VOL XXXIX 1902 BICKELS 1902 JANUARY SALE. One lot Ladies' warm lined shoes. Regular price $1 25 at $ So One lot L*dies' fine dongcl* pat. tip shoes " " 150 at 100 One lot Mises' " " spring heel shoes... " " 125 at So " " " " welt sole shoes " 1 5° 100 " Youth*' high-cut box-calf shoes " " 125 at "va " Children's fine dongola pat. tip shoes " " 75 at 45 " Men's fine satin calf shoes, lace or Congress.. " " 15° 100 '• Ladies'best oil-grain shoes " " las at K5 •' Ladies' felt slirpers " " 75 at 35 " Men's heavy working shoes " " 15° at 1 00 Boys " " 125 at 90 " Holiday slippers " " 35 at '• Chilrfr»r>'s lace or button shoes " " 60 at 35 " Infants' fine soft sole shoes " " 4° at >5 " Men's fine welt sole shoes, latest styles " " 400 at 250 " Holiday slippers, which sold at 75c, $ I co, (1 25 to be closed out at 4S Too Many Felt and Rubber Goods. One lot Children's spring heel rubbers reduced to $ 10 ; '• Child's rubber Hoots " Chi'd's canvas boots " Women's rubber boots ' 1 '• Men's Storm King rubber boots " 2 75 " M<*n'r buckle arctics '* " \V'< men's buckle arctics *• Men's fine self acting rubbers "j 5° " Men'n felt br>ots and overs " 1 75 " Bo\s' " " ", " " 1 5° Sample counters filled with interesting bargains. Leggins and over-gaiters at reduced pi ices. It will pay you to visit this great sale and secure some of the bargains being offered JOHN BICKEL, ! \i\ STREET. - - P.'JTLF.V, PA | BARGAIN SALE | * DRY GOODS ANI) CLOAKS. | $ Five Big Ba gain Days $ 5 Commencing 3 8 Tuesday. January 7, 1902 T> f duce stocks before invoicing we n ake sweeping reductions 0:1 j'r) teaaoi'.cbli gowls. It will pay lou to ionic and get sonu of the bargains Qk at this sale. *• Uk Genuine Bargains in Coats, Dress Goods, Silks, Vt £ Linens, Blankets. Outings, Sheetings, Underwear, etc. JO Sale bei(in-» Tuesday, January 7, 1901, and continues until Saturday <9t night, January nth Atteud this sale without fail if you want to save money on Drv yk Goods and Coats. IL. Stein & Son,» S 108 N MAIN STREET. BUTLER, PA S I Mrs! "iE. Zlfe'MEßlvi An| 18th Semi-Annual | Sacrifice Sale. I Our Semi-Annual Sacrifice Sale Takes Place as Usual) £ Beginning Wednesday, Jan. Btli, and continuing 7 Tlironglioiit the entire month of January. <> The many inquires we are receiving daily asking if we in-( \ fend to have our sale testifies to the popularity of these V hce Sales among our many patrons who have been benefited by. C attending them in the pa-t. We are anxious to make this sale. I the biggest success of all previous sales, and shall do so by f offering our gojds at prices you connot resist. We cannot r quote all prices—only a few—consequently it will pay you to' jf make us a personal visit. , _ B I All Wraps, Suits and Furs. & ( f\ 11 I I All Waists, Wrappers and Dressing Sacques. / | II IwV V a]l Millinery—trimmed and untrimmed. % ► 1 All Dress Goods, Silks and Satins. \ ' All Muslins, Calicoes and Ginghams. \ I All Underwear, Hosiery aad Gloves. 3^ | L/ni AAA I aces > Embroideries & Dress Trimmings.# < 9 IvvO will All Blankets—woolen and cotton C> ' ' \ All Lace Curtains and- Portiers. \ ' . Sacrifice prices for cash only. Come early to secure first choice.). ' 'Sale begins WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Bth, 1902 V [Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman! KECK ; \ t\ "E Have a nattiness about them that * ''' /*] ' (l l\ mark the wearer, it won't do to j \ \/Zi (Hi M wear the last year's output. You NL '\~C/ V 0 won't get the latest things at the Fj R stack clothiers eitlier. The up-to \f lw date tajlor only tan supply them, A 171// II O you" want not only the latest ( ! ll] J//(|r I things in cut and fit and work llf l lf 11 | nionship, the finest in durability, \ I 1 !//. II I where else can you get combina -3 Ift Jill V tions, you get them at K E C K 6. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed. Butler, Pa THE BUTLEK CITIZEN. £ That Dangerous ? \ Cough\ I May lead to something more j i S serious if not cured soon. / C Our ) / Svr. White Pine Comp. \ / V,h ~ I \ Eucalyplol and Honey, c f is tha remedy for it, promptly re- V 1 lieves and speedily cures all throat / I and bronchial afftC'.ions. / \ Price 25 and 50c. J y (If you suffer from hea.'ache, \ S Rediclt's heaiache powders will \ I .give prompt relief, if your dealer C y does not have them we will send ✓ S them to you by mail, packages of -S J 4 doses 10 cents.) - C /Redick & GrohmanX J Prescription Druggists. \ IC9 N. ijaln St., Butler, 'Pa. MORE MEN ARE LEARNING ever) day that its better to pay a little more for clothes made to measure than to try to save a few dollars, simply because the few thereby saved sacrifices the value