VOL. XXXX J HUSELTON'S ~j] ij "EXIT" SALE OF SHOES f "ROUS MIT "EM." r The big money saving event of the season N A WONDERFUL SHOE PRICE SLASHING BEGINS r 4 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14th, 9 A IVI ► 2 k] There is no donbt abont it -it will not pay to carry oyer my v. ► j left-over Winter shoes. They won't be np-todate then, and for * i A seven months they'll be eating off their heads. It is not a pleasant a W dose bnt what is a man to do? 1 Next Fall you will be looking for WA >1 brand NEW styles. V There are considerable many nice, fresh lines of Men's and V J > J Women's fine shoes that are jnst the least bit tco heavy in soles for r A A Spring otherwise they could not be more desirable at any time of V the year. There seems to be abont 2500 pairs of all sorts including Wl Boy's and Girls' shoes of various qualities—also dress shoes for Men »c! A and Women. Two weeks hence there will ba none left to tell the tale, 'A Prices will do it, C. 0. D. is the only condition. M Here's the way we do it—these are just samples. W there are more. » i 4 Children's Shoes Ladies' Kid Shoes A Fine looking OO » Are good the year round. The and JK I W ► J . . .. . . good wearing %|/liww fi r A style question there is not so ® 1 serious but we want you to ° ne lot kid ,ace 9hoes at 98c " W j shoe the whole family this One lot kid lace shoes, Pat. W time and if you don't take a t '^ ) ' n ° W . W. hint, you are out, that's all. L . J sizes 3* to 6, was $2.50 now go m at 98 cts. W. I A lot of kid and box-calf Women's Storm Rubbers2sc. spring heels worth $1.50 now u > r* PL j ► oscte. sizes mto2. Wen s Fine Shoes 4 i Sold at J > One lot worth SI.OO and f1.25 $3.50 and $4.00 J)/ f%M 6 < new 79 cte. now ► > Others sold at $2.00 and { { Several choice lots, sizes 8| $2.50, now $1.40. > to 11, was SIOO and $1.25, now Men's working shoes reduced i . go at 68c and 73c. t0 c - WOOL BOOTS and , Lots of fine shoes, sizes 5 to BUBBERS reduced to 98c. ► and 53c. 25c. < Old Ladies' warm line shoes all felt or foxed with leather soles > or felt, now 78c. ' { Everybody knows the kind this store sells—nary a pair t k that has a dishonest streak in them and as a class i they are most stylish. COME EARLY. ► ► OPP. Illion THII'D DON'T ASK FOR < I HOTEL HIINrL I Ull O SIZE 3 >1 LOWRY. NUWLLI VII W ASK TO BE FIT. A ANOTHER WtEK. g X Fresh Stock and Large Crowds Arriving Daily at Jfc jg The riodern Store S To give everyone an opportunity to take advantage of our great Jan- M nary stock reduction sale we will continue it another week, and have; just (K added some new stock which has just arrived, so as to fill the gaps made #[ by the steady flow of trade last week. Of course our entire stock is new, U and this fact, together with the money saving prices, has made this store R more popular than ever. We can't recount all the bargains offered, but K U here are just a few samples of this matchless sale:— JR GKx>d 5 and 6c unbleached muslin, 4Jc or 24 yds for sl. Splendid 8c U| bleached muslin,6jc or 16 yds for sl—all calicos, 4{c yd—apron gingham s, U| d —men's heayy fleeced underwear, 37c a garment —ladies' wool and Jjt ana fleeced hose 2 pair 25c—children's wool and fleece lined hose, 2 pair Jp X 25c—Separate Bkirts, i off the late cut price—table linens, napkins, towels W and crashes are going at bargain prices. See special linen crash at 5c ap) f} yard —unbleached cotton crash ot 3c a yard. ■ THE MILLINERY DEPARTMENT caps the climax, Prices no IV object to move the stock. A lino that is not excdilecL Tj * COME ONCE AND YOU'LL COME OFTEN. « SOUTH mw STREET 1 Ws S raoins: 221 Mail ord ers Solicited S POSTOFTICE BOX ) ■■■«■ ■ OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER, PA. v We give ballots for piano contest. 1903 January Prices 1903 -^&<AT*^- Bictcel's. Men's Coon Tail Excluder Knit Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs at $2 25 Men's Ball-Band Felt Boots and Heavy Duck Rolled Edge Overs at 2 25 Men s Gray Felts and Extra Heavy Goodger Glove Overs at 1 50 Man's Extra Heavy Goodger Glove perfections at 1 00 Men's Buckle Arctics at 95 Men's first quality rubbers at 50 Boys' first quality rubbers at 40 Mioses' 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 Packirds' $4.00 fine shoes in patent-colt, cordovan and box-calf at 3 00 One lot Men's $2 50 fine shoes in velour-calf, vici-kid and box-calf at 1 50 One lot Boys' $2.00 fine shoes at 1 40 One lot Youths' fine shoes at 85 LADIES' FINE SHOES Baker & Bowman's $4.00 fine shoes in Dongala and patent-kid, hand torns and hand welts at $2 50 One lot Ladies' 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 four lasts at 50 cents. All warm lined shoes and slippers and balance of our Holiday slippers to be closed out reguarrtless of cost. A grand reduction in all lines. It will pay you to visit this great sale and secure some of the bargains being offered. Repairing neatly and promptly done. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA. KECK Fall# Winter Weights q "Pi Have a nattiness about them that J] A 1 mark the wearer, it won't do to I / J ' / / f\\ wear the last year's output. You p l faJ K Vm) /J] j w won't get the latest things at the \ f • X_K" / vM \ v\ stock clothiers either. The up-to- v ; T /W* iF? I Cdate tailor only tan supply them, . \S IU yH if you want not only the latest | / r\\ L___L-Jjl things in cut and fit and work- . / j >? /iff II '■ the finest in durability, J I I I I 1 where else can you get combina- i / I i tlons, you get them at jj } 1 //ill* K E C K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 124 North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa- THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Nasal Jf&LY^K CATARRH /p» In «r. its BUgcs. »Uo/ Ely's Cream Balm V Jj/ cleanses, soothes and heals I y K the diseased membrane. 