VOI XXXIX $ STORE SPACE DOUBLED $ £ OPENING SALE BASEMENT DEPARTMENT. * § BARGAINS WORTHY OF THE NAME. $ The flodern Store $ K Has just closed its first six months' business and the increased trade has U made it necessary to add to its floor space. Without the Mure of trumpets. we have refitted our lower floor and now have the largest basement de- Uk partment in Butler, exactly daplicating our main store. We will inaugurate opening now, and as it is easy of access at the front of the store. We invite you to our W £ SANNER BASEMENT BARGAINS. * U White Marseilles bed spreads, large size, SI.OO quality at »69c, (while Sb thev last ) Unbleached sheets, 9-4 size, 42c. Bleached sheet", extra quality, 9-4 *ize, 49c. Pillow c;ises, bleached, 42 in., 10c. All wool ip blankets, 00 up. Cotton blankets. 50c up. $ LARGE ASSORTMENT BLANKETS, COMFORTERS. % $ PILLOWS, SHEETS, PILLOW CASES, SPREADS, £ YARNS, UTOPIA BRAND. & 8 Co., m m SOUTH MAIN STREET ) f\r*%4 S phores: ;f|oPL's D ' < //1 Mail Orders Solicited & JR POSTOFFICE BOX )«■»*■■ (i OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. $ ixxxxx&se xaexxxx wx&xx-*, First Showing Of New Fall and Winter Clothing! Foi weeks everyone about this establishment his been on the jump, making and arranging our immense ball and Winter stock. We have now ready A regular feast of new and beautiful things in Men's, Boys' and Children's wear. We are especially proud of our men's Suit display We have the best suits, made by the best makers we know anything about. It would take colu Tins of talk to do them justice. Compare our suits with any to be had anywhere workmanship for workmanship—garment for garment thread for thread. Then compare prices. Do this and you will buy your fall suit here. Schaul & Nast, LEADING CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS, 137 South Main St., Butler. THE AUTUMN BUYING Is now in Full Swing. and our store is full of good durable footwear £t rock bottom prices, don't fail to look this store over and examine prices be fore buying your winter stock of footwear as we are offering keenest inducements for your trade. ? You'll be surprised at large selection, delighted 1 with the qualities and more than pleased with our | money saving prices School Shoes for the Boys and Girls. Never in the history of the shoe business in Butler has there been so large and strong a line of school shoes shown and at such ridiculously low prices. All heights of tops, all weights of leather, all widths, all shapes of toes in button or laco and all marked at bargain prices. Ladies' Fine Shoes We have been appointed exclusive agents for the famous Dorothy Dodd tine shoes for Ladies. This line of shoes is being handled by the leading shoemen all over the country and the sale of this very popular shoe has been phenomenal; besides having a full line of the Dorothv Dodd shoe we carry a large line of the well known K. D. & Co. and many other leading makes of Ladies' fine shoes which makes this store the best place in Butler Co. to buy fine shoes. j Hen's Fine Shoes Yju will find here the largest stock and greatest variety of stvles in Men's fine shoes to be found in Butler Co. All the new toes, all the new leathers, all sizes and widths in the very best makes of Men's fine shoes in the country, snch as WALKOVER, W. L. DOUGLASS and many other of the leadidg makes of Men's fine shoes. Rubber and Felt Goods. J Do not fail to see our line of Rubber and Felt Goods before buying your Winter stock aB it is the most com plete stock ever shown in Butler and at prices never be fore offered in Butler county. Come in and exmine goods and prices whether you want to buy or not. C. E. MILLER, V" D. Sc T?" | / The Patrician Shoe at $3.50, the best for the Ladies. J J The Hanan. the best shoe for men at £>.oo. V » Ladies' fine shoes $l5O, $2.00, $2..">0, $3.00, in all leathers, high and r S medium tops. / i Men's fine shoes, *2.00, $2.50. $3.00, £5.50, $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00. { / Heavy shoes in oil grain and kangaroo calf for Ladies' and Gents'. J C A full line of school shoes. V i Large line of leggins and overgaiters. / J NEW RUBBER GOODS. I \ DAUBENSPECK & TURNER, > NEXT TO SAVINGS BANK. 1 K E C K Fall & Winter Weights Tp" Jtp o Have a ijattiness about them that J] ~~b \ f) > fi~* mV mark the wearer, it won't do to JT» V AJ' ' J 1 V\ wear the last year's output. You _ Ft \ Lfy fe\ won't get the latest things at the , \ / jh i\ stock clothiers either. The up-to- ... it/ r C date tailor only tan supply them, , /| V 1 jl? if you want not only the latest I, f \~'~ r "T 1 thing 9 in cut and fit and work- | II If// J nunsliip, the finest in durability, \ J I |J/|f where e'se can you get combina- | 1 I j I tions, you get them at iti KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler,Pa THE BUTLER CITIZEN. I ION. S. \V. PEN'S' VPACKKIi. Republican Nominee for Governor. P H I M Johnston's f j Beef, Iron and Wine L 4 ►! l! is the f « A Best Tonic'' >i ami 14 A Blood Purifier. & J >1 Price, 50c pint. F« !! Prepared and W A sold only at I] Johnston s B Crystal K Pharmacy. H j n K. M. LOGAN, Ph. G , |JI | Manager, fir ICS N. Main St.. Butler, Pa". Both 'Phones Pi i Everything in the drug line. Fm M Bj Have You a Neighbor? If so why don't you get jEK?