of the clothes. It is impossible to cheapen the workmanship of good clothes without destroying their value. Give us your order for our -30 §aek suit and we will g've you an inteiesting example of comfort and economy. Our abundant assortment of new fall gooc's affords e\ery opportunity for a chove selection. .Aland. * .w- y | ; (/ If Don't Suffer from the cold. Don't wear Underwear urisuited to the season. Get something that is warm and comfo table. We Sell Dr. Deimel's linen-mesh underwear. Dr. Jaeger's sanitary wool " Jaros Hygienic fleeced " Wright's health " and many others. * Have some broken lots which we are selling very cheap. Drop in and look at them. Jno. S. Wick. MEN'S HATTER AND FURNISHER. Opposite P. 0. BUTLER, PA. Extreme Pleasure will result from the use of glasses p Ur _ chased at Kirkpatrick's The latest im proved methods are used and glasses furnished at prices to pleasu you. You will also find here all that is new and desirable in Cameras, Photo Supplies, Washburn Mandolins' Guitars and Vio lins. Edison, Columbia n.<d Victor Talk ing Machines. R. L. KIRKPATRICK, Jeweler and Graduate Optician Next to Court House Eyes Examined Free of Charge R. L. KIRKPATRICK. Jeweler and.Graduate Optician. Next N-vor to Court Howie ttntlpr. Pa UlANfEl)—Honest m;in or woman totrave for large house ; salary monthly and exin ns«-s, with Increase; position perman ent{inclose hclf addressed stamped eoveYop# iff. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1902 i The Cure thai Cures J p Coughs, \ Goftis, rD Grippe, (k Whooping Cou?>h, Ap'hma, 1 Bronchitis and Incipient A' cjl Consumotion, is I efl C: i |j Tue GERMAN REMEDY* ,•£ £r Cures x\vr-va\. -arvd Viwi J \ £o\4 a\\ P W Don'i tio the top of your V .->?"•? - V;. l i!\ Will preserve Jars In i '3 P s the olii m-sbioued way. Seal ' : * - f them by H>e new, quick, 1\ "if ' (<V-, absolutely sure way —by - i-A a tlii" coating of mire, » isjj t'JA. retliieil I'aranine Wax. ; • I" |?l|| Hub no taste or odor. A'* |)| y• r?]! Is air tight and acid JEproof. Kasily applied. > / ' > Hi' Of L'selul in a dozen other £ -r ■Vi V Wry ways about th» honce. t X ?\n W Full directions with ' each pound cake. VjPS Bold everywhero. > Made by STANDARD OIL CO ilffg Druggist gTARRH loeENT TRIAL SIZE. Ely's Cream Balm f Gives Relief at once. It cleanses, soothes and henls tUe diseased mem brane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold UflY FF Vf K in the Ilead quickly. It Bi™ 1 U • » is nbsorlK'd. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Benscs of Taste and Smell. Full size Soc.; Trial Size Wc.; at Druggists or by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, New York. Johnston's H Beef, Iron and Wine N F Best Tonic Blood Purifier. Price, 50c pint. L « Prepared and W A A sold only at k « Johnston's M )| Crystal N U Pharmacy. M U 0 Wi R.*M. LOGAN, Ph. O . kl [ fl Manager, v i 9 A 10»l N. Main St., Hutler, l>*'. V Both' Phones A pi Everything in the drug New Liver" Barn W. J. Black Is doing business in his ne v ban which Clarence Walker has erecteo for him. All boarders and team sters guarranteed good attention N Barn just across the street Hotel Butler. He has room for fifty horses. People's Phone. No. 3150. L. C. WICK, DBAI.BR IK LUriBER. Karl Schluchter, Practical Tailor and Cutter 125 W. Jefferson, Butler, Pa. Bushftlinq, Cleaning and I REPAIRJNQA SPECIALTY. fuow I HURRIED I 111 MY GRANDMOTHER I It was five years ago. The affair be gan then, but before I say any more let tne recall to your mind the fact that I was always regarded in the fam ily as my grandfather's heir. The title and entailed estate would go, of course, to his eldest sou, my uncle, but the greater part of his vast wealth would come to me. In fact, he had so de clared. I had lost both parents when but a child, and 1 had grown to man hood under his immediate care, for he had long been a widowef. My father had been his favorite son. What more natural than that I should be the pre ferred one? There \v#s this under standing. however, between my grand fattier and myself: I must never marry without his approval. Marry! I had no thought of it. My rollicking bach elor life pleased me too well to ex change it for any other. And that sort of existence lasted un til I was twenty-seven, and then it was brought to an abrupt close by— what do you suppose? Well, a girl's face, nothing more—a .ry i's i'aee seen for a brief moment only at a window as I was changing carriages at Ilolton station. You smile. I don't wonder, but I declare to you that from thence forth I knew no peace of mind. That face was ever before me. looking out from under a dainty gypsy hat, pale, pure, perfect in