11 cures catarrh and drives M away a cold in tlie head j quickly. i Cr.am'Balm is placed into the nostrils spread l over the membrane and is absorbed. Kelief is im j mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneedftg. Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. J^n^on^ Beef. Iron and Wine j^j a Best Tonic Lm Blood Purifier. k j >1 Price, 50c pint. F A V Prepared and A * A sold only at L Johnston s K | Crystal H M Pharmacy, H ► J It. M. LOGAN, Ph. G„ L *2 ICS N. Main St., Butler, kW V Both 'Phones V J *1 Everything in the drug line. VA Just Arrived Early Fall Goods lii Latest Coronation Suitings; Also Black and White Novelties. Wedding Suits a 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 le3S 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 andlSaleStable Rear of Wick House. Butler Penn'a. The best of horses and first class tirs 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 :in(l draft horses always on hand and for sale under a full guarantee; an( i horses bough pon proper notification' bv PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone No. 219. BUTLER, PA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1003 | AT THE? 11 ROPE'S END I | By Lillian C. Paschal T Oiliariijht, l'JOl, by L- C.ratehai 9 "Look out, girls! Don't go that way —here's the trail." Rattlesnake Jack, the big guide, handed each maid of his convoy ovtr the-rocks toward l»spira tion point as if slie were a Dresden china shepherdess and might break any moment. "I do wish you wouldn't be so caTeful of us," pouted ore little lady. "I am quite able to take care of myself." And she tossed her pretty head with its tumbled mane like a colt restive under the curb. "Miss Spofl'ord desires the dignity of her position to be maintained," de claimed a normal class miss from the platform of a bowlder juslj' uhead. "She has been out from parental, high school and city authority for a whole year, during which time she has suc cessfully filled the position of in structor in the Black Tail school, dis trict of Basin, state of Montana. Signed, sealed and delivered by me this 12th day of August, 1898. Martha E. Nickel." And she pompously rolled up an imaginary certificate, took from her small, freckled nose a pair of invisible eyeglasses and glanced benignly around upon her giggling audience. ••I don't care." Ella Spofford's piquant face was flushed, though she smiled with the rest over chaffing. "After you've done the order ing yourself, you don't want to be always under somebody else's order. And, besides," she added, "I want ta get a snapshot of the lower falls from below Red dock, and Jack never lets me go where I want to. I want to have a go d time and see everything. What are we in the Yellowstone park for, anyway?" "To secure valuable information on geological strata," came in sonorous, didactic tones from the bowlder. "To obtain the latest views in snapshoot ing. that we may thereby be qualified to train the young idea how to shoot the shoots of learning"— A hailstorm of pebbles interrupted the speaker, who descended and walked on with great dignity. The others followed, their cowboy guide bringing up the rear. "I beg your pardon, Miss Ella," he was apologizing redly to the rebellious lamb in his flock. When he was embar rassed or excited, his cowboy vernacu lar fell from him like the thin veneer it was, and .he dropped, as back to a na tive tongu . into the "Harvard lan guage," as Lis ranch friends termed it "It is exceedingly dangerous around these rocks. They are shaly and slip pery. and 1 have seen more than one go down to death just because they did not realize the danger. See that long line of danger rope stretched along down there to keep tourists on the up per trail?" She nodded. "That very place," he continued, "where you wanted to take your kodak picture, on the other side of Red rock, is the spot from which a minister fell to the bottom of the gorge, over 1,000 feet, last year. We could not even get down to bring back the remains. It was awful! He was dashed to pieces. Ilis wife stood here. She almost went insane over it." "I know, but he was probably a ten derfoot fresh from the east"—this with all the western scorn of eastern igno rance of mountain climbing. "I'm a mountain girl." "Yes, I know," he assented eagerly, "and plucky and sure footed as well, but I promised your mothers that I wonld bring you all back safely from this causing trip through the park, and I intend to do so even though it be against your own sweet will." "There; now will you be good?" laughed Martha Nickel. "After that touch of masculine masterfulness •Bogy man 'll catch you if you don't watch out!' " she hummed wickedly as she passed them. "And remember how one bogy man changed his title from Gentleman Jack to Rattlesnake ditto» down 011 liis cattle ranch in Gallatin valley. That was when he was still 'fresh from the east,' too— Tint that's another story, as Rudyard says." Jack looked sheepish, as he always did when this piece of his prowess was mentioned. "Oh, tell me about it," asked Ella, her grievance forgotten. "You lassoed the rattler, didn't you?" He nodded. "That's all there was to it," he said shortly. "Except the trifling detail of the child whose life you saved by it and who would have been bitten otherwise," she answered. "The chief benefit I derived" —he smiled