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g FAU FURWISHIW6S AND FABRICS g
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» dow'aot mjk ?<m to wail tor the (toads, 5
■ batiiu them here rmdy when yon want them W
£ NEW GOODS ARRIVING $
5 worn daily and we wish to remind yon that the
V Fall Term at echool eoon begins and the most jK
S Important part for the cAd's outfit wiU be A
J CHILDREN'S SCHOOL HOSE g
M Sow Mm i» abundance at 10, 15. Sac. etc. *
JB Oar lady friend* a ill be interested in skirt* and we show yoa a line that V
ft will gl*e jr<m ample opportunity to select from and the figures on tbem A
»am stay' Mow city prk-ea New Dress Bkirt»s4 00 up. g
jR We wonld also call special attention to some late arrivals of
K NEW WAITINGS AND NEW CHECK SILKS g
■ Aurrmg the tate arrivals of seasonable goods, yoa will find in great variety |ft
5 New Fiannelletts and New Comfort Calicos. Uk
fn We are dbowiog some excel lac t values and the assortment will please you.
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6 j 221 Mail orders Solicited 5
■ OPPOSITE HOTBIy ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. $
R. Sc R.
A continuance of Butler's greatest sale of Clothing and
Men's Furnishings
TBS CROWD
at this store the pa>t two weeks that came directly to buy
from the Patterson stock, was something without
parallel in the history of Butler.
THX YXBST
was but a beginning. A visit to our store will convince
you that many choice things remain for your selection.
cm oovrnvAvcz
of thia sale will be good news to hundreds of men who
were not fortunate enough for one reason or another to
abare in tbe early selling.
Biit, Overcoat or Men's Furnishings
OCKENSTEIN
*nd Men's Furnishers,
lin All Lines.
>l"i*l ii Mil'
g this sale at a big saving
r Bolaw,u ." l *.sl 65
'Kao's find Satin Calf 41.80 QC Ladies' fine Dongola extension 1 CA
8boe» al '»,,, *»D sole $2.00 Shoes at I i/U
aO heavy sole working 95 MiMe* fine Dongola 11.25 85
Men's Box calf. Vid-kid and O QC Misses' fine Patent leather 1 Cn
Pat. Calf |4 and %H 50Shoes at £tO p.W Shoes at IDU
B 2Sii ! at sb, *. Vy-OtoWOrk,DK 80 Boyn line Dress Shoes at 90
'° e 7ftc Youths' fine Dretm Hboes at.,. "J 5
v All Oxfords to be closed out regardless of cost.
Sample counters filled with interesting bargains.
Repairing neatly and promptly done.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA.
Our Fall Showing
18 THE LARGEST IN THE
ntro&T or THIS STORE.
Mattresses, Iron Beds, Bed Room Salts. |
IRON BEDS
la whita, green and maroon, strong and durable, from S3 to $35.00-
BED ROOM BUITS
A large selection; hard wood, golden oak flniah, pattern plate, handsome
ly carved bed. Only S^O.OO
Tk M B , t SEWINQ MACHINES
Thf MevHoral machine gisea perfect latisfactian; simple, light running
and darable family machine, only SlO-75. A very fine polished Drop
Head caae for J3O 00.
ROCKERS
In all styles-solid, cobbler, leather, roll or upholstered seats, from
St 50 upwards
Old Prices Prevail on all Stock
QQJT)S In and Compare,
BROWN & CO.,
Ball Pbona 106. (across from Daffy'* «tore,) Butler, Pa.
K E 0 K
A Spring & Summer Weights
rtf ft E H.vf , u.Uinc «b<>ut ihcm lhat K
rJ t RJA ft ft mark the wearer, it won't do to
Sj ify fan Q wear tbe last year's output. You
u l«~x/ >3. l\ won't get the latest things at the
ifj n stock clothiers either. The up-to
k\ k\\ |^" / Jff * J date tailor only tan supply th*m,
II flf Vk Tnlfl (y " y° M w,nt not only the latest f!
II I U 111 11 I thtogs iu cut and fit and work-
II I ] 111 I Bunsbip, the finest in durability,
J I 111 11 § where else can you get combina
1| | Bill I tlona, you get them at
** K E C K
a P. KECK, Merchant Tailor,
142 North Main Straat All Work Quarantaad Butlar.Pa
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Nasal
CATARRH (mm
In all Us stafca. ft* "Ufi#
Ely's Cream
desnses, aootbe* mi heals f #
tbe diMU«4 membrane. 1
It cure* catarrh and dr.TM M-~ 'yj
away s cold in the head
| quickly.
Cream Balm ii placed into th* noatrlli, spreads
i over tits membrane and U absorbed. Bslief U i»-
! mediate and a care foliowa. It 1* not drying—does
not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug
< gists or by mall; Trial Size, 10 cenU.
ri Beef. Iron and Wine
Fa , Best Tonic' 1 kl
M Blood Purifier. kl
►1 Price, 50c pint [J
Prepared and W A
v A sold only at L V
JJ Johnston's ;
j Crystal ;
3 Pharmacy, j|
J K. M. LOO AN. Ph. O . V
V Malinger,
'J ICS N. Main Kt., Butler. I'a Ll
V Both 'PhoneH 92
*1 Everything in the
drug line. VA
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REMOVAL.