outline, with a luxuri ant mass of soft brown hair full of shiny ripples, dark eyes, a little red mouth and shining white teeth. "Some dreamy little chit," 1 said to myself again and again, "with a pret ty face and a head full of romance. I wish I had never seen her. At all events, it is highly probable that we have met for the first and last time; so I'll forg-t her." Brave words! I could not forget her, and just then, to add to my perplexity, my regiment was ordered off to India. A few days before embarking I re ceived it letter from my grandfather, Sir John Ilalbrooke. urging me to run down to The Towers in order that I might meet the lady who was destined to be my future wife. My answer was short and to the point: Doar Grandfather —1 have no desire to marry. Besides, I start for India in two weeks, so I have no time for courtship. But I shall run down to The Towers to see you. Your affectionate, etc. The old gentleman's answer was equally concise and explicit: My Dear Grandson—ll you come to The Tow ers with the intention of putting yourself en tirely in mv hands, I shall be overjoyed to see you. If you attempt to enter my house with any other inUntion, I'll have you kicked out, and if you go to India, I hope to heaven that you'll be shot. Your affectionate, etc. What could be done in the face of such an epistle as this? Evidently nothing, so I cheerfully made my preparations for departure, and before we sailed—l am glad to remember this —before we sailed I wrote again to Sir John, but this time it was a letter full of gratitude and affection and earnest regrets that I could not do as he de sired. To this I received no answer, but a month after my arrival in India I read the announcement of the baronet's death, and the same paper contained his marriage notice. A letter from his solicitors explained the mystery. My grandfather had been severely injured while overlooking some reno vations which were being made at The Towers, and,, feeling that death was fast approaching, he had almost at the last moment married the only child and heiress of Hubert Mouckton, Esq. "Moreover," wrote the lawyer, "by your grandfather's will you Inherit something above £50,000, provided you consent to marry the lady with whom he went through the ceremony of mar riage on his deathbed. Otherwise you receive not a penny of his fortune." Had the man gone mad? Marry my grandmother? For, word it as they might, the ugly fact was still there — the woman was my grandmother. Bristling with indignation, I wrote to Sir John's lawyer—not very civilly, I fear, but very energetically, I am sure. In first place, I said I would not accept a penny of Sir John Ilalbrooke's fortune as a free gift. In the next, I would not accept the whole of It bur dened with a single restricting clause, and. In conclusion, I not only refused to marry the widow, but absolutely de clined holding any communication whatever with her. "And say to my grandmother," I add ed, "that the world is wide enough and there are men enough In It for her to seek whom she may devour elsewhere and not among those whom the law of the land now tteclarcs to be her own kith and kin. Let her cast her eyes among the strangers at her gates and cot upon her grandson!" That ended the matter, and I was troubled with no more letters about it. Two years afterward I returned to England 011 leave, and then fate, in the person of General Ashland, led me down to Surrey for a fortnight's shoot ing. Ah, my dear fellow, it is only the old story over again. I went down to Sur rey and met there—whom do you sup pose? Well, the girl whose face—seen once and for a moment only had haunted me for years. She was a distant relative of my host. Yes, and I loved her desperately not for her beauty alone, but for the pure goodness, kindliness and unself ishness of her heart, which were con stantly and unthinkingly revealing themselves in a thousand artless little ways. So, as you may guess, my two weeks at Ashland Park wore 011 to four, and I still lingered, even until the dying leaves were rustling feebly in the mel low air of a belated autumn. And one clear, starlit evening, when Helen and 1 were sauntering among the trim flower beds that were cut In the soft green turf of the terrace, I told her the secret of my heart—lts hope, Its fear, lis sweet unrest. When I ceased, my companion looked up at me wonderlngly, and, upon my honor, tears were glistening in her pretty eyes. "What!" she said. "Are you sure? Do you love me— me? Oh, Colonel Ilalbrooke, how could you? Indeed, it cannot-cannot be!" « "Because your heart Is given else where, I suppose? Hut, Helen, X can not let you go from me! 1 love you! Oh, my darling, how