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.)=<c<: for further announcenents ol sale.
Closer Cut Clearance Sale \
Summer (ioods Sacrificed g
% The Modern Store $
h ii \ » i 1 the poiicy of selling seasonable goods ir. season and
Jp to carry nothing over. The surp'us summer stock must go
mow and we h ivc mirke J the prices so that everything will go yt
with a rush.
$ Balance Fancy White Goods, worth 25c, now 15c; in
a?- worth 15 and 18c, now 10c. Best 25c Ginghams and
T.'. Oxfords, 15c. Charming Pasasob, 50c, SI.OO, $1.50. yj
¥*• Lace Gloves worth 50c, now 25c.
Silk G! v B- Its and Jeweley, Traveling Hags and Suit k
C i f ill inc it and at such tempting prices that >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<X
Eugene Morrison
GENERAL CONTRACTING
PAINTER and DECORATOR.
Special attention given to
FINE PAPER HANGING
GRAINING and
HARDWOOD FINISHING.
Office and Shop,
Rear of Ralston's Store,
Residence No. 119 Cliff SI.
Pojpie n Phone 451.
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. McMILLIAN,
'Phone 453. 251 S. Main St.
BUTLER PA„ THURSDAY, JULY3I. 1002
DUTY'S
PATH
] ' U» Elliott Flower i
' 1 Copyright. IW. by tho
' >. .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-
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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