We have removed our Marble
and Granite shops from corner of
Main and Clay streets to No. 208
N. Main street, (opposite W. D.
Brandon's residence), where we
will be pleased to meet our
customers ivith figures that are
right on
Mouuments & Headstones
of all kinds and arc also prepared
to give best figurrs on
Iron Fence, Flower Vases
etc., as we have secured the sole
agency from the Stewart Iron
Woiks of Cincinnati, 0., for this
town and vicinity.
P. H. Sechler
Eugene Morrison
GENERAL CONTRACTING
PAINTER and DECORATOR.
Special attention given to
PINK PAPKK HANC.INr,
GRAINING and
HARDWOOD FINISHING.
Office and Shop,
Rear of Ralston'h Store,
Residence No. 1 19 Cliff St.
People a Phone 451.
EYTH BROS'
Big Wall Paper Store,
Next to Postoffice.
Special bargains in Wall Paper,
Window Hlinds and Room Mould
ings. Farmers find good accom
modation and satisfaction here.
EYTH BROS.,
Formerly,
C. H. McMILLIAN,
'Phone 453. 251 S. Main St.
Mars Boiler Works.
All sizes of
STATIONARY,
PORTABLE and
UPRIGHT BOILKRS
always in stock for sale
or exchange.
Repair work promptly attended to.
S. H. ROBERTS,
Bell Phone No. fl. Mars,
People's Phone No. 11. Pa.
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28. 1902
IEXIT I
iMO. 1214-
x Z
t BY ELIAS LISLE 4
My acqualutitnce with Xa 1214
began in Phil Casey's court. Hand
bull is tbe inost democratic sport in the
world. One day No. 1214 and 1 found
ourselTea pitted as partners against a
judge of the sujjreme court and a
lightweight prizefighter, and although
his honor played a pretty rough game
we beat tbem by a close score; so
close was it, in fact, that a spirit ol ri
valry was engendered which estab
lished our competition as a regular
Saturday afternoon event thereafter.
Later I met 1214 on bis beat on the
big bridge, and when I was kept late
in my office that spring 1 would walk
across for the sake of the talk with
my big police friend. A master of
hand, eye and temper I already knew
him to be; now I came to know him
as a poet in tbe rough, beset with long
ings and emotions which he did not
himself understand. Tbe sight of tbe
full rigged ships, inbound with all
sails set or outbound for tbe great
unknown world, stirred tbe very soul
of him.
"Will ye look at her now, walkin'
like a great lady an' with the shape
of one!" he would cry, with a kindling
eye to the curve of the full bosomed
sails. "An' where might she be
bound, I dunno? But it's well I'd like
to go with ber."
"And leave your place on tbe force?"
I asked.
"An' I'll be doin' it one of these
days. Why not? I have no wife nor
fam'ly an' a tidy sum in the bank."
"And where will you go then?"
"Ah, where? That's a thing no man
knows, meself least of all."
One Friday evening as I was walk
ing across with the big policeman tbe
talk suddenly shifted from the mor
row's game.
"Sure, I think the Judge plays a lit
tle overhard for his polut." No. 1214
had been saying; "that backhander
he took me over the Jaw, now, an' me
Just reacbln' for the ball. A referee
wud ha* called a hinder on him. Ac
cidental? Sure, don't I know that his
honor Is too much of a gentleman—
Whisht! What's that, now?" he Inter
rupted himself as a dark shadow shot
In front of tis.
"A nlglitbawk out collecting insects,"'
•aid I.
"Is It, now? I think witches was ln
vlntcd whin the first Irishman clapped
on to one of thim birds. I)o ye think,
sir"—be spoke diffidently and after a
pause—"that there Is anything in this
belafe that we was once some kind of
animal or crature?"
"It Is a very old belief, John," said I.
"Thin, If there's a breath of truth in
it I think I was some crature that flew
before I was born this time to be a
polaceman. There's times, sir, when
I'll be bey aat by the rail there an' I'll
be lookln' an' longln' an' longin" an'
lookln' till I could leap out to take my
chauces with the sea birds there."
With such vehemence d|d he speak
that J was disturbed. ''Why. John,"
Bald I, "you'd do well to ask for a
transfer. Gazing down a hundred odd
feet till you want to leap Isn't a safe
diversion."
"An' ye needn't to be worryln'
about that, sir, thank ye," said he
quietly. "I'll not take the Jump—not
before the birds tache me to fly."
"We'll need to be In our best trim
for them tomorrow afternoon," said I
as be turned back to bis beat. "So
keep your head steady, John."
When I reached the court on the fol
lowing afternoon, I found the light
weight, who rejoiced In the cognomen
of ISunt Ha lino, serving long ones Into
the left bund rear corner, which was
the supreme court's weakest point. No.