reminiscently—"was my promo tion in the estimation of the cowboys from a mere college tenderfoot to a genuine cowboy, a long stride in evolu tion." By this time they nad come up with the rest of the party, who were at the Castle ruins, gazing out, awestruck, over the Grand Canyon of the Yellow stone. Only the roar of the river 2,000 feet below, hushed by distance into a whisper, mingled with the cries of the young eagles in their eyries on the crags. Three miles away to the right the white (lake of the Upper falls could be seen, but the greater Lower falls were Invisible from their foothold on the topmost turret of the castlelike rocks which give the ruins their name. Across the great chasm and on every side shone the wonderful, rugged, rocky steeps, whose many marvelous lines have defied the skill of genera tions of artists. "Just as If Nature had made in her undersrround laboratory a solution of <-r: stalllzed sunsets and splintered rain bows and poured it down over the el is," breathed Ella in an ecstasy of delight. "Yes, it's a sight to dream about," assented Jack, but lie was not looking at her. "Oil, but I do want to get a full front view of the Lower falls for my collec tion." And she turned the finder of her camera up tin- gorge. "There's always a rock or some pines in the way here. 1 wish I could get down there." "Time to go back to camp," was Jack's prosaic Interruption to their schoolgirl flights of rapture, and they turned regretfully away. "Where's Miss Spofford?" he Inquired suddenly in the midst of a story about the glacial rock upon which their ko daks were focused. "You all stay right here. Don't any of you dare to stir from this rock!" His voice was firm, but his tanned face went ash color. The command was not to be disobeyed, and they knew it. Like an arrow he Bhot back down the trail through the pines to the canyon side. His brave heart jumped and stood still for one suffocating instant. There 011 the steep slope below he saw her. She had wound up her kodak film in triumph mid, half ,wj3 twisting up her flying hair. His keen eye saw what she had not noticed— that the treacherous slnile, loosened by h: r lir.rrfed steps, had started to move down. One during movement on her part and a whole rock slide would vanish over the precipice, a thousand feet below, carrying the precious bur den with it. He must not startle her. He began to whistle, starting leisurely down the slope. His stiff lips almost refused to pucker to the old college refrain, "It's a way we have at old Harvard," and his lingers shook as he felt for his clasp knife to cut the danger rope for a lasso. The girl, hearing the whistle, looked up and smiled mischievously. "You see, I did get it," she began an;l stopped. Poor Jack could not control the color of his blanched face. Grasp ing the camera, she started to rise, but Iht footing slid with her weight—she folt herself slowly gliding down the cliff. Now thoroughly frightened, sho turned and tried to clamber up the steep bed of shale. "Don't move, or I'll shoot you!" Jack shouted in a delirium of horror, while visions of her body dashed to pieces on the cruel rocks Hashed before his sight. After one instant, during which she lived centuries, she felt a circling rope settle about her waist, and of a sudden the rocks and trees and sky all danced drunkenly together around the boiling crater of the sun, then fell into it and put it out. 1 When she saw the light again, it was in a pair of very tender and thankful blue eyes quite near to her face, and she was held in a man's strong but trembling arms. She did not move, feeling somehow strangely contented there. She had never before realized what a comfort able and comforting pillow a man's broad shoulder is. But after a mo ment her old pout came back. "You threatened to take my life," she said. "And I will, little sweetheart, if you will only let me keep it safe and happy alongside of mine." "Dear old Jack," was all she said, but he seemed quite satisfied. Solomon Didn f t Know. A man with strong opinions of his own as to the fitness of things is gar dener and man of all work to a minis ter in a rural parish in Scotland. One boisterously windy day the clergyman dispatched a message to his servant to sow a portion of a field known to them both as the "bank." In no very amia ble mood the man made his way to the study. * "Dae ye want me to sow the bank?" he inquired somewhat sternly. "Yes, John; I do," replied his master. "■P"' canna sow in sieh a day o' wind," explained John. "Well," replied the minister, "you know Solomon says, 'He that consider eth the wind will not sow.' " "I dinna care a button what Solomon says," John returned irately. "I fancy he kens as little about farmers' work as ye dae or he wadna hae said ony such thing. Naebody but daft folk wad think o' sowin' in sich wind. Solo mon may say what he likes, but him an' ye both wadna mak' a guid plow man between ye." And the "bank" was not sown that day.—London Tit-Bits. Beccher'a Repartee. A young newspaper man who was the Albany correspondent of a metro politan daily, entered the station at Forty-second street to take the train for the state capital. He saw Henry Ward lieechcr sitting modestly retired, awaiting a train that would take him to his country seat, Peekskill. The newspaper man was well known to Mr. Beecher and so went to him to pay his respects. "On your way to Albany, I pre sume," said the preacher. "Are the legislative sessions interesting and ex citing?" "As dull as dishwater," replied the journalist. "Indeed for my letters I am compelled to draw 011 my imagina tion for my facts." Mr. Beecher looked up, with a merry twinkle in his eye and promptly com pleted the quotation from Sheridan, "and 0:1 your memory for your wit." The newspaper man felt as if he had been knocked down.