VOI XXXIX BiclceTs. The time of the year is here when you want to purchase your WINTER FOOTWEAR. Our stock of BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBER and FELT GOODS is complete. Large stock of Gokey's high cut hand pegged shoes, Gokty's high-cut copper toe shoes for Boys and Waterproof Shoes for Girls. NOVEMBER PRICE LIST Ladies' Fine Dongola Patent Tip Shoes, $1.50 grade, .at SI 00 Old Ladies' Warm Lined Shoes at 85 Men's Fine Embroidered Slippers at 40 Ladies,' Whole Stock Waterproof Shoes at 1 75 Misses' Whol? Stock Waterproof Shoes at 1 40 Men's Good Kip Heavy Sole Box Toe Shoes.. v at 2 25 Ladies' Fine Trimmed Juliet Slippers at 90 FELT AND RUBBER GOODS Men's Coon Tail Excluder Knit Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs. .f2 50 Men's Russian Felt Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs 2 50 Men's Gray Felts and First Quality Overs I Boys' Gray Felts and First Quality Oyers 1 Youths' Gray Felts and First Quality Overs 1 25 Men's Rubber Boots " *2 Ladies' Rubber Boots 1 Men's Buckle Arctics • 1 Complete stock of German stockings and rolled edge rubbers Large stock of Ladies', Gents', Misses' and Children's Leggirre and Overgaiters at reduced prices. High Iron Stands with four lasts for repairing at 50c. Sole Leather and Shoemakers' supplies of all kinds. Repairing promptly done. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St., $ FANCY FABRICS FOR DAINTY DRESSERS m £ GR.AND OFFERINGS THIS WEEK. & Friday and Saturday Specials for Ladies and Men. * The riodern Store * I is offering such a vast variety and such a superb stock at sucli tempting prices that the crowd continue to get larger every week. Those who come >0 here once bring their friends next time, because we do not exaggerate either in our advertising or in our statements to cur patrons. (ft ■ 45 in. all-wool rhelvots, 50c yd. 42 in. Sharkskins. I Innnn I.AA/lO 50C yd. a-' in. Brown and Gray mixtures, 50c yu. W UiriSS H IS « In. Novelty Suitings, 50c up. Q? VWV Beatiful Black Goods, Specials, 50c to $1.50 up. VP! Vl-TQ Metal printed velvets. 75c and 11.00 yd. Costome velvets, 75c to JA Itklblo (1.50 yd. Corduroys, all colors, 75c yd. SH Cl| I/O Kancy silks for waists. Black Taffetas, all widths. Heavy black silks, ill 01L.1\3 Peau-de-Soie and Armures. Krand values. SI.OO. Mannifinont Millinprv We are making a record l.y It. This department is Pj magnmceni mllllllßry advancing like the others. Seeing is believing. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS. £ Ladies' Fine Egyptian Cotton, Fleece- I Men's Ileavy. Fleece-Hnrd shirts and js lined vests and pants, all sizes, best 50c drawers, all sizes, never sold less than garment ever sold, at 3»c. 1 50 c at 39c. Co., m SOUTH MAUI STREET ) AA4 PHOXES: \ PEOPLES 0 ' ( 22l posTomcE BOX ) •■■■■ in OPrOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. (ft THE AUTUMN BUYING __ Is now in Full Swing. and our store is full of good durable footwear at rock bottom prices, don't fail to look this store over arid 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 with the qualities and more than pleased with our | money saving prices. School Shoes for the Boys and Girls. Neyer in the history of the shoe business in Eutler 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 ill button or lace and all marked at bargain prices. Ladies' Fine Shoes We have been appointed exclusive agents for the famous Dorothy a Dodd fine 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 Dorothy Dodd shoe we carry a large line of the well known K. D. <te Co. .and many other leading makes of Ladies' fine shoes which makes this store the best place in Butler Co. to buy fine shoes. ; Hen's Fine Shoes You will find here the largest stock and greatest variety of styles 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, such as WALKOVER, W. L. DOUGLASS and many other of the leadidg makes of Men's fine shoes. ' Rubber and Felt Goods. Do not fail to see our line of Rubber and Felt Goods before buying your Winter stock as 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 1 whether you want to buy or not. C. E. MILLER, KECK Fall& Winter Weights Fi Have a nattiness about them that J] mark the wearer, it won't do to p-f /J r // [ l\ wear the last year's output. You yj -W! |\ I£■'} IJJ le\ won't get the latest things at the . 1/ Nk \J 1 stock clothiers either. The up-to- r/V*sk lF~f C date tailor only can supply them, , ,'| I/ \ s/\ I'll if you watU not only the latest (J f\ / I /I ff 1} things in cut and fit and work- * ll } II I tnanship, the finest in durability, 1 If Iff I where else can you get combina- \ / ill tions, you get them at I I | ill I , * KECK G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 42 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa PAPER I VtStS>_S Make a study of the rooms you wish to decorate then come and look fay over our line of wall paper before ' A\ [ J' oll buy. Just received a large ship ent of all the latest and newest de- Bros Phone 40w. Wick Building. