VOL. XXXX
Great January Stock Unloading Sale. S
See the Large Posters of $
& The flodern Store £
? This Space too Small to give Details.
a Prices slashed right and left on the following: jf
u Ladies' special dress goods, waistings, separate skirts and
2 waists, underwear and hosiery, millinery, silks, furs, lace cur- T?
(R tains, portiers, muslin, linens, blankets, etc. etc.
» Men's shirts, underwear and hosiery, cut wide open too.
Special discounts on articles not able to mention.
40 Sale for one week, beginning Wednesday, January 7-
jp) See millinery, cut in half and some less. £|
Co.,
* SOUTH KADI STREET ) AA4 ......
5 fhokes: •pforLi's I> ' ■ /_/\ ~Ma.il Orders Solicited >
|i OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. £
taeaeae MXXMXXX nexneawex xnest*
| CLEARANCE SAbE I
| Dr\) Goods and Coats |
g CO/K/VieNCING
6 Tuesday, Jan. 6th, 1903.1
W Prices are cut wide open for this January Sale and we
|| promise you some rousing values in W
M Silks, Dress Goods, Linens, Flannelettes, $
* Muslins, Tickings, Underwear, Hosiery,
m Ribbons, Laces, etc.
g Every Coat in Stock Must be Sold. ?
* We slaughter the prices on Coats unmercifully in order to (R
■ clean up stock quickly. W
a Take advantage of this sale to get a peerless bargain. |r
IL. Stein & Son,|
§ 108 N MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA
i j
1903 January Prices 1903
Biclcel's.
Men's Coon Tail Excluder Knit Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs at $2 25
Men's Ball-BMid Felt Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs at 2 25
Men'« Gray Felts and Extra Heavy Goodger Glove Overs at 1 50
Men's Extra Heavy Goodger Glove perfections at 1 00
Men's Bnckle Arctics at 05
Men's first quality rubbers at 7 50
Boys' first quality rubbers at 40
Misses' and Children's fine rubbers at 25
Child's canvas boots at 95
LEATHER GOODS-
Nettleton's $5.00 fine shoes in patent-colt, box-calf and vici-kid at $3 50
Packards' $4.00 fine shoes in patent-colt, cordovan and box-calf at 8 00
One lot Men's $2.50 fine shoes in velour-calf, vici-kid and box-calf at .... 1 50
One lot Boys's2.oo fine shoes at 1 40
One lot Youths' fine shoes at So
LADIES' FINE SHOES
Baker & Bowman's $4 00 fine shoes in Dongala and patent-kid, hand turns
and hand welts at $2 50
One lot Ladles' fine patent-kid shoes, stylish lasts, $3 00 grade, at 2 00
One lot Misses' $2.00 fine shoes, welt soles, in box-calf, enamel and patent
leather at 1 50
One lot Ladies' $1 50 fine shoes, box-calf or fine dongola at 1 00
Children's fine shoes at 25c, 35c, 50c and 60c
Leggins and overgaiters at greatly reduced prices
High Iron Stands with fonr lasts at 50 cents.
All warm lined shoes and slippers and balance of our Holiday slippers to be
closed out reguardless of cost.
A grand reduction in all lines.
It will pay you to visit this great sale ani secure some of the bargains being
offered.
Repairing neatly and promptly done.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA.
} D. & T's. Big Cut in Rubber Goods. \
) ALL NEW GOODS. . S
f We need the room for new leather goods that are S
> S comming in daily. S
5 Child's 1 .... $ 85 C
( Misses' 1 | * *■ || 40#
teiiißnckle Arctic I
S Men's 4 1 75 C
\ Child's. -m -m . .... 75 /
m Rubber Boots it
S Men's. 2 25 r
\ Misses' . ■»-* « 1 f-v j -a /~v . . 100 j
feFelt Boots and Overs ;i(
C Men's Gray Boots and 1 Buckle Over 1 50 \
/ Men's Gray Boots and 2 Buckle Over 1 75 f
\ Men's White Boots and 1 Buckle Over 1 80 X
/ Men's Lumberman Socks and 1 buckle Snag Over 1 75 r
} DAUBENSPECK & TURNER, j
) NEXT TO SAVINGS BANK. )
C 108 S. Main St. * Butler, Pa. 7
K E C K
Fall & Winter Weights
"R Have a nattiness about .them that J] j Vi
mark the wearer, it won't do to . /I ' KA // A
wear the last year's output. You t?J [f/l K [J
won't get the latest things at the 1 if 'V_k / pi
stock clothiers either. The up-to ' y \ a j-(
Cdate tailor only can supply them, , {/ \J\ C/ yS
if you want not only the latest l! / [YV\ I 1.. —11j
things in cut and fit and work- I I li/J Ij |
manship, the finest in durability, ,1 j [I fill
where else can you get combina- ji j I If I I I i
tions, you get them at ;JJ | I L 111 II 9
KECK
G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor,
124 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa-
THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Nasal jgtfi
CATARRH
tmsh
In all its stages. J ■%,(«. JUo/
Ely's Cream Balm V Jfe/
cleanses, soothes and heala #
the diseased membrane.
