VOL. XXXX. February Prices Biclcel's. Men's Gray Felts and Extra Heavy Goodyear—Glove Overs *1 W Man's Extra Heavy Goodyear Glove perfections JV Men's first quality rubbers Boys' first quality rubbers , Misses' Canvas boots LEATHER GOODS- Men's fine satin calf shoes—latest styles $ jjjjj Boys- " " •' • ;; ;; .. Youths " ' ' , n0 Men's Heavy sole and tap working shoes ' " _ Men's Double sole and tap. box-toe shoes 1 Boys' Heavy every day shoes LADIES' FINE SHOES Ladies' $1.33 warm lined shoes /jj Misses' fine Dongola shoes, sizes lli to 1 lot Misses'fine Kangaroo-calf $1.75 shoes ' 1 lot Ladies' fine Dongola $1.50 shoes ■• • • ••• 0 . Baker & Bowman's *4.00 fine shoes—hand turns and hand welta - llotchildren's 75c red shoes at —■• • - ' cand 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. H HUSELTON'S |j M G. O. D. M [j Sale of Shoes r] M Bunch of Moqey fi IM Lost and made in Shoes this month! W A •j We lose—You win! Ll L'V 1250 pairs Fall and Winter Shoes. W A w2 Men's, Women's and Children's —so far not sold —will, as is our custom —BE CUT IN PRICE and prompt- yA > ly gotten rid of! kl ' SALE IS NOW GOING ON! M ! TAKE DUE NOTICE! W | £kHUSELTON'S SI rjj rth dh dfri d* A A A J »■ [ OVERCOATS~~{ I At 1-2 Prices. | } We will sell 150 Men's Overcoats at 1-2 price i ? 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. / \ The public knows we only have ONE PRICE and always mane J I it in plain flguers. So when we say i price it means something. \ j We also have odds and ends in Suits, Shirts, Hats and Furnish- / \ ings that we will close out at a Bargain. C f CALL SOON—THIS SALE ONLY LASTS 15 DAYS. < C Yours lor Clothing, C jDOUTHGTT &GRAHA/Vl. j KECK % Fall & Winter Weights 7, \ (I / j K Jjj Have a nattiness about them that Jj /jj( C NrN / / W mark the wearer, it won't do to ' / l\ [a/ (flO 1 p\ wear the last year's output. You i f p \l~ >1 54 won't get the latest things at the V l/K \ ICJ t* stock clothiers either. The up-to ' i I I J l ,; date tailor only can supply them, , I I\% |. /jIT| f] if you want not only the latest ( I f 111 I things in cut and fit and work llf ■III manship, the finest in durability, I If llf I ■ vhere else can you get combina ; I h j!j [l ™ tions, you get them at F, E C K G. F. KECK, Merchant Tailor, 24 North Mairt 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. k Patterson Bros' 236 N. Main St. Phone 400. Wick Building HAMMILL'S CELEBRATED INDUN ROOT TABLETS Greatest Kidney and Liver Remedy. Positive cure for Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Constipation \C Rheumatism, Blood Purifier. F or Sale by all Druggists, or by mail, 25c, 50c, and £I.OO HAMMILL MEDICINE CO, if No. 302 MILTENBERGER STREET, PITTSBURG, PENN'A. Subscribe for the CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Nsssl CATARRH Ely's Creaßialm y cleanses, soothes and heals f the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh and drives away a ©old In the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, ppread over the membrane and is absorbed. Re! ef is Ihi mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—doe not produce sneezing. Sizc t 50 cents at Pvuj; gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. Bilious? Dizzy? Headache? Pain back of your eyes? It's your liver! Use Ayer's Pills. I want your moustache or heard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye 50ctJ.ofdruggi»tsorR. P. Hall&Co., Nithm.N.H Johnsion's p>J Beef, Iron and Wine j[^ "4 | ► 18 tbe f« Best Tcsic j ► and ng Blood Purifier. A 1 Price, 50c pint. f ® Prepared and WJ k sold only at k % Johnston's fcj »| Crystal Pharmacy. M N H. M. LOGAN, Ph. G.. V Manager, I ICB N. Main St., Butler, l'a Lv W Both 'Phones 9 A *2 Everything in the drug line. UJ Si 53 HIRTS | Host.* ||"~ TIF.S , irrrißTbTj TTE~S* ; Men's Goods. s I RIG SAhE I J OF I S LIEN'S HATS $ { AND J : FURNISHINGS. ! f All heavy f Winter goods £ are included 4 in this sale. 1 All soft and stiff hats at { off 4 £ All soft and stiff bosom color- I v ed shirts at ± off i ? All heavy lined gloves at.. .i off J F All heavy underwear i off # All mufflers at J off £ # All neckwear at i off W m All Men's and Boys'caps | off # ? Odds and ends at any old price. 5 Uno.S. Wick J 2 HATTER and 2 5 MEN S FURNISHER. £ ? Opposite P. 0. £ S BUTLER, PA. ! A Safe Investment -Fine Farm For Sale. .