THE CITIZEN. THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1902. saying that she • / other girls," and i'l Harry D e a n e agreed with her F* • V en *' re ' J - - ' n " Jr*V deed, he went % \ much further in ) J-mi, is * )e " e ' t^ an 7 s^e ' or B^e ij meant that her ! jf:. y I usual way of I /Va doing things IW \ was different, ' Ju while he not on ' '' ly thought that, but thought she differed greatly in being more beautiful and lovable and harder to propose to than other girls. She didn't follow up any of the usual leads that are so like ly to bring up the momentous question naturally when young people are to gether. On the contrary, she seemed to realize several sentences ahead what he was going to stammer out when he had made up his mind to propose and never failed to change the subject skill fully. Of course this only made him the more eager to have his face set tled. When Harry came home from the city for his Easter holiday, it was with a grim determination to go back as an engaged man or know the reason why. He knew that he would have to do something clever In the way of pro posing, and, as he had studied the mat ter carefully since Christmas, he felt sure that his plan was one that would surely succeed. But in coming to that conclusion he overlooked for the mo "HEBK'H MY PABT OF THE SPREAD." njent the well known fact that she was not like other girls and that the best laid eggs as well as the best laid plans "gang aft aglee." They had spent Easter eve together, and the time had come when he should take his leave if be did not wish to break the Sabbath. But as be stirred as If about to go May said: "I have a cake of my own making that I want you to try before you go." This was exactly the opening he bad been wsltlng for all evening. "Thank you," be said. "And I have something of my own cooking that I want you to try." "Something of your own cooking?" she asked, opening her brown eyes very wide. "Exactly, and I hope you will enjoy, it." "What la It? Candy?' ' "I didn't know candy was cooked. I thought it was Just made." "How witty you have become Bince you went to the city!" she retorted, with a mock bow. "Oh. you have no idea," be replied calmly. "Now you go and get your cake, and when you come back I'll have my spread ready." May left the room, wondering what on earth was coming. Of course she rather expected a present or souvenir Of seme kind from him after he had been corresponding with her for some months In as affectionate a vein as she would allow. After she had left the room Harry stepped out Into the ball and took a neat little package from his overcoat pocket. He placed it on the table aft er unfastening the cord with which it was tied and waited for May. She re turned presently with a plate of cake and n tray bearing steaming cups of toffee. "Here is my part of the spread," she laid, "nnd if you don't like it I am ifrnid there will be trouble." "And here is mine," he said as be pushed the box toward her. May opeued the box with as much curiosity as might be expected from an ordinary girl. She found a golden egg carefully packed In batting. "Why," she exclaimed, "I thought the goose that laid the golden egg was killed long ago!" "So it was, but this one was laid by the great American hen especially for your Easter celebration." "Oh, and there Is poetry am afraid that is more than I can swallow." Harry blushed modestly while she read aloud: "Try to est me, and you'll And My contents show the jtver'a mind." "Will 'show the giver's mind.' Doeti that mean tl.at the egg Is not more than half baked?" "It isn't baked at all; it's boiled," he answered testily. "Tliat means that it has l>een in hot water. Docs it follow that you are likely to get into hot water too?" "I trust not," he replied fervently. "But, say, this cake of yours is simply delicious." "I suppose when I eat this egg I'll have to compliment It too. But, come to think of it, nil egg is something that one should always take with a grain of salt." "Not this one," he said eagerly. "This Is an especial egg." "Well. I'll have it for brrnkfast and sec If It Is gold all the way through." "Oh, it is iK-tter than gold!" "Better? And it is going to show your mind, so the poem says. Dear, dear, I never thought you had such a wonderful mind!" "Now you are purposely misunder standing me." "On tiie contrary, I am not under standing you ut all." "1 wish I could make you under stand me, Miss Hartley"— "Why, do you find me so stupid