1214 did not appear, and I had to pick
up a recruit, whereby the bench and
tho ring won a hollow victory. On tho
following morning the newspapers
printed paragraphs to the effect that
Patrolman John Ilannerty was miss
ing. and tbe evening papers exploited it
Into a mystery. It seems that the offi
cer had dlrappeared from his bent on
the bridge. That be did not leave at
either end seemed certain, for be would
have hod to pass several brother offi
cers. At 11:55 he had been seen near
the railing; nt three minutes after mid
night be had gone, leaving neither
trace or clew. There seemed to be but
one Inference, and Qve evening papers
printed pictures of the ulleged suicide
which were chiefly remarkable from
the fact that no two of them were In
the faintest degree alike. What little
oletnent of mystery there was left was
considered to be destroyed by the
washing ashore of a policeman's coat
and trousers on the following morning.
That evening the mystery bad a sud
den revival, for police badge No. 1214
reached tbe bridge police station by
mall. Detective work, amateur and
professional, got no further than the
fact that tbe badge bad been mailed In
a plain white envelope In a mailbox
near the water front. Theories wer®
advanced, refuted, defended and re
placed by new theories until some
newer matter came to occupy the pub
lic's avid mind.
At the handball court No. 1214 was
not forgotten, and In many a hard
fought contest with his honor and
Hunt I missed his quick eye and Inde
structible hands, for be had few equals
at the sport. One day n»ai*ly six
months after his disappearance, when
the Judge and I were arKuing u point
flnglc handed while awaiting Hunt
and a fourth man, there burst In ab
ruptly a sallorman In bad repair. Ho
close behind him as to suggest a vio
lent, propulsive force came the prize
lighter.
"lie didn't come when I foltt ast
him," punted Hunt, "so 1 had to Jolt up
bis milliners," Indicating a cut lip and
u badly linuged eye which tbe visitor
was ruefully rubbing. "I caught him
down here on the river front. He was
tellln* about Johnny Ilannerty. Speak
up, ye dago Swede, of I'll hun«J ycf an
other."
"I donno about no Johnny Ilmuicr
ty," said tbe sailor doggedly, but with
tin eye to Hunt's twitching left. "1 win
tellln' some mates übout a crazy man
what flew aboard the Glovanna"—
"Walt a moment," Interrupted the
judge. "Let us get this straight. What
did you say he did?"
"He said he flew aboard," said tho
sailor. "I donno If be spoke true. 1
never seen lilin fly, but I donno no
other way he could have got üboard."
"Tell the rest of it—tell the rest of It,
or I'll tear ycr ear off!" vociferated tjig
feroclouH Hunt.
I'Hahuo," said bis honor quietly, "or
der a drink for our seafaring friend,
please, and let him spin bis yarn unin
terruptedly."
Helng refreshed, the sailor proceeded
with a better grace; "We'd passed 1111-
dcr the bridge about midnight, on our
way out, last April fools' day. 'Twas
a high tide, for we Just scraped under
with our maintop gallant mast down.
It was my watch on deck. We was
just gettin" into the bay when I see a
man comiu' down the mainmast rat
lines. He wasn't no man we'd shipped
an' he didn't have no clothes, only shirt
an' drawers an' shoes. I was mighty
surprised, an' so was the mate. He up
to hit the man, but the other feller let
him have it, an' the mate didn't wake
up for near an hour. He hit a queer
blow—kinder like this." And the sailor
gave a very fair imitation of the driv
ing blow peculiar to handball players
and a thing to keep out the way of.
"Then he done a queer thing. Our tug
was Just puttin' back. He walked to
the rail an' threw over a little white
package to the tug. 'Mail that where
it belongs, will ye? he calls, an' I goes
down after the crew."
"That was the badge!" I exclaimed.
"But there is very slim proof that
this was No. 1214," objected his honor.
"Tell him about the scrap; tell it just
like you told it before," cried Bunt.
"Wait till you hear that, judge."
"Oh. the fight" said the sailor. "He
done his best It took near the hull
crew to get him In Irons. I got a
cracked rib from it." And be rubbed
his side.
"A short left jolt, wasn't it?" cried
Bunt.
"I guess it was. Anyhow, it was
when I was up close an' it finished me.
lie hit awful quick an' awful hard an'
every time he landed he hissed be
tween his teeth like a snake."
"John Hannerty, by heavens!" cho
rused the three of us (except that
Bunt put it a little stronger), for there
was no mistaking that hissing expul
sion of the breath which followed
every one of No. 1214's most effective
drives.
"But how on earth could he have
got aboard when he was on the bridge
live minutes before midnight?" de
manded the Judge.
"Said he flew aboard like a bird," re
asserted the sailor positively. "Never
seen him fly, but he must ha' got there
somehow."
"May it please the court," I said, "I
can clear this mystery. Here was the
Giovanna going out into the world, and
there on the bridge was No. 1214 with
a soul full of yearning. It was only
a step from the bridge roadway to
the ship's maintop masthead. The soul
full of yearning gets the best of 1214
and he makes the step, casts away his
uniform and becomes a mysterious dis
appearance."
"But what hns become of him?"
asked the Judge.