—Brooklyn Eagle. Over officious. "What's the matter, Jimsby? You look bothered." "I am. I had a happy home until my wife joined one of those philan thropic clubs and promised to do some little thing every day to add to my happiness, and now she's got so many Ideas I can't rest."—Washington Times. A Scotch Soperntltlon. "In a recent visit I paid to friends abroad I came across a superstition that was new to me," said a traveler the other day. "One day at dinner somebody hit a glass, which began the ringing, Jingling noise that is familiar when glassware is struck, and imme diately another guest covered the piece with his hands so as to mullie the sound. Every one present said, 'That's right; stop the ringing.' I found out 011 inquiring that when one causes this ringing of a glass piece to cease it saves a human life from drowning. How the notion originated 1 can't ex plain, but these people I speak of were Intelligent and not generally given to cherishing absurd notions. It is said to be a Scotch superstition, but none of my friends could throw light on its origin." A Story of Cliarlcn Jnmen Fox. A gambling story Is told of Charles James Fox that rather reflects on his honor. lie was one of the ardent ad mirers of Mrs. Crewe, a noted beauty of her day, and it is related that a gentleman lost a considerable sum to this lady at play and, being obliged to leave town suddenly, gave Mr. Fox the money to pay her, begging him to apol ogize to herJ"or his not having paid the debt of houor in person. Fox lost ev ery shilling of it before morning. Mrs. Crewe often met the supposed debtor afterward and, surprised that he never noticed the circumstances, at length delicately hinted the matter to him. "Bless me!" said he. "I paid the mon ey to Mr. Fox three months ago." "Oh, did you, sir?" said Mrs. Crewe good naturedly. "Then probably ho paid me and I forgot it." A AVltty Iteply. At a London dinner General Horace Porter was once referred to by the chairman iu the following way: "We have here tonight General Horace Por ter, and I call upon him for a speech. The gentleman is like a slot machine— you put in a dinner, and out comes a speech." The witty general rose and replied with a quick fire of satire: "The chairman has thought fit to liken me to a slot machine. May I return the compliment and say that he is like one also? He puts in a speech, and up comes your dinner." In Wnll Street. She—Are you a Dull or a bear on 'change? He - Both. I bull the market ant' hear the losses. See?— Chicago Newo Little W Neil ' | ALBERT Fowler <> *OSS Ci*pyriyht % 1001 % hy A. S. nichanUim Crowds lined the streets from curb stone back to the very buildings, and as far almost as the eye could reach this dense mass of humanity, men, wo men and children, cheered and waved 1 arasols, hats, handkerchiefs and min iature flags. The great Labor day parade passed slowly along, aud parties of picnickers tilled the street cars 011 other thorough fares. Fathers, husbands and sons were where every son of toil should be ou such a day. In the ranks of the labor men on parade. A few were working iu miniature shops erected as floats rcpn senting some particular ltae of in dustry and drawn along the streets by gayly decked h rses, but the multitude were in the ranks, each in his respec tive union, doing his little to swell the showing in the army of the laboring man. the bone and sinew of a great nation. Ted Gardner, as usual, was in line. Ted's friends always looked for him on one of the huge floats that preceded the various unions and labor organizers representing the different branches of mechanical art. For six years Ted had been with the Westchester company, and there was not a man of the five hundred and more employees who earned his livelihood within the walls but had a cheery word for Ted. Since the last Labor day parade, however, to his most intimate friends Ted had not appeared to be just as cheerful as In the old days. Moreover, he was doing too much night work at home. "It's enough to work your eight hours each day, Ted," said Fitson to him the morning of the parade, "and put in your evenings knocking around." "Not the kind that knocks around, Fits," replied Ted. "Go over and see the girl, then, my boy," responded Fitson as a parting shot. "That's better still." "Good advice," muttered Gardner to himself, "but I quit that a year ago." The Westchester employees always met after the Labor day ceremonies and had an excursion of their own in a , general, good, old fashioned picnic style. This year Ted had decided to take charge of the two floats that came from the Westchester shops and see them safely returned. He was not go ing to the picnic. On one float, showing a small marine engine and three benches with the same number of men busily at work, was Ted atTTreil in working clothes and doing nothing in particular, but moving about. Ilis mind was evidently on the other float ahead, for he continually glanced in that direction. On this float was a genuine, if small, naphtha launch, and to add to the realistic effect three la dies of the 'office staff and as many men from the same department, be comingly attired in boating costumes, were lounging about on the cushions. The small engine in the craft was not working, but the naphtha was occa sionally lighted to keep steam up for the purpose of blowing the ear split ting whistle at stated intervals. It