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
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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
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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.
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fers. Celery King removes thecaus«of wake*
fulness by Its soothing on Uie nerves
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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.
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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,
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LUfIBER.
Karl Schluchter,
Practical Tailor and Cutter
125 W. Jefferson, Butler, Pa.
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•' '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.