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. BUTLER, PA Mail Orders Solicited 2 Onr stock of Men's Furnishing i j for Fall ami Winter in now \ complete and it is J bigger and better than ever. ' f v \ * # # f 0 d We have a fine showing of m Shirts. Neckwear, Gloves. i a Underwear and 4 5 Half-hose. i J J # Oar Fall Hats are top-notch of w 0 profection. 0 1 | { J no. S. Wick | £ HATTER and 2 + MEN S FURNISHER. J Opposite P. 0. * 5 BUTLER, PA. 5 CORKS ALL SIZES. ANY Quantity. REMCK~ &~ GROHMAN, Prescription Druggists, N. loq Main St., Butler, Pa. Do You Buy Medicines? Certainly You Do. Then you want the best for the least money. That is our motto. Come and see us when in need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc, Purvis' Pharmacy S. G. PURVIS, PH. G. Both Phones. 218 S. Main St. Butler Pa. THE FIGURES of men are various and most of them are more or less out of propor tion; but a perfect figure is preserved to appear ance by the arc of the tailor. We take the pains to restore the form spoiled by nature, not to a dull uniformity, as it everyone must look alike, but toward har mony—clothes foi in dividual. See our showing of the season's newest cloth. Aland, MAKER OF MEN'S CLOTHES. Mars Boiler Works. All sizes of STATIONARY, PORTABLE and UPRIGHT BOILERS always in stock for sale or exchange. Repair work promptly attended to, S. H. ROBERTS. Bell Phone No. 6. Mars, People's Phone No. 11. Pa &TA'TT. F^HTLA'DELPHTA^I• V WSSOS| --DEfiTAL ROOMS.-- V ' ' " sth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa V* ; We'repRACTICA' -Ydotngthe [t: > i'a 2ft CROWN workki 7 r 9 HIOF FUtsliurg-WHY NOT DO V • ~?F; HIYOURS? CROWNS I" W"" 1 BRLOGFC" work rr.HKt-,] . ?■ ► -!vf HSS PER TOOTH M»- I'M C 4 FIJESTSEU.FTEETL.IL IL<-.ONL> % BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 13 1902 Nasal CATARRH » cleanses, soothes and heals f the diseased membrane. a ,I It ciircscatarrh and drives M. away a cold in the head quickly. Crr:-.m Balm is placed into the nostrils,spreads over the membrane ft:'..! ia absorbed. Belief is im mediate and a care follows. It is not drying—docs not produce sneezing. Size, 50 coats at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. | !I - B I] u 14 j Johnston's j^jj | Beef. Iron and Wine | is the & Best k j •wl and A £ Blood Purifier. B J Price, 50c pint. ® k'V Prepared and W A sold only at LI ! Johnston's Crystal M W Pharmacy. H W 3 R. M. LOGAN, Ph. G , IW Manager, wj V J 103 N. Main St., Butler, Pa' V Roth 'Phones V J Everything in the drug line. rA j ff f< LJLJ Just Arrived Early Fall Goods In Latest Coronation Suitings; Also Black and White Novelties. Wedding Suits a o Specialty. Call and examine before leaving your order for suit. COOPER, Leading Tailor, With Newton, Piano Man. THE MOST IMPORTANT question of the day is why Newton, "The Piano Man" can sell a better piano for less money than anyone else in Western Pennsylvania. He represents the wealthiest manu facturers of Pianos. You pay direct to them for all the Pianos. The expense of selling them is $75 less than the ordinary retail man and you save his profit, which means to you $ 175 saved. Prices from $250 to $1,500—10 per cent off for cash. All pianos fully warrant ed. My customers are my reference. Ask them. Call and see me and let me explain our easy payment plan. Your credit is good. NEWTON "THE PIANO MAN" 317 S. Main St. Butler Pa Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House. Butler. Penn'a. The best of horses and first class rigs al ways on hand and for hire. Best accommodations in town for perma nent boarding and transient trade. Speci al care guaranteed. Stable Room For 65 Horses. •'A good (uau horses always on band and for sale t under a rail guarantee; and horses bouKh *pon proper notification-by PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone. No. 219. * Whsn 1 tZT f JANE f if Peggy MIKIDITH f i-Ume I c \ ! * t Copyright* • if R%. rL- f i 1M1 ' by A • s • Y * U O. t £\ IT Richardson I "Yes'm, I saw it with my own eyes." "Do tell!" "Who'd 'a' thought it?" "Are you sure be kissed her? P'raps he was just picking u leaf or something out of her hair." "Well, Mrs. Demining, you needn't think that just because I ain't been married no man ever kissed me. I've had as many beaus in my day as ever you had!" "Dear me. Miss Lavlny, I didn't mean anything personal! Only it's quite a step from your porch to Mrs. Burkett's, and I thought"— "1 wasn't 011 my porch!" answered Miss Lavina shortly. "I was right close to the hedge, picking wine cur rants." The last phrase was spoken