VOL .XXXVIII Big Bargains in Winter Footwear at BICKELS DECEMBER PRICE LIST. Men's double sole and tap working shoes 95 Men's heavy kip, 3 sole, box toe shoes Boys' double sole working shoes 8 5 Men's fine Embroidered slippers 5o Women'# Waterproof Kangaroo-ralf shoes. 1.10 Misses' Waterproof Ksntjaroo calf shoes 1.00 Ladies's fine felt Romeo slipper* 85 Old Lsdits' warm l'ned shoes... s 5 Indies' fint wrge Congress Gaiters 35 Cnt'd/en's heavy shoes 5° Felt and Rubber Goods. Youth's felt bco s and o%fr< #1.25 Men's robber boot? »*5 Boys' fell bcols ard ovm 150 Men s bockle arcMcs. i-<® Won en's felt U #.i> ami over 1 25 Women's buckle arctics /5 Men', felt boots „r d ours 175 Women's rubber boots 1.15 Men's In it 1* os and ovtif 225 Men's fine rubbers 5" Chi'ds b.-t-« 75 Ladies' fine rubbers...... 3o Youth » kuM.er boot? 1 15 Children's spring heel rubbers 15 Boys' rabbt r bootf ' -Co |Holiciay Slippers.| Have you been thinking of Christmas. We have a large stock of Holiday Slippers -all the new and latest patterns— at very low prices. Complete stock of Ladies' and Gents', Misses and Chil dren's over-gaiters and leggins at reduced prices. JOHN BICKEL, SOIIH W/>,N SIFkET. - ' ■ BUTLER, PA % HUSELTON'S Family Footwear for Winter One of the great advantages this store oflers is the fact that you can here select the Footwear for the whole family arid at the same time have double the range of styles and prices to select from than you hnd in any other store. THE FARMER, THE LABORING HAN, THE OIL MAN Will find aboes just inch as is suitable to his wants in Veal, Kip, Oil Grain, jtangaroo JClp, high and regular cut with or without box toe; double aole and tap «t ll 00, % 1 25. f 1 5° *nd <2 00. 1 WOMEN'S HEAVY SHOES fat (Ml Grain, Wax Calf, Veal, Kangaroo Calf, Box and Velour Calf—all shapes, button and lace—at 85c, f 1 00, If 25 and f 1 50. THE BOYS AND GIRLS THAT GO TO SCHOOL Win find their delight in high-cut, metal tips, extra heavy soles and uppers to resist water. Other lints, that cannot be duplicated in Butler, at 11 00, h 25, $( 50 ■ad fa 00. FOR THE YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. All he new shapes, heavy soles, stitched extension edges, rope stitching in Boy, Vrlour and Wax Calf, Vici Kid, Patent an-' Bnatnel leathers at $t 00, 250 3 00, 350 and 4 00. Other fine lines at 85c, 1 00,1 25 and 1 50. RUBBERS, FELT BOOTS AND STOCKINGS. Men's Felt Boots and Rabbets at $t 65, with non-snag Rubbers, 2 eo, 2 25 and H] 50; Men's Stoim King Rubber Boots, 2 75; regular height, 2 25. Boys' Wool Boot* and Rubbers, $1 50; Youths', 1 25; Old Ladies' Warm Shoes •nd Slippers at 50c, 75c, 1 00 and 1 25; Ladies' Wool Boots at $1 25 and I 50 with Ofcn. You can't afford to stay away from this store, if you expect to wear shots this winter. Try us. j HUSELTON'S BUTLER'S LEADING OPPOSITE SHOE HOUSE. HOTEL I-OWRY 5 - * 1 ! ® ur Specialty ' s Trimmed Hats. \ J We save you monotony in styles, and ak P'ic*" are astonishingly I:jw Our Hr i / trimmed hats are artistic, practical Y A stylish and of choice materials. The ' styles will please th» most critical customers and the prices will pit. *e all. Our prices cannot i>e duplicated in the Rocke nste I n's, MILLINERY EMPORIUM. jaß South Main Street. - - Butler, Ta KECK Sk Fa " and Winter Mj ■ -w !' | A T\ /'mJV Jtij Have a nattiness al>out them that fc) /it FA // W mark the wearer, it won't do to ' */ [7 K \n) I J u weßr ' ast year * ou tpnt. You / ri 1* n won't get the latest things at the rA TT F7 fw stock clothiers either. The up-to- U wp g-. date tailor only ian supply them, ' « AAv LLJf IJ if you want not only the latent I, I I JIJIJ I things in cut and fit and work j I J fill/ I nunship, the finest in durability, I ' j 111 I where else can you get combina- J I ill |l | tions, you get them at KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant' Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed. Butler, Pa Removal Notice! C. F. T. Pape, BpP' r.;. . Jeweler and Watchmaker- Will be found on and after April Ist at 121 East Jefferson street, opposite G. Wilson Miller s Grocery Store, Butler, Pa. _ -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. \ The Cure that Cures / p Coughs 9 ts> V Colds, / I) Grippe, £ w. Whooplnf? Cout»h, Afthma, I Bronchitis and Incipient A Jj Consumotion, is follo'sl CSUlit; % Tm German \ -awd vuto ixstast a. , 25SSC .'