YOl XXXIX NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC! w On August 4th, 1902, John X. Pat terson, Clothiei and Men's Furnisher, will ret ho from business and be succeed ed h\ Bin iM & ROCKENSTEIN ;it t'ne old stand, 141 South Main S(. r rhe entire stock will be sold regardless <>f cos! at a. sale commencing, August 4 7th, to iiive ])lace to the new Firm's Fall and Winter goods. w tc i 'hi s.)=ou 9| ■ will b• r- -idy to act promptly. & The nillinery Department Vi is tusking severe redactions on everything, embracing a stock that has ▼i no equal any where. You will buy if you see the hats and prices. (Jo., J #3 SOUTH MAIH STREET ) Jo PHOHIS: pfoFLIS 1 //I Mail Orders Solicited $ POSTOFFICE BOX ) ™ » OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLRR, PA. Prices Prevail § Although all rnan= 1 ufacturers' prices | have advanced. I 10)) EXTENSION TABLES bought at old prices. VVill be sold at a saying of 15 per cent, to yoa NEW PATTERNS in CARPETS —the best 18 pair -all-wool In giaina at «sc. DRESSERS at $7.00, *9.00, fIO.OO Hiid up. I Come In and Compare, BROWN &• CO., Bell Phone 105, (across from Duffy's store,) Bntler, Pa. iIirs.J.E.ZIMMERMANj 0 VVill Cor\tir\ue tl\e < > !;! Day—N# J J !|! Sacrifice Sale !jt 1! THIS MONTH. !|! 1 Prices same as four days of last week. The 'l' * I stock is still large, full of big values in * I ij> Seasonable ij> ]i[ Merchaqdise ]i[ { I Juit the thing you are in need of to finish your A Summer out-fit for sea short, mountain or lake A Jk trips. Prices on some odd lots even less than i those of last week. I Sacrifice Sale Closes V Irs. J. E. Zimmerman.; j KECK ' js> a Spring & Summer Weights '•* i l\ j; 7\ Have a nattiness about them that Jj] 7i > /LV T jw\ J I | IV mark the wearer, it won't do to '/ |\ Ury i?)} B.\ wear the last year's output. You U V iA won't get the latest things at the r/t\*V ifj W stock clothiers either. The up-to li i\ I Jlf r~\ tailor ouly tan supply them, ./ j \j, \~T\u I O ou waut no ' °n ] y t ' le '"test I! |I j * Hill things in cut and fit and work jl I 111 nionship, the finest in durability, I Jll I where e'se can you get combina- I 111 yl » tions, you get them at keck G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 112 North Main Street Alt Work Guaranteed Butler,Pa A LARUE selection of SIDE I BOARDS-ranginK in price ■ from sl3 to |7O. IRON BEDS—from to !jsis. |j A choice green for only SO.OO. |j Another ronnd top—in two E 9hades of green—beautiful de- I signs, $9.00. . NEW WARDROBES-from sll | up. THE BUTLEK CITIZEN. Aftft v vorn a icady made -uit i "»v> >k, take .mother I >ok r thc> I ib >rate ly il s:r;Uii and 0 >wery \v* rd -d M'. tli it "enpted yu to bu\ it t d >:ic«f how dif f ret I . .i .i;i,i.-:U t » )">U' r in lati'M.. \\ i ou t iirtke tit ich of a *plur<,e <<-> paper; v/c rn>t our ad. into tli-- 1 1 t!i. Tue ad. btgin - when yon p:;t on the clothes a * 1 ir endures for Wi eks i'ltl '■ irs. Our p i' c-s seem liigh only tu the man who never w re one of our suits A lei lid, MAKER OF MKN'S CLOTHES C. P. Jnhnson & Sons' The Leading Tailors of Butler County. Are making clothes in the C! I EAJ'EbT, 11 EST AND LATEST STYLES. Suits from sl6 to SSO. Overcoats from sl6 to $75. Ever; thing done by skilled abor in our own shop. C. P. Johnson & Sons PROSPECT, PA. Lubricating +* OIL *+ for all kinds of machinery at REDICK & GROHMAN, 109 N. Main St., Butler, Pa. 6. Otto Davis, Pianos, * Organs and Musical Merchandise. Teacher of Voice; Violin and Piano Pianos Tuned and Repaired. Are you going to i cn, build or remodel casfcißai •mL?-7X LI Let us give you a figure on the Plumbing and Gas Fitting of your home. WhITEHILL, Plumber, 318 S. Main St., Both Phones. Have You a Neighbor? If so why don't you get together and have a tele phone system. We manufacture them. fl* Ask uh and we will tell you all about it. t *~ . '.g* Electrical work of all 4 yk] 3escriptions done on short notice. The U. S. Electric Mfg. Co BUTLER. PA. J Soft ( M Harness 11 .'-• vMR I Too can make your bar "•y« nese u soft as a (lava /JKW,4fl| - >.» fK and as tough aa wire by i\ Vj using El'K EKA Har- ;■ /IBW -"■A\Wi "••• Oil. You ran H/H 'a\ II lengthen Its life—make It LV/jBS) luac twice as long aa u "f iUREKAr gf 1 Harness Oil a make* »po«r looking har- ({HI Ipnßj nesa like new. Hada of tflH rSRi l J re. heavy bodied oil, en /5W peclally prepared to wlU>- Uj atand the weather. tVKp ,* W* Bold everywhere Its! M in cans—ail alzea. 1M M Ma da by STANDARD OIL CO. S. Nasal CATARRH fMkfh 1 In ali it* Btacea. M °'csv M Ely's Cream BalmV" ~ms M/ cleanses, Booihes and heals f m the diwascd membrane. 