®;' together aud have a tele- phone system. We manufacture them. Ask us and we will tell Ljmk you all about it. jfTi ii'"w^§3 Electrical work of all iescriptionsdoneon sho: t notice. ' The U. S, Electric Mfg. Co BUTLER. PA. Of Interest To you to know that REED carries in stock the following horse and cattle remedies. Dr. Daniel's Gall Cnre. " Renovater, " Wonder Worker Linement, " Oster Cocns or nerve and muscle linement, " Cough, Cold, Fever Drops. " Colic Cure. Sloan's Gall Cure. " Horse and Cattle Powders, " Lineinent. Barker's Horse and Cattle Powders. " Linement. Newton's Heave, Cough, Distemper and Indigestion Cnre. Bowner's Barn Dust. Four Horse Gall Cure. Fontz's Horse and Cattle Powders. Sheridau's Condition Powders. Reed s Pharmacy Cor. Main and Jefferson Sts., Butler. Pa Both Phones, L. S. McJUNKIN Insurance and Real Eslate Agent. 117 E. TEFFKRSON. BUTLER. - PA. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, Nasal CATARRH cleanses, soothes and heals the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh aud drives away a cold in the head quickly. Cream llalra 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 cents. 4 MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITU- A TION PROPOSED TO THE CITI ZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR REJEC TION BY THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section ten of article one of the Constitution, so that a dis-barge of a jury for failure to agree or other necessary cause shall not work an acquittal. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met. That the following be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution: that is to say. that section ten of article one, which reads as follows: "No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger, or by leave of the court for oppression or mis demeanor in Office. No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall pri vate property be taken or applied to public use. without authority of law and without just compensation being first made or secured," be amended so as to read as follows: No person shall, for any indictable of fense, be proceeded against criminally by information, ex'-ept in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the uiilitia. when in actual service, in time of war or public danger, or bv leave of the court for oppression or misdemean or in office. No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life oi limb; BUT A DISCHARGE OF THE JURY FOR FATLURE TO AGREE. OR OTHER NECESSARY CAUSE, SHALL, NOT WORK AN ACQUITTAL. Nor shall pri vate property be taken or applied to public use, without authority of law and without just compensation being first made or secured. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. W. W. GRIEST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. 4 MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITU- A TION PROPOSED TO THE CITI ZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR REJEC TION BY THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Con stitution of the Commonwealth. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions if the eighteenth article thereof: Amendment. Add at the end of section seven, article three, the following words: "Un less before it shall be introduced in the General Assembly, such proposed special or local law shall have been first sub mitted to a popular vote, at a general or special election in the locality or locali ties to be affected by its operation, under an order of the court of common pleas of the respective county after hearing and application granted, and shall have been approved by a majority of the voters at such election: Provid ed, That no such election shall be held until the decree of court authorizing the same shall have been advertised for at least thirty (30) days in the locality or localities affected, in such manner as the court may direct. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. W. W. GRIEST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. New WAbk PAPER Our Fall Wall Papers are all * n tin d ready for you. eym SROS., Wall Paper, s°°ks and Stationery 251 S. /Main St., Butler, Pa.} I A FLAG ; \ RAiSING ♦ By JAMES BUCKHAM I i i y Copyn'i/.'