/- §t. \ preserves and pickit-fl, spread jfl £< a lliin coating of I PURE REFINED 1 I PARAFFINE j II WQI kf»ep tb<*m absolutely moisture ard K acid pr«K»f. I'ureKeflned Parafßne isal»o I: |wfc u*>eful in a dozen otber ways about tbe K boose. Full directions in each package. ■'% , bold everywhere. ■ -J % ST AND AR D OIL CO. ; CATARRH iSI) OEALIXO CCKC FOB CATARRH fSfi Ely's Cream Balm EsjiJ and pleasant to / -i IjH ne Cuntains no in iuri'.as drag. Ii is quickly absorbed. Given Belief at once. It Op*-ns and ( Ifcaijues _ ._ , ..■, .|h COLD 'N H EAD Heals and Protects the Membrane. Bestores the Seines of Taste and .StnelL I-arge Rise, SO cents at Drii-.'/icts or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BBGTUEBS, 06 Warren Street, New York. I« i H Arc [] w You n H Healthy? N If you oarf to b? strong * M W M f>ud vigorous Htid nave on a^ il your clietk the glow of WA 92 perfect heiiMh. lake Li JOHNSTON'S rj W Beef, Iron and Wine k® W the "true tonic" which TA W ctini!»ities in a pleasant V form the valuable iritri- vi m tio is tonic atxl sumulat- La M ing ]>roperties of its in- M greiiienls. fJ I'fice, 501 a pint. a Prepared a.id s )ld only at WM 4 Crystal 1 Pharmacy, 4 ► 1 K. M. LOOAN. Ph. 0, m M J Mauat'er, >1 >1 iOti N. Main Hi. Butlfr. I»» 9 j Both *l'kion«t i Everything in the 4 { drug line. > j j t I New Liverv Barn W. J. Black Is doing business in his new barn which Clarence Walker has erected for him. All boarders and team sters guarranteed good attention* Barn just across the street from Hotel IJutler. He has room for fifty horses. People's Phone. No. 250. L. C. WICK, OXAI.BR IN LUfIBER. Karl Schluchter, Practical Tailor and Cutter 135 W. Jefteraon, Btitltr, P«. Busheling, Cleaning and •pa ring a Soecialty BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER o IPOI { A Tennessee ] | Trial I 1 How a Judge Excused Himself | For Discharging a Prisoner. | Xu one of the valleys to the east of the main spur of the Cumberland I j stof>ped at a "huddle" of houses for the night. I was given a bed in a chamber with a window looking out on to the yard, and ten feet from the window stood a large apple tree. It being sur'uier, the window sash was raised. It must have been about midnight when a sound at the window awoke me, and I got out of bed to see what \ was the matter. It did not take long J to discover that some one was planning a surprise for ine. A man had climbed the tree and from a handy branch had thru.-t out a i. ______________ "Yes, he Is an absinth drink er, but he is de voted to his Of jroor campaign with —II colors flying,' said the friend. Tenderfoot—Curious <• j don't names you Indians know," answer »ive each other—Spot- ed Senator Sor ted Tail, Bed Dog and ghum. "Maybe nil that. Now, what s"'" nilsunder name would you give flood him. May ,, , ... be you thought mo If I were an Indl- . .. , , , ho said colors 0,17 when he said Chief Jlm-Umph! •doliara.'" Big Injon call you Pat w a shington Head!—ChlcagoNews. Star. A Future Itonat. "I have always declared," she timidly said, "that I would never marry any one but a man of high birth." "Then," he answered with the con fidence born of certainty, "I'm the ono for you. My parents had a Hat on tho thirteenth floor at the time." Chicago Becord-Herald. I're 11 n> tuury I n Il«* ml flic l*i« rat. Mr. Cozycorner I see Mr. Ernest Be ton-Thompson, author of "Animals I Have Known," has changed his inline. Mrs. Cozycorner Won't that be rath er confusing to the animals?- ohhi Slate Journal. THE ELEVATOR BOY. HE RELATES A PERSONAL EXPERI ENCE WITH A NEW TENANT. Hon lie Got Revontte on an Aliened Afifent Fop n Grindstone Quarry Who Refused to Help Him Lift the Mortgage on Ilia Mother** Home. [Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis.] It is but natural that an elevator boy in a skyscraper should seek to size up a new tenant as soon as possible, and when Mr. Ilagadoon moved in on the ninth floor the other week I got a line on him In twenty-four hours. lie claim ed to be ngenl ftsr a grindstone quarry, and he had a gritty way with him. I had scarcely decided that I could never give him mv coii.;.,letice and feel like a son toward him v hen he called me up to his room and said: "Saminis, I want tfl say