that I can't understand?" "No; I simply find you too clever to let me see whether you understand or not. But don't save the egg for break fast. I'erhaps you wouldn't care to open It at the table with the chil dren." "Why shouldn't I care to open a golden egg If It's renl gold? I am nfrnld It Is only plated!" she exclaim ed, noticing a spot where the gold leaf was rubbing loose. "I wish you would open it now," 6aid Harry. His persistence was Just exactly what would naturally keep May from opening the egg to please him, but it must be admitted that her curiosity was very thoroughly aroused. Besides, he somehow 6eemed different from what he used to be before going to the city, and she was beginning to feel a misgiving that she might tease him altogether too much. Finally she de cided that she would satisfy him and her own curiosity by opening the Eas ter egg. Taking the cake knife in her band, she took one more critical look at the egg and then exclaimed: "Oh, I wish you had put the poetry at the other end of the egg, for I would like to save this wonderful shell: But now I'll have to spoil the verses while opening it." "Why, no," be protested. "I put the verses near the big end so that you wouldn't have to spoil them." "But how could I open the egg with out spoiling them?" "By opening it at the little end, as everybody else does." "At the little end! I never opened an egg at the little end in my life.' "Well, it isn't too late for you to be gin now." "It is entirely too late when I know better. Everybody knows that the big end is the only end to open an egg at. If you open that end, you have room to get your spoon in." "Spoon nonsense. You would think that one ate eggs with a tablespoon to bear you talk." "Well, one would think you bad nev er eaten eggs at all." she retorted, "when you don't know which end to open." "Hut I do know at which end to open tbem, and that is why I fixed that one as I did. My Mother taught me as a child to open my egg at the little end, and I have never forgotten it." "If it had been sensible, you would have forgotten it, but I want you to know that my mother taught me to open them at the big end, and it just makes me sick to see any one open an egg at the little end. That's the end that the yolk is in, and you are always in danger of cutting too deep and mussing things up." "My!" he said, with an attempt at being sarcastic. "How well you know the anatomy of an egg." "Well," she answered hotly, "I know the auatomy of eggs so well that I have no further desire to investigate the con tents of this one, even if it does show the giver's mind." And she replaced it on the table. "Oh, well, I'm sure I'll not insist," said Harry, "and I suppose you can a ■* —ar"^ .. - r THE EGO PELL TO THE FLOOB WITH A CRASH. afford to get sarcastic about the giver's mind. You don't appear to have enough cf your owu to enable you to open an egg properly." As he said this he rose ajigrily. Now, you need not be sur prised that these young people were so foolish as to quarrel about the proper way of opening an egg. We can all re member how carefully the historian of the Lilliputians has recorded the events of the cruel war that raged between the big Endlans and the little Endians. A lover's feelings are more soft and sensi ble Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. So it is no wonder that their tender feelings were wounded by this trifle. As Harry rose angrily from the table he accidentally struck Against It in such a way that the golden egg, which May had put down, started to roll to ward the edge, and before either of them noticed what was happening It fell to the floor with a crash. As it did so It burst asunder, and something bounced out that could not help at tracting attention. As it rolled off into a corner every turn threw out sparkles of prismatic light. May uttered an In voluntary "Oh!" as soon as she saw what the egg had contained, and. for getting ail about her anger, her face flushed with surprise nnd pleasure, dancing up at her from the wreck of the egg, Harry saw the change of ex pression on her face, and the absurdity of his anger came over him like a flash. He began to laugh and, stepping across the room, picked up the engagement ring with Its flashing solitaire. "If yon won't try to eat my Eastei igg." he said, "I'd like a chance to eat my angry worda of the last few min , utes." "All right," said May, "and I'll Join you." He looked fair into her laughing eyes, then took