shall I live all the long weary years of my life without you?"' ' Hush!" she cried sharply. "Sir, do you.know do you know who I am?" "Indeed, yes'. The sweetest little girl In the wide world!" "No, sir, I am not. Colonel Ilal brooke, I am your grandmother!" My grandmother! Talk of sudden shocks after that, won't you? 1 tried to speak, but my voice failed me. I reached out my hands and touched her. Yes, she was there, real enough, and X was not dreaming. "Tell me all!" 1 gasped. A lid standing there by tlio broad stone coping she told me all—how her parents had died when she was little more than an infant, and Sir John, her guardian, had watched over her with jealous care; always keeping her at school, however, until he brought her home to The Towers, a young lady. She had heard of me. She knew all about her guardian's Intentions and my persistent refusal to see her. And when Sir John lay dying and appealed to her to marry him, in order to secure certain property which would other wise pass to the next of kin she con sented. * "Not for myself, Colonel Ilalbrooke," she continued, "for I inherited a for tune, but for you. The property has been sold, according to instructions, and the money coming from the sale is yours. Sir John wished you to take it. He often said that your allowance was paltry compared with what should have been yours and would have been, too, had your father not left so many debts behind him." "You are privileged to speak as you please about my father." I murmured. "Were he living, you would be his mother." "Don't be ridiculous, sir!" cried her ladyship sharply. "And if you are try ing to mortify me you may as well un derstand that you cannot succeed. I meant to do right, and I regret nothing that I have done. I did not know any thing of your grandfather's foolish wishes about us until his will was read." "I>o 1 understand that the money is really mine, Helen?" "Yes; all yours." "Well, 1 want it." "You shall have it. Never fear. But are you so frightfully in debt?" asked my companion in a low, awed whisper, her big eyes full of gentlest sorrow. "In debt? Thank heaven, no! But I can receive nothing from you unless you give yourself to me also." "Would you marry your grandmoth er?" she asked between a sob and a laugh. "I would! And my great-grand mother, too, if she came to me like this." Then a smile like the full sunshine wreathed my darling's perfect lips, and —and—well, to me that prim old ter race, became then simply Eden, a gar den of all delights. She-is my wife now. I like my fam ily far too well to think of marrying out of it. Cardinal Newman. A friond of Cardinal Newman says in The Cornhill that that eminent man spent every day from !i to 'J or 3 o'clock In his study. "He alw*.tys kept on his table the edition of Gibbon, with the notes of Guizot and Milman, Dolling er's 'Heidenthum und Judentlium;' al most always the copy of 'Athanasius' which had belonged to Bossuet and which contained in the margin notes in the handwriting of the great bishop— the 'last of the fathers,' as Newman delighted to call him. Newman had also always near at hand some Greek poet or philosopher. "Talking to me on.' df.y about Greek thinkers, he said and I believe lie has mentioned it to others —that he owed little or nothing intellectually to any Latin writer, with one exception. The exception was not St. Augustine, but Cicero. He always maintained that he owed his marvelous style to the persistent study of Cicero. This will strike, no doubt, many people as most strange. St. Augustine, one would think, would have appealed to New man, and his Latin was more pictur esque than that of Cicero. "Again, authorities say that Newman wrote better English than Cicero Lat in. Nevertheless he constantly insist ed 011 his obligations to the great Ro man statesman." Black Dnj-i. In the calendar of the nations there are quite a number of "black" days. "Black Monday" was April 14, 1300, a day so dark and cold that many of the army of Edward 111., king of England, which lay before the city of Paris, were frozen to death. An immense bush fire occurred on "Black Thurs day" In Australia, Feb. 0, 1851. Two events are commemorated by "Black Friday" in England—Dec. 0, 1755, when the news reached England that thq pretender had arrived at Derby, and May 11. ISOO, when the failure of Over land, Gurney & Co. brought on a most disastrous panic. A panic in New York occurred Sept. 25, 1800, which was afterward known as "Black "Fri day." "Black Saturday" Is the name applied to Aug. 4, 1621, when a great storm occurred at the time parliament was sitting to enforce episcopacy upon the people. Ailvice am to ItoaaUiifc a Turkey. "Nl.iety-nlne