apologet ically, as if prompted by latent shame at thus spying 011 a neighbor. "Oh, I don't know but it's your duty, Laviuy, to keep your eye open when there's such doings in the heart of a respectable community like ourn," was the unctuous reply of Mrs. Smithers. "Well, that ain't all I've seen, ei ther," announced Miss Lavinia, rising to this skillfully baited hook. "You know Cousin Sallie left her theater glasses behind, and they're a heap of help. I can stand in my second story front with them and see straight into her parlor." A girlish figure bending over a strip of renaissance lace in the rear of the shop straightened up suddenly, and an exclamation escaped her lips. But the women clustered round the front door gossiped on excitedly. "Didn't he take the train for town yesterday mornTng?" queried Mrs. Smithers. "Yes, but he came back at early dusk, with his arms full of white paper bun dles, and when he got on the porch he tossed them helter skelter on the set tee and—and—hugged her!" "Oh!" "Ain't that dreadful?" "If auybedy but you, Laviny Hart, had" told that, I wouldn't believed it!" murmured Mrs. Smithers. "It may look out of place for a sin gle woman to say, but it does seem to me like a judgment 011 Doc Burkett for going off io marry a frivolous, do noth ing Boston widow instead of some de cent, thrifty girl In his own town. He ain't been dead three months, and here is another man hanging round his wid ow. Perhaps he's an old sweetheart. Everybody knows DoCwas well fixed." "Yes, and they do say," interposed Mrs. Deniiniug, "them as was round when he was brought home that day, that she stood round like a statue, nev er shedding a tear and Just doing what old Dr. Green ordered, like some ma chine." "Perhaps she knew it wasn't no use to do anything anyhow," suggested Mrs. Marsden. wtio had a retreating chin and weak, fishy eyes. "What's that, Becky Marsden?" snorted Miss Lavinia, turning severely on her Insignificant neighbor. "What do you know about it?" "Nothing," hurriedly replied Mrs. Marsden. "Only I was reading a novel yesterday where a woman got tired of her husband and put something in his coffee that didn't smell nor taste nor anything—and lie"— "Lawzee Becky, I always knew you was light headed," snapped Miss La vinia. Nevertheless the group of gos sips turned suddenly silent and gazed at each other, wide eyed. "My, wouldn't it be awful if we had a poison case here?" The girlish figure in the rear rose now, and a clear voice rang across the stuffy little shop. "You've tio right to say such things. You don't know Mrs. Burkett and nev er wanted to treat her right, and you're wicked, wicked women to talk about her that way!" Astonished silence fell upon the wo men. Then Mrs. Smithers' voice, no longer oily and complacent, rose cut tingly. "That'. l ; a nice way for you to speak to your elders, Peggy Smithers, and I'm ashamed of you. D'you mean to call Lavinia Hart a liar?" The girl fingered her bolt of braid nervously. "No, aunt; but I can't sit here and listen to such dreadful things about Mrs. Burkett. I've worked for her, and I know she's a lady through and torougli, and she's not doing anything tvrong. There's a reason"— "Well, Miss Peggy, seeing as you're the only one in this party that has a visiting acquaintance with Mrs. Bur kett, you might just walk up there and see who that man is." "Oh, aunt, I can't! I couldn't ask such a question!" "You don't need to ask. Worm it out while you're there. You can take up that new set of pefnts you've made. Perhaps Mrs. Burkett might like to wear them with her widow's black." The last words came spitefully. The girl stood in a pleading attitude. "This is a nice way to treat your old aunt that's given you bed and board for ten years now. Now you stop sniv eling and trot along." Poor Peggy! Before those words "bed and board" she never hesitated. They formed the spiritual lash which her aunt swung with unmerciful hand The girl never stopped to reckon the mittens she knit for the shop, the lace she made or the interminable days of fine sewing as a recompense for the obnoxious "bed and board." Drearily she lifted her simple sailor hat from the slielf beneath the-counter and started on her hateful errand. The great trees arched protectingly over her head, the wild straw berries bloomed at her feet, and from the woodlands came the calls of her favor ite birds. But her eyes were heavy with unshed tears. Was it not bad enough to listen day after day to the gossip that emanated from her aunt's shop without being forced into a part nership with the gossipers? Languidly and tremblingly she mounted the broad steps leading to Widow Burkett's porcli. That much discussed lady met her at the door. Her quick glance detected the misery in Peggy's face. "Come in, child. You look utterly worn