VOL. XXXX. February Prices Bickel's. Men's Gray Felts and Extra Heavy Goodyear—Glove Overs r - 1 Man's Extra Heavy Goodyear Glove perfections Men's first quality robbers Boys' first qnality robbers , K) Misses' Canvas boots LEATHER goods- Men's fine patin calf shoes—latest styles $ Boys " • " t ;; : - Youths i o<> Men's Heavy sole and tap working shoes * Men's Double sole and tap. box-toe shoes Boys' Heavy every day shoes LADIES' FINE SHOES Ladies' #1.85 warm lined shoes * Misses' fine Dongola shoes, sizes 11* to j. 1 lot Misses'fine Kangaroo-calf #1.75 shoes . 1 lot Ladies' fine Dongola $1.505h0e5...... ■ 0 Baker & Bowman's #4.00 fine shoes-hand turns and band welts ~ 1 lot children's 75c red shoes at • ■ .- c / s o c ' aud 6 0c Children s fine shoes All Winter Goods to be closed out Regardless of Cost. Leggins and Overgaiters at greatly reduced prices. Sample Counters filled with Interesting Bargains. Repairing neatly and Promptly Done. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St., BUTLER, PA. fl HUSELTON'S N f] C. O. D. j [j Sale of Shoes 4 W There ji W Bunch of Moi\ey J r« Lost and made in Shoes this month! *2 We lose—You win! V 1250 pairs Fall and Winter Shoes. A j Men's, Women's and Children's—so far not sold will, m as is oar custom-BE CUT IN PRICE and prompt- A J ly gotten rid of! 1 1 SALE IS NOW GOING ON! 1 J TAKE DUE NOTICE! f IA. HUSELTON'S Sir | OVERCOATS | | At 1-2 Prices. ) We will sell 150 Men's Overcoats at 1-2 price i J The balance of our Men's Overcoats at a bargain. \ \ Your choice ol any Boys' or Child's Overcoat in / \ our store for just 1-2 price. y \ The public knows we only have ONE PRICE and always maice v / it in plain flguers. So when we say i price it something. V J We also have odds and ends in Suits, Shirts, Hats and Furnish- J \ logs that we will close oat at a Bargain. ( f CALL SOON—THIS SALE ONLY LASTS 15 DAYS. / d Yours lor Clothing, C |DOUTHeTT S GRAHA /V\.j £■!," 11.1 ■' JL!J i—SBLL'J-JJL JLJ4L J 1 - - - ' KECK § £| Fall & Winter Weights f\ jT C*K /]~* E H ave a nattiness about them that J|] ri Is l Ik MB / J M mark the wearer, it won't do to / [\ LC7 (d( B\ wear the last year's output. You \ y jh JTSg~V/ XrtJ *4 won't get the latest things at the 7' \CJ r? stock clothiers either. The up-to j\ Y kn\. Jlf /"1 date tailor only tan supply them, - 11l V% IIIuI (J " you want not only the latest I I till I I things in cut and fit and work | I llf ill I mansbip, the finest in durability, 1! 1 It 111 11 I •vhere else can you get combiua jrf » j n 111 M ™ lions, you get them at K E C K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 2*■ North Main Street All Work Guaranteed Butler, Pa Now Is The Time To begin to think about what papering you are going to do before the Spring rush begins. Our stock of Wall Paper for 1903 surpasses all previous seasons. Double the amount we ever carried. Quality, tasty designs and colorings can't be beat. Come in and look around even if you don't want to buy. It will be time well spent and a pleasure for you to cee the FINEST and LARGEST display of Wall Coverings ever shown in Butler. No trouble to show goods. > Picture and Mirror Framing a specialty. ,; Patterson Bros' 296 N. Main St. Phone 400. Wick Building. HAMMILL'S CELEBRATED INDI IN ROOT TABLETS Greatest Kidney and Liver Remedy. Positive cure for Sick § A Headache, Sour Stomach. Loss of Appetite, Constipation \T Rheumatism, Blood Puritter. For Sale by all Druggists, or by mail, 25c, 50c, and SI.OO HAMMILL MEDICINE CO, *va If * No. :tO2 MILTENBERGER STREET, PITTSBURG, PENN'A. Subscribe for tbc CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. CATARRH In ali its stages- X C- Ely's Cream soothe* and heals M the diseased membrane. It cares catarrh and drives nvray a co,d m the head qoicldy. {•ream ISalm is placed into the nostr'.U.sj • ai'.s over the membrane and is absorbed. Ite. ef is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 5U cents at Drug gists or by maii; Triai Size, 30 cents. [] Johnston's Beef. Iron and Wine K fi is the Bsst Tonic B j Blood Purifier. Price, 50c pint. Prepared and sold only at k ' v. Johnston s j Crystal K A Pharmacy, | V Manager, ar A J ICS N. Main Bt., Butler, Pa V Both 'Phones W 2 *1 Everything in the l! drug line. v A LJ "\ ( &HIR »i "osfc ijTTir"?, . : " ff Tits IwSmmTL 5 1 Vr ' ot }LOVfi lli OrH 11 "* rriiri "" I Men's Goods- \ J J , RIG SAIsE I J OF j i HATS J j AND J I FURNISHINGS. J J All heavy \ Winter goods J j are included in this sale. 4 S All soft and stiff hats at i off S { All soft and stiff bosom color- a J 1 d shirts at i off > J All heavy lined gloves at... \ ofT J 1 All heavy underwear i ofi 'T # All mufllers at... .. i off W 0 All neckwear at i off W m All Men's and Boys' caps i off # ? Odds and ends at any old price. 5 Jno. S. Wick £ HATTER and J MEN'S FURNISHER. t ! Opposite P. 0. $ HUTLER, I'A. i Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and!SaleStable Rear of Wick House. Butler Penn'a. The bout of horse* and first class rigs al ways on timid and for hire. Best accommodations In town for perma* nent boarding and transient trade. Speci al earn guaranteed. Stable Room For 65 Horses. A good c UHS of hor«es, both drivers and draft homes always on hand and for dale under a full guarantee; and horses bough lion proper notification, by PEARSON B. NACE. Telcpnoao No. 219. A Safe Investment- Fine Farm For Sale. $7,000; farm of 50 acres, 1 miles from Mars Station,one mile from brush Creek and Perrysville road: lioase of nine room-, gas. center hull, porches, two cellars; the farm is all fenced with wire, locust posts; a good bank barn 40x00, wagon shed 20x10; a large chicken house 20x:J0, piped with gas; the farm is well watered and watered in two forms; it has a large apple orchard, 4 oil wells, royalty S4O per month; 10 acres which are not leased for oil can be leased at any time with a guarantee of drilling a well; the land is all cleared, good soil; reasons for selling closing np an estate. See M. J. EHHENFELD, 1022 Forbes st.. Pittsburg, Pa. BUTLER, PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I'-'. 