women out of every hundred, niv.ity-nine cooks out of ev ery hundred, will bake a turkey with the back to the pan," said a New Or leans man who keeps in toui-a with the kitchen, "and this is a mistake. A fa mous French cook I know never thinks of baking a turkey with the breast up. The breast is turned to the bottom of the pan and Instead of being dry and tasteless when It is served is richly fla vored and as sweet and juicy as one would care to have it. You see, all the fine flavoring of the turkey, the juices of the dressing and all the daintier touches flow down toward the breast of the fowl, and when the white meat Is served you get the full benefit of ev ery flavor added during the processes of preparing and baking the turkey, in addition to the distinctive taste of the fowl Itself. "Inconvenient and awkward! Not at all. It is Just as easy to cook a turkey In this way as in any. other way, and the result is infinitely more sjrtiUfac tory. It is no trouble to arrange the fowl In the pan. If you desire to place the fowl on the table before carving it, you will find that it will look quite as well as it would if baked In the usual way, and certainly it will taste much better than It would if you baked the breast until It was dry and flavorless." —New Orleans Times-Democrat. GlDltonouH Ilax.i. "Talk al>out sharks,' said an Orange county lake fisherman; ' I don't believe they are in it for promiscuous diet with the black bass. "I was fishing one day with a very large minnow 011 a big hook. I had a bite and hooked a bass. It was a big one and gave nie as pretty a light as I ever saw till it broke the leader at the point where it is attached to the line and got away. "We fished in other parts of the lake after that and finally started to the landing, the guide rowing while I skit tered with a minnow. We were pass ing close by the place where I had lost the lisli in the morning when I saw a bass dart for my bait. I : ave it time to swallow and then struck. When I got the tisli into the boat, I saw a three foot leader sticking out of its mouth. It was the leader I had lost in the morning. When 1 cut the bass open, there was the same l»ig chub it had taken from my line, and it came so nearly tilling the lish's 11. w that the tail of the last minnow was sticking out of the mouth. There wasn't room for it in the Ulterior of the bass."— New POETIC ME. BOWSER HE TRIES TO WRITE A SSOO PRIZE POEM FT>R A MAGAZINE. Hi« Kflfort* Fall to Meet With the Ap proval of Mr». Ronier. bat the Old Man Kei-p, at It I'ntll Grim Despair Overcome* Him. [Copyright, 1961, by C. B. Lewis.] MB. BOWSER'S face wore a rath er anxious look as he reached home the other evening, and Mrs. Bowser was wondering if busi ness had gone wrong when he asj^ed: "Is any cue coming in this evening that you know of?" "Xo, 110 one," she replied. "I'm glad of that I've got a little matter on hand and want you to help me. I'll explain all about it after din ner." When dinner was over and they re turned to the sitting room, he produced a magazine and pointed to a page and said: "You see here that the Pocahontas society advertises a prize of five hun "squantewantus be hanged !" dred dollars for the l»est poem on Po cahontas sent in within thirty days. It is to be printed lia green and gold and sent out as a souvenir of the fif tieth anniversary of the society." "Yes, I see." "There's live hundred dollars to be picked up as easy as rolling off a log, to say nothing of poetic fame. With a little help from you I'm Bure I can cooper the whole tiling. I'm a natural poet anyhow, you know." "How can I you?" she asked as she felt a sinking of the heart. "On the rhymes. Two heads are bet ter than one when you want to think of words. Pocahontas was an Indian girl, wasn't she?" "Yes." "And when her father was going to braiu Captain John Smith with a club she stepped in and stayed his hand?" "I believe so." "Well, I'll fix that up In short order. Let me get paper and pencil. Now I'll go ahead till I get stuck and then you help uie out. What in blazes is that old cat grinning at me for?" The cat was sitting in the middle of the room with something like a grin on her face as she looked from Bow ser to Mrs. Bowser and back, but when he jumped at her she retired under the piano and waited for results. For five minutes the natural poet sat and looked up at the ceiling and tapped his teeth with his pencil, and then he bent for ward and began: Tbcy had led liim out to die— A Goldier bold; And a warclub waa uplifted, An we are told. "That's the way I lead off, and what do you think of it?" he asked as he handed the sheet over to Mrs. Bowser. "Why, it reads all right," she