out," she remarked, ushering Peggy into the dim, cool parlor. "What have you there? Oh, such lovely lace collars! I must have one of them. But I'm afraid this sort of work is pulling you dowu. You're looking badly, Peg gy" The girl flushed guiltily, and her tongue clung to the roof of her mouth. Mrs. Burkett studied her curiously. "It is u long walk from the village, and as soon as Ned comes In we'll some lemonade. He makes famous lemonade." Ned! That must b» the awful man. And she called him by his first name with such a proud light in her eyes. A brisk step sound, d in the entry, the knob rattled, and Peggy turned dizzy and falut. "Ned, dear, this is little Peggy Smith ers, who made that lovely lace for me. Peggy, this is"— Peggy had risen mechanically, and as she caught the nest words she raised h'-r eyes, swimming with tears, to Mrs. Burkett's astonished gaze. De licious little chills were chasing up and down her hot spine. O'.i, if only she might rush from the hous», down the shady street to the shop. But no; that man stood between her and the door. Peggy had never seen just such a man before. Ho stood so very tall and straight, laughed in such frieudly fash ion with his eyes and helped her to tiny cakes and a drink, all cool, sweet and sour, with the air of Prince Charm ing of fairy book fame. From some where—far, far away—came the trill of a riotously happy bird. Peggy raised her eyes once more to Mrs. Bur ; kett's face, and this time there were | 1:0 tears. "Why, you're looking better already, I Peggy. And now, if you won't have ; any more cake or lemonade. I shall j carry you off to my room. I want you I to sec the beautiful silks and embrold : cries Mr. Lnmeroux has brought me from Japan and China." »«••♦»« The gosgips at Mrs. Smithers' shop were becoming restless when Peggy came back. The girl fairly shivered with suppressed excitement, and her hand trembled as she stuck the hatpin through her sailor. "Well, ain't you never going to speakV" snapped her aunt "Didn't you hear anything?" "Yes, I heard lots, aunt," answered the girl, trying hard to keep the ex ultation from ringing In her voice. The women leaned forward eagerly. "Ilis name Is Mr. Edward Lame roux"— "Hoity-toity," sniffed Miss Lavinia. "Just like a novel," murmured Mrs. Marsden. "And he's just home from China and Japan, and he's going to stay a year this time, and he's brought her the most beautiful silks you ever saw, and I'm going there to sew on 'em for a whole week, and she gave me the queerest candy. It came from China, too, and It burns your mouth, but It's good—and"— "Lawzee, Teggy, why don't you get down to facts?" ejaculated Miss La vinia. "Is he going 4r> marry her?" "No!" exclaimed Peggy in a final burst of triumph. "He can't. He's her twin brother, and he's in the navy, and he's been gone five years—and"— Mrs. Demining rose abruptly, saying: "I declare I forgot that batch of bread. Like as not it's all over my clean floor." Miss Lavinia, looking decidedly ag grieved, departed in silence. One by one her visitors left, and Mrs. Smithers stood alone absently dusting and re dusting her tiny showcase. And in Mrs. Burkett's cool parlor the widow was saying: "I do feel so sorry for Peggy, Ned, dear, that I believe I'll ask her aunt to let me take her to Bostou when we go back. She is so handy with her needle. I know I could get hi>r iocs of work." "Well, if she's so handy, why don't you have her for your maid?" The widow laughed softly. "She'd simply ruin me, Ned. The Vhild adores me." "I don't believe you could be ruined, Rnd think what it would mean for that child to be taken away from those vil lage harpies. The life must be torture to her sensitive nature." "It may cost something to get rid of the aunt; but, then, I believe Feggy's worth saving." The Water Clock. The earliest application of the clepsy dra principle to produce motion was by Tsiang Hung, A. D. 12G, who made an "orrery" representing the apparent mo tion of the heavenly bodies around the earth, which was kept going by drop ping water. In the sixth century of the Christian era an instrument was in use In China which indicated the course of time by the weight of water as it gradually came from the beak of a bird and was received in a vessel on a balance, every pound representing a one-hundredth part of the day of twenty-four hours. About this time mercury began to be employed in clepsydras instead of wa ter. Sore Teit. "I don't know whether she sings or not" "You would if you heard her."