.f, bj James Ihickitam y iWt ♦ Tlie little white house of the Par fridge "girls" lay basking In the sum mer sunshine. It seemed the very em bodiment of orderly thrift and domes tic peace. The bit of green yard was as clean and tidy as if it had been swept and then every separate grass blade dusted and set in orderly array. The two glistening paths that led one up to the front door and the other along the side of the house to the "kitchen stoop" were inclosed by slen der round posts, through which ran a single strand of wire. The posts and their connecting wire were painted a fresh, lustrous green. There were also six greeu posts along the sidewalk in front of the house, strung together by a green wire, and at each corner of the two paths stood a large white washed stone, so dazzling white that it made the eyes ache like new fallen snow. The entire premises had a look of Immaculate neatness that made them seem sacred, like some fane or little temple, and indeed they were sacred to the Partridge sisters, who had descended from a long Hue of old fashioned New England worshipers at the shrine of home. Inside the place was as neat as out side. Nobody ever found the Partridge "gb-ls" In a muss. Even when they cleaned house they did it so stealthily and with such amazing rapidity and precision that uo one room was suf fered to be out of apple pie order for more than ten consecutive minut«s. It was a marvelous little home this of the Tnrtridge sisters. The minister once said that it was a composite of Turitan conscience and New England sentimeut, aud that there was only one thing more impressive than its sever ity, and that was its sweetness. In such a home as this, it would seem, one might retire and be at rest from all the cares aud strifes and trou bles of the uueasy world. There were not a few who envied the Partridge sisters their little patrimony and their littlf home, the one Just equal to the other, with an exactness beautiful tc contemplate io this world of exasper ating misfits. Yet there Is no corner of old earth, however remote and peaceful, where seme trouble does not find Its way. The skeleton in this quiet closet was chronic difference of opinion between the sisters, a trouble that Is almost sure to rise between two persons of the same blood and sex who arc com pelled to spend most of their time in one another's company. With the Par tridge sisters this mental divergence seemed to have no root In divergence of principle. It made practically no difference what the opinion was. So long as it was held strongly by either sister the other felt bound to disagree with it. Jane and Ellen could be ol oue mind on but one matter, aud that i was purely congenital—the passion for neatness. The June sunshine rested like a ben ediction on the Partridge cottage. The roses In the front yard and the sweet peas iii the back yard were in blootn A golden robin was singing In an elm across the street, and the Partridge sisters' canary was vying with him from his cage in the open window. Jane aud Ellen were out in the yard weeding their (lower beds and roam log hither and thither after the man ner of hens to pick up infinitesimal bits of litter between the grass blades. Suddenly Miss Ellen straightened up and gazed curiously at something thai was coming down the village street It was an ordinary lumber wagon, witt the box removed, and far in the rear an extra axle and pair of wheels. Something long and white and taper iug was stretched from the forward axle of the wagon to the extra axU and wheels trailing behind. "What In the world can that be com lug?" asked Miss Ellen. "I presume it's onr new flagpole," re plied Miss Jane, the elder spinster. "Our new flagpole?" cried her sistei shrilly. "What do you mean, Jane Partridge? Who said we were going to have a flagpole?" "I said so," answered Jane. "I or dered it, and it's comlr»g. I didn't saj anything to you about It because ) knew you would object beforehand and I thought you might as well do your objecting afterward; 'twould save time. I wanted to have the pole here in time for the Fourth of July. I've been thinking for some time that we ought to be more patriotic than we are, and 1 couldn't think of any bettei way for two lone women to show theli patriotism than by owning a flag and flagpole. We can't go to war, we can't vote, we can't speak in town meeting and we can't fire a gun on Independ ence day, but a woman has Just as much right to fly the stars and stripes as a man, and you and I are going t« do it, and w« are going to do It for the first time on next Fourth of July." Miss Ellen Partridge listened to this long explanation from her sister with a set face. "Old maids have no call tc be patriotic!" she snapped when Miss Jane concluded. "It ain't their prov ince; It's no woman's province. I won'l have a flagpole In this yard, Jane Par tridge, and you may as well under stand that first as last. They shan't bring that thing in here if I have tc fight 'em with a broom and scalding water. A flagpole's a dangerous thing to have arouud a house to begin with The first big wind it may snap off and smash the roof In, just as the college flagpole broke off