said after a minute; "but it seems to me that you ought to have got in the name 9f Pocahontas at the very first." "Yes, maybe I had. I'll try it that way." There was the deepest kind of silence for the next fifteen minutes, and Mr. Bowser wrote and scratched out and wrote again. Then he leaned back and said: "1 shall have to get your help. I can't go no further than: "Oh, thou dusky Pocahontas, From the camp of Squantewantus, A soldier's life you saved, And a father's anger braved. That—that— That's where I want help. I've got to work in 'days' or 'ways' or 'plays' or 'stays' to make the rhyme." "Who was Squantewantus?" asked Mrs. Bowser with a puzzled look on her face. "He was her father, probably." "But he was not. This Incident is a matter of history, and has been pub lished In all the schoolbooks, aud you musn't make such a break as that." "Didn't you ever hear that there was such a thing as poetic license?" he demanded as his eyes began to flash. "Of course I have; but you can't In vent a character named Squashington to rhyme with Washington. You'll have to drop Squantewantus." "And you you, who don't know pwtry from peanuts, find fault with my efforts!" gas{>ed Mr. Bowser as he rose up. "Woman, your impudence Is astounding!" "I am only saying that there was no Indian chief named Squantewantus," she replied. "But what has that got to do with me—with my poem?" lie shouted. "Is there a goddess of liberty, und yet how many poems have been dedicated to her?" "But Squantewantus!" "Squantewautns be hanged! Woman, leave me alone. You have no sym pathy with iuy efforts or ambitions, and I was an idiot for saying anything to you. Get out and leave me to work It out alone, and, by the great horn spoon, if I don't produce something to make all America get up and howl, then my name Is not Bowser!" "You—you won't break anything?" she faltered as she rose up to go. "How break anything?" "A suspender—a blood vessel —any bones'!" He was looking around for a crowbar to strike her dead when she passed quietly up stairs, and the cat came out of retirement and put it down in her notebook that the performance was not yet half over. For ten minutes after being left alone Mr. Bowser walked up and down to recover from his pertur bation, and when he had somewhat re covered himself he sat down to his subject again. It was hard to pick up the thread again, but he finally got another verse and smiled blandly as he read it over: "The moon it was bright And the campflres alight Aa John Smith he was led out to die; I lit* grief none can tell Aa lie took a farewell And wiped a sad tear from his eye." But after n minute the sndle faded. Mr. Bowser remembered that Captain Smith didn't weep when he was led out. Miss Pocahontas would never have stood up and defied her father for the sake of saving a booby. "It won't do —it won't do," he said as he laid the page aside and began over again, and the clock had ticked off half an hour before his next was ready. 11 read: "Come forth to die!" the chltfUin Mid Unto the captlre Smith, And in hit hand a bludgeon held To give him fatal biff. It wouldn't do. "Biff" sounded too much like prizefighting, like giving Kid McCoy a biff on the Jaw. The cat was u sympathetic spectator of Mr. Bowser's efforts to find another word to rhyme, and she uttered a meow to show her feelings, but he didn't even heave a book at her. He sat and thought and thought, and he walked around and scratched his head and thought some more, but things wouldn't come his way. It was easy enough to get as far as- I sing tonight of the mi id Who the murderoua bludgeon stared, but he couldu't get further on that line. When hours had passed and the town slept, grim despair seized Mr. Bowser's heart. He fought like a man, but it overpowered him at last, and at 1 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Bowser crept softly down stairs to find hlui sitting on the floor with his back to the wall. He was asleep, and his face looked old and pinched, and the cat sat looking at hira with sorrow In her heart. On the floor beside him was his last effort. It read: "With my cum hand." the chieftain cried, "I'll brain thia daring fellow; With this hi out club I'll smash hii head. And— and—and"— "Poor-man!" siphed Mrs. Bowser as six* put a shawl over his feet auil turn ed down the gas and left him to his ►lumber and his dreams. M. QUAD. \ PIT A|TPIL«*AUT. I All lie Had. Tom - What! A dress suit aud russet f -Sk shoes! That's aj* t 7 wretched bad f~ i\ E- > , form. f -t) •X ' Dick 1 »: « jw? know, but a Hi / ' 'dress suit and S0 I stockinged feet is worse.