It curefl catarrh and drivea
away a cold in the head
quickly.
Cream Balm ia placed into the nostrils, spreads
j over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief is Im
| mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does
not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug
gists or by mall; Trial Size, 10 cents,
f 5 I
I Johnston's M
R > % .
y 2 Beef, Iron and Wine ki
4
|1 is Ibe r J
Best Tonic ] j
► and r J
j Blood Purifier. kl
► Price, 50c pint.
t Prepared and wl
W sold only at L V
J Johnston's
t Crystal H
< Pharmacy, H
► LOGAN, Ph. G„ M
( Manager, V,
* ICa N. Main St., Butler, Pa!
i Both 'Phones Pj
*1 Everything in the
drug line.
Just Arrived
Early
Fall
Goods
In Latest
Coronation Suitings;
Also
Black and White
Novelties.
WeddiDo- 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 1b 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 onr easy payment plan.
Your credit is good.
NEWTON
"THE PIANO MAN"
317 S. Main St. Butler Pa
Pearson B. Nace's
Livery Feed and^SaleStable
Rear of
Wick House. Butler. P~nn'a.
The best of horses and first Qhiss 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 c ass of horses, both drivers and
draft horses always on hand and for sale
under a full guarantee; and horses bough
pon proper notification^
PEARSON B. NACE.
Telephone No. 2X9.
BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903
• ONE TOUCH I
|OF NATURE I
By Martha
% McCul loch-Williams P
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1 T O'jwrtcrfi', 1901, by T
I T ilatV.c McCulloch- WUlUun* X
"No! Can't do it, dear boy! Sorry,
but 'pon my life I simply can't," Ridge
ley said, nodding solemnly and yink-
Ina; like an owl. Ridgeley was foi'ty
five, bibulous, bulbous, with a fortune
swollen to match his bulk and a fond
ness for spending his money in strictly
his own ways.
The room was deadly still. Trenwiek
started a little at the click of a coal
cracking In the grate. lie got up, stood
with his back to the tire, so its telltale
light could' not reach his face as he
said, with the least little shrug:
"That must be as you please. I won
der, though, if you quite realize what
your refusal must mean to me?**
For a moment Ridgeley sat silent;
then his hand went to the bell, and he
paid half querulously: "Say what, my
boy? You must have a bracer—two
bracers—before you go down to the
street Beastly place anyway! It's—
It's a shame you ever went into it'
"It will bo a blacker shame my get
ting out of It," Trenwiek said grimly.
Then, his voice shaking with passion:
"Ridgeley, surely you—you don't un
derstand it It—it Is all true, every
word I told you. Td save myself from
.beggary I used another man's mouey
without his knowledge. Unless unless
1 replace it before ho does know I shall
go behind the bars—that is, if I let my
self live. You know 1 would never do
that."
"Cut the whole wretched mess! I'll
lend you five hundred." Ridgel?y be
gan.
Trenwiek's face got gray. Something
seemed to clutch his throat Involun
tarily he stood a thought straighter.
"A Trenwiek ns>ver yet ran away from
anything," he began, then dropped his
face In his hands, saying huskily, "nor
stole until 1 disgraced the blood."
"Cheer up! You—you make, me
nervous," Ridgeley said, nodding
again and settling the big diamond
upon his shirt front where It would
catch a brighter gleam of firelight
Ridgeley was given to purple and fine
linen. Upon the least occasion his rai
ment was positively riotous. < A ruby,
almost priceless, glimmered upon his
hand. He turned the stone, glanced
complacently at It and called to his
mau, who came noiselessly through
the door, "Two fizzy ones, Jenkins, aud
make 'em good and long." Then as
the door closed behind Jenkins: " 'l'ou
me soul, dear boy, I'd like to see you
through, lut twenty thousand! It
would be downright immoral to risk so
much money. Why, that would keep
a yacht in commission almost a sea
son through!"
Trenwiek turned to the window. Out
sida the tide of life in the avenue was
at flood, it was turning 12 o'clock.
He had until 3 to make good his bal
ances. If only he could make good, he
was sure the very next day would tlnd
him in the itood tide of fortune. There
was a fickle, semipanicky market. He
stood to win the stake of his life if
only he conld keep above water until
the tide turned. Nothing short of that
imminent hazard would have brought
him to Ridgeley.
Ridgeley had seemed to him these
twenty years past, ever since he came
suddenly into great riches, as not much
more than a human clot, wholly unlike
the slow witted yet gallant lad who
had teen his chum at college. Because
of that sefulconteuiptuous regard he
had never sought to profit by old time
intimacy with the bachelor millionaire.
Trenwiek wondered dully as he looked
at him how it came about that he was
a bachelor. It could not be that old
boy and girl affair with his sister May.
May hud been dead this twenty
years and more. She had died indeed
before her wedding gown was out of
fashion. Judge Barton, her rich old
husband, had mourned her deeply, but
not enough to keep him from exacting
usurious interest for every loan he
made Trenwiek nor from turning him
outdoors when the debts and the inter
est ate up the family estate. The
Judge's widow lived there now, with
her healthy young son to come after
her. May's child had not lived. Some
how Trenwiek felt that as n sort of
special punishment to himself. He had
virtually made the match for his sis
ter. He was worldly, even case hard
ened, but still he did not like to recell
her eyes when he had said to her:
"Of course you'll marry the judge.
