VOL XXXIX
Grand Clearance Sale
SUMMER FOOTWEAR
BickeFs.
We have commenced a Grand Clearance Sale of
all Summer Footwear.
We have too many Summer Shoes and Oxfords
and will not carry a pair over.
Every pair must go during this SAj E and will go
at away down prices.
IS'en's $4 00 Welt Sole Shoes $2 25
Mtii's S4OO Patent Kid Oxfords . 2 25
l.ai 'i s" $3.50 We t Sole. Patent Kid Oxfords 2 25
I.;<ti< s' hire Dongola Patent Tip Oxfcds 95
F ne Dongola Turn Shoes 1 65
Ladies' F:nc PJi ngola Patent Tip Shoes 1 00
Mi- ts' Patent Tip .-hoes 1 00
Mi-M-s' Strap Sandal? 60
Ch iiiteii'.< Fn;e Shoes 45
Fine Shoes 20
Hi \ >' Lawn Tenni-, Slippers 35
Youths' Pine Satin ("alf Shoes 80
Boys' Fine Satin Ca'f Shoes 90
Men's '1 h.ee So'e, Bel! s Tongu< , Box Toe Shoes.. . 1 35
Sample Counters Filled With Interesting Bargains
JOHN BICKEL,
128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA.
U H USELTON'S IsirCJ |
The Latent Styles 1 The early Snnirner
Ik 1 and Nobbies f style of Men's Shoes {
9 A designs jet shown fyfejjCT''# shown here now are
{■ in thin City. "birds." '
All 1 \ A man feels like
T# ready , onying them anyway ►
for I»\'/>- —whether he needis i
yA you. xi/" \ them or not.
ip*- No—l Mot Oi\iy tP|e Ladies!
WA We have low Shoes f<.r l atent Leath< r Ulnchers %
r C MEN, Patent Kid Bluchers ► J
ftj BOYS and Patent Calf Lace. M
■», / GIHLS as well, The slickest lot of
Kl B \BIES to-»! Shoes in forty States WA
fi Take Your Choice! LOME S2SO ' kj
Id Patent Leather Oxfords
kl Patent Kid Bluchers A
J A Vicl Kid Colonials Take Your Choice
Velour Calf Sembrich Ties A
w2 Wax Calf Oxford Button
L* Welt Soles or Jin. Soles SS "sS SS" to-S 4
YA 75c to $3.00. bat it is the only place
to bny the newest nn<l smartest styles. A
r i We get more style and more wear into onr shoes at a xiven
t price than any one else you know of. r 3
Heavy Shoes for Farmers and Mechanics made to stand a lot of A
J A mauling and scrapinx. but GOOD LOOKERS and plenty of t<je
[■ rmim, Hsc to $2.00. > J
[i 1 Huselton's. si j
be fit. M
f The most satisfactory A 1
Hboe Store in Butler.
jwHolmllTjUDGE]
? OF OUR SHOES? \
/ The customeis, who buy our $3.50 Enamels for $2.25; S
VMen's shoes latest styles and leathers, $3.00 up Boys' and/
J Youths' fine shoes, 80c up. Ladies' Patrician shoes and /
S oxfords, $3.50. Misses' shoes, 75c up. Children's shoes, 50c J
V up. Workingmen's shoes, SI.OO up; w tiling your nomination S
C we remain yours for shoes. \
] THE NEW SHOE STORE, >
Turner)
/ Next to Savings Bank. 108 S. MAIN ST. /
KECK
f\ /'/ 'K " ave a nattinc»s about them that E
Kt W L mSm /1 1A m»rk the wearer, it won't do to
'j K \r'J fe\ wear the last year's output. Yon
/ CJ l\ won't get the latest things at the
r? stock clothiers either. The up-to
'« \f J JV f < date tailor only tan hupply them,
IIT Vi I H 111 V> '' y° u want not only the latest (J
I It )If Jlf I things in cut and fit and work
llf 111 ni»nship, the finest in rlurability,
If ,11 where else can yon jjet combina
-3 h //J Li Hons, you get them at
K E C K
S. F. KECK, Merchant Taller,
1'? North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler,Pa
JUST RECEIVED
Another Large Shipment
MILLINERY. flJil
A K r est assortment of mi>] siiminet —5 f ~
•tyles. an endless variety ol hats. A Ay- - b
pretty, serviceable and i»ractical hat • I
can l>n selected from onr lartfe assort f TT —1
mont of trimmed hats from SI.OO np- M i * t > tlf ' 1
ward Onr $2 UN liars exceed in ij'iality t! - -
anything ever offered at the price
Valneahd style are delightfully com
binded in our latest Summer hats, the
display is decide<lly interesting; also 1
onr prices are away down beyond com
petition. Come and see them.
