. I f\ [T f'l marks the wearer, it won't do to ff] rdj (I |yir<\ fJf Ok wear the last year's output. You . J \J L\tA/ W| jr\ won't get the latest things at the / p \ Njcj (H stock clothiers either. The up-to- J 1/ VVsT ity C date tailor only ian supply thein, . "j A Y/\.. if you want not only the latest V / I 1/ /1 If | things in cut and fit* and work- II (ft I manship, the finest in durability. > ( i I I I where e'se can you get combina- ,[j l I . J// /1 I tions, you get thorn at t" / IIJ [A KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed. Butler, Pa Removal Notice! C. F. T. Pape, Watchmaker Will be found 011 and after A| >ril Ist at 121 East Jefferson street, opposite G. Wilson Miller's Grocery Store, Butler, Pa. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. State Library j*lyol C E.MILLER Wants IVlore Room and has made another deep cut on ail summer gc L. Prices will do talking. One lot of Ladies' White Slippers 24c j One lot of Ladies' Cloth lace Shoes, 3 and 4 24c All our Ladies's Tan Shoes summer goods 98c Or ■ lot Spring-heel Shoes verr 4>2, 2 50 and 3.00..5!.24 < K t <.•: : udit.s' Patent Leathi-r 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 Black Shoes. ... 98c Men's Good Plow Shoes 98c One lot of Men's Hutton Pat Leather, were $5 $ 1 -9 s abjut A Price. Space will not permit us to <;o into detaiis, but during -August all summer goods must go. Our fall goods sre arriving daily a; d we must have room. Bring Girl to This Sale All our MNs ' and Children's Shpper? in red, black, t?n, blue and whice, reduced to 48c. If you want to buy footwear at your ov.ll price, come to this Great Clearance Sale, and come q nick, too. C. E. HILLLR'S m A You kl Shouldn't vA yJ Suffer With f A f'A orns or [f Bunions IpJ When C^ jf JOHNSTON'S y CCn^S 4 ly w rl Johnston s 5 Crystal fo h Pharmacy, ki R. M. LOGAN, Ph. G., Manager, "4 Fm 100 N. Main St., Butler, I'a Both "Phones. W Jf VA Everything in the drug-line. DEALERS in ready made clothing represent tbeir wares as "Tailor made' "custom made" &c., but they ask the regular prices of ready made and the boast is understood. But when tbey offer to take your measure, promise to have the clothes made for you and charge the tailors price, they impose upon your credulity Whether their misrepresentation is wilful or negligent the result to you is the same, Most men want what they pay for and ate willing to pay for the superior quality of made to measure clothes Our garments are cut and made to your measure in our own workshop in But ler, not by fair-to-middling work men, but by expert tailors. Handsome Spring Goods At Business Bringing Prices. ALAND, MakerJof Mil's Clothes M. H. MILLKR. FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. Office— Next door to Citzein office i Butler, Pa. BUTLER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 lir>ol mmJf Pain in Head, Side and Back. For years I Buffered with pain in the head, pain In the side, and in the small of the back. 1 was nervous and constipated and could not Kleep.» Tho pills and other medicines I tried or.lv made a bad matter worse. Then 1 tried Celery Kin g. One package cured me ami made a new woman of me.—Mrs. Th. Klee hammer, Croton-on-Hudson, N. V. Celery Kins cures Constipation and Nerve, Stomach, J.iver und Kidney Diseases. 2 preserves and pickles, spread H I PURE REFINED FARAFFINE ■ Will m al«olutely and ■ ufcf'ful in u dozen other ways about tho B I house. Full directions In each package. Ki STANDARD OIL CO. CATARRH LOCAL'DISEASE and is the resti!t of colds and fgjf *°S&ASUPF-COIDI tudden climatic changes. I For your Protection A we positively state that this remedy does not contain - Cv ill mercury or any other injur- JnH Ely's Cream BalmKs6™ is acknowledged to he the most thororjrh care for Nasal Catarrh, Cold In llcad and Ilay lever of all remcdie . It ouens and ck-ariscs the n.ifal passages, allays pain ana inflamniMion, heals the gores, pro tects the me: .hrane from colds, restores the senses of taste and smell. I'riceMe. at Drnsßlstsorby mall. ELI" lil'.o i li£l:s, SS Warren Street, New York. AMENDMENT TO THF. CONSTITUTION l'UOI'«>:-EI» TO THE CITIZENS OF TIIIS (X)M MON WEALTH FOh TllKlk AP PROVAL Ol! I{EJECTION BY TIIF. GEN ERAL Af.-KMBI.Y OF THE COMMON WEALTH OK PENNSYLVANIA. I'I'H LISIIED 15V OKDEKOE THE SF.CKKTAKY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN I'l HSI - ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON STITUTION. A .1 Ol NT RESOLUTION" Proposing ■ amendment to the Constitution • f the Commonwealth. Section i 15c it resolved by the Senate and House of 1' presentatlves of the Common wealth in Genera! Assembly met. That tlie following i proposed as amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. in accordance with the provisions of the eigli' nth article thereof: Amendmen One to Article Eight. Section One. Add at 11 end of the first paragraph of said sectio: after the words "shall be en titled to \ . • at all elections." the words "subject !