and smashed the fountain over to Chester. It's more dangerous than a big tree, because 11 hasn't any roots. Patriotism! Huh I guess we show patriotism enough, considering our privileges, by paying our taxes!" By this time the long flagpole, at tended by a crowd of boys and village loafers, had arrived opposite the little cottage, and the four men who were perched on its trunk dismounted and proceeded to unfasten the chains that bound it to the wagon. Miss Ellen strode out to them. "You are not to bring that thing in here," she said firmly. The man in charge of the flagpole turned with a grin; but, seeing the ex pression of Miss Ellen's face, his grin died away In a look of astonished per plexity. "What in tunket am I to do with it, then?" be demanded. "I was told to bring it here." "I don't care what you do with It," retorted Miss Ellen. "All I know Is It isn't coming in here." "It's paid for," protested the man as a final shot. At this juncture Miss Jane Partridge came stalking majestically down the little side path. She had borne with her sister's petulance—even as sfce used to when they were children—just long enough to be assured that it was of the inflexible sort. It was now time for the elder sister to act. She brushed Miss Ellen aside and laid her hand on the pole. "I ordered it," she said. "I paid for it, and I paid for its settin' up. You may bring It In aud set it where I show you." Miss Ellen turned abruptly and went into the house. She climbed to the gar ret and got tke large brown satchel that her father had owhed. Then she gathered together a few articles of clothing and the dearest of her own special treasures and keepsakes and put them into the bag. This done, she marched out of the front door, satchel in hand, and started for the village depot. Miss Jane was in the back yard superintending the erection of the flagpole and did not notice her sister's departure. Miss Ellen reached the depot and sat down in the vacant ladies' waiting room. She had not the slightest idea where she was going. There was no j relative to whom she could tlee from her sister's tyranny. She thought that i she would take the first train in either direction and travel until evening. Then she would stop at some hotel and spend the night. After a night's sleep perhaps she would know what to do. It was late In the forenoon when Miss Ellen reached the depot. The sta tion agent had gone to dinner, aud his otiice was locked up. Noon came, then half past 12, and still no train and no station agent. Miss Ellen fastened her distracted mind upon the situation and presently remembered that no train stopped at Lyndonville between 11 o'clock a. m. and half past 5 p. m. What would the station agent think when lie came back and found her there? She went to the window and looked back up the hill toward the village. Between Putnam's blacksmith shop aud the store she could just see on the other side of the village street the low ly roof of the cottage where she and her sister had dwelt for forty years. Something white and slender was just wavering up behind it. It rose higher and higher and finally stood firm and straight, and Miss Ellen saw that it was the top of the new flagpole. Jane, then, was still busy with her triumph. She had not discovered her sister's de parture, or perhaps she did not care. Miss Ellen went back to her seat with tears in her eyes. From where she sat she could look into tkj 1 ticket office through the locked glass window, and on the wall facing her she saw a steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln. How vividly It brought up the days of the civil war, when her younger broth er had marched away with the first regiment of Vermont volunteers! The tears rained faster down Jier cheeks as the flood of memory her far ther and farther away f m her own petty grievance. She remembered the crushing news from the front; the bringing home of her brother's dear, torn body; the picture of Abraham Lincoln which they found hidden in his bosom; the funeral in the village church, with the picture of Lincoln, wreathed in flowers, lying on the dead soldier's breast, aud around him and the martyr president were wrapped the folds of the stars and stripes! Again Miss Ellen rose and went to the window. A cheer swept faintly dojvn the hill. There was a flag flying from the new flagpole over the cot tage. Patriotism—bad she none of it in her loyal heart, and she the sister of such a patriot as the soldier boy who slept under the faded Memorial day flag In the village cemetery? With a sob Miss Ellen caught up her satchel and breasted the hill. "Jane was right," she whispered. "I am glad she got the flagpole and the flag. Dear Robert! It was my flag raising too. If heart's feeling counts for anything, it was my flag raising too!" GoirlUh In Java. A book published in Java, called "The West Java Travelers' Guide," says of a certain