Rockensteln's,
MILLINERY EMPORIUM.
s8 South Main Street, - . Butler, P*
~ THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
I'UICA.
IjL JRbakes short roads.
AXLE
JL light loads.
(jREASE
for everything
that runs on wheels.
Sold Everywhere.
M^^fSTASDARDOILCO^^^
Nasal
CATARRH J&mh
cleanaes, eoothes and heals M
the ciiseasrd mimbrane.
It cores catarrh and drives /*V«X
away a cold in the bead
quickly.
Cream Balm is placed into th© nostrils,spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im
mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—df>es
not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 centa at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
I »I
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Johnston's f}
Beef, Iron and Wine H
Best Tonic
Blocxl Purifier. Lj
► J Price, 50c pint. Tfl
V Prepared and W A
N soldjonly at'
I*< Johnston's J
► Crystal tj
' Pharmacy, H
! ►)
' B. M. LOGAN, Ph. O .
Manager, Pi
* ICB N. MalnlKt., Kutler. Fa
Both 'Pbone* vj
Everything in the
| g |
We Guarantee
ALL THE
PAINT
we sell and'ihe I;irge.*t paint Ml';;
Co. i>i the world (The Sherwin-
Williams Co.) stand back of u s
in this guarantee.
Does that mean anything to our
paint customers?
Vou will do well to consider
tlii pioposition
Estimates cheerfully furnished.
REDICK & GROHMAN,
kkj N. Main St., Butler. Pa.
Eugene Morrison
GENERAL CONTRACTING
PAINTER and DECORATOR.
Special attention fciven to
FINK PAPKR HANGING
GRAINING and
HARQWOqD PIN'ISHINCj.
Office and Shop,
Rear of Ralston's Store,
Residence No. 119 Cliff St.
1-copie » Phone 45'.
EYTH BROS'
Big Wall Paper Store,
Next to Postoffice.
Special bargains in Wall Paper,
Window Blinds and Room Mould
ings. Farmers find good accom
modation and satisfaction here.
EYTH BROS.,
Formerly,
C. B. Mc MILLIAN,
'Phone 453. 251 S. Main St.
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY. JUNK 12, ICO2
1 HOMESPUN f
I HEROISM I
.... By C. B. LEWIS v
?| Copyright, 1902,
| By ie S. S. McClure Company
When Zeb Johnson, Farmer Jones'
hired man, came to the end of a row
of corn, he took a seat on a stump to
think things over. He realized that
he couldu't glean much consolation
from mere thlnklDg, but a crisis was
to be faced.
The evening before, after haTing
courted Jennie Taylor, the daughter
of another farmer, for a year or more,
he had asked her to marry him and
had been refused. Zeb's courting had
consisted of escorting Jennie to a
Fourth of July celebration, a circus
and a cornhusking. The intervals had
been filled in by what he called "sit
ting around" and declaring to himself
that she was the sweetest and hand
somest girl in all the world.
There wasn't the slightest doubt in
his mind that he loved her. and he was
equally sure that he was loved in re
turn. It was therefore vith a feeling
of supreme confidence ia the success
of his erraud that he had dropped into
Taylor's and tried to keep his blushes
back and his feet on the floor as he
Fa id:
"Jennie, I was Just thinking that we
ought to get married in the fall."
"Oh, you were?" she replied, looking
up ut him.
"Yes. I couldn't love you any more
if we was to court for five years."
"Who's been courting?"
"We have, of course, and I want to
say"—
"Don't say it," she Interrupted. "I
never even suspected you were court
ing. You've been hanging around more
or less, but I supposed you came to
see father."
"But I've been loving you for a whole
year and want you for my wife," he
persisted, paling and shuffling his feet
Miss Jennie was darning a hole in
the heel of one of her father's socks.
She stopped her work as she said seri
ously:
"Zeb, I couldn't marry a farmer. If
1 can't find my ideal, I shall never
marry at all. I'm somewhat romantic,
you know, and Fd be perfectly miser
able if I married a plodder."
"Do you mean that you want to mar
ry some dude of a feller?" asked Zeb,
who had never beard of Ideals or ro
mance.
"No. of course not. He must be
brave and gallant and save my life.
ZEU HAW THE SITUATION AT A GLANCE.
You are a real good fellow. Zeb, but
you are no hero. I think Luciuda
Jackson would make you a good wife.
Don't blame me, Zeb, and don't get
desperate and Jump off the barn. I
know you want to talk for an hour or
two yet, but It wouldn't do any good.
Good night, Zeb. The sooner you shine
up to Lucinda the quicker you can ask
her to marry you."
Zeb Johnson went home a stricken
man. In a dim way he knew what
Jennie sighed for. She was looking
for an armored knight to come along
on a prancing coal black steed anil kill
three or four villains and bear her off
on his saddle. Zeb had no armor, no
coal black steed, no desire to kill. He
was simply out of It.