was not the float itself that at tracted the attention of young Gard ner, but little Nell Fowler, one of the three ladies. Nell was the oldest daughter of big Joe Fowler, for many years foreman of the Westchester works, and a man who thought well of Ted and had kept bis eye on the boy in the early days, for "there's some thing more than ordinary in that cuss," he would say. Hut Joe contracted diph theria during the epidemic in the shops in 18D9 and was the third of the eight men carried off that never to be forgot ten spring. The company did "something hand some," as the boys put it for each of the bereaved families, and in addition in Fowler's case took Into the office at a fair salary his daughter Nell, a young woman of some twenty summers. The day of Joe's death Ted had met Nell walking down to the works to deliver the message. She was weep ing. He had never spoken to her be fore, but he suspected her mission and, raising his cap politely, said feel ingly: "Please, Miss Fowler, I'll tell them at the works. Don't you go down there." Nell hesitated a moment, looked ap pealingly at him, then "Thank you," she said. "You are very kind." Quick ly she retraced her steps, and Ted, watching the retreating figure for a moment, sauntered off to break the news to the office staff. Yes, he remembered all that as though It were yesterday, yet it was almost three years ago. Labor day of that year Nell was not at the picnic, hut on the next holiday she was there, and on that very day he had told her. It needed no telling, for Nell had known long ago, as every woman does, and she was proud of it but she sat silently picking a wild flower to pieces as he spoke, and finally when he asked that she give up the office and come with him to a new home of their own she rose to her feet and moved away. He had followed. From then ou she seemed to change. At least Ted thought so. Again he had spoken and this time got an answer. It was "No." If she held any love for him, it was hidden deep somewhere beyond the vision of human eyes. "If it's 011 account of your mother, Nell," Ted ventured, "why, of course, she'll live with us. I want her too. Why, bless you, Nell," he went 011 with a cheerful smile, "I believe I want her as bad as I do you." But Nell only shook her head, aud day after day, as Ted passed the office, he watched her bending over the desk, and she seemed to be slipping farther and farther away from him and his lnve. All this flashed through his mind as the parade moved on, and he glanced from the cheering crowds to the little figure in the float ahead. The procession was now near the end of the line of march and had stopped temporarily at the bridge over the river, which rushed past the south entrance to the park, where the final review and sports were to take place. 111 the small launch ahead the occu pants were taking advantage of the stop to change seats. The engineer was starting the flow of naphtha under the boiler to produce more steam for u final screeching of the little whistle as they entered the grounds. Nell had moved down to the stern of the boat. Before she was seated, how ever, there came a deafening report and a blaze of light, followed by the screams of women. Ted heard and saw It all. For a second he did not move, could not, but it was only for a second. Tfccn he leaped over into the crowd; in another Instant lie was climbing up the burn lug float „ A The naphtha had exploded. The horses, almost mad with fright, dash, d o!T at a wild pace. Men, wom en and children rushed and tumbled over each other, screaming in tli«ir f:v:i::.v to escape death beneath the hi fs of the horses. Ted reached the seat and gr.isjK'd the lines. The ani mals made a swift turn and fled to ward the river. Would he guide them into the watir? The crowd saw his ef fi.i t and cheered. All this liappeued in a minute or less. N<;: lie could not control them! On they dashed 011 the edge of the stream, but not into the saviug jßood. Losing time was losing life. Tikl looked back into the float. The occupants stood screaming, not daring to jump. The engineer was writhing ia agony, a mass of flames. The pain was driving him mad. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, leaped into the air and to his death. , Nell stood with her face buried in her hands. The flames reached for her skirts. Now her hands were stretched out toward him. "Ted!" she cried and st. forward. Gardner caught her in his arms. and. standing for a mo -1 ment poised on the edge of the sway ing vehicle, he shot forward and over ! the embankment, down into the river below. It was one chance In a thou sand, but he made St. It was not until after midnight that the physicians allowed her to come out from under the influence of the sooth ing opiates. When she did, Ted was there at the bedside, one little hand resting softly in his own big x»alm. She opened her eyes slowly, and they met his. "Ted, dear, you are alive?" she mur mured. "I was—afraid—that"— He raised a warning finger. "Ilusb, little girl!" Then, bending over, he kissed a bandaged hand. "You must not talk just now, and, besides, dear," lie went on smilingly, "1 know what all your fears were. You have a bad habit of talking in your sleep." With an effort she raised his big, brawny hand to her lips, then, turning, hid her face iu the pillows. "Different Titan." More than one of our contemporaries, says the Westminster Gazette, stand rebuked by the editor of Notes and Queries for using the expression "dif ferent than." No one of course would dream of using it as between noun and noun- of saying, for instance, "This 