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
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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.
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V Colds, /
I) Grippe, £
w. Whooplnf? Cout»h, Afthma, I
Bronchitis and Incipient A
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follo'sl
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\ preserves and pickit-fl, spread jfl
£< a lliin coating of
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acid pr«K»f. I'ureKeflned Parafßne isal»o I:
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CATARRH fSfi
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ne Cuntains no in
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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.
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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<lank to reach the sill of
the window. It was the end of the
plank dropping on the sill which arous
i ed me.
I stood back a little to watch, and
presently the fellfftv, whose color I
could not determine, started to creep
along the plank. I didn't know exactly
what to do at first, but finally decided
to give him a fall instead of a bullet.
Waiting until he was midway between
the window and the tree, I gave the
| end of the plank a shove, and down he
; went, yelling in affright as he found
j himself going. He had scarcely struck
1 the ground when some one seized him.
i The house was alarmed, everybody
turned out, and when I got down the
owner of the house was standing guard
over the man and saying:
"Now, then, Jim Hivera, you un has
got yo'self into a powerful fuss! You
un has been tryin' to git inter my cab
in in the nighttime to rob the stranger,
an' if you doan' dance high fur It I
doan' want no mo' meat!"
"Wasn't n-tryln' to git In," sulkily
replied Jim.
"Then what was you un doln'?"
"Arter apples."
"Arter apples which hain't as big as
shucks at this time o' y'ar. Jim. yo' is
bad—bad all the way up an' down. I've
knowed it fur y'ars, an' I've knowed
e that yo' would get cotched some day.
it The cotchln'has arrove."
"Cawn't prove It ag'ln me," calmly
_ observed the prisoner.
"You uu Just wait! I'm gwine to tie
yo' up till daylight and then take yo'
befo' Squar' Taylor."
"Jess meant to look in the winder,"
explained Jim, who was evidently be
ginning to be alarmed.
"Oh, yes! We understand! Now you
un come along to the smokehouse an'
doan' try any tricks on me!"
Next morning he was regularly ar
rested on a warrant charging him with
intent to enter and rob. The examlna-"
tion took place In the schoolhouse, and
the justice conducted it without any
lawyers to bother. When Jim was
ftsked to plead, he replied:
"I Jess didn't dun It, an' I'll stick to
my fat if yo' hang me!"
"Then I'll enter a plea of not guilty,"
■aid his honor, and he asked me to
take the Kland. I testified as related
above, but all was not smooth sailing.
When I stated that I was aroused by a
noise, Jim put in:
"He uti doan' dun say what sort of a
noise, Sf|u:ir\ Thar's mo' than fifty
kinds of noises, an' he uns got to come
right down fine."
When I said that I looked out of the
window and saw a man in the tree, ho
Interrupted with:
"B<|uar' Taylor, is j'ou un gwine to
put that down ag'ln me? Thar's var'us
sorts o' men. llow does he un know It
wasn't a nigger? Pin him right down,
»<iuar\"
"Couldn't bin no nigger, nohow," said
his honor. "Couldn't been nobody but
yous, kase yous the one cotched."
When I testified to pushing the end
of the plank off the sill, Jim looked
done up for a minute. Then a bright
idea came, and he exclaimed:
"Iloid he un down, squar'. He says a
plank! How long was that plank?
What sort o' wood? Who did It belong
to? Doan' give he un no high ground
over me kase he looks peart."
The owner of thw house testified to
having been disturbed by a strange
noise, and he had Just gone to the door
when Jim fell from the tree.
"Shore it was ine?" asked Jim.
"Of co'se."
"Doan' reckon It was anybody else?"
"Couldn't bin, kase I grabbed It."
"Better be keerful! You's on oath!
What did I say?"
"Said you un was arter apples."
"Put that down plain, squar'. Apples
isn't as big us beans ylt, an' if I was
arter apples It proves insanity. That's
one for me."
When he took the stand in his own
defense, he was asked:
"Prisoner, what Is your name?"
"What you drlvln' at, Hquar' Taylor?
Ain't no use to menshun any names an'
git up a great fuss In de papers. Jess
go right uiong steady."
"Are you a resident of tills vlllago,
county arid state?"
I "Jess h'ar htm! Squar' Taylor, that
hain't no law. That's only foolln'
around, jess like a man lookln' up a
coon tree when the coon Is somewhar'
else."
"What Is your occupation?" contin
ued the squire.
"Say, squar'," exclaimed Jim as he
i arose and pounded on the desk, "this
] hain't no case whar" somebody stole a
hog. Tills Is a case whar' a nigger
climbed a tree to rob a white man In a
house, an' It's got to go 'cordln' to law
1 or I'll draw right out."
"Jim," replied the Justice after some
reflection, "you un was up that tree."
"I dan deny it."
"You un reckoned to git In that win
der."
"What winder? Hain't nobody swore
on which side of the house that winder
* was."
"And you un reckoned to rob the
stranger."
"IIu! What's ho un got to be robbed
of? Hain't nobody done swore he's got
nuff to buy a coon's tall."