11 cares catarrh and drives M away a cold In the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils,spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 centa. [! Johnston's Beef, Iron and Wine is the *V Best Tonic"' k and ' 6 Blood Pnrifier. m Price, 50c pint Prepared and gp A sold only at Johnston's W Crystal K Pharmacy, ►J K. M. I.OOAN, Pb. O . w Man Hgrr, E? 2 ICfi N. Main St., Butler, Pa kS W Both 'Phonew 92 Everything in the drug line. ¥3 bJ When you arc sick ande£ want your prescriptions fillcdA bring them or send them No. 213, we will deliver themJC at your door, no extra charge.lf We have a new full line of jf drugs the best that money IT can buy. We handle nothingjf but the best. Good doctorsV and pure drugs go hand inO y hand. You can not get re-O suits from cheap Q If you had the best doctor in A So if you wish J%mcdicine and good resultsX Abuy your medicine at No.J? South Main Street. 5C v CAMPBELL'S | O Pharmacy, 6 X Successor to 5 J. P. SUTTON 0 X>OOOOOOOOOO. .S. MrClure (. ompany i The "briefless barrister" sat In his ' little office, writing—not a business let ter, but a lvvu letter. "Briefless bar t'ster' was a title he had Jokingly giv »n himself, but there was something of ! pathos underlying the Joke. In these • days an overcrowded profession jives little opportunity to the young lawyer with. ut influence to get a start, so he had ample leisure for his love letter, and this Is what he wrote: Dtari-st One- Business Is rushing—that Is. it is rushiau right past ray office. 1 wish some of It would stop and turn In. bui 1 have too many competitors who are able to reach out for it. They have influ ential friends who turn business their way or who secure them positions with fstal iished l.rms. Still, dearest, you mustn't be disheart ened. but I know you won't be. Indeed it seems almost insulting to say this to so patient and faithful a sweetheart, but I am saying it for ray own benefit rather than for yours. The struggle is so dis covraglng and disheartening at time* that I can only give myself eonfldence by speaking confidently to you. But I cer tainly am gaining. A little business is coming mry way. and I am establishing myself slowly with men who can give me more Then there is the land. In another six months I vrili have title to that and we can be married. Think of it! Married In six months, we who have waited so I long, and without that I fear we would have to wait another two years before my Income from the law alonp would en able me to care for a wife. I have told you the history of that barren tract doi ens of times, sweetheart; how my father secured his claim to It. how he neglected It. how Irrigation and the derelopment of contiguous property gave it a sudden val ue. how be found the title clouded by a prior claim when he came to perfect It. how he failed to find the other claimant how he tried to straighten the matter out legally and all that. 1 like to dwell on it now. sweetheart, for In only six months more the statute of limitations will In validate— The opening of the door interrupted him, and hu put down his ]>eu as a neat but poorly dressed woman en tered. "Lawyer Telford?" she asked hesi tatingly. "Telford is my name," he answered. "What can I do for you?" "I don't Just know," she answered doubtfully. "I'm a poor woman, with out friends or money, and the lawyer on the floor below told me he thought you'd have time to look after my busi ness." "Sends me all his charity eases, but never any with money in them," mut tered Telford to himself bitterly, but lie upoke kindly to the woman. It was evident that she had seen better days and disliked to ask even advice as a charity. Indeed her next words show ed this. "Maybe I can pay you," she said. "If I can, I will. Maybe I can pay you well. I don't know. That's what I want to tlnd out." Something in her manner won him. There was nothing of the mendicant iu her. She was neither aggressive nor whining, speaking timidly, but frankly and honestly. "Madam," said Telford, courteously offering her a chair, "I know that you will, and whether you can pay me or not you shall have the best advice that I can give yon." "Thank you, sir," she unswered, tak ing the chair and producing Rome pa pers from beneath her shawl. "The other lawyer wouldn't even listen to me when I said I had no money, but told me to come to you. And I'm glad I did, for I know that you'll be honest with me. You see, I found some pa pers in an old box after my husband died—he'd been bedridden for a long time—and I didn't want to burn them without knowing what they were. I read them through, but I don't know whether they're worth anything, and the neighbors don't know, and I had to find somebody who did know. They're so legal It seems as if they ought to represent something." Telford look the papers she offered, and at the first glance Ills fare became pale, but be read them through careful ly. Then he leaned back hi his chair, and something In his face frightened the woman. "There Isn't anything bad Jn them, is there?" she asked. "No," he answered shortly. 