You are the luckiest girl I know to
have the chance of him. Think what it
>vould be to put up with an ordinary
•lull fellow—say with poor old Ridge
ley." And then he had stopped short,
fop May had run away, with her head
high, but her cheeks like ashes.
It all came back to him as he stood
beside the window watching the vivid
human stream without. Stealthily he
tnrned aud looked Ridgeley over, try
ing to recall In his unwieldy bulk the
open features, the manly, fair propor
tions of his old college mate. A vague,
keen anguish shot through him. Why
wtts all life so crisscross? Why every
thing one laid hold ori futile? If for
tune needs must come to Ridgeley,
why not have come in time? He was
6eusible It had been pride and poverty
that had kept Ridgeley from speaking
out. In the old days Ridgeley had had
nothing beyond the promise of his very
moderate wits. His uncle, who had
educated him, could barely tolerate
him until his own son died and left
poor Ridgeley alone to Inherit the mil
lions. That was a month after May's
man-iage. She had not been dead sis
months when Ridgeley was in posses
sion of the big estate.
If those two had married! Trenwiek
dashed a hand across his eyes. He
was mooning there, with life itself at
stake. Ridgeley was his hope,
and Ridgeley had failed him. He had
humbled himself to supplication. He
eould not do it again. He was learn
ing that there are things very much
harder than death. All that remained
now for him was to make an end of
things as quickly and as decently as
possible.
As noiselessly as by magic two tall,
foaming goblets had appeared. Ridge
ley motioned him to come and take
oue of them, himself eagerly carrying
the other to his lips with a mumbled,
"Here's luck!" Suddenly Trenwiek
was conscious of raging thirst. He
emptied his glass at a draft and set It
down, clinking it lightly against the
massy silver tray. Ridgeley beamed
vacuously on him. "Really, you'll
agree Jenkins has a touch," he said.
"Have another! Do! It—lt'll set you
up so near the clouds you won't come
down again until tomorrow."
Trenwiek shook his head. "I must
keep away from the clouds," he said.
"You know how 1 used to build eas-
ties there. 1 have never built one--
slnce May died."
Ilidgcley set down his glass. This
time the quiver rang underneath It.
"It's od<l about us three," he said,
speaking very low. "May was the
1 only one to marry. I wonder how we
! happened not to!"
"Oh, I've always had too little mon
j ey and you too much," Trenwiek said,
turning toward the door. "So long,
old mani Get over the caution of a
capitalist and marry before It's too
late."
"Stop! Are you going back down
there?" Ridgeley asked, nodding in the
direction of the street. Trenwiek shook
his head. "No use. I cannot alter—
anything," he said. "I think I shall
go to my club for an hour. After that
—well. I have not quite decided."
"Come back," Ridgeley said. "I —I
want to talk to you. I—l haven't been
quite square with you. It is—not the
money I mind. But—you were not
square with me—in the old time, you
know. May—l love her. I love her
yet. And you—you came between us.
So I've waited to get even, you know.
I knew you'tl come to me some time.
Oh, I'm not quite such a fool as I look!
l'ou—you kept me from getting what
I wanted most in the world. Now—
the score's even—and I —and I can't
be glad."
"l'ou have done right. I was a cur to
come to you. knowing what I did,"
Trenwiek said thickly. "I cannot ask
your pardon, because I cannot pardon
myself. I crossed your patli because I
loved my sister and was ambitious for
her. By the light I had I was right"—
"Yes. l'ou were right," Ridgeley
said, dropping his head upon table,
with a sigh that was half a sob. "I
had nothing and wasn't much myself.
But, oh, if you had let me have M-May
I—feel—as—though I—might have—
conqut red the world."
"Goodby!" Trenwiek said huskily,
again moving toward the door. Half
way he turned back. Ridgeley still sat
with his head on the table. Trenwiek
wont up to him and said in his car,
"Will you do one thing for me, Ridge
ley?"
"What is it?" Ridgeley asked, with
out stirring.
"To keep this while you live and de
stroy it before you die," Trenwiek said,
slipping a golden oval into his hand.
"May's miniature," he began. "I can
not bear to have It found on me and
maybe exploited as the most sensa
tional feature of the case. There will
be noise and dirt enough in it anyway.
I don't want it to touch her, yet I
could not destroy this myself."
"I would kill you if you did," Ridge
ley cried, clutching the picture and car
rying it to his lips. "May, darling," he
moaned, "they shall not take you away
from me again. I have cried night aft
er night because I could not remember
you—your eyes, your lips and all. Now
I will not give you up for millions—all
the millions in the world."
"There is no need. Goodby," Tren
wiek said, with his hand upon the
latch. Ridgeley almost bellowed after
him, "Come back!"
His checkbook lay upon the table be
side him. With a shaking hand he
scrawled his name upon a leaf and
tossed it blank to Trenwiek.