sanitarium: "At the establishment is a physician. The sick may Invoke the physician for daily treatment, with use of medicaments. Children below teu years pay for lodges half of the price." Under "Addresses and Announce ments" is politely recommended "the hotel prigin, with occasion for warm baths, where till now all reconvales cents, as well as Mrs. Physicians and particulars and officials, have found back their health. Cures malaria, com plains in the chest and other fatnesses, green sickness, cutaneous disease," etc., and we are assured that "this healthy abode for recouvalesccnts has also occasion to many delightful ldyllc excursions to which saddle horse and tandees are stationed when before timely ordered." Tie Killing: of a Big RiUno on the Banks of the Nile. I was dashing along, confident that the rhino must be far ahead, when Zo wanji whistled. I oould see nothing till he pointed out the brute lying quite close to me. The sun beating on her mud caked hide made it blend so per fectly with the red earth and yellowish grass that I should have walked right up without seeing her. She sprang to her feet. We both fired. She made a short dash toward us, but thought bet ter of it and rushed down a small slope on to a flat bed of short reeds. Here she turned again and defied us. Again the heavy guns roared. She spun round and round several times, staggered, re covered and dashed oft only to stop, however, under the next tree. The .303s cracked, and in a wild chorus of thank ful yells she toppled over, rose again, spun round and Anally subsided into the grass. We went up quite close to finish her. She fought hard to rise and have a last charge, but the little pencil like bullet again sped on its sad errand, and the game old relic of prehistoric times breathed her last. We were sad men as we gazed upon her grotesque, misshapen form. Somehow one feels such a blatant upstart In the presence of the pachyderms when one thinks of the unbroken line that dates back un changed into the unthinkable ages of the past.—Ewart Grogan in Outing. The Headsman's Perquisites. Strange and unreasonable laws guar anteed to the headsman his full share of emoluments. He was well paid for bis work and never suffered from a dull season. From the towns be re ceived poultry and fodder, from the monasteries fish and game. The Ab baye de Saint-Germain gave him every year a pig's head; the Abbaye de Saint- Martin five loaves of bread and five bot tles of wine. Cakes were baked for him on the eve of Epiphany. For each leper In the community he exacted—heaven knows why—a tax at Christmas time. Les filles de jole were his vassals. It was his privilege to seize in the market place as much corn as he could carry away In his hands, and the peasants thus freely robbed submitted without a murmur, crossing themselves with fer vor as he passed. He had the power to save from death any woman on her way to the scaffold, provided he were able and willing to marry her. He was the first official called to the body of a suicide, and, standing on the dead man's breast, he claimed as his own everything lie could touch with tho point of his long sword.—Agnes Rep ulier in Haruer's Magazine. ~ : VARIETIES OF WHEAT. Rr<t lirl<lrr< at the Ki-niuoky Asrrl • 'iiliurul F.iiirrlnifiit Station. Wheat varieties being of interest at present, some experience of the Ken- ! tuckv agricultural experiment station | is here presented. The wheats illus trated were among thirty-seven varie ties planted Oct. 14 for the season of j 1000-01. The fourteen best yielders for two years have been Fultz, Harvest King, Prudy, Lancaster lied, Beech - 1, CLAWSON LONGRERRY; 2, CANADIAN HY BRID; 3, IMPROVED RICE. wood Hybrid, Indiana Swamp. Daw son's Golden Chaff. Jersey Fultz, Ex tra Early Oakley. Pearl Prolific. Fal caster, Turkish. Kansas Mortgage Lifter and Hungarian. There are among these eight smooth varieties, and they average for the two years 80.2 bushels, and seven bearded varie ties which average for the two years only 3(5.9 bushels. The farmers of the section of the state around Lexington prefer a smooth wheat to a bearded, one, as it is very hard to get hands to harvest the bearded varieties. Clawson Longberry is beardless, seeds large, soft and white, but a trifle darker than some other white wheats; stem yellow; average number of seeds from a spike, 49; average weight of seeds from one spike, 2.3 grams. Canadian Hybrid is beardless, seeds of medium size, plump, red, moderate ly hard; spike compact, stem pale yel low; average number of seeds from a spike, 54; average weight, 2.1 grams: of good appearance, but with the stem rather slight. The Hungarian wheat produced a very rank growth; average height, about 53 inches, though occasional plants reached a height of 58 inches; strongly bearded; seed large, very dark in colokand very hard; number of seeds from a spike, 3G.5; average weight of