'Tin con sidering what's best to be done." lie got up and walked to a window, where she couldn't see his face. "Who knows of these papers?" he asked at last. "One or two of the neighbors," ahe replied. "That's all." "Suppose 1 should tell you they were worth $-100 or $500," be suggested, speaking with an effort and In a voice strangely unlike the courteous, cheer ful tone In which he bad first address ed her. "Oh, that would be splendid!" she cried. "Would you sell them for that?" "Woulfl I?" she repeated Jubilantly. "Why, Harry ciuid have some new school clothes, and so could Ellen. And maybe Jesiie could have swine music lessons the has such a good voice—and 1 wouldn't have to worry about the rent for for— It wouldn't last so Tery long, would It? Hut I could be making more all the time, as much as I am now, and it would be such a help. But you're not joking with me?" she suddenly inquired anxiously. "You'll take SSOO and be satisfied?" be asked, with cold deliberateness, Ig noring'her question. "If you advise It," she replied. He gave a barely perceptllile start. It was professional advice that he was called upon to give. His honor as n lawyer was Involved as well as his honor as a man, and it served to make the path of duty, already clear, just a little clearer. But the temptation was great—so great, in fact, that he was afraid of himself. She would accept $00<» on his advice. It was a smalt for tune t<* her and the children. All, the children! What difference inij;bt It not nuike in their lives! Fate offered him a large bribe for his honor personal and professional—and the future of these children, who would never know what they had lost nnd he had gained. "What will be your fee?" she asked doubtfully. "I'll have to pay that out of the SSOO, won't I? And I know law yers charge a lot." "There will be no fee for me," he re plied, with a sudden decision, and then he returned to his desk and wrote a name and address on the back of one of his cards, which lie handed to her. "Take your papers to that man," b* suid, speaking rapidly, as If afraid he would reconsider what he wished to say. "He Is an honest uud successful lawyer and will tell you what to do." "Aren't you an honest lawyer?" alie asked, bewildered. "If I were not," he answered bitterly, "1 would not be seudlng you to any one else." "If you are," she said, with her first display of spirit during the interview, for the trtinrpnesH of bin tone roused tier. "I don't want to go to miv one ■ else." "I tell you to go to him." lis; said. al most angrily. "You -skcd lur my ail vice, and I aiu giving it to you. I don't want those papers left here." j She rose, took the papers aud moved slowly toward the door. "I den't see why everybody seuds me away," she said, with a touch of pathos in her voice. "Won't you please look i after it for me? I don't want to see more lawyers." For a moment lie seem ed undecided, and she hesitatingly put ilie papers back on the desk. "Please I do it." she urped. "and I'll accept what | ever you say Is right. How long will ;it take to get the moneyV" she- added , as she saw him wavering. "I don't know." he replied. "I will I write you later." After she had sat for si>me | time looking at the papers. "What a fuol!" lie said at last. "I can still buy her out for any sum that suits me. and Mabel and I" He stopped and picked up the unfinished letter. He read as far as he had wiit ten. put it down and buried his face in his hands. Presently he got up aud walked nervously up snd down the lit tle office, occasionally making a move ment toward his desk aud then resum ing his walk. Once he went to the desk and picked up the papers the wo man had left ns if to tear them, but his eyes rested on a portrait that stood just behind his Inkwell, and he stop ped. lie picked up the portrait and gently, almost reverently, put it to his lips. "Dear little woman," he muttered, "it's for you that I would do it, and it's because of you that I enn't." A little later he"dropped two letters Into the mail shoot in the hall. One of them read as follows: Dearest One—l have last the land claim on which we built such hopes, but I have won that which is worth more. I have Just written to a woman, who left certain papers with me. tbat she has a valid prior claim to that twerKy thousand dol lar tract and that I will perfect the title for her. Hut be of good cheer, sweetheart. When I come to claim you, I wIH bring you that which you will prize more highly than money—a self respectlne man. "It is enough." was the comment cf the girl when she reached this part of the letter, and with the rest those two alone are concerned. Coivernalloa'a Draxkavki. "My objection," declares the author of "The War of the Worlds," "to con versation Is Its contlnuousuess. You linve to keep on. You find three or four people gathered together, and In stead of being restful and recreative, sitting in comfortable attitudes, at peace with themselves and each other and now and again, perhaps three or four times in an hour, making a wor thy and memorable remark they nre all haggard and intent upon keeping the fetich flow a-golng. • • • These conversationalists say the most shal low and needless of things, impart aimless information, simulate Interest they do not feel and generally impugu their claim to be considered reasonable creatures. Why when people assem ble without hostile Intentions it should be so imperative to keep the trickling rill of talk running I find it impossible to imagine." If we had a little more imagination and a nicer sense of hu mor, we women who hare to tackle our own sex with the fishing net of conversation weuld agree with this plain speaking essayist. The thing wonld be impossible to us If we were not ground down to It by custom. S««p Com |il I men In. Tho late Dr. DasbieJl was fond of telling the following story on himself: 'Trenching on one occasion at his old home, an old colored man who had tak en care of him when he was a child was delighted with the sermon. At the close of the service he shook the doc tor warmly by the hand and-said: 'Lar ry, you's a good preacher; you's n good preacher, I tell you; you's a sound in' brass an' tlnklln' cymbal.' " Of the same sort was the colored wo man's compliment to the cultured and affable Bishop Galloway. She said, "Brother Gallouay always do preach a powerful good tex'." Hard to Delleve. A station master requested an In crease of salary and threatened to leave if he didn't get It. The superintendent replied to his re quest by relating a story. "When I was a young man," said he, "I once did as you are doing—l told the superintendent of the line I was then working on what you have told me. He refused my demand, and I left, and—would you believe it?—that railway line is running yet."—Lond Tit-Kits. The domestic fowl U not mentioned !n tho Old Testament. Accommodating. "The shovel fish of South America," ■aid Uncle Jerry, "Is tlw» most accom modating fish there Is. It has a snout In the shape of a shovel, and it will Jump out on the bank aud dig bait for you to catch It with." Baltimore American. SIDE LIGHTS ON HISTORY. Carloaa Lettera l»y i» ITm-mrd Man Who Set Ted t'nder Wnalilnitton. Home curious side lights on history, ns valuable in their way ns the more seri ous studies, are found In a little collec tion of letter# from a Revolutionary soldier which are preserved In the Har vard library. They were written to relatives and friends In New Hamp shire by one William Weeks, a Har vard graduate, who was an officer In Washington's army. Homesickness must have been severe at times, though in one of his letters from Valley Forge this soldier seems to have had a hard struggle between his natural pleasure at the honors which he was fortunate enough to be accorded and his nostalgia. "This Day," he writes, "I must be at Gen'l Sullivan's to take Dinner with him, the other day I had as great an Honour coufer'd upon me—l had the Honour to take a Glass of Wine with Gen'l Washington & his Lady—But at the same time I should count us great an Honour to have the satisfaction of see ing, conversing & taking a Glass of Wine with my—Friends at Home." There is a curious Indication of the state of mind in the Continental army at times during the war In another letter, where Mr. Weeks says, "If my Wages were not higher than I expected when at Home, I would by no means tarry, but as they are rals'd, and for the Love I have Country, 1 can by no Means think of leaving tho Army." That the manner of obtaining a Her vard degree has changed radically In the last hundred years appears in a paragraph written at Valley Forge In 1778. Weeks had taken his A. It. three years before that, but evidently was anticipating an A. M. "As the cam paign is coming on," he wrote, "1 have hut little expectation of couilng home for my degree." But It appears that In consideration of the $lO which his fam ily forwarded to the college in response to this request the desired honor wns pnnfprred PROFITABLE DAIRYING. Have h Siarilnrd nuil lice.' a npetird of 1 r.