her unresisting hand in his and siip|K-d the ring on her finger. "Can you understand the giver's mind now?" he asked. "Yes," she whispered. "And do you object to It?" She made no answer, but it was one of those cases where an answer in words Is en tirely superfluous. When he finally de cided that he "really must go now," be stooped down to pick up the remains of bis Easter egg and found that it vim broken fairly in the middle between the big and little cuds. "Look!" lie exclaimed. "Kate has ar bltrated our discussion. The shell has broken Just where I had cut the hole in it to put in the ring." "That's all right," said May saucily. "I accept the decision, but I think we had better have scrambled eggs and omelets for awhile at first." Hoped to Strike (he Right One. "Here are half a dozen prescriptions I would like to have you fill as soon as you can," wheezed 111 vers. "I can see they nre nil for the cure of • cold," remnrked the druggist, looking them over. "It's this way," explained Itlvers. "When I had the other cold. I tried all these. One of 'em cured me. but I can't remember now which one It was."—Chicago Tribune. To Be Considered. "I see that your town has been con sidering the Idea of Imposing a tax on bachelors." "Yes," answered the young woman, "but we thought it over, nnd we con cluded that the men might be mean enough to take the money to pny It out for what they spend for caramels nnd thenter tickets."—Washington Star. Lake Baikal's greatest distinction is Its size. It Is the largest fresh water lake on the Asiatic or the European continent, being 400 miles long nnd from 10 to 05 miles in width. Before submitting to the inevitable n wise man takes pains to ascertain that It is the Inevitable.—Chicago News. J® (SiT'br ■y ( 3/i, ZMA \- I/// \ I / \ VI! 's( COP * R,GH ' T "° 2 ' #T H . AM,LT f N M^ SK . She i*r.i me a song ci irium, ... c hjnn of the Easter time. \ | (ft wonderful anthetn eno. its la:t notes dying away f ' I the youth wind breait.-J Hi promise of verdure and "Jfj . '■ flowers for M>y- • 0 J> V The jubilant chimes of Easter rang cut with a *!ad refrain. ; I / j V 1 felt that for man. as nature, the yprinrfti.r.e wc>jid j JJ ""V come again. V V // V^ JO> &',<-> fl I thought of the risen Saviour. I thought of 'lis v |i empty tomb. jj And over the jrtves of e*s-.. I saw • t ' ir.ioat. .'.•»/ >/ > r i..' • ' • | EASTER MUTIS. BY FRANK TOWNLEY To make Easter merely a "Sunday of Joy" would lie to rol> the holy Sab bath of that reverence always d;ie to the first day of the week. But reli gious observances, while always ear nest, are various, and different people have applied their own peeyllar hu mor and customs to the celebration of Eastertide. Now It Is typical of the resurrection of our f.ord, again of tin bursting forth of spring and to pome folks of lively yet conventional views the close of a long season of fasting and denial Among the pioneers of the American border there was little unity of religious :11Ii and often not enough of one kind to set the fashion for s'at ed observances. But Easter had its traditions, and there was so little to make the burden of border life agree able tU.:t ev,Ty event was seized upon by the young as an excuse for frolick lug. The Easter egg somehow appealed to all peop.o.of whatever liueaye. An article of food and commerce, treas ured like ;: -1J at ordinary times, the eg- was etcused from fixed duty on Easter and given o\ir to the carnival in for all kinds of sport. If nothing more delirious was thought of. there wrsi an cgg feast all day. with a menu of fried, boiled, scrambled or poached eggs at every men!. Small boys look ed forward to Easter, or "I'aas," much the same as to Fourth of July. They wanted by the hatful, the bas ketful or tin- barrelful, and they stole them as shamelessly as city urchins do the fuel for bonfires. Dyed In various colors, the Easter eggs came from hidden stores for the family feast. and when the amusement of stealing and dyeing for general use became to> tame the boys also laid by stores for a vagabond feast In the woods. E:;gs were roasted In ashes and devoured with the relish that goes with an o-.K of doors appetite. To lend further zest to the feast the boys of -one neighborhood would raid the hid den stores of another. If the party raitled was a'.ert, there would happen a scramble r.n fierce nnd bloody as a football rush. If the contest was close, then raw or eggs burning hot were tired into the faces of the com