•?T,000; farm of 50 acres, 4 miles from Mars Station,one mile from Brush Creek and Perrysville road: house of nine rooms, gas. center hall, porches, two cellars; the farm is all fenced with wire, locust posts; a good bank barn 40x60, wagon shed 20x40; a large chicken house 20x:iO, piped with gas: the farm is well watered and watered in two forms; it has a large apple orchard, 4 oil wells, royalty s4<> 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 up an estate. See M. J. Ehrenfeld, 1922 Forbes st.. Piitaburg, Pa. BUTLER. PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. Q O-C o o-o CO O OOOO^ 2 DUMMY D?E AiNDS c THE BISHOP o 0 Hy L. E. Chittenden ? o 9 [ Copyright, 190 C, by the S. S. M«-< hire X O Company T 6 0-0-0 ©OO 000 000 Dummy Dee liad come to call upon the bishop. The bishop and he were very par ticular friends and therefore shook hands, as man to man, in a very cordial manner. "1 came," said Dummy Dee, "on very particular business, and I would have been awful sorry not to find you at home." '•I am very glad to be here, Dummy Dee," said the bishop, smiling at his guest. There was a short pause, Dummy Dee frowning thoughtfully into space for ideas and the bishop waiting to hear the manner of his guest's busi ness. "Are you ever lonesome, bishop?" asked Dummy Dec at last, leaning for ward and clasping his short arms around his knees. "Yes, often," said the bishop, the note of truth vibrating through his tone. Childless and wife'ess and of strong and often unpopular opinions, the scholarly bishop was indeed a lonely man. just now particularly so. A controversial point had forced him into a position where he stood almost if not quite alone. He tried to believe his position was a matter of principle. His enemies said it was obstinacy and dogmatism, and even his warmest friends were silent and regretful over the matter at issue. He Lad when Dummy Dee came in been writing 011 the point, and bitter, fiery words were penned on the sheets of paper that strewed the open desk. He glanced at them now as he spoke, and from them to the beautiful pictur ed face of his young wife, who had died very early in their married life. Yes, he was very lonely. Dummy Dec nodded and looked thoughtfully at the glowing grate fire. "Nice things happen sometimes when you're lonesomcst, though," lie said by way of giving a small crumb of com fort to his friend. "You know mother is sick and down south getting her health and father busy at the settlement work, and some times I get kind of a stomach ache in my heart and a lump in my throat. "My, it most chokes me," he added feelingly. "But just the other day the summer boarder sent me these bicycle trousers," sticking out his short leg for the bishop to see, "or I never could have stood it in the world. She knew how I felt about kilts and aprons and always having to wear something of the other children's 'count of their growing so fast and me not. I slept with 'em that piglit in bed, and once when I woke up and thought about mother I just reached over and felt of these, and then I felt better. Did you ever try anything like that?" he asked, looking at the bishop's trou sered legs stretched out on the other side of the fire. "No," the bishop replied bravely; he had not thought of it. "Then there are always things to do for folks, you know, and that's one thing I came to see about," continued Dummy Dee. "I've been taking soup and books and tilings up for the settle ment people to a little girl who lives in an attic near the settlement. "She's got a kind of mother, only she's an aunt and awful bad to her. She drinks something out of a bottle"—and Dummy Dee lowered his voice to a shocked whisper—"and she is awful mean to Nora." "What is the matter with Nora?" bsked the bishop. "A spinal back I think they call it," said Dummy Dee, with a learned air, "and I feel so sorry. I asked father if he'd adopt her, and he said he thought he couldn't. I've thought I'd marry her if necessary, but father would have to adopt us both then. What do you think?" Tlio bishop's principal thought was a desire to laugh, but he held his peace, so Dummy Dee went on: "She's English. I've told her about you. She calls you lord, but I said not lord exactly, only kind of next to the Lord, you know." At this the bishop could contain him self no longer, but put back his head and laughed a pealing laugh that star tled the shadows In the dim, quiet li brary, and he only stopped when he beheld Dummy Dee gazing at him In mild .surprise. "Come," said the bishop, springing up like a boy, "let us go and see Nora." Goodby!" said Dummy Dee, getting up, or sliding down, rather, from his Chair. "That's what I wanted. Let's walk. It isn't very far, and it's a fine day." But before they started the bishop swept up the written sheets of paper and threw them on the grate. They blazed cheerfully. "Hi!" said Dummy Dee. "See 'em wriggle as if they hurt." "I intended they should hurt others," said the bishop softly, with a curious smile. Many curious eyes turned to watch the two, the dignified ecclesiastic in his ehurchly garb and the sunny, romp ing, rosy child, who, not altogether un aware of these glances, took them largely as a tribute to his beloved bicy cle trousers and strutted proudly. Two delightful stops were made be fore they reached the tenement where little Nora lived, and they went on, laden with books, games and flowers. "Father says she looks like a picked flower without water," said Dummy Dee as they climbed the steep, rickety stairs. They entered the room in response to Nora's summons, and Dummy Dee, Bom* what embarrassed, made the bish op known to the pale faced child lying 011 the dingy bed. No one had ever seen the scholarly bishop in so delightful a mood as the two children found him that