—• Puck. A C'liunjre Hail Come Over Him. There are some tiling in this world for which not even the most profound rural philosopher can account to his own satisfaction. "I never saw an animal move so slowly before in all my life!" cried an exasperated traveler in a New Hamp shire stage, behind which the clouds of a rapidly rising storm were growing blacker every moment. "Can't the horse go any faster? You had an ex cellent one ten years ago, when I used to spend the summer here." "That's the cur'ous tiling about it," said the driver, gazing first at his steed and then at the uneasy passenger in a mildly speculative way. "This hoss is the very same identical hoss that I drove that summer. I don't know what in tunket's got into him! He seems to have lost his animation." — Youth's Companion. His Free Will Offering. "What's that $5 kept out of my sal ary for?" demanded the employee of the state institution. "That's your voluntary contribution for campaign purposes," blandly re plied the superintendent. "But it isn't a voluntary contribu tion. You've no right to hold it out on me. That wasn't in the bargain. I never heard anything about it before. It Is a gouge, mid I won't stand it!" "But you have to pay it, you know, or lose your job. Does it go?" "Y-yes.*' "Well, that's why we call it volun tary."—Chicago Tribune. True Sympathy. Tom—Why so melancholy, old man? .Tack—Miss Jones rejected me last night. Tom—Well, braes up. There are others. Jack—Yes, of course; but somehow I can't help feeling sorry for the poor girl.—Chicago News. Too Much Promived. "Did her father forgive her for run ning off and getting married?" "Yes; the old man said that he would forgive and forget them." —In- dianapolis News. Although she may have no knowl edge of medicine, the dressmaker who can cure bad tits has a lot of patience. HANDLING CORN FODDER. !!ati<ly Device* For Hnnliuir, and m Good Stnhhlc Cutter. The simple homemade sled illustrat ed in Fig. 1 will be found very useful in moving corn shocks. Uj the use of the sled one man can load and unload the shocks and do the hauling with lit tle loss of time. To make it get two hemlock or oak planks about 2 by 12 inches and 14 to 10 feet in length. Round off one end of each in sled run ner fashion and connect the runners by three 2 by 4 inch crosspleces whiph are tenoned to fit mortises in the planks. Where the tenon projects through, a email hole is made in the former, und a SLED FOB CORN SHOCKS—STUBBLE CL'TTEK. pin of wood holds the plank tight against the shoulder on the crosspieccs. Three more crosspieccs of, say, IVi by 4 or 2 by 3 inch stuCT are used on top of the runners. These fit in notches cut in the runners and extend far enough to hold on each side of the sled au inch board about sis Inches wide. The run ners may be about four feet apart, and tlie crosspieccs extend nine inches on each side. This makes the sled five and a half feet wide, but the width may be adapted to the length of the corn iu the dhoeks. A stake or standard three or four feet high at each corner com plexes the sled. Hound off the bottom edges of somewhat so that the sled will turn more easily and draw with chain and spreader. In addition to the foregoing an Ohio Farmer correspondent describes the other devices illustrated as follows: When tlie corn is large, it is usually cut high on the stalks to save the weight ami bulk of the surplus fodder. Unless shredded the bottom part of tbe sta' ifl not of much feeding value any way aud is best left in the field, 'the large stubble, however, is very trouble some when preparing for seeding or even when husking the corn in the field, and the device shown in Fig. 2 is intended for use in cutting of the stubble close? to the ground. Make a V shaped frame of Inch boards four of five inches wide. Nail the frame on a couple of 2 by 4 inch scantlings which serve as runners, using a crosspiece of the same material as the runners at the rear to hold it securely. From an old crosscut saw or any piece of thin steel that may be found available make two blades which bolt on the frame as illustrated. Have tbe blades ground sharp on their outer edges and let them project one and a half or two Laches from the boards. Draw It by an iron ball or a chain, to which attach a sin gletree'for the hofse. A bow shaped" handle may be put on at the rear to lift the contrivance about with if it is thought necessary. Make the frame wide enough to cut two rows. For hauling the husked fodder to the stack or shed there are several good homemade racks in use for sled and wagon, and as a rule every farmer has his owt; way for handling the fodder with the least work. For ourselves we consider the low wheeled and broad tired wagon with simple low rack the best on which to haul the stover, but many haul on a sled, and where there is but one man to do the work a sled is always used. Fig. 3 is a rough sketch of a simple method of arranging a sled for fodder hauling. Make a sim ple rack of rough boards am] strips, the same as is often done for hauling small loads of straw about the stable in winter. Procure 'two