1903. CAPTURED ELECTRICALLY ; ...By Aivah Miiton Kerr | Copi/rioM, IMS, h<j the 1 S. S. McCiurc Com pony ,' Trindle, our line repairer, was rather slender, but with highly developed muscles in fingers, arms and shoulders and with nerve to face anything. Sev eral years of labor with the pliers had given him a finger grip which caused his chums to avoid shaking hand with him. He could make an insulator tie with a Xo. C iron wire with apparent case. This remarkable power of con traction in the finger muscles once saved him from probable death. In 1803 a local company in I.ayton hnd installed a telephone exchange. Several of their wires paralleled the telegraph wires along the tracks and also those of the lighting and power company in the streets. The result was a bad case~of induction, that mysteri ous transference of electrical iuipulse between wires where there is no direct connection. So great was the influence of the tele graph and power wires on the wires of the telephone company that the rat tle and clicking of our instruments could be distinctly heard in the tele phone receivers, and the singing snarl of the dynamos at the power house an noyed every one trying to use the phone. The manager angrily declared that tome enemy of his company had thrown threadlike copper wires across from wire to wire, thus tangling up the currents. Prindle "went over" the wires care fully twice and reported that he could find no "cross" of that sort. Still he kept studying and inspecting the mat ter, because the telephone manager's daughter was a very good friend of his. Emerging from tho manager's house one night near the hour of 12, he no ticed a dark figure stealing down a side street. Touched with suspicion, I'rindle followed after the skulking form, the "malicious enemy" theory suddenly alive in his mind. Presently the figure crossed a moon lit street and entered an alley leading between two business blocks. Through the alley ran the wires of botli the tel ephone and power companies, and Prindle crept carefully forward through the shadows at the base of the buildings, keeping his eye on the man ahead of him. Suddenly, and to the lineman's astonishment, the man began walking up one of the telephone poles. " 'Pon my soul," gasped Prindle, "if he hasn't got spurs strapped on his shoes! I guess Manager Towne must be right; some oiie's tampering with the wires! I'll nail the rogue when he comes down." With tingling nerves he crept near er; but, to his amazement, the climber stopped before reaching the cross arm and skillfully threw the iron booked end of a rope ladder over the sill of an open window in the side of the build ing, some six feet away. The other end of the ladder he strapped to the pole, then carefully crept across the bridge thus formed and disappeared through the window. I'rindle fetched a low whistle and looked all around. "Whew!" he half whispered. "This is interesting and no mistake! That chap has gone into a room above the bank! Must be he's figuring on gettiug down into the vault room!" He stood In silence looking up at tho window and listening. The slow, soft rasping of some sort of instrument came to his ears. Placing his hand on his hip pocket to see if the little pistol he carried when out late at night was there, he slipped off his shot's and be gan climbing the pole. Slowly and carefully he drew himself up until his hand was on the strap of the ladder, then he paused. The rasping noise had ceased. "If that fellow hears me, he will like ly come to the window and shoot me in the face," was Prindle's thought. He hung perfectly motionless for a time, hearing nothing louder than the strong beating of his heart. Then the rasping sound began again. Immediately' the lineman drew him self higher. Then, taking the pistol in his hand, he crept warily across the rope bridge and in at the window. Letting himself down on the floor, he stood still. The rasping sound came from a closet at the back end of tho room. "He Is sawing through the floor with the expectation of working his way through the brickwork covering the top of the bank vault," was Prindle's mental comment. With pistol In hand he began step ping craftily toward the closet, but a board in the floor creaked and the muf fled noise of the saw suddenly ceased. The lineman held his breath. A misty kind of darkness filled the room, the moon's radiance being reflected dimly from the opposite wall of the alley. An Instant later he saw the door of the closet pushed open and the outline of a human form rising in the opening. To the burglar the dim and immova ble figure in the middle of the room must have seemed frightful. Had Prindlo not spoken it Is possible tho robber would have fallen on his knees, thinking he was confronted by a spirit, but when be said quietly, though with a distinguishable tremor of excitement, "Throw up your bands, mister, or I'll fire," a sudden fury of energy moved the man. He came across the room