batants. Perhaps there was economy in the long run in this recklessness, for the boys who reveled in an Easter feast didn't have any appetite for eggs the remainder of the year. In olden tlines the church gave to Easter a festal coloring by letting the people down t<» their common tastes at the close of I,< :/\ Witty stories and anecdotes were told to arouse the "paschal laugh." With all nature smiling In spring It was natural that tlie human heart should open itself to joyous thoughts. New clothes on Easter Sunday Is an olil custom. An ancient verse runs in this strain: .At Kantr-r let your clothes bo n»>w Or else l<«; sure you will It nip. There were many superstitions about new clothes for Easter, nnd Shake speare records the custom. Vanity and the dictates of fashion due to the change of the seasons may be at the bottom of the modern notion of don ning new gowns and bonnets at Eas tertide. but it is also a happy and Inno cent way of expressing Joyousness. Lent Is over, pleasure may resume Its sway, and woman should imitate the trees and the plants by putting on fresh adornments. The maids and swains of Ireland in the good old days Indulged In what they called the "dance of Joy" at the dawn of Easter. Happiness is a cure for evil, and perhaps in the evolution of creeds and customs the great spring- I tide festival may become again a car 1 nival of in-.njecnt merrymaking for the devoutly religious as well as the secu lar world. m mioi wis BY A. B. LEWIS. [Copyright. JSCS. by A. n. I^ewls.] Mrs. Dubbs hadn't lived with Mr. Dublin twenty-live years without know ing his peculiarities. He never made Christmas presents: he never observed birthdays; he did not regard Easter as the proper day bring out new head gear. Mrs. I iiibbs had always rebelled about the latter, and the time had final ly eome when she meant to break out in < pen defiance. She began long weeks ahead to cut nickels and dimes oIT the liouschold expenses and lay them aside for another purpose, and when at last Easter drew near she counted up her savings and found 1 lie sum sufficient to buy what her soul craved for. She didn't expect that Dulibs would be pleased, but if she got out of it without a solemn lecture she would l.e more than satisfied. Quecrly enough. Mr. Dubbs had not only eonie to the conclusion that he uceded a new hat, after wearing his old one for five years, but he so far went back on. his record as to decide to I ting it out ICaster Sunday. It took considerable scheming on his part to buy a new "plug" and get It home and deposit the box on the spare bed up stairs the day before Easter, and, al though he was home when his wife's new bonnet arrived in Its bnmfbox. it was sneaked up stairs Into the spare room and left beside bis hat without his being any the wiser. That evening as Mr. Dubbs was re turning home from the store he found a puppy on the doorstep shivering with the eolil. and lu the goodness of his heart, for he was good in rtreaks. he picked u[> I lie pup and carried it in side. In the goodneCs of her heart Mrs. Dnbbs welcomed and fed the stranger, and. instead of turning it out lu the cold world, she let it remain and make Itself at home. Shortly before bedtime Mrs. Dubbs smiled to herself as she looked over at her husband and said: "John, 1 do wish 1 had n new bonnet ; for tomorrow." | "Y-e-s. and I wish I had a new hat," j lie mumbled In reply. I There was silence for a time as she I patched a p-'irof trousers and he read his paper, i.tid then he suddenly start ed up aml remarked: j "I wonder where that purp Is?" "He must be up stairs!" she gasped | as she looked around. It was n r :e between them to the top of the st i "s. and they came out neck and neck. M As they sto id In '■ ■ « \>f~f the door of the ' J J/ ' spare room they ,J j | ~ i sa wI he dog. He i ip •_ was still chew- j. lug away, but j tig S M 11: I nearly (In , if lied (in the t j ; bed and lloor j ij | m J were strips of | "JviM / I-l' : bandboxes and j pieces of hat ./ | brim and hat j crown, and tuln- i|| i 1 j Hal f fried with them | .Jjfali j'Z's s m**!}-' straw and glass _ , 'J ornaments and - 4' | A | torn velvet. Tho .yi< / * y\y \ i pup had done hbi "My Easter bonnet!" walled lljl.ll I tho wife. I "My Easter u I : hat!" shouted ___H /i ! the husband. ~~^«l —p"" 1 * And that was ** ■ I (ill all except MR DL'BIIH »'I( KKO UP i that the pup was TUE I ' up * dropped out of a second story window, the lights turned down and the clock wound up. and as the deceivers slept they dreamed and moaned and mutter ed, and Easter day was no more to them. A Cynic on Marriage. Sardines are a delicacy fit for any epicure, but the other fish was thus summed up by an epigrammatic Cor liislitnan: "Pilchards." he said "are like wives. When they're bad, they're awful, and when they're good they're only middling."