"Fill that in for what you like," he
said. "No; don't thank me. Only come
back as soon as you have things
straight."
Trenwiek walked away as one blind,
seeing all things through a mist, but
his spirit was enlightened.
True Generosity.
A charming story of the late queen
of England, vouched for by Mr. A. F.
Story, is told in the "Childhood of
Queen Victoria." It is so consistent
with the queen's known kindness of
heart that it speaks for its own truth.
The Princess Victoria had set her
heart on buying a doll she had seen in
a shop window, but her mother, the
Duchess of Kent, would not let her
buy it until her next allowance of
pocket money was due.
At last the day came, and the prin
cess hurried to the shop, paid over the
six bright shillings and got the long
coveted doll.
On coming out of the shop with her
treasure in her arms the princess en
countered a wretchedly miserable
tramp, who plucked up courage enough
to nsk for hc;lp. The princess hesitated
n moment; then, realizing that she no
longer had any money left for the man,
she returned to the shopkeeper and gave
him back the doll. He gave her the
C shillings, promising also to keep the
doll for her for a few days.
Then the little lady hurried out of
the shop and thrust the whole of the
money into the hands of the beggar.
Cvlqne Hotel Rales.
Following are the rules and regula
tions posted in a certain hotel in Illi
nois:
Board, 50 cents per square foot;
meals extra; breakfast at 6, 6upper
at 7.
Guests are requested not to speak to
the dumb waiter; guests wishing to get
up without being called can have self
rising flour for lunch.
The office is convenient to all connec
tions; horses to hire, 25 cents a day.
Guests wishing to do a little driving
will find hammer and naHs in the
closet
If the room gets too warm, open the
window and see the fire escape.
If you are fond of athletics and like
good jumping, lift the mattress and
see the bed spring.
If the lights go out, take a soda—
that is light enough for any man.
Any one troubled with nightmare will
find a halter in the barn.
Don't worry about paying your bill;
the house is supported by its founda
tion.—Detroit_Free_Press.
Pelieltous.
Barber—How's the razor, sir?
Customer —Didn't know I was being
shaved.
Barber (flattered)— Very glad, I'm
»ure, sir.
Customer—l thought I was being
landpapered.—London Piek-Me-Up.
«
Changed From Her Former State.
"She's not as pensive as she was be
fore you married her."
"No; she's expensive now."—lndian
lpolis News.
With the exception of the British
parliament, the Swedish riksdag is the
oldest of the existing legislative bodies.
For**tho iiKlit.
Gllhooley—Oi jist bought me a bottle
of hair restorer.
Mulcahey— But your hair ain't fall
ing out.
Gllhooley—Thot's jlst it! If Oi shtart
ustn' It now, Oi won't git bald when
mo hair does fail out
Explanatory,
"For the first attempt in public," said
her friend encouragingly, "I thought
yov sang with a good deal of feeling."
' 7 don't wonder at that," replied the
ambitious young vocalist; "my heart
xvf in my throat all the time."—Chi
cago i ribuue.
O'CS. •w* 'Cp
0 AN EASTER 9
| DISCORD |
Q By GRACE G. KINCAID 0
0 Copyright, ml, fcy T. C. McClure O
The coolness between Mrs. Went
worth and Mrs. Drewelowe was begin
ning to occasion remark. They met
frequently, for Mrs. Drewelowe was
the gracious mistress of a beautiful
Euclid avenue home, while just around
the corner, upon a short and unpreten
tious side street, 6tood the smaller
house rented by Frofessot and Mrs.
Wentworth.
Years ago they had been girls to
gether in the little village of Mayvllle,
when she of the stately mansion had
been only Maria Duzenbury, daughter
of the most shiftless man in the vil
lage.
In those days Mrs. Wentworth had
lived on no side street, but In the state
ly white pillared mansion which
crowned the highest hill in Mayvllle
aud which was pointed to with pride
as the home of Judge Titus. Fate
plays strange tricks! After the death
of the judge, when the lawyers were
quite through, somehow there was lit
tle or nothing left for the daughter, al
though one of the lawyers took his en
tire family abroad within the year and
the other built himself a new house.
The trouble began at the Culture
club. Mrs. Wentworth had felt sure
she had detected a most peculiar smile
upon Mrs. Drcwelowe's face at the
precise moment when she stood up to
read her paper on "Egyptian Archi
tecture." Then, later in the afternoon,
Mrs. Roberts, also of Euclid avenue,
had leaned over and said laughingly:
"Mrs. Wentworth, Mrs. Drewelowe
says she doesn't believe you ever wrote
that paper. It was so good she thinks
your husband must have written it."
Any clubwoman knows this is a most
grievous Insult.
Mrs. Wentworth gave charming little
teas in a modest, side street fashion,
and the bitterness rankled in her heart
to such an extent that she left Mrs.
Drewelowe off her list the next week.
Then there was an elaborate social
function at the Euclid avenue man
sion, and Mrs. Wentworth did not re
ceive cards.
But the climax was reserved for Eas
ter morning in the vestibule of the Eu
clid avenue church.
