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
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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.