a word to you. I understand that you are father less?" "Yes, sir." "And you are trying to pay off a mortgage 011 your mother's home:" "Yes. sir." "Well, I don't blame your father for dying, and I hope the mortgage will be foreclosed. I wouldn't give you a ten cent piece to save your neck. You are one of those fresh kids who are on the spy and gossip, and you expect a quar ter every time you carry a tenant up or down. You have run against a snag, Sammis. You have met a man who'll tie you up in knots the tirst time you open your mouth. Look out for me, Sammis!" It is needless to say that my feelings were hurt. lie had jumped ou me with both feet without cause. A boy in a blacksmith shop would have gone away and felt crushed for a year, but I was sad for about ten minutes and then thirsted to get square. I had hardly got down stairs before my mind was made up that I would some day hold Mr. Hagadoon's nose to his own grind stone and hold it hard. lie didn't have no boy about his office, and so I tried to make friends with his typewriter. I had no sooner offered her a stick of gum, however, wlieu she turned on me with: "Boy, I am up to your little game, and it won't work. Hotter 'tend right to your own little business." A week had pa.ssed. and 1 had learned nothing about the grindstone business, when a strange cub made up faces at me a* I went out to lunch. I sailed In at once, and 1 had got him down and at my mercy when he offer ed to betray a secret if I would spare his life. I thought it was about a pot of gold, but It didn't pan out that way. He had been the grindstone man's boy In another skyscraper and had been discharged for falling in love with the stenographer. That grindstone busi ness was ail a bluff. Mr. Hagadoou had several little schemes, lie was running a matrimonial agency, selling lottery tickets, doing a quiet pool busi ness uud roping In suckers on worth less mining stocks. All this the hoy told me as 1 held "bint down by the hair, and I not only spared his life, but re warded him with a bag of peanuts. Before taking any steps against the grindstone man I gave him a show. During a lull lu business I stopped at his door and asked him If I could pos sibly do anything to make his stay in the building more comfortable, lie didn't let me Into his office: hut. com lng out luto the hull, he grabbed me by the hair and hissed Into my eur: "Away with you or I'll dabble my hands In your hesrt's blood!" I had given hlui u show, and he had refused It. As I smoothed down my hair and got back to my elevator there was no longer an lota of uiercy lu my heart. The curtain fell next afternoon at 3 o'clock. I had got on to the fact that u lot of fellows were lu (he daily habit ■if riding up to the tenth floor and then walking down to the ninth to see Mr. Ilagadoon, and the rush was always greatest about tniilafternoon. I might have saved the typewriter on account of her sex, but ut 2 o'clock, as I hung urouud to give her a wortl of warning, she swept past me with her nose up and a cold glare In her eyi*s. and 1 hardened uiy heart. An hour later the officials of the law were lu possession. Mr. Ilagadoon went down lu my eleva tor, and a police mini was at his elbow. I expected he would cry out against me. but he did not. On the contrary, lie looked at me with a sorrowful face, and his voice was full of pathos us he said: "Bamnils, I see when too lute where 1 mude my fatal mistake." "Yes, sir." "I should have taken you Into my confldcncc ut the start uud ullowcd you t> per cent." "Yes. sir." "Then the mortgage would hu;e been paid, your widowed mothe' would have got married again, and we would have been rich aud happy. Kammls, let me take your hand while I vow never to snub another elevator boy." v There was great excitement around the building, with 'iiy name being fre quently mentioned mill witnesses hunt ed after, and Mr. Itusher, tin- agent, called me down to the office und asked: "Sammis, Is this another case where s tenant refused your friendship?" "He scorned me, sir." 1 replied. "And you brought him low as a con sequence. He ought to have known better, and you ou-jht to have remem bered that we have a dozen offices va cant. Hum mis, I think you had better take a week's vacation, with pay. II will be good for your nervous system." I took