He sat on the stump and thought
hard, but no consolation camo to him.
The best thing he could get out of It
«'«» a grave under a willow tree, a
grave over which Jennie might come
anil weep when tired of waiting for her
knight.
"Yes, It shall be death," said Zeb as
he ros® from the stump. "I'm lop
shouldered, knee sprung anil hump
backed, and I couldn't be a hero If I
was paid a hundred dollars a month.
There's nothing left but to hang my
self."
He went to the barn, procured a rope
• ltd started for the woods. He had se
lected the tree anil the limb. In a little
glade stood a white beech tree, and
there, arnlil the songs of birds and the
rustling len yen of the wild grnpe, the
rope should cfcoke the life out of him
nrnl his body should be left to swing
In the summer breeze.
While Zeb was after the rope things
were happening In that little glade.
Three tramps who had broken Jnll six
rnlles away the previous evening were
In hiding, anil Miss Jennie hnd wan
dered Into the woods to study botany
and wonder when that armored knight
would make his appearance. She was
thinking of guerdons and lances and
squires and steeds when she confront
ed the three tough specimens of hu
manity.
Their very first words proved that
they were not chevaliers. There was
nothing suave anil gentle nnd cour
teous about the way they ordered her
to sit down and keep her mouth shut.
She had blundered upon them, and
they didn't propose to let her go and
give the alarm before they were reoily
to move on. Wluit with their ontlis,
their vile Jokes and their threats she
had a bad quarter of an hour ot it.
and her knight came not-
Zeb Johnson did, however. He came
with slow step and downcast bend, as
is proper when n man Is going to hang
111 nisei f. He was thinking of Jennie
and wondering if it hurt much to hang
oneself. There was a tear in one eye
and n gleam of determination In the
Other when be suddenly appeared be
fore the ragged, dirty trio anil their
prisoner.
The tramps might have bolted If they
had lind a minute's warning, but as It
was they hail to tight. Zeb saw the
situation at a iclanco, and the light of
battle flamed up lit his face. It Is a
good thing to go out to hang onesHf
arid tlnd a scrap at hand to postpone
matters.
It was a fight that nprooted bushes
and smnll trees and plowed furrows up
and down the glade, but at the end of
ten minutes Zeb was victor and had the
three on the earth under his feet. He
wa9 still breathing hard and wiping
the blood oft his nose when a gentle
voice walled out:
"Oh, Zeb, Zeb, suppose you hadn't
come!"
"But I did come," replied Zeb, "and I
guess I've given 'em a licking to last i
a year. Where was that hero of
yours?"
"I—l don't know."
"Ought to have been around, hadn't
he?"
"Y-yes—that Is, no. No; I don't want
him."
"Anything happened?"
"Yes. I've got all the hero I want.
Zeb, I'm sorry, and If you want to get
married, and if" —
"Well, let me kick 'em a few times,
and then I'll go home with you and
ask the old folks what they think about
it. It was lucky I thought of playing
the fool and hanging myself."
Pooled the Frenchman.
Sergeant Harry, who acted as usher
in the White House during Cleveland's
second term, told this story: "I will
never forget the message President
Cleveland sent to Secretary Oiney one
night It was this way: There was an
eclipse of the moon that night, and
President and Mrs. Cleveland were
much Interested in watching it. 'I
don't believe Olney knows about it,'
said Mr. Cleveland, 'and he will be
sorry to miss it' Then very quickly,
'Harry, go telephone Olney to look at
the moon.'
"I went to the phone, and Olney's
chef or butler or something French an
swered. The president sends word to
Mr. Secretary to look at the moon,' I
said. 'To look at vat?' answered the
Frenchman. 'The moon,' I repeated.
'Ze vat?' again he asLed. 'The m-o-o-n.'
I spelled, 'the moon-' 'ls ze presiden'
in hies mind?' 'Yes; he tells Mr. Olney
to go look at the moon. Give him the
president's message.' 'But vat for iss
dat—to look at ze inoon?' I then said a
word or two and rang off.
About an hour later the same butler
called us up and, with more density In
his tone than even before, said, 'Mees
taire Secretary desires to say to Mees
taire President zat he hass looked at
ze moon, and he Iss mooch obliged!' "
Didn't Salt Washington.
Until the early part of the last cen
tury Milford. Conn., had a house In
which Washington was said to have
spent a night It was in 1780, when
Washington made a tour of New Eng
land. Tradition says that there were
certain things about his stay at the
Milford tavern which he did not enjoy.
The supper set before him consisted of
boiled meat and potatoes. He was not
pleased with the meal and asked for a
bowl of bread and milk. The landlord
brought the new order and a broken
pewter spoon with which to eat It.