"Quit us at Bonos Airs," said the
Bailor. "Found a lot of dagoes there
battin' a little baseball round a room
with their hands. Went in an' played
one of 'em, then two of 'em, then three
of 'em, an' got all their money. When
we sailed, he was fixin' up a place of
his own, an' said he'd be an alderman
in six mouths if they had 'em there."
"That is No. 1214 beyond reasonable
doubt," said the Judge. "Shall we re
port the matter'"
"Nit," said Bunt "He might want
to git back his job on the police some
day."
So we held our peace, and on the po
lice records No. 1214 Is still down as
missing.
Tried Them on the Indiana.
"When I was out in Oregon, fifty
three years ago," said a pleasant look
lug farmer, who has been in the red
raspberry business for twenty-five
years, "I first saw red raspberries
growing wild in the thickets and along
the edges of the wild Oregou roads.
They were saucer shaped and not so
deep as the modern berry, Just like
those which still grow wild in Michi
gan. As the Oregon berries looked
tempting I picked a lot in my hat, but
did not dare to eat them, as I did not
know whether they were poisonous or
not.
"On my way back to camp I met a
number of Indians whom I had seen
before and knew to be friendly; In
fact, they had tak«n such a fancy to
me that they once offered t<3 adapt m«
}nto the tribe. To these genial Indians
1 presented my hatful of fresh red
raspberries, and my Joy was great
when they ate them all with relish.
After that I ate nil I wanted.
"In old New England, I understand,
they used to call the raspberry 'the
thlmbleberry' on account of lis resem
blance to a woman's thimble."—De
troit Free Press.
A Mailer of Sex.
"Does your parrot talk?"
"No; It's a male."—Philadelphia Bul
letin.
SbAkeapCßre and tl«ll«ri,
A correspondent finds these notabli
points of resemblance In the careers ol
Shukesjicuro and Mollere:
The father of each was In trade ami
apparently destined his sou to follow
his occupation. The early education
of both was neglected, and wo know
nothing in their after training that
conferred on them their perfect knowl
edge of good breeding and distinguish
ed manners. Neither of them was hap
pily married. Each became manager
uuthor, actor. Koch produced a con
Hldernble number of authenticated dra
matic works. Kach was careless *bpu|
publishing Ids works, or. rather, object
ed to do so lest they should be acted
by rival dramatic companies. Plays ol
each were collected by actors and firsl
published In a complete form after thf
death of the authors.
Kach touched up or produced playi
that are lost or of doubtful origin.
Kach disregarded novelty of plot, l>or
rowing from various* sources. Kach
disliked his profession. The (icrsona)
character of each was gentle, kind,
generous. Kach had a profound knowl
edge of human nature. Kach preferred
the Idea or matter to the comparative
disregard of the manner. Kach had u
remarkable fecundity and fertility of
production. Kach died at the age of
flfty-two.
The Weather Man's Parqnlaltea.
"I buve Just served sixteen subpu.-nus
on Uncle Sam's weather man," said a
process server at the county court
house the other day, "and handed him
sixteen hulf dollars t" legalize the com
mand that he appear to K |vw ovldenoe
lu that many eases und $M to enforce
the direction that he bring the weather
records along.
"Do you know, he Is much lu de
mand as a w lt hush ? There are hun
dreds of cases, especially In the acci
dent and negligence actions In the city
court, In which 11 Is necessary to prove
what was the state of the weather at
the time of the accident, and obvious
ly the mnn to give that Information to
the Jury Is the observer of the local
weather station, for ho has the records
made at the time to show Indisputably
whether It was raining or whether the
sun was shining.
''Sometimes this duly keeps the
weather man on the jump. I have
known him to glvo testimony In six or
eight cases lu a day and to earn wit
ness fees far In excess of his salary.
I presume these fees are his perqul- 1
sites, and I know thut the lump sum In |
a yeur Is a handsome amount"—New
HAYING ON A BIG SCALE.
Ilnnch Methods of liaudlinif Alfalfa
and Native (iraii.
The methods of handling hay crops
j i* the great basin region between
southern Oregon uud northern Nevada
are certainly unique and lu keeping
with the extensiveness of all opera
tions connected with stock raising lu
1 that part of the country. The many
appliances used permit of handling the
! crop to the best advuntage and with
the least labor.
Probably the most rapid process of
stacking or piling up the hay of any in
STACKING ALFALFA WITH A DEBUICK.
actual operation on the ranches of
eastern Oregon is that known as the
"slide method," which is employed
only on the largest ranches where na
tive hay Is the predominating crop. A
"slide" consists essentially of a huge,
strongly built inclined plane. The hay
Is brought up to the base of the plane
usually by a four horse buck and de
posited In a net to which is fastened a
cable stretched over the top of the
plane and the entire stack. The other
end of the cable Is attached to the fore
truck of a wagon to which Is hitched a
four horse team. When the load has
been drawn up and discharged In the
proper place on the stack, a net Is
drawn back to the base of the plane
again by n single horse, readjusted and
reloaded. The four horse buck load will
average about one ton of hay, and n
load will be run on to the stack once in
six to eight minutes when the machin
ery Is In good working order.