It, uud when I returned to the skyscraper all was serene aud the goose huiiK high for Kiimmls, the Ele vator Hoy. M. Quad. Futile. I observed with disquiet that Mor daunt was about t<» hung himself. I't have nothing to live for," lie ex plained. What was I to iv? 1 l.new only too well the futility of trying to live tor nothing In New Yoi>i. New York hun. IN THE APIARY. Arrnnfcement of a Hive Fop the Pro duction of Comb Honey. The illustration, originally presented In The Farmer's Advocate, shows the system of comb honey production fol lowed by a successful Cnnadian apia rian, the principal points of which are as follows: 1 represents the cover, beneath which is a cushion two inches thick of soft, fine hay, and beneath this is a cotton cloth of hard white cotton duck, which rests 011 tho sections. 2, 2, are section supers, one-quarter Inch deeper than the sections used. COMB HONEY HIVE. ; Mr. Pettit's are seventeen and one ■ eighth inch' s square, inside measure ment, each holding thirty-six sections. 3, queen bar of excluder, which cov ers the brood chamber, admitting only worker bees to . supers. 4, brood chamber. 5, wedges i f wood one Inch deep In front, gradually tapering to a point at tho back. Tlieso are ttsed in summer to allow ventilation, and they also raise i the front of the hive so as to Induce , the bees to go up the sldewalls of the hive find the brood combs near the back of the hive. 0, floor projects three and a half Inch es In front of the brood chamber. 7, 7, stand of two six inch boards and two seven inch. This rests on bricks, as shown, 8, comb honey supers, same as 2. 0, 0, divider set on two of the sides of the super, as shown in position. It is one-eighth of an inch thick and has three-eighth Inch holes, through which the bees pass to the sections. 10, section in position, resting on T tins 12 and against a divider. The sec tion is filled with light foundation of good quality within three-sixteenths of an inch of the bottom. With sections fitted with foundation In this way the bees fill them evenly. 11. bee space of five-sixteenths of an inch, created by six blocks numbered 13 on divider No. 0. The advantage of this extra bee space at the sides of the super is to allow for a double quantity of bees to keep up necessary animal heat, which is advantageous to the fin nslilug up and capping the combs In the sections. ! The Cornatalk Dlaeaae Aaraln. i The stalk feeding season leads lowa Homestead to comment on the corn ! stalk disease, with the following suiu t in lug up of the situation: "All the thco . rles of disease heretofore propounded ' fall to work out and explain the cases that are found In practice, and they 1 are consequently worthless. Uls one of • the diseases of which us yet we can I only say we don't know what causes i them. Deaths occur in some fields and t none lu others. Coru fodder that Is cut up and fed In that form lias never ■ caused a ease of stalk disease so far ' as we know. If one will turn cattle , Into stulktields, he must take the risk • as to results, for no prevention Is known, and no cure hus been dlscover i ed for tho disease when it once attacks an animal." Boslnii Good Frnlt. i Cnarles Forster of New York says , that western boxed red apples bring $2. This means $0 per barrel and shows what will bo gained by boxing good fruit—Rural New Yorker. A Convenient Aaaortlnc Table. The cut, from Ohio Farmer, shows an assorting table for fruit or roots, i which Is about 3by 12 feet and nearly 3 feet high, with u four Inch rim all ; i'round so as to hold about six bushels D." apples or potatoes and bring them I' dit up so that the men can stand up rli-aight lu sorting. Speaking of as- AN ASSORTING TABI.E. sorting potatoes in tho cellar, a corre spondent says In reference to this tu ble: With u wire scoop shovel wo sc >op them up from the cement bot tomed cellar, leaving all dirt and dust on the floor to he swept up and taken but. The table stands lu a good llidit, .ind the sorting Is far more rapid, easy ind accurate than when you kneel lown and sort from the big pile. The cgs should be well braced both length wise and crosswise. We have two of these tables, and they are a great help utul a great saving of back ache and knee ache In assorting several thou sand bushels of apples and potatoes In tho