"Have you no better spoons than
this?" asked General Washington.
"It's the best 1 have In the house,
sir." replied the host.
"Send me the servant." said his ex
celleney. "Here's 2 shillings Go to the
minister's and borrow a silver spoon."
Tradition does not add whether he
got the spoon or not
Describing a Wedding.
A young woman clerk at the court
house was asked to report for the
Wellington (Kan.) Mall a wedding
that was to take place in the office of
the probate judge. Here is hei Jour
nalistic achievement, otherwise 'not
even the names being giveu:
"The bride was sixteen years old.
wore a short dress and black kid shoes,
black dress, red choker, blue velvet
hat. with plumes arranged to give a
wing effect, crown flat and white
rosette In front. The groom was tall,
gawky and light complected, wore a
blue necktie, striped trousers, dark
blue barred sack coat, standing collar,
black shoes laced upside down, with
strings trailing."
Falrl? .Warned.
An old circus man says that he once
arrived nt Steeltou, Pa., early In the
moruing to make arrangements for a
circus performance st that place. To
obtain his license It was necessary to
see the burgess of the town. The tlrst
person he met was a large, burly Vir
ginia negro, who was on his way to
wor'- at the steel works. He approach
ed the fellow and said, "Captain, can
you tell me where I can find the bur
gess of Steelton?"
"Say, boss, I Is a stranger around
here myself, and all I can say is keep
away from dem Burgesses. I was en
gaged to be mahrled one time to Mary
Ellenheth Burgess, and dey Is a pesky
lot of niggers."
lie Gave Hl* Address.
narry Furnlss told n good story of a
distinguished but Irritable Bcotch lec
turer. The gentleman had occasion to
speak In a small town In one of the
lowland counties, and It chanced that
he met with a more than usually loqua
cious chairman. This genius actually
spoke for a whole hour In "Introduc
ing" the lecturer. He wound up by
saying, "It is unnecessary for me to
say more, but call upon the talented
gentleman who has come so far to give
us his address tonight."
The lecturer came forward. "You
want my address? I'll give it to you; I
822 Itob Itoy Crescent. Edinburgh, and
I'm Just off there now. Good nlghtl"—
Woman's Home Companion.
How Wheat Came to Earth.
A classic account of the distribution
of wheat over the primeval world
shows that Ceres, having taught her
favorite, Trlptolemus, the art of agri
culture and the science of brcadmak
lng, gave him her chariot, a celestial
vehicle, and that In It he traveled night
und day, distributing tills valuable
bread grain airrong all nations of the
tmrth.
Hard on Ills Brethren.
"Oh, well, my dear," observed he to
his wife, "you will find that there are
a great many worse men In the world
than I am."
"How can you be so cynical, John?"
replied his wife reproachfully.—Syra
cuse Herald.
A {.literal Udncatloii.
Wlseum—Honestly, now, did you
laarn anything while you were In col
lege?
Graduate—Um-m—well, I learned
how to state my Ignorance In scientific
terms.
The Politician's Friends.
"I never went back on a friend," said
one politician.
"I never found it necessary to do so."
said the other. "As soon as I was not
in n position to favor him piy friend
always went back on me."—WusUlug
♦on Star.
The Honr.
Tubbs—Whit hour Is It?
Dubbs—None at all.
Tubhs—What do you mean?
Dubbs—Not yet 1 o'clock.—New York
Herald.
Some Russian railways employ only
members of the Orthodox church.
| A Saving f
| Entanglement |
♦ By JAMES ALLISON ♦
♦ Copyright, 1902, f
© By the S. 8. McClnre Company
"You did It on purpose"—
"Believe me, nothing was further
from"—
"I shall never believe a mnn so long
as I live"—
The hands fumbling with the entan
gled skates closed convulsively over
the gleaming of the smaller pair.
"The trouble jras that you never did
believe In him really. You were al
ways unjust"—
Ills voice was low and tense. The
girl drew aside Impatiently.
"Mr. Ludlow, will you kindly dis
entangle those skates, or at least let
us step out of people's way."
Her cheeks were aflame. Nell
Priestly had Just leaned over the side
of her eutter to gaze at them curious
ly. standing thus before the Palace
drugstore.
"1 am doing my best," came the hum
ble reply. lie Jerked off one glove,
and Helen could not refrain frotu glanc
ing down at his long, shapely hand,
with the seal ring she had given him
the Christmas Just after their engage
ment was announced. He had not sent
It back with the other tilings.
The two pairs of skates swung apart,
but he kept close to her side.
"As long as we've gone this fsr—l
mean—er—we've been seen together
again—l might as well walk with you.
I take it we are bound for the same
place, the park."
Helen stared straight nliead.
"1 believe you did it on purpose." she
remarked irrelevantly.
