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.
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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
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ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, New York.
Johnston's H
Beef, Iron and Wine N
F Best Tonic
Blood Purifier.
Price, 50c pint.
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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