«l i * I«1 iiul Cows. A prominent dairy authority has re j cehtiy said. "If the death angel should sweep over the state and in one night ' destroy the poorest third < f all the cows in Illinois, the dairymen would awake the next morning financially ! better off." Frequently dairymen are i keeping one-half of their herd at an i actual loss. They are perhaps making j a little profit on the whole herd and are thus apparently satisfied, whereas I if they would dispose of their unprofit able cows they would make more mon ey and also save labor. Generally speaking, cows cannot be kept at a profit In Illinois that do not produce the equivalent of HoO pounds of butter annually. To determine exactly what a cow product s in a year every milking must be weighed and sampled, but if tho herd is given a one week test every three months it will be sufficient to yield valuable results. All the appara tus necessary for this purpose is a spring balance, as many common glass fruit Jars ns there are cows in the herd and n four bottle Babeock milk tester. The milk may be weighed on any scale, but a spring balance Is most conven lent. The scale should be so adjusted that it will balance the empty milk pal! with th? hand at zero, as shown in the cut. The weight of the niilk may then be read directly from the scale without subtracting the weight of the pah and may be quickly recorded oppo site the cow's name on the milk sheet provided for the purpose and placed on the wall convenient to the scale. A sample should then be taken by means SAMPLES, SCALE AND BECOiiD SHEET. of a small dipper holding about two tablespoonfuls and placed In the jar bearing the cow's name or number. A cartridge shell of the proper size, with n wire attached for a handle, makes a very convenient dipper for this pur pose. To prevent the luiik from souring until the end of the week to each glass Jar should be added as much pulver ized potassium bichromate as will lie on a one cent piece. Potassium bichro mate, although aMa ilk poison. Is one of the best preservatives to use for this purpose for the reason that it Imparts > a lemon color to the milk, thus making it easy of detceSin and obviating the possible mistake of feeding it to calves or pigs. At the end of the week the composite samples in the jars are tested with the Babcock milk test to determine the per cent of butter fat. This gives the aver age amount of butter fat contained In each cow's milk for the week. The to tal weight of the milk for the week multiplied by the per cent of butter fat gives the total butter fat produced by that cow for the week. This test should be made every three months or thirteen weeks, and In com puting the yield of the cow for the three months the six weeks previous to and the six weeks following the test should be taken. —W. J. Fraser, Illinois Station. ItnklnK Soda n« it nialnfectnnt. In dairy work where there Is a large number of cans, buckets and strainers to wash It requires considerable time and work to thoroughly scald them all with boiling water and be sure that all have been rendered sterile. The or dinary baking soda is often recom mended for washing purposes. It is claimed by many writers to be espe cially valuable for cleaning children's nursing bottles after the mHk has been allowed to sour In It. It Is rather hard to understand Just why baking soda should bo considered a good cleansing agent. It could not have any of the properties of soap and very few of those of free alkali. It has the power of combining with the lactic acid which gives a dirty bottle lis sour odor and would destroy this odor. This quality Is objectionable, however, as it would lead one to believe the bottle clean when It was not clean. In much the same way as perfume makes an un washed person less object tollable. A small quantity of washing powder would be more efficient In cleaning the dirt from the bottle and would thor oughly sterilize It at the same time.