"I couldn't." he responded, knowing
full well what she meant. "It would
take months of practice to entangle a
pair of skates like that Just in passing
you. and you've given me no chance to
get that near you in—how many months
is It. Helen?"
She Ignored the question.
"But you came Into the store on pur
pose"—
"Vain child! 1 needed some potash
tablets for my throat."
"But." she persisted, "you did not
discover the fact until you caught my
eye across my cup of hot chocolate,
and then you hesitated."
"So you acknowledge that you were
watching me? Well, that Is a hopeful
4l
Hl£ FASTENED IIEII SKATKH WITH tIANIIM
THAT TKEMBLKD.
symptom. Somehow lately when we've
met I've felt that you saw nothing but
space."
"Do stop raking over dead ashes.
Lester!"
"Are they really dead, Helen? Isn't
there Just the least little spark still
burning?" This wns not banter. lie
was thoroughly In earnest.
"You must know that I love you;
that I loved you even when you doubt
ed me. Anil you were so unreason
able. You would not let me explain"—
She glanced at him critically, he
thought coldly.
"You have survived the episode ex
cellently. You are looking very well."
There was Just a suggestion of a
sob In her voice. People had said that
Helen had fallen ofT considerably In
the last few months.
"Yes. I have honestly tried to forget
my disappointment. 1 have worked
hard. The god Mammon has rewarded
me better than did the little fellow to
whom I formerly paid my devotions."
"I—l thought we—you—were very
happy while It lasted."
"Happy and yet miserable. Helen,
can't you see that your lack of faith,
your feeling that I did not prove my
devotion to you. were torture to me?
You could not or would not under
stand my temperament. Because I did
not tell you every time we met that
you were the most adornble woman
God had ever made, that I could not
live without you and all the rest of the
rlilldlsh. pretty compliments men pay
to a certain sort of woman you said I
»lld not love you. and yet In a hundred
ways I showed you that you were the
one woman In the world to me. I
never called on any other girl—no.
dear, not even since you broke our en
gagement. I haunted your home until
I was ashamed to look your futher In
the face. I tried to show you that I
needed you every hour of my life. I
gave up my pipe becuuse you did not
like It. 1 cut the Athletic club liecause
you objected to that gang of fellows.
But because I did not announce my
reasons from the housetops you did
not understand thHf It wus for you, all
for you."
They had reached tin- la!;e In the
park. Helen sunk mechanically on the
frozen bank and with the old childish
gesture handed him her skates. He
fastened them with hands that trem
bled.
"Can't you understand. Helen?"
Still she sat staring dumbly across
the glittering expanse of Ice to the
woodland Willi It* gli li ning. ghostly
trees. Never had be liilked like this
before, and the scale* had fallen from
her eyes with a suddenness iliat left
her fairly dazzled No. she had never
understood Itllli. He had seemed to
take (lielr engagement s • I _• 1111> He
had hurt her again and again with hla
perpetual Joking. It hail all been so
serious a matter wlt'i hei anil slit- had
thought he placed to > i.ght -in estimate
on her love liecause because well, no
sane man should treat lightly so seri
ous an affliction as a retrou-sc nose.
She rose and poised gracefully on
her skates. Ludlow strcti bed out ills
hands, and her own cuddled Into his
confidingly. Across the lake they sped,
looking straight Into each other's eyes.
"You understand me belter now,
Helen," he pleaded. "Tell me. dear
that you believe I loved you alwavs"
She really wanted to reply In the
"Yes" he longed to hear, but it was a
novel experience to see him so deadly
In earnest She shook her head slight
ly.
"Oh, Lester, you've not been practic
ing law In vain! As a pleader you're
improving."
A pained look came Into his honest
eyes. His clasp on her hands iooseaed,
and with a coquettish glance she shot
away from him. She shouted some
thing over her shoulder, but he lost the
words In a sharp, ominous crackle of
weak Ice. There was a shrill scream,
and a second later he was circling
round a black hole where a crimson
Tain O'Shanter had disappeared.
*******
They sat by the park keeper's Are,
wrapped in strange, unsightly gar
ments. Their host had bustled out in
to his bachelor kitcheu to brew a hot
drink.
Helen faced Ludlow abruptly. There
were dark circles under her eyes and
her chin quivered pathetically as she
said:
"Lester, dear, did you hear what 1
called to yon Just before"
"No." he said moodily. "A man
drenched to the skin is not susceptible
to coquetry."
She continued bravely:
"I said that 1 knew you loved me al
ways bctt"r than 1 deserved. Yes. 1
said that, dearest, before you Jumped
ill after me. You lielieve me. don't
you ?"
He looked iuto her eyes. They glow
ed softly, tenderly. He took her in his
arms.