>• • over to such laws reciuiring and regulating e registration of electors as the General A .-nibly may enact," so that tins said sectio hall read as follows: Seetion 1 Qualifications of Electors. Every male citiy.<" twenty-one years of age, pos sessing tin following qualifications shall be entitled to > >t« at all elections, subject how ever to sin taws requiring and regulating theregisti. Hon of electors as the General Assembly i .y enact: 1. Ho sin 11 have been a citizen of the United St.-i at least one month. He sin: i have resided in the State one year (or. li. ■ ing previously been a qualified elector or i •.tlve born citizen of the state, lie shall have • <-d therefrom and returned, then six mt • .) immediately preceding the election. il. He sha .ve resided in the election dis trict wlier. ■ shall offer to vote at least two months In,:, odiatoly preceding tho election. 4. Iftwei. .. -two years of ago and upwards, he shall h. paid within two years a State or county ; .which shall have been assessed at least tw< months and paid at least one month l«?fi the election.. Amendmei. Two to Article Eight. Suction Seven. ( Strike oi: . from said section the words "but ; no electors .ill be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered," and add to said seetion the fol lowing word.,, "but laws regulating and re quiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws be uniform for cities of the same class," so that the said section shall read us follows: Section 7. Uniformity of Election Laws. All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout tin- State, but laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only, provided that such laws be uniform for cities of the same class. A truocoi y of the Joint Resolution. W. W OKI EST. Secretary of the Commonwealth. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION ™ PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP PROVAL oli REJECTION HY THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, PUB LISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY IOF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PI RSI - ANCE OF ARTICLE XVII! OF THE CON STITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the. Commonwealth. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the author ity of the same. That the following Is pro posed as an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in accordance witli the provisions of the Eighteenth article thereof. Amendment. Strike out section four of article eight, and insert in place thereof, as follows: Section 4. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot or by such other met hod as may be prescribed by law: Provided, That secrecy in voting be preserved. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. W. W. GRIEST. Secretary of the Commonwealth. BUTLER BUSINESS COLLEGE. Fall term begins, Monday, Sept. 2, 1901 COURSES. 1- —Practical Book-keepers. 2—Expert Accountants. 3 —-AmanuensisShorthand, 4 —Reporter's Shorthand. s—Practical5 —Practical Short Course in Book-keeping, for those who merely wish to understand the simpler methods of keeping books. 6 English. Our Teachers—We have four at present always as many as we need, no more. POSITIONS. We have filled 35 positions thus far the present term and wc expect to fill at least 15 or 20 more by the nest term. We could place two or three times that many every term if we hail them. We need an abundance of first class material. All young men and young women having a 1 English education should take ail". aniagi f-f one or both of our courses. Many nt« and important improve ment.-. for next year. Call at the office ami see us. 11 you are interested be sure 'o get a copy of our new catalogue, also circulars. BUTLER BUSINESS COLLEGE. A. F. REGAL, Prin., 319-327 S. Maiu St.. Butler, Pa. L. C. WICK, DEALER IN LUriBER. EBB TIDB. I? God should Craw life's vt iHntf flood »way. What 6iirhti the human Leach could thow the dty! What doubts, vrhat creepi if what drrama long drowned; - hope*, like {Allen slara, would there be found; What wreckage where the surface calmly *!« cps! What fhallowj where we mo6t had looked for detpii Svr. recks of cruelty that lie concealed, Clav! in pale uceJi of vice, might rise rev. alej Where monster habits in their slimy pride Through falsehood's clinging brine securely gLido. Ciod pity all! Ah, may his own grace hide And save our secret souls from such ebb tide! —Martha Gilbert Dickinson. rDANGEROUS I j GROUND. < 3 ... By n- QUAD- C C CopjTight, 1001, by C. D. Lewis. j When leave of absence was granted tue after my first year «t the military post of Allubnbad, I did not go up to the hills with others seeking recrea tion nor y«-t Into the jungles pecking big game. In a cautious way. so as not to expose myself to ridicule, I had made inqnirles and ascertained that Rajpoor Gyah, well known in con- , nection with the occult, lived but 50 , miles away in a hut by himself and : was willing to take me as a pupil, i Without a word to anybody but my ; native servant I set out one morning j and rode to the but and received a , dignified welcome. 