afternoon. Nora's cheeks grew pink with happi ness and her eyes brighter than ever as she listened to stories, guessed riddles and played games with the bishop and Dummy Dee. .At last the shadows grew longer. "I've a last story to tell you two chil dren before we go," said the bishop, "and you must be very quiet and listen hard, for there is a guessing part to it. "Once upon a time," began the bish op, "there lived a man alone, and, as sometimes happens to lonely people, he grew selfish and bitter hearted. lie forgot the teachings of the one whom he had vowed to serve, but tried in stead to serve himself and was unhap py, as all such men are. "There came to him one day a dear little friend of his who was also lone ly, but who tried to forget his loneli ness by helping others and was com forted by doing this. So the man ] learned a lesson from his little friend, ! and be, too, found comfort and lsappi j ness as the hoy hail. "Now, the man natur"!lv did not want to lie lonely and unSuii.and j bitter again, for he found the better part, so he thought out a plan. lie ' would take the boy down south to his j mother, who is almost well, but not uuitc so well as she will be when the man brings to her her youngest boy." There was a queer gurgling sob that was half a laugh and half a cry and altogether a mixture of home sickness and coming delight, and Dum my Dee shot himself bodily into the bishop's arms, cuddled against his shoulder and lay there sniffling hap pily. He groped vainly for his hand kerchief that could not be found, and his fingers closed gratefully over the bishop's fine lawn that he found within his grasp. "Ciuessed,"' said the bishop. laughing, with a shake in his voice. "The first i part of my puzzle story fiuessed with out a mistake. Now for the second. Then he took the little sick girl to a white, bright room that he knows of in the children's hospital, where, sur rounded by birds, books and flowers anil loving care, she can get well and perhaps come to live in the lonely house of the lonely man to brighten it." Another little cry from the bod, and Nora's slender, groping fingers sought the bishop's hand, "lie?" she said. "Me —Nora? Would my aunt"— "I think so," said the bishop. "We will find a way. But what a fine pair of guessers these two are! Never to make a mistake!" When the kind hearted woman on that floor came in to look after Xora, her aunt being away serving time for drunkenness, they went away and left the happy child, already better, with hope and joy working miracles with her. "You make up your mind the best and quickest of any one I ever knew. llow did you think of such beautiful things?" asked Dummy Dee as they felt their way down the rickety stairs. "It's a thank offering, Dummy Dee," said the bishop, with a return of his curious smile, "for burning the pa pers." Three Siena. When I was a young man, said an old timer. I was employed in an Ohio town of some 1,800 inhabitants. One day the town was billed from roof to foundation in flaming letters, "They're Coming!" One couldn't go amiss of the big letters. They followed him every where, and half the town would awak en in the middle of the night with those huge letters staring them in the face, while they wondered what it all meant. A* week or more passed, and one morning every one of those signs was covered with another equally flaming "They Have Come; at Town Ilall To night!'' And you may be sure the town turned out in force. There wasn't stand ing room, although a liberal admittance fee was charged. Inside a big curtain excluded the stage, and to this all ej - es were turned as the appointed hour drew near. There was a little delay, and it was about half past 8 when the curtain slowly rose, disclosing to view another of the big lettered signs, only the word ing was different this time. The sign read "They Have Gone!" And you can bet your last dollar it wasn't long before the townspeople had gone. Some clever fellows had worked the game successfully and got away with a snug little sum, leaving only a couple of townspeople to pull up the curtain. A Lost Art. "Graceful bowing," remarked the statuesque young lady at the head of the tea table, "is fast becoming one of the lost arta. Few are proficient in it, and, indeed, the difficulties are many. I am referring of course to men. Wo men are still mistresses of.the art, but not all of them, either. "But I have seen men who were fat, not to say tubby, and they find that a mere inclination of the head is a bur den, for it induces disagreeable rushes of blood to the head, and that is bad for men who wear twenty inch collars. And there are men who are tall, lean and scraggy, and when they bow, be ing sensitive plants, they think and make the spectator think, of stringed marionettes, and they dread the smile of the man in the street. "And I have seen men whom the crit ical moment found unprepared, with hands in pockets. And I have seen them when they were wearing caps and clutched vainly and instinctively at hat brims, and I blushed at their grotesque poses and involuntary carica tures of the line of beauty."