In one 10113 leap and struck against Prin dle like a bolt. The lineman went against the wall with a thud, and the pistol sfVuclt the ceiling and exploded. Tlie burglar wblrleil round and disap peared through an inner door leading tnto tho passageway. Prindle hastily felt about the floor fw the revolver, but the weapon not meeting his hand at once, he rushed uftt-r the burglar. Ills blood was 011 lire with anger. Listening an instant, he heard feet flying up the stairs above liliu. Apparently the robber had plan ned to escape to the roof and slide down a rain pipe Into the dark alley at the rear. I'rlndlo sprang up through tin- roof hatch as the num crossed the almost tint roof toward the rear and caught him as he reached the low parapet wall at the roof's edge. The robber was of larger and heav ier mold than the lineman and was desperate. As tlicy grappled he tried to draw a Knife from his pocket, but I'rindle clutched those awful lingers of his into the man's throat and tripped him backward. They came down to gether on the pitch and gravel of the roof, but the rush and fall threw I'rin dle beyond kis antagonist, tearing his hold loose. In another breath thej were together again, lighting desper ately. As they came striking and struggling Into the angle of the parapet Prlndle suddenly felt himself lifted bodily, and the next instant he was being pressed over the wall. Feeling himself he set his fingers into the biceps of the burglar's left arm and pinioned his right hand. In that awfn! moment he felt the cords of his a' w - and fingers contract until they burned like hot wires. With a cry of agony the robber jerked him back to the roof, then whirl ed and ran across the ronf, drawing the knife a3 he fled. Prindle saw the moonlight glint of the knife blade, and, though infuriate with the passion of battle, he recoiled. The burglar turned in the angle of the wall, striving to re gain breath before the next onset. A power wire stretched across the roof some eight or nine feet above the floor. Prindle drew a pair of rubber faced gloves from his pocket, drew them on and suddenly leaped up and caught the wire. As he descended the wire snapped and fell to the roof. In stantly he caught up the two ends of it and sprang at the robber, who met him with uplifted knife. The cracksman seemed to divine the terrible nature of the tiny weapons in the lineman's hands, for his face blanched white. In the moonlight Prin dle looked equally pale. If he could touch the roiibcr's flesh with the bare ends of the wires, he would win; if not, he would probably die by the oth er's knife. It was a strange duel. They feinted several times, then struck together. The clothing was sheared away from Prindle's arm, but the burglar fell in a knotted, quivering heap. The point of one of the live wires had gone up his sleeve; the other had punctured his neck. When the burglar recovered his senses, Prindle had him securely tied with detached pieces of the wire and was at the front parapet of the roof, looking up and down the street for an officer. The bank people gave I'rindle a hand some reward. When metallic circuits had been run by the telephone compa ny on his suggestion and they found the troublesome induction overcome, Manager Towne declared the plucky lineman worthy to be any man's son in-law, and he was. An Indian Feant. What did the Indians eat? Gabriel Thomas, writing in 1696, tells us that "they live chiefly on maize or Indian corn roasted in the Ashes, sometimes beaten boyl'd with Water, called Ilom inic. They have cakes, not unpleasant: also Beans and Pease, which noruisli much, but the Woods and Rivers afford them their provision; they eat morning and evening, their Seats and Tables on the ground." Mr. C. C. Abbott tells in "Travels In a Treetop" of other vegeta ble foods known to the Indians—the roots of the golden club, arrowleaf and groundnut, besides various berries and nuts. It Is well known that extensive orchards were planted by these people. It may be added that In all probability the tubers of that noble plant, the lo tus, were used as food. It is clear that the Delawares were meat eaters. It needs but little digging on any village site to prove this, and from a single fireplace deep down in the soil have been taken bones of the elk, deer, bear, beaver, raccoon, muskrat and gray squirrel. The remains of deer were largely in excess, and as this statement holds good of every yillage site of the Indians, doubtless they depended more largely upon the deer than upon all the others. The Word of u Gambler. Pat Sheedy, the gambler, occasional ly found his reputation of being a square man his only available asset. It is not unusual for gamblers with such a reputation to play faro on credit. So far as is known, however, Sheedy is the »nly gambler who ever borrowed money from a bank when lie was with out funds with no other security than his word and the probability that his luck would change. The story is vouched for by Sheedy's friends. A long run of ill luck had cleaned him out in a summer resort, and he went to the cashier of the leading bank and asked for a loan. The size of the loan asked varies from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO, according to who tells it "What security have you?" asked the cashier. "Nothing but my word.'' "But I don't know you." "Well, you've heard of me. I'm Tat Sheedy, the gambler, and my word is (is good as a government bond." The cashier knew all about him then, and all hough It was an irregular trans action, Sheedy