seeds from a spike, 1.55 grams. Pootung wheat is beardless or beard ed; seeds small, soft and red; spike 4, THEISS, OR HUNGARIAN; 5, I'OOTUNG. slender, tapering, the spikelets well separated; stem yellow, slight; average number of seeds from a spike, 37.5; av erage weight of seeds from a spike, 0.925 gram. The straw was very weak, Bud much of it was thrown down be fore it was cut; average height when mature, about 50 inches, though often reaching a height of 54 inches. Red rust very abundant on blades. No stem rust. It is a very early wheat and was cut June 22. t'tillzlngr the I'nderflow. According to statistics published by the Denver chamber of commerce, Col orado advanced during the decade 1889 to 1899,t0 the front rank of irrigated states, surpassing California in the ex tent of land under irrigation, but re maining second in the number of Irri gators and in the value of irrigated crops. Water is held in the layers of sand and gravel which have been deposited at various depths beneath the surface of the plains. Investigations indicate that this :pply is large and that con siderable ;'reas of valuable land lo cated at < jrreat an elevation to be irrigated 1.. gravity diversion of water will ultimately be reclaimed by utilis ing the underflow. PUMPKINS AND SQUASHES. Mow TUey Ilnve Boon Kept l.ate mid ThruuKli Severe Fro ». Pumpkins and squashes may be car ried through quite severe frosts with out injury by covering well with straw or coarse litter. With especially fine bills which may not have fully ma tured it will usually pay well to do this, as they will often make very de cided growth after the surrounding vines which were unprotected are dead beyond any hope. Four years ago some very large pumpkins which I was growing were in danger ol being killed by frost before maturity. They were Intended for show windows in some of tile large stores, and my object was the largest possible growth and thor oughly matured fruits. They were carefully covered, fruits and vines, and came through without injury and kept growing vigorously until the second frost came, which killed the leaves and leaf stalks. At this time the pumpkins only were covered, the vines being left to care for themselves; but, being very large and strong, the main vin % 3 still remained jl reeii, and the pumpkins by actual measurement made very decided growth after everything but the main stems was dead. Did all this trouble pay. do you ask? I think so, for the j pumpkins were sold at satisfactory , prices for the purpose for which they were grown, and the cards upon them with the grower's name and residence were a good advertisement. Cabbage, ' celery and all late growing vegetables j will be greatly benefited by a liberal use of the hoe and steel garden rake ; to loosen and fine the soil and admit the air and sunshine, says a Rural New i Yorker writer. MARKING CATTLE. Characters Tattooed In the Ear With Forceps and India Ink. The cut, from Country Gentleman, shows a means of marking cattle, which a Canadian correspondent says Is open to the fewest objections and is practiced by many breeders of live stock in Great Britain. The operation of tattooing, he says. Is simple and practically painless. The mark 1s legi ble and fairly durable, but unless some white fluid for use in tattooing black skinned animals Is available this meth od would be useless for certain breeds of cattle and swine. The Instrument used is simple and easily manipulated. It consists, as shown in the cut, of a pair of pinchers or forceps so construct ed as to permit of changing the mark ing teeth or stamps. Numbers from 1 to 0 may be arranged In many combi- TATTOOIHQ FORCEPS. nations and so serve when tattooed on the ear effectually to distinguish the Individual. Initials or whole words may be tattooed. The tattooing process is simple. The ear of the animal should be thoroughly cleansed. India ink should then be applied with a brush to the hairless or inner side of the ear so as to cover the surface where It is de sired the characters Bhould appear. The jaws of the forceps being so placed on the ear as to bring the pierc ing device over the Ink, a sufficient pressure should be exerted to cause the points to pierce the epidermis and true skin, but not the cartilage of the ear. The ink should then be rubbed into the punctures, although generally the mere piercing operation drives enough coloring matter Into the Bkln to leave a good mark. The wound Boon heals, and a mark that cannot be eas ily removed or tampered with is left. Rye and Rasslan Thistle. It is nothing uncommon for rye to yield forty bushels to the acre, and If the ground is properly prepared and good seed well put "In failure will not occur If there is enough moisture in the ground to germinate the seed in the fall. Rye can be sown in August or any time before the ground freeses. We have seen good crops when the grain was sown BO late that the plants could hardly be seen above ground un til the following spring. If rye is not sown by Sept. 20, It is usually bet ter to wait until the ground is about to freeze up. One who has land Infest ed with Russian thistles will find great satisfaction in sowing rye thick and early. Some sow in July and pasture the stand so It cannot joint, then har vest a crop the next year.