1 must tell you j that Rajpoor Gyah was a most won- j derful magician, a great healer of the ! sick and ailing, and that on several oc- j casions he had apparently died, been buried for three days and then been resurrected and brought back to life, lie was not an old man, but one of I COULD PUT MY HAND ON HIS HEAD. distinguished look and bearing, and the common people reverenced him and believed that be could do anything he willed. The British authorities had watched him closely for a year or two, ready to pounce down upon him should be utter words of sedition, but thus far be had not meddled with politics In any manner. lie was generally re ferred to by tbe English as a fakir and a charlatan, but I had a far higher estimate of him. Rajpoor Gyah's hut stood among the hills on the edge of a jungle and was not an uncomfortable place. He bad With him many books and parchments relating to the mysteries of life and death and likewise many relics and souvenirs from various temples and forgotten cities. I felt at home with the man, and yet in a sense I feared him. Now and then he looked at njo In a way that took all my will power away, and I realized that he bad but to speak and 1 should be compelled to obey. Up to that little or nothing was known of hypnotism, but there were people who could magnetize by rub" bing the forehead. Nothing worthy of note happened for the first three days. Then, after our humble breakfast, Raj poor Gyah put his hands on my shoul der and looked Into my eyes and said: "Brother, go forth and find me a cobra and bring it here, that I may Bee what soul has passed into it." 1 had a natural horror of serpents, and It was only with a great effort that 1 could approach a dead one, but I set out on my mission without the slight est reluctance. The man's will had overpowered mine. Ilad be told me to walk through fire 1 should lmve done so. I set out and wandered about, and after a time I espied a cobra sunning Itself on a rock. I walked straight up to the horrible thing and picked it up In my hands. It writhed and hissed, but did not strike me. Carrying it coiled about my right arm, I arrived at the hut, and Rajpoor Gyah took It from me and snt down and sang to it In a low voice. The serpent grew quiet and stretched itself out at our feet, and by and by the man said to me: "It was a serpent before, and it Is a serpent now. We will let it go away." After throe or four minutes the cobra became more active and went crawling away, nnd I felt so weak and lethargic that I fell upon a couch and was pres ently asleep. It was afternoon when I awoke and found Rajpoor Gyah bend ing over me and touching my face with his soft fingers. When I sat up, he snid: "Come and walk with me, and I will chow yon a tiger's path. Tonight you will go into tho juugle and find a tiger and briug Idm to me, and you shall hear us converse together." Wo walked for two or three miles, and as we walked Rajpoor Gyab point ed out misshapen trees nnd told me that the spirits of bad men had passed" Into them nnd made them what they were. By and by we came t« a path used by animals as they passed from the jungle to the stream and back, and the mail said: "Look well about you, that you may find the path lu the night." Then we returned home, and he pre pared the evening meal. As we lingered over it he told me the soul of his brother, who had been a bad man and had been hung for murder, had passed into the body of a Jackal, but the pray ers of his widow and children had per haps prevailed ere this and the soul had been whitened by passing Into the body of a tiger. It was an hour after dark when I set out. having no weap ons whatever. There were wolves and hyenas and panthers and tigers in that district, and it was notorious for its serpents, but 1 felt no personal fear .is i passed along. When I struck the path, 1 boldly entered the jungle, and I believe I had gone a distance of halt a mile when I caught siirht of the glit tering eyes of some animal before me. I cried out to know If it was a tigpr, and. being assured in some maurier that I cannot explain that it was, I turnoil about aud retraced my steps. When I reached the ope- ground, I looked over my shoulder ar-d saw a tiger trotting at my heels. He came closer until I could put my hand on his head, and so we finally arrived at the cabin. "You have done well, very well," said ltn.ipoor Gyah to me as he rose up from tils seat sit the door. "Sit you down and smoke and listen." i Then he began talking with the tiger. It was not lu the same tongue as ho tAfced to