scantlings or poles eight or ten feet long. Cut a SLED FOB FODDER. piece out of one end of each so as to make a shoulder on the scantling where it rests against the underside of the middle knee of the sled and a notch where it rests on top of the rear knee. Nail one or two boards on to'the scant lings to hold them apart. A pin through tach just In front of the rear sled knee holds attachment in place, and it may be tied with wire or a small rope to hold it more securely. The scantlings should not extend too far In the rear. The back standards of the sled may be three or four feet in height. The amount of extra fodder that the sled will hold is considerable. The tail rack may be quickly removed when you have finished using it. The Hok tlx? Pnokfm Wnut. Dr. C. D. Smead says that he went through a big western packing house and asked the packers what hogs they wanted. •'Black whenever we can get them!" "Why?" "Cut the carcass of a white hog mid way between shoulder and ham, aud the two parts will weigh about the same. The meat in front of the cut brings 0 cents, that back of it 10 cents or more. Cut the carcass of a black hog in the same way and over 00 per cent of the weight will be back of the cut!"— Iturai New Yorker. The fruit driers are getting in great work in New York *tate. A B&EFMAKEH. "" Tlio GDIHI I itlle Aberdeen AIIKUI, the Small Farmer** Favorite. Examining an Angus bull for the first time, we shall notice first his black color. He is all black, the only white allowed being a little on the un derline behind the naval. Occasionally red calves are dropped. We note an entire absence of horns. Not even scurs ere allowed. The form is very typical of the breed. While the requirements of a fir-t class beef animal demand a rounded form here we find this carried to an ex treme. and the "barrel shape" is a characteristic that the Angus claims peculiar to itself. Viewed from any di rection, this marked rotundity is prominent, and one notle> s. too, how low set the animal K h!s great style, quality, compactness aud symmetry. In the feeder we find all the indica tions of a good beet milking machine and in the Qnislied animal every re quirement of a market topper. We see short I and neat, tine bone and most particularly the wonderful smoothness which even the most ex treme for- ing is hardly able to mar. The head Is v. ry characteristic Khort, wide, clean cut, with u muzzle whose capacious mouth and large nos trils denote excellent feeding qualities and strong powers of constitution, sur mounted with a tufted poll that is sharp and higher in the female than in the male and ornamented with eyes of rare beauty and large, hairy ears, elegantly carried, the whole set to the body with a neck almost as short as that of a Hereford. The Angus head is an index of the excellence that we are to tind behind it. Note the tremendous width of chest, with legs set well outside the body, the spring of rib and deep, heavy flesh. Observe the compactness, how closely the ribs are joined to the hind quarters. In the hind quarters we fail to find the hooks bones, though they are there. Mature bulls rarely weigh over 2,200 pounds, and cows average perhaps 1,000 pounds in show condition. But ABERDEEN ANGUS, ADVANCE [Champion steer of International Live Stock exposition of 1900.] early maturity enables them to attain marketable weights in an extremely short time. The milking qualities of Angus cows have been much neglected. All the powers of the breed have been directed to the production of prime beef. How well this has been accomplished the markets and fat stock shows of both England and America will witness. There are at present about 40.000 reg istered animals of this breed in North America, one-fifth on the range, the other four-fifths in the hands of the small farmer and feeder. Their foot ing on the range has always been se cure, but the popularity of the breed for the production of baby beef keeps most of them east of the Missouri. The outlook Is bright for Angus cattle in America.—Bulletin of Bureau of Ani mal Industry. Uardeninc In Alaska. According to Mr. Middleton Smith, I naturalist to the International polar expedition, probably the first experi mental gardening in Alaska north of the arctic circle wus that done by the expedition at Point Barrow, Alaska, 1881-83. The land close to the coast is practically free from snow by the sth of June. On June 13 the seeds of let tuce, radish and mustard were sown. The mustard failed to germinate. On the 10th of July, twenty-seven days after seeding and nineteen days after germination, harvesting began. The lettuce leaves were from one to two inches in width and from three to four inches in length. The radishes, spher ical in form, were from a half inch to an inch In diameter. The condition of these vegetables