13 a different kind than the oth er." The question is whether it can be used when a verb follows. "They act in a wholly different manner thau we do." If one may not say this, how may it be said? "Different manner from what we do" is clumsy and inelegant Every writer has at one time or an other found himself in desperate straits for a means of hitching "different" on to a verbal sentence, and the use of "than" so obviously supplies a felt want and is in itself so logical that we believe it to be Justified. The verb "differ" as well as the adjective "dif ferent" is a trap for the unwary. Even the most careful writers and speakers habitually talk about "differing with" when they mean "differing from." "I beg to differ with the honorable gentle man opposite" is the most fiuniliar ex ordium of. a speech in tbe"house of commons, and, though examples can of course be quoted from the best writers, It is a solecism which offends against logic and instinct Still Believe In Witchcraft. A belief In witchcraft still prevails in parts of Lancashire, England, also in the Isle of Man, and still more fetrongly in the Hebrides. A writer in Chambers' Journal gives some inter esting anecdotes of the superstitions which persist among the Hebrideans. Belief in witchcraft is said to have a "strong and living hold" on some of the people of those outer isles. An In stance Is given of a case heard before the Stornoway sheriff's court so lately as November, 1899, In which witnesses deposed to there being several witches in the township, cue of whom was charged with so bewitching cows that the substance of their milk passed Into the milk of the witch's cow. The bus band of the alleged witch stated in court that when he heard the rumors about his wife he got three of the constables of the township to como and examine his cow's milk to see If it were any richer than usual, as would be the case If the substance of Mrs. A.'s cow's mITk were present in It Other evidence of this remarkable transubstantlatlon was given. The sheriff ridiculed the notion of witch craft, but the Stornowcgians stuck to It with absolute faith. Minute Parta of a Watch. The minuteness of the parts of a watch is shown by the following fig ures: It takes 150,000 of one certain kind of watch screws to make a pound. The pivot of the balance wheel is only one-two-hundredths of an inch in diam eter. Each jewel hole into which a pivot fits is about one-five-thousanths of an inch larger than Jhe pivot, to permit sufficient play. The finest screw for a small sized watch lias a thread of 200 to the inch and weighs one-one-hundred-and -thirty-thousandths of a pound. A pallet jewel weighs one oue-hundred-and-fifty-thousandths of a pound: a roller Jewel a little more than one - two - hundred and-fifty-six thousandths. The largest round hair spring stud is four-one-liundredths of an Inch in diameter and about nine one-bundretlis of an inch in length. Am Ambldcxtrou* Artlnt. Conrad Cook, son of E. W. Cook, U. A., told me that he used to hold the paper while Landseer drew one animal with his right hand and a different animal with bis left, writes J. A. Man son in "Sir Edwin Landseer, It. A. This species of dexterity comes from practice 110 doubt, and is akin to the adroit manipulation of the accom plished pianist, but is nevertheless ex traordinary, and several cases are re corded In which Sir Edwin fairly as tounded the onlookers by such displays of manual skill. FißlitinK LlnariU. The ring necked lizard of the Arizona deserts is not a mere devourer of weak lings. lie is always ready to fight, whether he is challenged by another or cornered by a man. \\ lien brought to bay In some hole, he opens his jaws and dashes bravely out, snapping at everything which opposes him, and so fierce and sudden is his rush that it is impossible to face it without flinching. By holding two of these lizards loosely by the small of the back and allowing their heads to clash as they struggle to escapo, one may be able to induce combats such as must occur every day In the desperate lizard world. Forgetting that they were captives, they would seize ui>on each other and vent their thwarted rage to the utmost in a light which, but for timely inler fercnce, would doubtless lead to the death of one or the other. Such bull dog pugnacity is rather unlooked forln lizards, but a student of character could easily read In the set Jaw and pouched throat of this species the signs of lighting blood.—Country Life In A NOTION IN BUILDING. A \uvrl \«!f«|»tutioa «»f Wire itnri I'ltiKter on \Yull». J. 11 Wing some t.iiK' ago described in Country Gentleman an idea which lie e is dors very useful in a mechan ical way. O.ie spring he coated his house all over with plaster afttr a te .wars' it.-; o:i i.ui'euildiu;.s with .i:. i t atisfac.or.t results. The house' showu in the :ut is Jij by 30 fe-'t, with .i twelve f ft wall. The skiing is the comni- )> <irop siding of n.e.tehil pine. his was left on, but the corner boards were taken off. Common poultry fene i>' . woven" wire, with about an inch aud a half ui.». li. was stretched ov,r the hou.-e and spaced out half an inch ft >i.i tli • v.ii. The vrire war hung Just as i... r is hung, in strip;- down the wall. Me. W ng's directions for doing this work or ■. in I rief. as follows; To fasten the wire tirst staple one dge, driving the stages in all but ■• ■ ■...' F3 . t j:" A PLASTER COATED HOUSE. about half an inch of their length. Of course the wire must not lie close to the wall. If it diil, it would do little tood. A distance from the wall of fi :i a half to three-quarters of an inch is right. To fasten the other edges and the snbsequeut strips sixpenny nails aie used. driven at such an angle as to siivle'.i the wire as "tight as a fidelle s.