roe, but yet I could under stand most of «lint ha said. while tho tiger answered by whines I'or yes auJ growls for 110. "It is not my brother," said the man to me. "The soul of my brother Is still In the body of the jackal. It was blacker than 1 thought for. The tiger may go now*. It was kind of him to come." The tiger rase up and stalked off, looking back at us once or twice, and then we went to bed. When morning came, I felt clear headed, but weak in limb, though my appetite was fair. An hour after our utcal Raj poor Gyab said to me: "You must help me to cleanse the world of its wickedness. Go forth anil find a ryot nud bring him here, and we will burn the soles of his feet and make him confess his misdeeds." I went without hesitation. The high road was only half a mile distant, and as I struck it 1 turne ! t>> t! ■ r . lit. hop ing soon to meet with farmer on his way to market ' 't I ppened. however, the mail e the first to come along and < th >\ was a brother officer Thru- was something In my appearance t .t; prise, end ns I auswere-l "t r.t:uiom when (jUe6tioni'l 1 *u< t<. 1 tip and :i to | the next t- >* u There I !.' 1 a tier'., - s , chill and v .:; on the sick t r.l f ■ I night. 11- v :..h .1 J. l it" ' 0 ! out to find It* r Gyah and l-r : j him to book tint lie had van'slu-sl I 1 carried toe tt.euiory of e\ery s ::g!o j incident clearly l:i my head for months j and months, hut found U . t others. ::: .1 | particularly •>cd!cnl men. d :: :r.'ed j with me. Thejr declared my a.'.ventures I with cobra and r to I e hypnotic ' dreams and that I had not left the cabin at ail but when it < ::: :e to the I question of how I was f :nd on the highway no one could more than guess. However. I had trodden on dangerous ground, and I resolutely turn il from the whole subject and put il behind me beyond resurrection. Dla<]Ualli;<-ut put 10 or 15 sheep to the acre, overstock so heav ily as to compel you to feed and then Iced enough to keep the sheep thriving and feed with a view of feeding the or chard through the sheep. To convince himself that I am right let any man fence off an acre of or chard and put 15 sheep into it, provid ing plenty of fresh, clean water for them at all times, and feed them 15 pounds i f ulio.it l.nia a day. Keep the sheep therv until the apples are fit for market. no matter if they Jo eat a few fallen ones and nil they i>an reach frotu the lower part of the tws. There will be Just as many when It comes picking time. Just wateli and see how soon the trees will take on a cloak of preen col of, thick and vigorous, and how hard ami stocky the wood will become; how Arm and highly colored the fruit will be, far beyond the part kept in con stant cultivation. While this amount of bran will make ; the sheep thrive better than In auy ; pasture, however good it may be, they ; will eat the grass to the very roots, eat all sprouts from about the roots and take every fallen apple long before the contained codling moth or maggot can escape, nnd their constant tramping under the trees will break up the sur face and in a great measure conserve the moisture for the use of the trees. If 15 sheep be kept on an acre and tliey be fed 15 pounds of wheat bran a day for seven months, the length of time they may he kept In the orchard before and after the crop is picked, they will be fed 3,150 pounds of bran, which will contain 51 pounds potash, 102 pounds phosphoric acid and 83 pounds of nitrogen. Sheep are quite prone to lie about In the vicinity where fed, nnd by chang ing the location of feeding troughs once or twice a week they may be made to scatter the manure very even ly over the whole orchard. FILLING THE SILO. When to Cnt the Corn, How to Pat It lu and the "Wh»»" of Doth. My time for cutting the corn for the fillo is as near as may be when the ears nre just thinking about glazing. When It Is too old for me to eat, it is old enough for my silo. I do not intend to run counter to the scientific fellows by f-ayiag I am not robbing my silage of If I had not interfered, but I have Im prisoned for my cows the sweet Juices and flavors so mueh relished in the mangers, writes a Pennsylvanian to The National Stockman. If the corn lacks moisture in the lat ter part of its season, the lower blades will dry and drop before the hardening process Is operative at the ears. Then that corn should be cut, for what It may gain In dry matter above It Is los ing in dry matter below. If one has n small silo and n few acres and the filling Is n small matter of two or three days, then he can bide his time nnd cut when everything ap pears to be Just right. We have 10 acres growing for the silos, and as we like to fill slowly our cutting will extend over a period of l>ossibly three weeks. By filling slowly we consider we get about 20 per cent more lu our silos than by simply filling them and passing on. Silage does not begin to do Its busi