course of a year. AS TO GROWING RYE. a Frlenallr Crop Tlml Worka For (he I l''nr,»rr Uurluic the Winter, If you have an old timothy soil or a field with perhaps no soil that ls to go Into corn next spring, with a lot of cows or cattle roaiulng over It, tramp ing the lifi* out of It and hunting for an allegation of grass upon It for their sustenance, remove the cattle and plow the fleld and prepare the soil nicely and sow two bushels of rye to the acre. | The ground should he compacted | with a line, shallow seed bed und the I whole operation of the seeding done well. j The rye will appreciate and pay for two or three hundred pounds of ferti lizer of roek and potash to the acre. After the ground has settled In the fall i and wliile frozen during the winter u coat of manure will benefit the rye. Save the manure and make the land richer for the next crop. If the rye makes a heavy fall or early v Inter growth. If so desired It may be ' pastured when the ground Is not wet, although I uever recommend pasturing K ythlug I lit the pasture As soon lu t• spring as the rye Is big enough to ( | «Ut for fved It U old uiough, uwd cUV ting may begin very enrly In May for soiling and lie i»rofitably fed to all farm stock. What has not been used for soiling cut just at or before the rye is blooming and make into hay. Cure in windrows and cocks aud get from an acre two to five tons of hay that Is highly relished by the stock and in feeding value very much supe rior to timothy. Every ton of this hay that displaces a ton of timothy in feed lug represents a ton of timothy for sale at next spring's good prices, and the better quality of the rye hay fully pays for the cost of its production. The rye will be removed from the ground in ample time for planting corn on the same land and the corn be rath er better than otherwise for the friend ly crop that worked anil saved during the winter, concludes a writer in Farm Journal. Seventeen Year Loeast In 1(H)2. According to Dr. J. B. Smith of New Jersey, an extended brood of the sev ; enteen year locust is due to appear in | New Jersey next year. Dr. Smith ad j vises fruit growers In the various coun ties where this brood made Its last ap pearauce In ISSS to set out young or chards either In the fall of 1001 or spring of 1002. If they do set, they ; should not prune too closely, but leave | as many shocks and branches as possl i ble in which the Insects may lay their : cgps without harm to the tree itself. These branches may then be trimmed out early in July, when all danger !s past Further, do not trim frujt or other trees or shrubs too closely and where not absolutely required do no trimming at nil. Do no budding or grafting cither this fall or next spring, as growing buds and grafts are espe cially apt to be injured. llnnd)- Device For Cattle Feeders. An Illinois correspondent has sent to the lowa Homestead a sketch of a self feeder which he built. Above the triangular hopper Is a floor with traps In It running the en tire length of the building, and the A BEI.F FEEDEB. hopper can be replenished from time to time, as occasion requires. Feed can lie stored here for bad weather. A door, shown In the illustration. Is where the self feeder Is replenished from the wagon when the weather Is fine. Ac cording to the correspondent, tbe pro jecting roof is all that Is needed for fattening cattle In his locality. Honey la tbe Cellar. The average cellar In most places Is about tbe worst place that could be chosen to keep honey, remarkß an ex change. For extracted honey choose a dry place, for comb honey a place that Is dry and warm. A place that will not beep wilt dry will not do for boney. It absorbs moisture as does salt and will become thin and In time may sour. Comb honey In a damp place will at tract moisture, and finally the cells will become so full that the boney will ooze out through tbe capplngs and weep over the surface. Freezing will crack the comb. A good place to keep honey in the warmest part of the kitchen, perhaps In the upper shelf of the cupboard. Fall Planting. When the ground is reasonably moist, it is safe to plant some things In the fall In pretty high altitudes, such as the blackberry, raspberry, grape, currant, gooseberry, shrubbery anil small fruit trees, which can all have their tops bent over and