Another method more extensively
used than the "slide" differs from It
only in the substitution of a derrick
for the slide. The bucks and net are
used In both cases, but their capacity
Is usually smaller than those operated
by four horses Instead of two.
Both of these processes are best
adapted to the handling of native hay
which Is not much Injured by rough
treatment. The bucks are especially
hard on alfalfa, one of the most dltll
cult hay crops to cure and handle
properly. With rough treatment, such
as It Is certain to receive when bucked
to the stack, the frlHble leaves, the
most valuable part of the plant, are al
most certain to be largely broken off.
To obviate this very decided objection
many of the ranchers discard the
bucks entirely In handling the alfalfa
crop and haul the hay to the stuck In
wagons. It Is then unloaded by means
of a derrick or tripod arrangement and
a fork. In this way the leaves are
saved, und the most difficult part of
tho manual labor, the transfer of the
hay from the load to the stack, Is still
accomplished by the use of machinery.
Another very decided disadvantage
of the "slide" method results from tho
difficulty of making the stacks water
proof. When u ton of hay is dropped
In one place on the stack and similar
quantities are put up at such short In
tervals, the stackers do not usually
work It over so as to make the mass of
uniform density. Tho consequence la
that there are places In the stack that
are not well packed. When the hay
settles, "holes" occur, allowing the
A (JURAT STACK.
/f375 feet lons, 75 over nrxl 28 fact across.]
rainwater to drain Into the stack. This
would not be of so much Importance If
all of the crop were fed the year It Is
cut, but this Is often not the cuse.
Much buy Is sometimes held over io be
fed the subsequent year. It is need
less to say that If not properly stacked
It deteriorates very much in value, D.
Griffiths lu Bulletin 13, Bureau of
Plant Industry.
Cattle Itanohea of Mexico.
Tho lurgest cattle ranches of Mexico
oro In the northern states—those bor
dering the United Slates, such as
Sonera, Chihuahua and Coahulla but
cattle raising is an Industry of no
mean proportions In many other of the
states of the republic. These ranches
are there called haciendas, and many
of them contain many hundreds of
square miles. It Is not uncommon to
find upon them as tnuny as 20,000
head of cattle. It is stated upon good
hutliorlty that one wealthy Mexican
brands from 110,000 to 40,000 calves un
nually on his haciendas.
SEEDING TO GRASS.
A INn Nations Al»out Urowln* a
Good All Around Ilnjr.
From now until well Into September
is probably the best time to seed to
grass and be sure of u successful out
come for Uil>or und money expended.
The crop that pays the best Is tho
one that will turn three tons to un acre
of well cured hay. More limn this ln
turs llabllty to damage by lodging.
When It conies to a question of dol
lurs and cents, there Is nothing that
pays like (lyj l>est of stable manure
made on the place. A cash outlay for
this or fertilizer to the extent neces
sary to get the most desirable results
comes too near the value of the cured
corn.
The former who can afford twenty
five bushels of good ashes to »li tt<Te
addition to the manure will get paid
many times over for the outlay. About
twenty good ox cert loads to un aero
t* a good basis to work on. Hush down
this manure with a good heavy white
birch bush as fast us spread. This Is
by all odds I he best Implement for re
duelng manure to the proper condition,
whether as a top dressing for mowings
or at time of seeding dowu.
Any land seeded by A\ig. ll> sliould
have a pound of fall turnip seed per
acre mixed thoroughly with the grass
seed. This plan is more particularly
for those who have store cattle to win
ter. dry cows, young cattle, sheep and
the like.
For the average of years the amount
of grass seed for an acre should be
sixteen quarts herd's grass, fifteen
small red clover and six i>ounds alsike.
This makes a good all around hay for
farm stock, but for horse hay the clo
ver had best be omitted, as many
would object to this for driving horses.
Now is Just the right time to seed
am' ng corn, sowing the seed as though
there were no crop growing, and work
in with the tine tooth cultivator.—Cor.
New England Homestead.
Mildew of Cncumber find Maakmelon.
The cucumber crop In some localities
is often badly damaged by downy mil
dew. Just after the vines reach a
productive stage yellowish spots ap
pear in the leaves. After a time mold
like patches form on the underside,
and finally the whole leaf turns yel
low, dies and dries up.
The cucumber mildew usually makes
its appearance some time iu August.
The vines should therefore be sprayed
with bordeaux mixture by tbe last of
July and tbe spryiug repeated two or
three times at intervals of about ten
duys.
The muskmelon crop also suffers
from the attacks of downy mildew,
and the foregoing is equally applica
ble to It.
Paper Box For Perriea.
This year there lias been put on the
market the first really successful paper
berry box so far as we know. The ac
companying engraving shows how it
VENTILATED PAI'EK BEBBY BOX.
looks. It Is ventilated, and tbe inside
Is paraffined. It is absolutely odorless
and Is said to carry strawberries long
distances iu tine condition.—Country
Gentleman.
Formula* For Bordeaux.
The bordeaux mixture as ordinarily
applied frequently injures to some ex
tent the foliage of tbe peach, etc.,
causing a shot hole effect on the leaves.