—New York Times. Tlicy Were Mere Paper, bnt They Subdued tbe Artist Tnrner. Turner, the great landscape painter, was a curious mixture of parsimony and generosity, determined money grubbing and unreckoning devotion to his art. He would drive a hard bar gain one day and the next refuse to sell at any price. Intending purchas ers were sometimes excluded from his gallery, and the refusal of admission was communicated in anything but a polite manner. Mr. Gillott, the wealthy pen manu facturer of Birmingham, once proved himself equal to the task of storming the castle In the teeth of the gruff art ist and his doorkeeper and achieving a bargain. A book on Turner gives the story. Mr. Gillott was met at the door of Turner's house by an old woman, who opened the door and asked the gentle man's business. "Can't let 'e in!" she snapped out, when he told her, and tried to slam the door. But Mr. Gillott had put his foot in side the door and without waiting for permission pushed past the enraged janitress and hurried upstairs to the gallery. Turner met him like a spider whose web has been invaded. The In truder introduced himself and said that he had come to buy. "Don't want to sell!" was the an swer. "Have you seen our Birmingham pic tures, Mr. Turner?"' inquired the visit or, as calmly as if he had been received as a gentleman should be. "Never heard of 'em," said Turner. Mr. Gillott took from his pocket some Birmingham bank notes. "Mere paper," remarked Turner, who evidently enjoyed the joke. "To be bartered for mere canvas," said the visitor, waving his hand to in dicate the paintings on the wall. His tone —perhaps also the sight of the "mere paper"— conquered Turner, and when the visitor departed he had bar gained for several valuable pictures. Easy to Meet. "Have you any trouble in meeting your creditors, old chap?" "No difficulty whatever. I meet 'em everywhere, old boy." No vi co 111 initial. Judge—What is your age, madam? Witness-I'm at least five years younger than the neighbors think me. •-Philadelphia Press. fcpgN MAPLE SUGAR MAKING. An Ohio « nnn> With a Modern Suarar ■ louxe uuti Outfit. With maple sugar making time come added labor, profit and pleasures to the farmer and his household in the sections where this special industry is pursued. The cuts from American Ag riculturist show a modern "plant" for this purpose. It is on the farm of a young Oliioan who started as proprietor MODEHN OHIO MAPf.K SUGAR HOUSE. and manager for himself at sixteen years of age on 200 acres, and it is among the many substantial improve ments which he has effected in a few years in addition to managing his farm successfully. When the picture was taken, the tankrocm was not completed. The main house is 10 by 36 feet, 12 feet high, with sirup and packing room in front, 12 by 10 feet, with room for sap pails directly above. These rooms are ceiled with a tight partition between the evaporator room, except doors, and therefore exclude all steam from the tins stored in them. The house is built on a side hill, so that sap can be drawn from gathering i|@(S)! n -i Roch - 5 § n n 36 Fttr GBOUND PLAN OF SUGAR HOUSE. wagon or sled to store tank, there to evaporator without any pumping or handling. The camp consists of 1,000 sugar maples, a large proportion being thrifty second growth, set in orchard style about forty years ago by the fa ther of this young man. The work in this cainp is usually done by three men, except during a very large and long run, when a little extra help has to l>e used. The income from the sugar and sirup products adds ma terially to the revenues of the farm. The balance of the farm Is devoted to dairying. Onion Lore. No more red onions for me. Nobody seems to want them, aud thoy are a drug in the market, while the demand is brisk for yellow onions. I shall plant no more pink Prize takers. Yellow ones are good enough for me. The imported Spanish onion is quite subject to the attacks of black rot fun gus, «iul a large proportion of the bulbs brought to this country are spoiled for use by it. The Gibraltar onion has the same weakness. Evidently It Is of the same blood. The only thing we can do is to sell aud use these large onions as soon as possible after harvesting. A reader asks for some hints on bow to grow onions. It's a big subject, too big to give many details. Try the new oniou culture. Get a little seed of Prize taker or Gibraltar and sow as early as possible In a box in the house or in a hotbed outdoors, making rows one and a half or two inches apart and sowing the seed rather thickly, say at the rate of one ounce to twelve square feet of bed. Push the growth all you dare to, and cut off one-third of the tops when top heavy. Then plant out in good soil in early spring, with three or four inch es space between each two plants In the rows and the rows fourteen or fif teen inches apart. If this is followed, you will be liable to grow very large, fine bulbs.