covered by a hill of earth after being planted, says lowa Homestead. The top can also be covered to prevent evaporation. If the planting of these, however, Is to be done In a very exposed situation. It Is usually best to defer It until spring. Tree Protectors. Treo guards and other protectors arc now In order. A strip of wire fly screening Is about the best thing we know of, says lowa Homestead, and It will remain on the trees for several years. Grain Moved In Streams. Nowhere In North America will you come on a more thrilling night scene than the fresh water cargo tank un loading at Buffalo, says Hollln Lynde llartt In The Atlantic. Here she lies beneath the towering grain elevator, which thruw|s a long pumping pipe (called the ''leg") down through lior hatchway. Mount the gangplank, dodging the spinning ropes that make your head reel, stumble about on the dark deck, look down, down, down through the open hatch, and, sounds, what a sight! The hold glows with electricity. It Is misty with blown dust. It roara with mechanical activ ity. An enormous steel "shovel," big as the Inside of a house aud manipulated by countless Hying ropes, charges back and forth through the whole length of tbe ship, pitching the yellow grain tie fore it aud heuplng it up where the leg can get hold of It to whisk It Into tbe bin that Is somewhere up In the sky. Beneath, In the hold, an army of blue clad men wltli_woodcn "scoops" barely dodge the deadly shovel as they swing the grain Into Its path. Observations by Mildred. Scene: Tramcar. Dramatis persona-: Four-year-old girl, mother and several passengers. Child (In high, shrill treble)--Mamma, did you get papa's birthday present? "Yes, dearest." "What did you get, mamma?" "Cigars, lovey." "Tin- cheap ones that Aunt Millie told you about?" Silence from mamma, but a heighten ed Hush dn her face that was not entire ly the reflection from "dearest lovey's" red velvet hat. "Mamma, that man over there has 011 a dreadfully dirty necktie. You told papa the other day that no geutlemau would wear a soiled necktie." Man glares aud pulls his coat about his neck. "Mildred, stop talking." Mildred was silent for a little while. "Mamma, that lady over there forgot to polish her shoes this morning."— Loudon Spare Moments. All Cheese Is Densely Popnlated. I'rofessor Adametz, who devoted con siderable time to the study of tbe fra grant subject, said that the population of an ordluary cheese when a few nei-ks old Is greater than the number of persons upon the earth. I'rofesaor Adamets mnrte some Inter esting researches dealing with the ml- No. 48 ! nine organisms found In cbeese. From a microscopic examination of a soft variety of Gruyere cheese he obtained the following statistics: In fifteen grains of cheese, when perfectly fresh, i from 00,000 to 140,000 microbes wero found, and when the cheese was sev enty day* old the population had in creased to 800.000 in each fifteen grains. An examination of a denser cheese at twenty-five daya old proved it to contain 1,200,000 in each gram (about fifteen grains) and wbtn forty five days old 2,000,000 in the same small particle. Spider* Are Indnstrloas» No small insect ever escapes from the web of a spider, a fact which Is not to Ik? wondered at when it Is con sidered that an ordinary sized snare may contain as many as 120,000 viscid globules. The spinner is constantly engaged in repairing injuries to the web inflicted by wind, stray leaves or captured insects. Once a day the whole snare is subjected to rigorous examina tion. and any broken or loosened threads are adjusted.—Cornbill Maga zine. Tl—lit. Winter thunder is considered through out Europe to be of very ill cmen, but April thunder is considered to be very beneficial. In Devonshire and other cider counties of England there Is a saying that "when it thunders in April you must clelin up the barrels"—in readiness, that is, for a plentiful crop of apples. The French consider April thunder to be indicative of a good yield from their vineyards and cornfields. Chuct For Vntetue. Simson (angrily)—l have sent the ed itor of The Hightone Magazine forty two of my poems, and he has returned every one of them. Friend—Don't send him any more. He might get mad. "Suppose he should. What could he do?" "He might publish one of them un der your real name."