—Field and Farm. Fall Cleaning and Onion Thrips. One of the agricultural authorities claims that the onion thrips pass the winter months in matted grass among old weeds aud other rubbish as well fes among cull onions that have been left over In the garden In the fall. For this reason a general cleaning up of all rubbish in the fall is highly essential. News and Notes. Sklmmllk for bogs and the big profit in it is all the talk n«w. Ohio Is a clover growing Btate. It is also becoming an alfalfa growing state. The market for coarse flax fiber is almost unlimited, according to a west ern grower. The agricultural building of the St. Louis world's fair is reported as planned to cover twenty-two acres and the pulace of horticulture seven and a half acres. A recent circular of the United States department of agriculture defines the laws regulating Interstate shipment of birds and game. Late blight in some sections has re duced the earlier promise of a heavy potato crop, but a large western crop Is still the general tenor of advices. The Soil Was Not Congenial. It was Aunt Rebecca's first visit to her niece, a city girl who had married a few years before and begun house keeping In a pretty town in southern Michigan. "Myrtle," she said, looking out of the kitchen window one morning, "you have a fine patch of ground here that seems to be going to waste. Why don't you plant peach trees? They grow beautifully In this climate." "No, aunty," replied the young wife; "the soil is too poor. I have tried it You remember those canned peaches you sent me year before last? They were the finest I ever saw—finer than any that grow here. Well, I saved the stones, and, without saying anything to Robert about It, I planted them out there In the yard, but not one of them ever came up—not a single one!" The Roral Color. Purple has always been considered the royal color. The ill fated Charles I. was, however, at his own desire, crowned in a robe of white. Although he was seriously reminded that of the two exceptions to this rule, Richard 11. and Henry VI., who wore white satin robes at their coronations, both had come to a violent end, one at Ponte fract castle and one in the Tower, Charles I. was resolute in his decision, and, when, twenty-three years after ward, almost to a day, his body was conveyed to its grave through a heavy snowstorm, the superstitious could not help remarking that the third "white king" had suffered a violent death.— St. James Gazette. An Optimistic View. The Invalid looked out of the window Just as a hearse went by, and he smiled happily. "D'ye mind, Biddy," he said, "It's worth the dyln' to have a ride in a thing like that, with the feathers on top an' a man with a bug on his hat, an' you beln' gr-reater an' moie nlcls sary than the marshal lv a St. Path rlck's day parade. There's wanst In ye're life ye're the whole thing, an' that's whin ye're dead." —Chicago Post. The Sensible This*. Schoolmaster—What Is the meaning of oue twenty-flfth? Boy—l—l don't remember. Schoolmaster—lf you had twenty-five friends visiting you and only one apple for them, what would you do? Boy—l'd wait till they'd gone and then "at It myself. No 42 FATE OF HINDOO GIRLS.""*< Nepaal Rajpoots Cava* Their D«oak« tern to Be Mar4tft<l. A Capuchin monk engaged In siouary work in Nepaul, writing of Hindoo family life, remarks that it is very difficult for parents to make ad vantageous matches for their daugh ters. The Hindoos therefore find a means of ridding themselves of too many daughters by murdering them. It Is a well known fact that Hindoo* of high birth, those who are Called rajpoota, caused their daughters to be put to death after their birth by men specially engaged to do so. This crim inal custom had become so general that in 1840 In the seventy-three Til lages of the Allahabad district there were only three girls under twelve years of age, and three years later in the town of Agra there was not one to be found under that age. All had been put to death. The English government baa very naturally passed severe laws against this abominable crime, but to evade them the Hindoos allow their girls to live until the age of twelve, aftes which they do away with them by ad* ministering poison ID small doses. Orientals are past masters In the art of poisoning, and after some minute Inquiries it transpires that In many districts twenty-five out of every hun dred girls have been got rid of In this manner. Those girls who have been spared they marry very early, gener ally between fourteen and fifteen years, aud that not according to their own choice, but by the will. of their parents, which Is decisive. An Indian family of good rank could not keep an unmarried daugh ter. It would not only be a public shame, but also a crime against reli gion. To procure husbands for those who have not already found them there are a number of Brahmans, old and decrepit, called Kulln Brahmans, who go about with the one object of going through the ceremony of the "seven steps" with as many young girls as they can upon receipt of a large sum of money, but who after ward leave the country and perhaps never see them again.