ness settling for about a week, and It Is our rule to cut quite rapidly for two or three days, then proceed more slow ly by stopping n dny and cutting a day alternately. We use low wagons and a corn har vester, sometimes, but when an acre turns off 20 tons or more the harvester we have doesn't succeed In getting It in very far. We have a man in the silo and Instruct him to keep the outsldes somewhat higher than the center. This man is supposed, as Bob Seeds'"would Bay, to "keep n-goln, keep a-goln." A Good Wheat. Preston is a hard wheat, a cross of Ladoga (Russian variety) and Red Fife, and stands at the head of all the varie ties of wheat tested at the experimental farms for the whole Dominion of Can ada. It has given heavier crops than Red Fife or any other variety. Agricultural Hotel. Poultry houses on wheels please some successful chicken raisers. There are great fears of the grain moth In New Jersey this season. Early thrashing, storing In bins and carbon bisulphide fumigation Is the accepted preventive treatment. There are but few farms In New Eng land which have not somewhere a de posit of swamp muck, and often two Jobs can be combined by taking It from ditches, which will also serve to drain the swamp or bog. The best time for digging It Is when the season Is very dry. The cowpea plant has a slightly bit ter taste, but Is readily eaten by stock. Small fruits for market need to be picked early In the morning, when they have scarcely reached the point of full ripeness, and then marketed the same day. _____ Coten* in BnftlaaA DSn't Imagine that a aeans 12 things. In the StaffordeMogjS potteries and In the earthenware tyadoj i dozen to this day represents thatj lumber of any special article wtypiyj »n be offered at any fixed price." For instance, the pitchers, which .•ailed Jugs In the trade, are sold as 2,j i, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 30 and-36 pieces to j >ach dozen, the price for a dozen being 1 fcnstant. The ordinary pitcher holding a quart represents 12 to the dozen, while a pint pitcher Is 24 to the dozen and Is so call >d when dealing with that size. Few of the articles of the trade are sold in dozens of 12, plates being al most the only ones and some of them being sold 60, 70 nnd even SO to the lozen. Besides these curiosities in figures the potters have peculiar names, such is cockspurt, twlfiers, etc., that make □p a trade language of itself. The baker's dozen of 13 is a recog nized figure in their trade. A publisher's dozen Is usually 13 ;oples. Among fishermen In Cornwall a long lozen consists of 26.—London Answers. Work, of the Earthworm. When we behold a wide, turf covered expanse, we should remember that Its smoothness, on which BO much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the Inequalities having been slowly leveled by worms. It Is a marvelous reflection that the whole of the superfi cial mold over any such expanse has passed and will pass again every few rears through the bodies of worms. The plow is one of the most ancient nnd most valuable of man's Inventions, but long before he existed the land was. In tact, regularly plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so Important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organ ized creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organized— namely, corals have done far more Conspicuous work In having construct ed Innumerable reefs and Islands In the great oceans, but these are almost con- Sned to the tropical zones. Why the Mole IN Illlnd. The creatures which dwelt in the darkness of the depths naturally lost their powers of vision after awhile. It Is the same way with the mole, which Is doubtless descended from progeni tors which could sec. Blindness ia the No 40. mole is the result of a degeneration of j t'.e optic nerve, the consequence of! which Is that images formed In the eye i Itself are not transmitted to the ani-j mat's consciousness. Occasionally a 1 mole can see n little out of one eye - which has retained its communication! with the brain. It is uot that the mole Is born b!!nd,j but that it inherits a tendency to atro-j phy of the visual organs Just as peo-1 pie derive from their parents an incll-j nation to consumption or other di&s east s. Some day in the future therm may bo no such thing as a mole that lal not entirely and hopelessly blind. € Heads Much Alike. Most expert craniologlsts insist that] It is extremely difficult to determine] sex from ti:<» skull, but admit there are] a few distinctions which taken togeth-1 er Indicate sex. Perhaps the most] marked distinction is the prominence] of the bony projection over the nose.l The skull in man Is thicker and stron-j ger. and the mastoid processes beneath] the ear are larger. Broca Is authority' for the opinion that if the skull rests on the mastoid processes It Is almost certainly a man's. In woman the top of the head appears flatter, while In man the curve from before backward ; Is more smooth and even. Greek sculp- I tors always recognize this.