This Injurious effect has been shown to
be largely obviated by the use of the
following:
3 pounds copper sulphate.
6 pounds lime.
60 gallons water.
This is known as the 3-0-50 formula.
Some experimenters have also recom
mended the following for peach foli
age:
(a) 2—2—50 formula (Cornell Agr. Exp.
Sta. Bull. ISO).
(b) 39 —GO formula.
The latter contains three times as
much lime as copper sulphate.
Kffectivo for Sun Jose Scale.
The Oregon and California washes
have been found extremely efficient
scale insecticides at the Illinois sta
tion, and it Is apparent that these west
ern washes, costing ¥1.12 per hundred
gallons, are at least as destructive to
Insect life as the solution of whale oil
soap, coat 1 lit: $0.50 for the same quan
tity.
The V liforotia Lima Dran.
While other garden truck wus at a
Kandstlil on account of drought in the
southwest lluiu beans seemed to re
main green and growing regardless of
wind and weather, says Texas Farm
and Kanch.
Hint* For August.
Keep the soil stirred In the vegetable
garden.
It Is still good growing weather for
weeds.
Sowing lettuce, late [teas and winter
radishes Is In order.
Covering the Joints of squash plants
with soil helps to exclude the borer.
Harvest onions as soon as the bulbs
are well formed.
To insure currant bushes against
leaf blight give them a second spray
ing with Imrdcnux after gathering the
fruit.
Celery for the latest crop Is set this
month.
A sowing of early table beets may
still be made.
Cultivate the main crop of cabbage.
An Hielfril Vinton.
"Baptlsluf days" are great eventi
among the negroes of the south. On
one occasion the old black preacher
took two candidates, one a middle
aged, sedate, quiet man, the other a
young, excitable fellow, well out in the
stream, where the water wus waist
deep. He put the older ow down llrst,
who came up, folded his urms and look
ed dignlllcd and pious.
The younger one, nfter being put un
der, came up greatly excited and shout
ing: "(3loryt Glory! I seed de Lord'
I seed hi in In de water—tight down dar
at de bottom!"
The older one, ixitHhK him on the
shoulder, :«ild: "Iluuli, boliey; hush.
Put warn't do Lord. 1 seed it. It was
nothln' but a terrapin."—New York
Tribune.
Him I.lnroln Felt.
In 1802. says n writer in the Kansas
City Journal, Colonel Alexander of To
peku, who was an intimate frleml of
President Lincoln, visited him at Wash
tnglon and found him In a greatly de
pressed state of mind.
"This being president Isn't all It Is
cracked up to be, Is It, Mr. Lincoln?"
Inquired Colonel Alexander.
"No," said Lincoln, his eyes twinkling
momentarily. "I feel sometimes like
the Irishman who, after being rlddcu
on a rail, said, 'llegorry. If It wasn't
for the honor av the thing. I'd rather
walk!' "
An Aftflciil lllvrr.
In Long Inland sound, not far from
the north shore of the Island, Is clearly
delincd the channel of an ancient liver.
As shown by the United States coast
survey. It Is a gorge, having a depth of
übout sl\t,v feet below the general floor
of the sound on either side of It. The
gorge or channel was cut Into I lie bed
rock of i:-iei»<. I lie erosion of which Is
exccedluul) slow,
\ Nice Friend.
Marl;lev ) u'le n nice friend to
hnve. Wli.v didn't yon lend Morroughs
till' s•"> III' V :i illi'd V
Kraft Why should I?
Mnr! lev To save me. You must
have real ' I that lie I new If lie didn't
get II fn i.i you lie would from inc.
Vou'le I 1 .1'!; robbed me of that
"liver" l'h.:.ii>t|iliiu Press.
When we de<cr\ • It. we don't mind
abuse 11 i:ni• - us careful I'.ut the
trouble is we neve) a ire with our
critic* r.n Id wh ii w il w rve It.—Atch
lsoll (J lobe
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IGNORANT OF GEOGRAPHY.
How a German Pat Posers to
American Girl.
"A tblug about Americans which has
surprised me more than anything else/'
said u German artist who has been vis
iting la New York city for six months
pubt, "is that with all your patriotism
: you know so little about the geography
I of your own country, to say nothing of
! the rest of the world."
There were several Americans In the
circle, and they looked rather sur
prised. None of the men spoke. They
knew that they were weak In geogra
phy and that here was a challenge
which would hare to pass.
Not so a bright young woman of
twenty, who rushed Into the breach
with her bead In the air.
"We do know the geography of our
country," she said decidedly. "Of
course we do. Every child learns it in
school."
"Might I ask you a question or two?"
Ihe foreigner said quietly. "The names
of the capitals of some of your states,
for Instance?"
"Certainly. I'll be glad to answer."
And she nodded confidently at the
young American man who was already
beginning to fear for her.
"What Is the capital of Massachu
setts?" was his first question.
"Boston!" was the prompt answer
from the glrL
"And of North Carolina?"
That seemed to puzzle her a little,
and It was a full minute before she an
swered "Charleston!"