-hnr." It must be remembered that l»o i wir» must lie stretched side wiso on account of the marginal wire. If the wire lies too cl se to the house, it must be lcept out with screws. Now for the plaster. Have it all made tit one.'. If you do not, it will not he all of just tli.- same color. Use good frc-ei liiae and sharp siliceous sand. I<j :.ot I t your plasterer make the m r, r "rich" with lime. Make It as masons make their mortar, with the right proportions of sand aud lime, so that it will liar;'en into stone. The plaster should be put on in two c :Us Let the tirst one barely cover > wire. It goes through the wire against the wall and Is merely thick eno h to hid.- It. It should not be ma-';' -mo >th. Before it is very dry put on a thinner coat. Let It get tolerably dry. I.ut not hard: then have It "float ed" e'.o'.vu with a wooden "float." This is merely a square hemrd about eight Inches square. It is given a circular m ;li n and smooths off the wall. The plaster must be wet as floated. This Is dene by means of a bucket of water and I rush, the brush not touched to the wall, but used to sprinkle it. When it is floated. It is done. Do not use any "white coat" or block It e>ff to resemble stone. Be content to let It seem what it r ally Is. It will satisfy you longer that way. When It hardens, there Is the plaster with the wire imbedded in about the middle of Its thickness. Tills "inven tion'' may be applied to outbuildings, poultry houses, cow stables, etc., anil especially for the rejuvenation of old buiidiugs. March Funnlnc l>> a Lonit Islander. Nevertheless Mr. Hollister kept on plowing. His horses did not sink to their middle in the mire. He put them on what were to all intents and pur pos s "suowshoes." each hoof on a bit of i i "/honed board some three-quar ters ( f a f"ot square, and sliotl with these the teams dragee*! great marsh breaking plows of four foot mold boar 1 and extension slowly, yet suc cessfully, over the morasses. These marsh breaking plows cut up the tough liber l.i strips half a yard deep, throw ing them over on the side. Then a roller went over them, then the disk harrow, then a leveler, then the roller again, once more tlie disk harrow. Inch by Inch the fiber was now torn up anil disintegrated. The chemical treat ment followed sodium and tyagnesl um salts, potash and phosphoric acid. Nature's c urse was anticipated. A rapi(il.v growing crop of crimson clover gave to this soil quickly and at practi cally no expense at all a great quanti ty of nitrogen that it much needed. "j".ii; mploted the task. Crops sown broxieast then grew with amazing rptvd. New York Times. II river*' Crnln* Fine For Covra. Brewers' grains are an excellent food for <■ us. Thpy make good milk, as is proved I'.v the f;ut that many large milk producers for the New York mar- I1 1 f. Ed tli. ui. Being wet and soft, the rain.; '>->n sour and spoil; hence they are dried or ate kept in silos. Some years lu fore the modern silo was brought into use the same process was used I' r pr serving grains for use dur ing the suniin r. The method was then lo pack the wet grains solidly in brick vaults I clow the surface, and these pit sih s are still in use. The grains are a littl ■ sour when used in the winter, but they make good milk. The quantity fed varies fr an a peek to half a bushel twice a day. with a liberal fe>ed of ornni al. say - Henry Stewart In New liugland II instead. THE ALFALFA PLANT. WenU When Yoiiiik, \ lisiiroua In Ma tnrl(>—Will \ot S!nn<l Wet Feet. Growing alfnl.a in Kansas is the jpbject of a bulletin of the state sta tion. who e int rest oxien Is, in fact, wherever the glowing of alfalfa Is at teinp.ed. Its jo !i.s are all practical. He.e ere a few tpeeluirus: The young alfalfa plant Is one of the veal; s. plants on Kansas farm . It grows >lowly. Is a weak fe.\i y ;.n.i i ta ily chicked or killed by we. ds end by unfavorable condi tion. of ; oil, w. ather or treatment Mature alfalfa Is a mo. t vigorous piant. it ;.rov\ s down de.ply In the :■ .11. ;* a v g. roue feed, r anil lives and yield well u:id r many unfavorable coi.d ions. For this reason it will pay iiiii .o j: vc .ho Ia by alfalfa plant I care and favorable surroundings for tin- firit year i,f Its life. Mo s t:ro s an absolute necessity to the giowtli < f the .xo.ing plant, and It jh. till be held i.i !lio most favorable coed to ; for plant growth. l.aiid for alf.il a should Le In the l»est cf tilth and cany a full supply of moisture, without being soaked. Loose soils I i should bo packed both before secdlngl and during tlie life of tlie plant, while! I hard soils should be made mellow.i | Do not soed lnnd to alfalfa until tliisj condition is secured, if It takes two ori | throe years to get it. | A l.ooil Seeil lied AH Important. | A good so; d bed almost insures a ; good stand of alfalfa. As alfalfa is a costly crop to seed, and It Is ex peetexl to furnish good crops for ten or more years after seeding, it is profit-i able to spend much labor on the seed bed and get it Just right. The land for alfalfa should be thoroughly fined i on the surface to a depth of three or four Indies. Below this the soil should I e mellow, but compact, in such a con dition as to hold moisture and to bring up ;he greatest amount of moisture from below. After alfalfa reaches maturity lti can abundant fi>od from tough,' hard soils. Mature alfalfa adds nitro-; gen to the soil in large quantities, but! the