—T. Greiner in Farm and Fireside. Hon- Mncli Floor Space to u Ilea? It is a matter of great importance to know how many hens can be kept in one pen and at a profit. There Is quite a general opinion that hens which are allowed to roam at will or have spa cious yards do best in flocks of forty to forty-five and on being confined to win der quarters should have about ten equare feet for each hen. From actual tests this has proved about right. They may be confined closer if they have a scratching shed where they can run in bright weather. This may be made open to the south and annexed to the henhouse, and it would be better if such shed or apartment were closed, with plenty of glass on the south side. This apartment need not be as warm as the regular house. Mine is of plain boards put on up and down and cracks battened. It has two large windows with a door, which can be left open on fine winter days so the hens can en joy a good warm sun bath. The win dows should be arranged with curtains to close cold nights. Most of the feed ing is done in the scratching pens In a litter of chaff or straw. —Cor. Ameri can Agriculturist. Sheep are fed for a double purpose, wool and mutton. Don't make the mis take of feeding for mutton and starv ing for wool. Good wool requires uni form feeding. POTATO GROWING. Don u Maine Specialist Makes Two Good l'r»|)N on the Same (ironnd. New England Homestead tells of a Kennebec county (Me.) fanner, one of whose specialties is raising potatoes, who has been very successful in pro ducing the earliest to be found in the market. The past season he succeeded in raising two good crops 011 the same piece. The ground was thoroughly plowed the previous fall. In the spring it was harrowed until the earth was fine and light, and when ready for planting phosphate was dropped in the hills to the amount of one ton to the acre. The potatoes for seed were brought up from the cellar the last of February or Ist of March and placed in a light, cool room, so that when they were planted they had large green sprouts and well developed leaves. As soon as the soil was warm enough these were placed in the ground. Ills care did not diminish any now that the potatoes were and very soon the leaves began tpjjpßsh up toward the light and air. They were kept free from weeds and bugs until the middle of July; then he began marketing them, largely at sl*per bushel- I Meanwhile a second lot of potatoes had been sprouted the same as the oth ers and planted the Ist of July between the rows, so that when the first crop was dug they hood the second lot, which was already above the ground. In Sep tember the second crop was harvested. From the first planting Mr. Jacobs raised at the rate of 30«> bushels per acre; from the second. 100 bushels. The variety used was the New Queen, and the only fertilizer was phosphate. Smti'lilns Shed* For Poultry. Kural New Yorker has been taking testimony from correspondents on the advisability of "scratching sheds for poultry," and the way "doctors dis agree" doesn't compare to the discrep ancy of opinion brought out. To some the scratching shed is invaluable; oth ers wouldn't have it at any price. Four for to six against is the record. "I am in favor of scratching sheds. There is no question, in my experience, that they are beneficial," says one man. "We have sheds attached to all our houses aud if we were farther south would leave off the house," declares another. "Iu my opinion a scratching shed is one of the most necessary Uiings for a successful poultry raiser to have," af firms a third. In the negative we are told: "I have no use for scratching sheds in this lati tude. My hens are none too warm in their well built houses day or night when the thermometer shows 10 to 15 below zero." Again: "I am unfavorable to scratch ing sheds. After being cold for several days it commenced to moderate, and we think it is really warmer than it is. We turn the birds into the scratching sheds to get the sunlight, and before we know it we have a lot of frozen combs." "I never thought enough of a scratch ing shed to build one; always consid ered it a dirty, disease breeding con cern." emphatically remarks another man. And very much to the point is, "The scratching shed never pays in dollars and cents." The St. LODIN Exposition. It Is generally known that the Louisi ana Purchase exposition at St. Louis will not be held until 1904, and when it is learned that there will be a formal opening next May some confusion in the minds of many people may ensue. The facts, though, are these: The sub scriptions for the fair were taken with the understanding that it would open iu 1903. Consequently an opening is being arranged which will provide against invalidating these subscrip tions. The great fair will really swing its gates wide open a year later.