— Maryland Station. M»i*hro«*i» (irowlni; In the Field. Wet places In woods are uot suitable for mushroom growing, as the spawn would be apt to rot before sprouting. Itlch old pasture lands, not too dry and not too wet. Me best. About the middle of .lune 'mth a sharp spade make V shaped cuts In the sod about four Inches deep and raise one side enough to allow the insertion of a piece of spawn two or three inches square under It. s i iliilt it shall be about two inches below the surface; then tamp tho sod down. Make these plantings three or four feet apart, and If the sea son is favorable a good crop should appear the following August and Sep teniber. THE SQUASH BUG. The I'niiitl lleuirtlle* Include llnnil PlcLlriir, Spray 111 •. :ind Trapping* There is stili nc( d of a both r remedy than those usua.'ly advised to prevent loss from the : < t .. ;ii Lus- In seasons of ord. i; ry ocelli iv.ice I.anil picking find trupping can be used I i good cf > ct, but when the iusi ci t i.r- ill v«ry large numbers all remedies < ci.i Insufficient. The usual remedies are: Hand picking tally i:i the reason of the old bugs when they first resort to the plants and aVo t f the easily seen eg:; elr. tr;r. This requlr's an Inspec tion of liie vines every day or two. The yotia' ■ may I • easily destroy ed w'tli spray of k'Tcvene emulsion or of >li 'c o'.i soup. This work is made i:.\ !i crsi. i 1' a few hills of the ordinary squash a;e phuicd among melo s. cucrm'a is, etc., so thai they appear a! ore the j.r ■:rnl nl ul a week before the crop. The squashes being more attractive, the bugs collect upon tlicin, wild they may le destroyed easily. Trapping. Th'f consists of p'r.clng at intt rv:. Is t'ni • ■ Ii the pl antation shin-:! w )>'!<•. -s cf i anl. beneath which the bugs ;..iil r for td-elter. By examining these every uioruii.-g many may 1h» captured.n a season when ilit* hugs have been abundant, all vines should be burned as soon as the crop has been gatln red In this way many of the insects In all stages of develop ment will Ik' destroyed ( tiloroforninl The results of work at the Geneva i (X. \\> station up to this time appear ! to show: (li That the use of chloroform ; i xoludes bacterial action in milk and ■ cheese and limits the work of ripening ; ti those enzymes contained in milk | when made into cheese; (ii) that the presence of salt noticeably decreases the effect of such enzymes; t:ii that the i resenee of two-tenths of 1 per cent of lactic acid Increases the ripen- , lng action, at least of rennet enzymes; ' (4) that the percentage of cheese casein : made soluble by the enzymes under consideration in nine months, which may IK? regarded as tin- extreme limit of the commercial life of Cheddar cheese kept under usual conditions, is about U per cent, or one-third the uiuount of soluble nitrogen found in normal cheese, and (5) that the amount of ripening caused by enzymes present in the milk when made into cheese Is apparently more limited than was previously supposed. It also appears that there Is some agent at work iu normal cheese which is not active In cheese made with chloroform. Just what this additional factor is present data docs not explain, but efforts are being directed to the task of identifying this agent. The Chinch II uk In Wheat. The progress of chinch bugs from field to field may be obstructed by mak ing a V shaped trench with the corner of a hoe and filling It with coal tar. the tar to be renewed as soon as it becomes crusted over. Another method which has been sug gested is to plow a deep furrow across their track. The bugs which get into this furrow will have difficulty in get ting out again, and they may then be killed by sprinkling them with kero sene emulsion made as follows: Dissolve half a pound of soap In a gallon of water and heat to the boiling point. Remove from the fire and while hot add two gallons of coal oil. churn ing the mixture with a good force pump for fifteen minutes or until it re sembles buttermilk. To each quart of this emulsion add fifteen quarts of wa ter and apply with a spray pump or sprinkling pot. This emulsion may also be used where the bugs linve attacked the out er rows of corn, using a spray pump and throwing it with sufficient force to wash them off the corn.