VOL XXXIX BICKEL'S MONTHLY STORK NEWS. A grand clearance sale in uU lines now going on. nEN'S FINE SHOES. Men's fine box calf, enamel, vici-kid and cordovan, hand sewed soles, exten sion edges -m the lateft styles to be closed out at half their regular price. 500 pair Boys' fine shoes. 432 pair Youth's fine shoes. To be closed out at a big bargain. bet The feoss It /V\a\J. Lvbes fi v shoes 1 style lasts, more lhan lialf are hand sewe.l.lace or but ton in vici-li>*, fn«mel, patect leather and box calf sfct ts that a e st>lish and will w<ar vi ell a'ri yv d siz*s and will close them out at c big reduction. 500 p -.ir L-dws' *vrm li"ed shoes go at less than half price. IV O In MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S Big DflrcKins !n school SHOES. Felt and Rubber Goods. We bave - i .r-r stock of Men's. Boys' and Youth's f. It boots and overs which wo do not v,istj t'> rn'. y over and will be closed out at b'g reduction. Large stock -.1 Kubber Boots and Shoes to be included m this sale. Children's fine rubbers 10c Ladies' fine rubbers 20c. Men's fine rubbers 45c. Alt" J»U' stock -"Ten's «nd Soy ' worting shoes a*. d>wn pric^. High Iron St in Is wi»h four lasts for repairing. 1- a lier car ' > »n> amount you wish to purchase. «boe of »i! kinds at reduce<l prices. We b»v<- "'ade i?dnctions in all lires and ask you to call an I examine our goo-'s and «« c u «-ve yon money. JOHN BICKEL, i SOU" H MAIN STREET. - - R'JTLER, I'A j?00000000000000<>00000000<K I Mrs. J. E. ZIMMERMAN.! | i 18th Semi-Ailnuai I | Sacrifice Sale. I I |oar Semi-Annnal Sacrifice Sale Takes Place as Usiialx ;!; Beginniag Wednesday, Jan. Btii, and continuiDg |j| ;!' Tlironfiliout tlie entire monih of January. 7 ( } The many inquires we are receiving daily asking if we ' n <> { (fend to have our sale testifies to the popularity of these Socri-< % ( >hce Sales among our many patrons who have been benefited \ >artt in the past. We are anxious to make this C I .the biggest success of all previous sales, and shall do so C .rvfltring our goods at prices you connot resist. We cannotlf quote all prices—only a few—consequently it will pay you toV m ike us a personal visit. jf i f mm* I Wraps, Suits and Furs. 4 t < PPIfIPO I A Waists > Wrappers and Dressing Sacques.l \ i 'wUvl 111 ww \ All Millinery—trimmed and untrimmed. ' J All Dress Goods, Silks and Satins. . < All Muslins, Calicoes and Ginghams. I . k j All Underwear, Hosiery and Gloves. i { lUniaaa #%VI I Laces, Embioideries&Dress Trimmings. < ) i I I Www will All Blankets— woolen and cotton. O <i ► 1 All Lace Curtains and Portiers. | . . Sacrifice prices for cash only. Come early to stcurc first choice.. I . ' Sale begins WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Bth, 1902. Mrs. J. E. Zimmernian| KECK Fall and Winter Weights. ',-j. | /•'Q Jl H] Have a natiim s. about thein that J] V /J ■ ' tV mark the wearer, it won't do to L /rf M K yj&) /J (a wear the last year's output. You / xt 'X-l; /V J \ won't get the latest things at the \ / \*a F"7 lw stock clothiers either. The up-to [x \*\ C/ V? date tailor only tan supply them, j lf\- 1 tr J i_/ y° u / I \Jt fitly I things in cut and fit and work ( I IJ \ 111 I nionship, the finest in durability, 1 I j/ il/l/l where e'se can vou get combina y J I L 111 11 9 tions, you get them at K E C K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Maim Street All Work Guaranteed. Butler,Pa B. Sc B. we'll Snjierior save I ' »r;:rSd«, >ou new wash Ja|>anese Wash Silks almolntely bent made, money "II 45c y» r, l —other places QIIkQ you ie asked consideiably on OIIWO more for them, and for kinds noi near so choice Fine, lustrous All Whiten, and bright fresh color combina tions. including the handsome new rainbow effects Samples will not only impre-s yon with tue money-saving, but also what smart styles they are for Spring waists. One of the strong points of this unsurpassed 1902 fine Wash Goods collection are the new l inported Dimities 20c Jard pretty as can be. American Dimities. <i!c to 15c. Lot of i.«; tlire« fonrtbs wool American Cashmere* 10c yard dortb!« widl'n, 3T) inches wide solid Grey, Greeu and Tan with printed Black polka xpotn ex traordinary low priced useful goods for home wear and children s drestes. Boggs & Buhl, D partment X. ALLEGHENY, PA. Subscribe for the CITIZEN THE BUTLER CITIZEN. musef J^gjpapj&i It Makes Restful Sleep. Kteeplessneas almost invariably accompn nies constipation and its manifold attenria? t evils— nervous disorders, indigestion, bea- - ache, loss of appetite, etc. To attempt to ii - dnce sleep by opiates is a serious mistake, f ' the brain is only benumbed and the body eut fers. Celery King removes thecaus«of wake* fulness by Its soothing on Uie nerves and on tbe-etomach and lowels. Celery ICing cures Constipation and Nerve 'Stomach, Liver and Kidney C isca**. 3 I I Rain and sweat \ \ * \ |f|j ■ have r.o effect on M< WJ n mr* K I thh fyAiCr/iA J ■ ness Oil. It re- ~ r gj!g ■ sists the damp, w w \ \ Si ■ keeps the leath- Hi 01/JT'CC* I I I Hdo rot break, \ ' \ jfK 1 1 fa« rc to°ch»fe v r//£. \ |l ■ and cut. \VB H harness ret I I as loozby the ' Jff * I Standard Druggist CATARRH • OCENT TRIAL SIZE. Ely's Cream Balm F Gives Relisl at once. It cleai.fcn, soothed and heaU tile diaea.