—Na tional Stockman. For Comfort In the Barn. A correspondent who has always been more or less annoyed by the draft of cold air which circulates up the hay shoot in the barn near the heads of the horses and in the sheep barn tells in an exchange of a way to prevent this cur- SLIDING DOOR TO HAYMOW. rent on cold days. The trouble may be overcome by making a sliding door at the lower edge of the joists. Before going up into the mow one reaches up with a fork and slides the door open and after throwing down what hay is needed closes it as he comes down again. Agricultural Notes. People are once more talking about the old time "soapstone stove" for burning rough and refuse wood. "Intensive rye culture" is outlined by a Itural New Yorker correspondent. The harvest is without machinery. Hogs harvest the grain crop, and lambs feed off the fall growth. Grimes' Golden is a favorite with Ohio apple growers In general, and Rome Beauty and York Imperial are popular in the southern and central parts of the state. A good and little known vegetable is salsify, or oyster plant. It Is very hardy and easily grown. Sow early in spring. Where the land was well fitted in the fall grass seed may be sown very early, sven In the last of the snow. NAPOLEON'S AWFUL HAN ID. One Theory of the Great Man'* Fail ure at Waterloo. Napoleon, according to Alexander Dumas, lost such bflktles as he did lose because he wrote such a fiendish hand. His generals could not read his notes and letters, typewriting had not been Invented, and the trembling marshals, afraid of disobeying and striving to In terpret the Indecipherable commands, loitered, wandered and did not come up to the scratch, or not to the right scratch. Thus Waterloo was lost. Can not you fancy Grouchy handing round Napoleon's notes on that sanguinary Sunday? "I say," cries the marshal to his aid-de-camp, "is that word Gem bloux or Wavre? Is this Blucher or Bulow?" So probably Grouchy tossed up for it, and the real words may have been none of these at which he offered his conjectures. Meanwhile on the left and center D'Erlon and Jerome and Ney were equally puzzled and kept on sending cavalry to places where it was very uncomfortable (though our men seldom managed to hit any of the cav aliers, firing too high) and did no sort of good. Napoleon may never have been apprised of these circumstances. His old writing master was not on the scene of action. Nobody dared to say, "Sire, what does this figure of a centl ped mean, and how are we to construe these two thick strokes flanked by blots?" The Imperial temper was pep pery; the great man would have torn off his interrogator's epaulets and danced upon them. Did he not onco draw his pistol to shoot a little dog that barked at his horse? And when the pistol missed fire the great soldier threw it at the dog and did not hit him. The little dog retreated with the hon ors of war. Such was the temper of Napoleon, and we know what Marlborough thought of the value of an equable temper. Nobody could ask Bonaparte to write a legible band, so bis generals lived a life of conjecture as to his meaning, and Waterloo was not a suc cess. and the emperor never knew why. Of all his seven or eight theories of his failure at Waterloo, his handwriting was not one. Yet if this explanation had occurred to him Napoleon would certainly have blamed his pens, ink and paper. Those of Nelson at Copen hagen were very bad. "If your guns are no better than your pens," said a Danish officer who came in under a flag of truce before the flgUUand-.waa asked to pat a message into writing, "yon bad better retire."—Andrew Lang In Longman's Magazine. SICKROOM PHILOSOPHY. Never confine a patient to OH room if you can obtain the use of two. Never play tbe piano to a sick person if you can play on strings or sing. Never stand and fidget when * sick person is talking to you. Sit down. Never complain that you cannot get a feeding cup If there is a teapot to be bad Instead. Never read fast to a sick person. Tbe way to make a story seem short Is to tell it slowly. Never judge the condition of your patient from his appearance during a conversation. See how he looks an hour afterward. Never put a hot water bottle next to the skin. Its efficiency and the pa tient's safety are both enhanced by surrounding the bottle with flannel. Never allow the patient to take tbe temperature himself. Many patients are more knowing than nurses where there is a question of temperature. Hot Cross Baa*. In its early days, wben, it is to be hoped, it was more toothsome than it is now, the hot cross bun played some part in converting the people of these islands to Christianity. Pagan England was in tbe habit of eating cakes in honor of the goddess of spring, and Christian missionaries found that though they could alter tbe views of the people in reference to religious matters they could not induce them to withhold from the consumption of con fectionery. So they put the sign of the cross upon the bun of the Saxon era and launched it upon missionary enter prise which has extended through the intervening centuries and survived till now.—London Tit-Bits. A Wot Umbrella. Never leave an umbrella standing on the point in tbe ordinary way when wet The water trickles down, spoiling the silk and making the wires rusty. It is also a mistake to open it and leave it standing, as this stretches the silk, making it baggy so that it Is impossi ble to fold it smoothly. Tbe proper way is to shake out as much of the water as possible, then stand the um brella on its handle to drain. Comptrlioai Are Odloma. Perkins, Jr.