Mrs. Drewelowe and Mrs. Wentworth
met, and, rctuembering the sacred
threshold, bowed less coldly than
usual, then gasped aud stood trans
fixed. Taking in every flower and
knot of lace, they realized that their
beautiful new Easter bonnets were ex
actly alike.
Their husbands, balaucing their hats
carefully in one hand and with the
other holding each a vestibule door,
were courteously awaiting them. They
had cordially shaken hands, for it ill
became dignified men to notice wo
men's small quarrels.
Mrs. Drewelowe was first to recover.
"A beautiful morning," she said in her
sweet, even tones, and a bar of purple
and yellow" flashed from the window
across the violets in her bonnet as she
turned and swept after her husband.
Mrs. Wentworth bowed in silence,
biting her lips in vexation, and raised
a delicately gloved hand up to see if
her bonnet, that had cost her so many
economies, was really upon hec head
or upon that of rich Maria Drewelowe.
She felt that now, as ever since they
had lived in the city, Mrs. Drewelowe
had the best of her.
A little path had opened through the
garden of soring millinery across the
congregation, and through it she saw
Mrs. Drewelowe turn and stare direct
ly back at her, smile In a superior way,
then whisper something to Mrs. Rob
erts In the pew Just behind, whereupon
Mrs. Roberts laughed most immoder
ately, considering the time and place.
The hot blood rushed to Mrs. Went
worth's face In such force as to make
her quite dizzy. She knew what Mrs.
Drewlowe had said as well as though
she had heard every word.
"Annie Wentworth, never content
with running after me, has managed
in some way to copy my bonnet, and
don't you think, Mrs. Roberts, It is an
outrage?"
Alas! Annie Wentworth, daughter
of Judge Titus, to be thus openly flout
ed by a Duzenbury!
It was bad enough to be reduced to
living on a side street, to watching her
in the lead of the most exclusive set in
the city, but to be accused of copying
her clothes—that was the last straw.
Move! Indeed they'd move the Ist of
May! She would resign from the Cul
ture club! They would go where she
might never meet this regal, queenly
daughter of aimless, shiftless old Du
zenbury or her husband, who had made
his fortune in kerosene.
The minister soared away In mag
nificent flights of oratory, but Mrs.
Wentworth's mind constantly returned
to the problems of how the bonnets
camfe to be alike and what Mrs. Drewe
lowe had whispered to Mrs. Roberts. At
last she solved the first question. Mrs.
Drewelowe had discovered her treasure,
the little milliner who made it possible
for her, the wife of Frofessor Went
worth, to appear for ?10 In bonnets
which looked as though they had cost
S3O, the poor little relic of better days
who lived In the old tumbledown brick
building behind the cathedral and who
bad a wonderful knack for copying
expensive bonnets. To place her old
est customer In such a humiliating po
sition! Mrs. Wentworth turned cold
all over with the remembrance of the
whisper. Oh, the letter she would
send with the bonnet straight back to
that traitress!
She was quite hysterical by the time
the last amen was pronounced nnd
hurried the dazed professor home at a
rapid pace. Patiently he listened to
the time worn complaints—the wreck
of her father's estate, the bitterness of
seeing Maria Drewelowe in her beau
tiful home while she must live in an
obscure corner.
Tenderly he soothed her and bathed
her throbbing temples. Years of wed
ded life had taught him the futility of
argument when his wife's niind was
made up. lie remembered, too, that
for love of him she had refused Henry
Drewelowe back in the old sunny days
at Mayvllle.
Unable to be up the next morning,
nevertheless she managed to indite a
bitterly accusing note to the little mil
liner and dispatch it with the bonnet
by a messenger boy. Several days
elapsed, and no answer came. Finally
in desperation she gathered her
strength and, boarding a downtown
car, was soon mounting the steps of
the old brick building behind the ca
thedral.
There was no answer to her first
knock, so she rapped again. A faint
moan came through the open transom.
Then she turned the knob nnd entered.
The room was in disorder; most of the
little furniture it had contained had
mysterlpusly Only a bed,
a chair and n table remained. 'Cpon
the table lay two opened letters, and
beside them sat a bonnet box securely
tied. Upon the lied lay the frail figure
of the milliner, her face hot with
fever. At this sight Mrs. Wentworth's
wrath vanished, and she stood by the
| bedside only a sweet, helpful woman,
her heart wruug with pity.
There was a rustle of silk lined gar
ments outside in the hall, then an im
perious knock, and when Mrs. Went
wortfi opened the door she beheld a
second Nemesis in the form of Mrs.
Drewelowe. The latter bestowed a
curt nod upon Mrs. Wentworth, and
that softened and already repentant
woman stepped aside and allowed her
to advance to the bedside. Mrs. Drewe
lowe heard her own name and Mrs.
Wentworth's mingled, falling incoher
ently from the parched lips. After a
moment she turned and faced Mrs.
Wentworth.
"Annie Wentworth, this ts our work.
I wrote her a very harsh note Mon
day moruing, accusing her of copying
my new bonnet, which I bought in
New York three weeks ago. She was
| in the house doing some work, and I
J felt sure she must have seen it througk
the treachery of the maids."
"And I," sobbed Mrs. Wentworth.