at the time of harvest was perfect. The quality could not be excelled. A study of the conditions un der which the plants germinated and matured is not only curiously Interest ing, but suggests that there was some stimulating force, perhaps the large amount of atmospherical electricity, "which caused them to arrive'at matur ity in <i much shorter period than those grown in temperate zones. Inasmuch as the summer season is very brief it is ibsolutely necessary that plant life In ►he far north should arrive at maturity very quickly. News and Notes. Twenty-flve acres are said to com prise the commercial ginseng growing area of the United States, most of it being in Cortland and Onondaga coun ties, N. Y. California is the great lima bean growing state, commercially consid ered. The estimated yield last year was 550,000 sacks of eighty pounds. The 1002 cranberry crop of the Unit ed States Is estimated by the American Cranberry Growers' association at 725,- 000 bushels against 1,040,000 bushels In 1901. The average condition at harvest of winter and spring wheat combined was SO against 82.8 last year, 09.C In 1900 and a ten year average of 78.9, accord ing to the government report. A decrease in the number of stock hogs now being fattened as compared with the number a year ago in every important hog raising state except Pennsylvania is reported by Statisti cian Hyde. PICKINGS FROM FICTION. It's a great thing to be of some use In the world.—'"Brinton Eliot." If not sure of the merit of your Ideas, quote them as another's.—"Myra of the Pities." The woman who makes a doormat of herself will always be trodden upon.— "Fables For the Elite." Those who have not been Imposed upon are a thief's equal, with a thief's discernment.—"The Fool." If a man is obliged to make a fool of himself, it is best he should afford amusement to others while doing so.— "The Minority." No man should ever try to be artless, lie is too clumsy. It is like trying to do miniature painting with a white wash brush.—"The Riddle of Life." When once a woman has the folly to plead for herself, in that moment she murders love, and every tear she slieds thereafter becomes another clod upon his grave.—"Margaret Tudor." A woman is all heart and sentiment, and while her fortress is a strong one, yet she expects to be conquered, and once she surrenders she loves no one more than her conqueror.—"Buell Hampton." Cliiijxn to Ills Misery. "Ah," he sighed, "I was happier when I was poor." "Well," they answered coldly, "it is always possible for a man to become poor again." But somehow the Idea did not seem to Impress him favorably.—Chicago Post. The Viewpoint. "That man is extremely suspicious, as he thinks every one he sees is a shady character, and naturally too." "It's his nature, I suppose." "Not at all. He wears smoked spec tacles." —Baltimore Herald. Didn't Seem Possible. 0 r. Staylate— Is that clock right? Miss De Pink (wearily)—l think it nr,: ■; need cleaning. It's been two or three hours going that last hour.— Stray Storle.i. Toil can't have a good time today unless* you forget tomorrow, and if you forget tomorrow it will punish you when it is today.—Atchison Globe. Somewhere in the world there arc 1111,000,< Ni 0 big copper ptnnies, but no body appears to know where they are. N045 HOT FROM THE FRONT. J I A War Correspondent Ul His Storjf of a Great Event Newsgathering, not fighting, Is tho. trade of the war correspondent. But it is news at any personal cost, and d fine unpremeditated heroism often goea with the gathering of It. One morning after the siege of Paris, when the city was believed In Loudon to be still in the hands ot the com mune, Sir John Robinson, manager of the Daily News- of London, reached his oflice to find the late Archibald Forbes lying on the floor asleep, his head on a post office directory, while the printers were hard at work on his manuscript, the story of "Paris Flames," a most vivid description oC the last days of the commune. "Forbes had telegraphed from Dover announcing his coming," said Sir John Robinson, "the printers had been wait* ing, and thus the country heard olf | those terrible days for the first time. "London was ablaze with excite ment. Rouverie street was impassabld through the newsboys shrieking fof copies, and in parliament Mr. Glad stone was questioned that afternoon and could only say he hoped the story was exaggerated. "When Forbes wakened from liis slumber amid all this turmoil, what a spectacle he was! His face was black with powder, his eyes red and In flamed, his clothes matted with clay nnd dust; he was a dreadful picture. He had been to assist the communists in defending a triangular space upon which three detachments of the Versailles troops were firing, and had actually taught the citizens how to build a barricade." By aid of dummy dispatches ad dressed to Lord Granville and the queen. Forbes escaped from this threatening triangle aud wrote all the way to England, being the solitary passenger on the ma llboat Youth's Companion. The Apologry Was Still Worse. A philanthropic lady visited the asy lum at Kingston, Canada, says Brook lyn Life, and displayed great interest in the inmates. One old man particu larly gained her compassion. "And how long have you been here, my man?" she inquired. "Twelve years," was the answer. "Do they treat you well?'