got the money. Ills luck changed, and he paid back the loan promptly. The I'armee. The l'arsee, untramineled by his sur roundings, is seen in Bombay In all his wealth of height and dress. The men are, without exception, tall, finely formed and stately and possess a ro bustness and beauty quite at contrast with their Hindoo neighbors. Their street costume Is a peculiar long white cotton gown, wide trousers of the same material and color and a tall miter shaped hat. They have a general reputation for sobriety, frugali ty and sagacity, and they seem to thoroughly understand the accumula tion of fortunes. In this respect resem bling the Hebrews. The wealthiest residents of Bombay are I'ursees. Where Cobra* Are Held to He Saercd. The Hindoos on account of their su perstition are very loath to destroy a cobra. It appears prominently In their mythology, and it is venerated both as a symbol of a malicious and destruc tive power and also a beneficent one. Recording to Mr. A. K. Forbes, cobras ire looked upon as guardian angels, and there Is a Bengalese tradition that a male infant auspiciously shaded by a cobra will como to the throne. lilt I'll Work. Mrs. A.—l'm surprised that your hlisbaud earns so little If he works as hard as you say. What does he do? Mrs. B.—The lust thing he did was to calculate how many times a clock ticked In the course <>f 1,000 years. TI:UI*TII' LES ii H (iciiKmiililen, "I never realized the value of time tallies until 1 got hold <>f a class of boys old i notv.li in take an interest il| geography," said a New York public school teaeher. "So far as the study of maps goes, I can get better results from the use of time tables than from .•ill the geographies in the market. Maps tlit have been prepared for the pur p of cultivating the youthful mind in the matter of locality are shunned as bv Pears by all except the studious few. But Jast set a dozen boys around a pile ..f lime tables and tell them to lo cate certain cities, lakes and rivers, and thev will work like beavers and conn* out I'tier perfect every time. For most clilldn II timetables and accompa ny; III.I i are a source of unfailing 1 both In and out of school o;:i. . It i true that this unorthodox 11i> :'i d i::ay give the boys cxagger ;<t« ' • a- lo the Imp' i lance of* cr il. railroads, but lliey seem to get cum: ii i. il out of the Investigation to counteract such impressions." FiIC^jMPEN A FARMER'S HOTBED. I'm mo. Sahh mid Mini art-—HOT** to Make Very Ilaudj" Shutter*. Preparations for the liotbod should be made according to the earliness of tlie season. Timely practical details by an Ohio Farmer writer for making and managing a hotbed are here appended: The ordinary stock size of hotbed sash carried in stock by dealers is 3 by C feet, but any old sash will answer the purpose. The liotbt'd should be laid out to extend east and west, and the north side of the frame should be about six inches higher than the south HOTBED FOB EARLY PLANTS. Side to give the glass a pitch toward the sun. Take a plank or board ten inches wide for the front and one six teen inches wide for the back Is about right The ends of the frame should come up even with the top of the side planks and be ripped off to give the proper pitch. A cleat should be nailed on the end of the hotbed, as shown at C in the figure, to hold the sash from slip ping endwise. The frame should also have a stay across the top about every six feet to prevent the sides from springing out, shown at A. Select some sheltered spot where there is plenty of sunshine and dig out a hole about a foot larger than the frame on every side and about two and a half feet deep. Draw out a load or two of fermenting horse manure. If the manure is heating evenly all through, it may be put Into the pit at once; if not, it should be shaken up thoroughly aixl piled up in a close, compact pile and left a few days. If any portions of it are dry. It should be wet down. Iu filling the pit care should be taken to tread down the manure firmly. The manure should extend be yond the frame on all sides a foot at least; then set on the frame and bank it up 011 the outside to the top of the frame with manure. Next put on six to eight inches of soil, put on the sash and let it sweat. By about the third or fourth day it will do to sow to seed. Radishes, lettuce and onion sets may be put in along with cabbages, peppers and eggplants. The sash should be raised a little every day to give the plants fresh air. When moisture begins to gather on the under side of the glass, you may know the temperature is running too high and that fresh air should be admitted. Care must be taken not to allow cold wind to blow on the plants. An Improved Hotbed Shatter. In cold nights the sa3h should be cov ered with straw matting or burlaps, and in case of rain or snow it is well to have an improved hotbed shutter the same size as the top of the hotbed. This shutter saves time and labor. To make It get strips of three-eighths inch thick lumber, nail these on to cleats seven eighths inch by 2 inches at ends and middle; then take building paper and spread over the entire surface, then till and pack the spaces with rye straw. Cover again with building paper and nail on the boards on the under side. This shutter takes the place of the ordi nary board shutter and straw mats and saves time in handling. Two iron hau dles, like door handles, screwed on near each end, midway, help handle It. One can do quite a business with a few hot beds of this kind. HIIIMIHIIK THE Itelnn. There Is one way of handling a spir ited horse that upon certain occasions I have found particularly serviceable, remarks a correspondent In an ex change. Not a few farm horses that are restive and afraid when around railroad trains and nearlng crossings are made so by the seeming timidity of the drivers. 