—Pall Mall Ga zette. KINGS AND QUEENS. The king of England who conld not speak the language of his kingdom was George I. In the battle of Bosworth Field, 1485, a king was killed (Richard III.) and a king was crowned (Henry VII.). The motto, "Dieu et Mon Droit," was" first assumed by Edward 111. of Eng land when be took the title of France. "Your majesty" as a royal title was assumed in England in 1527 by Henry VIII. The title before that was "your grace" or "your highness" for the king or queen. William IV. was at the time when hs succeeded to the throne the first Wil liam of Hanover, the second William of Ireland and the third William of Scotland. Henry VIII. was the first to assume the title of king of Ireland. The title king of Great Britain was assumed by James VI. of Scotland when he became James I. of England. Richard I. was the first to call him self king of England. Every king, from William to Henry 11. called himself king of the English. The title was as sumed by Egbert, the first king of England, in 828. King of France was a title borne by the monarchs of England for 482 years, and when Elisabeth became queen of England she was also "king of France," asserting that if she could not be a queen she would be king. Ths Spendthrift. Once upon a time there was a spend thrift who made his father very un happy through his profligate habits. "My son," said the parent, "yon spend every penny that yon get, and it must cease. Remember that the pennies make shillings and the shil lings make pounds. If yon do not change your habits of always spend ing to habits of judicious saving, I will not spare the rod." The admonition had no good effect on the youth, and he continued to spend the pennies before they could accu mulate into shillings. His father spoke no more about the matter, but he applied the rod most vigorously to him until he bowled with pain. Moral.—He who spends the pennies will get the pounds.—New York Her ald. Instinct at Horses Im Wmt. Arabian horses manifest remarkable courage in battle. It is said that when _ a horse of this breed finds himself wounded and perceives that he will no. be able to bear his rider much longer he quickly retires from the con flict, bearing his master te a place of safety while he has still sufficient strength. But, on the other hand, If the rider is wounded and falls to the ground the faithful animal remains beside him, unmindful of danger, neighing until assistance Is brought. rientr of Color. "That Mrs. Wadhams to whom you Introduced me the other evening re minds me very much of a portrait by Rembrandt." "Is that so? Which onel" "Oh, any old one. They all look, when you get close to them, as If the paint had been thrown on by the handful." —Chicago Herald. A Serene Temperament. "Mike," said Plodding Pete, "don't • you wish you was rich?" "Kind o\" answered Meandering Mike. "Course I couldn't eat any more dan I does, but I'd be saved de trouble o' sayln' 'much obliged' so of ten."—Washington Star. Hew Yon Mar Easily Tell Them Apart bj Their Markings. In the muskellunge the upper half of cheek and gill cover Is scaled, the lower half being naked. The pike has a gill cover scaled like the 'lunge's, but the entire cheek is scaled. The eastern and grass pickerel have cheek and gill covers scaled all over. Hence, if &nly the upper half of the flab'a cheek is scaled, it Is a 'lunge; If the entire cheek and half the gill cover show scales, the specimen Is a great northern pike. Young muskellunge are distinctly spotted with blackish on a greenish or grayish ground. The mature fish shows less distinct markings, although they usually are discernible in the region of the tail. I have, however, seen big, old fish upon which the eye conld detect no spot, the general color being gray ish green, with a few dim reflections. Agr.ln I have seen fine fish of a nonde script tint, as like that of an old, dry rubber boot as anything I can think of. The young and old of the great northern pike have the sides marked with oval Mhltlsh or yellowish spots several shades lighter than the ground color; hence a fish with spots darker than the ground color is a 'lunge; with lighter spots, a northern pike.—Edwyn > flaiwlva In Outlnv
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