—Ohio Station. PromlHlnff Winter Celerj-, American Gardening finds that Win ter Queen, which it illustrates, has for two seasons proved to be the best of all winter celeries on its trial grounds. It has been extensively grown among market gardeners In the neighborhood, > I W// Wjj wnoxn QCEEN CELEIIY. all of whom have the same opinion— viz, that it is by fur the best winter cel ery. It makes a strong plant and good heart, Is of excellent flavor, surpasses nil others in keeping properties and Is in great demand In celery districts among marketmen. Hciaiiounl Folding Fumlnator. For spraying to kill San Jose scale on Long Island a new form of fumlga tor has been devised which possesses Home advantages over all other forms. This Is hexagonal in form, with sides hinged to allow of folding Into compact form for transportation and storage and with removable top. In operation the box Is held rigid by the top and by braces at the bottom. Txvo sides and part of the top swing back easily to al low of placing the fumlgator about the tree to be treated. The hexagonal form avoids waste space about the tree. LIBRARY HOSPITALS A QUIET CORNER WHERE MAIMED AND AGED BOOKS ARE DOCTORED. Drltrnte Oprrntlona Are !feee«- «»ry For Injured VoIum«"» Mil Miieh liiKi-nnlty la lteiiulred itt Tlmm-llon llook Knrgumi Work. In every up to date public library there is a quiet corner used as a book hospital, where worn, aged and maim ed volumes are sent for treatment and often surgical operations. The women and children of the library—that is, the novels and Juveniles—are found in the hospital the most frequently, and often they are beyond cure. Hut the skillful library worker has nil sorts of devices for making broken down books appear fresh and new again, and often a re markable cure Is effected. If a book were cast aside the minute Its back was broken or were not given proper treatment when a leaf became loose, the library would soon find itself doubling expenses for duplicates of old volumes and with little money for new works. Careful treatment, on thy oth er hand, will add years to the life of u book and will materially lessen the ex penses of a public library. This hospital Is fitted up in a very simple manner. There are shelves upon which the Invalid books are placed un til treatment can be given them. Then there are other shelves where they are placed to convalesce and sometimes to regain consciousness after a serious surgical operation. There are operating 'tables anil neat little boxes In which there are rolls of black percale and yards of white percale, sheets of par affin paper, long strips of Ihin but line quality paper, narrow rolls of gummed palter, bundles of grass cloth, balls of string, sandpaper, coarse thread and white mull. In snug little compartments Is the medicine, consisting of glue and paste. Tlio surgical instruments in a little case consist of a pair of forceps, a small wooden paddle, a thin wooden board and papers of needles. Then there is an Instrumeut of torture—a heavy press which Is generally applied at the close of an operation. There are all sorts of complaints among the books, and the most preva lent is the broken back. This comes from the l>ook nssumltig an unhealth ful position, such as leaning up lazily against other books, resting on its front edges or lying Hat on Its side. A vigor- '*i\ -T No 30 ous use of paste and glue often euro# this complaint, but in some coses a del* icatc operation Is resorted to. Then tiie cover Is stripped entirely « off the back, and the title Is earpfttlljf cut oot. Next the paper back of the book is peeled off. A piece of grass cloth is then applied and firmly e'uei into its place. The old cover, with the exception of the title, la pasted on again, and then the book is tied lip with strings and left on the shelf to recover a little. When strong enough," a black percale back Is carefully fitted over the old l»ack. and the 018 title la pasted on the outside. Small Angers injure the complexion of the books greatly, and sandpaper !■ used a great deal on juvenile fiction invalids. The edges of the book are ruLlic.l with this rough paper, taking off tin- dirt and the yellow appearance. Uouuli edges of leaves are frequent al;o isi this branch of literature. Theife leaves are carefully trimmed off, anS a thin strip of nice quality paper lit pasted on to make a clean, regulafe edge. '•Rutting" Is a method of oper&t£As that is not used by all book This consists in placing with the wood en paddle a thin line of glue on the edges of a torn leaf and then presalag them tightly together. It has been demonstrated thoroughly that this but ting holds the torn leaf just as firmly as nnd is much more satisfactory than the old method of pasting gummed transparent paper over the torn places. The loose leaves are a frequent source of annoyance to the book doc tors. The remedy for these bother some leaves Is of percale or paper, which holds the unruly page in place after the heavy press has been brought to bear on the book. In such cases the thin board is always used to slip iuto the volume, so that It will keep its shape properly. The operation which requires the most skill is the sewing of the signa ture or division of a book back Into place. The needle and coarse thread are pushed in and out of the holes In the signature and the binding, and when it becomes awkward to use the fingers the slender forceps are used to draw, the needle In and out . It is part of the work of every public library employee to take a band In the hospital department, and Ingenuity supplies means to remedy every com plaint that is conjured up by even the most erratic book. The book doctor trusts wholly to her own wit and skill ful fingers to effect a cure, and there nre few cases that are hopeless.