"sent back my bonnet Monday morn
ing with a scandalous note —perfectly
scandalous!"
Then they sought the landlady And
demanded an explanation of her neg
lect. She surveyed the two ladies with
rising auger.
"Sure, ma'ams," she said, "an' I'm
a lorn wldder myself with five childer
to support, an' she's back on her rent
three months. It's all along of her
havin' to go on to Noo York an' git
her bad brother out of jail, an' she's
sold her furniture an' clothes an' gone
without fire an' enough to eat to make
up. Then, on top of that, two women
—foine ladies in sassiety—writ her two
of the meanest letters you ever see in
your life, an' then she went clean out
en her head. They was all about a
bonnet she see when she was in Noo
York an' copied fer one of 'em, an' she
said the other one must have been on
an' bought the Identical bonnet, fer it
had Jest come over from Paree, an'
nobody'd had a chance at it
"Them letters done it. Mighty mean
women. If they are sassiety women, as
would let loose an' abuse"—
"There! You have explained 'suffi
ciently," icily interrupted Mrs. Drewe
lowe, her face quite crimson. "Wo will
pay the rent due you and take charge
of your roomer at once." And she
drew out her purse.
When the little milliner had been
safely tucked in the white hospital
bed and Mrs. Wentworth was seated
In the Drewelowe carriage rolling
home, she suddenly exclaimed, "Ma
ria, what did you say?"
"When? What do you mean?"
queried that astonished lady.
"Why, Sunday in church, when you
leaned back and whispered to Mrs.
Roberts?"
Mrs. Drewelowe was lost In thought
for some time and then said:
"Oh, I know. I told her that, after
all her Instructions, the night before I
had forgotten to make the mustard
plaster for Henry's chest as she ad
vised, and the poor man was blistered
so dreadfully that if It hadn't been
Enstpr morning he would not have
tried to come to church."
It was a fashionable hour, every
body was abroad, and the dignified
Drewelowe coachman felt quite hu
miliated by the peals of merry laugh
ter which rippled from the aristocratic
Drewelowe equipage.
Ail Unofficial Order.
Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald, at
lis death vice admiral in the English
navy, tells in his "Autobiography of a
Seaman" of an incident on board the
Hind, on which he served as midship
man. The pet of the ship was a parrot,
the aversion of the boatswain, whose
whistle the bird learned to imitate ex
actly.
"One day a party of ladies paid us a
visit aboard. By the usual means of a
'whip' on» the yardarm several had
been hoisted on deck. The chain had
descended for another. Scarcely had
its fair freight been lifted out of the
boat alongside when the parrot piped,
'Let go!'
"The order was instantly obeyed, and
the unfortunate lady, instead of being
comfortably seated on deck, was soused
in the sea.
"Luckily for her, the men were on the
watch and quickly pulled her out, and
luckily for the parrot the boatswain
was on shore, or this unseasonable as
sumption of the boatswain's functions
might have ended tragically for the
bird."
A Pitch Lake.
Trinidad, an island in the south At
lantic opposite the mouth of the Ori
noco, is famous for its pitch. There
are districts where there is pitch ev
erywhere. The beach is pitch, and so
are the "rocks," some of which have
been carried off to supply Paris and
New York with tar pavements. At La
Brea pineapples grow to perfection In
a brown soil which is half pitch. But
the wonder of the Isle is the pitch lake
a mile and a half In circumference.
As it lies glittering in the sun it looks
like a vast bed of monstrous mush
rooms, all black and of all kinds of
shape and size, some measuring as
much as fifty feet across. The space
between these unlovely objects is filled
with oily water. In parts of the lake
the pitch Is quite liquid, and the ground
all round is full of pitch and coaly
stuff to a depth of hundreds of feet
The Geisha.
"Geisha," the professional girl en
tertainer of Japan, is by no means to
be confounded with "geinin," says
Japan and America. The word geisha
really means actor, "gei" meaning a
play or entertainment of any sort, and
"sha" means a person. For Instance,
i-sha means physician, and so on. The
word really means what "actor" does
in English, but it has come to mean
only those girls In Japan who are
trained to entertain by dancing and
singing to the shamisen and koto, the
usual musical instruments for light en
tertainments, and they also are trained
to converse agreeably on topics of the
day. "Geinin," on the other hand,
while it really means the same thing
as geisha, has now come to be applied
to artists, in a higher sense.
A Chance to Ent Mn*«el«.
A story is told of a man condemned
to death in France who was asked, ac
cording to custom, what he would pre
fer for his last meal. He chose mus
sels, which, though bis favorite dish
always, he said, caused him a terrible
Indigestion. "This time, however," he
added grimly, "they will not have the
chance."
Dnya of Chivalry.
Wlfo (drearily)— All, me! The days
|f chivalry are past
Husband—What's the matter now?
Wife—Sir Walter Raleigh laid his
cloak on the ground for Queen Eliza
beth to walk over, but you get mad
simply because iHX>r, dear mother sat
down on your hat.—New York Weekly.
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POPULAR POTATOES.
Varieties Hnrly nnd Late Tlmt Have
Made Good \ Iclda In Ohio.