—Why don't ye buy that horse of Seth's, pop? He's got a fine pedigree. Perkins, Sr.—Pedigree! Tbe question is, is he wuth anything? Why, boy, tbem sassiety folks what comes here In the summer has pedigrees.—Brook lyn Life. A Barrier. "What have you in the way of beef steak today?" asked the cheerful cus tomer who hadn't paid his bill. "Well," replied the frank butcher, "I reckon about the only thing in the way is its price."—Baltimore News. Inreitlcatlßi the Delay, Sunday School Teacher—And it took Noab 100 years to build the arte. Street Arab—What was the matter? Was there a strike?— Puck. If It wasn't for silly bens the fox would not have his reputation.—Life. STAGECOACH" DAYS. " Story of a Trip From Portm««tk to Loados la ITSO. There are men and women—and they are not always the old—who deplore the breathless pace of the age. In stagecoach days, they tell us, life wu a different thing. People Journeyed through the years leisurely then; ex istence had a flavor. A century ago a journey meant fellowship and merry adventures and a comfortable enjoy ment of the beauties of the landscape. All this may be so, but a traveler who made the journey from Ports mouth to London In 1780 shows that even stagecoach days had their shad ows. "The getting up on the coach alooo was at the risk of one's life," he wrote, "and when I was up I had nothing to hold on to except a little handle at the side. The moment we set off I thought I saw certain death before me. Tho machine rolled with tremendous rapid ity over the stones and every minute seemed to fly In the air, so that it ap peared to me a complete miracle that we stuck to the coach at all. "This continual fear of death at last became insupportable to me, and I carefully crept along the top of the coach and ensconced myself in the basket behind. "On a sudden the coach proceeded at a rapid rate down a hill. All the boxes, iron nailed and copper fastened, began to dance around me, and every moment I received such violent blows that I thought my last hour had come. Shak en to pieces, bleeding and sore, I crept back to my former position. And it rained incessantly, and as before we were covered with dust so now we were soaked with rain. "My neighbor every now and then fell asleep and when in this state per petually rolled and Jolted against mo with the whole weight of his body, more than once nearly pushing mo from the seat to which I clung with the last strength of despair. I looked and certainly felt like a crazy fool when I arrived in London." The letter is realistic. It is possible that twentieth century traveling, al though unromantlc, has its compensa tions after all.—Youth's Companion. POULTRY POINTERS. When chickens grow very fast, it sometimes causes leg weakness. Under usual conditions a variety of food is better than any medicine that can be given. The only safe way of disposing of dead fowls that have died of any con tagious disease is to burn them. Clover contains two elements that are in demand by the bens—nitrogen and lime. It is rich in the elements required for the whites of eggs. When roup gets Into a flock, it inva riably leaves some ailment behind. The fowl that has been subject to it Is seldom healthy again. There is no cure for feather pulling except by more labor and time than an ordinary tlock is worth. The best plan is to get rid of the guilty fowls as soon as possible. A hen seldom begins to eat eggshells until she finds one broken or until she becomes accustomed to eating eggs thrown out into the yard. The safest plan is always to crumble them up line before feeding. Tamlnff the Cheetah In India. The cheetah is tied in all directions, principally from a thick pnimmet of rope around his loins, while a hood lilted over his head effectually bllud3 him. lie is fastened on a strong cot bedstead, and the keepers and their wives and families reduce him to sub- No. 9. mission by starving him and keeping} him awake. His head it made to face the village street, and for an hour at a time several times a day his keeper* make pretended rushes at him and wave cloths, staves and other articles in his face. He is talked to continually, and women's tongues are believed t» be the most effective antlsoporiflcs. No» created being could resist the effects ot hunger, want of sleep and feminine scolding, and the poor cheetah becomes plteously, abjectly tame.— "Beast and Man In India." Taaael IMacomforts. The prairie dog that had started out to see the world was taking in the sights in a neighboring village inhab ited by his own species. "Well," he said as be backed hastily! out of a subterranean dwelling that ■ rattlesnake had pre-empted, "I seethe])] have the same tunnel problem to wive here that they have in other cities."