"God bless you, girlie, and those
skates!"
Moot Point of I<n it *
An English wri'er gives a good ex
ample of those quibbles in legal prac
tice that have a sort of fascination for
certain minds. Some years ago. while
traveling on the continent he met the
principal lawyer for the government of
one of the principalities, who told him
of a curious legal question. It had ref
erence to a railway station at the
boundary between two principalities.
Some one standing outside the win
dow of the ticket otlice had put his
hand through and robbed tiie till inside.
The boundary line lay between where
the thief stood and the till, so that he
was actually in one territory while the
crime was committed in the other.
Here was a nice nut for the gentlemen
learned in the law to crack. Which
of the principalities should undertake
the prosecution of the culprit?
At it they went In good earnest, and
the arguments on either side were long
and vehement till the whole case was
embalmed In many volumes. At last
one side yielded so far as to say:
"We will permit you, as an act of
courtesy, to prosecute, while at the
same time reserving all our sovereign
rights."
At this point of the recital the Eng
llshman asked, "And how did the pros
edition end?"
"Ah, that is quite another matter!"
said his friend. "There was no prose
cution; we were only arranging what
we should do when we caught the rob
ber, but we never caught him."
Too Effective.
\ The German proprietor of a sawmill
In a Minnesota town used for fuel the
refuse from it<«r>»H>r. The fuel cost
nothing, but It took four men to pro
vide it. because the machinery was old
fashioned
An agent for mill machinery persuad
ed the German to put In new equip
ment which would reduce the nmouut
of fuel one-half. It looked like a good
proposition, says the Dulutb News-
Tribune, and the agent, sure of success,
called on the German nftcr the machin
ery had been installed, expecting to be
congratulated. But the German gave
him a gloomy stare.
"What's the matter? Doesn't the ma
chinery do all l claimed for It?" asked
the agent.
"Ya, but I overlooks sometings."
"What was that?"
"Veil. It dakes only dwo men to han
dle de fuel, but It dakes de udder two
men to haul avay vat ve didn't use pe
fore und a team posldes."
A Military Donlit.
"Did you see a boy about my size
round the corner?" a boy Inquired of an
elderly gentleman who was passing.
"Yes, 1 believe I did," said the man.
"Did he look ugly?"
"I didn't notice."
"Did he look scared?"
"1 don't know. Why?"
"Why. I heard he was around there,
and I don't know whether he wants to
lick me or whether he's afraid I'm go
ing to lick him. Wish I did."
MmN BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Horn 111 Thnn Woinnn, Snji
km Olmrrv.int Hcfttnnruteiir.
"Of course," said an avenue restau
rant keeper, "I thind my business gives
me the best opportunities in the world
for judging human nature. My obser
vations have led me to the conclusion
that women, as nervous as they are
supposed to lie, are more good natured
than men. The test for tills trait comes
at breakfast time. Now. I suppose
that my customers are about as cheery
a lot as frequent any restaurant in the
city. A good many of tliem are news
paper men, who, as a usual tiling, take
life as It comes without much com
plaint If you lake thcni In the even
ing or late at night, you will And them
the most companionable lot Imaginable.
But let me tell you there Is a difference
In the morning.
"As friendly as I am with most of the
men who come In here, there Is not
one whom 1 would care to provoke be
fore lie gets his breakfast. Most of the
'kirks' are made concerning the tlrst
meal of the day. The waiter Is too
slow; the steak Is too rare; the steak is
too well done; the eggs are not fried
properly or are boiled too little or too
much. But by the time the average
man iias had a good meal and a cup
of hot coffee 'Richard Is himself again.'
"Now, with women it Is different. I
don't know whether It Is because they
wake up less hungry than men or
whether nn empty stomach affects their
nerves to a less degree, but those who
get their breakfast here seldom annoy
us with complaints."—Washington Post.
•IrfTcrMon fis nn Inventor.
Not many people know I hat Thomas
Jefferson was a great Inventor. His In
ventlons were all r.f articles of every
day Use. lie devised a three legged
folding camp stool that l« the basis of
all camp stools of that kind today. The
stool he had made for his own use was
ills constant companion on occasions of
outings. The revolving chair was his
Invention, lie designed a light wagon.
A copying press was devised by Mm
and came Into general use. He also In
vented an Instrument for measuring
the distance he walked. A plow and a
hemp cultivator showed that his
thoughts were often on agricultural
matters. Ills plow received a gold med
al In France In 17SM». Jefferson never
benefited linuniially by his Inventions,
but believed they should be for the use
of ever) one without cost.—St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
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APPLE TREES FOR PLANTING
Two or Three Year Old Uecommend
«*«l to the Ordinary Former.