1 f the driver is the least bit nervous and begins to pull up a lit tle on the reins, the horse discovers It instantly and is upon his mettle, while if the driver Is cool and handles the reins precisely as elsewhere there are few horses that discover anything to be afraid of even when the train appears In sight. The action of the driver In many cases determines the action of the horse. Throe TIIIIIKT* Wanted. Now then, ye scientific men, here are three things that fruit growers and gardeners want: First.—A better and more reliable fungicide than the common bordeaux mixture. Second.—A mixture that will kill po. tato beetles and not Injure the vines. Third.—A remedy for the melon blight that will enable us to grow good melons. Of course we understand that yon may say bordeaux mixture and parls green are good enough. There are thousands of practical men who do not agree with you. Excuse us If we say that it's up to you to come down to them.—Rural New Yorkey. Practice With Poultry. If fowls are kept on the colony plan, the field used at the time of an out break of fowl typhoid or any other dis ease could well be thrown Into cultiva tion and a succession of crops grown in rotation. Indeed the plan of using a rotation of crops and moving the houses In accordance therewith will be found to be good practice and diminish to a large extent the diseases to which fowls are liable when kept too long ou the same ground. THIS IS BUSINESS. Halite WltoleNiile, Sell ltetall and <*et Your Share of the Profit*. "Raise wholesale, sell retail." The story of T. 11. Terry of Summit county, 0., Illustrates the point. Mr. Terry Is a farmer of national reputation, clear headed, thorough and successful. Mr. Terry writes: "Some twenty years ago I was haul ing our potatoes to Akron, twelve miles distant, almost daily In the fall with two teams. They were raised on quite a large scale, a Job lot, about as cheap ly as It could be done. We had all the tools and every convenience for cheap handling. The potatoes were sold by the load only to grocers, but the quali ty enabled us to get at least 40 cents a bushel In ordinary seasons. Now, there were scores and perhaps hun dreds of farmers In the country wlwi each grow some more potatoes than they wanted, a load or two, or three loads perhaps. They could not afford the planter, digger, first class tillage Implements, boxes, spring wagons, etc., that we had. No, they were growing their potatoes at retail, livery bushel probably cost them the full retail price, perhaps more. While we made a busi ness of It and used the smoothing liar row on time and kept the crop clean without hoeing, as a rule they let weeds prow with i>otatoes until all were three or four inches high perhaps and then cultivated them up and hoed and hoed without setting them as clean as ours. Notice the time spent. I could harrow some two acres an hour. Now what (lid they get for these potatoes by the load? Just 25 cents, when we were getting 40 cents year after year. They were at the mercy of the buyers. Peddle the Few Thlni[>. "The only chance to come out wholt for these fanners raising only a few was to peddle them around the city. I preferred to raise on a large scale and make more with less trouble. One or the other you must do if you want to succeed. Miss Robbing is a New Eng land lady. She tells of having peaches to sell last fall. A dealer offered 25 cents a i>eck. she furnishing baskets and delivering them two miles. Instead of this they sold them to neighbors and at the village at retail for from 50 to 00 cents a peck, making an enormous difference In the profit in a small way. Thousands ought to become peddlers of choice products of their own growing, delivering them fresh and in perfect or der to the consumer, thus getting good customers and keeping them and se curing 25 to 100 per cent more for their products. Those not situated for doing this, who sell at wholesale, should raise their products accordingly. If you raise potatoes or apples largely, have only one or two kinds—those that will do best for you, considering soil, climate and markets."—Practical Farmer. nniHlnit Draft Horaea. The draft horse is the horse for the farmer to raise. Only the heaviest and best stallions are suitable. Even then the demand for extreme weights neces sitates the use of large mares that are good milkers. In no other way can colts be produced with sufficient and feeding quality to attain the size and finish A-innuded by the markets. The young animals must be supplied with the best of feed in large amounts from the very first. All this, as Pro fessor Davenport points out in an Illi nois experiment station bulletin. Is much like growing beef, and the draft horses are the ones to produce on the farms. They can be grown nowhere else to advantage, and when it Is re membered that the draft horse is real ly the highest priced standard horse on the market it is easy enough to see what horse the farmer should raise. Other things being equal, the price of a draft horse depends largely upon his weight and ranges from $125 to S3OO, with an increase of about 10 per cent when matched in teams. Dealers In sist that prices were never so low that a span of draft horses would not