-* Chicago Tribune. A Platform Speaker. "That man," remarked Smlthers, "makes a hundred speeches from tbe platform every day." "Some great political leader?" asked Smlthers. "No," replied Smithers, "street car conductor. He says, 'Move up forward, please!' every time any one gets on his car."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Airtmlase of Waittag. Her Father—But, my boy, surely yoe are too young to marry AureUa. How old are you? Her Suitor—One and twenty, sir. Her Father—And she is twenty seven—too great a disparity. Why not wait half a dozen years? Then you'll be twenty-seven and she'll probably be just about the same age as yoo« A Sac* Conelasloa. Uncle Reuben says: "Arter arguln' fur forty y'ars dat de whale couldn't possibly have swallered Joner and makln' three or four enemlM a y'ar ober it I has came to da conclusion dat my belief, one way or de odder, wouldn't affect de past 2 cents' wuttu I have simply wasted a heap o' breath for nuthin'!"—Detroit Free Press. A Freak Tree.'"""* ' Prutuibly one of tbe most remarkable curiosities la tbe world is tbe twin tree growing In the province of Loire, south ern France. This marvelous freak of nature consists of two healthy trees some twenty feet high, with brilliant foliage, the top one actually growing upon the lower. A cavity was formed In the upper trunk of the bottom tree, which was filled with decaying bark and the ac cumulated dust and debris of years. Tills became a sort of bed, from which sprang the roots and In time produced the upper tree. Contrary to all the laws of horticulture, the life of tbe tree has not been Injured In the least by its parasite companion on top. The top tree is a lime, and the peas ants In the neighborhood make occa sional pilgrimages to this tree, as they make a sort of ten from tbe buds of the lime, which, they say, on account of Its peculiar growth and situation, has mysterious and beneficial powers If im bibed. The lime is firmly rooted In the lower tree, having withstood tbe ravages of the wind for years, and seems to be nourished as well as If It were growing In the natural soil of tho earth. Camels la Africa. At the present day camels are used for all sorts of domestic purposes in Africa. They may even be seen draw ing plows In tbe interior of tbe regency of Tunis. You may remark a woman and a camel harnessed to tbe same plow, and you hesitate to decide which is the greater outrage. They are also used for drawing watet from tbe strange, cumbersome, old fashioned wells of north Africa. Their chief use, however, is for caravans. You may be hold them bringing in huge cases of dates from tbe oases, or you may see them with great tentlike structures of red silk upon their backs. These tents are for the conveyance of Arab women of the upper classes, who seek to main tain the privacy of the harem when on a Journey. Two women and some children are "often accommodated on one camel. They have cushions on which they can He down and even sleep. It is stuffy, and it is dark, but they deem themselves well off in escap ing from the searching rays of the burning sun. First European Hallway. The first carriages that ran on rails in Europe were those of a horse rail way between Linz and Budweis, in Austria. This was in working order In 1827. Locomotive railways were much longer coming. The first line, In a modern sense, was opened from Paris to St Germain In 1835, but railway development was greatly hindered by a terrible accident on the Paris-Ver sailles line in 1842. The next was the Brussels-Malines line in Belgium. Bel gium was also the first country to be gin, in 1830, systematic plans for a na tional network of railways. Prussia followed In 1835 and Austria-Hungary in 1838. The first great trunk line in Europe was from Paris to Rouen, opened in May, 1843. Valne of tbe Lessoaa. Mrs. Bilklns—Do you think It Is worth while for my daughter to go on taking singing lessons? She baa been at It for five years and cannot sing yet. Professor von Note —Dlt you expecd her to learn to zing? She vill neffer zing In zee vide vorld. "Then why didn't you say to long ago?" "I thought you merely vanted to strengthen her lungs." Potted Plants. Tbe reason some people "never have any luck with plants" Is sometimes because the drainage is defective. A plant will not live In a heavy, sour, soggy soil, such as fills a pot when the drainage is not complete. This Is especially true of palms, to which the stagnant moisture Is sure death, but It holds true of any pot grown plant. Good Enough as It Is. "Doctor, if a pale young man named Jinks calls on you for a prescription don't let him have It" "Why not?" "He wants something to improve his appetite, and he boards at my house." It Weald Seem So. Fair Niece—Why do you object to iuets so strenuously, Uncle Tom? Uncle Tom—Because when two peo ple attack one Inoffensive piece of music simultaneously lfs taking aa un fair advantage.—Chicago News. Very conservative In all matters are the Turks, and especially slow to adopt modern improvements of any kind. Wben a man quits smoking and goss to chewing be is not much of a hero. — Atchison Globe.
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