— Phll- Hr"" j adelphla Press. ■ Am Itu<le Boys Manager— U uat wmle _ Qur makes you think you teacher caUetl could play a farmer the wind part? "rude." 1 won- Actor—Well, you < * cr Elsle—l guess see. I m rather green becnoße It nt the btfciness.—New Tvhistles.-Phil- York Journal. j atlelphia Press. HANDY HOGHOUSE. Containing Good Slsed PENS, Drlve wa> and Storage For Corn. The following plan was originally given In the Ohio Farmer In answer to a request for a plan of a liogliouse with two good sized peus, a driveway that may be utilized for another pen in case of need and storage room for corn above the pens. Fig. 1 is the floor plan. Bis a brick arch with kettle set In for cooking fved IFT * II - 4 c c T T D c T T t T T IE3 1° K I==e=3===J D FIO. I.— FLOOB PLAN OF IIOOHOCSE. and heating water at killing time. A Is a cistern, which is supplied with wa ter from the eaves of the building. D, r», bins for meal and middlings; E, driveway; C, C, C, pens; T, T, T, troughs. The dimensions of the build ing are 34 feet wide by 40 feet In length and 12 feet In height. However, the length may be varied, according to the number of hogs one may wish to keep. Fig. 2 shows a section of the middle beuts. C, C, C, shows spaces where corn can be stored. Make the posts 'i ♦ : J i JI * II ♦ II ♦ If FIO. II.—BENT OF HOOHOOBE. out of 2 by 0 joists, doubled, putting In two center bents only. Use 2 by 4 nailing girts. Plates ace formed of a 2 by (5 and a 2 by 8 Joist put together as shown In cut. Itafters, 2by 4. Sills, 8 by 8 timber. GRAIN WEEVILS. The Blanlphlde of Carbon Treatment. Frequent jHftlnic and Fannlnit. The common species of grain Insects seem to be more than usually abundant tliis fall, as shown by nu% rous let ters of inquiry received at the Kansas experiment station. The two forms most In evidence are the common grain moth aud the black weevil, the latter generally more abundant In either case the most ready method of their de struction is the employment of carbon bisulphide, oue pound at least of the liquid to a hundred bushels of grain or a thousand feet of space. It seeuis likely from tlie varying de grees of success reported with this formula that certain essentia! condl tiuiis are not always strictly observed. In ordinary cribs and bins the most im portant provision is to make the room as nearly as possible gas tight in order that the pis may remain in all parts of the space in full strength and for the required time. Except with highly or ganized insects, death does not occur Immediately, and partial suffocation may only render the insect insensible, leaving it to recover fully upon the air lug out of the bin; or the gradual es cape of the gas through cracks in the floor or sides of the bin, allowing the entrance of fresh air, may cause fail ure through the subsequent revival of the Insect. The adult grain moth readi ly succumbs to the gas, while the larva will stand more and yet revive. The black weevil is most difficult to kill. Hence to destroy all it will be necessa ry to continue the action of the gas in full strength for at least twenty-four hours, and to do this the bin must be made tight, the fluid carbon bisulphide be used in liberal quantities, and in case of doubt the experiment repeated. Wheat may be largely kept free from weevil by proper handling, frequent shifting and fanning, such constituting the chief reliance In the elevators. Coru in cribs can scarcely be freed from weevil while remaining there ow ing to the practical impossibility of making the crib sufficiently tight. Tar paulins and stack covers are useful In No. 2 ! as- • t'.ng to retain the gas within lini i its. hut are by no means tight enough ] to prevent the escape of the gas by ) diffusion before the Mack weevil cau - be destroyed. It is suggested by a correspondent that gasoline is equally effective with j carbon bisulphide, and owing to its cheapness it can be used In certainly j destructive quantities at little expense. It mar be necessary to warn those who , employ either of these liquids that the gas is highly inflammable and explo sive when ignited; hence no Are or light should IH- allowed about the bin while the fumigation Is in progress.— A. F. Popeuoe, Kansas Station. Tbe Potato Crop. The November estimate of the yield per acre of potatoes is 59.9 bushels against an average yield per acre of 80.8 bushels In 1900, 88.C bushels In IS!