In regard to the age of apple trees
for planting, the horticulturist of the
Canadian Farm says that two or
three year olil trees are, as a general
rule, the most satisfactory kind to
plant, as when they are older than
three years growth is to checked and
the trees so stunted by transplanting
that it is not at all desirable to plant
jIU/l
ill Hi
T
TWO-YEAR - OJ.D AP- THREE - YEAR - OLD
PLETREE MARKED LOW HEADED AP
FOR PRUNING. PLE TREE.
them when they are so old. Further
more, the freight or express will be
less on smaller trees. If low headed
trees are desired, they may be planted
when one year old, if the growth is
strong, and cut back to the desired
height. leaving only the bare stem.
The ordinary farmer, however, who
may not give his trees much attention,
requires a tree two or three years old,
so that It may easily be seen if he
grows other crops in the orchard.
Trees should be procured from relia
ble nurserymen, as It is important to
have them true to name and well
shaped. It will pay to get the highest
grade of trees offered. Stunted, un
shapely trees will never give the same
results as healthy, straight ones.
The two or three year old trees should
have the heads well formed when re
ceived from the nurseryman. The best
head consists of a central leader, with
three or four side branches rising al
ternately from the trunk. If the
branches are opposite, a crotch is form
ed, and when
a branch may be easily broken. It is
not always possible to get a central
leader, and the next best top Is one
with from three to five branches rising
alternately from the main trunk, form
ing a symmetrical head.
Soy IIFRDI In Vermont.
A good many farmers seem exercised
nowadays over soy beans. The Ver
unmi station has grown the cron in a
small way for several years. Its offi
cers do not, however, feel like recom
mending Its general adoption In this
state. Seldom If ever can an amount
of food be found equal to that which
may be produced in the corn crop with
an equal expenditure of time, effort
and money. The forage from the soy
bean Is richer, but the quality Is more
than offset by the quantity loss as
compared with corn. It Is readily
planted and Is handled throughout the
growing season much as is corn, but is
less easily harvested. It may be fed
green as a soiling crop or ensilaged
alone or with corn. It may be planted in
the row with corn with a fair prospect
of success. Indeed,-on good soil this Is
perhaps as good a way to grow It as
any, while burial In the silo with the
corn is Its fit and appropriate end. But
when all Is said it Is felt that Vermont
Is full far north for soy beans. If
tried at all, they should be grown in
a small way at first. For Vermont
corn Is king and clover queen. Alfal
fa for the man who will put the time,
energy, patience and money into it lo
the acc, but the soy bean ranks hardly
higher than the eight spot.
A Favorite I.ettnce.
Nothing can be claimed for the black
seeded Tennis Ball lettuce on the score
of novelty, but much as regards merit.
It lias been a favorite variety for many
years, Is extensively grown for market
yid Is also one of the best kinds for
IIL.ACK SEEDED TENNIS BALL.
gardens. The young plants
are of a lighter shade of green than
the white seeded Tennis Ball—leaves
smooth at first, becoming very much
crumpled and plaited after the heads
begin lo form. The heads are larger
and looser than those of the white
seeded variety, and they mature about
two weeks later. Tho leaves of this
variety are rurely If ever shaded with
red.
BEAN GROWING.
(,'lirnji and Sure Method, of Securing
Sat l.rni-tory Crop*.
Good crops-of beans cannot be raised
on poor ground. Beans are hard on the
land, and no field should grow two
crops In succession. Good crops of
beting are grown every year on wheat,
on is and corn stubble ground, but
years of observation ami experience
have taught me that the fields on
which beans can be grown cheapest
and surest. If properly handled, are
those 11 in 1 were pastured or In meadow
the previous season. Kueh fields take
less labor to keep the crop free from
weeds. They should lie plowed early,
while there Is plenty of moisture, roll
ed and dragged often enough to keep
down everything green until planting
time, when the soil will he firm, moist
and mellow, the Ideal condition for the
bean to germinate. Such partial sum
mer fallowing Is the only way to main
tain sufficient moisture to corry the
plant vigorously through any dry pe
riod that often overtakes it in its early
stages, snys a Michigan correspondent
of American Agriculturist.
Many funners raise excellent crops
t>n stubble fields with no more and
sometimes less labor, {jlowUut the
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ground only In time to lit for planting.
With plenty of moisture this will do, but
with the droughts of June that our lo
cality is subject to this method is risky.
The best beans should be selected for
seed. The pea variety is the only one
we raise for market. The planting
season is from June sto 25. The com
mon grain drill is used for this work,
drilling in rows twenty-eight inches
apart. One-half to three-fourths of a
bushel to the acre, according to condi
tion of the soil, is planted.