—Pall Mall Gazette. Admirable Caution. Book Agent—ls the head of the house in? Servant—Yes; he's in the library try ing to write a letter on a new type writer he has just bought. Book Agent (hastily)—l'll call aga ! n. African Illvers. All the rivers of Africa have re markable peculiarities. They seek the ocean that is farthest away from their source. Their course is always broken by falls, and their mouths are stopped by numerous sandbanks. ONE OF WOMAN'S WAYS. She Hate# to ray Ont Bill* That Are I lean and Cri»j>. "Most" women hate to spend new money," says an observant salesman. "I haven't tlie faintest idea why this should be so. but I've noticed it often right here in the store. "A woman will make a purchase and pull out her purse to pay the bill, but if she happens to have to part with a clean, crisp note In making up the amount she looks greatly iinnoyed. I've seen women with fat wads of bright brand new bills flustered wbeu they came to pay for purchases because they hadn't sufficient old money to meet the charges. They would dig out the contents of their purses and stow the crisp notes to one side, and if they couh'.n't scrape up the sum in a few cases I've known them to go out with out buying. "Others will give utterance to little feminine exclamations of dismay and will hastily pay for the articles select ed in the new money. Then they will march off with quite a show of indig nation, just as if they had been invei gled into spending the money. "I know one man who always takes his salary home in beautiful, clean cer tificates. lie has caught ou to this pe culiarity of the sex, and he says it saves him all kinds of money."—Phila delphia Itecord. Cliinr-ne Honesty. As for the honesty of these people, 1 appeal to every English merchant or banker from Peking to Hongkong to answer if he ever heard of a dishonest Chinese merchant or banker. So far from that, not only has every English bank two Chinamen to receive and hand out money, but every bank in Japan has the same. The English will tell you. half in jest, that the Japanese is an oriental Yankee and does not trust his own people, and they will tell you, half in ean.est, that the English bankers employ Chinese to handle their money because they never make mis takes. These people of China have never had anything like a bankrupt law. If a man cannot pay his debts or some one does not secretly come forward and pay them at the end of each year, he has "lost his face," and so lie dies by his own band. Yet, with all their piteous poverty, they have no such words as "hard times," for everything must be settled up at the end of the year. There can be no extension of time. Confucius forbade it.—Joaquin Miller in North American Review. and Cancer. There Is a remarkable coincidence be tween the spread of cancer and the largely increased daily consumption of effervescent wines and waters among the wealthy classes. Prior to the six ties champagne as a drink was, even in higher circles, partaken of but occa sionally. nor were aerated waters con sumed in r.nything like the quantity nor with the frequency that they now are. These beverages, and Indeed all effer vescing drinks, owe their sparkle to the carbonic acid gas which they contain. My contention is that the upper classes by their habit of constantly Imbibing effervescent beverages, which arc solu tions of carbonic acid of greater or less strength, so prepare their mucous tis sues as to make them a favoring host to the cancerous fungus, if fungus it be.