Among the varieties of potatoes
tested at the Ohio agricultural station
In litOl the ten which pave the heaviest
yield in order of yield were Northern
Beauty, Quick Crop. Maule's Early.
Thoroughbred, Early Norwood, Early
Fortune, Pingree, Roberts.'Early Rose
and Pat's Choice.
Of those tested the past live years
the ten leading varieties In point of
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i. LrVTNOSTOW. ROSK 3.
CHECK'S CHANCE. 4. EXOKMCWB.
yield were Enormous, Livingston, Ear
ly Trumbull. Tncle Sam, Sir William,
Sir Walter Raleigh, Bovee, Maule's
Early Thoroughbred, Suffolk Beauty
and Caiman No. 8.
The following varieties are recom
mended. especially for market:
Early.—Early Trumbull, Early Thor
oughbred. Bovee, Early Harvest and
Early Ohio.
Late.—Livingston, Whlton's White
Mammoth, Enormous, Sir Walter Ra
leigh and Carman No. 3.
The following are recommended espe
cially for home use: Early Trumbull,
Early Harvest, Livingston, Pat's
Choice and Uncle Sam.
CIDER AND VINEGAR.
To Keep the Former Sweet and
Make the Latter Strong.
To keep cider sweet it should be
made of good apples, as late as possi
ble. be carefully strained to remove all
poniace, etc., allowed to settle for a
day or two and then barreled and kept
as cool as possible, giving no more
vent than is necessary, says a New
England Homestead writer. As soon
as the first fermentation Is over bung
tightly. Keep cool and expose to the
air as little as possible. Cider can be
kept perfectly sweet by scalding and
skimming and bottling and sealing
tightly while hot. The keeping of cider
with preservatives and antiseptics Is
another matter and directions should
be obtained from the manufacturers.
The conditions for making vinegar of
cider are the opposite of those for
keeping the cider sweet Heat and ex
posure to the air are what produce
the change from sour cider to vinegar.
Put the cider Into barrels. Those
wliich have been used for vinegar be
fore are preferable. Fill them about
two-thirds full and put in a warm
place, with a temperature of 80 to 90
degrees. Leave out the bung so the
air can get In. A piece of mosquito
netting can be placed over the bung
hole. A low shed "Is a good place in
summer, and near the furnace in win
ter.
Factory and Home Practice.
Very large factories generally use
generators filled with boech shavings,
through which the liquid is allowed to
drip slowly. Good winter apples will
make vinegar strong enough for all
uses if properly treated, but very early
apples usually give thin, watery cider,
which requires mixing with stronger
cider or the addition of sugar or mo
lasses. For family use a good way is
to put a large barrel containing a small
quantity of good, strong cider in a
warm place and every week or two add
a small quantity of sour cider. In this
way a supply of vinegar can be had all
the time.
Keeping Hoots and Cabbage.
Beets keep well buried in pits like
potatoes, less covering being required,
and carrots also. Parsnips may be
left in the ground where grown, dig
ging supplies in mild weather. Frees
lng Is not injurious to them, but rather
beneficial, increasing the sweetness.
Cabbage usually keeps well in double
rows, heads Inverted, covering lightly
with straw, then some soil on top, but
not more than will nearly cover the up
turned roots:
What Others Say.
Successful dairying can be summed
up In two words: Be clean.
This great American nation Is the
greatest soil robber on earth.
There's no .'arm power like gasoline
engines. *
Have a rural telephone route. Many
thrifty farmhouses are now united In
this manner.
Alfalfa is far ahead of all other for
age plants known. Horses, cattle, hogs,
. she;'p and turkeys do well and make a
wonderful growth on straight alfalfa.
Chickens of all ages are fools, as
great fools as many human beings are
who raise chickens.
The surest way to avoid the evil of
a glutted market Is to produce a first
class article.
Corn and laziness arc great promoters
of fat.
CHOICE FEEDERB.
fbry Are Indicated by General
Form, Quality and Constitution.
If the animals in one grade of stack
ers and feeders are more uniform than
In the others, it is In the choice grade.
It may be said that we demand In
choice stockrrs and feeders, first the
ability to finish as choice or prime
steers, and. second, the ability to make
economical gairs In Ucsh and fat, and
we look for Indications of theße tenden
cies In the fvriii. quality and constitu
tion. The general for: i should be low
set, deep, broad and compact rather
than high up, jv.vr.t. narrow and loose
ly made. St cUrvs and feedus should
be low set or on !c: a. because
animals of this c&.if'r;.i..t-on are
almost invar': ibly good feeders and
capable of early maturity. They .
should he deep, broad and iv:npact be
cause this conformation ludleatcs good
constitution, capacity for growth and
for producing ultimately a relatively
high percentage of the m «t valuable
cuts. Select feeders w'.th broad, flat
backs ai.d long, level mi. ; They
should possi s-i straight top and under
lines which should be nearly parallel:
should I«e low at the flanks, thus form-
| ins good depth, for the barrel of stock*
. era and feeders as -well as dairy cowa
' should be roomy. An animal which 1» .