-scd mem brane. It cures Catarrh ..j. .a p. arid drives away a Cold UII V f r V f K in the Head qaickly. It il™ ■ T. , is nhsorbed. Hcala and Protects the Meml.ranc. the Sen«es of Tutt and SmelL Full size 60c.; Trial Size Inc.; at Druggists or by mail. EI.Y BROTIIEKS, 66 Warren Street, >"ew York. rn I H 14 Johnston's pj Beef, Iron and Wine j^j T A Blood Purifier. aj Price, 50c pint f A L« Preparer! and 9 A 9 2 sold only at k« .4Johnston's >1 si Crystal w [1 Pharmacy, p} H , » W I K M. LOGAN, Ph. O , [ ■ Manager, D i B'A m N'. Main St., rtutlcr. Pa L V Both 'Phones 9 2 pi Everything in the kij ki drug line. V,A * B i ** » New Liven* 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 from Hotel Butler. „ F He has room for fifty horses. People's Phone. No. 2so. L. C. WICK, DKALKB ll* LUfIBER. Karl Schluchter, Practical Tailor and Cutter 125 W. Jefferson, Butler, Pa. Busheling, Cleaning and 1 EI'AIRING A SPECIALTY. BUTLER. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 IOQ2 ® & 1- €* ®0« v. 0 % IN THE I f No. 7 MiNEf 0 £. By PERCIVAL KIDSDAI.K x @ 0 COPYRIGHT, mi, BY '"f" {§£ I Vli IVAL RIDSDALE -r. J. 4 «♦ «*> ♦*, 4** *!♦ «** V.* V V W* V ♦- •' 'Taiu't no use cryin"," said Taddy McGann. "If the boss bounces tue to morrow, I lias tot to po, but 1 hate to leave you, Billy; 1 just hate to." Billy was Paddy's lead nTule in the No. 7 ruiue, u big rawboned animal w:tli a philosophic countenance and a reputation with all except Paddy of having a vicious temper. "It ain't right," cried Paddy, "and 1 ain't a-goiu' to stand it. Oh, Billy, if I had lots of money d'vou know what I'd do? Well, I'd buy you and take you up to the surface and let you do nothin' but eat grass and run arou:id the fields. Say, long has it l>een, Billy, sihoe you saw the sky? Guess it must lie all of seven years." Billy looked contemplative. "Well, never mind; there's a good time eouiin' some day. And say. Billy, if i doa't get even with Kvan Joi-es— well, you can kick me for a duffer. It won't be long before I'm as big as he is. aad then we'll both get even with him. You—say, what's the matter, Billy?" For Billy had shaken off the nose bag with a jerk, and with ears Pocked, eyes staring and nostrils agape he was looking down the gangway. "What is"— bega;> and then, sniffing the air, he cried, "Why, it's smoke, Billy." _ The mule whinnied, there was a note of terror In the long, low cry. "Smoke," cried Paddy again, "and it ain't no powder smoke neither! Say, Billy, she's afire!" Down the gangway they sped. Pad dy was mystified. Where could the smoke come from? There was nothing along the gangway which could burn. It was all rock. He stopped suddenly, horrified. The air current had chang ed. He was in an outtake, but the air was rushing inward, and it was bring ing the smoke. But why should it come into the outtake? If—but as he asked himself the question Paddy knew what had happened. Some one had left the door open, and the divert ed air current was sweeping into the workings, carrying the smoke with it. Billy pulled at the restraining hand, but again they dashed forward, and again they stopped, for Paddy was crying: "The shift, Billy—the shift! They is In tli> re. They don't know, Billy. They'll a!l be killed!" Far up the gangway and at one side In a remote working the inside fore man and thirty men had gone in the early morning to block an old opening. Paddy l.aew what that meant. They were isolated, and the smoke would not reach them until the very last. By that time the surrounding chambers would be so full of it that escape would be impossible. This flashed through Paddy's mind before he could bring Billy to a stop. Almost without thinking he had deter mined what to do. There were two things—he could in a moment or two reach a safe place or he could go back Into the s.-:oke aud warn the men. He might be overcome before he could find them, and might find them only to die in their company, but he did not think of these things. With a pull he turued 1 Uy arouud. "You've got to help me, Billy!" he cried. "I can't reach them alone." Bil ly shiveretl and whinnied. Clinging around the mule's neck, he choked an 1 gasped for breath. It seem ed that with each Inhalation liquid fire poured down his throat, while his eyes, though closed, were like balls of fire. How It was faring with Billy Paddy did not know. He felt the mule gasp as he st unbled along, and once when Billy stopped, trembling, and moaned out his agony in a long despairing scream Paddy had all he could do to smother the sobs In his own throat and urge the mule on. At last, and It seemed an age, the smoke grew lighter, for they were outracing it, and the farther they got from the entrance to the gangway the lighter it became. Then they reached the spot whore the side working commenced. Billy dash ed down the narrow opening and, with a long gasp, drank In great gulps of the comparatively untainted air. Then on they sped until Paddy knew he was close to the working In which the men were. Could he find them? Much— their lives and bis—depended on his quickness. Ho slipped off Billy's back and dash ed from one opening Into another, straining his eyes to see any faint glimmer of light. He found himself coughing and knew that the heading was gradually filling with the smoke, yet he had not found trace of the men. He cried in his vexation and then shouted In the utter vainness of his efforts. His eyes and his throat were begining to smart again, and his breath was short. He stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth, but the re lief was slight. Once or twice he had to stop and lean against the rough rib of the beading, but he stumbled on again. Then almost as he fell into an opening he saw light. Gathering all his strength, he raised his voice in a long shout. There came an answer. "Hurry! Danger!" Then they came with a rush. There was no need to ask questions. The workings were already filling with smoke, and the men dropped every thing and ran. One by one they passed Paddy. As the last one passed the boy he shouted back: "Tell the boss'" "Tell the boss!" "Tell the boss!" The words rang In Paddy's ears like the roar of a waterfall. All at once a cold and inquiring nose was thrust In to his face. It was Billy. With the touch Paddy's senses returned, and he knew what the words meant. Evan Jones, the inside boss, the man who was to discharge him on pay day, was somewhere Inside, ignorant of the dan ger which in a few moments would overtake him. Even now there might not be time. I'addy said nothing to Billy. Breath was too precious. In stead he grasped Billy's mane and swung himself on the mule's back again. Then straight down the pas sage they went until, after some min utes, they came upon Evan Jones. "She's- afire!" gasped I'addy. The boy's face told the foreman there was no time to ask questions, but as he swung himself up beside Paddy and laid his head low on Bil ly's back to avoid bumping against the low hanging roof he cried: "Where are the others? Do they know?" "They ran when I told 'em!" gasped Paddy. "Cowards!" muttered the foreman. The working was rapidly filling with smoke, but Tsilly gallantly breasted it beneath the double load, and so they came to the opening upon .the iranu-- way. In the darkness they dashed in to it, only to recoil the uext moment. "It's full of smoke!" cried the fore man. Billy, terror stricken, shook them off and would have plungejf back down the passage but for Paddy's restrain ing hand. "It's our only chance," said Jones. "We must make it. Give me your hand." "But Billy?" questioned Paddy. "He'll have to find bis own way out. We can't bother with him." "Go ahead," said Paddy. "Me and Billy'll get out together." "Fool!" cried Jones. "Come on!" he called as he ran. Paddy drew off his coat and, throw ing It over the mule's head, tried to lead him out. but Billy would not move. "Billy," cried the boy. "don't you know I'll take care of you? Come!" Billy whimpered and then, with a big shake, sprang down the passage, dragging Paddy after him. The fort man was already some distance aw y, but Billy's burst of speed soon bre them together again. Paddy. 1: oping his feet in a remarkable scanner, passed the foreman, a"«' ..y dashed on into the smoke. . head was swing i ng, ir.-i nis eyes were bursting fro:.: i.„cir sockets. He seemed to spin along like a top. Then there came a crash, and he found himself on the ground huddled against Billy. The mule sank down with a pitiful cry of pain. His leg was broken. It seemed ages after that when Pad dy opened his eyes to find a lot of anx ious faces gazing into his. He was helped up. and a distant roar, like the voice of many people, fell upon his ear. lie saw lie was at the head of the shaft aud that a number of men stood around. Evan Jones bent over him and said; "Don't cry about Billy. You did all you could to save him, and you were nearly gone when I found you and brought you out. We both had a nar row shave, and so did the other fel lows. and we all owe our lives to you. The people want you to say something. Are you strong enough?" Raised by willing hands, Paddy was greeted by a roar of cheering, and when he found his voice he said, al though he could hardly hear himself speak: "Don't say nothin' to me about It. It was Billy done it all. Billy, he was"— But he could say no more, and, turn ing to his mother, who had forced her way to his side, he burst into sobs and hid his tears on her bosom. The Difference of an Inch. At one of the reunions of the Army of the Cuml>erland several former of ficers of the Union army fell to dis cussing the wounds they had received during the civil war. At last one of their number turned to Colonel 8., a tall, fine, soldierly looking niau, who had remained silent during the discus sion, and said: "Well, colouel, you seem to be the only one of the party who escaped un injured." « "Oh, no, I didn't," answered the colonel quickly. "I was shot at An tietam. A bullet went through my nose, taking the gristle out." lie wrig gled his nose from side to side to prove the truth of his statement. "Ah, well, you were quite fortunate, after all," said Major M. consolingly. "If the bullet had struck a half inch further in, your soul would nave been launched Into eternity." "Yes," said the colonel, "and if the blamed thing had gone a half inch fur ther out it wouldn't have bit me at all."