—New York Week ly- Abandoned Cisterns. An abandoned cistern is often a dan gerous thing and should be filled, as stagnant water which may remain in It is a common source of disease. If this cannot be done at once, it is a good plan to throw in proper disinfectants and gradually fill it up with sifted coal ashes. Tbe Real Bitterness. Mamma—But, darling, why should you object to taking the good doctor'* advice? Bobby—lt isn't his advice, mamma. It's his horrid old medicine that I hate to take.—Chicago News. Wkr He Hem Attains Her Idenl. A man who is earning the living for a family doesn t have time to live up to his wife's ideals, and by the time be has made his money he is too old and wants to be comfortable. Atchison (Kan.) Globe. To make good tea and coffee the wa ter should be taken at the first bubble. Remember continued boiling causes the water to part with Its gases and be come flat. This Is the cause of much bail tea and coffee.—Ladles' Home Jour nal. Crabs Are Fighters. Crabs are fighting animals. In fact, they will fight anything, says a natu ralist. I have seen a crab, in conflict with a lobster, catch the latter over the fore part of the head, where the shell U hardest, and crush it In by one effort, and It rather bears out my idea that the claws of these creatures are particularly weapons of war; that the moment one of them receives severe In- Jury In a claw it drops It off by volun tary amputation, severing Its connec tion with the body at the shoulder by an act of Its own will. It seems to me probable that If the claw neces sary for feeding nature would rather seek to cure an injury to It than let the animal discard It altogether. The species of crab which Is most conspicuously a fighter Is the hermit crab, its first idea of independent life is to eat a harmless whelk and occupy Its shell. Its next notion Is to give bat tle to every crab of the same persua sion as Itself that It comes across. Al together hermit crabs are undoubtedly the most quarrelsome creatures In ex istence. Tbe Hand Klsa. The kiss of the hand Is undoubtedly ancient and* therefore Is not derived from that of the lips, but probably the converse is true. The hand kiss Is loosely asserted to be developed from servile obeisances In which the earth, the foot and the garments were kissed, the hand and cheek succeeding In order of time und approach to equality of rank. But It is doubtful If that was tbe actual order, and it Is oertaln that at tbe time when hand kissing began there were less numerous gradations of rank than at a later stage. Kissing of the hands between men Is mentioned In the Old Testament, also by Homer, Pliny and Luclan. The klsa was applied reverentially to sacred ob jects, such as statues of the gods, as Is shown by ancient works of art, and also among numerous etymologies by thnt of the Ijitln word "adoro," and it was also metaphorically applied by the inferior or worshiper kissing his own ha ad and throwing the salute to the superior or statue. Convincing. The methods employed by ex-Gov ernor Throckmorton of Texas to make clear the claims of his clients wero perhaps unlike those of auy other law yer, but they often carried conviction with tbem. At one time he was defending a man who was on trial for murder In Gaines ville, Tex. He desired to make It plain to the jury that the man whom his cli ent bad killed, although in his shirt sleeves and without a pistol pocket, might have been well armed. "Can you see any signs of arms about me?" demanded the general, tak ing off his coat and staudlng before the Jurors. They shook their beads. "Watch me!" he said dramatically, and with that he proceeded I 9 draw a pistol from under each arm, one from each boot leg and from tbe back of his neck a bowle knife of most sinister as pect.— Youth's Companion. "KilrMllns Wltboat Pain." "Nothing makes a man feel so small," observed tbe breakfast cynic, "as when ho hears feminine screams emanating from a house, and, rushing forward, determined to rescue her or die In the attempt, he Is confronted by the sign, 'Dentist.' "—Chicago News. (Carrie—Tonight would be a good time to speak to papa. Lindsay Why do you think so? Carrie- He wore a new pair of shoes all day, aud his feet are so tender be wouldn't dare do anything to hurt them.—Chelsea (Mass.) GMtttft. •> f