bring SOOO if they were good enough. A Good Shipping Coop. If you have a bird to ship by express, here is a handy coop and one easily made, says Farm /"\ Journal: For a / t large single fowl f | : SSi the base should Inches and the A HANDY cooi>. height 20 inches. For bottom and ends use throe-quarter inch dressed pine and for sides and top one-half inch pine. Place the slats so close that the bird cannot stick its head out. For winter use make one side solid. The Time to Prune. What is the best time to prune fruit trees? This is a question always be ing asked. The old answer that the best time is when the saw is sharp has a good deal of truth in it, though to be more precise and somewhat more prac tical it may be said that early spring, Just before the sap starts, is the most favorable season. In some places that means now. Trees that need pruning should be pruned at one?. Cat and Shredded. The easiest dollars we can make are the ones we are after. The farmer is the most Important factor on tho farm. Fruit and children are magnet and iron. Start an orchard for the boy. There is at present a tendency to ward the farm on the part of those who live iu the city. "The farmer who thinks Is the farm* er that is making money by his crops today," gays Secretary Wilson. Keep accounts and you will meet with many surprises and learn things worth knowing. "Genius is 2 per cent inspiration and 38 per cent perspiration," according to Thomas A. Edison. SPRING WORK.' ' ' Jn»l K HeV.iluder of Some of th« Many Itema of Farm Hoattue, To put iu the spring crops right one must begin to plan some time ahead Bo as not to leave any of the little tblugs undone that may tend to injure the crops, as a little neglect may make a great difference in the amount grown from year to year. This can be noticed in sowing grass seed as much as any thing else, as a failure to get a stand is often caused by waiting a few days. Timothy and orchard grass should be jown In February and clover in March In this stato (Indiana), as It will then jet u good start and will not be so apt to burn out In the summer. The breaking plow should be started just as soon as the ground Is dry enough and should be kept going every day the weather will permit. Do not neglect the plowing for some other work or later you will have to plow when It Is wet and thus ruin the laud. Through the winter get in your sum mer's supply of wood. Get some oil meal to have on hand to feed any stock that may not bo doing well. Oil meal Is almost as good as condition powders. Do not forget to plant some pump kins this year for the hogs next fall, as they are a good thing to mix with the corn when feeding. Give the cows and horses some also. Do not forget to manure the truck patch. Put on plenty, as here is whero It will do tho most good. This Is the time of year to look over the orchard. Perhaps you need some trees this spring or those already set out may need trimming. Every farmer should have a large or chard so tho family may have plenty of fruit. Trees may bo planted close to tho house on tho ground that the fowls run on, and they will furnish shade as well as fruit. I have 150 peach trees on the north west side of my tenant house. They make a good windbreak. Prairie Farmer. GRASS ON SANDY SOIL. A finnd Mixture of Seed— Early How- Inn on Well Pitted Land. As a seeding for sandy meadow whero tho object is to securo a perma nent stand the following mlrturo of seeds Is recommended by Dr. Roberts iu Country Gentleman for one acre: Hed clover, 0 pounds; alsike clover, 4 pounds; Kentucky bluo grjyyj, pounds; orchard grass, pounds; meadow fescue, 3Va pounds; redtop. 3V>j pounds; timothy, 5 pounds. The heavy seeds, as the clovers, should be sown separately from the light seeds, for If all are sown together the distribution will be uneven. Unless the land was fitted last fall it will need to bo prepared for the seed next spring. Too often the mistake is made of sowing grass seeds on land which has received no preparation, and often failure results. If the land were plowed last fall and fitted, the seed may be sown in the very early spring. It may even be sown before the snow has all disap peared. If the land was not fitted last fall, it should be given some prepara tion In the spring. The best preparation would be to plow and harrow it, making a fine seed bed. If plowing seems not advisa ble, then a disk or a spading harrow may be used. At least before the grass seed is sown there should be some preparation of seed bed. I can never understand why so many seem to think that grass seeding cau be done on soils which have received no special preparation. The mixture of seeds recommended above will almost certainly give good results if sown on properly prepared soils. Hla Hena Lay. Mary had a little hen. 