"And you un was cotched?"
"Can't agree with you, squar*. If a
feller stands still, you can't cotch him.
He's got to be on the run."
"You un has been In Jail fur stealln'
tobacco?"
"Uu! That's nufHn to do with this
case. Who knows how many times this
stranger has been In JailV Put lilm
right up an' ax him the queshun,
squar'."
* The Justice scratched his head,
sharpened his goosequlll pen, looked
= from me to Jim and buck In u doubtful
way and finally said:
"JltO invert), I'm gold' to let you un
go free."
7 "Of co'se."
" 15lit be powerful keerful how yous
_ go blowln' yous horn around In fu
ture."
"I hain't gwine to blow."
When court was dismissed, his honop
came over to me and said:
"It's too had to let he un go, but I
didn't want to upsot you an."
"How do you mean?'*
"Why, he un was bound to ask if
you un had ever been in jail for a
crime."
"Well?"
"I thought from your looks that you
un certainly had and perhaps in a
stronger place, an' I wasn't goin' to let
he un git the crow on you!"
The Genius of Hairtliorne.
It would be easy to explain Haw
thorne's peculiar temperament after
the modern fashion by reference to
heredity and environment, says Paul
Elmer More in The Atlantic. No doubt
there was a strain of eccentricity In
the family. He himself tells of a cousin
who made a spittoon out of the skull of
his enemy, and it is natural that a de
scendant of the old Puritan witch
judge should portray the weird and
grotesque aspects of life. Probably,
too, his native tendency was Increased
by the circumstances that surrounded
his youth—the seclusion of his moth
er's life, his boyhood on Lake Sebago,
where, as he says, he first got his
"cursed habit of solitude," and the
long years during which lie lived as a
hermit In Salem." *
But after all those external matters
and even the effect of heredity so far
as we can fathom it explain little or
notliiug. A thousand other men might
have written his books if their source
lay In such antecedents. Behind it ali
was the demonic force of the man
himself, the everlasting mystery of
genius inhabiting lu his brain and
choosing him to be an exemplar and
interpreter of the inviolable Individual
ity in which lie the pain and glory of
our human estate.
A Bin Pie Dlaplay.
The greatest pie display of which
history tells us took place In 1509, at a
dinner given after the funeral of Al
brecht IV., king of Bavaria, at the roy
al palace in Munich. There were seven
great pies upon the table, representing
the seven ages of the world. The first
pie was made of apples. It represented
Adam and Eve, the tree of knowledge,
the snake and the apple. The pictures
were made upon the crust with confec
tions of sugar and almonds.
Another pie was made of doves and
bore a wonderful representation of
Noah's ark In Its center, while round
the edge were placed figures of every
created thing. A key went with this
pie in order that it might be determin
ed what these figures were intended to
represent.
Upon the crust of these wonderful
pastries appeared the tableaux of Abra
ham sacrificing Isaac, David slaying
Goliath, the ravens feeding Elijah, Sam
son tearing open the Jaws of the lion,
and the last and most wonderful of all
the pies when opened was found to
contain four living birds, which all be
gan to sing.
John G. Base's Wit.
John G. Saxe, the poet wit, attended
a flag raising at Greenbush, a little
place across the river from Albany,
during the civil war and made an elo
quent speech In which he praised the
young men of Greenbnsii for showing
their patriotism by exerting themselves
to procure the star spangled banner.
This did not altogether please tbo
chairman, who whispered to him that
the young ladles of Greenbush had
also been Instrumental in raising funds
for the purchase of the flag.
Thereupon Saxe, addressing the
young ladies, made them a graceful
and gallant apology for not Including
them In his praise. "I don't know how
I came to make such a mistake," he
explained, "save as I may have been
laboring under the Impression that the
young men of Greenbush embraced the
young ladies of Greenbush."
Wonderful Klrltlah Dogr*.
A delightful story Is told of a sports
man who was boasting of the Intelli
gence of his dog. "Would you believe
It," he said, "when I was walking In
to the city he suddenly stopped and
pointed at a man by a bookstall, and
nothing I could do would Induce the
dug to move. So I went up to the man
and said, 'Would you oblige me with
your name?' 'Certainly,' said the stran
ger. 'My name Is Partridge.' "
Another dog's "tail:" A suburban
gentleman who was in the habit of
giving ills dog some small delicacy ou
leaving for the city each morning for
got to do so on 0110 occasion. As he
was going out of his house the dog
caught his master's coattalls In his
teeth and, leading him into the garden,
stopped at u flower bed. The flowers
growing there were forgetmenots.—
London Globe.
Got It Straight. The Re»o>.
______________ "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<l rat uml I nu.
Mallory After we are married. Ma
rie, you must never hesitate to ask
ine when you want money
Marie No helml. Mnllory. and I
hope that you v. ill never hesitate about
giving It to me. Brooklyn Life.
The Point of View.
"What makes you think that authors
haven't any common sense?" asked one
publisher.
"Why," answered the other, "If they
had, they wouldn't he authors, would
they?"— Washington Star.
Nut If Tlif > 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.
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