—Lippincott's. Mnn'w Monument!. Mr. James Uicalton, writing of the wonderful old ruins of monuments and shrines at .Vnurajahpoord, the city of the sacred bo tree in Ceylon, says: "From the days of the mound builders man has shown himself to be a monu ment erecting being. The Christians have their cathedrals, the Mohammed ans have their mosques, and the Bud dhists have their shrine tombs, de signated differently in different couu tries as pagoda, tope and dagoba. "The pagodas of China are entirely dissimilar to those of Burma, and the dagobas of Ceylon are quite unlike those in either country, yet all serve the one purpose of relic sepulture. They are not altogether a thing of the past. They are still erected near the temples, but those of modern construc tion are small and unimportant when compared with those that have with stood biennial monsoons for 2,000 years. Even their half burled ruins ore stupendous." "Dry an Statistic*." It Is fairly obvious that the study of statistics Is not exactly what would be termed a popular pastime, says Wlnthrop M. Daniels In The Atlantic. Librarians do not discover any exten sive demand for statistical literature. Sir John Lubbock, if I remember rightly, found ao place for a single volume of figures in his hundred best books, and In that flood of articles on "Books That Have Helped Me, by Authors Great and Authors Small," the same significant silence seemed to be maintained. There were some very curious books that had apparently proved helpful to certain persons, but there was unbroken testimony of a negative kind that nobody had ever been helped by a blue book. To say of anything "as dry as sta tistics" is at once to consign It to the nethermost limbo of aridity. Such is the verdict upon the finished statis tical product. As for the methods em ployed in constructing such tables weighted averages, index numbers or curves of error—these to the wayfar ing men are hidden and ingenious re finements of cruelty, to be avoided at all hazards or at least forgotten with a shudder and a prayer. Hon Ho Fooled the Dog*- A gentleman who is fond of studying wild animals in their natural surround ings once had an opportunity of seeing for himself an example of the cunning for which the fox has become prover bial. As he was standing near the bank of a river one winter day, he saw a fox run out upon the ice and make straight for a hole. At the edge of the Opening he stopped, turned, followed his tracks back to the bank, ran down the stream and paused to await developments. In a little while a dog came tearing out of the woods, with his nose close to the ice and snow. He ran along the ice with his head down, following the scent until he reached the opening. It was then too late to check his speed. He plunged into the water and was lost under the ice. The fox meantime had waited in plain sight to watch the effect of his little trick. After the dog came Into view the fox remained perfectly mo tionless until he saw his old enemy disappear. Then, with a look on hia face which seemed to combine a good natured grin with a mild contempt, he went nonchalantly off about his busi ness. A HANDY DUMP SLED. A Convenience For Ue.nliny: Manure and Dirt In the Winter. The Illustrations show a dumping sled for one or two horses which an Ohio Farmer corre.-iK>iulent considers a convenience for hauling dirt ami ma nure that will be appreciated by mar.y. His plan for its construction is as fal lows: Take two pieces of 8 Incii plank for runners which connect with two cross piece of 2by 4 scantling mortised In to tl.e planks. On Inside of each run ner nail or bolt securely at required r stance apart two upcights of about LU by 5 inch material. The distance apart and length of these uprights will be dependent upon t.ie length of sled box. Gouge out a V shaped notch ii: a Drill - SLED, top of each of the two rear uprights and make a square or rectangular notch in tops of two front ones. Make a box of the dimensions thought most suitable for the object in view, a little longer than broad, however, in all cases. Put a2by 4 inch crosspiece on bottom of box near the center. Round o£f the projecting ends of this crosspiece to fit in the tops of rear up rights of runners. Put another lighter crosspiece on bottom of box in front of the other, at right point to have its projecting ends rest in the top notches of the front uprights. Over the ends of the center crosspiece that rest in the rounded notches put iron straps or clips to prevent the ends of crosspiece from movin;. out of place and yet al low them to turn in the notches. The front of box can now bo raised, the center crosspiece on bottom acting as a pivot by reason of its rounded ends. A framework is put inside of the four uprights, extending under front of box and being braced as is shown in the illustration. To keep box from dumping while the sled is being loaded or In transit the front end is fastened down to this framework by a hinge hasp and staple such as are used to hold shut the lid of a chest, a door, etc. If the crosspiece which acts as pivot is placed a little iu front of box center, the sled when evenly loaded will dump Itself as soon as hasp is dis engaged. If a little to the rear of center, the front of ' ox will have to be raised by hand when desiring to dump INVEItTED BOX AND SIDE VIEW. It. The exact location of the pivot crosspiece will therefore determine the ease of dumping, and the matter may be settled to suit the wishes of the builder of sled. When the box is in its horizontal po sition and the hasp is fastened, insert a wooden or other pin in the hasp staple in the place that would be oc cupied by a padlock were the hasp used as a door or lid latch. Make an end gate at the rear of the box. In Fig. 2 A shows the box inverted in or der to explain fully the manner of ap plying the supporting