'Twas feminine and queer; It laid like smoke when eggs were cheap And quit when egs» wore dear. Not so the fowls of one of New Jer sey's successful poultrymen, who al lows no trifling on the part of hens when it is a question of egg production at the time that prices of eggs are highest. According to report, his meth od of making hens lay, as described in an address before the Somerset coun ty board of agriculture. Is based upon "taking time by the forelock." In or der to turn those hens into the way in which they should go he locks them up about the middle of August where they can get nothing to eat and feeds them either sunflower seeds or cottonseed meal. Tills makes them shed their feathers so rapidly that in about a month's time their annual rest is over, and they begin to lay eggs and con tinue to do so all winter. Jfewa and N'otes. Of the $952,000,000 worth of farm produce shipped from the United States during the fiscal year 1901 more than half was disposed of In the British market. Our agricultural exports to that destination in the year mentioned had the exceptionally high value of $490,000,000. Cotton was decidedly the largest factor in the trade. A pinch in cucumber seed is reported by American Agriculturist. The Statistical Sugar Trade Journal estimates the production of sugar beets and sugar in the United States at 1,777,- 639 tons of beets and 195,800 tons of sugar. Cane sugar Is estimated at 767,- 000 atons. A Maine hen man reported a profit of $2.67 per bird in American Agricultur ist's "money in poultry" contest. It is said that Canada expects an in flux of Americans this year to the num ber of at least 200,000. Much importance is tow attached to botany as a study In agricultural col leges. American cattle have the reputation of being the healthiest In the world. The Vulgar Voice. What constitutes the vulgar voice? In an article in the London Spectator a writer concludes that this evidence of vulgarity, "springs, like almost all vul garity, however displayed, chiefly from two causes—an undue love of conspicu ousness and an undue fear of the same." The person whose chief aim is to keep himself or herself in of the world rarely makes a remark without desiring that it shall reach the ears of others besides the one directly addressed, and here the peculiarly false sound of the voice is attributed to the absence of singleness of motive. On the other hand, the wavering tone and affected accent of the timid vulgar are ascribed to another form of insincerity —namely, the wish to Imitate others with whom one happens to be when they are of a supposedly higher social standing. The attempt is sure to fall and the result only In the suppression of all evidence of the speaker's own personality—in the voice as well as In the manner. Thus sincerity, paramount In all art, Is basic In breeding as well, which is the art of life. Lrml Pencil Kxperluienta. An English statistician was asked how many words could be written with an English lead pencil, and, being de termined to answer it, he bought a lead pencil and Scott's "Ivauhoe" and pro ceeded to copy the latter word by word, lie wrote 95,608 words and then was obliged to stop, for tho pencil had be come so short that he could not use It. A German statistician who heard of this experiment was dissatisfied with It because all the lead in the pencil was not used on the work, and therefore he bought a pencil and started to copy a long German novel. When the pencil was so short that ho could nA handle it with his fingers, ho attached a holder to it, und it Is said that he wrote with this one pencil 400,000 words. Possi bly, however, his pencil was longer or the lead In It was of a more durable quality. nialiked Efotlim. "What's the matter with you?" asked his wife. "I'm feeling lonely," was the reply. "Don't yon like this town?" "I don't like tills earth." "What's the objection to it?" "People are too egotistical. If there's anything I hate it's egotism. And when 1 see kings going about confidently and doing things wrong, and diplomats try ing all sorts of insincere tricks with complete effrontery, and lawyers seek ing applause for arguing on the wrong side of a case, and everybody display ing utter selfishness without a blush, I am forced to the conviction that I am the only consistently high toned and moral gentleman on this globe. And It makes me feel lonely." A it nn I■■ I ICpitnph. Here is an epitaph which may be read lu an English churchyard at tached to Leamington church: "Here lies the body of Lady O'Looney, great-niece,of Burke, com tnonly called the sublime. She was lilaud. Passionate and Deeply Reli gious; also she {minted In water colours and sent several pictures to the exhibi tion. She was the Intimate friend of Lady Jones. And of such is the king dom of Heaven." He Knew, A truthful man who has Just re turned from abroad says he overheard the following dialogue between two feliow passengers. Said one: "1 wonder who that awfully homely woman Is?" "Oh. that's my wife." replied the oth er. "How do you know? You're not looking at her?" "I don't have to." No. 8. NATIONAL''i'HAXTOirs' GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL. A Story of Specters Thai Stalk at Meht When the Halla of tlon Arc Gloomy nod Deaer<cil, aa Told by One of the Old Gaarda. Like most repositories of good stories, the ancient man who has spent dec ades as a guard in the eapitol in Wash ington did not yield up the fullness of his narratory riches without a struggle. "It's unpleasant to be made a mode of by the skeptical," he protested. "Do you believe iu ghosts, young man?" "If answering in the affirmative be gets au interesting tale, I do," returned the writer. "Well, starting on the premise that 3' ou do believe to some extent iu the supernatural, I will admit you to my confidence," resumed the old guard, and here goes for the authentic yarn of the spooks that haunt the nation's capitol: "In the long, monotonous watches of the night innumerable are the spooks, hobgoblins and the eerie, vapory things which glide from the shadowy nooks and crannies of the intangible nowhere to people the capital's vast stx-etches of darkness. Of course yoo know of the extraordinary acoustic freaks which obtain in many parts of the great