—London Medical 'l'iines. I„eatlier Kallnic Ant*. It Is said that In Rhodesia white ants destroy boots and articles of clothing left on tables or hanging on nails. The following is from a letter received re cently from South Africa: "On awak ing in the morning you are astonished to see a cone shaped object on the brick floor a short distance from your bed with two holes at the top. On closer examination you discover that the holes have Just the size and shape of the inside of your boots, which you Incautiously left on the floor the night before. They have given form and pro portion to nn ant heap, and nothing is left of them except the nails, eyelets and maybe part of the heels." The Three Meal Habit. Our three meal habit is a fearful tax on our working capacity. It trebles the temptation t<> overeating. Our cham pions stagger under the weight of a physiological handicap. One-lmlf the functional energy of the system is di verted by the exigencies of digestion. No other liygienlc mistake lias done so much to make us a generation of dys peptics as the custom of after dinner work. Its victims, moreover, incur the risk of contracting that form of moral dyspepsia called pessimism. It tends to rob the working day of Its reward.— Dr. F. L. Oswald in Success. Il«*r Sorrow. She—Harry, you said something last tvening that made me feel so bad. He What was It, dearest? She—You said I was one of the sweetest girls in all the world. He—And aren't you, darling? She You said "one of the sweetest." Oh, Harry, to think I should live to know that I have to share your love with another! An Old Hand. "What wr.s the first tiling your hus band said when you gat started on your wedding Journey?" "'Excuse me while I go forward and have a smoke.' You know It was the third time for him." —Chicago Record- Herald. F.t liortrnrrd. He—Your friend, Miss Dnshwny, has quite a military air about her. She -No wonder She has participat ed In no fewer than seventeen engage ments.—Chicago News. /The best part of the Klmberlcy dia mond fle'il covers nine acres only. Ilnylnic n Tltli*. It is not expensive to become a noble In Ilavarla. To be made a simple "von" costs a matter of £75, to be raised to the "rltterstand" £IOO, to be made a "freiherr" £238, to be made a "graf" costs £SOO, while to be made a prince only costs £I,OOO. These prices are only for one person, but the government kindly makes reductions in the case of whole families wishing to turn noble all at once. Thus for £2,000 or £3.000 a small family can be made princes, though they are only permitted to use their title within the kingdom of Bava ria. i fewisite w < -V- \ \, 6? SATHEKJiE JL CXAjBO-l£» x \\ tt~ ASTER comes in v . ""- |n.m( burst of plant '«rlk^fvl|Ykfi, growth, when I»:irk and wood re fi~t *V our attention 13 WfvfrS anew to the ,¥.ir . kV'i.ii marvels of the 5\ ill Mil ora ' il ft H'v Our old pagan Sf*. J I/ V'j* ancestors were /h )yA ' u as observant of ) Jj. these phenome •' 1 na as we are, jpuL. ant * at about the date upon which we cele brate the resurrection they held a joy ful festival in honor of the deity who personified the opening of the spring. The early church, with its habit of adopting as many of the popular reli gious rites as possible into the new faith, found it an easy matter to trans form the feast of the earth's awaken ing from the sleep of winter, to the re joicing that Christ should initiate the resurrection of the souls of men from the sleep of the grave. Before the Christian era throughout Europe blossoms bore the names of the pagan deities, but with the revolution of religious ideas the plants had to be rechristened and the legends attached to them reconstructed to conform to the now faith. Perhaps from a feeling of reverence but few were named for Christ or any member of the trinity. We still have Christ's thorn, which is supposed to have furnished the material for the crown of torture. Upon the Saviour's mother a wealth of flowers were bestowed. The plants coming to us with the prefix "lady," THE ANGEL GAVE ABEIi THREE SEEDS. as lady's slipper and lady's tresses, were "Our Lady's" before abbreviated by time. Our Lady's thistle received its naiiMM'roui a legend connected with the flight of the holy family from Bethle hem. As Mary nursed the Infant by the roadside a few droits of milk fell on a plant at lfer feet, and the leaves retain to this day the vouchers for the story. The virgin's bower, marigold, maiden's hair and all like titles were originally named for the Virgin Mary. The fritlllarln, or checkered lily, be fore the crucifixion was pure white, with upturned cup. It stood pfoudly erect during the suffering until dark ness enshrouded the earth, and it saw that all nature but itself was grieving. Theu it bent low its head and douned garments of mourning and began to weep. Si ill it hangs its head in som ber attire and still each petal sheds a pearly tear. The veronica gets its najne from a resemblance to the imprint of Christ's features left on St. Veronica's hand kerchief when she pressed from out the throng and wiped the