—New York Mall and Express. Cot Off. "Poor child!" exclaimed Mrs. Good art, who had been touched by the ap peal to the extent of a quarter. "And how did this accident happen to your father?" "Why," replied the bright little girl, "he begged so much money one day that he got drunk and was sent to Jail." "But you told me his arms were cut off." "Oh, no, ma'am! I said 'alms.'"— Philadelphia Press. Their (Treats, Perhaps. She—So you have crossed the ocean Blxty-four times. You must be getting used to it He—Yes, considerably. I have lately got so that I recognize over half th« waves we meet—Town and Country. VIRTUES OF LIGHT LUNCHES American Acntenesa Due In Part to the Midday Repasts. A great many people feel they have done their whole duty by 60und hy giene when they denounce the "quick lunch" of the American business world as the sum of all gastronomic iniqui ties. But in so far as the quick lunch is a light lunch, and it usually Is this, it may be a blessing in disguise. In fact, an observing foreigner lays much of the acuteness aud business energy of Americans to the fact that for the most part the American business and professional man .eats lightly, even if hurriedly, nnd drinks but little at the midday meal; hence his mind is clear, he is not sluggish and he is able to do a good deal between 1 o'clock and 0. As a contrast the foreign observer mentions the heavy midday eating habits of certain European countries, notably Germany, and to that he at tributes the lethargy that is calling for all the highest efforts of the best minds to counteract. In this he is in har mony with an American specialist, who In decrying a heavy midday meal said that "the plan of eating a heavy meal at noon and returning to work almost directly from the dinner table explains the prevalence of dyspepsia in countries not enjoying the long aft rrnoon recess of the tropics." Since the light lunch and the quick lunch do not tit in with this criticism those who have blamed our national dyspepsia on the "busy man's bite" bad better look a little further Into the matter. Perhaps we do eat too much, as cer tain diatetic spocialists tell lis, but It looks as if we were slowly approximat ing, the country over, to an Ideal dietet ic system, for Americans, which makes the luntfh the slightest meal and the evening meal the most substantial meal of the day, whatever it may be called. And if the quick lunch of the business world lias had any effect In this direction it is not the unmixed evil some declare it to be.—Philadelphia Press. A Foiibtj- Story. In London an American, boasting of the superiority of his country, was in terrupted by an Englishman, who said: "There's one thing in which this coun try surpasses America. You never saw 011 the other side of the Atlantic any fog that could match the one which hangs over London tonight." "Fog! Fog!" came the unhesitating reply of the Irate American. "Why, this is nothing compared with some of the fogs we have around New York harbor. Sometimes the fog Is so thick around there that it's a common thing for tin- captains of the ferryboats to put on extra crews simply to pump the fog out of the cabins. Why, there's a corporation organizing in New Jersey right now to can American fog nud supply the British people with 'the real thing.'Argonaut Xnlnrnl to film. "Your husband," said Mrs. Oldcastle as she again availed herself of the privilege of inspecting the splendid li brary of the new nelghbois, "seems to have a particularly tine taste for arti cles of vertu." "Yes," her hostess replied, "I know It But, then, it s only natural he should have. John's one of the vlr tuousest persons for a man—that I ever seen."—Chicago Herald. Satisfied. Senator Grab—A man called on me this morning and offered me SI,OOO for my vote on a certain measure, but I re fused it. Political Purist—Bravo! You ought to have the approval of your conscience. Senator Grrb 1 have. We Dually agreed on J'.'.OOU.—Bustou Post