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. _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 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 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.