—Health : Culture. A Klek From Mexico. Tourists come here and shout to wait ers, hotel clerks, shopkeepers, etc., be lieving that if you only yell forth your English it Instantly becomes compre-, henslble. And a common error In breed-; I Ing and one not confined to tourist for-: i eigners Is to make unpleasant remarks about men, women and things In a tone ; of voice which conveys at once to the natives that something disagreeable la being said. So we acquire not without reason the reputation of being muy gro seros, or very rude, and too often we aro.—Mexican Herald. Seeing Around Corners. There are many insects which have a very much larger field of vision than we have. This is due to the greater con cavity of their eyes, enabling them to see around the corner, so to speak, be hind and at the sides. This develop ment in man would have Its objectiona ble points, but also Its good ones, not the least of which might be the detec tion of pickpockets.—Chambers' Jour nal. Lets Him Oat. Mrs. Nagger—Oh, James, how awk ward! Mr. Smith has come, and now. we shall be 13 at table. Mr. Nagger—What then? Mrs. Nagger (with a shriek)— Why, one of us will die before the year la out! Mr. Nagger (brutally)— Never mind. I'm tough.—Plck-Me-Up. Jnat In Time. An Irish gentleman getting upon a street car found one place vacant, which he proceeded to occupy. "Sure," said he, with a twinkle In bla eye, "I came just in the nick of time." "How is that?" "Arrah! If I was to come now, I, shouldn't find a seat in the carl"—Ex change. You can generally tell when a man ia, talking to a woman over the telephone by the tone of voice he assume*—Nash.' vllle Banner. WASHDAY WISDOM. A very hot iron should never be used for flannels or woolens. Calicoes, ginghams and chintzes should be ironed on the wrong side. Clotheslines are made much more , durable by boiling for ten minutes be fore they are used. Table linen should be ironed whetf quite damp and Ironed with a very hoi and very heavy Iron. Irons should not be allowed to be come redhot, as they will never retain the heat properly afterward. Embroideries should be ironed on a thin, smooth surface over thick flannel and only on the wrong side. Linen may be made beautifully white by the use of a little refined borax in the water instead of using a washing fluid. Wash fabrics that are inclined to fade should be soaked and rinsed in very salt water, to set the color, before washing in the suds. Silken fabrics, especially white silk handkerchiefs, should not be damp ened, but* Ironed with a moderately warm Iron when taken from the line. Bli Test. A dealer in pictures who makes it his business to find as many new painters as possible, both In this country and abroad, was asked In regard to his methods of selecting pictures to buy. He was very frank in his talk, and one thing which he said is shrewd enough' to be worth quoting. "Of course," he said, "with my expe rience I am able to Judge whether there Is promise in a painter's work, but I never buy with any idea of put ting the painter on my list until I hare seen the man and talked with him my self. I always watch htm closely, and I never buy his pictures unless his eye lights up when I talk to him about bis work and about his profession." The artist whose heart was really in his work could not discuss it without kindling, and the man yho did not paint from the heart was" not the one whose pictures the dealer wanted. •_ A Bird of Panige. "And where, may I ask, do you gen erally reside?" the young man said aft er all other subjects had been exhaust ed. "Oh, I have no fixed abode," Miss Mobile replied, "but I usually pass the greater part of the winter In Reading. In Lent I find myself attracted to St Paul. After Easter Igo down to West Virginia and spend the summer and part of the autumn In Wheeling." "And then"— "Then, Mr. Heavy, I find myself ad mirably prepared for a month or two of Aiken."—New York Herald. A Good Cricketer. Dr. W. G. Grace was once giving a brilliant batting display at the oval, and one ot> the spectators observed to his friend: "Did you ever see anything like it? Why, ho puts 'em wherever he likes." "Well," said the other, "it's all practice—he's always at It—he doesn|t waste any of his time over family, prayers."—C. W. Aleock's "Cricket StQ* A Brief Interview. The late Rev. R. S. Storrs was a very, hard man to interview, for he resented the inquisitlveness of the press and was icy to its agents. One evening a reporter attended a reception at his house and In the course of the evening touched his arm and whispered: "Doctor, I'm from the all the particulars." "Yes," Dr. Storrs whispered in return, "this way, this way." And, taking the young man's arm, he escorted him to the front door and put him out.