[ too paunchy, however, i 9 objectionable/
ito the butcher. The matter of low
: flanks should be emphasized, as it is
an almost unfailing sign of good consti
tution and good feeding quality. It
should be borne ki mind that the
stocker mid feeder, thin in flesh and
largely destitute of external or surface
fat, affords the best possible opportu
nity of determining the covering of
natural flesh characteristic of the ani
mal.
Smooth Outline nnd Mild Eye,
Secure as much smoothness of out
line as is consistent with low flesh, be
ing especially careful to avoid too great
prominence in hips, tall head and shoul
ders. Avoid rough, open shoulders,
sway backs nnd large, coarse heads
with small eyes set In the side of the
head. Short, broad heads and short,
thick necks indicate strong tendencies
toward becftnaklng. A large, promi
nent and mild eye is to be desired. Tho
mild eye denotes that the animal has a
quiet disposition, which all feeders
know is so desirable in "a steer intended
for the feed lot. The distance between
eye and horn should be short, and the
horn should be flat and of medium fine
ness rather than round and coarse.
The lower Jaw should be heavily coat
ed with muscle. The muzzle, lips and
mouth should be large, but not coarse.
Good General quality.
It Is well to distinguish between
what might be called general quality
and handling quality. By general
quality Is meant general refinement of
external conformatiou as seen in the
head, horn, boue, compactness and
smoetliness of outline. General qual
ity is affected by nothing so much as
by breeding. Good quality is seldom
found in a plainly bred steer, but is
generally characteristic of a well bred
animal. While it is a characteristic
that Involves many points and is diffi
cult to describe, it is this characteristic
more than any other that we depend
upon as Indicating that the animal has
within It the possibility of making a
prime steer.
Doxirnble Handling Quality.
Good handling quality Indicates that
the possessor Is a good feeder. It
shows that the animal is in good health
or thrift and capable of beginning to
gain as soon as an abundance of food
Is supplied. We speak of cattle as pos
sessing good handling quality when the
skin is mellow and loose. A thick,
mossy coat of hair of medium fineness
and a moderately thick skin are desir
able.—ll. W. Mumford, Illinois Experi- ~
ment Station.
Poultry House Window.
Henhouses are'cold at night In win
ter because of loose windows and be
cause glass quickly radiates heat. The
curtain shown in the cut obviates both
difficulties. It stops drafts nnd pre
vents radiation. It is made to slide be-
WINDOW CCBTAiy.
neath side piece#, since this keeps air
from leaking in at the edges of the cur
tain. It hangs down below the window
during the day and at night is raised
to the hook above the window. Use
closely woven burlap nnd nail a lath
at the top to hold the ring and to keep
the upper edge close to the window
casing.—American Agriculturist.
Apple* Wr«i»i>e4 For Long Keeping.
Indications from experiment at tho
New Hampshire experiment station
ore that for long keeping of apples
wrapj)lng Is of decided advantage.
Light and heavy waxed paper, tissue
paper and newspaper were used for
wrapping, and there was but little dif
ference In their effectiveness, newspa
per, being practically as effective as the
more expensive kinds.
""" REMARKABLE LAKE.'
A Body of Water With a Roof of
Solidified Salt.
A lake with a salt roof isn't frozen
■alt, and it isn't underground. On the
contrary, this remarkable lake may ba
seen at any time during the year, fully
exposed, being even at its best when
the sun is shining directly upon it.
This wonderful body of water is one of
the saltest of Abe salt lakes and is sit
uated near Obdorsk, Siberia. The lake
Is nine miles wide and seventeen long
and within the medory of man was
not entirely roofed over by the salt de
posit. Originally evaporation played
the most prominent part in coating tho
lake over with salt, but at the present
time the salt springs which surround
It are adding fast to the thickness of
the crust
In the long ago rapid evaporation of
the lake's waters left great salt crys
tals floating on the surface. In course
of time these called together. Thus the
waters were finally entirely covered.
In 1878 the lake found an underground
outlet into the river Obi, which low
ered its surface about three feet. The
salt crust was so thick, however, that
It retained its old level and now pre
sents the curious spectacle of a salt
roofed lake. The salt coat increases
6ix inches in thickness every year. The
many islands with which the lake is
studded are said to act as braces and
to help keep the arched salt crust In
hOA<tiru\.
The Lack of Reierve.
"He had no reserve." llow often we
hear this expression on 'change or in
the street when a firm has failed or
when a business man has been pushed
to the wail! It would make a fitting
epitaph for the grave of many a fail
ure. A man without reserve is like a
condemned, leaky vessel. On a calm
day it can be towed from port to port,
but It would be utterly helpless In a
storm.
Mauy fail from lack of reserve of
education, of early training, of solid,
Ingrained habit. Others fail from lack
of reserve of savings, of capital. Many
have gone down from the lack cf char
acter reserve, of health reserve, of
friendship reserve. It pays to store up
reserve of every kind, to be prepared
for every emergency. Too exhausting
effort, too extravagant expenditure, too
reckless daring or too much reliance
oil uuknown factors leaves 110 margin
or reserve, so that a slip would mean
a certain fall.—Success.
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