crosspieces, and B shows a side view of the sled and makes plain the dumping idea. While this kind of a dumping box could be used on any size of sled, so far as the main idea is concerned, it would not be satisfactory if the box were made too large, as the Increased height of the uprights In this case would make the sled Inconvenient to load and handle. On a sled of a size adapted to one horse ordinarily, or two horses in case of being loaded with very heavy material, the sled Is very satisfactory. It is especially conven ient to have this sled stand where tho manure from the stable can be thrown into the box, and when full hitch on the team and haul It to the field and dump it. Forcing; Illinbnrb. Rhubarb, or pieplant, as it is com monly called, needs no better accommo dation for forcing than that furnished by the underbench space of the forcing house, provided the grower has some good strong stools of it to bring In from the open ground. These should be previously prepared by good cultiva tion in the open ground. They caj then be lifted before the ground !.<■- comes hard frozen, stored In any cold shed or convenient place and brought. In for forcing as desired. The plan.'s can b? thrown away when their prod uce has been gathered and a new M Introduced. Following this up In a successlonal manner, you can easily have rhubarb In abundance till such time as the open air crop is ready, and, while occupying otherwise space, It will make a handsome addi tion to the returns of n vegetabio house. POTATO CULTURE. TIIIIIK> Worth Know!»««; Results of Three S«*XIJM»HN' l.'.vpci'lmentN. According to the fourth and latest of its interesting reports on experiments iti the tillage of potatoes, the Cornell (N. Y.) station has arrived at the fol lowing conclusions: Intensive tillage alone is not suffi cient to produce a 1 :r; ■■ yield of pota toes. The soil upon which the pota toes are grown should be properly sup plied with in::- * if moisture is to be conserved tly-on; !i a drought. On a s 11 well supplied v 'ih humus the moisture i.,ay be conserved even through a c.i re drought and a fair crop of potatoes produced. Spraying with bcr:!ea;ix mixture in nearly every case has lncr- ased the yield of potatoes even win n blight has not been prevalent. The practice should become more general. Harrowing |> tat > land after pota toes are plauti i ; id before the plants are above ground Is a wi e practice. Intensive til' <• i ly 1. ■ • overdone. During a !<! only s> luii'-h tillage Is met »-«iy i'.:i 11 keep tue snrface mulch . . se and tie.roughly dry. The drier th* surface layer of soil the more slowly will moisture be absorbed by it from the layers of subsurface soil. Spraying with bordeaux mixture should be done thoroughly. Pruning potato vines to one main stem wns not beneficial. Potato machinery, while not yet per fected. has reached such a degree of perfection that where potatoes are grown upon any considerable area spe cial potato machinery should be pro vided. Implements should be pur chased which are found adapted to the local conditions. There Is no royal road to success with potatoes. Methods of procedure which are applicable during one season must be modified to meet the require ments of another season. Treatment of one soli might be radically wrong w!: :i applied to another soil. Success will only be attained by thorough fa miliarity with the plant and its habits of growth, and then conditions must be made to meet as completely as pos sible the requirements of the plant. MIXED FEEDING STUFFS. Fnrmcra Cnu F.dncntc Their Eyei to l>etc;'t ttucrlur Mixtures. Com iron •- • t;;>on a class of feeding stuffs ' such brand names as "chop f< .1." "corn and oat feed," "mixed food." etc.. which lead the pur chaser to >• .nclude that the mixtures are made rp of corn ami oats, Messrs. Jordan and J cuter of the Geneva (N. Y.) station say; They have the appearance of being com and tats because cornmeal or hominy feed and oat hulls are present. The prominence of oat hulls In some of these mixtures is seen in the large proportion of fiber which they carry. The only grain product which supplies fiber generously is oat hulls, and when a mixture containing a considerable pr portion of cornmeal or hominy feed shows 12 per cent of liber aud upward it is safe to conclude that oat hulls have been introduced. The same is true often when the fiber is less than 12 per cent. Many genuine mixtures of corn and oats are sold. These seem to be more abundant—that is, they constitute a larger proportion of the "cli:>p feeds" found in the market than was the case when the station first began to collect samples of this class of goods. The genuineness of these mixtures is seen in part in the low proportion of fiber, which ranges between 3 and 7 per cent, and in part in their general ap pearance. The presence of grouud oats hulls is made evident by a characteristic me chanical condition and negatively by the absence of the crushed oat grains. It would not be difficult for farmers to so educate their eyes as to easily de tect inferior oat hull mixtures. Cornmeal and hominy mixtures are lighter in color than pure yellow corn meal. Proof that this lighter color is not caused by grinding in white corn is difficult because chemically and mi croscopically hominy feed is very sim ilar to the maize grain of which it was once a part. Ric«» Preserved