>9 and a ten year average of 78.7 bushels. The present indicated yield per acre is the lowest since 1890. Of leading potato states Michigan aud Maine alone report a yield comparing favorably with their ten year aver ages. ROPY MILK AND CREAM. \ Its Nature, Moat Common Cause and Menu are* For Prevention. Ropy milk or cream is objectionable CM account of its unwholesome appear ance rather than because of any known harmful effect caused by Its consump tion. The slimy, viscid condition of t: ■ milk is exceedingly disgusting to the consumer, and its occurrence con stitutes a serious menace to the success of a milk route. This fault in milk is one of liuancial rather than of hygienic importance. Much of the abhorrence of ropy milk is induced by the mistaken belief that it is in some way caused by a disease of tbe aow's udder commonly called garget. The udder of a cow affected with garget may contain a yellowish, thick, viscid, purulent liquid, which is obviously unwholesome at the .!me It is drawn from the udder. Unfortu nately farmers frequently speak of this unwholesome fluid as "ropy" or "stringy" milk. The milk fault refer red to in a bulletin by Professor A. R. Ward of the Cornell (N. Y.) station is entirely different and bears no relation to the health of the cow. The kind of ropiness occurring In milk from a healthy udder appears on ly after the milk has been drawn from the cow at least twelve hours. Profess or Ward arrives at the following con clusions In regard to It: Ropy milk contains bacteria that are responsible for its viscid condition. These bacteria live naturally !n water. Measures for the prevention of the trouble must be directed toward pre venting the bacteria from getting Into milk. Following are some of the more important measures that should be taken to stop the trouble and to pre vent its recurrence. After milking at night the milk palls and strainer cloth should be washed aud scalded before using In the morn ing, or a second set thoroughly clean and scalded should be used In the morning. The practice of merely rins ing palls and strainers in cold water at the barn at night offers an opportunity for the Introduction of the bacteria Into milk directly from the water. If the cows wade In mud and smear the udders with dirt and filth, put a stop to It By this means many objec tionable bacteria get Into milk by fall ing Into the milk pall. The floors of all rooms where ropy milk has been kept should be disinfect ed with a mixture of five parts of crude sulphuric acid to ninety-five parts of water. All milk utensils should be scalded most thoroughly dally. Never let cold water come in contact with utensils unless they are scalded before using for milk again. Exercise the greatest care to prevent even n drop of water from the cooling tank getting into the milk. That oc currence Is probably the most common cause of trouble from ropy milk. If water must spatter about, the cans standing In Ice water Bhould be cov ered. Utensils after washing and scalding should stand upside down to prevent the accumulation of dust on the inside. Celery Storage. Observation and experience lead the Rhode Island station to the belief that the best winter celery is that which Is protected by covering it with earth and forest leaves in the field where It A. FORM OP BTOHAGE TRENCH FOB CELERY. is grown without disturbing the roots unlll It Is wanted for use. French stor age Is much used. A form of it which has given good results in Arkansas Is shown in the cut. A Hint on CoiBbfllkl»(. U»e a horse to pull over your com shocks. Take a rope about eighteen feet long, attach one end to the single tree, carry the other end around the shock and fasten to singletree also. See that the rope is around the shock about twenty Inches from the ground. A slight pull of the horse will bring over the shock. With a boy to lead the horse and a handy hitch to the rope you can average a shock :t minute and have it In much better shape for husk ing than when torn down by band. You can in this way pull over a day's husking while the dew is on, and the fodder will be damper for busking than if left standing till wanted. It will be another advantage to you If you are careful to pull over your shocks so that you can face the wind while husking, letting the wind blow the fodder to you and not away, says an Ohio Farmer writer. Agricultural Brevities. Cowpeas have come to stay In the north, says one of their advocates. The broom corn crop is estimated at 4,500 tons less than last jear. Foul try and swine do not relish or do well on cottonseed meal. While the pear crop is by no means a failure. It not only falls considerably short of the crop of last year, but also compares unfavorably with the ten year average. It Is reported that there has been an increase in the output of canned corn in Maine of 110 per cent over that of 1000. Buenos Avres is the largest city south of the equator. Rio de Janeiro comes next, and Sydney, New South Walts, la a (rami third
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