The foreigner smiled, but made no
effort to correct her. "What Is the
highest mountain in the United
States?" he asked.
"It's not fair to ask about moun
tains." she protested. "You said I
didn't know the capitals."
"The capital of Illinois is?"
"Chi—Springfield, I mean."
"Of Montana?"
For the life of her she could not
think of a town In Montana. "It's
been an age since I studied geography,"
she explained.
"Your answers were better than the
average," said the man. "You got one
right out of four. As I said, American
geography surprise# me."—New York
Tribune.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
It Is safer to prune too little than too
much.
Moist earth and a cloudy day for
transplanting.
Gooseberries and currants are two
easily grown fruits, and there la sel
dom an oversupply.
The quality and size of fruit on old
bushes is much improved by thinning
of the fruit or severe pruning.
The cause of moss appearing on the
stems of apple and other fruit trees Is
wot, cold, undrained land or an exces
sively humid climate.
In saving garden seed gather when
ripe. Do not allow It to shell off. The
first matured Is the best, and the first
matured will shell first.
A good mulch around fruit trees
helps to keep down weeds, keeps the
soil loose, moist nnd porous at all times,
with little labor of cultivation.
The time of setting out of fruit treed
Is of far less Importance than to see
that the right varieties are selected,
the soil prepared and transplanting
■well done.
Con (Ilea.
"I thought caudles went with stage
coaches, but a good many people must
use them yet." said a shopper who
pointed to a collection of candlesticks,
all of the utility sort, arrayed In a
house furnishing department. There
were big and little, ornamental and
plain, practical and unpractical ones.
Home had broad trays, and others had
none at all, and some had devices for
lifting the candle, while others were
made with deep necks. There still re
main people who cling to the traditions
of their ancestors and will have none
of the modern lighting Inventions for
their sleeping rooms. Certain women
prefer a light In their bedrooms until
they are asleep, and for this purpose a
candle Is just the thing, for it will put
Itself out at the time proportioned by
Its length.—New York Tribune.
Baw No Rruon For Iwrarisf,
General Grant was asked why he
never swore. He replied: "Well, when
a boy I had an aversion to swearing.
It seemed useless, an unnecessary hab
it, and besides I saw that swearing
usually aroused a man's auger. I early
had a desire to have complete com
mand of myself. I noticed when a
man got angry his opponent always
got the better of him. On that account
also 1 determined to refrain from
swearing. Then the swearing men of
my acquaintance when a boy were not
the best men I knew. I never saw any
reasons for swearing. All were against
It."
Hume I.lfe In Knglaad and America.
The decay of the home life is to be
attributed partially to the Influence on
society of the Invasion of Americans.
In the United States home life Is al
most unknown. The meaning of the
word "home," as understood to Brit
ishers, Is a uiystpry to Yankees. To a
certain extent we have always envied
you your home life, and I certainly
agree with some of your correspond
ents that It would bo disastrous for
your country to lose the elevating and
refining Influences of the home.—An
glo-American In London Mall.
To Improve the Horse.
If some owners of horses would
spend more for feed and less for whips,
Ihey would have more spirited ani
mals.—Atchison Globe.
Edward I. was 0 feet 2 inches high,
juid it Is said thr.t the tljts of his mid
dle Angers extended below his kneea.
VOLCANOES,
flome l-'neta Alioui. Thrae Vrnt* to the
luartli'a Interior Klrc.
Eons ano the earth on which we
live was a huge uiuss of "tire mist."
Astronomers tell us that today In the
heavens we cm- see vast nebula*, sug
gesting what ®.ie curth was once.
Gradually the surface of the "Are
mist" cooled and harden<*d, but the in
terior is still intensely hot. Whether
it Is solid, liquid or viscous we do not
know. Tills heat, raging miles tielow
the surface, ut times escupes through
tiie hard crust by vents or volcanoes.
There are from IJO<> to 3(10 volcanoes
oil the globe. This estimate includes
merely live volcanoes which within re
cent tliues have been In action, if wo
should count the many mountains scat
tered over the earth which show today
signs of volcanic action In more re
mote past, the estimate would have to
lie lucres Bed by many hundreds.
Volcanoes would seem to be arrangod
with more or leaa symmetry In belts
circling the great oceans. A ring of
tire surrounds the I'uclflc. Starting at
the South Shetland Islands, several
hundred inllcs south of Cape Horn, a
belt of volcanoes extends up the west
Coast of South America. Central Aincr-
No 34
lea and North from Alaska II
crosses the Pacific along the Aleutian
Islands to Kamchatka; thence It fol
lows the east edge of the Pacific
through the Kurile Islands, Japan, For
mosa, the Philippines, ths Moluccas,
the Solomon islands, the North Heb
rides, New Zealand and finally ends
In Mounts Terror and Erebus, on
the Antarctic continent— Geographic
Magazine.
Economical.
A young man living on Walnut TTtlla
Is a close worker In money matters—
that is, he stays close to the shore with
his expenditures. He had the good
luck to marry a girl whose parents are
quite wealthy and Is at present living
with his wife in one of his father-in
law's houses.