With ordinary favorable weather the
crop attains sufficient growth in ten
days to be cultivated. If conditions are
unfavorable and the plant starts slow
ly, it would be well to run over the
ground with a spike tooth drag to keep
the weeds from starting or to mellow
the soil if It has been crusted. The tool
generally used for cultivating Is the
two horse wheel cultivator of any
standard make. If the soil has been
properly fitted, two rows can be culti
vated at once, ten acres being an easy
day's work.
Cultivation should be done once a
week until the bean begins to form.
Some good farmers will not cultivate
after the blossoms appear. My own
experience has tnught me that cultiva
tion, though it be so late so as tear
apart the vines between the rows, nev
er lessens the yield, and further, as
most of the bean ground Is sown to
wheat. It is a partial preparation for
the wheat. Beans grow rapidly, and
three to five cultivations are sufficient.
THE ONION UP TO DATE.
A Popular Crop and Its Caltnrr by
the Modern Method.
The onion is having a sort of boom
in various sections Just now as a good
money crop. Onions, it is hardly nec
essary to state, may be grown from
seeds or sets. Bailey has described up
to date union culture in brief as foi
lows:
If eeeds are used, they may be sown
In the open ground where the bulbs
PRIZB TAKER ONION.
are to mature, or they may be sown in
greenhouses or hotbeds and the young
plantlets transplanted to the rows In
the open ground. In sowing out of
doors seeds should be put in as early
as possible In shallow drills three to
three and a half feet apart and cover
ed with a half inch of fine moist earth.
They need to be very carefully weeded
at first, but if the ground is clean and
mellow and the rows straight the
wheel hoc will be able to talce full
charge of the work early in the sea
son. It has been repeatedly shown
that cheaper, better and earlier onions
can be grown by transplanting the
plants from greenhouses or hotbeds,
where the seeds are sown very early.
When the plantlets are as large as n
lead pencil, they are set four Inches
apart in rows three feet asunder, and
cultivation Is immediately begun with
the wheel hoe. In growing from sets
the planting is made in much the same
way. Multiplier or potato onions are
similarly managed.
Prize Taker is probably the most
popular variety of the present day.
Tomato Plants and Cutworm*.
Cutworms very often prove fatal to
the growing tomato plants, as they do
to those of nearly every crop. Early
cultivation, keeping the ground fallow
for several weeks, will do much to
starve them out Then two or three
days before setting out the plants spray
a piece of clover or grass with strong
parts green, one pound to seventy-live
gallons of water, sweetening It with a
little cheap molasses, and Bcatter small
bunches of thlj poisoned food every
couple of yards over the field. The cut
worms will eagerly devour it and thus
be destroyed before the plants are put
In. Or a mash composed of forty
pounds of bran and one pound of paris
green moistened with water sweetened
with molasses may be used in the same
manner and is often used thus on a
large scale against cutworms in tobac
co, advises an American Garden corre
spondent
ONE OF NATURE'S LAWS.
Action and Reaction That Prodaco
a Fit of the Bines.
Probably In two cases out of three
the blues are caused by one's physical
state. If a man has overworked or
has been under any unusual strain or
excitement or has worried a great deal
or lias been for a while In a state of
Joy and elation—all of which require an
expenditure of energy—he is very likely
to have the blues and to be in low
spirits by way of reaction.
The body is a machine which con do
n certain amount of work and no more.
If it does a great deal today. It must
do less tomorrow and thereby make up
for today's extravagance. If a man
takes one glass of whisky, the slight
stimulus that he feels will be followed,
as night follow* day, by an exactly
equivalent sinking of the spirits. If ho
has been thoroughly and gayly drunk,
his recovery will be attended by cor
responding melancholia and misery.
When a man has the blues, ho ought
to consider that he Is merely an ex
ponent of one of nature's laws and that
ho has no right to harass others with
complaints. Some men are not pleased
unless they communicate their unpleas
ant moods to all about them. They be
come sulky and cross with their wives
and children, and they throw a gloom
over their household. Such conduct is
very selfish.
A man in the blues ought to take
some pills aud a good long walk all
alone or with some companion of stead
fast cheerfulness. Lucky It Is for him
if he lias a wife who will not be down
cast and who can restore blm to cheer
fulness without spoiling him.—San
Wanted It Plain.
Mrs. Yotingwlfe—l want to get some
Valad.
Dealer— Yes'm. How many heads?
Mrs. Youngwlfe—Oh, goodnessl 1
thought you took the beads off. I Just
want plain chicken salad.—Philadel
phia Press.
The Extreme of atranuonsaesa.
Mrs. Muggins— Is Mrs. Wigwag ac
tive In public life?
Mrs. Bugging—Active! Why. that wo
man belongs to sixteen different socle
ties for the suppression of things.— Phil
adelphia Record.
The United States and all Its posses
sions and nil Kurope except Russia
could l»> put Into Siberia, with land
left to uml.e tlitrty Ave states
like < otlti-t tlcui