In Water GLTII. A solution of water glass is now com mended as a good preservative of eggs. In experiments at the North Dakota station a 10 per cent solution of water glass acted so well that "at the end of three and one-half months eggs that were preserved the first part of August still appeared to be perfectly fresh. In most packed eggs after a little time the yolk settles to one side, and the egg is then inferior in quality. In eggs pre served for three and one-half months in water glass the yolk retained its normal position in the egg, and in taste they were not to be distinguished from fresh store eggs. Again, most packed eggs will not beat up well for cakemaking or frosting, while eggs from a water glass solution seemed quite equal to the average fresh eggs of the market." Aitrrletiltnral Brevities. It is found that the total amount of rainfall has less Influence on the sugar content of the beet than Its even dis tribution during the growing season, provided the rain Is sufficient for the growing crop. New Englnnd Homestead reports that In the country dis licts of the middle and eastern states there are n good mw>y onions, and the high price of potatoes, apples, etc., makes it possible to market onions at splendid figures. Many, If not most country highways, could be Improved by thorough sub drainage. Most roads need underdraln age, even though the water does not stand In the side ditches. Curious Pictore Frames. In many churches of Provence and Italy, especially those near the sea, ex voto paintings placed on the walls in accordance with vows made by pil grims in moments of danger are often remarkable for their frames. Among the curiosities may be enumerated laths formed of splinters from ships that have been wrecked; also frames made of pieces of heavy cables, occa sionally painted bright hues, but some times left in their primitive gray color and splashed with tar. Nailed to the laths surrounding a painting repre senting sailors fighting with fierce sav ages may be seen African or Polyne sian spears and darts or swords made of hard wood, evidently mementos of terrific struggles. Sailors or landsmen who have made vows during times of peril at sea and who have no trophies to display will surround their paintings with broad bands of wood heavily in crusted with shells and seaweed, not infrequently of rare and extremely beautiful kinds. London People's Friend. A Reasonable Inquiry. "Have you heard from 'Old Boomer ang' since she went home?" asked Mr. Tucker, putting his feet on the table. "I want you to stop calling mamma 'Old Boomerang,'" said Mrs. Tucker. "What makes you call her that?" "Why, 1 was just wondering when she was coming back, that's all," an swered Mr. Tucker. "You needn't get sore about it."—lndianapolis Sun. Jnvenlle IteasonlnK. Mr. Wise—Johnny, can you tell me why the little hand on my watch goes faster than the big one? Johnny (after mature reflection)— Papa, Isn't it for the same reason that I have to rrn when I go walking with you?— Exchange. Not Kculected. Dobbs—You ought to do something for that cold of yours. A neglected cold often leads to serious consequences. Mobbs—This one Is not neglected. Four or five hundred of my friends are looking after It. Xfw Attraction. Towne—l see Gayman had to pay Miss Koy $25,000 for breach of prom- He. Browne- Yes, and now he's trying to marry her for her money.—Philadel phia Press. FOLLIES OF FASHION SARTORIAL VA3ARIE9 OF THE CEN TURIES THAT ARE GONE. Groteaqne Styles That Rrltonl la the Time of Chancer— Raiment That Rivaled the Ralnhovr and Men Who Starched Their Beards. It Is a little gratifying to reflect that, however the man of today may com pare with his ancestors of bygone cen turies in physique and morals, his dress Is much more moderate and In expensive. even if It Is less pictur esque, than theirs. It is trufc that here and there one may find some foolish young man whose taste in dress is as extravagant as that of auy "buck" of the days of the Georges. There is. for instance, a son nf a well known peer who has the reputation of never wearing a suit twice. He has a wardrobe of waist coats of all the colors of ths^rainbow, ranging from a light blue spangled with silver stars to a deep green satin with buttons of eighteen carat gold, each of which is adorned with the painted face of a beautiful woman. Auother weal:liy aristocrat Is credit ed v. it!) having as many suits and uni i" .■ is as there are days iu the year a:. 1 xv.til spending 011 his tailor's bill a :":ui which v. 1 pay t!■ ■ yearly sakiy i f a ciinor cal.:at t itiinifter. • !i iiieti are the. iestly arrayed c< . :;>areti vi!h the dandies of Lai; ay a pa t century 'I lie earl of Northum berland who lived in the latter part of the fourteenth century boasted uo few er ti.au sixty suits of cloth of gold clone, aud the bishop of Ely of that time had a change of raiment for ev ery day of the year. Much later, in Queen Mary's time, the wardrobe of a bishop might have been the envy of Solomon for the va riety and costliness of its contents, aud even a simple village priest, accoitling to Fuller, wore "a vi stnient of crimson satin, a vestment of crimson velvet, a stoic aud fanon set with pearl, gowns faced with taffetas, etc." In the days of Chaucer fashionable men v. ore clothes as many colored as Joseph's coat, so that "while one leg would be a blaze of crimson