perspiration from the Redeemer's brow. It has never been decided what tree or trees furnished wood for the cross. Bede says the cypress, the cedar, the pine and tin- box, but St. ChrysoStom quotes from Isaiah Ix, 13, "The glory of Lebanon (cedar) shall come unto thee, the (ir tree, the pine tree and the box together to beautify the place of my sanctuary." The four woods are considered symbolic of the four quar ters of the globe over which the in fluence of the cross shall finally extend. There is an old English legend carry ing the cross back to tho days of our first parents. Adam sent Abel to an angel to petition him to show them the path back to the garden of Eden. The angel gave Abel three seeds and direct ed him to plant them, saying that from their trunks would spring the path to paradise. The seeds were planted, anfl one tree at least was flourishing at the time Solomon erected his temple. Tills tree was cut down to furnish a ridge pole, but after it was brought in it was found to be too short. Then It was cast aside and lay waste by the pool of Bcthcsda until It was taken to form tho cross, which, according to Chris tianity, will guide us to the paradise lost fo us by the weakness of the first lUVII- * The most forlorn looking object In tills world Is a man guest around tho house In the daytime.—Atchison Globe. PARAGONS OF DUTY. Droll I.emenda of Filial Piety as I'rnrtlrcd In Japan. The Japanese make much of the duty of children to puivnfs. In some of their popular stories they exaggerate the wholesome virtue until it becomes absurd. There Is a group of such tales called "The Pour and Twenty Para gons of Filial Piety," some of which Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain collects in "Things Japanese." One Is the story of lhe paragon cruel stepmother was very fond of fish. In spite of her harsh treatment he lay naked on a frozen lake until his body melted a hole in the ice. He caught two fish that came up to breathe and set them before his stepmother. An other paragon lay incovered at night In order that the mosquitoes should fasten on lilui aline and allow his parents to slumber undisturbed. Still another, who was extremely poor, determined to sacrifice his own child In order to save food to support his aged mother. He was rewarded by heaven with the discovery of a ves sel filled with gold, on which the whole family lived happily ever after. A fourth gave her father a chance to es cape while she clung to the Jaws of the tiger which was about to devour him. The drollest story of all is of Itoval shl. This paragon, although seventy years old. used to dress in baby's clothes and sprawl about the floor. Ills Object was piously to delude his par ents, who were more than ninety years of age, into the Idea that they could not be so very old after all, seeing that they had an Infant son. / \ The total of deposits,capital,surplus and profits divided by the sum total of deposits gives the cash security for every dollar due depositor*. DEPOSITS. CAPITAL, SUB- DEPOSITS FOR EACH DOLLAR UNDIVIDED PROFITS. FEBRUARY. 1902. OF DEPOSITS. $6.032 000 52,362,000 = $2.55 Real Estate Trust Co., OF PITTSBURGH, - 311 FOURTH AVENUE. Incorporated October Ist, 1900. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $3,650,000.00. Pay* '2 p*r «»nt. Interest on «l*po«it* subject to check, ami 4 par cent. Inter est on savings account*. Doe* not Uiue bond**. 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When I began taking the medicine I could sit up only a few minutes at a time, and I could rest or sleep only a little while at a time. My throat wai sore, at times I could not even swallow sweet tnilk, and mv tonsils were full of little eating sores. My left side was swollen out of shape and so sore I could not bear tny clothes fastened, as I could hardly get my breath. My vituals would 1 sour 011 my stomach before I could leave the table. My folks and friends had 1 about given me up. The doctor said I would not get well. My father said I would not live a month, but three lx>ttles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery, three bottles of his 'Pellets,' bottles of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rentedy did the work and made me a well woman.'' THE 11 EST THING .for impure blood is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It neutralizes the action of tlw; poi sons which corrupt the blood and disease the body. 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