* "Yes." "Do they feed you well?' r "Tes." . After addressing a few more ques tions to him the visitor passed on. She noticed a broad aud broadening smile on the face of her attendant and on asking the cause heard with conster nation that the old man was none oth er than Dr. Clark, the superintendent. She hurried back to make apologies. How successful she was may be gath ered from these words: "I am very sorry. Dr. Clark. I will never be gov erned by appearances again." Origin of the Cannon. It Is n curious fact that the first can non was cast at Venice. It was called a "bombard," and was Invented and employed by General Pisani In a war against the Genoese. The original bombard, which bears the date of 1380, is still preserved and stands at the foot of Pisani's statue at the ar senal. The bombard threw a stone 100 pounds In weight;* but anothes Vene tian general, -Francisco Ban-e, im proved It until be was able to handle a charge of rock and bowlders weigh ing 3,000 pounds. It proved disastrous to him, however, for one day during the siege of Zara, while he was oper ating his terrible engine, he was hurled by It over the walls and Instantly killed. The Lipari Islands. From the Lipari Islands of mytholo gy, the abode of .Solus, the ruler of the winds, and the scene of his meet ing with Ulysses, to the Lipari islands of today Is a very far cry indeed. There are no hotels, and the islands are almost unknown to tourists, while the 13,000 Inhabitants are almost in a state of primitive and patriarchal sim plicity. They tender their services vol untarily as guides and refuse payment, regarding all visitors as their guests. The donkey is the only means of loco motion. Horses are unknown In the island. BIRD DOGS. Some of the Almost Human Work These Clever Canines Perform. Roading denotes that a dog Is follow ing a trail toward the birds T>y their foot scent, as a man in an analogous manner might follow a flock of sheep by watching their tracks. Drawing denotes that a dog 1s ap proaching birds by a scent In the air, as a man might follow a flock of sheep by the long line of dust hovering over and around the trail. Drawing is con sidered a much superior manner to roading. It is commonly marked by greater accuracy, quickness of execu tion and dash of manner. Pointing is the stop which the dog makes when he has definitely located the birds or when he thinks he has done so. It Is the preliminary pause to accurately determine the whereabouts of the hidden birds before he springs to capture. If he misjudges and springs in the wrong direction, all his pains and labor come to nothing. In his training he is encouraged to point, but is prohibited springing, so that after a time he makes his point and holds it Btanchly. If by any act, willful or otherwise, he alarms the birds and they take j wing, it is called a flush. If the dog ' when going up wind on game flushes the birds, he commits an error. If un der certain circumstances he flushes when going down the wind, the error may be excused on the ground that be ing up wind of them it was Impossible to scent them and therefore Impossible of their presence.— Outing. A Human Paradox. One often hears an amusing para dox—such as a brass tin whistle going around a square, a home whitewashed terra cotta, and "an awfully nice" thing. But it is not a common occur rence to come across a "black white man," and yet this phenomenon is to be seen almost any day In New York. The gentleman is said to be a colored minister in the city, aud although in the distance he bears the outward re semblance of a white man— more espe cially on account of his pallid features and gray white hair— he is unmistak ably of the colored race, and what Is not the least remarkable is that in consonance with bis paradoxical ap pearance lie Is wont to relish "hot ice cream puffs!"— New York Times. Mnklnii a Mirror. Here is the method used In the manu facture of u mirror: After the glass has been carefully polished on both sides it is laid on a firm table (usually of stone), with upturned edges, and one or more sheets of tin foil arc laid upon the plate. Quicksilver is then spread over it aud at once forms an amalgam with the tin, making a re flecting surface.
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