the other would be tricked out in greea or blue or yellow, without any regard to har mony or contrast." Even as late as the middle of the eighteenth century a dandy would deck himself iu "a vivid green coat, a waist coat of scarlet, yellow breeches and blue stockings," and the gentleman of a few years later wore, among simi lar sartorial vagaries, "a coat of light green, with sleeves too small for the arms and buttons too big for the 6leeves; a pair of Manchester fine stuff breeches, without money In their pock ets; clouded silk stockings, a club of hair behind larger than the head that carries it, a hat of the size of a six pence on a block not worth a far thing." At one fashionable epoch our ances tors, to quote the words of a quaint chronicler, "w®uld weare clothes so tighte to ye skin that it might well be conceived they wore no clothes at all," aud at another they would wear them "so voluni.uoits that a single suite might well have afforded rayment for a whole familie, and so stuffed out with feathers that, of a verity, their wearers resembled nothing so much as walking sackes." At another period It was the gro tesque fashion to combine on one per son the dress of all the countries of Europe—the hat would be Spanish, the coat French, the trousers Turkish, and so on—so that the wearer was a "walk ing epitome of the dress of a conti nent." At one time shoes apuld be worn with square toes of sucii width that a royal proclamation was issued limiting the width to six inches, and these shoes were succeeded by others which came to the finest of points at the toes. In Henry ll.'s time shoes with points two feet long were worn by the fash ionable.-, and In the reign of Henry IV. these points had grown to such an Inordinate length that In order to be able to walk at all It was necessary to attach the tips to the knees by chains, which were of gold or silver, while the tops of the shoes were carved with all kinds of fantastic designs. In the early part of the eighteenth century it was a common thing for a man of fashion to spend several hours a day with his valet, among the many quaint operations being "the starching of the beard and the proper perfuming of garments, the painting of the face and anointing with oils, tinctures, quin tessences and pomatums." It Is even said that some of the dandies of the time bathed In wine and milk "for the preservation of their complexions and the rejuvenation of their energies."— London Tit-Bits. Works Like a Charm. Hanson—Wonder how it Is that the Jnggltisons get along so harmoniously. They never have any quarrels, appar ently. Burt—The reason Is simple enough. Jugginson always lets Mrs. J. have the last word and she never tries to pre vent him from having his own way.— Boston Transcript According to Scale. Mrs. Wunder — It seems to me that that music teacher Is always asking for money. Mr. Wunder—That's perfectly natur al. Ills scale, you know, begins and ends with "dough."—Baltimore Ameri can. Two Views. "It is hard to lose one's relations," said the seedy Individual with a mourning baud on his hat. "Hard?" echoed the man whose check Is good for a million. "Why, sir. it's simply Impossible."—Chic ago News COSTLY PLATE. Innie l.nmlon Comimnlen Have Old nnd Interesting Service*. Few people, at least in this country, possess plate worth such a fabulous sum as that owned by London's lord mayor during his term of office. Its face value has been computed to be slightly over £20.000, though three times that amount would not buy it owing to the historical Interest attach ed to many of the articles. The two solid silver soup tureens which are employed at the banquet to distribute 100 gallons of clear turtle to the guests are valued at £."ioo apiece and are said to have been in possession of the corporation for over a century. Moreover, there are a gross of silver dinner plates worth £1,500, 200 Ice pails valued at nearly £I.OOO, 200 en tree dishes, the cost of which £2,000 would not cover; 80 solid silver meat dishes worth another £2,000, and hun dreds of other articles, such us grupe scis-ors. salt cellars, wine cvps. vom ers' trays, decanter lalx-Is, etc., rll of solid g»ld or silver and valued at ovi r £5,000. Tills collection of plate Is c i. iuuily being Increased, for « ■ > I id u.ayor at the explrat'ou of his term of oli! c is expected to udd >in item, the cost uf N0.7 which must not bo lower iLcn ICO guineas. In addition the lord mayor's official regalia U costly In the extreme. The diamond pendent that bangs about his tuck cou'.d not be bought for £I,OOO, luil his collar cost a quarter of that sum, while his pearl sword necessitat ed the corporation spending £9OO when it was new. But the other comiumies In the city po: plate of even greater value. The Goldsmiths, for instance, cwn the mo*t priceless collection, the worth of which it is impossible to estimate. It Includes (Jreel) Elizabeth's coronation cup. for which an offer of £3,000 was refused some time ago. The Fishmon gers' eon:|>any boasts of, among other things, a silver chandelier, and esti mates of its value have never fallen below London Tit-Bits. POINTERS ON MANICURING. When the uails are fragile, a little wax nud alum rubbed upon them will strengthen them. If brittle, a little almond oil or cold cream will be found beneficial. To remove white spots from the nails use i mixture of refined pitch and a lit tle myrrh upon them at night, wiping it o" the next morning with ollvt* oil. When about to manicure the hands, dip the titigers into warm, soapy wa ter and hold them there for u minute cr two in order to soften the nails aud i_e scarfskln about them. The scarfskln should be gently push ed back from the nails before they are p- isiicd. It should never unless abso lutely necessary be - cut with the scis sors. Aguails, Improperly called hangnails, may be prevented by proper attention to the Bcarfskln which surrounds the nails. For manicuring only a pair of curved itail scissors, a nail file, an orange stick, a chamois polisher, a bottle of vaseline and a box of rose salve or nail powder are necessary.