One day not long since while dis
cussing affairs with a friend the latter
asked:
"Did the old gentleman give you that
house?"
"Well—er— no, not exactly," WO the
answer. "He offered it to but I
wouldn't accept It"
"How's that?" asked the friend.
"Well," answered the man who had
made the lucky matrimonial venture,
"you -see, the house really belongs to
me. I'm living In It, rent free, and I'll
get It when the old man dies. If I ac
cepted it now, I'd have to pay the
taxes."—Cincinnati 1 Enquirer.
Slwpmlldsg,
"Ten per cent of the world's popula
tion is more or less somnambulistic,"
said a physician, according to the Phil
adelphia Record, "and erery one, at
one time or another, has done a little
sleepwalking. I myself when a lad
got up' dressed, took my books and
went to school on a summer night, my
father following close behind to see
that 1 should come to no harm.
"Blond persons are more apt to be
somnambulists than cKrk folk, and in
cold climates there Is 4bore somnambu
lism than in warm ones. In certain
Greenland villages, I have been told,
th« hut doors are locked without
by a watchman in order that those
within may not come forth In their
sleep and maybe freeze to death, but
in Egypt and such like hot lands such
precaution Is unnecessary."
Her Brand.
A correspondent writes: "Two wom
en were strong supporters of a local
co-operative store, but one day as one
of them was passing down the street
she was surprised to see her friend
coming out of a licensed grocer's shop.
'I thocht, Mrs. Broon, ye wis a mem
ber o' the Co.?' was her remark. 'So I
am; but, dae ye ken this, there's nae
shop In Glesca I get sic nice beef ham
as in here.'
"Some days later Mrs. Broon's friend
went into this shop to buy a sample
of the beef ham. On entering the shop
she asked the man If he would give
her 'a pun' o' tho beef ham Mrs. Broon
gets here.' A quiet smile stole over
the shopman's face. 'Oh, yes,' he said;
*1 can obleege you. Hlv you brocbt a
bottle wl' you?'"—Glasgow Times.
Making History.
While we read history we make his
tory. Every great crisis of human his
tory Is a pass of Thermopylae, and
there Is nlways a Leonidas and his
300 to die In It If they cannot conquer.
And so long as liberty has one martyr,
so long as one drop of blood is poured
out for her, so long from that bloody
sweat of the agony of humanity shall
spring hosts as countless as the forest
leaves and mighty as the sea.—Cteorge
William Curtis.
A Bee Line.
The directness of the bee's flight is
proverbial. The shortest distance be
tween any two given points is called a
bee line. Many observers think that
the Immense eyes with which the in
sect Is furnished greatly assist if they
do not entirely account for the arrowy
ttraightness of its passage through the
air.
Hadn't Heard It.
"Money talks," asseverated Qilder
sleeve.
"I am not so sure of that," retorted
Throckmorton. "It Is not on speaking
terms with me."—Detroit Free Press.
Liked the Old War Best.
"Bridget," asked Mrs. Do Leon, "can
you cook on scientific principles Y'
"Sure, ma'am, what's the matter
with cookin' on a range?" asked sen
slble Bridget.
-
Direction.
"Soy, Cblmmlc, wot'd de boss call y*
up fer?"
"T* call me down."—Baltimore News.
Musical Snails.
A French naturalist claims that there
are few if any animals which have a
higher appreciation of music than
snails. Place some snails on a pane of
glass, he sqys, and you will find that
as they move over It they will make
musical sounds similar to those which
a person can produce by wetting his
finger and then rubbing it around a
glass tumbler. Complete alrrf, he points
out, havo been played on tumblers In
this way, and he expresses the opinion
that quite as good results can be ob
tained by using snails Instead of fin
gers.
Oar Repablla.
The American republic must live.
Popular commotion and partisan fury
may dash their mad waves ngslnst It,
but they shall roll back shattered,
spent. Persecution shall not shake it,
fanaticism distort It nor revolution
change It, but it shall staud towering
sublime, Uko the last mountain In the
deluge, while tho earth rocks at Its
feet and the thunders peal above Its
head—majestic, Immutable, magnifi
cent.—Wendell Phillips.
A. Tale of Htrolia,
"I went for a bath yesterday," said
an Auvergnat. "1 had been In the
water sotno time when I suddenly per
ceived an enormous shark advancing
toward me with Its Jaws open. What
was I to do? When ho waa a yard off,
I dived, took out my pocketknlfe and
ripped up the belly of the monster."
"What! Then you are! in ths habit
of bathing with your clotbea on," said
ono of tho listeners.—From tho French.
Spot Appropriate to Speeeh.
"Ah, darling," he exclaimed, "as we
sit together under the spreading
branches of this noble tree 1 do de
clare on my honor that you are the
only girl I have ever loved"
Anil Just a suspicion of a smllo
crossed tho dear thing's features as
she replied:
"You always say such appropriate
things, John; this Is a chestnut tree."
—Baltimore News.
firmness.
Jones—Dear met You say you often
lay down the law to your wife. How
do you go about It?
Bones—Why, all you need is firm
ness. I usually go Into my study, lock
the door and do It through the key
halo.