building—how a whisper, a breathed word at one particular point is audible at another scores of feet dis tant? Yes. Now, at night these acous tic spirits simply go mad. Where they by day were pygmies they expand into giants, and a whistle, a sudden sound, a footfall, resolves itself into a pan demonium. "Weird, terrifying noises beat upon the eardrums of the watchmen as they pursue their lonely patrols through the seeming miles of corridors, and then the spooks, the shades of the nation's great, the astral bodies of those that tolled in obscurity for the nation's good, dodge the watchmen's step, some grand and awful in their speechless dignity, some creeping humbly about in apologetic silence, some laughing, some sobbing, but all of them horrible —horrible." The old man paused to muse. "Do you know," he said, breaking into his own reverie explosively, "Feb. 23 is a date dreaded by many of the capital night guards? It was on this day, In 1848, that John Quincy Adams died in the chumber of the house of representatives, now Statuary hall, where the exact spot is marked by a - brass tablet Promptly at midnight , on every anniversary of his death the shade of John Quincy Adams appears In c sort of phosphorescent glow over this brass tablet Oh, dozens of guards have seen it from time to time as well as I, and I can refer you to many of them for affirmation of my assertions. "Once over the spot the shade begins to gesticulate, after the manner of a member addressing the house. Then, all of a sudden, the fine face becomes distorted and agonized, the gracefully waving arms fall convulsively, and down sinks the shade with all the movements of an expiring man. Then the phosphorescent glow fades away, and the ethereal effigy dissolves. "But, although lost sight of, its pres ence is still made known hi the 'clmjuk , flop, clump, flop,' of invisible foot-" falls departing down one of the long vacant corridors. "Stranger than this is the ghost of the entire congress of 1848, which ap pears in vigorous if spooky session ev ery once in awhile In Statuary hall, the old hall of representatives, as I have previously remarked. Inaudible, but spirited, are the debates; energetic to the bursting point of vehemence are the silent political dissensions. Pro voked by a doubting Thomas, a mem ber of the capitol night watch several years ago made affidavit that he had seen this ghostly congress in session. Yes, he was a sober man and true. "The shade of General John A. Lo gan is a frequent visitor at the capitol. Almost every alternate night at half past 12 o'clock this ghost materializes at the door of the room occupied by the senate committee on military and militia. Silently the door swings open, • and out steps the looming and lumi nous presence, to stalk in stately dig nity away Into the swallowing gloom. This is a favorite phantom with the guards. Its conduct is exemplary. "Then there is the shade of Vice President Wilson, who died in his room in the senate end of the capitol, you will recall. Its peregrinations are few and desultory. When It does come, there is always an expression of con cern and self absorption in the ghostly face. The movements of the vapory body are restless and hurried. "All of the older members of the night watch are well acquainted with Vice President Wilson's apparition and never fail to salute it, although, truth to tell, the shade remains haughtily in different to their deference. This spook barely fails to put in an appoaranco when the body of a dead legislator or statesman of national renown is lying In state in the capitol. "Deep in tho subcellar vaults spooks of lesser magnitudo revel Jn hordes. Immediately beneath the hall of rep resentatives every night is to be found a tall, erect, gaunt specter, whoso Iden tity has remained a mystery for years In spite of unceasing efforts on the part of tho night watch to uncover tho secret of Its origin and anteced ents. Its hands are clasped behind its transparent back in a convulsive clutch, and the face evinces a condi tion of emotions prodigiously wrought upon. Many attempts have been made by guards with rubber soles on their shoes to catch this wraith unawares, but failure Is the invariable result. Presto! It has blown into thin air be fore the sleuthing watchman is within forty feet of it"—New York Herald. How the Flooil Came. The aboriginal blacks of Australia have a queer tradition about the flood. They say that at one time there was no water on the- earth at all except in the body of nn lmnunse frog, where men and women could not tret at It. There was a great council on the subject, and It wan found out that If the frog could be made to laugh the waters would run out of liis month and the drought be ended. So several animals were made to diiinv and caper before the frog to in duiv liini to laugh, but he did not even smile, and so the waters remained In his body. Then some one happened to think of the queer contortions Into which the eel could twist itself, and It was straightway brought before the frog, and when the frog saw the wrig gling he laughed so loud that the whole earth trcuiblcd, and the waters poured out of hi* uiouth in a great flood, in which ninny people were drowned. The black people were saved from (lrowuliiK b.v tin- pelican. This thought ful bird made a big cnuoe and went with It nil among the Islands that ap peaml hoi « and tli"re above the sur face of the water and gathered lu tho black people and saved them.
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