—Mary E. Walker, M. £)., In I-adies' Home Journal. Portacatu Hotal Cloeka. It is the fashion for Portuguese clocks to strike the hour twice over. Ileaveu only knows why, for certainly the people are not so keen about th* profitable use of their time that they require to be reminded thus of Its Bight. The habit is apt to be irritating, especially in the night, when your bed, like enough a straw mattress and a bran pillow, chances to be near one of these monsters which dings Its four and twenty strokes at midnight, with a pause between the dozens which merely stimulates expectation. If there are five clocks In the establishment, all with sonorous works—and the supposi tion Is reasonable—they will, of course, differ widely, so that twenty-four may be striking, with Intervals, during a maddening half hour. You may happen to want to know badly which one of the monsters is the least mendacious, and the bells at your bed head communicate with two serv ants, cne a tiallego and the other a Fortuguese. In such a case ring for the despised stranger without hesitation. He will bo with you In a minute, fresh and smiling, though half naked, and If he distrusts his own judgment about the clocks he will not mind saying so and hasten to awaken the landlord himself rather than that yon should remain In doubt. I regret to add that his more conceit ed fellow servant will more probably say whatever first conies to his tongue, more heedful of his own comfort than of your desires.—Chambers' Journal. The I.ant Gladiatorial Combat. Gladiatorial games were prohibited by an edict of the Emperor Constan tine In A. D. 325, but from some cause, probably the loudly expressed disap probation of the people, the edict was allowed to fall Into disuse, and Its pen alties were never visited on Its vio lators. During the reign of Honorlue the defeat of the Goths in Italy wa» celebrated by games, but In the mid* of the fights In the amphitheater of Vespasian a monk named Telemachus found Ills way into the arena and part ed the combatants with a large pro cessional cross. The populace swanmed over the bar ricades iind tore the monk to pieces, but the moral effect of the heroic act was permanent, and In A. D. 404 an Imperial edict abolished gladiatorial sports In the Coliseum and shortly aft er throughout the Roman empire. The fight stopped by Telemachus was the last in the Coliseum, and that structure Is now consecrated to the honor of Telemachus mid the Christian martyr# who perished in the persecutions by Nero and other emperors. Tno Cruel Punishments. The gantlope, or gantlet, was mili tary and naval punishment for theft. A man had to run the gantlet of a long file of his fellow soldiers, each provided with a switch, and to prevent the sinner going too rapidly and to see that no man. Impelled by motives of friendliness or kindness, failed to strike hard, a sergeant walked backward, fac ing the said sinner, with a halberd pointed at the letter's breast After a lengthy experiment this wii found to be inconvenient and degrad ing, so recourse was had to another method, a variety of the same species of torture. The offender was tied to four halberds, three in a triangle and a fourth across. The regiment or com pany then tiled off. the cat-o'-nlne-talli was placed In the hands of the first man, who gave the culprit a lash and passed on, handing the cat to the tec ond, who also gave a lash, and so the game went merrily on until the offense had been expiated.— London Graphic. Cats. There are two curious things about cats that are not generally known. Yellow hairs, however few In number, always indicate the female. No male ever had the slightest tint of yellow. That Is one curiosity, and the other Is that a blue eyed cat Is always deaf. To be sure, blue eyed cats are scarce, and It is possible that some deaf cats may not be blue eyed; but wherever you find a blue eyed cat that feline Is absolutely Incapable of hearing thun der. Ancient Builders. In Lahore there Is or was a massive building made only of bricks and mor tar, but the builders, who erected It In about '520 It. C., understood their busi ness so well that the fabric defied the engineering efforts of four successive governments to remove it. India, too, can show plastered buildings white and shiny like marble and as smooth and polished as glass. Beat Ua on Time. "Oh, come now, I s'y!" exclaimed the Britisher. "You must admit we're ahead of you In a grlte many w'ys." "In one great particular I admit you are," said the Yankee. "And that is?" "Time. It's S o'clock in London, and It's only 3 here."—Philadelphia Record.
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