young alfalfa plant must be sup-' plied with nitrogen in an easily avnila-, bio form or it will not thrive and will] often perish. In Kansas this supplyj of nitro- en Is secured cheaply in two ways—by a short fallow and by grow ing some legume, such as soy beans, Canada field peas or cowpeas on the land before it is fitted for alfalfa. Land Mtmt Be Well Drained. Alfalfa will not grow with wet feet. It grows best where permanent water is fifteen <r more feet below the sur face. With thoroughly drained soils it sometimes thrives where the ground water is only six to ten feet below the surface, but not often. On hundreds of farms in Kansas alfalfa is a paying crop with the permanent water 30 to ISO feet below the surface. To Insure a good stand of alfalfa the land must be free from weeds and weed seeds at the time of seeding. The weak, young alfalfa plant is more eas ily killed by weeds than any other farm plant. ABOUT BEN DAVIS. I'rofeamir Van Deman'a "Two Facta." How It Won Its Way. There are two undeniable facts In connection with the • uit business. One is that Bin Davis is the leading business apple of America and the other that it is steadily losing caste. The truth is that it can Ik* successfully grown over a wider area and more cheaply produced than any other ap pl . This, together with its attractive appearance and ability to keep well, gives it a wonderful hold on the mar kets of this and foreign countries. It has won its way to its present position against the protests of those who know what gjod apples are. The frequent and truthful charges against its qual ity have heretofore been of little avail. Planters have listened only to the clink of the dollars it has brought them. While I am writing my wife is mak ing pies of York Imperial. It will grow and bear almost as well In most re gions as Ben Davis. There are a few other good business apples. Apple sauce uiad? from Jonathan, Grimes, Winesap and its seedlings, Esopus and some others. Is not to be compared to that made from "old Ben." In Wash ington and Oregon about two years ago there was a general complaint of an excess of Hen Davis apples. Buyers did not want them unless there were a lot of Jonathan, Home Beauty or some other good variety to go with them. Ulg fruit dealers In the west have taken action of the same kind this falL ! In St. Louis the price of Hen Davis is not far from half lower than any other variety. There is a t®neral outcry against It by these men because the small dealers and consumers have be come dis.'usted with Its poor quality. Planters have urged to change to some better variety, and 1 agree with this idea. H. K. Van Detnau in American Agriculturist. Agrlcnlfurnl Notes. Long 1 sin iul (N. Y.) fanners are re claiming their marsh lauds and turn ing them into profitable fields of celery, cabbage and corn. The conditions demanded by alfalfa are abundant moisture, a perfect seed bed, fertile soil at seeding, good draln age'and no weeds. New England Homestead notes tre mendous Increase In the output of man ufactured tobacco, especially cigars. This is why tobacco sells high and there is an increased demand for cigar leaf. The familiar old dictum, "Hens too fat to lay." is being looked at askance by some of the modern poultrymen. The PJO2 peppermint oil crop of the United States is generally conceded to! be .very deficient, and there is a corner In peppermint oil. Be Waa a Bntcher. "Now, I rather pride myself on my. ability to read character," said the man who was given to buying detec tive tales, "and yet why should I? It is really a very simple thing; requires nothing but close observation. For in stance, It is easy to tell a man's occu pation. His facial expression, his ac tions, even his dress, are stamped by his daily work. You see that man sit ting opposite us? Well, I am Just as sure as though he had told me that he Is a barber." "You are mistaken,"replied his friend. "That man Is a butcher." "Impossible!" exclaimed the amateur detective. "You never saw a butcher with slim white hands, like his." "Perhaps not," admitted the other, "but he is a butcher Just the same." "How do you know he is?" "How do I know? Why, the scoun drel shaved me once." Household Guest Bnrlal Alive. Though it is possible that cases of burial of living persons may still occur, fortunately they are more rare than in former times. Even the doctor's orders against interment were not always obeyed, for the Gentleman's Magazine of 1751 relates the case of liichard Carson of Hay, Herefordshire, Eng land, who was supposed to have died, but a doctor declared that Carson still lived and ordered that he was not to be burled. His relatives paid no heed to the injunction, and the body was com mitted to the grave next day. A per son passing through the churchyard heard a noise and prevailed on the clerk to open the grave, where tho supposeel corpse was found in a pro fuse sweat and bleeding at the nose. Unfortunately the man was beyond re covery and soon died. Tbe Llama. In Bollvln, one of the highest inliab- Itated countries on the globe—La Pa*, the capital, being 12,000 feet above the sea level—much use Is made of that graceful and Invaluable pack animal the llama, which will travel farther and with even less food than the burro, but will not carry more than 150 pounds. The llama In Borno respects re sembles the camel, kneeling In camel fashion to receive its load, and it will not rise If more than 150 pounds are placed on Its back; moreover, the weight must be evenly distributed over its back aud sides. No 3
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